Posted on 11/19/2008 7:37:17 PM PST by GOP_Lady
Mitt Romney Takes on Detroit
By Garance Franke-Ruta
The race for 2012 is already on in the Republican Party, and today failed 2008 contender Mitt Romney appeared to take a stand sure to complicate any future presidential bid. In an op-ed bluntly titled, "Let Detroit Go Bankrupt," the former Massachusetts governor argued against the automobile salaries and pension systems that have for decades helped define the good life in industrial Michigan, where Romney won the GOP primary this winter and where his father was once governor.
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Excuse me, did I call you any names? No, you called me names, don’t tell me to do what you need to do. It’s a form of hypocrisy. You called me sexist. Remember? So now where do you get off preaching the word to me. It’s very bad to be vile to someone and then try preaching to them. You aren’t helping anyone at all, in fact, it seems very wicked to call someone names and then to quote scripture. I can understand why you don’t get where I am coming from. It is very clear.
I am not re-arranging the words, I am being consistent. Sorry if you find that troublesome. I am driving the same point home, without talking points, because what I saying is true. And I understand perfectly well what I am talking about. As far as Romney goes He was very articulate about conservative principals. And I know that he said he had a change of heart about a few issues. That’s about as complicated as it was for me. I liked the guy, but he was slandered and we ended up with McCain. It’s important to have articulate leaders. The bottom line, Romney did a pretty good job upholding conservative principals in a very liberal state. I wouldn’t blame Romney if he never wanted to run for office again. He tried. He was a true servent. He didn’t need the money, he wasn’t an opportunist. He really wanted to help. Palin is not a servent, she is an opportunist. All she has done is been on the government payroll her entire career. She is not a good conservative spokesperson.
Get some help.
What else would he do but run ? He’s got nothing else to do. I’m also at a loss to understand how he was ever considered a “fiscal Conservative.” He was one of the most fiscally reckless Governors of ANY state. He implemented a program open Democrats only dream of, and was thrilled to do it, that being his Socialist state healthcare program (even the Democrats in the state are at a loss as to how to cover the costs, which grow by the minute).
This guy was a categorical disaster on every front. Worse than that, he didn’t even want to be Governor, it was just something he needed for his resume. This guy grew so bored having to deal with parochial issues that he was reduced to rubber-stamping every liberal notion that crossed his desk. The final straw was what happened with Brian and Beverly Mauck, when one of his leftist rubber-stamped judicial picks let a psychotic murderer loose. He had ample evidence the judicial applicant would be pro-criminal and he didn’t care, he was late that day for his infamous lunch at Ruth’s Chris. This “man” was one of the biggest frauds and worst Governors this party has ever coughed up. An open Democrat couldn’t have caused the harm he did as a RINO.
A sad fact, too, is that several of our sitting Governors are sniveling RINOs that have been more than content to cripple the parties they run. Crist of FL (who willfully allowed a ghastly number of felons to vote in this election, giving the state to the False Messiah), Ah-nold in CA (who isn’t even attempting to hide he’s a Socialist), Rell of CT (a lady Governor and empty-suit RINO who presided over the death of the federal GOP), Daniels of IN (again, also content to let the GOP twist in the wind, and did nothing to carry the party when he was reelected this month, with the Dems capturing the state with a vengeance on his watch), Pawlenty of MN (who squandered his GOP majority, now a minority, and is one of these global warming kooks), Blunt of MO (another gutless weasel like his useless father in Congress, who ran away crying like a little girl rather than run for reelection — a seat we promptly lost this month), Gibbons of NV (a sleazebag whose escapades have been exposed after he was elected Governor, and a big Harry Reid friend — presided over a collapse of the GOP in the state this month), Perry of TX (another pretty-boy RINO one inch away of seeing our hard-fought gains disappear in the legislature). You get the idea.
Precisely. Gov. Palin is the polar-opposite of an opportunist politician. She’s had to go up against an entrenched corrupt RINO establishment regime in AK. All 3 of their federal officeholders are anti-Palin RINOs. We almost lost 2 of them in one shot, and lost the Senate seat because Stevens refused to quit and allow another nominee in his place. You literally have to be a convicted felon to lose as a Republican for federal office, and that came to pass. She not only has to battle these crooks, but the Dems as well. I can’t begin to imagine the stress she is under on a daily basis from so many sides out to see her destroyed.
Well, that explains 90% of the 'rat base.
The media would’ve loved to see ole Slick Willard nominated, and once he was, they’d have unleashed every single allegation and action he’s ever done — to remind Conservative Republicans he ain’t one of them — but is a flipflopping, soulless, liberal opportunist (and the media would’ve followed that one up with close scrutiny of his business practices, i.e. massive firings, his family’s refusal to serve in the military, and his religion, all of which would’ve turned off one GOP group after another and drastically harmed turnout. The GOP would’ve been in utter bedlam by November all the while the Dems would’ve made even greater pickups).
This was all the reason why I risked my account day after day screaming to the heavens trying to warn people on this guy when so many were willing to swallow the nightmare he would’ve been for us. I dislike McCain, I had little use for him, but it was appalling to inform people that as BAD as McCain was, Slick Willard was WORSE (and he would’ve picked a liberal RINO as a running mate, perhaps Crist of FL, which would’ve had the homosexual rumors flying like crazy).
It’s a good question. I don’t know. So many of our best and brightest not in public office are highly reluctant to run. They know Dems get a total pass while Conservative Republicans get destroyed by the media. If it was you and your family, would you REALLY want to put yourself through that ? The media would’ve been content to hound the Palin family until Bristol committed suicide. That’s just how truly evil they are. The media is a cancer in this country, one that needs to be obliterated into a billion pieces, never to rise again.
Yup.
Face it, a majority of the voting public is woefully ignorant of facts and issues. I study this stuff daily, so a lot isn’t news to me, but I often get alarmed by just average FReepers that praise me for knowing so much more than they on political history. I don’t feel like this stuff is rocket science, it’s easily learnable. If average FReepers, the cream of the crop of informed people, feel inferior to my knowledge, it is bone-chilling how bad it must be for the average citizen, most of whom couldn’t separate Gov. Palin from the disguting caricature Tina Fey portrayed (and Fey hates Palin, which she admitted publicly, even worse than rodeo-mamma). Imagine if a Conservative program decided to do a similar caricature of the False Messiah. A half-witted Step ‘n Fetchit wearing a Mohammadan turbin reading off of cue cards held by his Black Power “Angela Davis” wife chanting “Kill Whitey” (much like the New Yorker mag cover, which was a bit TOO honest), with his little daughters saying the same, eating a watermelon, and giving birth (at 8) to more babies, wiping the placenta on the Constitution with the infants also chanting, “Kill Whitey.” Fair is fair, now. Time to go after these thugs with a vengeance. What ? We can’t do that ? Time to kill the double-standard, too.
OK on the last point, i got to stand up for tina faye in your comparison to rodeo mama. at least faye had a few nice things about palin, no so with rodeo!
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