Posted on 02/26/2011 2:04:09 PM PST by pissant
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Sen. Orrin Hatch says he would support former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney over former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. for president in 2012, citing Romney's efforts on behalf of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City.
Hatch told a newspaper in Logan that even though he likes Huntsman "very much" and is close to the Huntsman family, he has always been a Romney supporter and fully expects him to seek the White House again.
He praised what he called Romney's economic background and ability to make decisions, including his role as chief executive of the Winter Games in Utah.
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"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.]
“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
"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
"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
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>
"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
Mitt’s was another Massachusetts Miracle, just like Dukakis’ tenure.
I hope that Hatch is, successfully, defeated by a decent conservative candidate, please! Ditto, for all political races, at each and every level, for ‘11 and beyond.
Orrin Hatch has got to go in 2012
in the primary...
The 3 of them should get in their little mormon row boat and hie off to kolob.
Enjoy your retirement Orrin.
Romney = 4 more years of Obama.
Rino endorse Rino. Mormon endorse Mormon. Gee more killing the republican chance for president. RomneyCare.
I have an idea lets start calling Romneycare - RuminantCare or CudCare, because basically america will just regurgitate another concept of Odumbocare. There is no difference. SoFRs lets put a symbol on Cudcare a cow dressed in doctor garb. Remember the white coats of Odumbos doctors lets borrow thos and put them on a cow and stethoscope and simply label it Romneycare. The only thing the cow has to be chewing its cud with some sticking out of its mouth. can anybody photoshop this. Hopefully Jim robinson will allow this to be on the top of all the posts for a time.
Am no Romney fan; but comparing Romney to Obama is like the 'Progressives' comparing Wisconsin to Egypt;Bush; Palin and Walker to Hitler (and every other Repub they disagree with, for that matter); and comparing the Holocaust to. . .the 2010 Repub victory.
There simply is NO Repub that can compare to the promise and threat of Obama. We are witnessing the evidence as we speak. . .and America's history and future degrades further, day by day, by day. And that of the Free World, as well.
Orrin, it is over. No one cares who you endorse.
Agreed: I”ll take neither, thank you.
If Romney is nominated, Obama will have a second term.
That would be good to see anti-matter and “don’t matter” run and cancel each other out...
Who can beat Obama, who has Soros money and probably stimulus money for his re-election?
I see your prediction and raise you that if Romney gets the nomination that their will be a third party candidate!
There’s a certain gloss on all these guys ~ Hatch, Huntsman, old what’s hisname ~ or is that moss?
That alone, should scare the hell out of all here. These people are no comparison - even to the worst Repub - when it comes to the threat they pose. You must know this; unless, you are like the most dangerous of our population who do not 'see' the enemy, at work, inside America's gates.
(America's 'luxury of time' has run out!. If not already, apparent; in another year; this should be 'crystal clear' to those who now, still, wear dark glasses. It will also be too late.) We are building barns, across America - and providing, citizen paid hay - for the Army of Trojan Horses!
Good God; may we have the best of Repub Leadership at the helm. But even the worst of them - OK: save for Mayor Michael Bloomberg - are better and have more redemptive value that any, our enemy can or will deliver. IMHO, of course.
(All to say, I would not vote, for a Dem, for dog catcher - nor will I 'not vote' for Repub nominee - and risk having Obama win.)
Never; never, never. . .will I contribute to Obama's success at our Country's - and the world's - expense!) .
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