Mitt Romney's friends provide ammo to his critics

The Politico ^ | October 29, 2011 | DARREN SAMUELSOHN

[libstripper]

Mitt Romney is stacking his team with policy advisers from the George W. Bush administration — and it has conservatives up in arms.

The Republican right cringes at some of the high-profile people Romney is leaning on for donations and advice, including three former Bush-era officials whose recent records include lobbying for Solyndra and advocating on behalf of cap-and-trade legislation and carbon taxes.

Romney’s long-ago environmental associates are also causing him problems, with Texas Gov. Rick Perry and the conservative blogosphere reveling in 6-year-old news releases showing how two current Obama administration officials — Environmental Protection Agency air chief Gina McCarthy and White House science adviser John Holdren — once helped the former Massachusetts governor craft his climate change policies.

[libstripper]

If you were thinking of supporting Mittens, please please, read this article. People are policy and this rogues' gallery of his accomplices makes it look like he'll be Obama II if elected. I could quote selected frightful pieces, but it's all so horrible, you'd all be better off reading the whole thing. After this, it's impossible to say he's telling the truth about anything he'd do.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Should have always been a 1%-er. (in the polls)

[Vaquero]

Romney is most likey the only pube candid, that if he wins the nomination, I will stay home or vote 3rd party for come next november ....

[Opinionated Blowhard]

8 years of Rockefeller Republicanism under Lyndon Baines Bush, then 4 years of Communism under Comrade Obama, then 4 or 8 years of Rockefeller Republicanism under Romney. God help us. I used to be nostalgic for Reagan. This is making me nostalgic for Clinton.

[ryderann]

Don’t forget that Rockefeller was best buds with Henry Kissinger.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[SWAMPSNIPER]

Romney doesn’t seem to have a clue, probably because of his unfamiliarity with real people.

[Vendome]

Kennedy coolly dismembered him. “On the question of the choice issue,” Kennedy replied. “I have supported Roe v. Wade. I am pro-choice. My opponent is multiple choice.” Kennedy was righter than he knew. Today, Romney says his position has evolved further, and if Roe v. Wade were overturned, he would “be delighted” to sign a bill outlawing abortion.

Romney is too Two Faced to be allowed to win the Presidency.

 

Who is Romney’s constituency if he wins the presidency?

[6SJ7]

... including three former Bush-era officials whose recent records include lobbying for Solyndra and advocating on behalf of cap-and-trade legislation and carbon taxes.

A hat trick of bad judgement.

[ex91B10]

"This is making me nostalgic for Clinton. "

Funny, sad and true all at once.

[Seanm]

Rummie is Mac daddy lite.

[RicocheT]

Conservatives, don’t give up the fight to have a real conservative as our GOP presidential candidate. Perry, Cain.. or someone else, but never Romney.

If you want a proper candidate, don’t complain, get involved. Join your local or state GOP party and work for good candidates at every level. Don’t forget school boards as they gin up a lot of your property taxes. GIVE $$ and WORK for the candidates you want to get on the ticket and win. Saying you are sitting home if Mitt runs is not the way to go, make it so Mitt is nowhere on a ballot other than your last choice. The primaries count, vote vote.

[Vaquero]

spending time here at FR, listening to Rush, and the few friends who are conservative enough to listen to me rant is what I do beside vote....this area has turned from RINO republican to moderate Democrat over the past decade or so...

I don't DO POLITICS...God even the conservative candidates are mostly in it for THEMSELVES.

politics are a necessary evil...and you wont see me at school board meetings, nor at political events...I do not join parties, though I am registered Republican so as to be able to vote for the lesser of evils in the primaries...I make a difference with my vote at school board elections and general elections. I don't like politics in other organisations I belong to...like my local gun club or the local BSA troop my grown kids are involved with...I avoid that end of it...as some people might get punched in the face and then they would throw me in the clink....I just DON'T like politics...

....I always vote in the primaries and the general.....(I will write in a vote...perhaps it was a poor choice of words saying I would stay home..)

there is a good chance that I will never give a dime to a candidate...as this insures that the wife will not give a dime to her candidates...if you get my drift...that is the same reason I do not put lawn signs in front of my house...or stickers on my car....