Mitt Romney: I’m no back stabber

Boston Herald ^ | 11/8/2003 | Dave Wedge

[lady lawyer]

“There are some [who]would prefer it if I would simply distance myself from my religion, say that it is more a tradition than my personal conviction, or disavow one or another of its precepts. That I will not do. I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers – I will be true to them and to my beliefs.

“Some believe that such a confession of my faith will sink my candidacy. If they are right, so be it. But I think they underestimate the American people. Americans do not respect believers of convenience. Americans tire of those who would jettison their beliefs, even to gain the world.”

Mitt Romney, December 6, 2007.

[JMKirnan]

Romney is not one of “us”.

Maybe not, but sure is nice to look at...

[adc]

There's a lot of hate here it seems. I am guessing that it has more to do with his faith than anything else. But maybe I'm wrong about that. I'm a Catholic, but for me, religion has nothing at all to do with a person's qualifications for President. Nor does race. Nor does gender. For me, the top requirement for a candidate is that he will be ELECTABLE, while carrying forth most of the values I share. Certainly not a bridge-crosser like McCain, but someone who is articulate, bright, attractive, relatively young, engaging, quick on the feet, tough on the opposition and a Constitutionalist. All the things McCain was not. Most of these qualities, but for the last, we saw in Obama. And like it or not, was a large part of why he won. Stupid, yes. But Stupid elected him. The stupid voters had no real choice in this election. Obama won on all the above points. We can appeal to the stupid, while at the same time appeal to the thinking conservatives, with the right candidate. I believe Romney shares the qualities we need for the stupid voters, as well as most of the conservative values we need to win on. But so do others, Pence, Palin, etc.

Maybe someone else will come forth. I just don't think trashing any possible Republicans/Conservatives does us any good. There are plenty on the other side who do that. And until you can come up with proof of Romney's offenses, the accusations you make seem to be just based on a personal disdain for the man or his faith.

[Diogenesis]

FRiend, there is no hate from the Romney critics.

There is documentation of bad behavior by Romney,
and to find it yourself: use the **search** engine or
Google or hit a few of the URLs and links.

Only the RomneyBOTs have shown hate, ad hominem, and
lack of explanation for their and Romney’s treason
against conservatives, or Romney’s
[fill in] _____________ (socialized medicine, 2nd amendment,
gay marriage, illegal aliens at this mansion, shapeshifting,
backstabbing, fake LEO badges, pushpull polls against GOP
...).

The only time religion is brought up is by his defenders.
It happens over and over and over. Romney’s defenders
attack and lie and attack. No wonder their knives have
Gov. Palin’s childrens’ ‘blood’ on them. At this site,
they attacked the VP Candidate UNTIL, AND THROUGH, THE
DAY OF THE ELECTION.

If you really care about the facts, go to the links
yourself, then decide yourself. We did.

[Finny]

(self-pinging post #223 by fm dj for future reference on the best and brightest to watch for and support, as well as for primary process repair!)

FM DJ, you are in even better form than usual, just darned ELOQUENT throughout this thread! Man o manishevitz.

I, like many others here, regard Romney "bashing" as a timely and worthy battle that is NOT divisive to the party, but unifying because Romney is a Trojan Horse threat to Republican limited government principle and needs to be rooted out asap. The fight against him needs to start NOW.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Thank you. It is oh-so-true. “Trojan horse” is a frequent description I’ve used for these RINOs... Democrat agents to destroy the GOP from within (because as discovered eons ago, it’s much easier to destroy your opponent once you’re inside their camp).

Pray tell, why do we not adopt such hardcore tactics to similarly undermine THEIR party ? Perhaps because our TOO trusting and naive party gets taken by these confidence men, while the Dems, already being chock-full of these folks, usually can spot those a mile away and they give ‘em the bums’ rush out of the building before they reach the elevator. A crooked party they are, but with a helluva lot more street smarts than we have...

[Impy]

The only way to assure every state’s vote’s count would be a national primary.

I’d like a closed national primary in May with instant runoff voting but that’s likely a non-starter among the unimaginative.

NH and IA are ludicrous. And no one has the balls to say “no more” to these little bastards “traditional” status.

[Impy]

You make good points but it’s really not fair 2 small states have such disproportional power to choose the President. A better way should be reached.

[Petronski]

Mitt Romney: I’m no back stabber, I have staff for that!

[Diogenesis]

"Almost every critical remark made about Palin
on a recent briefing call about her selection came from political consultants
with ties to Romney. Those comments were planted, says one,
because they knew that reporters would be on the call."
[Washington Prowler, American Spectator, Storm Center, 9/2/2008]

This reminds Conservatives of Romney's fake badges and attacks on Sen Thompson.

Novak: Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign

Said Novak: The rumors were "traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."