“Romney has flip-flopped on virtually ever issue over the past five years.”
That exaggeration misses it by a mile. Romney changed on abortion, but on economic, fiscal, law and order, foreign policy, ie, jsut about everything else, he was and he is mainstream Republican.
Romney has been more consistently conservative than Huckabee, than McCain, than Guiliani... the rest of the field frankly, with the exception now of Thompson and Hunter.
The character of Mitt Romney is of higher calibre than Guiliani, Huckabee and McCain as well.
So you take Romney to task over issues where he is by far better than the other RINOs in the race.
And what’s worse is that Romney is running on conservative agenda - Guiliani, Huckabee and McCain are not. All three are deliberately deviating from conservative orthodoxy.
So you Mittiacs want folks to not realize that massive increases in fees the state controls are not equivalent to tax increases. Nice, simply typical of the Romney deceits.
Romney comes off as an empty suit every time he opens his mouth. This disingenousness is sensed by GOP voters. No one knows what he really ‘believes’. Is he for or against socialized medicine?
Question: What is Mitt’s view on abortion?
Answer: What office is he running for?
You call the following a good representation of a "conservative" Romney campaign on what Pat Buchanan on the Laura Ingraham show this a.m. said was of importance to voters, especially Evangelical voters? (what Buchanan called the social/moral/cultural issues)
Huck was not my fave candidate, but on family issues, who emerges at the top for protecting marriage & marriage rights? (Huckabee & Hunter) Who emerges counterfeit marriage & domestic partnership benefits (Huckabee & Hunter & Paul) [In fact, Romney supports both civil unions for homosexuals & dp benefits as well]
Who opposed homosexual couples adopting children? (Huckabee & Hunter & Paul)
On cultural issues, who were the weakest 2 GOP candidates on a long list of homosexual issues? (Romney & Giuliani)
In comparing Huckabee to Romney, who was better on religious rights & healthcare issues (Huckabee on both counts)
The character of Mitt Romney is of higher calibre than Guiliani, Huckabee and McCain as well.
Oh yeah, Huck & McCain--both Baptists, BTW (even tho only Huck is recognized as one 'cause of his dozen yrs as a minister), took in $25,000 grand a year + stock for 10 years--part of which, as--not me--but as the LDS-owned Deseret News pointed out in July, 2007...came from revenues gleaned from in-room porn movies via the Marriott chain where Romney was a board member.
Huck, of course, is not squeaky clean, having accepted gifts in what I find was a "corrupt" manner when he left office, registering them under the "wedding" gifts category so that it was technically legal. (I think he should be held morally accountable for this as well)