Don't know who you are, never saw you before on forum and your sign-up date is only six months old.
Therefore, you were not FR active during the primaries last year. I was, and I can tell you that, rather than being the nasty ones, the Romney supporters took the brunt of nasty rude attacks and still do. Posters who are openly Mormon suffer the most vicious attacks.
I don't see the point of attacking Romney or his supporters. He had a solid pro-America, pro-military, pro-life, secure borders, financially sound platform that he ran on and if Republicans would have supported him, if Huckabee and Thompson had not come along as spoilers, he had a good chance to win the general and would be far better than what we are up against in this country now.
"pro life..." depended on when and where you talked to the Mythster.
He “reassured” Massachusetts voters that he was pro-abortion to the core both in campaign runs in 1994 and 2002. We all know about his late 2004 so-called pro-life “conversion,” but lots of folks don't realize he was also massaging fellow Utah Mormons in 2001 when he wrote a letter-to-the editor that he wasn't really “pro-choice," after all: "I do not wish to be labeled pro-choice." (Mitt Romney, Letter to the Editor, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/12/01)
Fast-forward then to the 2007 campaign trail. He claimed all of his actions as MA guv were “pro-life” -- yet on April 12, 2006, he signed his "Commonwealth Care" into existence, thereby expanding abortion access/taxpayer funded abortions for women--including almost 2% of the females of his state who earn $75,000 or more. (Wait a minute, I thought he told us post-'06 that ALL of his actions were "pro-life?"). Also, not only this, but as governor, Romney could exercise veto power to portions of Commonwealth Care. Did Romney exercise this power? (Yes, he vetoed Sections 5, 27, 29, 47, 112, 113, 134 & 137). What prominent section dealing with Planned Parenthood as part of the "payment policy advisory board" did Romney choose NOT to veto? (Section 3) That section mandates that one member of MassHealth Payment Policy Board must be appointed by Planned Parenthood League of MA. (See chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, section 3 for details).
Look at how he tried to manipulate voters just in the first several weeks of his '07 campaign – based upon what he was telling South Carolina voters: On January 29, 2007 during a visit to South Carolina, Romney stated: “Over the last multiple years, as you know, I have been effectively pro-choice." (Bruce Smith, "Romney Campaigns in SC with Sen. DeMint," The Associated Press, 1/29/07) = OK how could "every action I've taken as the governor that relates to the sanctity of human life..." AND this statement BOTH be true?
On another South Carolina campaign stop has Romney uttering that "I was always for life”: "I am firmly pro-life… I was always for life." (Jim Davenport, "Romney Affirms Opposition to Abortion," The Associated Press, 2/9/2007) = Oh, of course as the above shows, he's always been pro-life!
By August '07 he was singing more off-kilter tunes on the trail: "I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice." Source: 2007 GOP Iowa Straw Poll debate 8/5/2007 = OK...looking at the 1994 & 2002 campaigns, how could he say he "never said" he was "pro-choice?"
Then comes his two biggest whoppers of all – one being his 8/12/07 interview with Chris Wallace of Fox: "I never called myself pro-choice. I never allowed myself to use the word pro-choice because I didn't FEEL I was pro-choice. I would protect the law, I said, as it was, but I wasn't pro-choice, and so..." = That whatever he was from 1970 when his mom ran as a pro-abortion senator & he sided with her, to 5/27/05, w/whatever interruption he had due to a pro-life altar call in Nov of '04, whatever that was...well, he assures us it wasn't a pro-abortion inlook or outlook 'cause he didn't ”feel...pro-choice..." = So does that make him a life-long pro-lifer?
On embryonic stem cell research, he was for it in a June, '02 speech. He supposedly "converted" to the entire pro-life cause over this issue in Nov of '04.
