Posted on 07/01/2009 1:13:13 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Maybe Mitt Romney should look warily over his shoulder, lest a political calamity befall him, too.
Continuing President Obama's political good fortune, a growing list of possible Republican opponents in 2012 is falling by the wayside, often due to self-inflicted wounds.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
More Lib/RINO wishful thinking...
NO, I'm at work, and cannot debate the subject with you at this time.
But, once again, we see the MSM picking the candidates for us, as is evident by the numerous Palin hit pieces versus the MittWitt love...
Foon Rhee, now there’s a journalist who’s definately a household name.
The only good is money management and economic matters. All else is crap. He’d be a good Sec. of the Treasure or Commerce, but that’s it. And that’s all.
Tell me that these brand new Romney puff pieces today are not coincidental to the big Vanity Fare hit piece on Governor Palin, after her tremendous showing aboard the Stennis and in Kosovo last week with the U.S. military.
Media isn’t wasting any time picking our candidate this time out.
We've got to stop that from happening somehow.
More RINO crap from the RINO camp and their alies in the MSM who gave us RINO McCain.
Romney the liberal is the death of conservatism in the Republican Party, if he is nominated.
Not my cup of tea, that Romney guy.
Started the Campaign at 20%, several hundred million dollars later... 20%...
The fact that the MSM really loves this walking turd should tell you all you need to know about Flipper.
RomneyCare - The New Big Dig
Mitt Romney’s presidential run is history, but it looks as if the taxpayers of Massachusetts will be paying for it for years to come. The former Governor had hoped to ride his grand state “universal” health-care reform of 2006 to the White House, but his state’s residents are now having to live with what he and the state’s Democratic Legislature passed. As the Boston press likes to say, it’s “the new Big Dig.”
The showpiece of RomneyCare was its individual mandate, a requirement that all Massachusetts residents obtain health insurance by July of last year or else pay penalties. The idea was that getting everyone into the insurance system would eliminate the “free-rider” problem of those who refuse to buy insurance but then go to emergency rooms when they’re sick; thus costs would fall. “Will it work? I’m optimistic, but time will tell,” Mr. Romney wrote in these pages in 2006.
Well, the returns are rolling in, and the critics look prescient. First, the plan isn’t “universal” at all: About 350,000 more people are now insured in Massachusetts since the reform passed. Federal estimates put the prior number of uninsured at more than 657,000, so there was a reduction. But it was not secured through the market reforms that Governor Romney promised. Instead, Massachusetts also created a new state entitlement that is already trembling on the verge of bankruptcy inside of a year.
May 21, 2008
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2008/05/romney-care-is-huge-disaster.html
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the wake of yesterday's unexpected Pentagon announcement about gays in the military, experts say the "don't ask, don't tell" policy may be on the brink of irreversible change that would speed up its demise. After speaking with President Obama last week, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has asked military lawyers to explore how to modify enforcement of the policy in ways that are "more flexible until the law is changed." The President Monday reiterated his intention to end discrimination against gay troops
MITT ROMNEY: “One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share.”
Continuing President Obama’s political good fortune.
Yeah the Boston Blob won’t be around to report the O’s demise in 2012.
It isn’t. The Romney camp, while working behind the scenes to discredit Palin, have jumped on the chance to promote ‘their’ guy. I said weeks ago that its no accident that as soon as a Palin hit piece arrives, the Romney fluff and glitter show begins.
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