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Mitt Romney on the Contract With America [He opposed it]
Youtube ^ | October 27, 1994 | Mitt Romney

Posted on 05/18/2007 9:40:13 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

Mitt Romney:

"If you want to get something done in Washington you don't end up picking teams, with Republicans on one side, and Democrats on the other... I don't like winners and losers in Washington. I'd rather say 'Let's get together and work together.'"


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: bipartisanship; elections; flipflop; romney; thatwasthen; thisisnow
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To: EternalVigilance

13 years ago many of us were staying stupid stuff


81 posted on 05/18/2007 11:27:53 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy ( Mitt has the best hair!)
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To: Saundra Duffy

Really? Were you running for the U.S. Senate?


82 posted on 05/18/2007 11:29:18 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Since yesterday morning the manpower for another army division has crossed the southern border)
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To: restornu
Your NOT the gatekeeper!

Oh, I would vote for Romney if he were the nominee.

But he ain't fooling me with his conversion on the road to Des Moines. And I simply don't see him winning the general election.

83 posted on 05/18/2007 11:29:56 AM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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To: EternalVigilance
Well, it’s your money. But, in my opinion, you just gave it to the most crassly opportunistic and deceitful liberal politician in America today.

Hyperbolize much, EV? Not counting every Dem in the race and every Dem in the Congressional leadership, have you been following a certain Rep governor of California? I know you were around in '03 for the recall stuff.

84 posted on 05/18/2007 11:36:18 AM PDT by LexBaird (PR releases are the Chinese dog food of political square meals.)
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To: dirtboy

I think you might be pleasantly surprises once he can be in his own element!


85 posted on 05/18/2007 11:38:17 AM PDT by restornu (Calling Illegals, Immigrants, is like calling Shoplifters, Customers ~ Jerry Agar ~ "Romney 08":)
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To: restornu
I think you might be pleasantly surprises once he can be in his own element!

If I want to see back flips, I'll watch gymnastics, thanks.

86 posted on 05/18/2007 11:39:33 AM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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To: Saundra Duffy
Saundra, when most of us were working our hearts out to bring about Republican majorities in the U.S. House and Senate, Mr. Romney was in front of the cameras saying things like this:

"If you want to get something done in Washington you don't end up picking teams, with Republicans on one side, and Democrats on the other... I don't like winners and losers in Washington. I'd rather say 'Let's get together and work together.'"

Now that he wants to be President, he's changed his mind, supposedly, on practically everything that conservatives care about.

This country desperately needs LEADERSHIP.

The most charitable thing you can say about Mitt is that HE IS NOT A LEADER.

He's following poll numbers and focus groups, not core principles of American governance.

Mitt Romney is a follower, and one whose sole core principle is the advancement of Mitt Romney.

87 posted on 05/18/2007 11:40:01 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Since yesterday morning the manpower for another army division has crossed the southern border)
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To: Gelato
Both THOMPSON and ROMNEY trail Hillary by 3 points.

Margin of error +/- 4%.

It's early yet. Romney will poll better. He's the only Republican currently in the race who can defeat ANY of the Democrats. I stand by my comment.

88 posted on 05/18/2007 11:41:02 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (Mitt Romney for President '08)
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To: EternalVigilance
Gee, another EV anti-Mitt jeremiad. How novel. And how topical. The issue today is the imminent amnesty, which Romney has forthrightly opposed. Not so the other viable announced candidates.

Oblivious as always, EV, hunkered in his bunker somewhere, its cement walls festooned with posters depicting Mitt as Satan, has re-posted some tired old info from 13 years ago.

Great work EV, you must take great pride in your anti-Mitt accomplishments. If it is your avocation, it is certainly a peculiar one, if vocation they are paying you too much.

89 posted on 05/18/2007 11:41:04 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Plutarch

Did you support the Contract with America, Plutarch? What is your opinion of what Romney said?


90 posted on 05/18/2007 11:44:22 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Since yesterday morning the manpower for another army division has crossed the southern border)
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To: Plutarch
The issue today is the imminent amnesty, which Romney has forthrightly opposed.

