Posted on 01/27/2008 11:15:55 AM PST by SeafoodGumbo
When GOP presidential hopeful Fred Thompson dropped out of the race this week, the former Tennessee senator gave no sign that he intends to endorse one of his rivals any time soon. But a sizable segment of Thompson's team of legal advisers quickly signed on with Mitt Romney.
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If you have not read this speech by Romney concerning Fegeralism, please do! Sure makes me feel much better about going from Fred to Romney on Tuesday! Now understand why many lawyers who were supporters of Fred have moved to Romney. Take time to read the entire speech and let other Freepers know what you think about it. Would love to read your comments. A FredHead who has moved to Romney.
Subject: Federalism
http://www2.nationalreview.com/corner/romneyaddress.pdf
“...a sizable segment of Thompson’s team of legal advisers quickly signed on...”
Yeah, well, they all did such a bang-up job running Fred’s campaign, didn’t they? If he’d had some competent people in charge of it he’d still be in the race, most likely out front. Romney (who I will not vote for) needs to watch out.
The thought of a Romney/Huck ticket makes me squeamish. Can you say Mufasa & Scar?
There’s absolutely no way Romney would choose Huckabee. Huckabee hates Mormons and Romney is a lot smarter than that. I still say it’s going to be Jim DeMint.
That’s so true! LOL
“Mitt is the closest to Fred on issues.”
Really, are you saying that Fred was for funding abortions, pro-homosexual, and anti-gun like Romney has been????? Or, did Fred do more flip flops than the local pancake house?
Maybe Fred wasn’t what he was touted to be??? Or, his supporters the balanced conservatives they claimed to be.
Bottom line is that folks that now back Romney are more concerned about their pocketbook than issues of long term significance. Pocketbook Republicans (PBRs) for Romney should be your label.
I doubt that even Fred as VP would make me consider Pretty Boy but I guess I’ll ponder that when and if the time comes
Pretty Boy Mitt will never beat the Dems.
Mitt Romney is not for funding abortions. Fred Thompson is not homophobic. Romney is pro-gun.
Ambulance chasers.
Does he even own one yet? Not a rhetorical question.
Pepperdine University, former Reagan counsel, sounds good to me. What this country needs is a reassembling of the Reagan team and new up and coming people from true conservative backgrounds. The team will have a big effect on Romney’s direction.
Does anyone have a link to the video of Romney’s interview with Wolf Blitzer today? Would like to see it. Thanks!
I’m one of them. I’m holding my nose as I do it, but he’s our best shot.
Not that I know of. I think you can support the right of people to own guns without actually owning your own gun.
“Mitt Romney is not for funding abortions.”
Really? The below is from a post by Brices Crossroads elsewhere in FR:
On Abortion: When Romney took office in 2003, under the law in Massachusetts, enacted by the Massachusetts Supreme Court in Moe v. Secretary of Admin.& Finance, 382 Mass. 629, 417 N.E.2d 387 (Mass. 1981), the taxpayers of Massachusetts were forced to subsidize ONLY abortions performed on Medicaid eligible women. In 2003, there were 4,859 publicly funded abortions in Massachusetts, according to the Massachusetts Citizens for Life. link
In 2003, there were 25,741 total abortions performed in Massachusetts. link
Post-RomneyCare, the state forces every Massachusetts taxpayer to fund every abortion performed on any Massachusetts resident for a very modest $50 copay. Thus, under Romney Care, the number of abortions that will be funded on the backs of the taxpaying citizens of Massachusetts will be at least 500% more than the number when he took office (approx. 25,000 versus 5,000).
Romney’s answer to this is as predictable as it is disingenuous: The Courts made me do it. The Court in Moe did no such thing. The court did not require the legislature to subsidize health care. In finding that the state had to cover abortions for Medicaid eligible women in the same way it covered child bearing, the Court was explicit that: “... the legislature need not subsidize any of the costs associated with child bearing or with health care generally. Once it chooses to enter the Constitutionally protected area of choice, it must do so with genuine indifference.” This is Massachusetts double speak which is translated: “If you do not want to have universal funding of abortion on demand, then do not pass a universal and mandatory health care program.” Romney could have avoided this five fold increase in publicly funded abortions which was put across on his watch and with his enthusiastic support, by vetoing the whole plan. Instead, he chose to sacrifice the lives of unborn children (and to require the taxpayers of Massachusetts to pay for it) on the altar of compulsory, yes socialized, health care. All the bromides about an unpassable Constitutional Human Life Amendment cannot conceal the fact that, when he could have done something to prevent an increase in abortion, Romney not only did nothing. He actually cooperated with it. At the signing ceremony attended by Ted Kennedy, in April 2006 (after his supposed conversion to a prolife position), the mood was ebullient, according to the news reports:
“Romney is pro-gun.”
Your response:
“Does he even own one yet? Not a rhetorical question.”
Yes, he probably owns some ten thousand dollar professional skeet shotgun useless for anything but shooting clays (worthless for self defense). And they won’t let him even shoot it because when he first tired he put the muzzle to his shoulder and was stopped before he could blow his arm off.
In short, he probably doesn’t know squat about the gun culture that, besides the military, provides the most security against tyranny in the U.S. He doesn’t understand hunters or self protection advocates. He was governor of one of the top ten liberal states in America.
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