Yup; just another loser...
It is not a surprise that he has put his home in Mass. up for sale and is leaving. I would leave too. The state is a completly failed sucialistic state.
Rodents exiting a descending vessel...
Posted on 02/28/2009 1:44:22 PM PST by teg_76
Mitt Romney won the 2009 CPAC straw poll.
Instead we now have Obama who not only won't advance them, he'll set them back. We are in a situation where Catholic hospitals are fearful that FOCA will pass and they'll have to shut down. Do you get that?
You didn't hurl and insult? From your first post. : )
“Mitt is/was not perfect. However, the man performed well considering the Dems outnumber the Reps in the State legislature by a 9-to-1 margin.”
Why is it that he dropped his republican registration in protest against Reagan, supported Swet, voted for Paul Tsongas in 1992, why did he give money exclusively to democrat candidates (in multiple states)for years until he re registered republican in 1993 (the year he stopped giving to dems) while still being against Gingrich and the Contract with America in 1994?
The reasons that Mitt Romney was not a fighter in Mass is that he liked things the way they were, he could play soft and say he tried and the result fit his politics anyway.
Ronald Reagan was a Democrat for many years. He supported “no-fault” divorce and abortion while governor of CA. That said, he modified his postions and became one of the greatest, if not THE greatest president in this country’s history.
I’d say RR’s divorce and abortion laws were worse than anything Mitt did.
Mitt is far from ideal - but I’d take him in the White House over what currently resides there.
Dear conservative friends:
We hail from a broad spectrum of organizations dedicated to fighting for the pro-family agenda in Massachusetts. As you know, Mitt Romney became the governor of our state in 2003. Since that time, we have worked closely with him and his excellent staff on that agenda.
Some press accounts and bloggers have described Governor Romney in terms we neither have observed nor can we accept. To the contrary, we, who have been fighting here for the values you also hold, are indebted to him and his responsive staff in demonstrating solid social conservative credentials by undertaking the following actions here in Massachusetts:
• Staunchly defended traditional marriage. Governor Romney immediately and strongly condemned the 2003 court decision that legalized “same-sex marriage” in our state. More importantly, he followed up on that denunciation with action – action that saved our nation from a constitutional crisis over the definition of marriage. He and his staff identified and enforced a little-known 1913 law that allowed them to order local clerks not to issue marriage licenses to out-of-state couples. Absent this action, homosexual couples would surely have flooded into Massachusetts from other states to get “married” and then demanded that their home states recognize the “marriages,” putting the nation only one court decision away from nationalizing “same-sex marriage.”
• Worked hard to overturn “same-sex marriage” in the Commonwealth with considerable progress to date. In 2004 he lobbied hard, before a very hostile legislature, for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage – an amendment later changed by the legislature to include civil unions, which the Governor and many marriage amendment supporters opposed. Working with the Governor, we were successful in defeating this amendment.
• Provided active support for a successful citizen petition drive in 2005 to advance a clean constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
• Rallied thousands of citizens to focus public and media attention on the failure of legislators, through repeated delays, to perform their constitutional obligation and vote on the marriage amendment.
• Filed suit before the Supreme Judicial Court. The Governor’s suit asked the court to clarify the legislators’ duty to vote and failing that, to place the amendment on the 2008 ballot. That lawsuit, perhaps more than any other single action, was by all accounts instrumental in bringing pressure on the legislators to vote. The vote ultimately was taken on January 2, 2007 and won legislative support – clearing a major hurdle in the three year effort to restore traditional marriage in the Commonwealth.
• Fought for abstinence education. In 2006, under Governor Romney’s leadership, Massachusetts’ public schools began to offer a classroom program on abstinence from the faith-based Boston group Healthy Futures to middle school students. Promoting the program, Governor Romney stated, “I’ve never had anyone complain to me that their kids are not learning enough about sex in school. However, a number of people have asked me why it is that we do not speak more about abstinence as a safe and preventative health practice.”
• Affirmed the culture of life. Governor Romney has vetoed bills to provide access to the socalled “morning-after pill,” which is an abortifacient, as well as a bill providing for expansive, embryo-destroying stem cell research. He vetoed the latter bill in 2005 because he could not “in good conscience allow this bill to become law.”
• Stood for religious freedom. Last year, Governor Romney was stalwart in defense of the right of Catholic Charities of Boston to refuse to allow homosexual couples to adopt children in its care. Catholic Charities was loudly accused of “discrimination,” but Governor Romney correctly pointed out that it is unjust to force a religious agency to violate the tenets of its faith in order to placate a special-interest group.
