Romney's speech at CPAC

Politico ^ | 2/27/2009 | Mitt Romney

[Waryone]

Which fact do you disagree with? I may have to chase it down for the billionth time but it’s been done so many times I’ll get you the proof. Remember we had these discussions last year and there was proof after proof that Romney is a RINO. Romney’s own words, press releases, letters to gays rights organizations, all said the same things but we had Romneybot after Romneybot showing up here trying to defend him with his own lies. Trashing Reagan, trying to make excuses for Romney’s pro-abortion stand. Even if you give them the irrefutable proof to their face, they still refuse to give up their lies.

Just let me know which facts you’ve been deceived in.

[Plutarch]

And just why do you feel a need to create a diversion from a thought provoking talk about the problems we are facing in America?

The Romney-bash spamfests into which these threads rapidly degenerate, with a handful of malevolent posters conducting filibustering posting relays amongst themselves, surely provokes repugnance, but I've yet to see "thought...about the the problems we are facing in America."

[ansel12]

Remember we had these discussions last year and there was proof after proof that Romney is a RINO. Romney’s own words, press releases, letters to gays rights organizations, all said the same things but we had Romneybot after Romneybot showing up here trying to defend him with his own lies. Trashing Reagan, trying to make excuses for Romney’s pro-abortion stand. Even if you give them the irrefutable proof to their face, they still refuse to give up their lies.

Amen brother, that they do. It is what makes the Romney followers different than anyone else.

[BarnacleCenturion]

"Remember we had these discussions last year and there was proof after proof that Romney is a RINO."

 

I was here and that seems to have escaped my memory. I do remember this FR poll though:

 

 

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

 

[BarnacleCenturion]

“I like Romney.”

I always knew that...

[Diogenesis]

That was fake, single poll, BC.
How Romney is that?

The rest were like this:
FLASHBACK:

FRee Republic Member Opinion
WINNER - Thompson 66.8% 1,658
LOSER --- Romney 12.7% 315

Post Election Rasmussen poll - GOP voters:
WINNER - Palin -- 64%
LOSER --- Huckabee -- 12%
LOSER --- Romney -- 11%

[Diogenesis]

Romney's bad behavior Exposed by Seamus

"Romney Loses Nomination Over Dog Abuse?
Romney was traveling that summer with his wife, five sons, and Seamus to his parent's cottage on Lake Huron.
But hours into the ride, Seamus apparently suffered diarrhea,
which ran down the back window of the car. Romney's sons, all under 13, howled in disgust.
Romney pulled off the road into a service station.
There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, and they drove on to Ontario.
.....David Kravitz wrote on BlueMassGroup, a liberal blog.
"It also strikes me as classic Romney: it solves a problem efficiently,
in a business-like manner, and with no regard whatsoever
for the suffering that the solution may cause."

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It was illegal but Romney is always "above the law (see fake badges, impersonating LEO in multiple states, faking endorsements, dirty tricks, .............)"

"But the details of the event are more than unseemly — they may, in fact, be illegal.
Massachusetts's animal cruelty laws specifically prohibit anyone
from carrying an animal "in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel
or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the
animal carried thereon." An officer for the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals responded to a description of the situation
saying "it's definitely something I'd want to check out." The officer,
Nadia Branca, declined to give a definitive opinion on whether Romney broke the law
but did note that it's against state law to have a dog in an open bed of a pick-up truck,
and "if the dog was being carried in a way that endangers it, that would be illegal."

---

"Dog on Roof? What Was It Like for Romney's Pooch?
Scientists Say Dog Likely Experienced Wind-Whipped, Uncomfortable Trip
"Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family's hulking Irish setter,
in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon's roof rack.
e'd built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog," read the article.
Jordan Kaplan, the owner of Petaholics, a dog walking service in New York City,
and a lifelong dog owner and dog lover, said Romney's actions were uncalled for.
....What Happens to a Dog on a Roof Traveling 50 MPH?"

---

"Romney's dog - This is a distinction Mitt Romney probably could do without, but he is surely
the first presidential candidate to be attacked for putting a dog with diarrhea
in a carrier and tying it to the top of a station wagon.
Romney's defense: Seamus liked it. "He scrambled up there every time we went on trips,"
the Republican said during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. "He got in all by himself and enjoyed it."

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"As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon,
keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble.
''Dad!'' he yelled. ''Gross!'' A brown liquid was dripping down the back window,
payback from an Irish setter who'd been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.
As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust,
Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station.
There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car,
then hopped back onto the highway."

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"Story about dog on car roof comes back to bite Romney
Critics, jokesters make issue of tale
TIME.com's Swampland blog has been flooded with more than 200 comments
from readers complaining of animal cruelty"

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[Diogenesis]

Good point. On this you are correct.

By inflicting socialized medicine (without a vote),
and gay marriage (against the Mass.Constitution and Clerks rioting,
also without a vote), and BIGdig coverup, and local GOP destruction,
and throwing the Election2008 in a jealous hissy-fit to Obama
by directing a vicious attack upon Gov.Palin directly and indirectly,
the repeat, goose-leg, brownshirt, chameleon, but
RINO candidacy of Mitt Romney remains a major problem "we are facing in America".

