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.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
Those in the military are walking the walk far more than most others.
And by choice. They are VOLUNTEERING.
The simple explanation was given to you by our site host, we are conservatives and Romney isn't. It is very much in large part not about stupid posts or lies, but stated fact.
You and a few others tried to pitch him here for a couple of various reasons, but simply being good looking, running the Olympics or being a religious peer does not change the man's politics for the rest of us. Indeed it should not be an excuse to ignore them either.
In four years Romney or just about anyone will look pretty good.
Military service is a HUGE plus for Republican candidates.
I truly wish our military could elect the Commander in Chief ~ those who are putting their lives on the line.
They are fighting for US.
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This thinking is ahort sighted one of our greatest presidents Ronald Reagan had no military record, period
Though never in a combat position, Reagan served in various roles in the Army from 1937 until separated from service with the rank of Captain in 1945.
Try some research every once in awhile.
Yes...
The deferments were handed out like candy to whichever mormon guy wanted one...
Mitt Romnbey got 2 deferments...
He sat out the war in a cushy post in Paris...
Expensive digs in a mansion, fancy cars to drive etc...
Real suffering for “his” country...
Thompson did not serve either!
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FRed Thompson is not a gutless wonder like Romney...
Big diff...
When did Palin praise Hillary? Link please.
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She didnt...
In her first speech...
She just had the audacity to comment on the fact that Hillary had gotten further in politics than any woman had before...
And acknowledged Hillary’s great accomplishment...
Which was a great accomplishment...
The RomneyBots like to forget Romnbey’s 1994 debate with Teddy K...
Romney kept mumbling about his support for women “breaking the glass ceiling”
However when both Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor Sarah Palin did what had not been done by women before...
(Other than Geraldine Ferrara 1984)
And almost broke the ultimate glass ceiling in America n politics..
The RomneyBots screamed ...HORRORS...
It’s a sexist thing...
Nothing less...
# 274
great post...
the Church encourage the young LDS men to go on a mission first.
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There was a war on ...
The mission field for patriot Americans is where the battle is..
Are you saying that the “church” encouraged the young LDS guys to dsodge the draft ???
This thinking is ahort sighted one of our greatest presidents Ronald Reagan had no military record, period
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AH, that would be Bill Clinton...
We are eating our own and Reagan warn against this in his 11th commandments.
“Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”
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You mean like George Romney did of Ronald Reagan and his friend, Barry Goldwater ??????
My sincere apologies, I was wrong. My error. Please forgive me.
in the course of time there are many other presidents who did not serve.
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Only 8...
And one of those, FDR, was Sec of the Navy...
Since FDR only Bill Clinton hasnt served ..
No problem just glad you were able to make the right connection.
I continue to witness your sour soul in action!
Try some research every once in awhile.
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His growing success also won him a series of deferments from military service (at the request of Warner Brothers) once the United States entered World War II, and then—after he was called up and commissioned an officer in the cavalry—an assignment with an army film unit.
Much of the time, he lived at home with his family. Despite his later claims to the contrary, he never left the country and never saw combat.
But he cooperated with studio public relations efforts to portray him as a soldier, who, like other soldiers, left his family to go "off to war." Feature stories described Wyman bravely carrying on, raising the children and maintaining the household while her man was away. Newsreels and magazine photos depicted Reagan "coming home" for leaves and visits.
Reagan later sometimes seemed actually to have believed the ruse. Even decades later, he liked to talk about "coming back from the war," like other veterans, eager to take up family life again (a life that in his case had hardly been interrupted).
The RomneyBOT have such devotion to their Master
that no matter whose children they stab, no matter
which election they ruin, they are America’s new
“Benedict Arnolds” en masse. Their name is “Legion”.
This bending and twisting of Reagan's record by you Mittwitts in an effort to bolsters Mitt's less than stellar conservative creds has surpassed tiresome and is headed towards loathsome and pathetic.
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