GOP cools on a hot-button issue [amnesty] [Romney on illegals] [barf]

The Boston Globe ^ | 2009-04-09 | Joan Vennochi

[rabscuttle385]

THOSE OLD Republican hot buttons are growing cold. For proof, check out a recent interview with Mitt Romney, a former presidential candidate and ex-governor of Massachusetts.

According to TheHill.com, a congressional newspaper that publishes when Congress is in session, "Romney believes that one way to attract more minorities to the GOP is to pass immigration reform before the next election, saying the issue becomes demagogued by both parties on the campaign trail." The article also quotes Romney as saying, "We have a natural affinity with Hispanic-American voters, Asian-American voters."

This could be extreme political repositioning, even for Romney.

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How Romney gets beyond the flip-flop-flips of his multiple-choice positions on immigration and other issues is a mystery only he can solve.

[mbraynard]

Hint: there are different kind of immigration reform.

Who, politically, do you support on the issue?

Ok, now give yourself a moment to go look up that peron's immigration reform ideas.

Only someone trying to disprove the statement for the sake of disagreeing with someone who made a comment favorable, would make an ass of themselves declaring 'the laws are perfectly fine, they just need to be enforced.'

Case in point: anchor babies.

[mbraynard]

No, your reasoning is 'insane.' It's like dealing with children here - where did the adults go?

I pointed out the laws need to be fixed and that Romney had a plan that I thought would fix them. Suddenly that makes me a Democrat.

You know what's really great about this is I would stack my credentials of DOING STUFF to advance the conservative agenda against all of you combined.

PS - rhetorical masturbation on FR does not advance the conservative movement.

[trisham]

Hint: there are different kind of immigration reform.

Who, politically, do you support on the issue?

Ok, now give yourself a moment to go look up that peron's immigration reform ideas.

Only someone trying to disprove the statement for the sake of disagreeing with someone who made a comment favorable, would make an ass of themselves declaring 'the laws are perfectly fine, they just need to be enforced.'

Case in point: anchor babies.

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I like Jim DeMint. I see your point about anchor babies.

Thanks for a reasoned response.

[Reagan Man]

As long as you support an unprincipled, two faced political chameleon like Romney, please don’t ping me. Thanks

[Syncro]

It could be worse. I could be making fun of Lady Obama’s eye-lashes.

Well of course you think that is silly, and beneath you.

You would rather attack people personally by making fun of people with autism, obesity and even Parkinson's.

I'm sure you think you are on the level of Limbaugh when you poke fun at Michael Fox's condition, but not so, it's just a vicious attack.

This comment is why I pinged the people you pinged, mbrainard

You know what's really great about this is I would stack my credentials of DOING STUFF to advance the conservative agenda against all of you combined.

Post your list and then I will counter it with mine.

[Syncro]

You really are an insulting little cuss, aren't you?

LOL

[Syncro]

I see your point about anchor babies.

The constitution takes care of that.

But leftists (and their lackeys here) want more laws, not constitutional enforcement

[Diogenesis]

GOP_Lady (RomneyBOT, chronic liar, 5th Grade):
"I don't smearmonger, but you do."

You do smear unwarrantedly, hence your posts were
removed above at #159, 161, and see #162.
You should be removed from FR, not merely admonished.

And thus note: you are a proven disingenuous libeler again, GOP_Lady.

As you have been shown to be a liar, disingenous
or abusive against FReepers in thread after thread.

Regarding your latest smear, GOP_Lady,
even on THIS thread, you are demonstrated to be a smearmonger.

Now as to responsibility, if you choose to get above your
present 5th grade level, you ought take responsibility
for some for your past lies and smear tactics.
So should Romney. Then apologize to the Maucks.

[GOP_Lady]

Thank God you're not a news reporter.

Hey, wait! You'd be great on MSNBC!

Just think — Diogenesis and Keith Olbermann together!

Question oh great reporter of facts:

Why did you not type “Romey claims to be President” above the AIG chart like you did on numerous occassions? It's on this site for all to see.

And who was it that actually “attacked” Sarah Palin’s “little children” that you typed numerous times? Again, it's on this site for all to see. Funny, because I know of no GOPer who did that.

Advice: Fox won't be able to utilize your reporting skills since they demand fairness and balance.

[GOP_Lady]

Hopefully, you’ve learned what it’s like to be smeared.

No one objects to you not liking a certain person.

But, you can state your views with accuracy and fairness.

[Diogenesis]

GOP_Lady " Why did you not type “Romey (sic) claims to be President?”
above the AIG chart like you did on numerous occassions (sic)?"

Why would anyone type such tripe? That is terrible English. Not your first language?

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GOP_Lady "And who was it that actually “attacked” (Gov.)
Sarah Palin’s “little children” that you typed numerous times?"

