Posted on 05/15/2009 4:51:44 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
PHOENIX – Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney joined Bush administration officials, including former Vice President Dick Cheney, in arguing today that President Obama’s approach to combating terrorism had left the country less safe.
"It's the very kind of thinking that left America vulnerable to the attacks of September 11th," Romney told the National Rifle Association's annual gathering. “And the approval of left-wing law professors and editorial boards won’t be worth much if this country lets down its guard and suffers an attack."
Even while declaring an end to past interrogation practices he calls “torture,” Obama has alienated many in his own party with a cautious approach to the issue. He has rebuffed calls to investigate Bush administration policymakers and release photographs of in that military leaders have said would be unnecessarily provocative. Today, the White House announced it would resume the use of military commissions to try those in American custody, a practice that Obama had criticized as a candidate.
"I'm glad he's continuing to hold military tribunals for terrorists," said Romney, who also said he approved of Obama’s hawkish approach to ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "In fact, whenever he adopts the policies of John McCain and George W. Bush like this, I’m glad."
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It is the correct title. If you put something in () that means it is your comments of the title.
He couldn’t beat McCain in 2008 and I know a lot of people that gave him the benefit of the doubt then that would NEVER vote for him now. How is his Romney healthcare mandated in MA different from Obama’s?
He has NEVER been a Conservative but sure does pander.
Thanks, I guess I jumped too fast..... I guess I am just not getting used to all the bashing that is being done. Can we save it for some of the screaming socialists in power that are trying to ruin the country
From his CPAC speech:" "The invisible hand of the market is more powerful than the lumbering machinery of the government."
And ... "Cap and trade would tax American citizens and American employers and send business and jobs to high poluting nations."
Too bad these words from Romney are only platitudes. Listen a little more, and you hear him promoting the opposite of the things he pretends to support. Don't believe me? Here's what else he said in the same CPAC speech:
Regarding health care: "We need to advance a conservative plan based on free choice, personal responsibility, and private medicine, one that doesn't add msassive new federal spending. I like what I proposed in Massachusetts, and even though the final bill and implemtation aren't what I wanted, the plan is a good model." SO WHICH IS IT, MITT? Do the people make their own decisions, or does a "conservative plan" make it for them?
From what I've read about the heavy fines that hit employers and the self-employed for not knuckling under to the Massachusetts plan, "free choice" is a fantasy and a LIE. How about a "plan" that says the government bows out entirely and truly gives people free choice and lets them take personal responsibility, instead of having it forced on them by the heavy hand of government? Mitt is obsessed with using the government to manage people, you and me, and he has the gall, the audacity, the duplicity, to call it "free market" and "based on choice."
That pretty little tidbit from his CPAC speech about how the "invisible hand of the market" is true -- but obviously he doesn't believe it. In the same CPAC speech, he says "Parts of the stimulus will in fact do some good ... " and endorses the idea that "tax on interest and captial gains should be zero" -- sounds great! Maybe he's finally getting it! -- "... for middle class Americans." *groan* Middle class as defined by who, Mitt? At what income does the "middle class American" cease being middle class and become rich? In other words, what Mitt is really for is the same things the Left wants: more class warfare, more of punishing success and wealth, more of putting the disproportionate bulk of the tax burden on those who produce and take risks. Deb, it's not "Yea, Mitt!" it's Boo, Mitt!
What he says about cap and trade environmental crapola screwing Americans in the global sense is certainly true, but he totally MISSES THE FACT that carbon "plans" are based on a fear-mongering hoax whose ultimate end is to CONTROL every aspect of energy development, energy production, and energy consumption. PERIOD. Instead of having the integrity to face down the lie and protect America, in his CPAC speech he follows up with: "Any carbon plan has to be worldwide in scope. Let's have a worldwide solution, not an American one."
People, LISTEN to the whole Romney, not just the conservatively-correct facade of Romney's platitudes. Romney is a false conservative. His words prove it. All you have to do is listen ... to all of them.
No that isn't the standard. The standard is that you MUST govern like a conservative before we TRUST you when you SAY you will govern like a conservative. Politicians say things that are lies, and when what they SAY contradicts what they DID they are LYING. Until there is PROOF (that's the doing part) there is no reason to trust what a politician says he WILL do.
But that's all too complicated for Mittbots, they'd rather say I just hate Mormons.....
I will bash "screaming socialists"--including Mitt Romney--, regardless of whether they are in power.
Your post #24, nailed it. Nothing else to say.
