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Romney’s Liberal Economic Record (vanity)
Posted on 01/25/2008 10:29:19 PM PST by a77
A myth coming out of the Romney camp is that he is the ‘economy candidate’. The problem is, and we’ve seen this movie before, his rhetoric doesn’t match his record. His four-year record as Governor of Massachusetts shows a substantial increase in fees and taxes, low job growth, and a large exodus of residents from the state. As Michael Widmer, president of the independent Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, told Reuters, "There's never been under his watch an economic turnaround to speak of," further saying, "We added a few jobs over the last three years of his tenure but very few. He also raised corporate taxes and fees and the (deficit) gap turned out to be less than $3 billion."
Governor Romney has made a habit of making inaccurate claims about his record throughout this race, but ironically you don’t even have to go back that far to see that Governor Romney is not a fiscal conservative. First, he supported farm and ethanol subsidies in Iowa. Senator McCain was considered politically crazy for not pandering to Iowans and stated his opposition to farm and ethanol subsidies relaying his dedication to free trade principles. In Michigan Governor Romney offered voters a $20 billion bailout to the auto industry, not something a fiscal conservative would do. Senator McCain instead told the truth that many of these jobs are not coming back, and offered a retraining program for displaced workers. Now that the race is headed down to Florida Governor Romney is offering incentives to the elderly. Governor Romney’s claim of being conservative is not only a turn-around from his record in Massachusetts, they’re a turn-around from statements he made just a few weeks ago.
Now the Governor is criticizing Senator McCain’s position on the Bush Tax Cuts. Senator McCain has clearly stated that he wanted spending cuts to accompany tax cuts, and if you look at his record and the record of congress over the last eight years its clear that there has been a massive government spending problem that he has battled against. He supports extending the tax cuts because a repeal would be practically the same as a tax increase, which he has never supported. That is a fiscal conservative. Now Governor Romney is offering a huge economic stimulus package the dwarfs President Bush’s. That is not a good thing, and not a conservative thing, that money has to come from somewhere, which in the end means it comes from the voters pockets. Senator McCain instead offers a series of corporate tax breaks, and tax incentives for start-up businesses and for research and development. Choosing to focus on stimulating growth and ingenuity over massive bailouts. The beauty and the frustration of running against a candidate such as Governor Romney whose rhetoric doesn’t match his record is that there is plenty of documentation to show what his record really is. So feel free to not believe me just check the record, and learn for yourself that this newly dubbed ‘economy candidate’ looks a lot like a Liberal.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: Massachusetts; US: Michigan; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2008; economics; economy; elections; mccain; romney; romneyisaliberal; romneytruthfile; taxes; vote
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To: Saundra Duffy
Romney may indeed end up being our candidate.
Bashing Romney is ridiculous. A Republican in a liberal state has to do what he can to provide leadership.
I am continually stunned by how little purists understand day to day political common sense.
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posted on
01/25/2008 10:52:31 PM PST
by
Wiseghy
("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
To: a77
Let’s face it
Everyone still standing is a RINO
Every candidate has several liberal views/past voting record etc
None of them in every area...but each has at least half of the issues...
Where two are bad the other three are so-so bbut the so=sos have something else stinky...
We dont have a conservative left in the race...
What can be done to get a conservative nominee next time...
I dont know..
I just know we have been gypped and left with 5 RINOs that i wouldnt hire and trust to change the oil in my car let alone act as my POTUS...
To: a77
Here’s something from another thread you might enjoy:
John McCain is throttling a cat by the side of a babbling brook. He notices camera.
JOHN MCCAIN: What? What are you looking at? I have every right to kill this cat!
Throws dead cat into water.
JOHN MCCAIN: Listen, you tell anyone about this and I will hunt you down and kill you in your sleep. Understand?
Cameraman drops camera and runs off.
JOHN MCCAIN: Hey, where you going? Get back here!
VOICEOVER: My name is John McCain, and I approve this message.
http://www.236.com/blog/w/william_tracy/john_mccain_campaign_ads_id_li_3809.php
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posted on
01/25/2008 10:53:27 PM PST
by
claudiustg
(You know it. I know it. I'm optiMITTstic!)
To: Mojave
To: a77
How 'bout an answer to the question posed to you @
#5.
To: Tennessee Nana
-—We dont have a conservative left in the race...
What can be done to get a conservative nominee next time...
I dont know..-—
Try soaking your head until something comes to you.
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posted on
01/25/2008 10:55:17 PM PST
by
claudiustg
(You know it. I know it. I'm optiMITTstic!)
