Romney has right RX for McCain

Seattle Times ^ | August 3rd | Froma Harrop

[ConservativeMan55]

We who obsess over universal health coverage may soon confront a startling development: The only candidate on a major-party presidential ticket to have proposed and implemented a universal plan could well be a Republican. I speak of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, now high on the list of John McCain's possible running mates.

[eyedigress]

Homework assignment.....

He’s a Mormon, don’t ya know, and that just isn’t acceptable to the likes of some on this thread

You haven’t been reading a lot of the Romney threads, have you

Goofus and Gallant already have it.

[Round 9]

I knew all those conservatives supported him but it seemed it was only because they absolutely could not stomach McCain. I’m not a fan of McCain but compared to Obama, McCain can hold the conservatives’ spot until someone like Jindal, Sandford, Pence or Coburn decide to run in 2016.

[flaglady47]

Here is an example of the latent and often unspoken but inferred continously anti-Mormonism that lurks below the surface, on this very thread, eyedigress:

Just posted by a Freeper:

“Romney has right RX for McCain

Magical Underpants?”

[ConservativeMan55]

I like Pence and Coburn.

Jindal needs a bit more experience.. just a tad.

Sanford isn’t ready for Prime Time yet.

[Norman Bates]

I disagree. The Stop McCain movement hadn’t even formed by Michigan and look how well he did there especially among conservatives.

[MHGinTN]

He’s pretty ... but he’s not what he projects to the public.

[ConservativeMan55]

Look at the Primary poll numbers from CNN at the top of this thread.

Perhaps after a little research you’ll change your mind.

[eyedigress]

I am sorry for my impetuous behavior. I don't understand why people can't see their only choice. 2008 will be a blurr in 2013.

[Norman Bates]

That reminds me of one of the best “dry” lines from a Bond film where after a prickly encounter with Draco’s daughter Tracy, Draco says: “She likes you. I can see it.” And Bond returns the quip, “You must give me the name of your occulist.”

[Diogenesis]

THE WRONG RX (for anyone except Obama)

Romney was rated a "C" overall by Cato. Here are the facts.
As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal.
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

[nmh]

He should pick Mitt but he lacks the cajoles to do it.

The Evangelicals HATE him because he is a Mormon. Instead of making him a prayer target they'd rather HATE him, LIE about him and take ads out in papers to display their HATE for him.

[eyedigress]

Vote for Nader... You win

[ConservativeMan55]

Welcome to the party.

So sorry.. but nobody reads or believes your spam.

[MHGinTN]

According to you, "Romney is absolutely pro-life." Well, let's look at that silly assertion. Do you consider it pro-life to offer embryonic aged humans for research as 'leftover' people? Romney does. So he's not actually 'absolutely pro-life now is he?

A May 2005 interview on Fox News illustrates the difficult path he's treading. Chris Wallace had Romney on a show with Boomer Esiason, a former NFL quarterback and proponent of embryonic stem cell research. After hearing Esiason make his case, Wallace turned to Romney.

"Let's talk first of all about the fact that you support the idea of using these embryos that are left over in fertility clinics and that would otherwise simply be thrown away," Wallace said.

Romney didn't directly address the point, saying that he draws the ethical line "in a very similar place" to that of Bush.

Wallace tried again: "But if I may ask you, governor, specifically, you don't see, as I understand it, the use of these leftover embryos in fertility clinics as destroying life?"

"That's right," Romney responded,

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Romney spoke with CBS News about his views and host Katie Couric asked Romney to describe the kind of embryonic stem cell research he might support.

"So what kind of embryos -- embryos that are created for procreation and then would be discarded? Are those the ones that you feel are perfectly fine from which to cull cells for stem cell research?" Couric asked.

"Yes," Romney responded, "those embryos that are referred to commonly as surplus embryos from in-vitro fertilization."

Romney said he would first like to see human embryos adopted by families before put up for their destruction. However, he explained how he would have no problem with parents who want to allow those human embryos -- unique human beings -- to be destroyed for research.

"But if a parent decides they would want to donate one of those embryos for purposes of research, in my view, that's acceptable," he said. "It should not be made against the law."

[ConservativeMan55]

Preach it!

Whoo hoo!

[eyedigress]

I have been to many Churches in Nashville recently and they are not saying that at all. (This is the Bible Belt BTW)

[GOP_Lady]

Disgusting and disrespectful, isn’t it?

I could post something else just from today from another thread, but I won’t.

[nmh]

In the end I think Mitt will forgive McCain and take the job.

Mitt always puts the country before his own personal ambitions.

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Mitt already has done this.

McPain is the childish one. He’s not mature enough as a person to do that. His temper and pride get in the way. McPain is not a prinsipled person. McPain is just slightly less scary than the Obomination. Either way, McPain or the Obomination will ruin this country. McPain will taz us to death with his envrionmental religion and the Obimination will push “global warming” for global socialism.

[Diogenesis]

Romney is a PROVEN loser for the GOP.

“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to New Hampshire Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

[GOP_Lady]

I don’t think we’re blind here.