Romney picked as 2012 GOP front-runner

www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/28/cpac/index.html

[RED SOUTH]

Conservative activists on Saturday named former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney the winner of a poll for best 2012 GOP presidential candidate.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won 20 percent of the vote in straw poll for presidential favorites.

The poll marked the third consecutive year Romney came out on top

[ansel12]

” In fact, even the hard-left Boston Glob magically becomes a reliable source of unbiased analysis when it comes to Romney.”

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Yes the states major newspaper usually become a source for information on the states Governor.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>[Romney] talks a good game and he's sold me.

You're a patsy.

>>>>What you should be saying is I'm not a purist.

Wrong, you're no conservative. PERIOD!

[rintense]

Talks a good game? Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘you can talk the talk, but can you walk the walk?’ Yeah, Romney can’t walk.

[ansel12]

“The only thing Romney is guilty of is making the mistake as a young man (and as many young man are wont to make) of starting his political career as a liberal.”

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The son of a three time governor and presidential candidate during the sixties and a mother senatorial candidate, a bishop in his church and then a stake president.

Is political enough to be sending money to (liberal democrat) politicians in more than one state.

Actually starts working on his own senatorial campaign about 1992 or 93 at about age 46, campaigns as a 47 year old man, loses race.

Continues in politics and is still liberal as he campaigns for the governor’s race at about age 54 and 55.

Takes office at age 55.

When was he a young man?

[ansel12]

“I am a Conservative”

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I think that you are a little passive aggressive and you just enjoy the sing song rhythm of being on these kinds of threads, it takes no effort from you and you aren’t really interested in the responses.

[Leisler]

Government is the enemy. I doubt he could wrap his head around that.

[Leisler]

Mitt gave up, freely, his personal power to nominate judges, and also to reward GOP or even conservative Democrats with positions of Judgeship’s.

What first time out of the box political idiot does that?

Mitt does.

[Bull Market]

“I don’t think Romney is the best conservative out there. What I do think he is, is the best balance between conservatism and electability for 2012 that can secure the nomination.”

That’s the same kind of garbage that led you and your list to shove McCain down our throats. “Electability” is the battle cry of the moderate.

“In retrospect I think Romney would’ve been the best nominee in 2008 because of the economy. I didn’t see that coming that hard.”

I seriously want to punch you people who only NOW realize, when it’s far too late, that Romney was obviously the better choice. The Republican Party is so unbelievably stupid.

“I did favor a McCain/Romney ticket. And why not? The economy was a big issue and Romney has a perceived strength on it.”

Except of course, your boy hated Romney’s guts(and it showed) for being nothing more than a successful capitalist. Romney would’ve tried to stand in the way of McCain’s own socialist schemes.

“I am a Conservative.”

Jumping on the Romney bandwagon doesn’t make you a conservative.

[rabscuttle385]

Obviously, Romney has you hoodwinked, hook, line and sinker.

Just like McCain had Norm "hoodwinked, hook, line and sinker."

Norm, please stop shilling for the RINOs.

[srmorton]

Then, according to you, there should be no advantage to illegal immigrants who are pregnant crossing the border to have their babies and the derogatory term "anchor babies" is meaningless.

Birthright citizenship in the United States of America follows from a hybrid rule of jus soli and jus sanguinis. Under the American system, any person born within the United States (including the overseas territories of Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands) and subject to its jurisdiction is automatically granted U.S. citizenship, as are many (though not all) children born to American citizens overseas. When accorded automatic birthright citizenship based on birth on American soil, a newborn's status is generally unaffected by the legal status or citizenship of that individual's mother or father.

In the case of United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), the Supreme Court ruled that a person who is born in the United States of parents who, at the time of his birth, are subjects of a foreign power whose parents have a permanent domicile and residence in the United States, whose parents are there carrying on business and are not employed in any diplomatic or official capacity of the foreign power to which they are subject becomes, at the time of his birth, a citizen of the United States, by virtue of the first clause of the 14th amendment of the Constitution. Since the Supreme Court Justice whose opinion you cite died before this ruling, his opinion would seemed to have been nullified by this subsequent case.

The Supreme Court has never explicitly ruled on whether children born in the United States to illegal immigrant parents are entitled to birthright citizenship via the 14th Amendment, although it has generally been assumed that they are. In recent years, Congress has attempted to craft laws that would prevent these so-called anchor babies from automatically being considered to be US citizens, but such attempts have generally died in committee due to the fear that they would be ruled unconstitutional anyway. In the opinion of our lawmakers, therefore, only a constitutional amendment would alter the fact that anyone born in the US or its territories is a US citizen.

[mkjessup]

I have been here on FR years longer than my screen name.

***CONGRATULATIONS!***

You are the 1000th n00b poster to make that claim!

Don? Tell him what he's won!

[cue Don Pardo]"Well MKJ, our lucky n00b has won, ehhh, well let's see here, it looks like they've won absolutely NOTHING!"

Thank you Don, and rightly so, LOL

[Diogenesis]

Romney is the winner of RINOs who support liberal judges that let murderers go,
and encourage rapists to rape children in libraries.

"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

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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>

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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

[Diogenesis]

Action of Normal FReeper --- posts comments, urls, discussion, what politicians like Romney have actually done.

Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's past abdication to Democrats - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's appointment of corrupt, liberal pro-criminal judges, overlooking GOP candidates - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's usurping Mass Constitution - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's wussiness to criticism using tears and fabricated 'religious persecution' - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney is the MSM's choice because they have files already prepared against him - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's coverup of the "Big Dig" for donations - check.
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's bankruptcy of Mass for his HillaryCARE=RomneyCARE - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's refusal to let citizens vote on his socialist plans - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's targetting of other GOP candidates - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's decimation of Mass GOP and that he couldn't win Mass to Hillary -check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's real impact on Massachusetts - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's federal bailout of the Olympics - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's begging for a federal bailout of RomneyCARE - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore Romney's use of fake law enforcement officers (caught in at least two states) - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Ignore TeamROMNEY's attacks on Gov. Palin and her children - check
Action of RomneyBOT - Use "Hate" as RomneyBOT Codeword to stop criticism of Romney - check

[Diogenesis]

Nice pictures of the Maucks. Too bad.
Want to bet Romney still never apologized?

How Romney is this?

FACTOID OF THE DAY:

As Gov of Massachusetts, Romney managed to raise taxes on New Hampshire residents.

How Romney is that?

[GOP_Lady]

I agree with that. Let the people who use mass transit pay the tax for mass transit. Why should I pay a sales tax for it when I don't use it? By the way, my husband (the great GOP_Harley_Guy) has worked for mass transit for nearly 32 years. We don't use the human cattle car industry.

[GOP_Lady]

That’s not news, that’s an editorial.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

That’s not news, that’s an editorial.

Well, call it what you will, but disregard it our your own peril, considering that it is the opinion of the owner of the forum in which Team Romney is trying to whip up support at the expense of the REAL Conservative Governor Sarah Palin.

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 Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:48:30 PM by Jim Robinson

[anniegetyourgun]

I will never give up the acts of resisting evil. However, I will also never put my hope in the temporal - my job, my bank account, my party, etc.

I'm also not interested in vain argumentation - there's little time for such things.

[anniegetyourgun]

For civil speech? I think you must be the one who is confused.

[org.whodat]

Jindal’s mom is in about her 31st year of working for the state of Louisiana as far as I know.

You may be correct, it may be his father that works for an engineering company. His parents were divorced when he was young and he returned to India and was a Hindu.

His home town in India, had a story of his mother being about six months pregnant when she and her husband went to the united states on student visa. They also have several story's of the time he was in India and going to school there.