Romney playing role in Calif. governor race (Meg Whitman)

Globe Staff ^ | February 21, 2009 | Sasha Issenberg

[EternalVigilance]

Hey, at least Alan Keyes supports the principles of Free Republic.

Do you support the pro-abort Whitman like Romney?

[Badeye]

Exactly.

[EternalVigilance]

conservatives flocked to romney

Only naive or stupid ones who were led there by the sell-out fake "conservative" leaders that Romney bought off.

[Badeye]

‘You labor under a severe illusion if you don’t realize that a hell of a lot of conservatives think Romney is as bad, or worse, than McCain. ‘

More Republicans voted for Romney than McCain from what I can tell.

Second point, ‘its the economy, stupid’ isn’t just a slogan, its what drives American election cycles.

Romney would have done much better than McCain last September 15th, the day McCain’s campaign collapsed upon itself due to McCain’s unbelievably inept, incoherent views on economic matters.

You can cite various votes, or legislative efforts passed on Romney’s watch as Governor in a overwhelmingly LIBERAL STATE if you wish as reason to not support the man.

But the fact remains, when the most serious economic crisis of my lifetime occured, that viewpoint gave us a man that was born with a trust fund, McCain. A man who grew up in a family of flag rank offices, McCain (ever meet a POOR admiral? me neither).

We got a clown that said ‘Americans won’t pick lettuce for SIXTY PER HOUR, for God’s sake.

When we could have had a guy that actually knew what the hell he was talking about on economic matters, and American workers.

[Vaduz]

California is beyond help it is to infected with liberals in high places see the last five governer’s.

[EternalVigilance]

Remember, you're on America's premiere conservative website. Perhaps you can explain Romney's bigtime support for this woman:

Meg Whitman makes case on how she's different

In an interview with The Chronicle...she...took positions on social issues that could make her the target of opposition from the conservative GOP grassroots.

Whitman said she supports abortion rights - including public funding for abortions - and believes tough gun laws like assault weapon bans and handgun control are appropriate for California.

Asked if she would favor cutting benefits such as welfare or health care to illegal immigrants, Whitman said that although border enforcement is important she would not support such cuts, because "whether they're legal or illegal (immigrants), those benefits go to children ... and we have to protect the children."

Pray tell, do you support abortion, even taxpayer-funded abortions, gun bans, and paying benefits for illegal aliens?

Because, with this endorsement, Mitt Romney does.

More proof he's fraud and a liar, in addition to being what we've know all along that he is: a stone-cold liberal.

[TChris]

Only naive or stupid ones...

Including such clueless morons as these:

Tom Tancredo

Rick Santorum

Dennis Hastert

Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Ann Coulter

Sean Hannity

Laura Ingraham

Bob Jones III

Mark Levin

Paul Weyrich

Judge Robert Bork

Come on, people. Admit that you have a deep-seated compulsion to bash Mitt Romney, and that you'll just make stuff up to fit.

[BarnacleCenturion]

"Your exit poll data makes zero sense."

 

Ok, just as an example here is the exit poll data for the Florida Primary:

 

http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/#FLREP

 

Check out page 4. Among the "Very Conservative" Romney beat the others by a landslide.

 

And as for FR, here's how things were a year ago:

 

 

Which GOP presidential hopeful do you want to see win the most delegates on Super Tuesday?

 

Member Opinion
Mitt Romney	75.9%		1,390
Ron Paul	11.5%		211
Mike Huckabee	7.6%		139
John McCain	5.0%		92
	100.0%		1,832

 

 

Conservatives tend to support Romney. The ones who don`t probably get their news from the Boston Globe and the NYTimes. They should listen more to the likes of Hannity, Rush and Ann Coulter. They all voted for Romney.

[EternalVigilance]

I haven’t made anything up. This thread is about him supporting a pro-abort, gun-banning supporter of funding illegals with your tax money.

No surprises, since all of those things and a whole liberal lot more are very much a part of his public record, no matter how hard he lied to try and deceive good conservatives in the last election.

Do you support Whitman?

[EternalVigilance]

Admit that you have a deep-seated compulsion to bash Mitt Romney

I have a deep-seated compulsion to defeat lying leftists who are destroying my country, and to keep as many good people from being deceived by frauds like Romney as I can.

[Finny]

Romney was a business executive. You make the mistake of thinking that someone who has been an executive in a big company, therefore embraces conservative economic principles. The truth is that executives, by definition, accomplish what they do through, among other things, controlling a labor force. In business, that's employers; in government, that labor force is taxpayers, you and me. Business executives are as likely to be screaming liberals (Michael Eisner) or moderates (Meg Whitman) as they are true-blue free-market, limited government conservatives. Indeed, limited government goes against the executive businessman mindset because the executive could not accomplish what he/she does without private industry's equivalent of expanded government.