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

There are so many conservative leaders here this weekend. I was looking forward to seeing Governor Palin again. There’s a rumor that she has been offered an 11-million-dollar book contract. My publisher has been talking to me about an 11-millon-dollar deal as well. I’m just not sure I can come up with that kind of money.

Low class cheap shot. Why am I not surprised.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

It doesn't take long, nor do you have to look hard, for the anti-Mormon bent of Romney-loathers to show itself.

I take it that you are including the illustrious owner of this board as well since he had this to say about Romney earlier in the week.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Why would he bring her up in his speech, period, but none of his other GOP rivals, unless he wanted to get a dig in at her?

[Waryone]

Don’t know much about Jindal at this point, but my objection to Romney had nothing whatsoever to do with his religion. He was (is) a slimy two-faced politician who would do or say anything to get elected. He ran and governed as an abortionist socialist liberal. His convenient conversion to pro-life conservatism just in time to try to capture the Republican nomination for president is laughable. He’s a fraud. JMHO, of course.

167 posted on February 25, 2009 2:48:30 PM EST by Jim Robinson
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Thank you so much for posting that. I had not seen that before. I'm sure theBOTs will have excuses as to why this must be a mistake or this never happened. According to them, Romney surely delighted the conservatives on this site, won every poll, never a word of disagreement with their "One" has been spoken on Free Republic. As they try to convince me that after two years of conservatives pointing out Mitt's lies day after day, my eyes were mistaken. Two years of watching videos of Mitt say one thing and then lie and say the exact opposite, two years of watching him impugn Ronald Reagan's character, two years of Romney having his own words, documents, and actions show him to be a bald faced lying liberal.

The only people who lie more than Mitt Romney are his supporters and from what I can see, they lie a long time and think our memories are short. We ended up with "0" because the RINOs keep thinking they can win if they could just get those conservatives to shut up. Well there is no way I'm going to be quiet. I hate RINOs, all of them and Romney is just the biggest liar and phony of the bunch.

[Captain Kirk]

Sorry, as many Conservatives...especially those who understand business and the banking system...supported the bank bailout as opposed it. Romney understands that banks without any liquidity can't lend money and thus completely stalls out any possibility of growth.

My only complaint with the bank bailout was the complete lack of accountability and supervision. That was where the failing occurred.

Your "only complaint?" Now...that's an understatement if I ever saw one. Your second paragraph undermines the whole case you made in the first one. If Romney is such an expert, why didn't he speak out against the "failing" at the time? instead, he panicked and supported a terrible bill (not a good trait in a president). The sad truth is that he. like the others who supported the bailout, inaccurately predicted that it would restore "liquidity." The actual result of Romney's folly is that we are headed for one of two terrible alternatives: nationalization or an even more massive bailout combined with more crippling regulation.

Let's suppose, however, that Romney had (contra history) actually demanded and gotten "accountability." That wouldn't have worked either. We don't live in a magical world where politicians (even if they have business backgrounds) can "plan" the distribution of credit in banking. They tried that in the Soviet Union and it didn't work.

The best alternative then and now was to follow the free market alternative as recommended by the prescient Ron Paul and other critics of the billionaire bailout: bankruptcy. Would there be some short term suffering? Of course! But it would be far less than under the two alternatives created by Romney's folly of ever more massive bailouts and nationalization.

[BarnacleCenturion]

“We ended up with “0” because the RINOs keep thinking they can win if they could just get those conservatives to shut up.”

We couldn`t agree more. And Conservatives shall speak again today at 4:30PM at CPAC. Stay tuned. Rush will speak afterwards.

[rodeo-mamma]

I will have to really give Palin a second chance if what you say is true. It is very possible that my distaste for her was colored by the hate her so-called supporters have been spewing for Mitt. It’s so ugly the way those people have slandered Mitt that anyone they like gets on my shit list really quick. I will start to see Palin in a totally different light if what you say is true. It would serve those Mitt haters right. And it would make me feel a whole heck of a lot better!

[rodeo-mamma]

“Calling people Romneybots and posting recycled John Kerry graphics don’t convince anyone of anything. I suspect the real tactic is to disrupt any thread about Romney so much that you can kill any meaningful discussion.”

You are very correct. It is fascinating to me how people who claim to be conservatives are actually using Communist style tactics. It makes me wonder if these people are actually working for the same people who put Obama in the presidency.

[Ol' Sparky]

And there were hints as well of universal healthcare and a universal service corps. It all sounds very appealing, until you realize that these plans mean universal government. That model has never worked anywhere in the world.

LOL! And, what governor led the charge and signed universal health care into law in Massachusetts? WILLARD MITT ROMNEY!

[Ol' Sparky]

Notice how it is Willard’s supporters that have to bring up the fact he is Mormon to try and deflect attention away from his liberal record as governor of Massachusetts. Pathetic.

[Ol' Sparky]

Tell me again why you don't consider him a Conservative.

Because he raised taxes and fees $700 million as governor of Massachusetts, passed through universal health care, was rabidly pro-abortion, nominated homosexual activist lawyers to courts and didn't lift a finger to stop gay marriage?

And, I am sure I am leaving quite a few things out.

[Ol' Sparky]

There was NOTHING conservative about Romney in Massachusetts. When given the choice between genuine conservatives with a conservative records and this fraud, who do you think most conservatives are going to pick to be the GOP nominee in 2012?