Ah, right. Here is your Mitt...
Exactly!!!!!!!
Thank you for posting that. Let’s see what kind of selection we really have now. (No conservatives for the conservative party.) We have been railroaded into having to vote for someone who doesn’t really represent our values. I can’t do it.
A gay newspaper, a planned parenthood protest, a flyer indicating tolerance for gay people, and an excellent FAQ detailing his conservative positions.
So Romney is the candidate hated by Planned Parenthood, who is strong on the issues but not perceived as bigotted against gays.
That’s a good combination. I’m guessing Rudy, McCain, and Huckabee aren’t any better for anti-gay bigots — Huckabee might have looked that way, but he does seem to tolerate gays in his own organization, and good for him.
Same-sex "marriage" is still NOT legal in Massachusetts, and was NOT created by the Supreme Judicial Court's Goodridge ruling.
Timeline documents Mitt Romney's role in creating same-sex "marriages."
In fact, it was Governor Mitt Romney who was ultimately responsible for same-sex "marriages" taking place. The Supreme Judicial Court only issued an opinion and advised the Legislature to act (which it never did). Even the Court acknowledged that it had no power to change the law.
Governor Romney created these "marriages" through an unconstitutional and illegal directive to his Department of Public Health (to print new "marriage" licenses), and through his legal counsel threatened to fire any Town Clerk or Justice of the Peace who failed to implement the (non-existent) "new law". He was not required by any constitutional mandate to do these things. On the contrary, his actions clearly violated his oath to uphold the laws of Massachusetts.
What did the Goodridge decision actually say?
To start with of all, the 2003 Goodridge SJC decision on same-sex "marriage", which reversed a lower court ruling, said 4 things:
First, it acknowledged that the current law does not permit same-sex marriage.
"The only reasonable explanation is that the Legislature did not intend that same-sex couples be licensed to marry. We conclude, as did the judge, that G.L. c. 207 may not be construed to permit same-sex couples to marry."
Second, it said it is NOT striking down the marriage laws (among other things, the Massachusetts Constitution forbids a court to change laws)
"Here, no one argues that striking down the marriage laws is an appropriate form of relief."
Third, it declared that not allowing same-sex marriages is a violation of the Massachusetts Constitution. (And the logic they use for this is truly bizarre; you must read it in full sometime.)
"We declare that barring an individual from the protections, benefits, and obligations of civil marriage solely because that person would marry a person of the same sex violates the Massachusetts Constitution."
And fourth, given that the court is not changing any laws, the SJC gave the Legislature 180 days to "take such action as it may deem appropriate."
"We vacate the summary judgment for the department. We remand this case to the Superior Court for entry of judgment consistent with this opinion. Entry of judgment shall be stayed for 180 days to permit the Legislature to take such action as it may deem appropriate in light of this opinion."
What happened then?
The Legislature did nothing. It took no action. So after the 180 days Gov. Romney took action on his own!
we all know this about Romney but if we all knew what Reagan was about before he changed I doubt any of us would have had the same thoughts about him as we do today. Look it up.
As a FredHead who’s been contemplating the use of my vote should Fred not succeed in his WH bid, I have come to the conclusion it will best be spent on Romney.
I cannot standby out of discontent with our choices allow Hitlary or Hussein to win this election. NO FREAKING WAY!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957829/posts
Reagan had his low points too! The only difference in the information dissemination is the internet.
Romney will do no damage to the pro-life cause. He will owe his election to pro-lifers and will not cross them. He may not do anything FOR us but he won’t do any knife work on our backs, either. I expect he will be like Bush I on that. McCain is actively for embryonic stem-cell research even with all the advances coming from non-homicidal stem cell research.
Thank you!
You didn’t cover his judicial picks, though.
YAWN.
Mitt Romney is a fine good family man. Your silly attempts to discredit a good man stink to High Heaven.
If you are right about Mitt Romney why aren’t gays and lesbians marching by his side supporting him? You are wrong. Here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJnYFU4v9a4
Priceless!
And last but not least, I am voting for Mitt to stick my finger in the media's eye. We have let them hound the best man out and they think they can push McCain in.
vaudine
Bad as Mitt is, Mac is worse (Keating 5, Gang of 14, campaign finance, anti-Bush tax cuts, amnesty...he’s done more wrong than Right).
I know too much about Mormonism. It’s problematic for me, but not for the reason you might assume (as a Bible-believing Christian). It’s a wacky religion. It’s irrational. There are “tenants” of their “faith” that boggle the imagination, that makes me nervous that someone who is worthy of being elected POTUS could actually believe them — believe their own “addition” to the Bible, God’s true Word to us — and also raise his children to believe the same things.
Mormons might be “moral” people — but what they believe is scary for me— makes me nervous about him being in power — the leader of the Free World. I cannot BELIEVE I would purposefully not vote this year — especially since I homeschool four, and they love going to the polls with me — but I think it will be a first.
Who could I vote for, with a clear conscience? Do I vote for the most handsome? The one who’s lost the most weight? The one who was a POW in the war? The one who has never been faithful to one wife YET, and whose kids hate him? Who then? No one. There’s no one. I can’t vote for someone who makes me have to swallow my vomit before I punch the card.
Marked to read later....