Romney gives serious talk at GOP dinner

trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com ^ | 04-01-09 | Romney gives serious talk at GOP dinner

[GOP_Lady]

Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney gave a pretty philosophical keynote at the GOP fundraiser tonight.

At times the 30-minute address sounded like a history lesson or a college lecture.

As the crowd welcomed him with a standing ovation, Romney warned that he'd be speaking seriously. This would be no pep rally full of political zingers.

"These are critical times," Romney said. "Defining times for the world and the nation."

Romney talked about what he saw as competing world philosophies, including that of jihadists, and critical times in history, like the Civil War and the American Revolution.

"Republicans are the revolutionaries of the day because we fervently, passionately, ardently believe that the individual accounts for the strength of America today," Romney said.

The former Massachusetts governor and businessman also explained how he sees the Democrats' view on power: that it lies in the hands of government and bureaucrats.

"We recognize it is the power of the individual that's made America what it is," Romney said.

He later continued, "I think the American people are seeing through what's happening. The Democrats are trying to use the crisis to further their philosphy of the supremacy of government ... The American people are not as thick as some would believe or have us believe."

[mountainbunny]

Or he just doesn't care and goes with whatever breeze is blowing at any given time.

I find that the person who is the most danger to your freedoms isn't the ones who disagrees with you loudly. You can identify those people, and watch what they do, monitor their progress. You can engage them, have a dialogue, and perhaps eventually, persuade them or their followers differently.

The person who is most dangerous to your freedom is the person who won't publicly commit to anything, who is vague and who sometimes try to hold two opposing opinions. They don't really feel strongly about anything but themselves, and have no compunction about selling you down the river. It's all about them, don't you see.

Without a commitment to a cause, people like that have no reason to stick to an unpopular opinion when the going gets tough.

Mitt Romney is one of those people.

[TigersEye]

A: I do. I believe from a political perspective that life begins at conception. I don’t pretend to know, if you will, from a theological standpoint when life begins.

Holy smokes! He sure has a lot of faith in his faith doesn't he? /s

How about the scientific perspective, Mitt? No thoughts on that?

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

O.K., Norm, if you want to be THAT way about it, so be it.

Without bothering to look more closely at my post and noting who I was quoting, Dave thought that he was calling me the fool for slamming Romney, when in fact Jim had originally made the statement in that post. Therefore, Dave was actually calling Jim the fool for taking the hard-nosed stance against Romney that he is, without understanding who he was attacking until I helpfully pointed it out to him in post #135.

Face it, Norm, Dave said what he said. The post is there for everyone to see, including his follow-up post at #154 trying to sugar coat it. Jim has replied to Dave at #171. And if you think arguing about Dave and what he either said or meant is a waste of time, then you're more than welcome to exercise your free will option of not posting anything else to this thread. You did say it was a waste of time, right? So why are you wasting time defending Dave? Jim didn't think it was a wast of time when he replied. So why do you think it is a waste of time?

Hmmmm?

[ansel12]

Something that many people see in Romney is that nobody is home in there.

Something I noticed from searching all the photos online during the primary arguments was that all of the Romney photos looked almost the same, he seemed to have three or four faces from which he would choose at different times depending on which one was the most appropriate to be displayed.

He seems to lack any real connection to anything, including himself, he is like a machine that was switched on one day and will one day switch off, with no human being revealed in between.

[TigersEye]

That appears to be true on almost every issue. Mitt is a master dissembler.

[Reagan Man]

I heard some scuttlebutt that Romney had taken this despicable course of action at the time of CPAC and even labeled them pseudo-cons - phony conservatives, but hadn’t heard much about since that gathering took place.

[lowbridge]

Oh, the plan he implemented devised by the Conservative Heritage Foundation who counts as it's most prestigious member, Margaret Thatcher. That plan.

Everyone is entitled to their mistakes. This is theirs. Sooner or later they will own up to their mistake.