• Filed “An Act Protecting Religious Freedom” in the Massachusetts legislature to save Catholic Charities of Boston and other religious groups from being forced to violate their moral principles or stop doing important charitable work. All of this may explain why John J. Miller, the national political reporter of National Review, has written that “a good case can be made that Romney has fought harder for social conservatives than any other governor in America, and it is difficult to imagine his doing so in a more daunting political environment.” We are aware of the 1994 comments of Senate candidate Romney, which have been the subject of much recent discussion. While they are, taken by themselves, obviously worrisome to social conservatives including ourselves, they do not dovetail with the actions of Governor Romney from 2003 until now – and those actions have positively and demonstrably impacted the social climate of Massachusetts. Since well before 2003, we have been laboring in the trenches of Massachusetts, fighting for the family values you and we share. It is difficult work indeed – not for the faint of heart. In this challenging environment, Governor Romney has proven that he shares our values, as well as our determination to protect them. For four years, Governor Romney has been right there beside us, providing leadership on key issues – whether it was politically expedient to do so or not. He has stood on principle, and we have benefited greatly from having him with us.
It is clear that Governor Romney has learned much since 1994 – to the benefit of our movement and our Commonwealth. In fact, the entire nation has benefited from his socially conservative, pro-family actions in office. As we explained earlier, his leadership on the marriage issue helped prevent our nation from being plunged into even worse legal turmoil following the court decision that forced “gay marriage” upon our Commonwealth. For that our country ought to be thankful. We certainly are. Sincerely,
Rita Covelle
President, Morality in Media Massachusetts
Richard Guerriero
Immediate Past State Deputy, Massachusetts State Council, Knights of Columbus
Mary Ann Glendon
Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Kristian Mineau
President, Massachusetts Family Institute
Dr. Roberto Miranda
President, COPAHNI Fellowship of Hispanic Pastors of New England
James Morgan
President, Institute for Family Development
Joseph Reilly
President, Massachusetts Citizens for Life
Thomas A. Shields
Chairman, Coalition for Family and Marriag
No. I’ve got some wine in my now and I’m more mellow now. I’m not into holding grudges on FR. Besides, I’m anti-Mitt, but I’m not anti-Bobby. His citizenship is an interesting subject to explore, though.
You didn’t answer the questions about Romney did you. Instead you went to Reagan and his not formally registering republican until 1962.
It makes a difference what decade and historical period things take place.
Why was Romney against Reagan during the Reagan Revolution of the 1980s and why was he still against conservatism and against the Gingrich Revolution of the 90s?
Why was Romney still on the left during the 60s, the Roe vs Wade 70s, the Reagan 80s, the Gingrich 90s, and the first half of the 2000s.
Where was Romney during all the great battles for pro life and school boards and stopping communism and the Soviet Union and on and on.
Being a 58 year old liberal in 2005 is a whole different thing than being a democrat before the 60s and Vietnam and so on.
Thanks, I think I will have a beer myself.
Reagan was a confirmed conservative by the time he was 41. He voted for Eisenhower twice, in 52&56 and then for Nixon in 1960. Reagan became a Republican in 1962 and spent the next 18 years serving as a successful two term Governor of America's largest state, Presidential candidate twice and as a national commentator, the voice of the conservative movement in America. In 1980, Reagan became President and the rest is history.
Romney has no conservative credentials to speak of. He was almost 60 years old when he made his first conservative noises. Romney can barely call himself a Republican. Willard was a one term Governor whose biggest accomplishment was putting Massachusetts on the path to socialized medicine. BFD! Comparing Romney to Reagan, is like comparing Obama to Lincoln. LOL
Obviously abortion is not the burning issue in CPAC.
Jindal was born in the US to legal immigrants. Does that make him natural born? I am guessing yes.
You must be wrong. Obama Hussein’s father was never an American citizen.
You are obviously incorrect. Obama Hussein’s father was a Kenya citizen at his birth.
You claim to be a lawyer and yet all you can do is spam a thread like a troll, which with your sign up date you very well may be.
Their goals are destruction of the GOP and good conservative candidates
for their brutish, behavior-ugly, socialist RINO-Romney.
Were it not for Romney and his hate-filled robots, Election2008 would not
have been thrown to Obama.
"Behind the empty gestures and deceptive rhetoric, Romney was not pro-life
or a defender of marriage by any stretch of the imagination.
He was a disaster," said O'Gorman, of the board for Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
He said Romney "deceptively" claims to have been awarded
a pro-life award from the group.
"The award Romney arranged for himself with the local Pioneer Valley Chapter
was the Mullins Award for Political Leadership, not a pro-life award
and not approved by MCFL's state board of directors," he said.
"We're blowing the whistle to warn voters…"
[Family leaders call Romney 'disaster' - Letter criticizes 'deceptive rhetoric' around candidate]
Yup; just another loser...
It is not a surprise that he has put his home in Mass. up for sale and is leaving. I would leave too. The state is a completly failed sucialistic state.
Rodents exiting a descending vessel...
Oh??
And just WHY would they even waste their time?
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