We Are In A Huge Constitutional Crisis. Could We Layoff The Romney-Bashing For A While?

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[MindBender26]

A Request of Personal Privilege: We Are In A Huge Constitutional Crisis. Could We Layoff The Romney-Bashing For A While?

We are in a huge Constitutional and practical crisis in our country. Obama and the DC Dems are trying to ram Government Socialized medicine through by any way they can, legal or otherwise.

They are doing so for one reason. If they make 51% of the voters dependent on the government, they will be in power forever. This is what they want.

I know Mitt Romney’s positions anger many here, but he will not run for any office foe the next 2 ½ years. Let’s stop the Romney-bashing videos for a while.

Let’s focus on today’s problems, so we will be sure of having an election in 2012.

[presently no screen name]

Your NEED to attempt of using a good man Reagan to cover for an evil one (Romney) says alot.

Even YOU know Romney NEEDS major heavy brushing over - to cover who Romney really is.

Romney is a conman, a liar - who puts an (R) behind his name to get credibility. The left was fooled by Barry - didn’t care what he did or didn’t do in the past and you want disparately for conservatives to ignore Mitt’s past.

Take your Reagan paintbrush elsewhere! It doesn’t work here! You use a paintbrush and Mitt uses LIES to blot out his LIBERAL agenda! Just like Barry - used lies to fool the clueless who NEVER focused on what he really was!

If nothing else, you show how PATHETIC Mitt is and you are - thinking that FR/conseravatives can’t see the obvious and work against this fraud NOW and NEVER STOP! WE ARE FOCUSED!! Mitt come against Reagan’s agenda - get educated! Mitt is a con man, a liar, a fraud - another Barry in disguise!

[Wolfstar]

The GOP was against him the first go round for stated reasons. People are human, people change. When they do change, let's accept them and build them up, not tear them down.

Thank you Riplicanum. You, at least, get my point, which really has little to do with Romney or Reagan, per se, but supports MindBender's plea to lay off the Romney bashing for awhile. Frankly, there are far too many people here on FR who bash nearly all Republicans constantly. When everyone is a "RINO," then no one is. The epithet loses all meaning, except to plant doubt in gullible minds.

How easy it would be for Leftists, bigots, and others to post here solely to plant the notion that this or that Republican is a "RINO." How easy to sway -- no, stampede -- gullible and/or rigidly ideological minds against any given Republican. It's happened time and time and time again, and enabled Democrats to win many an election.

Yes, this happened even against Ronald Reagan early in his political career. After all Reagan was a Democrat for roughly 30 years before becoming a Republican in his middle age. For the kind of person who simply cannot or willfully does not acknowledge the point you made that people change, Reagan was never acceptable.

Note to the blockheaded among us, I am not comparing Reagan and Romney. Again, my main point has little to do with either of them per se. I only use Reagan as an example to make this point: There is always a perpetually disgruntled element who either stay home on election day or vote third party, even when a giant of a man like Ronald Reagan is on the ballot. In my opinion, today's Free Republic is populated and dominated by that type of person. Such people have much to learn from President Reagan, starting with the fact that he said, "My 80% friend is not my enemy." He could be congenial and, on a personal, human level, friendly with people of all political stripes even when vigorously opposing them on policy matters.

YouTube clip of Ronald Reagan's 1948 radio address campaigning for Harry Truman and slamming Republicans. He was against Taft-Hartley, for Hubert Humphrey, for the school lunch program, etc. No one needs to listen to people like Reagan Man here on this forum to learn the truth. All they need to do is listen to Ronald Reagan's own words in this clip.

Again, if Ronald Reagan were alive today and was a candidate for a Republican office, that clip would have most on FR screaming that he is a "RINO."

Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neill

Ronald Reagan and Ted Kennedy

Reagan, Nixon, Ford and Carter

PEOPLE CHANGE. PEOPLE CAN BE STRONG POLITICAL OPPONENTS WHILE REMAINING CONGENIAL AND CORDIAL. FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF PRESIDENT REAGAN. REMEMBER, YOUR 80% FRIEND IS NOT YOUR ENEMY.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>Note to the blockheaded among us, I am not comparing Reagan and Romney.

Look pal, only one of two things is happening here. Either you are completely off your rocker and don't realize you are comparing Romney with Reagan, or, you are engaging in this effort to smear Reagan's conservative credentials as a means to promote Romney's life long support for liberal issues and liberal causes. Suffice it to say, I hold to the latter opinion.

In my book, that makes you a despicable creature and not someone who works to advance the conservative cause. While Reagan was the real deal, Romney remains a phony and a fraud. Can't wait for the day when ALL you Romney sycophants are zotted.

Btw, screw Romney and ALL his whacked out enablers. Btw, that means you, bucko!

[Diogenesis]

You know, people do change. Mitt RomneyCARE oscillates.

