Posted on 11/21/2008 7:50:09 AM PST by Retired Greyhound
“a cultist? George Romney was the one who said he was brainwashed.”
LOL, “Associated Press obituary in 1995: “George Romney, Who Said Military Brainwashed Him on Vietnam, Dead at 88.”
You have latched onto this issue to put down Romney. No one can speak reason to you. My dad was a real war hero, but he had a much more reasonable attitude than you.
People go to work and pay taxes whether it is Madonna, or Mitt Romney or Harry Reid, or Bill Gates, but that doesn’t mean that they should be my president, and it sure doesn’t mean that they are qualified to become the republican candidate for president.
Romney was liberal for almost 60 years and then suddenly switched strategy and his beliefs, for this campaign.
His mother, his father, his proabortion wife, his sons that believe that they serve by working on making their father the commander in chief, it is a family tradition, although probably not as old as the permanent and historical family tradition of never serving in the military.
I think I read Murphy’s autobiography years ago.
Good story about Jimmy Cagney and Murphy. Even though both were big time Democrat’s, I respected both men. Loved Cagney’s movies.
No. I got latched onto this issue because you made two posts that I thought were pure BULL and needed to be corrected with factual truth. Having said that, its no secret I don’t like Willard. He’s a phony and a fraud. Unless something dramatic takes place, Romney will never get my conservative vote.
“What about states that do not register by party?”
The solution? Let them have their say last in line. Me first in the primary elections don’t work. I think the change would let more people have say in the process of selecting the candidates they want, rather than the pundits picking the winner after two states.
Too ofter the candidates are picked by the RNC and the rest are set up to fail because the open primarys early in the process seem to have too much weight.
didn’t take long for the 2012 campaign to begin.. mitt is hitting the ground ‘running’, palin got his attention, that’s for sure.
It is the “palin is bad”
It is now apparent McCain did not suffer a complete rout because of palin.
They are trying to neutralize palin. Imagin the crowds if palin had been at the top of the ticket.
I think Romney DOES IN FACT HAVE A PLACE at the republican table. His ecconomic skills do have value. (you do not become a big league financial player by accident)
CNN is just using up the Obama attack points that would have gone to attack romney.
he has microeconomic skills, not macro.
No it's not. Period.
If you were interested in the truth, you would know that.
It’s mandated,
Yes, just like auto insurance.
subsidized and controlled by the government.
It's subsidized for the poor only, just like in every other state.
And yes, Massachusetts regulates its insurance market, just like every other state. Romney's plan, however, actually reduced regulation.
Forcing people to purchase a service against their will is called tyranny.
Every state is a tyranny, then, since every state mandates auto insurance.
Subsidizing the premiums for those who can't afford it is called socialism
Then every state in the union is socialist, since every state in the union subsidizes healthcare for its poor.
All modern macroeconmic theory is based on micro foundations.
Your idea of there being a dichotomy between micro and macroeconomics is about 20 years out of date.
No. She won't be ready for a Presidential role.
Mitt is ready NOW. It's too bad he didn't get it.
Thankfully Mitt is peaking up more - especially about these (union payback) bailouts. They shouldn't happen. Mitt has the experience in business and already has the political experience NOW that Sarah lacks. Let her be a VP.
“Then every state in the union is socialist, since every state in the union subsidizes healthcare for its poor.” Bingo. The rest of us are already paying for health care for — not just the truly “poor” — but for everyone who chooses not to get health insurance then shows up at the emergency room.
But this “socialized medicine” canard is deliberately distorted by the Romney haters.
What exactly did she do?
It was not Repulbicans who picked McCain. Thank you for the post!
Remember how I said the GOP is becoming balkanized?
Take a look at Michael Reagan’s latest commentary
—snip—
“This is Balkanization at its worst. The Republican Party is broken up into a lot of large pockets nursing our own prejudices and our own grudges, and unwilling to accept the other guy’s opinion if he doesn’t agree with us on every issue 100 percent of the time. So we break up into factions, allowing a single issue to divide us when we agree on everything else.
—snip—
We are further Balkanized by becoming a party of personalities. We are attaching ourselves to certain individuals, and as a result we have become a party of people and not a party of principles. We are Romney-ites, or Huckabee or Giuliani devotees, or McCain-ites, or supporters of Gov. Sarah Palin — when we need to be just plain Republicans.”
http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mreagan/2008/mr_11211.shtml
So Mitt Romney is the only RINO then?
I want a definition of the term!
It's thrown around a LOT on FR, and as nearly as I can tell, it has about as much meaning as does the word "Nazi" when spoken by a Democrat protester. Specifically, the name "RINO", when applied by a FReeper, seems to mean, "I (strongly) disagree with what he/she did/does/said/says."
That being the case, I think every single FReeper, every single conservative commentator and probably every single Republican politician in history, with the POSSIBLE exception of Ronald Reagan, is a RINO in someone's eyes.
The label "RINO" is meaningless.
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I agree with you, as long as Romney continues to move to the right. I don't think he is either electable or desirable as president, however. I don't want a man whose entire family has declined to defend our country as CIC. I'd also like to see some firming up of his statements regarding abortion. His move from pro-choice to pro-life is still in its infancy. No pun intended.
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