Posted on 03/25/2009 5:58:14 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
ROMNEY: Cautionary tale of card check Mitt Romney Wednesday, March 25, 2009
** FILE ** Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Mr. Romney submitted a column to The Washington Times as part of the Reinventing Conservatism series. (Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times)
ANALYSIS/OPINION: (Part of our Reinventing Conservatism series)
In 2006, my last year as governor of Massachusetts, I vetoed a card-check bill that allowed public workers to organize if a majority signed union authorization cards as opposed to casting a traditional secret ballot. The veto was a gain for the rights of employees and employers to a fair election, but the victory was short-lived.
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Card Check=USSR. I do not care who hates me for it, I wish Mitt would have won our primary and I also think he could have beat Obama. He is the man that would have done a fantastic job as president with the problems we are now confronted with. He is also an excellent communicator. Flame away. Mitt is and has been in the trenches for us all along.
Yeah, he sure has...
Card Check=USSR. I do not care who hates me for it, I wish Mitt would have won our primary and I also think he could have beat Obama. He is the man that would have done a fantastic job as president with the problems we are now confronted with. He is also an excellent communicator. Flame away. Mitt is and has been in the trenches for us all along.
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I totally agree with you!! He would be great in this crisis right now.
When he was called into the 2002 Olympics, the committee were spending money like water.
When someone told him about a meeting that was being held at a fancy hotel, he said to cancel it, order pizza and have the meeting in their offices and then he had everyone there pay $1.00 for a piece of pizza.
This is exactly what my dad would have done.
My dad went into failing businesses and organizations that were in the red and got them in the black.
People did not like him.
When he passed away at age 69 he had everything paid for in cash and left my mom in very good shape.
We need some no-nonsense discipline in our country.
You don’t cure obesity by gorging 24/7.
How ‘bout a “card check” of Romneycare?
I agree with everything you said.
Mitt keeps working and working and working for the GOP.
Hello? Conservatism doesn't need "reinventing." I have no doubt, however, that Romney will reinvent himself for the zillionth time as he sees fit.
Just go away, Mitt. Leave.
No working person should ever be made to work longer to have taxes taken from them at gun point for a ‘show’.
No conservative would support that.
No conservative would bailout, with 500 million dollars a bunch of Utah hack speculators.( Heads they win, tails the taxpayer loses)
All of which Mitt did, proudly.
“Mitt is and has been in the trenches for us all along.”
Just how far back are you going when you say “all along”?
“I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.”
Always. ALWAYS the personal attacks from the Mitt Romney haters. Never skips a beat. Just like Obama. Can’t argue your point so you go to the personal “get out of here” attacks even though we have just as right to be a FReeper and post our thoughts as you. I don’t tell you to leave even though I knew the unintelligent and childish personal attacks would come. You don’t know much about Mitt and his service to conservatives. You just point at his MASS. health care issue. One pick wonder oh yeah two with the predictable personal attacks. Glad to see you love and support Obama over Mitt.
There, fixed it.
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Similar to Romney's other scortched earth tactics:
Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"
(pssst. They are almost all unionized. Much Mitt ado about doing nothing)
DISINGENOUS, and your VANITY posts are sure credible and worthwhile. LOL.
What an absolute, unequivocal, lie.
Here is the partial proof.
1) So why did Romney not help the GOP candidate against Sen Kerry,
who was helped by out-of-state Sen Thompson?
2) Why did Romney only speak up for the GOP candidate after him
only the day after she lost?
3) And why did Romney never let her (a woman) on the stage with him?
4,5,6,7,8,9,10) And how do you explain the endless reports of backstabbing (see #13 above)? No way that helped the GOP, did it.
11) How about his coverup of the BIGdig for campaign contributions? How did that help the GOP?
12) How did his appointing liberal murder-freeing judges help the GOP?
"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
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>
supported by 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
13) Why would BOTH Boston newspapers report that Romney killed the GOP?
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
Here are your answers: ............. [sound of crickets]
Funny coming from you when you can’t properly frame an argument in posts or respond to what someone says.
You post a lot of misinformation (twisted the way you want it) and when someone asks you a question, you turn on them and say they don’t have a response when it’s you never does.
All you do is just post and spam and never debate a single point.
Go ahead, tell me why I said your prior post was DISINGENUOUS. Just what I thought, no response (as always) from you.
"Us" as in liberal rodents, you mean, for whom he has been an agent for many years.
This is a great article by Mr. Romney — detailed, concise and to the point.
He gives examples of why great caution is needed when it comes to “card check.”
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