The difference is that employees in a company can leave for a different job, start their own business, or become self-employed if they don't want to submit to the control of management; taxpayers have no such option. Make no mistake: Romney is very much the business CEO and executive, which is fine in the free and private market; but in a place of political power, Romney would view himself as the manager and taxpayers as his employees to manage.

You are way deluded if you think Romney was somehow less a man "born to privilege" than McCain.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>More Republicans voted for Romney than McCain from what I can tell.

In the GOP primaries McCain received 9,840,746 or 47.25% to Willard's 4,525,036 21.73%.

Guess you're gonna tell us that Huckabee threw the election to McCain or that Democrats elected McCain with cross over votes. You don't really believe that?

[EternalVigilance]

By the way? Every one of those people needs to publicly repent.

This endorsement is the latest iron-clad proof that Romney was lying in the last election, just as we said he was.

[Badeye]

‘In the GOP primaries McCain received 9,840,746 or 47.25% to Willard’s 4,525,036 21.73%. ‘

Try rereading my post, slowly.

REPUBLICAN VOTES. Not ‘primary votes’.

As a ‘added bonus’ I’ll note you don’t mention how many addtional primaries McCain was in after Romney dropped out.

Finally, if you don’t realize yet that Huckabee did in fact guarantee we’d get McCain, and a HUGE LOSS as a result...well, I don’t know wht to tell ya.

[EternalVigilance]

I offer this challenge to every Romney supporter that is reading this thread:

Publicly post your support for Meg Whitman here and explain to FReepers why you support her.

Piece of cake.

[Badeye]

‘Romney was a business executive. You make the mistake of thinking that someone who has been an executive in a big company, therefore embraces conservative economic principles.’

If you to ‘play’ on this topic, okay.

Please cut and paste where I said ‘conservative’ in this discussion, on this thread, or any other related to Romney at ANY POINT in the past year.

I’ll wait.

Til then, all you’ve done is construct a easily debunked straw man here that has no bearing on anything I’ve written on the topic.

btw, McCain was the ‘deluded one’ when it comes to American workers, not Romney.

[Badeye]

‘Romney was a business executive. You make the mistake of thinking that someone who has been an executive in a big company, therefore embraces conservative economic principles.’

If you to ‘play’ on this topic, okay.

Please cut and paste where I said ‘conservative’ in this discussion, on this thread, or any other related to Romney at ANY POINT in the past year.

I’ll wait.

Til then, all you’ve done is construct a easily debunked straw man here that has no bearing on anything I’ve written on the topic.

btw, McCain was the ‘deluded one’ when it comes to American workers, not Romney.

[big'ol_freeper]

This endorsement is the latest iron-clad proof that Romney was lying in the last election, just as we said he was.

Ding, Ding, Ding....BINGO!

[ejonesie22]

Try reading posts made to you.

I told you that IN THE END, Romney did ok against McCain here on FR, but that says very little, and the negatives oft mentioned here by a majority of members plus his numbers when REAL Conservatives were in the mix speaks volumes.

As for the voting results, ok, so does that now mean Socialized medicine, weak 2nd Amendment stances and wish washy abortion positions are part of the Conservative platform? Did these folks know much about Mitt. I find that once a person who is Conservative found out about Mitt's HISTORY vs. his rhetoric things changed. That is what you saw here and we are seeing now in his Cali. efforts.

As for Hannity , Coulter and Rush, I would like to see your proof that they VOTED for Mitt, were you in the booth with them? Was he their odds on favorite from the get go or the best of a bad hand in the end? Seems Hannity was a Rudy guy for example. Putting stock in the direction of what celebrity says is not just to be examined when coming from Hollywood's elite. Thinking for ones self and looking at both facts and history gives much better results.

That is what is most adorable about Mittbots, the hyperbole...

[Finny]

Ah ah ah!!! There's no telling how complete those pundits' support of Romney was, and how much of it was out of sheer desperation. At least you had the honesty not to include Michael Reagan and Rush Limbaugh on your list. Mark Levin -- go look up his column announcing his "endorsement" of Romney -- clearly opted for Romney only under duress, out of desperation, as the least bad of a piss-poor lot of choices. Limbaugh, on the other hand, talked about how as things panned out after the "only conservative on the stage" (Fred Thompson) dropped out, Romney seemed to represent the three legs of the conservative stool; I heard the show. I also heard Rush play clips of Romney statements from the primary debates (it may even have been the same show -- one FReeper says it was), and Rush followed them with the observation and warning (which you should heed), "Folks, this is not conservatism."

Here's the deal. It's not a matter of "teaching a lesson" or "taking my marbles and going home" or desiring to "punish" the GOP. When I refuse to vote for Republicans who see more control through bigger government as the solution instead of the problem, it is THE ONLY WAY I HAVE of getting the GOP to change course. Emotional types will interpret my withholding of my vote as being motivated by anger or revenge or desire to punish, but they are very much mistaken. I have ONE motivation: to change the course of the GOP. The ONLY way I can do that is to refrain from voting for moderate Republicans.