Posted on 01/21/2015 11:45:22 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Mitt Romney’s opening pitch for a third shot at the White House left many Republicans scratching their heads, in part because his plans to fight poverty and tyranny seemed to borrow the lexicon of liberals like FDR, LBJ and Woodrow Wilson.
With a full house of Republican National Committee members listening aboard the USS Midway in San Diego, Mr. Romney implored his party last week “to lift people out of poverty” and “to make the world safe.”
The first phrase is a favorite of liberals who gush over Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs that put the government at the forefront of fighting poverty. The latter phrase was a tenet of Wilson’s foreign policy doctrine, cemented in part by his 1917 speech declaring war on Germany.
While Republicans applauded Mr. Romney’s attention to the issues of poverty and national security, many said they were concerned that the former Massachusetts governor’s language implied government intervention over self-reliance and nation-building over national security.
Dave Battaglia, a Pennsylvania tea party activist and the elected chairman of the Armstrong County Board of Commissioners, summed up the concerns of many conservatives who chafed at Mr. Romney’s choice of words.
“The expression ‘lift people out of poverty’ is not a conservative principle,” Mr. Battaglia said. “It implies that government is the answer. Government is not the answer.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
PING!
FUMR. Government is the problem.
Send him off to live with his angel Moroni...whose statue has his outstretched hand pointing to the City of Salt Lake!
Mitt, just shut up and go away. I don’t think you’re a bad person, just a bit soft in the head on tough issues.
Actually, I meant “reaching,” not pointing...
” The first phrase is a favorite of liberals who gush over Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs that put the government at the forefront of fighting poverty.”
And trillions of dollars later, we all see how well that worked out....
Mittens should run as a democrat. He could be the next JFK.
Mitt’s a RINO? Who knew!!
I'm sure what he REALLY meant was "to severely lift people out of poverty" and "to make the world severely safe".
Conservatives don't want government to “to lift people out of poverty” ... we want government to GTF out of the way while people lift themselves and each other out of poverty.
Milt Romley could snatch the nomination right out from under Hillary and Liz if he just did the honest thing and switched over to the Democrat party.
LOL
Ah. They think he "implied" something. And now they're concerned over what they thought he implied.
Must be a slow news day.
Well, it's not like there's anyone in any leadership position in the GOP who doesn't support those programs.
One front runner down and several more to go.....NEXT....
Mitt got destroyed when the Obama campaign was able to successfully paint him as Mr. Moneybags from the Monopoly game. Does he REALLY think anyone’s gonna buy this??
Would somebody post him to Yemen as our Ambassador?
You wish. Stuff like this only makes FR’s Romneybots love him more and fight conservatives harder to get him the nod.
Read any of the Romney threads lately? NOTHING he dose fazes these plants. They WANT him. One says if he ‘tells us’ he’s pro Job’ he will vote for Mitt. Another 10 rehash the lesser evil meme. One more still blames conservatives for him losing and not mitt’s liberalism. Flag Fraud can see no evil in ANYTHING the GOP pushes on us...
Mitt is a shoe in because his propaganda team is unopposed and running free a full 2 years from the election. If FR can’t get it’s collective shit together and agree Mitt=Liberal=Bad, then what do you suppose the general public will do when the GOP knocks off all the conservatives?
Vote for him. Thats what.
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