Posted on 04/08/2009 9:21:19 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
THOSE OLD Republican hot buttons are growing cold. For proof, check out a recent interview with Mitt Romney, a former presidential candidate and ex-governor of Massachusetts.
According to TheHill.com, a congressional newspaper that publishes when Congress is in session, "Romney believes that one way to attract more minorities to the GOP is to pass immigration reform before the next election, saying the issue becomes demagogued by both parties on the campaign trail." The article also quotes Romney as saying, "We have a natural affinity with Hispanic-American voters, Asian-American voters."
This could be extreme political repositioning, even for Romney.
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How Romney gets beyond the flip-flop-flips of his multiple-choice positions on immigration and other issues is a mystery only he can solve.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
So, there is no candidate that will support what 2/3 of Americans want? Why do you think that is true?
Here is my guess. Because instead of rejecting them out of hand and withdrawing support, and vocally advising them of such, people wring their hands and start campaigning on "it's the best we can do."
Until this white flag mentality is abandoned, we'll never have a candidate.
Pass Immigration Reform and the Republican Party will be finished immediately at the national level, a little later at the state and local levels. The resulting One Party State may then return to two party politics in a few years as the Democrat Party splits into the Social Democrat Party and the Radical Socialist Party. Republicans will be o busy working the fields and the mines or fighting IRS audits to even think about running candidates.
Romney is NOT one of us. Romney is McCain with some business sense but, like McCain, no common sense. Why would a Republican lobby for the extinction of the Republican Party? Can he not think more than a week ahead?
With Amnesty a fact and ACORN whaving $4bil with which to correct election counts it does not matter one whit who you support or who anyone supports.
Because I've never heard anyone outside Tancredo take a hardline position. Who do you think the next cycle's candidate is? I don't know of anybody.
In a “ringing” endorsement given through HIS SPOKESMAN to the Associated Press, Gov. Mark Sanford has FINALLY endorsed Republican presidential nominee John McCain 2008
Sanford had been a state co-chairman of McCain’s 2000 campaign in South Carolina
Romney just doesn't get it. Why not enforce the law, and remember the many millions who want conservative principles informing their government?
I really hope we don't waste the 2012 nomination on this guy. And I used to support him.
RINOisms = Romney-speak
I think you just said the secret word and won yourself $100. Congratulations, sort of.
There have been some thoughtful articles recently on other websites pondering the financial meltdown of the last year, which has exposed in ways too obvious to miss, the intellectual and practical policy ascendancy of a very tiny minority of plutocrats in the financial industry over the thinking of both political parties.
That's the "it all comes together at the top" or "bipod" thesis David Horowitz has been writing and speaking about for at least a dozen years now.
It completely explains some curious deformations of e.g. both Bush Administrations' (41 and 43) policy priorities w/ respect to e.g. defense and immigration, tax cuts versus deficit reduction, and negation of Bill Clinton's spendthrift social-liberal impulses that put Slick on a diet of "mini-initiatives" and constant headline-grabbing that were the hallmark of his administration.
Slick was shocked and offended when his economic and Treasury advisors (who all came from the financial industry, esp. Bob Rubin, Clinton's second SecTreas) told him he had to keep the bond market happy, even if it meant giving up the lavish social spending increases that are the lifeblood of liberalism.
Oh they will still attack you. Facts are meaningless to them..
I believe the GOP answer for this is very simple, and should offend no one:
“I will not vote for any amnesty until each and every person who is in the middle of their lawful pursuit of citizenchip/normalization is complete. In other words, those people currently on ‘the list’ have to complete their journey through the system, before we add more names to the system.”
Last time I heard, I thought the number of people on “the list” was like 200,000 or so. (Please correct if that number is wrong!)
Dude you have taken one too many hits on the Romneybong...
Gee, you don't mean to tell me that Romney's conservative conversion before running for president on issues like illegal immigration, abortion, gun control, etc. was not sincere? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked!! < /sarcasm>
Freed from the shackles of conservative opinion he has returned to the liberal core values that inspired the comrades in Taxachussetts to embrace him.
As I continually said during the primary season, if you want to know how they will govern look at their record not their rhetoric. This is the true Romney because it is consistent with his liberal record.
Romnesty. Bleagh!
Join the party, that is always their “defense”...
Here’s another one for your growing Romney truth file, Jim.
And this is why this man will never, ever be president.
Typical response by the Romneyites who don't like seeing their "chosen one" exposed (with his own words!) for the fraud that he is.
Wrong. The GOP/RNC elitists, of which Mitt, and his father before him both were, are not ‘misinterpeting’. They are liberals, big government, always have been with the anomalies of Coolidge and Reagan.
They know what THEY want. They way know us.
It’s just a matter of lying, sales pitch, bait for Republican Bubbas.
What you think of as mistakes, is really calculation.
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