“Two RINOS fighting over which is a darker shade of gray.”
exactly. i think romney is the worst kind of rino, one who has no principles at all. if he changed all his positions on everything a year before a presidential run to appeal to a conservative base, what will happen if hes ever elected?
The remaining four are digusting:
1. Myth Romney: became a conservative to run for nomination, will revert to a liberal to win the election. It’s an old, tired, trick.
2. McCain: is a liberal, but screams that he is not. Mentally unbalanced like Dan Rather who calls himself a moderate.
3. Huckabee: Christian Socialist -— hated by the entire Arkansas Republican Party -— raised taxes more than Bill Clinton. He served his purpose to derail Thompson, and will now be discarded by his cheerleaders in the MSM
4. Rudy — admitted social liberal with all sorts of problems in his closet like estranged children and sleeping with Wife No. 3 whilst married to Wife No. 2; Oddly, while liberal, at least he’s honest about it, which is refreshing.
That said, won’t vote for any of them; I will write in Thompson.
“...he changed all his positions on everything ..” ~ philsfan
Hee hee hee:
NY Times thecaucusblog/Comments section:
7. May 11th, 2007 11:43 am
As a native of MA for my entire life, I can tell you that Mitt is highly intelligent Helen NYC. He’s also extremely calculating, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
However, he used the state as a launchpad for his national agenda of running for President, and that was clear in his last year in office here. ..He was elected here because he claimed to be much more to the center than he appears; for instance, he stated that he supported gay rights, but then attempted to have a Constitutional ammendment added to the ballot to have gay marriage banned in the state.
I didn’t vote for him and would continue to uphold that decision.
Posted by Greg
9. May 11th, 2007 11:51 am
How do the people of Massachusetts feel about Mitt Romney?
He was an absent governor who never bothered to be actually be engaged in being the governor. ..
Posted by Mary Ann
16. May 11th, 2007 12:11 pm
..I’m sure he echoes the views of a lot of people, but as a resident of MA I firmly believe that he’ll ‘change his mind’ and go agree with his base if he’s elected just like he did on the abortion right’s issue. I’m really surprised to hear how suave the rest of the country finds him when there’s no way he’ll ever win MA in the national election. I guess we’re use to seeing through him by now.
Posted by Mike, Boston
23. May 11th, 2007 12:18 pm
I think I speak for many in Massachusetts when I say that I find Mitt Romney to be a repulsive opportunist. He is a completely different politician now than he claimed to be when he ran here in 2002, and I am ashamed that a majority of Massachusetts voters were fooled...Massachusetts came to its senses in between 2002 and 2006.
Posted by Nate
32. May 11th, 2007 12:30 pm
I am also a Massachusetts native and I do not respect Mitt Romney, the politician. In his four years as governor he contributed little more to the democratic process than vetoing legislation individuals had worked to hard to find compromise. I will never forget when he vetoed the stem cell legilation after the bills’ sponsors had worked so hard at generating bi-partisan support. And he vetoed the bill b/c he was using his job as governor and platform from which to launch his presidential campaign. ..
Posted by Jordan
40. May 11th, 2007 12:39 pm
In response to Helen, NYC, I live in Massachusetts (Cambridge) and agree with Greg that Mitt is highly intelligent and very photogenic. He won the election here for governor by promising to create jobs and not interfer with social issues. He was an absentee Governor when elected, spending well over 200 days out of state disrespecting the citizens of this state.
If you want to know what Mitt is really about, please try to find his speeches to the Federalist Society to see what he’s really made of. He’s calculating his way to the White House on the same path as GWB.
Posted by Abe
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
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11/10/2005 Mitt Romney addresses the Federalist Society
http://www2.nationalreview.com/corner/romneyaddress.pdf
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What is the Federalist Society?:
“...the Federalist Society, the expanding network of conservative lawyers who over the past quarter-century have played a leading role in reshaping the nation’s judiciary and setting high-level Republican administration policy. ..
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“..One of the group’s founding fathers was Edwin Meese, who would soon become attorney general under President Ronald Reagan. Olson was part of that Justice Department, and so was Giuliani, who served as its third-highest official. The plan was to sow talented conservatives at every level of the federal judiciary and ultimately gain a foothold at the Supreme Court. “That was very much on our minds,” Olson said.
It appears to be working as planned. When he took office in 2001, Bush leaned heavily on Federalists to create a legal power structure to continue the work of seeding the judiciary. Roberts, along with fellow conservatives Alito, Scalia and Thomas, now form a formidable bloc on the Supreme Court.
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Split among GOP camps
But as the Federalists have grown, they haven’t been immune to internal fissures. Federalists have key figures in both the Romney and Thompson campaigns who believe their candidate is a more worthy vessel for their legal philosophies. And they say they haven’t had to make the sort of compromise that Giuliani’s conservative supporters have.
David McIntosh, a former Indiana GOP congressman and gubernatorial candidate, is vice chairman of the Federalist Society, and he’s a domestic policy adviser to Thompson. Douglas Kmiec, another high-ranking official in the Reagan Justice Department, has gone with Romney, whom he calls “authentic.”
More: http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/09/giuliani_burnishes_conservativ.html
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Governor Mitt Romney Announces The Advisory Committee On The Constitution And The Courts
http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/Constitution_Courts