Posted on 02/21/2007 7:39:36 PM PST by Torie
Mitt Romney is in trouble. In a deeply conservative party, the former governor of Massachusetts is a ghost of Republicanism past: a moderate. His presidential announcement speech read like a tribute to his father, [who was] liberal enough to get elected and reelected governor in a Democratic state, Michigan. ... "We have lost our faith in government--not in just one party, not in just one house, but in government," as if oblivious to the heresy: Rehabilitating government as a good in itself is not the usual way of introducing yourself to voters in today's post-Reagan Republican Party. Maybe Romney's tried to shake it, but he just can't: He carries progressive Republicanism around in his blood.
Which raises certain suspicions about that announcement speech. As the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) immediately observed, its location, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, is a "testament to the life of ... a notorious anti-Semite and xenophobe." ...
Those memories no longer exist--except to the hair-trigger sensitivities of the likes of the NJDC, which put out their press release and garnered an AP article on the flap. But here's something to consider: The Romney campaign has harvested benefits from that flap, whether it was intentional or not. Consider the sarcastic reflection of this denizen of the right-wing website Free Republic:
Allright, an AP hit piece! The MSM has more acute RINOdar than we. Real RINO's don't get rinky-dink MSM hit pieces such as this. This proves that the MSM believes Romney is a conservative, and therefore must be roughed up.
Translation: I used to suspect that Romney was only a "Republican in Name Only." But now I realize: He bugs the liberal media. By the tribal logic of right-wing identity politics, that is enough--Mitt Romney now can be called a conservative.
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maui_hawaii thinks that there are special rules for him. All the posts that were yanked were his. Constant personal attacks in his tag line.
Wouldn't that be nice to have a stealth conservative. It's usually the other way around.
This has been going on long before this thread.
It hit is boiling point tonight.
No matter how many times it was mentioned by myself or others to tone things down, never happened.
Admittedly I got pissed.
Most of the posts pulled were not attacks.
Only one, possibly two at the very end of the exchange.
The Mod for whatever reason pulled the others for their own reasons.
As for now, I am headed to bed.
I have not had so much as one post edited in 6 years as a freeper.
To: areafiftyone
The MSM has more acute RINOdar than we. Real RINO's don't get rinky-dink MSM hit pieces such as this. This proves that the MSM believes Romney is a conservative, and therefore must be roughed up.
"I think Romney is a conservative.....pretending to be a liberal....in Mass.
Well, Bush is a moderate to liberal politician who pretended to be a conservative to get elected Governor twice here in Texas.
I don't have much time this evening as I have lots to do tomorrow. So 'til the morrow, this brief reply:
THE VIDEO IS DATED 2002. THIS IS 2007. Wow, some fudging I did for him.
His faithful marriage to his wife of many years, and the so far intact marriages of those five children (which indicate he raised them to believe in the institution of marriage) also speak louder than his words. He has lived a most conservative life.
October '02 to February '07 is less than four and a half years where I went to school.
If the Bush family backs Giuliani, something will be seriously wrong with the universe.
And may be reason to reevaluate either Giuliani or the Bushes.
(If)CA moves its primary up and everything we think we know about the nominating process becomes moot.
There isn't a bigger schmuck (term of art) then Richard Cohen of the Wash Post, but see his latest column on Romney- it shoots and scores.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think I was the sarcastic freeper in question. Unless someone else has taken to saying RINOdar.
Voters did see a difference.
They turned out big government conservatives.
One big government party is enough.
Not exactly. The survivors are more conservative than the previous GOP caucus. Clearly, we lost some good conservatives in the tidal wave. But the RINOs were hit much harder. There aren't many RINOs left in the House now.
He sure did. The subject candidate in my view is a shameless salesman.
How long have you used it? I figured I coined the term RINOdar, first used in this post, in January. I am hopeful that it will take its place in the FR Lexicon.
Pulling a Romney is an effective technique? If that's the case, why is he at 3% in the polls?
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