Posted on 02/09/2008 1:36:43 PM PST by loreldan
Some 50 stalwarts of the political right privately met with Mitt Romney minutes after he dropped out of the Republican nominating race to discuss the former Massachusetts governor becoming the face of conservatism, as Ronald Reagan became en route to his 1980 election win.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
"Could be Reagan" connotes a "down the road possibility". It is not the same as "calling him Reagan".
I think it's important to put him on people's radar screen so that they can begin to size him up early. Many people have never even heard of him. I suggest that you take the time to read the interview at my link in post #22.
Terri Schiavo? Gimme a break. That’s all you have?
Romney is a terrible candidate and I’m glad he lost. His supporters are pathetic. They can’t even see the hypocrisy.
“Second, those that didn’t run probably didn’t because of the skeletons in their closets (and this was likely Thompson’s problem too)”
I think that a lot of people looked at Romney’s treasure chest and didn’t see a way to challenge it, as it was, his spending 40 to 50 million dollars of his own money did buy up a lot of real estate, it couldn’t purchase him the gold medal but it did buy him the bronze.
Try to imagine how his campaign would have looked without his ability to pay his way out of the dead spots during the campaign.
I still think Romney is a phony conservative of convenience. And I don’t trust him on Second Amendment issues.
This would be a good deal easier to believe, were it not for the unpleasant fact that the present day GOP contender is a man slavering to forcibly cram another 30,000,000+ illegal aliens down our collective gullets, simply so that his lawn maintenance crew and his pool boy will have someone to chat with on the weekends. ;)
“When you analyze his entire record of governance, Coulter added, Romney was quite conservative.”
I think the conservative purists played a big part in smearing Romney, who was/is the best Republican candidate for president since Reagan. Sure he hedged some statements while running for office in the nation’s most liberal state - and he won the election for governor. Many candidates for statewide office (Reagan, Clinton, Gore, Romney and others) hedged some positions, then clarified those positions when running for president nationally. It’s a fact of political life, whether the purists like or not.
I hope Romney will stay in the public eye and become the voice of conservatism until 2012, and maybe by then all the conservative purists and narrow minds will have learned Romney is a true conservative, and also our best candidate since RWR. Take a look at how he’s lived his life, and that will be a good place to start. Then listen to what he says about how he would govern as president.
“I have a good feeling about this guy. Can’t wait till he runs again!”
“So do I. A Thompson/Romney ticket or Romney/Thompson ticket would have been just fine with me!”
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I agree. They would both be excellent choices.
So conservatives now support socialized medicine,
gay marriage, and the removal of voting from citizens (all
Romney specialties)?
Romney’s ‘treasure chest’ is nothing compared to what Soros directed into McSlime’s coffers in December and January.
He won’t be there for the general election though; he’s a Hillery fan now.
“What was he like before that debate? Well he switched his registration to Republican a few months before the debate and he voted for Paul Tsongas in 92.”
And for someone living in Massachusetts, that took real courage. Much easier to just run as Democrat there, and much better chance of winning. But he changed to Republican and still won the governorship, then governed as conservatively as he could in uber-liberal Mass.
This is from the Onion, right ?
It’s even funnier with all them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!’s tacked on the end.
(Yeah, I'm sure there's a mask available somewhere)
If you can figure some way to get them into the process, I agree.
What does the source of the money have to do with anything? He could have spent voters money instead although I don't see that the source should matter.
Nevertheless, when Romney stepped aside he had more wins and more delegates than anyone except McCain.
In fact, he had more than Huckabee and all the other candidates added together.
As for Jeb Bush..... He is just as big a pandering RINO and open border advovcate as his brother and John McCain - maybe bigger.
You know, when he told Katie Couric 3 months ago that a "parent" of an otherwise adoptable surplus frozen embryo (in fact he used the word "adoption") could be "donated to research" and concluded that was perfectly "acceptable," then it shows he's still got quite a ways to go...ESPECIALLY since he said the embryonic stem cell issue was THE VERY ISSUE that "converted" him to the pro-life side.
You can't get more "pro-choice" then a politician saying that a "parent" can acceptably "donate" their offspring to be "dissected" to death.
The fact that this doesn't bother many pro-Mitt FReepers tells me a lot about their own priorities about life in the womb.
Romney ignored the Mass Constitution.
Perhaps he should have the opportunity to destroy
the US Constitution, too. NOT.
“I thought Jeb Bush should have run in 2008. “
The last person I’d want to see as a candidate. Both his father and his brother managed to fritter away Republican strength and momentum build up by others who came before them. After GHWB, we got Slick Willy, a virtually unknown from Arkansas defeating a sitting president.
Now, who knows who we’ll get after Jorge and Rove have managed to fritter away the most heavily Republican Congress since Eisenhower, and all the patriotism and support that followed 9/11, and also managed to split the party by pushing for years their half-witted, Tex-Mex illusions and amnesty for illegals, and the illusion of all the Republican voters they thought it would bring to the party.
As Peggy Noonan said, the Bushes are wastrels, who throw away political capital as if they earned it (they didn’t).
Stay out ‘da Bushes.
What, you gonna sue us for using your material here?
Actually, the day he suspended his campaign he had the Silver. He was second in delegates and in popular votes. In fact, Romney’s popular votes were only a few percentage points behind McCain. Problem was that McCain took had the majority of winner take all states.
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