Posted on 01/06/2010 5:57:50 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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By traditional GOP protocol, it would be Romney's "turn" because he was the clear runner-up to McCain who was the clear runner-up to Bush. I have real problems with this system because it gave us candidates like McCain, Bob Dole and, to a lesser extent, Bush.
But we're not going to retake the whitehouse without the overwhelming majority of the Romney supporters on board and, like you, I refuse to p*ss on them.
I've noticed the Romney bashers basically fall into three categories:
1. The raving moonbat demographic who hate him mainly or solely because of his religion.
2. The promoters of equally poor or worse candidates like Mike Huckabee, some of whom are indistinguishable from category #1.
3. The rational majority who have misgivings because of his rather sparse political record, which includes his failure to distance himself from the health care fuster cluck in Massachusetts.
There was a rational reason that the majority of conservatives like Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity (and many of the rest of us) went into the Romney camp after Fred Thompson dropped out of the race: He was clearly the best candidate in the remaining field.
There is also a rational reason why we aren't going there now: There is clearly a better candidate in Sarah Palin.
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He has zero chance and would only be throwing away loads of money.
The bright side of it is none of the money would have come from me.
I am in NO way a Romney fan but he’ll prove useful and formidable to Sarah Palin as she can use the primary debates with this experienced debater to hone her skills in articulating policy and vision while sharpening her rebuttal abilities. See, Mittens has some usefulness.
Romney would be as useful to Gov. Palin as
Brutus was to Caesar or Benedict Arnold to Pres. Washington.
Can’t say I didn’t try to find some usefulness for Mitty.
The NAMBLA crowd likes him.
Using states as laboratories is one thing, but using them as laborartories for Socialism is another.
What if a governor decided to experiment with a system of taxation and wealth redistribution, that would result in every resident of that state ending up with exactly the same after tax income? Would the “laboratory” concept justify that?
I just don’t find this guy “likable”. He makes my skin crawl.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
Romney actually has a lot of revealing political history, many of us that recognize the need to stop Romney know that his politics are well known, because we have looked at who he was politically, even long before he became the failed governor of Massachusetts.
Romney was in his mid fifties when he finally won an office, but we have a long history of anticonservative politics and outspokenness before that, including leaving the republican party because of Reagan, and donating to and fund raising for, democrats, during the early Clinton administration, while the rest of us were preparing for the famous 1994 victory of the republicans.
That being said, I see Romney as little more than a placeholder for the Bush family, who also has a long history of supporting anticonservative causes. That isn't to say that the Bush family is evil or part of some "Skull and Bones" conspiracy, just to point out that they still haven't gotten far enough away from their Thomas Dewey patrician New England roots. The same can be said about the Romney family, albeit to a lesser extent.
However, I don't hate either one and still think that while Dewey, Bush and Romney were not and are not great conservative choices, they were and are still far, far better than FDR-Truman/Dukakis-Gore-Kerry/ObaMa-Hillary.
.........but then again, who are we to keep Romney from his quest of becoming a god on the Star Kolob?
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Or fulfilling the “White Horse Prophecy” and thus slowing the hemorrhage of members from LDS, inc.
I found it very interesting that Romney dropped out of the election a week after Gordon B. Hinkley died.
There was some statement Romney made about having a conference with Hinkley when he first decided to run.
Romney did have a meeting with Hinkley about running for president, the conversation is secret but it took place.
http://www.sunstoneonline.com/magazine/issues/139/139-52-54.pdf
Thanks, I knew I read it somewhere.
WSJ: RomneyCare's Failures in MA Not 'Widely Known'; I Wonder Why?
Just read all of the keywords. Hilarious!
You think the fact that people with whom I associate listen to me is a display of arrogance? Perhaps you're just not used to having people listen to you. It's called communications. Give it a try.
I think now that it's important that Romney prove that he walked with Martin Luther King JR and Hinkley together. Hopefully all thoughts were on Star Kolob.
It would be impressive if rOmNey has video of the 3 of them skipping rope and then walking together. I'll keep my eyes peeled for that vid and of the gOldeN pLateS!
The pLates have to be around here somewhere!????! /not
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