And I'm glad he has.

Unfortunately, it's another flip-flop. And from not that long ago:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/16/romneys_words_grow_hard_on_immigration/

In a November 2005 interview with the Globe, Romney described immigration proposals by McCain and others as "quite different" from amnesty, because they required illegal immigrants to register with the government, work for years, pay taxes, not take public benefits, and pay a fine before applying for citizenship.

"That's very different than amnesty, where you literally say, 'OK, everybody here gets to stay,' " Romney said in the interview. "It's saying you could work your way into becoming a legal resident of the country by working here without taking benefits and then applying and then paying a fine."

Romney did not specifically endorse McCain's bill, saying he had not yet formulated a full position on immigration. But he did speak approvingly of efforts by McCain and Bush to solve the nation's immigration crisis, calling them "reasonable proposals."

Romney also said in the interview that it was not "practical or economic for the country" to deport the estimated 12 million immigrants living in the US illegally. "These people contribute in many cases to our economy and to our society," he said. "In some cases, they do not. But that's a whole group we're going to have to determine how to deal with."

So 18 months ago Romney was parsing amnesty the same way that McCain was (and still is).

91 posted on 05/18/2007 11:45:19 AM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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To: dirtboy

Great post. I’ve never seen a bigger hypocrite than Mitt Romney.


92 posted on 05/18/2007 11:46:39 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Since yesterday morning the manpower for another army division has crossed the southern border)
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To: EternalVigilance
Yep, Mitt was more than willing to parse amnesty not that long ago.

So if he can parse amnesty, in what other ways is he playing word games?

93 posted on 05/18/2007 11:48:40 AM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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To: redgirlinabluestate

Well stated, RG.


94 posted on 05/18/2007 11:49:41 AM PDT by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: dirtboy
Roll the tape...

Mitt Romney sounding like John McCain on immigration in 2005

95 posted on 05/18/2007 11:51:29 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Since yesterday morning the manpower for another army division has crossed the southern border)
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To: EternalVigilance
Keep talking, EV, keep talking. You are the best negative campaigner for a candidate, ever. You do more for the success of the candidates you oppose, than his supporters could ever hope to accomplish.

You make it easy on we Mitt supporters. Perhaps, we should sit back, drink our Mai Tai's and Margaritas and let you to do the rest of the heavy lifting, by your lonesome. Mitt will be the winner in no time!: )

96 posted on 05/18/2007 11:51:48 AM PDT by TAdams8591 (Mitt Romney for President '08)
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To: dirtboy
So if he can parse amnesty, in what other ways is he playing word games?

In more ways than I can count.

97 posted on 05/18/2007 11:52:06 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Since yesterday morning the manpower for another army division has crossed the southern border)
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To: TAdams8591

Just keep on bumping the thread, then. Thanks.


98 posted on 05/18/2007 11:52:37 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Since yesterday morning the manpower for another army division has crossed the southern border)
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To: jude24
I fail to see the difference between that and the “uniter, not a divider” rhetoric of the Bush administration.

Sounds the exactly the same, to me.

99 posted on 05/18/2007 11:52:46 AM PDT by ya_hew
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To: TAdams8591; EternalVigilance
You are the best negative campaigner for a candidate, ever. You do more for the success of the candidates you oppose, than his supporters could ever hope to accomplish.

Is that why Rudy Giuliani is doing so well on FR and elsewhere?

BTW, the Rudy boosters said the same thing about Rudy critics before their departure. And it turns out the Rudy critics had been right all along about Rudy's pro-abort positions and other liberal stances.

It is hardly absurd or dirty politics to question conservative ephiphanies that coincide with a run for higher office. There is no point electing someone who says they are a conservative and then turns around and reverts to their former liberal ways once they no longer need your vote.

Out of the three current front-runners, I could vote for Romney. But he is nowhere near a top choice, and I simply do not think he would win the general.

100 posted on 05/18/2007 11:55:08 AM PDT by dirtboy (A store clerk has done more to fight the WOT than Rudy.)
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