A President Romney would make no apologies

The Lowell Sun ^ | 03/26/2010 | Peter Lucas

[pietraynor]

Here is one thing I am certain about: A President Mitt Romney would never have bowed to anyone -- not to Saudi King Abdullah, not to Japanese Emperor Akihito.

Here's another thing: A President Romney would not have traveled around the world badmouthing his country and making apologies for it.

Here's a third: A President Romney would never have ordered the closing of the prison at Guantanamo Bay or lowered the American flag in Haiti.

[Leisler]

The Utah Olympic bailout, one of the first bailouts of useless, tax subsidised, crony( in this case Mormon ) event for Mitt. Later he went on to the proposed bailout of Detroit, in the Michigan primaires. So, he was ahead of Bush/Obama.

[Diogenesis]

Mitt Romney: “Have you learned your lesson yet?
Crown me or I shall destroy the GOP again
through my surrogates and their spouses
Or perhaps crush another 4 millions citizens in another state I don’t live in.
Now buy my book, and then go play with you (sic) bananas,
until my coming coronation.”

ROMNEYCARE IS A PROVEN FINANCIAL FAILURE

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Mass. State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill (I): RomneyCARE
is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally.

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"Romney admitted ... that about half of the real costs of "extending
coverage to the uninsured... is covered by federal tax dollars.

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Mr. Romney's RomneyCARE is doing what entitlements do: crowding
out private insurers, compounding the cost explosion, walking the state toward rationing.

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From CATO (the whole article is worthwhile): "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"

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"President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the
possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission."

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"You can't reap these savings without limiting patients' choices in some way," said Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess."

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"State plan may place limits on patients' hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )"

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"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare] "

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"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
Unless we ponied up for a pricier policy we
neither need nor want-or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan-we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
How did we become outlaws?"

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The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]

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Health care in Massachusetts: a warning for America [Romney brings Mass. to its knees]
The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care. "

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"'Severe' doc shortage seen hiking wait time
"The shortage is getting more severe""

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"Health costs to rise again.( RomneyCare )
The state's major health insurers plan to raise premiums by about 10 percent next year"

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"Nation's ill-advised to follow Mass. plan [Health plan a failure]
September 17, 2009 The canary is dead."

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"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009"

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"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare"

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"Massachusetts' Obama-like reforms increase health costs, wait times [RomneyCare]
Premiums are growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average"

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"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)"

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"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"

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"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already"

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"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"

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"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."

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A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]
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."

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

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"Romney's mistreatments a sick man,"

[incredulous joe]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[grey_whiskers]

A President Romney would make no apologies...except to Hillary, Bubba, Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi, ...

FAIL

[smoothsailing]

Agreed, then Kinky Friedman it is! :)

[Norman Bates]

Drama? Come now. The sky high expectations of Palin will be her downfall. I predict she starts out like Rudy as the frontrunner and fades over many months. Pawlenty is looking more and more likely as a strong dark horse. Otherwise Romney or Huck have to be favored.

[kittycatonline.com]

A President Romney would make no apologies

So what! Obama ain't makin' any apologies either, and he's terrible.

[arealconservativeforachange]

FUQ Mitt.

[elkfersupper]

Gary Johnson.

Romney has a bad track record on government healthcare and is from Massachusetts, for Pete's sake!

What are you people thinking?

[arealconservativeforachange]

Paging the cult members seeking the golden tablets, they are under the rock in Saud where the rest of the cult sh!t is.

[Grunthor]

A President Romney would make me sick as that is the very best we could do.

[Kandy Atz]

Mitt Romney?

If that is best the GOP can offer, we’re doomed.

BTW, the story reads like Chuck Norris jokes:

Mitt Romney...

does not use spell check. If he happens to misspell a word, Oxford will simply change the actual spelling of it.

isn’t lactose intolerant. He just doesn’t put up with lactose’s crap.

Mitt Romney! Thanks for the Friday fuuny.

[maine-iac7]

A President Romney will do nothing - because there will never BE a President Romey,

He cooked his goose in Mass. If he could believe in and implement such unconstitutional hog wash as the health bill - he cannot be trusted on anything.

Sorry, Mitt. Go home.

[Windflier]

The sky high expectations of Palin will be her downfall. I predict she starts out like Rudy as the frontrunner and fades over many months.

Let's see.....Sarah Palin was the Republican VP nominee over 16 months ago, yet today, she leads all potential Republican hopefuls for the 2012 nomination.

How's that for "fading over many months"?

Today, at the McCain rally in Arizona, she was the undisputed star. It's reported that a vendor outside the event sold out of Palin 2012 buttons. Thousands were sold.

You can tout all of the snoozer candidates you want, but the lot of them together can't energize the conservative base the way Sarah Palin does.

Sarah Palin has a rare combination of personal attributes, record of accomplishment, and core beliefs that make her the most formidable Republican candidate this country has seen in generations. There is no one on the radar who even comes close to her potential.

From where I sit, and with the condition and mood of the country such as it is, the Presidency is hers for the asking.

[Caipirabob]

Here's a fourth: A Presidential candidate Romney would never get the support of the core republican consituency, condemning us all to another 4 years of Obama

I won't vote for him. A Romney candidacy ends my part in the election as a republican.

I only supported McCain for the hope of Palin. I won't support another socialist proxy candidate.

[Salvation]

Eomney -- hasn't he already made enough excuses?

Mitt Romney is no different than Harry Reid

Mitt Romney is a flip-flopping socialist bum!

Some people just don't get the TEA Parties. RINO Romney is just more of the same. Dump him!

[SoConPubbie]

I’m as pro-life as one can be, but I seem to recall that George H. W. Bush finally came around on that subject (after years of sponsorship of Planned Parenthood). Let’s get a Republican back in the WH, then we’ll work on his bona fides for his re-election. We CANNOT afford another Democrat presidential term.

Romney ain't that Republican!

[SoConPubbie]

Are there any others besides Romney who might run...that better represent individuals...not collectives or the state at the expense of the individual...in these United States/Individuals of America?

You are joking, right?

On his RomneyCare alone, he forced all citizens to buy insurance or pay a fine.

How is that being for the individual?

Wake-Up!

[SoConPubbie]

Drama? Come now. The sky high expectations of Palin will be her downfall. I predict she starts out like Rudy as the frontrunner and fades over many months. Pawlenty is looking more and more likely as a strong dark horse. Otherwise Romney or Huck have to be favored.

Wishful thinking on your part.

We already had one John McCain and Mitt couldn't even beat him with all his millions.

I really don't think the Rank and File of the GOP will be stupid enough to fall for another uber-RINO such as Mitt or John this time.

[rae4palin]

Ditto