Posted on 01/22/2008 1:19:28 PM PST by VegasBaby
Governor Mitt Romney On Fred Thompson Withdrawing His Candidacy
That was classy.
I glanced at the Center for Small Government website. I didn't read it all, but I saw this:
"Each of the four years Romney served as governor, he raised taxes - while pretending he didn't. He claims he only raised mandatory government "fees." But government mandatory fees are nothing but taxes, and taxes are nothing but mandatory government fees."
This is wrong. The fees Romney paid were for use of specific government services, like use of the Massachusetts Turnpike, duplicate drivers liscences, use of state-maintained golf courses, and the like.
Before Romney came into office, the fees on these services didn't even come close to covering their costs. Now ask youself this: who should pay for specific government services? The people who actually use them, or taxpayers?
I submit to you that the people who use government services should pay for them wherever possible. Hence the fact that Romney raised fees for services to a level where they came closer to covering the costs is a good thing, not a bad thing.
Yes, those liberal guys can sound real nice when they want to. I still remember his dirty tricks in New Hampshire though. I’m not gonna fall for the first pretty face that bats her eyes.
While I believe that adding Fred as VP to a Romney ticket would certainly add conservative heft, I foresee one big drawback: in 8 years, we will be back in the same mess we’re in now—no obvious frontrunner, and a fractionated conservative base. At 73 years old, certainly Fred would be in no position to run himself. Better to select a younger, conservative governor or senator from a swing state (not a Dan Quayle). Anyone got any ideas?
True. But for a guy who is faking it, Romney makes the right noises. The other guys don't bother.
Sample of what the Hufftards are saying:
CaliforniaMike (See profile | I’m a fan of CaliforniaMike)
It’s actually sad — at least to me — to see Fred out of the race. He was one of the few candidates who was at all genuine and not a total loon.
Huckleberry is genuine, but he’s a lunatic who drank the Jeebus Kool-Aid.
Mittens never met an issue he couldn’t take both sides of. He’s the genuine plastic man.
Rudi is a f*cking loon.
Walnuts is genuine, but he’s a little bit loony himself.
Ron Paul is a full-out loon.
We’ll miss Fred when it comes time to actually settle on someone.
Yeah! George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Zachary Taylor, Thomas Jefferson, Grover Cleveland, Teddy Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge were all horrible./sarcasm
This regional prejudice has got to stop. The day the GOP becomes a regional party is the day it dies.
Sorry, I am still furious at the hatred directed at Bush for the last 8 years here. Can’t tell you how many hours I spent defending him on FR while the democrats played their little games with none of us countering them.
I don’t see any real hope for conservatism for that very reason. There are too many critics demanding that any elected president be their personal Superman to call them daily for orders. If they can find any fault at all in the current daily action (of course knowing nothing about what is doable, what is planned, what battles have been lost), they destroy the man.
Therefore, our candidate will have no support only millions of critics while the democrats toil away with their evil unchallenged.
We do not realize that conservatism is moved forward a step at a time winning where we can, changing tactic where we cannot.
No, they have to have perfection on their schedule or they want to destroy all in the “pie-in-the-sky” dream that the world will wake up once the treasury has been set to pay all expenses for life for Americans, and the world will then be willing to go back to paying their own way to create the perfect world of 150 years ago.
They never understand that you do not turn time back, you can only go forward and you either walk toward conservatism or you walk toward liberalism. Each step determines the direction. It also means sometimes a detour but you regroup and move forward again. Never crash and start over - as the liberals will never be swayed in that direction.
So, until we have mature people in the conservative movement willing to work as a team - we are lost. And you will notice that the liberals do not have this problem. They work as a team or else. That is why they win. They may lose but they just turn in a different direction and win somewhere else - constantly moving forward even if it takes 40 years.
What planet are you on?
The Liberals just vote AGAINST Republicans, with no ideas half the time, and the rest of the time they vote straight D to get more redistributed wealth.
So long as the Republican Party wants to keep putting up half-Liberal RINO's, they can kiss my a##.
Thank you for that refreshing post!
I still do not agree about your feelings about Bush. Look at my earlier post to another poster as to why.
I still do not trust Mitt on immigration because any easterner does not see the problem with immigration as the ones in the south see it. Bush believed in a comprehensive all at one time package, he felt family values did not end at the border and he had seen that most of the immigrants were merely trying to feed their families as any of us would be doing if in that situation.
Therefore, being the strong willed man we knew, he held to those values. We just did not agree. I too know most are merely trying to provide for their families but it is also an invasion of our country and we cannot afford to allow our country to be taken over without even a fight.
I hope you are correct about Mitt - but from all I have seen from any of the eastern politicians, they will have to show me before I trust them. Especially Mass. which I believe is a purely liberal state and I do not wish such leadership for America.
I am appalled at the governments in Mass, Vermont, etc. so of course I would never trust a governor from one of them.
I think he and his wife are just decent people. Mitt's wife has MS and IIRC they called Mrs. Edwards when her breast cancer returned.
That's a great idea, if you want to guarantee the Dems win every election from here on out.
A party of consistent anything, be it conservatives, liberals, socialists, etc, will be a party of losers.
The real world of politics requires compromise, and no successful president can get away with being consistent. That includes Ronald Reagan.
In point of fact, if the people bashing Romney on this site applied the same standard to Reagan, he'd also be labeled a no-good compromising flip-flopper.
That would be sweet. DeMint is a good guy and I do believe that he’s a very conservative member of congress.
I’m sure someone else will mention someone else at some point. I personally don’t care who it is as long as they’re a very conservative person.
But if Mitt were to choose a veep such as McCain, or Huck, or Palin, or Rudy, or someone else who’s questionable, that won’t go very far in convincing me that he’s really honest about his conservatism.
No this regional prejudice does not have to stop. The values of the eastern politicians are ridiculous or you would not have same sex marriages being made legal, you would not have the problems in Washington with the idiot eastern pundits, the media, the ignorant congress members who only care about their “friends across the aisle” as they ignore the wishes of mid-America.
Most of the really worrisome laws come from the Eastern states or California. That is where we have all the anti-religion, political correctness, global warming nonsense. That is where we see a Ted Kennedy in action. I am sick to death of them and will never elect any such to represent me.
The fact that people there choose such to represent them, speaks volumes. So why should I believe that the eastern people have any of the values I hold dear. No thanks.
Middle America is the America I have loved and will fight for - never the values of the Eastern elitists.
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