Alex Beam: “In truth, Ronald Reagan
and Mitt Romney have as much in common
as Cardinal O’Malley and Conan O’Brien.
Deservedly or not, Reagan earned a reputation for constancy.
Once he turned against communism, he opposed it big-time.
…. And our former governor? Inconstancy, thy name is Mitt!
A woman’s right to choose? Yes! No! Yes!
Are we in Massachusetts? Yes! Are we in Iowa? No!
Are we on TV? Whatever!”

You still have not addressed TEAM ROMNEY's BACKSTABBING DURING ELECTION 2008.

[Diogenesis]

Mitt Romneycare: “This is MY time. Coronate me or be destroyed
like that b$tch from Alaska who dared take my seat.
Now go buy three copies of my book, ignore what I’ve done,
promise anything for me, and go back to play with your banana.”

[be-baw]

Does it eat up a lot of time to scroll past the insert?

Well, no, if you move your mouse until your cursor is outside the photo. I find it irritating, but I come back anyway ;)

As for Romney, I don't like him, won't vote for him. Sadly, placing second in the last election moves one into being the heir apparent in the next election....that's an unwritten Republican Party rule that seems to prevail every four years...

Paul Ryan for President!

[x]

The candidate must name names, vow to destroy the members of the “Congressional Progressive Caucus” and excoriate geographic areas such as San Francisco and other socialist strongholds as “US AGAINST THEM”

Sure.

It worked so well for Goldwater.

[Lando Lincoln]

Lets solve today's crisis today.

Indeed.

[AlanD]

FR always has to be bashing someone. This week’s enemy is Mitt Romney. Don’t worry about it, it means nothing.

FR stopped bashing John McCain the day after he got the GOP nomination. No biggie.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

FR stopped bashing John McCain...

I didn't, that lunatic was a menace for years before the nomination and he remains one to this day. I personally voted for Governor Palin, not that treacherous RINO.

And for what it's worth, mittsy is no improvement over mcloon.

[Wolfstar]

Look pal, only one of two things is happening here.

Nope. Neither thing is happening. However, your (1) inability, or (2) refusal, or (3) both, to get what I am saying constitutes a prime example of the point I have been making.

Oh, and I am not your "pal," nor a "bucko," nor a "creature," nor a "Romney sycophant." You, however, are obviously so terrified of anyone who even remotely deviates from your way of thinking, that you must engage in such hyperbolic characterizations. Funny and sad at the same time.

[Wolfstar]

You still have not addressed TEAM ROMNEY's BACKSTABBING DURING ELECTION 2008.

Why would I need to do that? I don't speak for Romney or his team. None of my posts on this thread were about Romney, per se, but only supported the orginal poster's plea. I agree with what the original poster said in that regard.

I have no idea who I'm going to vote for in 2012. It's too far away and I'm too soured on politics these days to give a rat's ass right now about Romney or anyone else.

[Wolfstar]

Mitt Romneycare: “This is MY time. Coronate me or be destroyed like that b$tch from Alaska who dared take my seat. Now go buy three copies of my book, ignore what I’ve done,promise anything for me, and go back to play with your banana.”

Juvenile, silly and pointless.

[Reagan Man]

I'm not the one bouncing off the forum walls trying to run cover for Romney's life long adherence to liberalism. YOU are. Dragging down Reagan to build up Romney is truly sad and pathetic. YOU are a menace to FR and conservatives everywhere.

>>>>>Oh, and I am not your "pal," nor a "bucko," nor a "creature," nor a "Romney sycophant."

LOL Okay, so you're not a fellow FReeper. Gotcha! But you are a bullying creature and a Romney sycophant to boot.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Romney set the precedent for HusseinCare with his Statist WillardCare. To bash Obama without bashing Romney would be hypocritical.

[Hot Tabasco]

Lets solve today's crisis today.

I'm all for it. Internal political bashing is a waste of time, save it for 1/1/2012.......besides, it just gives the MSM and their fellow libs something to laugh at while we eat our own.

[Above My Pay Grade]

If Willard cared about stopping HusseinCare he would go on every news program and admit that RomneyCare was a colossal mistake, and then stop making appearances pimping his book and 2012 campaign.

If Mitt does this, I’ll stop bashing him.

[Diogenesis]

Mitt Romney (Backstabbing Democrat shapeshifter):
“Serve me and let me destroy America and its freedoms
and Constitution --- as I did to the docile slave state of Massachusetts.”

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* 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.]

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“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

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"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

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"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

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Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>

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"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006

[Diogenesis]

Where is coward Romney
as the Dems push through ObamaCARE?

Answer: The coward is hiding and selling his stupid ghostwritten book.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>>>This week’s enemy is Mitt Romney. Don’t worry about it, it means nothing.

You are so wrong. Romney has always been an enemy of conservatism and since 2007 he's been a major enemy of FR. If Romney runs in 2012 I expect the hostile treatment from most FReepers will continue.

McCain-bashing was given a time out after he picked Palin for his running mate. That is long over with.