ping...
I still say enough, enough, enough with the Family Values and the Spirit of America and the Heart and Character and Hope for the Future and…..holy MOTHER of mercy….STOP!
Don't tell Hugh Hewitt he's picked a dead horse.
Health care for all; gun control for all...
If our standard-bearers get any more "conservative", I'm not sure I'm going to be able to handle it -
"I was eerily reminded of the novel and film of “The Manchurian Candidate,” a thriller in which a handsome war hero is controlled via a brain microchip and turned into the perfect presidential candidate, who is later directed by evil forces via the chip."
Is she talking about a re-make?
I commend checking the linked story, to read the comments posted there which tell a quite different story and include some interesting Romney anecdotes I'd not seen before!
I also checked that site for other articles by her and scanned several as I haven't been in Boise for ages and don't know their media. In one article she raged against Idaho having switched from open to closed primaries. In another she was betting with her husband on how many people Gore would draw for an event there. She bet higher and, alas, won. For her take on the war check out these links:
Tonight at BSU: Hans Blix Lecture
A Milestone to Mourn: 3,000 American War Dead Marks Year’s End
http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/vigil_held_for_guantanamo_prisoners/
I especially liked the last one. Looks like it was too cold in Boise that day for the striped PETA 'costumes.'
(((ROMNEY PING)))
Hey everybody! The moonbat Romney bigots want to play!
What got me were just two things:
Romney signs off on permanent assault weapons ban
And that horrible, horrible healthcare bill he signed. I knew nothing about it until I say a CBS Sixty Minutes report on. In it, they followed this sterotypical-in-most-ways welfare queen who was so happy when it passed. She had "the government OWES me a living" attitude that I just cannot stand. When it was signed into law, she became the first person to sign up for "free" healthcare paid for by Massachusetts taxpayers. She had no shame in it either. Romney is a complete disgrace for signing that bill.
This is an uninformed trite rant from a liberal journalist.
Jill is a "A University of California, Santa Barbara graduate in theatre management, ..." has her own uninformed opinions and clearly has it 'out' for conservatives in Idaho (see her New West writings). But did she say anything substantive? Nope.
I heard similar BS about a candidate for Governor of Texas in 1994. .... oh yeah, it was G W Bush.
Romney, like Dan Quayle before him, should take their scorn as a badge of honor.
It's no wonder that she didn't hear anything from Governor Romney. From the tone of her last few paragraphs, she was too busy wondering why all of the attention wasn't on her.
The above tells me the writer's judgement is sorely lacking, and thus the entire rest of his piece is suspect. He must not have seen Romney's C-PAC speech.
BUMPing FOR MITT!
Well, he's got my vote!
/sarc
Hugh Hewitt show March 13, 2007:
HH: You know, one of the things I’ve written about in this new book, and I have not yet sent out my copies, but you’ll be getting one when I get back to California, A Mormon In The White House, is that Mitt Romney’s a billionaire with a “B”, but he made it himself, and he lives, apparently, modestly. He does not flaunt the great wealth that he has compiled. What do you make of Romney, Victor Davis Hanson?
VDH: Well, I’ve met him twice, and I’m actually going to meet him this Thursday at 8:00 in Palo Alto, again, for the third time. I’m very impressed with him, and you’re absolutely right. He’s a moralist who somehow in this fast-paced world has managed to match word with deed. I’m very impressed with him, and for me, his religion is of secondary importance. I don’t really care what his religion is. I am impressed that…a couple of things. As you said, he’s a self-made man, but more importantly, that we was a governor in a state that had only 13% of the legislature represented by Republicans, and yet he found a way through rhetoric and personal leadership to be effective when all the odds were against him. So I’m really impressed with him. I look forward to seeing him again on Thursday.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1800482/posts
(Please see post #67 as well. I forgot to ping you per protocol. Sorry.)
I've never liked Romney. I remember when he brazenly walked ahead of President Bush at the 2002 Olympics- showing no respect for the commander in chief. He is your classic Suit: empty platitudes, but he looks the part so he gets ahead. Having said all this, he may be the only candidate who can win the GOP primary and also beat Hillary.
You've got him.
Phony enough to get nominated. Not phony enough to get elected.