Posted on 01/27/2009 6:00:49 AM PST by EternalVigilance
The condition of the schools is a symptom. All the folks we’re talking about will ever talk about is symptoms. They can’t bear to discuss the actual disease.
If you actually listen to the interviews Babbin gave to Deace and Jackson you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
Govt. funded abortions are practiced in some form in every state of the Union. Before Romney was Governor they were free. He forced the 80% Dem. legislature to compromise on the issue. They went over his veto but couldn't muster enough support for free abortions and had to settle for a co-pay fee. Romney forced them in the right direction.
Even in a conservative state like AK with a governor as great as Sarah Palin instant abortion pills are paid for with our tax dollars. Until Roe Vs. Wade is overturned at the Federal level there is not too much the states can do. Even the reddest of Red states and one of the most anti-abortion, South Dakota, couldn't get a ballot intiative passed on the issue. A Constitutional amendment would work but is technically a State issue as it requires ratification of 3/4 of states. If red SD and Alaska can't even get it done how can we really expect blue MASS to?
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Governor Romney was presented with legislation concerning life issues on several occasions from the 85% majority Democrat Legislature in Massachusetts. In every instance he took the pro-life position by vetoing bills or lobbying for the pro-life approach, including the following actions: He vetoed the bill providing state funding for human embryonic stem cell research (Theo Emery, "Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Vetoes Stem Cell Bill," The Associated Press, 5/27/2005)
He vetoed a bill that provided for the "morning after pill" without a prescription because it is an abortifacient and would have been available to minors without parental notification and consent (Governor Mitt Romney, Op-Ed, "Why I Vetoed Contraception Bill," The Boston Globe, 7/26/2005)
He pledged to veto any bill that would expand access to RU-486, the abortion pill (Hugh Hewitt, "Interview with Governor Romney," The Hugh Hewitt Show, 7/27/2005)
He vetoed legislation which would have redefined Massachusetts longstanding definition of the beginning of human life from fertilization to implantation (Governor Mitt Romney, Letter To The Massachusetts State
Senate And House Of Representatives, 5/12/2005) He supported parental notification laws and opposed efforts to weaken parental involvement (John McElhenny, "O'Brien And Romney Spar In Last Debate Before Election," The Associated Press, 10/29/2002)
He fought to promote abstinence education in public school classrooms with a program offered by faith-based Boston group Healthy Futures to middle school students. Gov. Romney's administration was the first in Massachusetts to use federal abstinence education funds for classroom programs. (Office of Gov. Mitt Romney, "Romney Announces Award of Abstinence Education Contract," Press Release, 4/20/2006)
We can't, with only one party in America...a liberal party with an R and a D leg.
And the 11th Commandment was used and embraced by Reagan with great effect. What made his run against Ford so effective was that he made it one of principles and did not make it personal. Ford was the one who would get a little personal.
Reagan also was willing to accept a RINO (Richard Schweiker) as his VP in his primary challenge in 1976. And let's not forget that he picked GHWB -- a bit of a RINO -- as his VP in 1980.
And of course he also took the polar opposite of all those positions at various times throughout his infamous career...sometimes not only at the same time but in the same breath.
...and it was almost always that the liberal side of Mitt’s cover-the-road rhetoric was what ended up in actual public policy.
and this
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
and then this.....
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
versus "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform."
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
versus
"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
-- President Ronald Reagan
We’re still paying the price for those compromises.
This probably isn’t a good time for you to argue that the turning over of the Reagan legacy to the Bush family was one of the best things President Reagan ever did.
The condition of the schools is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about what is taught in them and what is not allowed to be taught in them. The schools, I think, are the pathogen, not the symptom.
Again, if one returns to core principles, the idea that government has any rightful role in education is anathema - other than perhaps very limited exceptions such as that which is in the service of those serving in the military and their dependents.
It certainly was not. The best thing he did was win the Cold War which he would not have managed to do if he was unwilling to work with people like Bush.
And in fairness to Bush and Reagan, remember GHWB's main opponent in the 1988 primary was Bob Dole and I doubt if he would have been any better. He probably would have been worse since at least Bush I & Bush II gave us 3 good judges, and sowed some seeds of hope in the Mideast.
The reason for this great improvement was the willingness of true-believing conservatives to work with those who were not so certain about things, and to work with those who agreed with them on this issue but disagreed strongly on other issues.
Homeschoolers have gotten where they are by fearlessly standing up for their liberty. It hasn’t happened because of some compromise with the left.
Homeschoolers owe these compromised squishes you’re enamored of NOTHING.
“Amazing how you can “note” something that doesn’t exist.”
I misread.
You are right.
I am wrong.
My apologies.
Apology accepted.
By the way, I really have been a huge fan of Human Events over the years. During Terry Jeffrey’s reign there as editor the publication was as stalwart as it gets.
One other thing: I have no expectation that the publishers are going to pay us any mind, or that the magazine will ever come back to being what it once was.
Such is the fate of human institutions, I guess.
Mulford act, Brady Bill, supported the AWB. Oh wait that was Reagan not Romney. AWB ban. Oh wait that was Bush. The NRA gave Romney a B grade for his time in MASS. Sure it wasn't perfect but he did move the state in the right direction loosening gun laws overall.
Think about the implications of your litmus test for a second here. If the Gipper were held to this Litmus test he wouldn't have been in the position to appoint a certain individual signatory of this document to go hang out at the UN.
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On the 31st anniversary of the Gun Owners' Action League, Governor Romney declared May 7, 2005 as "The Right to Bear Arms Day" in Massachusetts to honor "the right of decent, law-abiding citizens to own and use firearms in defense of their families, persons, and property and for all lawful purposes, including the common defense." (Scott Helman, "Romney retreats on gun control," The Boston Globe, 1/14/2007)
Opponents of gun control and critics of Governor Romney point to the fact that he signed firearms legislation in July, 2004 that included a ban of assault weapons in Massachusetts (S.2367). However, the bill only reaffirmed an existing Massachusetts state ban on assault weapons that was enacted as part of sweeping gun control laws passed in Massachusetts in 1998, five years before Romney took office, and didn't ban any additional guns. … The state ban of assault weapons enacted in 1998 was not due to disappear, nor would it have become invalid with the sunset of the federal ban in September, 2004. … The bill was passed in the Senate by a vote of 36 - 1 in favor and the House passed it with no amendments or debate on a "voice" vote. This represented by far the broadest support a reform bill has ever seen in the Massachusetts State House. Only one legislator in the entire building voiced opposition to the bill. (National Rifle Association - Institute for Legislative Action, "Massachusetts - Firearms Reform Bill Sent to the Governor`s Desk," Press Release, 6/29/2004)
The firearms reform bill signed by Governor Romney in 2004 had the endorsement of the NRA (a MUST READ). It was also supported by the Gun Owners' Action League, law enforcement and Massachusetts gun owners. The Executive Director of GOAL attended the signing ceremony for the bill. The legislation added several measures these groups favored, including a lengthening of the terms of firearm identification cards and licenses to carry, namely; 1) Extending the term of a firearm identification card and a license to carry firearms from four years to six years, 2) Granting a 90-day grace period for holders of firearm identification cards and licenses to carry who have applied for renewal, and 3) Creating a seven-member Firearm License Review Board to review firearm license applications that have been denied.
Romney falsehood: "I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA."
The truth:
Romney: "“That’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA”
Boston Herald (1994)
Romney: " “I don’t line up with the NRA.”
Boston Globe, January 14, 2007
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