Romney isn't a conservative now. PAY ATTENTION TO ROMNEY. Even now, he betrays conservative principle with regard to limited government, though he swears up and down that his big government "solutions" are somehow "free market" and "free choice." He's voted for gun control; he's supported gay "rights" which are really just a ploy to take away our rights to discriminate against open homosexuality (not gays, but open homosexuality -- two different things) in personal choice regarding who you hire, who you fire, who you work with, even who leads your kid's boy scout troop. THAT'S ROMNEY, and it's the antithesis of conservatism. He's supported government controlled health insurance meddling and decision making for individuals, although he swears up and down that all free market and free choice -- a lie, and THAT'S ROMNEY. He totally endorses the concept of "cap and trade" carbon regulation having an overriding global authority to dictate to nations the development, production, and consumption of energy, which means allowing a global authority to dictate individual and national rights to prosperity. THAT'S ROMNEY.
If a guy is all for:
-- Government meddling in relationships between individuals, employers, health insurance and health care
-- Forcing Americans to accept open homosexuality in their midst, in schools, in the military, and in the workplace
-- Giving overriding authority over energy production and use in America to other nations
... then that person is a liberal leftist. Just because his happens to be a registered Republican and anti-abortion doesn't mean he's a conservative. It just means he's a leftist who fails to understand conservative principle and is a registered Republican who is anti-abortion.
Why is a gun-grabber speaking at the NRA convention?
Who knows. It’s not entirely unexpected, though, seeing as the Republicans ran a Democrat as their presidential candidate last year.
Q: Are you still for the Brady Bill?A: The Brady Bill has changed over time, and, of course, technology has changed over time. I would have supported the original assault weapon ban. I signed an assault weapon ban in Massachusetts governor because it provided for a relaxation of licensing requirements for gun owners in Massachusetts, which was a big plus. And so both the pro-gun and the anti-gun lobby came together with a bill, and I signed that. And if there is determined to be, from time to time, a weapon of such lethality that it poses a grave risk to our law enforcement personnel, that’s something I would consider signing. There’s nothing of that nature that’s being proposed today in Washington. But I would look at weapons that pose extraordinary lethality.
Source: Meet the Press: 2007 “Meet the Candidates” series Dec 16, 2007
He said this a whole 17 months ago. I will never trust that a grown man who has held a governorship that says this has had any change of heart. Lots more at the link.
Once the candidates were selected the NRA had no choice but to pick one. They didn’t exactly bubble with excitement about McCain. But they don’t need to support an out and out gun-grabber in a non-election year. Their wishy washiness irritates me.
Five whole years ago.
Romney is such a putz and it's so disgusting that so many gullible people fall for his phony schmooze. Next time the NRA calls our house (that will be tomorrow!), I'm going to let them know that Romney having anything to do with the NRA puts the NRA in danger. Grave danger? "Is there any other kind?"
But still, TigersEye, if you have the info at hand -- what weapons was Romney specifically talking about made "with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people"?
rabscuttle385, Bash who ever you want, it just shows your ignorance. Just because you disagree with Mitt Romney does not mean he is a socialist.
Really? Good to see ya. Mitt Romney claimed to be a lifelong hunter, he lied. Mitt claimed to own a gun, he lied. Mitt at about age 59 suddenly joined the NRA, with a lifetime membership no less.
Mitt Romney said this as he signed a bill as Governor "These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense, They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."
After a series of embarassment and lies and retractions, Mitt Romney was still at it.
Mitt Romney's compulsion to lie is just too powerful for him to control.
"Suddenly, a heavyset man wearing a bright-orange cap entered the room. “Mr. Romney,” he called out. “Eric Orff—I’m a hunter.”
It was a potentially awkward moment. Earlier this year, Romney claimed that he’d “been a hunter pretty much all my life.” A few days later, he said in a statement, “I’ve hunted small game numerous times.” Four days after that, Romney told W. Gardner Selby, of the Austin American-Statesman, “Any description of my being a hunter is an overstatement of capability.”
Still, he couldn’t resist. “You’re a hunter?” he said to Orff. “Well, same here. Good to see ya.”
Would you buy a used car from this man?
What exactly would it take for Romney supporters to realize that he's nothing but a slick, political climber?
It's apparent that if Romney thought it was once again to politically expedient to kill babies, turn in AR-15s and impliment Cuba's health system, he'd do it.
“But perhaps the most significant gun legislation Romney signed as governor was a 2004 measure instituting a permanent ban on assault weapons. The Legislature mirrored the law after the federal assault weapons ban, which was set to expire. According to activists at the time, the bill made Massachusetts the first state to enact its own such ban, and Romney hailed the move.”
“These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense,” he was quoted as saying. “They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
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