I applaud the effort to make things fairer so taxpayers weren't forced to pay for those not having insurance. It was a step away from socialism NOT toward it.

False. This is indeed a step toward socialism. And taxpayers are indeed forced to pay for OTHERS, as the MA government subsidizes this system, plus those who wish to not take part in it are FORCED to buy insurance anyways. When government forces people to buy health insurance, that government has taken one step towards socialism, not away from it.

RomneyCare: Becoming Less Universal and Less Affordable All the Time

Romney Embarrassed about His Health Plan?

Mandatory Health Insurance: Wrong for Massachusetts, Wrong for America

Is Romney's Healthcare Plan Conservative?

Tough to unravel socialism when it's been implemented for years. But get used to it.

No. I refuse to get used to it. You want to lay down and accept being a slave, go right ahead. But try not to insist others should join you. Its tough, but not impossible. Reagan unraveled the iron curtain after it had been entrenched for 70 years. There were many people who thought like you did: It was here to stay and we should get used to it. We can defeat socialism here at home.

It's going to be far worse when Obama gets finished, thanks to purist thinking like your own.

No, its not my purist thinking that is to blame. Its your defeatist attitude and your support of the RINOs who exist only to grease the rails towards socialism.

[Norman Bates]

Maybe I’m wrong but it seems to me you are baiting your fellow FReepers and looking for trouble.

[Arizona Carolyn]

It was his MO at the last two CPAC's at least. I don't know about prior to that.

I'll tell you one thing I do know for certain, if we want a good candidate to vote for in 2012 then we need to do away with the caucus and I don't see Michael Steele doing anything in that direction...

[Reagan Man]

Romney garnered only 5% in the 2005 CPAC straw poll. He won the last three, 21% in ‘07, 35% in ‘08 and 20% in ‘09. His tactic of busing in paid supporters to influence the vote has worked to inflate his numbers, but has done nothing to inflate his conservatism. Its still political expediency over sound principles and convictions. Romney remains a liberal.

Btw, I think Michael Steele is worthless as head of the RNC.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Steele made it clear he doesn’t understand the job when he told CNN last weekend he was through trying bipartisanship with the democrats. Uh, Michael, making nice with the demicrats ISN’T your job!!!!!!! and if he doesn’t get that he is in the wrong job.

[Diogenesis]

"(Romney's) tactic of busing in paid supporters to influence the vote has worked to inflate his numbers, but has done nothing to inflate his conservatism."

Romney buses supporters to vote in two states, like he did in New Hampshire.
Romney's dual state voting showed too-obvious Romney peaks just off highways.
The Diebold Machines in New Hampshire also showed
large anomalous votes ONLY for Romney?

Romney got 7.5% greater votes when machines were used over ballots compared to all other candidates.
(The others had variations of .09 to 2.6%)

The standard deviation was 1.23, so 7.5% is way outside the norm.

This Romney cheating (like the RomneyBackstabbing) will backfire and hurt the GOP if he does it again.

How ironic is it that Romney raised the taxes of NH citizens while he was Gov. of Massachusetts.

[rodeo-mamma]

At least you took the time to give an explaination without calling me or Mitt names. That is something that I can respect. You also gave me a few points to consider. Too bad others can’t learn from your example.

[Leisler]

I think Mitt is a fine man, flawed politician for understandable reasons.

I'd have to write a book. Also, it's only gut feeling from a distance, although long time, and for me, I can predict based on my model, what Mitt will do.

I want something else than Mitt. However, I would support him, as I have GW Bush. Whom, didn't surprise me, and whom I'm happy to have voted for, although I wished for more, there wasn't anyone.

Same with Mitt.

You could think of me as a loyal critic.

I have read appalling descriptions of Mitt and his supporters. Totally uncalled for as a matter of public manners, and giving no credit to someone somewhere on the right or a conservative, should get a little respect.

No enemies on the right.