To: a77
Just noting that you haven’t yet responded to my question about whether you authored the OP yourself, as opposed to pasting it.
We’re waiting.
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posted on
01/25/2008 10:56:42 PM PST
by
pogo101
To: a77
10-day old Freepers that make vanity posts.
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posted on
01/25/2008 11:00:44 PM PST
by
torchthemummy
(Go Mitt! I Know He Has Alot To Prove But I Believe He Will Exceed Expectations!)
To: a77
Senator McCain instead told the truth that many of these jobs are not coming back, and offered a retraining program for displaced workers. WRONG. Get them back.
To: a77
> His four-year record as Governor of Massachusetts shows a
> substantial increase in fees and taxes, low job growth,
> and a large exodus of residents from the state.
Oh, please!
The above statement about Massachusetts has been true for the entire 60 years of my life on this earth!!!
In a state run by the Democrat machine like a mafia whorehouse, any Republican governor is a lameduck from his first day in office. The worst thing I can say about governor Romney is that he was delusional thinking that he could make any kind of impact in that socialist hellhole.
Look, Romney was not my first choice. But I live in NH, and I was born and raised in Massachusetts.
I left Massachusetts LONG BEFORE Romney became governor, as did hundreds of thousands before me.
> As Michael Widmer, president of the independent
> Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, told Reuters
“Michael Widmer holds a PhD in Political Science from Harvard. He was the Press Secretary for former Governor Michael Dukakis.”
http://www.smallgovernmentact.org/multimedia.html
Nuff said?
> told Reuters
Reuters? As in Reuter Rooters?
BWAAAAAHAHAHAA!!!
Reuters HATES Romney, and ANY Republican, for that matter, except of course for McCain. However, since McCain votes more often with the Democrats, and even considered caucusing with the Democrats, and even considered running as VP for Kerry (of Massachusetts, btw), McCain doesn’t really qualify as a “Republican” by Reuters’ reckoning.
Not by my reckoning, either.
> “There’s never been under his watch an economic
> turnaround to speak of,”
Hysterical!!! This was true LONG before Romney became governor. NO governor has been able to get the pimps of the mafia whorehouse to get the crack whores off the public teat.
> further saying, “We added a few jobs over the last three
> years of his tenure but very few.
WOW!!! That’s WAY BETTER than commie Mike Dukaka EVER did!! And the new commie guvnah, Devil Patrick, is doing even worse than old Dukaka. But, of course, that’s BUSH’S FAULT, right??
OY!!!
I didn’t vote for him in the NH primary, but now I am PRAYING that Romney gets the nomination.
He will sweep the floor with the wicked witch and box the ears of the lightweight obama.
To: a77
Something for careful consideration.
January 25, 2008
Posted: 06:45 PM ET
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are very close, Bill Clinton says.
(CNN) — If Hillary Clinton and John McCain become their party's presidential nominees, the general election race is likely to be a love-fest. At least according to Bill Clinton. Campaigning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Friday, the former president brushed aside suggestions his wife would prove to be a divisive nominee for the Democratic Party, pointing out how she has successfully worked with Republicans in the Senate — including one of the current GOP presidential candidates. "She and John McCain are very close," Clinton said. "They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they're afraid they'd put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other."
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posted on
01/25/2008 11:07:06 PM PST
by
henbane
To: a77
the Conservative Union’s “Conservative Of The Century” signed a pro abortion bill while governor, Romney never did
To: pogo101
Then there were the strawberries! They laughed and made jokes! And Romney was the worst!
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posted on
01/25/2008 11:11:24 PM PST
by
iowamark
To: Wiseghy
“Bashing Romney is ridiculous.”
What are they thinking? Here we have a great candidate and the anti’s are hell bent on trying to destroy a good man. It is amazing to me.
To: Mojave
“Turnaround” - which you obviously have not read - is about how a super smart sophisticated good man made good in the private sector and then saved the Olympics. The Olympics!! Don’t you remember those Olympic games?! It’s the American dream come true yet you persist in nonsensical anti Romney hate speech. How sad.
To: a77
Mitt has no Foundation. Mitts Cornerstone is sand.
Mitt does not “Understand” what a True plumb line is.
Google is free use it.
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posted on
01/25/2008 11:29:26 PM PST
by
Tigen
(I will give a hint- there shall be no gods)
To: a77
McCain’s economic experience: being the only republican member of the Keating Five.
To: claudiustg
To: a77
Senator McCain...is this you?
To: Shortstop7
It’s a sheer sign of desperation.
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