Third parties might finally make some inroads when the US military starts fielding candidates!
Posted on 06/17/2011 9:44:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
Reading Al Gore's comments on Mitt Romney we were reminded of all of the reason's we don't trust the man: "Good for Mitt Romney though we've long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis. While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party.
The so-called science of global warming is more media hype and Wall Street attempts to profit on trading carbon credits than it is real science. The scientific community is split on the topic with some climatologist predicting a new mini ice age. Mitt Romney's gullibility on this issue helps us understand why he has been so wrong on most of the vital issue of the last decade.
Romney is often trumpeted by his supporters as having business experience and they love to site this record of taking Massachusetts from a three billion dollar deficit to a one billion dollar surplus. But the cost of his balanced budgets was tough on business. Peter Nicholas, founder of Boston Scientific Corporation, stated it this way: tax rates on many corporations almost doubled because of legislation supported by Romney. Romney's tax policies were not helpful for many small businesses, when Romney took many IRS subchapter S businesses in Massachusetts and almost doubled their tax rates; it was an important disincentive to investment, growth and job creation.
The Cato Institute reports as Governor, Romney opposed $140 million in business tax hikes through the closing of loopholes in the tax code. This led to Joseph Crosby of the Council on State Taxation to say, Romney went further than any other governor in trying to wring money out of corporations.
Romney raised taxes on business by a total of $309 million. He increased taxes on business property. He then tried to raise taxes on hotels, but was stopped by the Democrat legislature. Romney at the time joined a coalition lobbying congress to tax internet activity, and he even supported a tax on out of state commuters.
Romney refused to support the Bush tax cuts while governor, and when campaigning for Governor, refused to sign the â?ono new taxes pledge, calling it government by gimmickry.
Now he wants us to believe he is a born again tax fighter.
But it is on the social issues that we get real heart burn. As star conservative researcher Steve Baldwin has pointed out: Romney changed his position on over thirty key issues as he prepared to run for President four years ago. Many of his conversion experiences are on issues we believe to be vital to the wellbeing of America's families.
As Governor Romney did great damage by unilaterally ordering homosexual marriage be instituted in Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Constitution clearly prohibits the judicial branch from specifically changing marriage statutes so when the court issued the Goodridge opinion favoring homosexual marriage, all Romney had to do was to declare the court had no jurisdiction and ignore it. Instead Romney asserted the opinion was now the law and ordered town clerks and Justices of the Peace to marry homosexuals, even though the legislature never acted to codify the ruling.
But the reason we will never support him for President is an action he took in 2005. Governor Romney personally issued special Governor's one-day marriage licenses to 189 same-sex couples, including to a homosexual activist state senator and others of his personal friends in the homosexual community.
We believe he can call a homosexual union whatever he wants, but it will never be a marriage. Marriage is the union of one man with one woman ordained by God for the purpose of creating a family. Even a President Romney can't trump God and God's nature. Let's hope Republican primary voters are smart enough to never let it come to that possibility.
Roger that. I think we've had enough of these ruling class elite rumpswabs. Restore the Republic!
Both parties are financed by the corporate America that hire employees in other countries while laying off Americans. If they don't want to be an American company then don't contribute to American elections.
I'll be going Third until a candidate runs on a campaign to restore the exported jobs.
It will be interesting, to me at least, to see who "they" nominate. They could very well snatch defeat from the jaws of victory once again. They have a habit of doing that for a long time now.
Amen. Don't waste your vote providing a mandate to someone you disagree with.
You got that right. He should just put a (d) behind his name and challenge the one in the (d) primary.
But-But, don’t you understand! If you don’t vote for Mittens you will get obama for another four years-Boo! Boo!. If Mittens or Putzman is the nominee of the party it’s your obligation to rally around, financially support, work for and vote for him. After all we are on the same team right—right?
And remember, your support is a one way street. Do not under any circumstance expect support of any conservative republican president, after all we do have our standards...
God I hate the party boy liberal pukes in the republican party.
Third parties might finally make some inroads when the US military starts fielding candidates!
"Romney is What's Wrong With the Republican Party!"
Romney is an unrepentant abortionist/statist lying political whore! Just to be absolutely clear, there will never ever be a RINO Romney campaign on FR!! If he somehow becomes the nominee, FR will be running a full-time campaign to DEFEAT him!! If you wish to support him then I suggest you sign off FR and onto Wankers for Mitt!! … Jim Thompson
Romney is not even close to what we need.
At the end of the "debate" which was Mitt trying to out-Kennedy the Swimmer, my wife said, "The only difference between Romney and Kennedy is that Romney hasn't left anyone to die in his car. That we know of any way."
And from what I have seen and heard of Mitt since, he has gotten older but no wiser. And he hasn't changed a bit.
So, if you liked Kennedy, you'll love Romney.
How about a candidate who runs on a campaign of keeping and growing jobs in America with a more favorable business climate? Lower corporate taxes, fewer restrictive regulations?
Isn’t this what the title implies?
What can ya say? 3rd Party or Bust? How to best Reclaim the soul of the party? The pot boils.. the soup thickens.. (lots of cheese.)
Can’t wait until Rudy jumps in, maybe Thune too, rumor is Sarah is soon to decide.. and not to forget, we still got over 16 months to the general and a year to convention.
Ouch. (for the attack ads and threads to come)
You're kidding right? Which candidate runs on cutting the unemployed rate to 6% his first two years? Jobs were leaving this country when the GOP controlled the Executive, Legislative and Judicial parts of our Government. Taxes have been higher plus what restrictive regulations has any candidates campaigned against? Sorry those things are just talking point reasons to obscure scouring the world the cheap labor to replace Americans.
Also just because Romney is the front leader now, doesn't mean he is going to stay the front leader.
Here is a list of candidates, potential candidates and those who have declined to run for the Office. John Thune is one of them who declined to run
Yep. I would have done a write in last time, but the insane one put Palin on the ticket, so I relented, but I will never do it again, and I have voted in every election since 1959.
If they run a RINO again and I am still alive, I will stay home.
At some point we are going to have to explain how the lessor of two evils, was not Still evil, and I am at a loss as to how I can spin that.
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