Making Mitt Romney: How to fabricate a conservative

Harpers ^ | 11/07 | Ken Silverstein

[JRochelle]

Mitt Romney keeps his South Carolina headquarters in a single-story building at one end of Gervais Street, which is Columbia’s version of Washington’s K Street, lined with the offices of local lobbyists, P.R. consultants, and other fixers and power brokers. The main room of Romney HQ is decorated with hand-painted red-and-blue signs, mementos from previous campaign events: mitt is my hero! mitt’s the man! mitt’s my pick! I visited on a steamy Monday night in late July, a time of year when few South Carolinians are interested in politics and fewer still want their evening interrupted by pitches for a presidential primary six months away. But eleven volunteers, mostly college students, were hunched in cubicles spread around the office, diligently placing cold calls to area residents. Boxes of pepperoni pizza from Domino’s (a company Romney backed when he ran the investment firm Bain Capital) were piled on a table against a wall. “Well, I understand, ma’am, there’s a long way to go before the election,” the volunteer replied. “I just hope you’ll keep us in mind.”

-snip- In seeking to woo conservatives, Romney has also used his personal PAC—the Commonwealth Political Action Committee—to contribute lavishly to several national pro-life groups, the Federalist Society, the National Review, and the Heritage Foundation, among others.

[Bobbisox]

Pardon me...but you are mistaken if you think Mitt Romney is the “only top tier Republican candidate who has lived his life following the Principles of Conservative values.” Romney is a walking, talking PowerPoint presentation with enough cash in his pocket to pull the right strings to aid in the fabrication of a (c)onservative. He is what he feels he needs to be to buy the Presidency. And it is obvious he has cast his net of stupidity and fabrication over many followers.

[NormsRevenge]

(Globalist elitists now run the Party..)

That explains a lot. ;-)

[Plutarch]

What advise are they giving?

Well, I mean advice, then. This hard left pinko writer is advising us not to fall for Romney being a true conservative, as if from his moonbat leftie perspective he could tell.

[mtntop3]

No one will ever be Republican-enough for the Kamikazes.

The only ones with absolute purity: themselves. Or so they would have us think.

[JRochelle]

I have no intention of falling for Romney, I know he isn’t really a consevative.

I don’t need a moonbat to tell me that.

BTW, he isn’t giving advice. He is stating facts.

[HerrBlucher]

Mitt Romney is the only top tier Republican candidate who has lived his life following the principles of Conservative values.

My uncle lived his personal life in accordance with conservative principles but he was a flaming leftie politically. Mitt may live a conservative personal life but his politics are all over the place.....whatever it takes to get the next job. I know lots of lifestyle liberals who vote republican.

[wardaddy]

a bit harsh on Romney

[americanflyer1234]

At a speech in Davie Monday hosted by the conservative Federalist Society, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney defended passing over GOP lawyers for judicial appointments.

Of the 36 lawyers Romney nominated when he was governor of Massachusetts, 23 were registered Democrats or independents who donated to Democratic candidates or voted in Democratic primaries, according to an analysis by the Boston Globe that was circulated by rival Fred Thompson. Two appointees supported expanding gay rights.

[Plutarch]

Have you read Silverstein's other writings, like the one celebrating the Brazilian Worker's Party?

Why the heck do you need to delve into the writings of a friggin' Communist to find stuff to use against Romney? Geez, the worst I ever got to find anything on Thompson was a straight NYT news story. But a writer for Mother Jones? Geez.

Hey Clara Lou, you chided me several times for citing straight news stories in the New York Times, and here a Fredhead is using an investigative writer for The Nation. What is the deal here? For Thompson, only right wing sources can be used, but if it is against Romney, why you can use The Daily Worker? Please advise.

[ansel12]

“””At a speech in Davie Monday hosted by the conservative Federalist Society, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney defended passing over GOP lawyers for judicial appointments.

Of the 36 lawyers Romney nominated when he was governor of Massachusetts, 23 were registered Democrats or independents who donated to Democratic candidates or voted in Democratic primaries, according to an analysis by the Boston Globe that was circulated by rival Fred Thompson. Two appointees supported expanding gay rights.”””

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NATIONAL REVIEW; “Waiting on Fred” Aug 27 2007

The Supreme Court, and judicial issues in general, are Thompson’s strong suit. Not only does he have the background-the Watergate investigation, the Senate Judiciary Committee, private practice, and the job of guiding John Roberts through his confirmation hearings-he also knows the conservative legal stars who would likely be candidates for the Court in coming years. But he won’t name names, beyond the men already there, “I like Roberts and Alito and Scalia and Thomas” he tells me. “We’re in a heck of a lot better shape because of Roberts and Alito, and one more gain would put us in even better shape.” Should he become president, Thompson would undoubtedly try to nominate that elusive fifth conservative.

[ansel12]

“”Romney is a walking, talking PowerPoint presentation with enough cash in his pocket to pull the right strings to aid in the fabrication of a (c)onservative. He is what he feels he needs to be to buy the Presidency.””

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Here is a very short, 84 seconds of a positive (current)Romney video.

It will make most people cringe, watch the phoniness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7GjD2qFH6c

[Petronski]

Thirty pieces of silver.

[Petronski]

a) Pay Disney countless millions to construct an animatronic weatherboy.

b) Fill his head with conservative platitudes.

c) Ascend to boundless power.

[Petronski]

People who try to say he is not Conservative come across as too accurate to be tolerated by Willard's Army of Acolytes.

[MHGinTN]

That didn’t seem phony to me! Sincere? Ya, and he appears to believe what he’s saying is motivating him. We could do a lot worse for our President. We Republicans have two or three really good choices. The democrats have to find their lowest common denominator to lead their criminal enterprise.

[Petronski]

So a liberal rag now becomes gospel to the Mitt haters.

Are you refuting the article? How so? (Be specific and show your work.)

[Petronski]

Is this the Dobson who can deny a man’s Christianity without even meeting him?

[phillyfanatic]

Absolutely and that is why the Purists will sit whether Mitt, Rudy or Fred get it. They dream of Hunter, Tancredo, even Paul but someone who will actually win, get some down ticket people elected so the Dems don’t sweep Congress, and even put 3-4 Pub issues into being such as a strong foreign policy, border help, tax cuts and SCOTUS choices, is cursed and by golly, they will never never never never get their sacred vote!! So the rest of us get Her Highness and 8 years of Dem control or more plus a SCOTUS which is changed forever. Talk about silly inane reasoning.

[Petronski]

I don’t spend time on Fred threads.

Not even when you're posting on them.

[Petronski]

This hard left pinko writer is advising us not to fall for Romney being a true conservative, as if from his moonbat leftie perspective he could tell.

Slick Willard's "conservative" fraud is so obvious EVEN a moonbat leftie could tell.