By Dec of '07 he was telling Katie Couric that he was pro-choice on parents of such embryos exercising either the choice to give up their surplus embryo(s) for adoption, or to "donate" them to "research" (dissection). In that Dec 07 interview with Couric, in two back-to-back sentences, he uses the terms "parent" and "adoption" to apply to embryos – which sounds very “pro-life” and commendable....only in the very next sentence he uses the following terms without seeing any contradiction:
"parent"
"donate"
"research"
He actually said parents of these adoptable embryos who “donated” them to “research” (dissection) was "acceptable."
Would the real Mythster please stand up?
Whoever YOU are, you are a damnable liar.
"I don't see the point of attacking Romney or his supporters. He had a solid pro-America, pro-military, pro-life, secure borders, financially sound platform that he ran on and if Republicans would have supported him, if Huckabee and Thompson had not come along as spoilers, he had a good chance to win the general and would be far better than what we are up against in this country now."
Your candidate was a flipflopping Socialist fraud and would've been the Republican party's worst nightmare imaginable as President. I thank God we were spared that, and I'm glad I played a role in stopping that abomination. And I'd do it again.
The reality is that no group of freepers is nastier than the pro Romney crowd, and while Romney’s platform for the national race was conservative, it was also brand new and created for the new group of voters.
The Romney family is so anti-American that no Romney man has ever served this nation as a patriot in uniform, Mitt’s father is famously known as the “anti-war” presidential candidate from the sixties that claimed the military “brainwashed” him, a time when a young 17 year old Mitt witnessed his father storming out of the 1964 Republican convention as a protest against Goldwater and the conservative movement and a time when Mitt himself was avoiding the draft living in France, and a time when he claims that he and his family were strongly pro-abortion.
Romney dropped his Republican registration and became an independent in opposition to President Reagan and conservatism and he only gave money to liberal Democrat candidates for years until early 1993 when he registered Republican to run for office, he was still in opposition to Newt Gingrich and the conservative movement and he desired to open the hated military fully to homosexuals.
Until recently Romney was pro amnesty and famously ran a “sanctuary mansion”, over 11 years he was twice exposed in the national press for having in service at his home a company made up almost entirely of illegals ran by a nationalized Colombian legal.
In preparation for the national race Mitt Romney had a startling series of epiphanies and at roughly age sixty became pro-life, anti amnesty, a “life long hunter and a “gun owner”, a life time member of the NRA, he suddenly became a man that “longed to serve in Vietnam”, a lover of Reagan and conservatives, a strong pro military guy, etc, etc, etc.
To this day no one can figure out what he believes in or what he wants, he won one election during all these years and he couldn’t win reelection to that office, he is something of a political loser but an effective spoiler.
I dare you to read this entire thread or any thread I've posted on and find ONE negative thing I've ever said about Mormonism or Mormons.
My lack of appreciation for Mitt Romney has NOTHING to do with him being a Mormon, and for you to suggest otherwise is ludicrous.
Your argument is no different than 0bama supporters telling me that I'm a racist because I didn't vote for him because he's black. And like Barack Obama, I don't support Mitt Romney because I don't like his POLITICS.
Lastly, you do your cause no good with your slinging accusations. Even if I did have a teaspoon of support for Mitt Romney in me, you just took it.
As for why you've never seen me on Free Republic before, I can't help you there. I'm actively here every day and hang with the Georgia FReeper Posse.
Your statement is not truthful.
The ONLY attacks have been against FReepers
who did not fall on their knees for carpetbagger,
backstabber Romney.
The ONLY attacks were by RomneyBOTs who dared called
those critical of Romney’s stupidities ‘antiMormon’,
and the RomneyBOTs who attacked (and still do)
Gov. Palin and her children.
I would link to the numerous posts about Fred Thompson's health or age or the ones calling his wife a whore and/or a stripper, (the last from an LDS member by the way, very classy) but the Mods and JR have a distinct sense of propriety and tastefully deleted most of them..
However they are etched in the memory of true conservatives here at FreeRupublic...
You mean there are CLOSET Mormons in these threads?
Oh so true!
We are persecuted UNJUSTLY!!!
--MormonDupe(I will now go eat worms)
WOW, LE, no one could have said it better!! One heck of a post, girl, and exactly true! : )