AZ-Sen. 2010: Romney endorses McCain for re-election (BARF ALERT)

CNN - Political Ticker ^ | 2010-02-23 | Jeff Simon

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(CNN) - Mitt Romney endorsed Sen. John McCain, one of the former Massachussetts governor's main competitors for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, for re-election to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday.

"Senator McCain's record of service and sacrifice for America is honored by all," Romney said in a statement. "But I believe that it is his core values of courage, faith and honor – forged in battle and confirmed by a lifetime of service to America – that make Senator McCain's leadership in the United States Senate so necessary in these perilous times."

Romney said it is "hard to imagine the United States Senate without John McCain."

[Diogenesis]

"Attacking Gov. Palin worked out real well for us. Let's do it again."

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
--  President Ronald Reagan

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[Pollster1]

"But I believe that it is his core values of courage, faith and honor – forged in battle and confirmed by a lifetime of service to America – that make Senator McCain's leadership in the United States Senate so necessary in these perilous times."

I'm looking for slightly different core values in the best qualified choice for the United States Senate. I would like to see:
patriotism,
respect for the Constitution,
fiscal responsibility, and
general conservationism (in the traditional sense of reluctance to risk the country with change for the sake of change).

McCain has the patriotism, which puts him WAY ahead of Obama, Pelosi, Kennedy, and so many liberals, but McCain gets low marks on fiscal conservatism and on fiscal responsibility. [Social issues? I'd like to see a social conservative, but those issues are not within the scope of the enumerated powers, so respect for the Constitution is supposed to make social values irrelevant to legislation.]

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McCain's response to Romney's endorsement:

"Governor Romney is among the brightest and most dynamic leaders
in our Party, and I am proud to have his support.
I look forward to working with him to advance our shared vision
for a stronger, safer and more prosperous America."

Note to Sarah supporters: I don't remember McCain saying anything that adulatory about Palin after she endorsed him!

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Please see McCain’s response to the Romney endorsement, quoted at post 23.

[LibLieSlayer]

Two dims endorse each other... no news... GO JD!

LLS

[Anti-Bubba182]

They stick together like gum and shoe leather.

[Diogenesis]

I agree with you.

Romney is THE turd in the GOP punchbowl.

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“Mr. Romney's subsidized coverage is meanwhile doing what entitlements do: crowding
out private insurers, compounding the cost explosion, walking the state toward rationing.
So long as the former governor clings to these central points of his health plan, he's on
the wrong side of free-market policy and public opinion.

This isn't going away for Mr. Romney either, which is why he'd do better by writing off
his own plan as a mistake that Democrats have made worse, and replacing it with a
proposal that deregulates and reforms the private market to lower insurance costs
(thereby achieving greater coverage).”

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From CATO (the whole article is worthwhile): “Before RomneyCare was enacted, estimates of the number of uninsured in
Massachusetts ranged from 372,000 to 618,000. Under the new program, about 219,000
previously uninsured residents have signed up for insurance. Of these, 133,000 are
receiving subsidized coverage, proving once again that people are all too happy to accept
something “for free,” and let others pay the bill. That is in addition to 56,000 people who
have been signed up for Medicaid. The bigger the subsidy, the faster people are signing
up. Of the 133,000 people who have signed up for insurance since the plan was
implemented, slightly more than half have received totally free coverage.

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“Health Care Speechwriter for Edwards, Obama & Clinton Now Without Health Insurance”
I'm a critic because what Washington is talking about doing
has made health insurance unaffordable in Massachusetts.

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“Small businesses bridle at health insurance hikes (Romneycare strangles Mass. businesses)
some really bad news from Blue Cross-Blue Shield: His company’s health insurance rates are going up 47 percent in January.”

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“ Rationing medicine has already begun
… government-
run health care has introduced rationing and waiting lists and cost the lives of the people under its provisions.”

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“DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS”

[Lazamataz]

And Romney thinks he’s got the tiniest little shot in 2012.

[TSgt]

CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPALS ARE SO 20TH CENTURY

[Bigtigermike]

Some who are attacking Sarah because of McVain, never really supported or accepted her in the first place, it’s their yoke that they can hang around Sarah’s neck

[RockinRight]

Considering that Ron Paul is “our Kucinich” I can’t really say I’m happy with the CPAC straw poll in any way at all.

[Diogenesis]

More on Romney, THE turd in the GOP punchbowl
despite McCain false statement about him.

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Mitt RomneyCARE got only a “C” from CATO
And that was before Mitt RomneyCARE’s Romneycare tanked the state.

While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

[truthkeeper]

Different reasons for the endorsements here.

Oh, please. Hayworth all the way!

[Captain Kirk]

If Paul is our Kucinich, IMHO, Palin is our Obama....given a choice between the two, who would you support?

[monkapotamus]

[Vaquero]

How sweet and cozy

[DM1]

i didnt realize Rhino’s herd like this. interesting

[deep]

And the real sad part is someone like Romney will probably be the GOP pick in 2012.

[NCBraveheart]

Figures.

[RockinRight]

C.