GOP kingmaker leans toward Mitt Romney

Romney must be taken down. We can not have such a chameleon at the top of the ticket. He has no conservative record, he has a history of being not just a little liberal but a big liberal on everything from abortion to gay rights. Do we want another Herbert Walker Bush or some reinvented compassionate conservative crap and have him cram government run health care w public funded abortions, global warming, and immigration down our throats?

There is a LOT of evidence that ROMNEY hates women
(except to breed and enslave them), abuses dogs,
and was a pi$$ poor governor when given a chance.

"But the details of the event are more than unseemly — they may, in fact, be illegal.
Massachusetts's animal cruelty laws specifically prohibit anyone
from carrying an animal "in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel
or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the
animal carried thereon." An officer for the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals responded to a description of the situation
saying "it's definitely something I'd want to check out." The officer,
Nadia Branca, declined to give a definitive opinion on whether Romney broke the law
but did note that it's against state law to have a dog in an open bed of a pick-up truck,
and "if the dog was being carried in a way that endangers it, that would be illegal."

"Dog on Roof? What Was It Like for Romney's Pooch?
Scientists Say Dog Likely Experienced Wind-Whipped, Uncomfortable Trip
"Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family's hulking Irish setter,
in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon's roof rack.
e'd built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog," read the article.
Jordan Kaplan, the owner of Petaholics, a dog walking service in New York City,
and a lifelong dog owner and dog lover, said Romney's actions were uncalled for.
....What Happens to a Dog on a Roof Traveling 50 MPH?"

"Romney's dog - This is a distinction Mitt Romney probably could do without, but he is surely
the first presidential candidate to be attacked for putting a dog with diarrhea
in a carrier and tying it to the top of a station wagon.
Romney's defense: Seamus liked it. "He scrambled up there every time we went on trips,"
the Republican said during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. "He got in all by himself and enjoyed it."

"As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon,
keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble.
''Dad!'' he yelled. ''Gross!'' A brown liquid was dripping down the back window,
payback from an Irish setter who'd been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.
As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust,
Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station.
There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car,
then hopped back onto the highway."

"Story about dog on car roof comes back to bite Romney
Critics, jokesters make issue of tale
TIME.com's Swampland blog has been flooded with more than 200 comments
from readers complaining of animal cruelty"

Romney's bad behavior Exposed by Seamus

"Romney Loses Nomination Over Dog Abuse?
Romney was traveling that summer with his wife, five sons, and Seamus to his parent's cottage on Lake Huron.
But hours into the ride, Seamus apparently suffered diarrhea,
which ran down the back window of the car. Romney's sons, all under 13, howled in disgust.
Romney pulled off the road into a service station.
There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, and they drove on to Ontario.
.....David Kravitz wrote on BlueMassGroup, a liberal blog.
"It also strikes me as classic Romney: it solves a problem efficiently,
in a business-like manner, and with no regard whatsoever
for the suffering that the solution may cause."

Dictator socialist Mitt "the Myth" Romney: "I love you Democrats. Do you still love me?"

and was a pi$$ poor governor when given a chance.

I live in Massachusetts and I really didn't care for him as Governor. He was better than the alternative, and he did some good with the bad, but the problem I had with him is that he seemed to apply his business ethic to politics, always going where the highest profit margin is, if you get my drift. He changes colors faster than a pit crew changes tires. He's well dressed, well spoken, well educated, and has a quick wit...but so what, so was Bill Clinton. Doesn't mean anything.

You might look at #55 above which indicates
Romney was a bad governor before adding in RomneyCARE.
History shows Romney was NOT like the other conservative Repub governors.
Romney was a socialist, dictator, liberal.

How is that working out for you? Most are finding their
costs are now increasing suddenly, and the waits are
suddenly longer, and for the first time ever
patients are seen and examined in groups.

How is the impact of the BIG-DIGs coverup working out
for you? Romney got campaign contributions and now
it is a done deal. A tunnel underwater with one wall.

"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said.
The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard.
Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
The Healthcare Commission's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said the investigation followed concerns about a higher than normal death rate at the Trust, which senior managers could not explain.
He said: "The resulting report is a shocking story. Our report tells a story of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients. These are words I have not previously used in any report.
"There were inadequacies in almost every stage of caring for patients. There was no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result."
Julie Bailey, 47, was so concerned about the care being given to her 86-year-old mother Bella at Stafford Hospital that she and her relatives slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks.
She said: "We saw patients drinking out of..."

"Paramedics told: 'Let accident victims die if they want to' in new row over patient rights (UK)"
Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to die.
It has been set up by the ambulance service in London for hundreds of people who have only a few months to live so that they may register their 'death wishes' in advance.
It is believed to be the first in the country, but other trusts around the country are expected to follow suit to comply with Government guidelines which state that patients' wishes should be taken into account, even at the point of death.
Patients' groups and doctors have welcomed the scheme, but it has met opposition from pro-life groups who say it violates the sanctity of life.
The system would come into play if a cancer patient, for example, was in serious pain and rang 999 for help to alleviate the suffering.
But if the paramedics arrived and the patient was close to death, he or she would not be resuscitated if such a request was registered on the database.
This would also be the case if a patient on the database was being transferred between hospitals, and had a heart attack.
Dominica Roberts from the Pro-Life Alliance said: 'This is very sad and very dangerous. It's another step along the slippery slope, at the bottom of which is euthanasia as we see in Holland. 'Paramedics should be there to save lives. They should not be there to let patients die. The medical profession should not agree with someone's belief that their life is worthless.'"

