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Romney's honesty problem
The Boston Globe ^ | August 9, 2007 | Joan Vennochi

Posted on 08/09/2007 8:09:53 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

MITT ROMNEY is determined to prove he's pro-life. How about proving he's pro-truth?

Every time Romney tries to explain his evolution from supporter to opponent of abortion rights, his honesty comes into question. That's because his explanations over the years don't add up.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: deception; romney
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To: word_warrior_bob

I hear ya.


161 posted on 08/09/2007 10:22:29 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: word_warrior_bob

For me its that Romney is such a proven capable leader.. at key things like cutting duplication and waste, which the government badly needs. In some cases we have 40 agencies in charge fo doing the same thing, which is insane. But people without executive experience its doubtful they can make the government much more efficient. Hes a turnaround expert with proven experience in doing exactly that.

Ideologically hes so so to me. Hunter is far better in that case. If it was a non-executive position like Senator or congressman I wouldn’t be supporting Romney.


162 posted on 08/09/2007 10:40:27 PM PDT by ran20
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To: ran20

I think Romney is a little too in love with the idea of being Prez, kind of like Clinton, he loooves the limelight. If elected I don’t see him coming into government and slashing government waste, etc. I see him flashing his big toothy grin
and hoping to be known as the “most handsome President”, that’s how I see it, I could be wrong ;)


163 posted on 08/09/2007 11:48:11 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: word_warrior_bob

That was one cool thing about President Bush.. he wanted to be President but wasn’t in love with the limelight.

Nice poodles btw I couldn’t believe how huge that one was next to the desk on your homepage!


164 posted on 08/10/2007 12:28:36 AM PDT by ran20
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To: AFA-Michigan

Badeye: “From what I can tell, those raising hell about a Romney nomination are doing so based on one issue, abortion.”

‘Then you haven’t been paying attention.’

Hundred or more posts on the topic shows otherwise.

” Add to that his promotion of the homosexual agenda and gun control.”

I haven’t heard that in any debate so far.

“And all the slugfest aside, hope your trip to Gettysburg went well. (I believe it was you who was going.)’

It was a great trip, thanks for asking. Caught great weather the entire time. And I highly recommend the Battlefied Guides offered by the Park Service, even if you know about the battle, they are full of insights and backstories of all sorts.


165 posted on 08/10/2007 5:35:08 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Radix

Thank you Radix, couldn’t have said it better. Maybe we need to start pointing out Romney Derangement Syndrome?


166 posted on 08/10/2007 6:10:42 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: teddyballgame; Radix

Accusing your political opponents of mental derangement is a Stalinist tactic. Really, you can do better than that. Can’t you?


167 posted on 08/10/2007 7:51:21 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: EternalVigilance

“Accusing your political opponents of mental derangement is a Stalinist tactic.”

Lighten up Francis


168 posted on 08/10/2007 8:12:43 AM PDT by teddyballgame (red man in a blue state)
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To: teddyballgame
Lighten up Francis

You might want to take your own advice.

169 posted on 08/10/2007 8:28:51 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
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To: Badeye

Badeye, the $50 I spent on one of those Gettysburg tour guides who drove our car was the best money I spent in the entire 10-day trip...Gettysburg, Fredericksburg, Petersburg, Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, Ft. McHenry, Mt. Vernon, Valley Forge, New York...

As to Mitt’s promotion of the homosexual agenda and gun control, suggest you Google. The homosexual agenda has been as voluminous as abortion, I’d guesstimate, and certainly so in my comments about him.

Gun control just as much at issue, if not discussed as much as abortion and the homosexual agenda.

Mitt was endorsed, for example, by the homosexual Log Cabin Republicans.


170 posted on 08/10/2007 10:54:53 AM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: AFA-Michigan

Badeye, the $50 I spent on one of those Gettysburg tour guides who drove our car was the best money I spent in the entire 10-day trip...

Its up to $70, but well worth it. He had some very good stories about the making of Gettysburg, btw...and told me about the scene in the movie with ‘Chamberlain’ and his brother talking the morning of the third day up on Little Round top. He said ‘We always crack up noting the statute of General Warren hidden behind a screen of branches...”

I went back and looked, and sure enough, if you know to check, there is the monument to Warren on Little Round Top - the outline is clearly visible behind the faux ‘brush’ they put up. I’ve watched the movie two dozen times, never noticed it til now...(chuckle)


171 posted on 08/10/2007 11:00:35 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: Badeye

Yep, our guide was a U.S. History professor working at the battlefield in the summer, whose great-grandfather won the Medal of Honor at Gettysburg. (He was just a touch biased in his presentation, and being a Tarheel native — “First at Manassas, Furthest at Gettysburg (over the wall during Pickett’s Charge), and Last (to surrender) at Appamatox” — I more than forgave him nonetheless.)

Good stuff re: the movie. Much to my kids’ exasperation, we watch it every July 4th. I’ll have to go back and look at the Gen. Warren scene.


172 posted on 08/10/2007 12:59:55 PM PDT by AFA-Michigan
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To: AFA-Michigan; EternalVigilance
Excuse me.

As far as I am concerned, anybody who would even consider wasting time reading columns by Joan Venocci is suspect.

If EV wants to post her BS out here then he is fair game for a rebuke.

It happens to be a fact that I admire EV very much. I also think that he is determined to do some serious boat rocking out here.

It is true that I have not read her (Joan’s) latest BS column. Nor do I intend to do so in the near future. Why should I? She is a liberal nut job!

Joan Venocci is lost soul. In fact, she is also an a$$hole about it.

You can read her nonsensical columns and contemplate her mind set all day, but when you deem that it is appropriate to post her BS out here on FR.com, well then, you make even yourself suspect.

I have never accused my old friend EV of being an anti-Mormon bigot.

Hell, I might accuse myself of being an anti-mormon bigot.

That because Mormonism is just about the dumbest cult that I have studied next to the so call adherents of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

173 posted on 08/11/2007 3:56:06 PM PDT by Radix (Mr. Natural says..."Be like two fried eggs. Keep your sunny side up.")
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To: AFA-Michigan

Good stuff re: the movie. Much to my kids’ exasperation, we watch it every July 4th. I’ll have to go back and look at the Gen. Warren scene.

Its the sequence just before Chamberlain is ‘relieved’ at on Little Round Top.


174 posted on 08/13/2007 5:44:02 AM PDT by Badeye (You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
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To: EternalVigilance
Why is it so had to see for some folks to see what a pandering opportunist Romney is? He is off the charts! America needs a person with conviction and lifelong beliefs.
175 posted on 08/13/2007 7:14:08 AM PDT by Afronaut (Press 2 for English - Thanks Mr. President !)
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