Posted on 05/12/2011 2:04:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The moment of truth has come and gone but the horrified real-time reaction in the conservative twittersphere echoes on. These nuggets from Philip Klein, Jonah Goldberg, and Mollie Hemingway will give you a taste; liberal Ezra Klein came closest to capturing the spirit of the thing while our old pal KP wondered whether Mitt’s ever actually met a Republican primary voter. I’m not surprised that he doubled down, though. Read this post from two days ago about the particular pitfall to Romney in apologizing. Pawlenty can afford to eat crow and say he’s sorry about cap and trade because his conservative record is otherwise solid; not so for Romney, who’ll forever be haunted by the seeming opportunism of his reversal on abortion before the last campaign and his transformation from social-con warrior to an economy-minded technocrat before this one. He won’t be able to hide from RomneyCare even if he begs for forgiveness, so why bother? Better to stand firm and at least try to undo the perception that he’ll say anything to get elected. Chris Cillizza:
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney used a speech on health care today in Michigan to send a broader message about his commitment to authenticity in the 2012 presidential race…
But, it wasn’t just the words Romney used that aimed to push the authenticity narrative.
He spoke without a prepared script and without a TelePrompter, choosing instead to use a PowerPoint presentation to make his case. He wore no tie. He was accompanied to the speech by just three staffers.
The entire presentation screamed openness, pushing the idea that Romney is someone willing to be transparent about what he believes and why he believes it.
No one would have believed him had he apologized so there was no sense in doing it. On the contrary, if I were advising him, I’d tell him to go on the attack and make his opponents be as specific as possible in what they’d do differently. The more he can discredit their plans as unworkable, the more he can reframe RomneyCare as the best choice from a very bad set of health-care policy options. In fact, if he’s feeling extra cheeky, he could use the public’s ruinous love affair with Medicare to his advantage. Under RomneyCare, the state forces you to buy a product from a third party; under Medicare, the state forces you to buy the same product from the state. It simply calls it a tax instead of a mandate, and instead of granting you coverage immediately, it shafts you until you’re 65. Do Pawlenty, Gingrich, et al. also oppose the “mandated” premiums known as FICA? I’m not sure Romney wants to go the Mediscare route since it’ll make fiscal cons even angrier at him than they are now, but if he gets desperate enough, look out. Click the image to watch.
The man is beyond help. I swear if I read another Freeper supporting Romney I will reach through my computer screen and smack them. Romney needs to go the hell away.
Bzzzzzt! Wrong answer!
I think Romney is thinking he can ‘trianglulate’ his way out of this- thinking the majority is in the middle on health care.
Just go away Mitt and take Newt with you!
Oh you are sorry mitt... you are a sorry sumbich.
LLS
I think he’s one of the sorriest lookin’ candidates we have, actually.
Unless he’s positioning himself to run as a 3rd party candidate after losing the R nomination to an “extremist” I don’t get the point of destroying your candidacy this early.
I didn’t see where the article says what group Romney was speaking to. Normally he just says what he thinks his audience wants to hear.
When have you recently seen a Freeper support Romney?
And yet, the Salem Radio hosts (Medved, Hewitt) are idiotically backing this guy. The culling of the herd continues. May their audiences shrink to nothingness.
Chihuahua Romney - the Ineligible Magic Mega-RINO:
"Why should I be sorry?
I did not live in Massachusetts.
I do not live in Massachusetts.
They were my subjects. My experiments.
Some died. Some will die.
It is all for me. Me. ... Me. Me."
When did you last see one that didn't get banned?
I've appealed to JimRob to allow one to live, just so we could have some fun beating him/her up. So far, no word.
Someone pls tell me why this guy has ANY following other than tards.
The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Actually that’s a pretty good representation of Romney. Truth be known I don’t dislike Romney nearly as much for his politics as I dislike his approach to politics. The man has no core beliefs. He will say anything to any group in order to score political points.
The vast majority of liberal Democrats in congress at least believe in something. Romney is the worst sort of politician.
Well, there are those if you read very carefully do support him. These notes are always “I don’t like him BUT if he wins the nomination I will vote for him” or some such wording. (In general everything before the BUT is a, well misdirection.)
For those of us who don’t want to see the video, does anyone have a summary of what he said?
Willard (Mitt) Romney
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