"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
"Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country.
It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government health plans always follow when spending collides with reality -- i.e., price controls.
As costs continue to rise, the inevitable results are coverage restrictions and waiting periods. It was only a matter of time.

They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006.

What really whipped along RomneyCare were claims that health care would be less expensive if everyone were covered.
But reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."

A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va. - 2009-03-31 "
"For folks increasingly leery of President Obama’s plan to radically overhaul America’s health-care system,
or 17 percent of the nation’s economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time —
that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."

"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
“RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million,
or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents,
has caused Massachusetts’ overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.

So what does Mr. Romney’s successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs?
Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) — price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage.
As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, “It would never happen here.”
But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.

"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"

Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs.
The Government's rationing body said two drugs for advanced breast cancer and a rare form of stomach cancer were too expensive for the NHS.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is expected to confirm guidance in the next few weeks that will effectively ban their use.
The move comes despite a pledge by Nice to be more flexible in giving life-extending drugs
to terminally-ill cancer patients after a public outcry last year over 'death sentence' decisions."

His mandatory health care is why I didn’t support him in the primaries. I don’t usually follow local or state politics closely because the politics in this state is a joke. The Massachusetts Sate Legislature is the most defiant and corrupt group of politicians I’ve ever encountered, and don’t even get me started on the Big Dig. I’m surrounded by loony liberals here and it’s enough to pull your hair out. My brother is already planning his escape in the next few years because he’s fed up with how the neighborhood is evolving. It seems that we have a few neighbors that for some reason thinks the whole world wants to hear their Spanish music at deafening levels, and this has been going on for a few years. My sister in law, sweet as she is, would go over and politely ask them to turn it down, and they basically tell her to F off, it’s free country and they can do what they want. There’s a pathological attitude of entitlement here, and it’s sickening. If I had the means and the money, I’d be outta here tomorrow.

Oh, by the way, we have that useless empty suit, Deval Patrick for Governor now. As soon as I saw Obama's campaign, I knew it was the same load of crap that Patrick used here. His slogan was together we can, and Patrick and Obama are buddies. I'm sure they had a good laugh over that one...

"In a largely unnoticed post to his blog late last week, Malek, a wealthy businessman who served as national finance co-chair of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, ranked Romney No. 1 on a list of influential Republicans 'who might both lead our party back and who might be our nominee in 2012.'"

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And from the Politico.
Boo!!
Bwhaaaaaaaaa!!!

Stop it, you're killing me ST.

Second verse same as the first...

Here's Rasmussen

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/republicans_like_gop_s_conservative_direction_democrats_don_t

So Moby while we are on the subject of just “makin’ stuff up” didn't Axleturd supply you guys with polling data to back it up when you run around claiming Palin is supported by less than 30% of the country? Or did he just assume if you guys say it enough we will all just believe it?

Fred, you ignorant slut.

Really? I thought they were born out of the oppressive Socialism of Obama, Rick Santelli's rant and average American citizens responding to both.

Nope. Paul had Tea Party rallies on the exact day of the original Tea Party back in 2007 (Dec 16th) and raised over $6 million online. So, those tea parties last month are the direct descendant of his.

There is no doubt that Mormons are a cult, and that is definitely a huge obstacle. I have other reasons NOT to vote for Romney besides his religion.

You said — There is no doubt that Mormons are a cult, and that is definitely a huge obstacle. I have other reasons NOT to vote for Romney besides his religion.

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Yes, I do recognize that there is a certain segment of the conservatives in the Republican Party that will *not* vote for Romney, on the basis of his positions (or waffling of positions... LOL...).

That is very much recognized by me.

HOWEVER, what is very peculiar to me, is that those who do not want Romney on the basis of his policies and what he has done in the past — those same people do *not want to recognize* that there is a significant group of conservative Christians who will *not vote for Romney* on the basis of him being a *cult group member*.

Now, I find that very odd, in that while I can see and recognize that others do not vote for Romney on the basis of their criteria — that *they* don’t want to allow or even recognize *criteria* of other conservatives, in that he is a *cult group member*.

That’s very odd indeed...

He wants the GOP to lose.

Simple as that.

There is a LOT of evidence that ROMNEY hates women (except to breed and enslave them), abuses dogs, and was a pi$$ poor governor when given a chance.

What do dogs have to do with Romney and women? Sheesh. Put it down.

I hope conservatives can come together behind one conservative candidate this time and really work hard for it in the primary. I don’t want Romney...

You tell us. Bestiality? Organ transfer?
The hate you all spout is clearly a cult thing, too.

tell the GOP

Who is this GOP you keep ranting about? The Republican Party is one of the two parties now in existence which has elected a President of the United States. It has scores of millions of members. tens of thousands of elected officials, hundreds of thousands of political activists. It has numerous centers of power, many conservative, a number of RINOs, and a few liberals. None of them is in control of the party, nor is any small group of them.

What are you talking about?