Posted on 05/02/2009 6:52:12 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Former governors Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush joined Congressman Eric Cantor to talk health care, the economy and national security at the first town hall meeting for the National Council for a New America on Saturday. But the group steered clear of abortion and same-sex marriage -- wedge issues that have led to the defection of moderates and independents.
"Listening to people can make a difference. We've got ideas on how we can help people get health insurance, how we can improve our schools, how we can make our economy strong today as well as down the road, how we can reform entitlements -- these are the people of America that have these ideas," Romney said. "We want to share these ideas with one another, and make sure that we're laying out a vision and a plan for America that makes our lives and the lives of our kids better."
Romney lost the Republican presidential primary to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in the 2008 election. Since President Obama's election, the Republicans have come under danger of being locked into a filibuster-proof Senate.
Romney said that the focus needs to be return to the American people, rather than elected officials.
"America is great because of the American people, and the skill and ingenuity and entrepreneurship of America. That's what we happen to believe," Romney said of himself, Congressman Eric Cantor and former governor Jeb Bush. "I happen to think right now with regards to our economy,that we're risking doing the very thing to our economy that government did to our housing market. And that is borrow so much money that you create a bubble that ultimately collapses."
Thanks! Either that, or give in to despair.
Good, had enough of open border bushes.
The government is creating another BIG BUBBLE now (or at least trying to) via the Romney/Obama/McCain's TARP plan.
Yep. And a good share of these "moderates" don't vote on issues anyway. They vote on emotion. And not just illogical emotion, but shifting emotion. Their thinking is so shallow, they can't even explain it. Every candidate has to attract people like this if they expect to win. Some of these emotional voters are so feeling based that they won't come to their senses until they are herded into a boxcar.
Thank you for correcting the title, sir.
I frequent another chat site, many of whom are PUMAs. They hate Obama and are thoroughly pissed off at the Democrat Party. But they’ve been brainwashed to hate Republicans, so nothing one says to them seems to make any difference. It is pathetic until we start discussing the U.S.Constitution, and how Obama is making it irrelevant today. Then these people sound like conservative voters. There is the common denominator, folks: our Constitutional rights.
There are plenty of voters out there, conservative, liberal, independent, Republican and Democrat, who despise Obama and his moves to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.
If it is a “group” effort than why in only Myth mentioned in the original article title?
Video of Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush at link on the page.
The first story out about this event.
Where is the video?
Is that a bad word?
This is a well publicized effort to “move the GOP to the center”. We already know what ideas will come out of it because we know what its goals are.
Spoiler, carpetbagger Myth Romney: "Claiming that I am "Listening to people"
takes away peoples' focus from the AIG kickbacks I received,
my fake LEO badges, my BIG-DIG coverup, and my history of socialism and dictatorship."
"Top 20 Recipients of AIG Contributions in 2008"
Well at least you admit Mitt is a moderate now....
It’s a start...
The problem I have is that a lot of those who say they are there to “save us” have some seriously controlling tendencies themselves.
Working to? Our last RINO president, our last nominee, and his wildly spending RINO congress did that already.
I think he’s just helping the GOP.
But, that’s my feeling/opinion on it.
That is a new and strage concept to some!
It would not matter to some if Romney pulled our finaical butts out of the fire, or continue to enable the road towards...
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I am tired of tyrants who try to ram down anothers throats it is my way or the highway!
That is not what America is all about!
I pray Romney helps the Tea Party for it is time for a new wine bottle.
Realized the wisdom you can not put new wine in an old bottle!
Luke 5:
37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
The facts:
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
Ditto!:)
I don’t think Mitt Romney will run again.
I think he’s just helping the GOP.
But, that’s my feeling/opinion on it.
That is a new and strage concept to some!
It would not matter to some if Romney pulled our finaical butts out of the fire, or continue to enable the road towards...
We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
I am tired of tyrants who try to ram down anothers throats it is my way or the highway!
That is not what America is all about!
I pray Romney helps the Tea Party for it is time for a new wine bottle.
Realized the wisdom you can not put new wine in an old bottle!
Luke 5:
37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
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