Romney Meets Russert (Romney utterly Clintonian)

Spectator Blog ^ | 12/16/2007 | Philip Klien

[JRochelle]

I just got finished watching Mitt Romney's performance on "Meet the Press."

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--On guns, he may have gotten himself in trouble, in an attempt to diffuse the flip-flop label, by standing by his support for the Brady Bill and the 1994 assault weapons ban. He even said he would have signed an extension of the assault weapons ban when it expired in 2004. He also employed the odd phrase "weapons of unusual lethality" to describe the type of guns he would ban.

--On immigration, Romney was utterly Clintonian. He said that when in November 2005 he described the Bush/McCain approach to immigration as "reasonable" and "quite different" from amnesty, he wasn't endorsing the proposal, but just describing it. He hadn't formulated his own position on immigration at the time. That's right up there with Hillary Clinton saying in the debate that she didn't say she supported driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, but she just said that a proposal to do so "makes sense." Even if we were to get into the Christmas spirit and be extraordinarily generous by granting Romney that an elected official saying pending legislation is "reasonable" doesn't constitute support for the legislation, it still doesn't get him off the hook. His description of the proposal was that it was "quite different" from amnesty, and yet during this year he has ceaselessly leveled attacks on McCain by accusing him of supporting "amnesty."

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--On health care, I thought it was noteworthy that Romney hopes other states will follow the Massachusetts model so that insurance will be mandated nationwide (even if it isn't by the federal government). So philosophically, he still holds out hope that every American will be forced to purchase health insurance, but he just thinks that personal liberty should be violated on a state-by-state basis.

[CGASMIA68]

Sad state of affairs...no decent candidate on either side......

[P-Marlowe]

[Petronski]

American Liar


“...every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as a Governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.”

[CGASMIA68]

plus no one I know from Mass(mostly all libs)dont care for Romney at all.

[Petronski]

It is difficult to find any significant weakness in Romney.

He's a flipflopping liberal liar. That's significant.

[P-Marlowe]

Sad state of affairs...no decent candidate on either side......

We still have Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson.

[flowerplough]

Mitt and Huck are in a figure 8 self-demolition derby? Let’s hope so. And then lazy, sly Thompson will watch Guiliani’s women, and the state money he spent on them, tie him in knots? Let’s hope so.

[the808bass]

Come now, he is against pornography

I'm guessing that no such clear answer would be received should Mitt receive that question. It certainly wouldn't fit his MO. But you did get me to chuckle.

[big'ol_freeper]

Got that right. The way the Demoncrat candidates seem to be imploding, the time is right to nominate a REAL conservative, not one of these:

[org.whodat]

I think he has lost track of all his past positions, he can’t keep them straight.

It may have been wrong day of the week, and therefore he was on the flip before the flop! Instead, he was on the flop before the flip! :)

[P-Marlowe]

"lethality"

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[Petronski]

He was on the board of Marriott while they offered in-room PPV porn.

Of all the reasons to oppose Slick Willard, that’s a weak one, but it is no doubt the reason for the reference.

[blake6900]

Read the whole thing.

I did. And although the blog was obviously not supportive of Romney, nowhere in the title was the phrase "Romney utterly Clintonian". In fact "Romney was utterly Clintonian" was written only once and that was at the beginning of the fourth paragraph which dealt with immigration.

Clearly, Philip Klein wrote what you wanted to read regarding Romney. But, he didn't need your help with the title.

[Petronski]

Clearly, Philip Klein wrote what you wanted to read regarding Romney. But, he didn't need your help with the title.

Call a wahhhhmbulance. Not only are parentheticals in titles permitted, but this one is accurate.

He isn't called Slick Willard for nothing.

[steve86]

I’m sure someone has used this line in the thread by now but looks like he shot himself in the foot.

[blake6900]

“...every piece of legislation which came to my desk in the coming years as a Governor, I came down on the side of preserving the sanctity of life.”

Hello. If you could provide me with any evidence that this statement by Romney is untrue I would really appreciate it. Thanks.

[Beagle8U]

Fred went on MTP and Russert never laid a glove on him. Romney goes on and Russert whipped him like a rented mule! ( and made him cry)

[Petronski]

From your link:

• Romney's health care legislation provides taxpayer-funded abortions for a co-pay of just $50.
  • Romney vetoed EIGHT provisions in his health care bill that he deemed objectionable, but he did not veto Planned Parenthoods' guaranteed position on the Advisory Board or ensure that abortions were covered only in medically necessary situations (as required by MA court ruling).  All abortions are covered in the Commonwealth Care program with no medically necessary limitation.

 

• Romney included in his health care legislation a guarantee that Planned Parenthood would have a representative on his MassHealth Payment Policy Advisory Board.  No such provision was included for a pro-life representative.

 

• Romney forced private Catholic hospitals to provide the morning-after-pill, a position applauded by Democrats and pro-abortions groups.

[Doohickey]

Romney now joins Giuliani and McCain as “Republican” candidates I absolutely, positively will not vote for no matter what. Even if Hillary! or her bother Satan get the Rat nomination.

[Petronski]

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