Romney: Fiscal 'lion' McCain can win over 'tea party' (EPIC BARF ALERT)

The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz. | 2010-03-17 | Dan Nowicki

[La Lydia]

Something about his creeps me out. The visual feed does not match the audio feed.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile....

The Failure of RomneyCare The former Massachusetts governor enacted something very similar to the Obama health plan. It isn't working well

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Let me see the Carfax, Mitt”

[Tennessee Nana]

So RINO Romney want s the Tea Party destroyed, dismantled, taken over, controlled, micro managed ???

interesting......

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Romney is chuggin the bong water. “

“Romney, you IGNORANT SLUT!!”

[LibLieSlayer]

mitt lies just as badly as hussein... and junabee mcnasty is going to lose. These people are to be despised and defeated.

LLS

[Diogenesis]

MITT ROMNEY - THE PROVEN BAD GOVERNOR

Mitt Romney (Backstabbing Democrat shapeshifter):
“Coronate me and let me destroy American freedom, your right to vote,
and the US Constitution, just as I did to the servants in the slave state of Massachusetts.”

"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.]

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“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

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"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

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"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

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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>

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"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

[LibLieSlayer]

Levin is now 100% against mittwitt. He has said so on many occasions.

LLS

[rintense]

Well good for him. But him supporting Romney never changed my opinion about him (as much as I loathe Romney).

[Psycho_Bunny]

Romney is a foppish prat.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Romney made a big mistake....he should have stayed with Bain Capital. Now he is just “The Aging Whore” just like Specter ;-)

[Slyfox]

It's a real shame when Republicans begin to look like demoncraps:

[TomGuy]

Romney needs to buy a clue. Without the Tea Party, he isn’t even going to get close to being elected president. Alienating them is not politically smart.

[Paine in the Neck]

What links all of them? Money. PAC money. They are either buying favors with PAC money or are calling in favors for PAC money already supplied.

[Diogenesis]

They would have agreed, had they lived.

Probe: Mitt missed chance to keep Tavares jailed - Could have nixed killer’s early exit

Friday, December 28, 2007 - Boston Herald
"Former Gov. Mitt Romney’s administration failed to act on disciplinary recommendations
that would have kept ex-con killer Daniel Tavares locked up another year -
and behind bars at the time he was accused of killing a newlywed couple in Washington state."

"Despite Tavares’ long history of violence, the Romney-led Department of Correction
took no action on recommendations that he be stripped of “good time” because
of assaults on prison guards in 2003 and 2005, said sources familiar with a state probe into the case."

[Luke21]

People’s Republic is the epitome of political crackheads.

[TomGuy]

Where will this leave Palin?

In for a penny, in for a pound.

She made her choice. She has thrown in with McCain.

Too many in 2008 tried to 'read' more into Thompson than was there, even though many of us were trying to sound the warning bell.

Palin had (past tense) alot going for her. She made her choice. Her choice does not measure up with the precepts she indicated she would seek after last year's election cycle.

How can she support McCain with his assaults the First and Second Amendments, push for amnesty for illegals, and the list of other actions, and meet the criteria Palin stated. He doesn't.

The breath of fresh air that was Palin has turned to halitosis.

[Grunthor]

“Romney: Fiscal ‘lion’ McCain can win over ‘tea party”

The hell you say!

[TomGuy]

I think it is time for McCain to retire.

McCain will never retire. He is one of those old timers, like Byrd, Kennedy, Thurmond, et al.

He will be there until they carry him out on a stretcher, unless the voters finally get enough. The trouble with that is McCain now thinks that AZ Senate seat is his forever, just like the politicos in MA thought that seat belonged to the Kennedys. If the voters reelect him, he will be right.

[TomGuy]

Politics makes strange bedfellows, and that list is just nasty [even worse UNDER the bed sheets].

lol.