Mitt Romney Takes on Detroit

The Washington Post ^ | 11-19-08 | Garance Franke-Ruta

[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.

[restornu]

When you can repeat some thing closer to the truth than I will not pointing out your distortions.

[hocndoc]

I’m only “anti” the extreme efforts to destroy fellow Republicans that I see over and over among those in favor of Romney.

[ejonesie22]

Um no Resty, it was Franklin, as he left the convention.

[b9]

Frankly, I find it very hard to believe rodeo is even a female. It sounds like a gay male who harbors a REAL pathological hatred of strong, successful women.

My impression as well ~ the disdain for Todd Palin is a real red flag.

[Tennessee Nana]

Ben Franklin remarked, “We have given you a Republic, if you can keep it.”

Wrong again it was Thomas Jefferson who said that!
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It was Benjamin Franklin..

Jefferson was in France at the time..

[Finny]

Really? It’s hard for me to remember one poster from another over the years, but it seems to me that rodeo-mamma has been around for quite awhile, participating in many discussions, pretty much always striking me as an emotion-driven airhead ditz typical of many limited-experience-of-men-and-life females I’ve known, catty and no more capable of rational assessment than a tone-deaf person is capable of singing Messiah. I never sensed deceit or malice, only genuine obtuseness. Just my two cents.

[trisham]

Oh sure, Palin will try to run with it, she is ambitious, she is willing to neglect her baby to get what she wants, that’s clear. I feel so sorry for her baby. That’s from the heart. You can put your spin on it all you want, but you know deep down I’m right. Sorry to break it to you. Someone had to.

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Romney's supporters are his worst enemies.

[Impy]

I would LOVE to be wrong about Romney, don't think I am.

[Diogenesis]

Romney's minions and supporters are America's worst enemies.

They have thrown Election2008 to Obama, and still
howl as their knives penetrate the children of Gov. Palin.

Not one of them has given an apology to the Palin,
or for that matter to the Mauck, family yet.

[Impy]

"Palin cost them the election."

Let's just plum false. Why don't you look into that a little more and put down the New York Times.

[greyfoxx39]

Some thing’s not healthy with all this Palin worshipping going on. I’ll tell you one thing though, I am afraid what is going on, most of the men have a crush on her.

ROTFLMBO! Talk about ironic. After months of "mittens" idol-worshipping Romney on FR, we see a MittBot accusing folks of worshipping Palin...

What a joke!

[b9]

Well, you know the history better than I.
My impression has been formed from this thread only. The level of malignant intensity toward everything Palin borders on mental imbalance, coupled with the embrace of Romney’s non-conservative values.

It’s no stretch to envision rodeo-mamma NOT a woman, not that it matters.
This forum doesn’t embrace the homosexual agenda in any form, so a vocal freeper who does is quite naturally suspect.

[b9]

Meant to ping you also to previous post 232.

[LexBaird]

Just for a laff, I decided to skim through this whole thread. I counted a total of 5 comments that dealt with the actual article, and two of those were of the “He’s right, but I think he’s a ....” variety.

The entire rest of this thread consists totally of ad hominems against Romney, against Palin, and against other freepers, with a generous dash of cut-and-paste agitprop that has been spammed here over and over. We get it; the partisans don’t like ex-candidate X, be it Romney or Palin or Huckabee.

I used to come here quite a bit, but the signal to noise ratio is drowning out the discussions, and the flying monkey kool aide drinkers are flinging poop so thickly at each other, its hardly worth the time to sort through.

In case y’all haven’t noticed, Nov. 8th is past, so it really doesn’t matter which ex-campaign you supported. We all lost. What’s important now is that congress is thinking about taking OUR money to give to Detroit. So, hey everybody, try this: ignore who wrote the op-ed. What do you think of its CONTENTS? Y’know, read the frackin’ article and actually comment on it??

[restornu]

I’m only “anti” the extreme efforts to destroy fellow Republicans that I see over and over among those in favor of Romney.

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Trying to destroy fellow Republicans, that one disagrees with is living by the arm of flesh.

Magnifying and doing good towards others is striving to do the will of the Lord

[restornu]

Um no Resty, it was Franklin, as he left the convention

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I appologizes it was in the movie that I first heard it said, (it was towards the end of the flick) and I was sure they gave credit to Jefferson.

The Formula (1980)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080754/

[Finny]

Agreed!

[restornu]

Romney has lived his life I bet more conservtive than you are capeable of doing.

Some do all the talking

some walk the walk!:)

[wagglebee]

Posters who favor abortion, gay marriage, gun grabbing, restrictions on religious freedoms, open borders, etc, or favor big government, entitlements, confiscatory taxation, social engineering, weakened security or defenses, etc, or favor candidates who take these non-conservative positions are probably pretty uncomfortable here as they feel the heat of thousands of conservatives objecting to their moderate/liberal posts.

One such poster went so far as to suggest that conservatives have held their boot to the neck of the GOP for far too long and that abortion, God, guns and gays will never ever be important planks to the GOP again.

Got news for all who think this way. Eliminate any of these conservative planks and the GOP goes poof. Without traditional conservatism, the GOP means nothing. A party made up of McArnolds, McRudys and McRomneys is worthless. Just say no to big government moderate "conservatism."

Thanks for saying this Jim!

These cafeteria conservatives always want to identify themselves as "Goldwater conservatives," but what they fail to realize is that Goldwater was a COMPLETE FAILURE as a presidential candidate. Goldwater did WORSE in terms of percentage of the voters, states carried and electoral votes than Hoover did in 1932. In fact, the ONLY Republicans to do worse than Goldwater were Taft in 1912 (when he split the GOP vote with Teddy Roosevelt) and Alf Landon in 1936.

It was only when Ronald Reagan recognized the role that social issues played in conservatism that conservatism succeeded.

[Tennessee Nana]

the site admin is anti-Romney
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AH, no...

The site admin is PRO-LIFE...

(That means ANTI-ABORTION)

Something Romney is not...