Posted on 02/04/2008 1:03:09 PM PST by americanophile
ATLANTA -- The pundits may have counted him out, but former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sounds like a man who plans to keep going, no matter what happens at the polls on Super Tuesday. Romney acknowledged he is the underdog, but said he would "surprise" people who were counting on a McCain sweep. "I am definitely the underdog compared to Sen. McCain, a number of people have proclaimed that," Romney told reporters after a rally in downtown Atlanta. "But the nice thing about being the underdog is they typically win." Romney said he sensed a "shift in the tide" as Republicans contemplated McCain as the potential nominee. "I plan on doing real well on Tuesday," he said. "I don't think we are halfway through as of Tuesday, maybe about halfway, and then we will go on and continue to rack up delegates, and I am planning on winning this nomination." At every stop in a whirlwind tour of battleground states, Romney has knocked McCain as a "liberal" who votes for higher taxes or wants to allow illegal immigrants to become citizens. He constantly insists that it has become a two-man race, even as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee continues in the race, effectively splitting the conservative vote with Romney.
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I hope he is right. I’m not quite up for a “Go Mitt,” but I will give a hearty “Lose McCain!”
What is telling to me about those polls is they are about 1,000 people lighter.
I can’t vote in them, as there is no “none of the above.”
I didn’t know taxes were so high in Georgia. That said in rankings Georgia is below Massachusetts in the tax burden (state and local). With unfunded mandates by the feds, the states are actually surprisingly close in actual overall tax rates. One example:
http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/335.html
Can you identify those judges by name please?
* Was a champion of the Law of the Sea. Now says he’d vote against it
* Was a co-sponsor of the DREAM act (illegal immigrant children can become citizens by graduating high school). Then voted against his own bill.
* Sponsored legislation to reveal grassroots lobbyists to reveal their donors. Now opposes his own measure.
* He was so into “campaign finance reform” that name is on the bill — “McCain Feingold”. Now says he opposes some of the provisions of his own bill.
* Championed immigration reform law for three years. Now would vote against it.
* Spent “decades” trying to take both sides of the aisle on Roe v. Wade, and now has spent “decades fighting for the unborn”
* Voted against the Bush tax cuts and now pledges to make them permanent.
What else will he do when he get a chair behind the desk in the oval office. I believe he has poked us in the Conservative eye to many times. I thank you for your 27 years of republican votes.
When it comes to flip-flopping, John Kerry could take lessons from McCain.
If he’s wrong, does that make him a false prophet?
Welcome to Bizzaro-World.
OK:
Romney . . . in May selected for a district court judgeship Stephen S. Abany, a former board member of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association who organized the group’s opposition to a 1999 bill to outlaw same-sex marriage. Just two days before the nomination, Romney was lamenting the liberal tilt of the state’s bench, telling Fox News that ‘’our courts have a record here in Massachusetts, don’t they, of being a little blue and being Kerry-like.”
Another Romney choice for the bench is Marianne C. Hinkle, a registered Democrat who worked as an aide to Governor Michael S. Dukakis in the late 1970s and prosecuted John C. Salvi III in the 1994 Brookline abortion clinic shootings. Hinkle, in her application for the bench, describes herself as a longtime active member of Dignity/USA, a group that advocates for expanded gay rights in the Catholic Church and society generally.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/25/romney_jurist_picks_not_tilted_to_gop/?page=2
Now admit he’s a liberal pretending to be a conservative for short term gains in the Republican Presidential race! C’mon . . . admit it.
Um.... no.
Has anyone asked Hillary if she had input on Janet Reno’s Waco decision? She has all this *experience*.
Surprise?
It would be surprising to see Romney be truthful,
to stop blaming others, and stop hiding behind his religion.
but will the senile seniors realize it is not 1955?
is that you mc cain?
“Just to let you know, this charismatic Christian is praying hard for a Romney win.
Dear Lord, please give us the leader that pleases you - not the leader we deserve.”
Amen!
Mitt must have watched the superbowl on Sunday.
bttt
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