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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: EternalVigilance
The biggest problem I see from all this is that Mitt comes across as a candidate who will say whatever he thinks necessary to win an election.
So, then, which of his recent conservative ephipanies are heartfelt, and which are opportunistic? Recall that not long ago, he was supportive of the legislative direction of McCain-Kennedy. Is his conversion to anti-illegal-immigration real? Or will he try to revert back to Bush-Graham-McCain form once he no longer needs the votes of the right?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:14:05 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Impeach Chertoff and Gonzales. We can't wait until 2009 for them to be gone.)
To: EternalVigilance
Nothing new here, just the Boston Globe Democrat trying to spread more disharmony among Republicans. Nice try, but they’ve got enough disharmony in their own party to worry about.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:16:03 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: dirtboy
Mitt has rightfully been called, not a "middle-of-the-road" politician, but a "cover-the-road" politician.
Which is why, at some point, he must end up here:
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:16:48 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: rhombus
I knew it would take less than a half-dozen posts before someone would attack the piece because it comes from a Globe columnist.
Romney signed socialized medicine, complete with taxpayer-funded abortions, into law LAST YEAR.
That fact outweighs anything the man can say now that he wants and needs pro-life votes.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:19:19 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: EternalVigilance
Where is Mitt’s private police in the photo?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:20:04 AM PDT
by
tiger-one
(The night has a thousand eyes)
To: EternalVigilance
Dang, can hardly be IBTEV if you are the original thread poster!
EV, would you say that Romney's perfidy knows no bounds, or that there are bounds?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:20:23 AM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: Plutarch
Romney’s “perfidy,” to use your word, is only bound by political expediency.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:24:14 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: EternalVigilance
Have you read Joan Venochi before? You and she make strange bedfellows. :-)
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:24:44 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: tiger-one
They’re roadkill a ways back down the avenue...
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:25:31 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: rhombus
I’m not in bed with her. I simply posted her article. Surely, you know the difference.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:26:20 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: EternalVigilance
Yes! Material from the ultra-Liberal, Mitt-hating Boston Globe!
If it's from the Liberal Media, it must be true! Don't we all know and trust the Liberal Media here on Free Republic?
Pffffffffft.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:26:37 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: TChris
Address the content.
After looking at Romney’s actual record, do you find his current rhetoric to be credible?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:27:47 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: EternalVigilance
Of course I do: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.... like I said, nothing new.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:28:54 AM PDT
by
rhombus
To: EternalVigilance
MITT ROMNEY is determined to prove he’s pro-life. How about proving he’s pro-truth?
Anyone else stunned the Boston Globe is ‘going there’?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:29:07 AM PDT
by
Badeye
(You know its a kook site when they ban the word 'kook')
To: TChris
Mitt-hating I find that humorous, in context. After all, the Boston Globe was Romney's primary vehicle for getting his liberal message out when he was trying [successfully] to gain the support of Massachusetts liberals.
I don't know why anybody would be surprised that the Left has viciously turned on Mitt, since he has at least partially renounced his promised undying fealty to their pro-abort, pro-gay, agenda.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:31:12 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: EternalVigilance
Address the content. Do you hold the same standards for anti-Bush, anti-Republican and anti-conservative smear pieces from the New York Times?
...or is this level of deference just for the Boston Globe, since they're fellow Mitt-haters?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:31:37 AM PDT
by
TChris
(The Republican Party is merely the Democrat Party's "away" jersey - Vox Day)
To: Badeye
Please enlighten us all on which facts of this piece are inaccurate?
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:32:57 AM PDT
by
Iowegian
To: TChris
The standard is the truth.
And, although this liberal writer gets a few things wrong, in this case her primary point is glaringly, obviously, accurate: Mitt Romney is dishonest.
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:33:37 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(When Romney got done in MA, there were more Green Party candidates than Republican candidates...)
To: EternalVigilance
Don't like the facts?
Attack the messenger!
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posted on
08/09/2007 8:34:14 AM PDT
by
JohnnyZ
(Romney : "not really trying to define what is technically amnesty. I'll let the lawyers decide.")
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