Based upon the timely reports, of which the 'tip of the iceberg' is below (*),
that would be TeamRomney which attacked Gov. Palin.

So now that a FReeper answered questions for YOU, how about answering some for us?

Now that you people really f&cked up America, how is it working out for you?

Any apologies to the Mauck family from you or Romney?

Any apologies to the Circosta family from you or Romney?

Any apologies to the citizens of Massachusetts from you or Romney for the BIGdig coverup?

Any apologies to the citizens of Massachusetts from you or Romney for the decimation of the GOP?

Any apologies to the citizens of Massachusetts from you or Romney for imposition of socialized medicine?

Any apologies to the citizens of Massachusetts from you or Romney for usurpation of the Constitution to impose Romney's gay marriage?

Any apologies to the citizens of Massachusetts from you or Romney for his screw up of the economy (**)?

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(*) -- "Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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(**) -- Romney was a piss-poor Governor. Romney got a "C" rating from CATO. And that was BEFORE
Romney's Socialized medicine and coverup of the BIGdig kicked in. So the RomneyBOTs try to "spin history".
Note also that Romney also betrayed President Bush as Governor
(predicting what TeamROMNEY would do later in Election2008 to Gov. Palin, and then the GOP - i.e. Romney-backstabbing),
because Romney was also against the conservative tax cuts. Here are the facts from CATO.

"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.]

[fieldmarshaldj]

Smear and attack, smear and attack, rinse and repeat. Do you have even the most remote sense of shame at long last, madam ? Even the hypocrisy of you, supporting a liberal fraud and then attacking the rest of us, calling US liberals, for exposing WHAT HE IS, a 100% liberal phony. Tell me, when you call us liberals, since you love and worship a liberal, are you actually paying us a compliment ?

[ansel12]

Mitt Romney really meant “promise them anything” during the campaign phone bank fund raising (as Diogenesis has posted multiple times and keeps posting)

Since you have seen the video you should link us to it.

[GOP_Lady]

I wasn't comparing Keith Olbermann’s “liberalism” with Diogenesis, but rather the same type of reporting skills.

[GOP_Lady]

I have no video. I saw it live. I know what happened. It was a spur of the moment joke.

[calcowgirl]

To: mbraynard; calcowgirl; Syncro; Reagan Man

No, your reasoning is 'insane.' It's like dealing with children ... blah, blah, blah.

...202 posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 3:39:38 PM by mbraynard
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Are you disagreeing with yourself, or was your comment intended for the originator of Post #191 (sickoflibs)?

If the latter, it would have been nice if you pinged him.

[ansel12]

I have no video. I saw it live. I know what happened.

You saw it at the Romney campaign site.

[fieldmarshaldj]

And where is your proof/evidence/links to substantiate this claim and comparison ? Screaming “you’re lying !” isn’t proof. None of you Slick Willardbots seems to ever be able to substantiate your claims, but you are experts at viciously and ruthlessly sliming and libeling people (as your posting history clearly demonstrates) who dare speak the truth and indeed those that provide clear-cut evidence and proof about your idol’s dishonesty and fraud.

[ansel12]

The Globe is up to its old cut up and paste partial sentences again. The original quote is from an interview with the Hill a few days ago. The orignal source notes that Romney favors "Tancredo" style immigration reform.

I'm starting to think that you made that up since you won't post your source for that claim.

[Diogenesis]

Oh my. With each post, GOP_Lady is again exposed as a .... fraud.
This link shows ABC has it on audiotape and describing the scene.

The tape and the actual setting (Willard stoking his RomneyBOTs)
are evidence which require GOP_Lady to either chose to apologize, prove it otherwise, or go away.

"Romney in Seven Words"
"On Wednesday, after his loss in the New Hampshire primary, Gov. Mitt Romney returned to Boston
to lick his wounds and conduct a telephone fundraiser before heading off to his next must win state of Michigan.
ABC Radio microphones were there and they featured an audio quote from Romney in their top of the hour news broadcasts.
Romney was encouraging his phone bank volunteers with a little pep talk when he unintentionally summed up his entire campaign;
ironically hitting upon the reason why he has failed to gain any traction with conservatives despite spending the most money of any Republican.
ABC News Radio was contacted by telephone and confirmed the following quote from their report.
" Hit the phones today make all the promises you have to, and…
make sure that we get the funds that we need to keep on propelling this campaign forward with power and energy.

“Make all the promises you have to.”
That’s Romney in a nutshell.
Of all the Republicans running, he alone has sought to clarify, cover,
and indeed change past positions in an attempt to curry favor with conservatives.
In the process, Romney has developed a reputation not as a principled conservative,
but as a politician who will say almost anything and take almost any position to win votes. "