Posted on 08/31/2012 12:49:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...Protecting the middle class might be the theme of Obama's campaign ads, but the defining movement of this campaign came when Obama belittled the efforts of Main Street America when he stated that "you didn't build that." Those sneering words about smart, hardworking people revealed the ugly side of Obama's redistributionalist ideology. As in 2008, most of the media accept all the carefully scripted images of Obama as Gospel truth while they busy themselves trying to either hide or spin away all those extemporaneous words and deeds that display Obama's true beliefs and character as being either out of context or aberrational....
This campaign is coming down to two competing views of America. As it plays out, I think something very profound may be happening to Mitt Romney. Romney reminds me of a good many smart businessmen I have known. They live their own lives by a set of solid small-c conservative rules, but they are too busy solving smaller daily problems to think much about political conservatism as a coherent system. Such people often pay lip service to the left-of-center conventional media wisdom about big government and public morality even as they rigorously practice all the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work, neighborliness, sobriety, and sexual continence in their personal affairs.
....this very smart, very competitive man is facing an opponent who is perhaps the most rigidly ideological man ever to become president. Romney doesn't like what he sees happening to the nation, nor does he much like the person he is running against. Confronted with the problem of beating not just the person, but also the ideology, and then fixing what is broken, Romney may be discovering for the very first time that he is actually far more ideological than he ever thought he was.
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You’re relentless.
I think my comment about the necessity of adopting Conservatism isn’t farfetched. That’s not to say he’s Conservative in heart.
Mittler? Few will make the connection between genocide and infanticide.
I think Romney-Ryan plan to defund a lot of things.
Big Government has been put on notice.
Mitt Romney was pro-abortion for 42 years, he fund raised for Planned Parenthood and supported them, 4 days ago he declared that he is still pro-abortion, and has been openly, throughout the campaign.
Did that knock your legs out from under you?
“And you are decidedly anti-RNC nominee.”
“I see from your posts on FR, you will be staying busy posting anti-Romney comments.”
“To me that makes you pro-Obama in the election.”
GO TO HELL.
No, not from what I have heard in last night’s speech.
By what I have heard, Mitt sure sounds like he is becoming more conservative.
maybe you will answer post 18 and whether you knew.
Well get used to it, that is what this election is all about.
From what I have heard in bits and pieces last night, yes, it sure sounds like Mitt is moving right.
Your opinion.
I was wondering if you knew, not your opinion.
“”Tell me something, and please answer, you are a Romney supporter and vetted him carefully, did you know “throughout this campaign”, that Mitt was a “health of the mother” abortion supporter?
Did any or all of you Romney supporters reading this know that, or is this a bombshell that just dropped on you?””
Mitt is sure is starting to act conservative. Some FRpers FORGET that people CAN and DO CHANGE.
Mitt will be pushed whichever way his followers are pushing him. If we tea-partiers shout more and demonstrate more and come out more, we can push him more to our side. I have no illusions about Mitt being anywhere near a Palin, but he’s pliable, so lets ply him to our side.
Ignore the trolls!
“Is Mitt Becoming More Conservative?”
Unlikely.
I mean really people have access to LexusNexis, Government.com,org,net, all his speeches, government business, private sector records, etc... people who took to the time to look into Mitt Romney know exactly who he is and what he stands for. There is no guessing about who Mitt is anymore. It is all out there with no interpretation needed.
It was a nice speech on American exceptionalism but he is not going to throw away his core beliefs out the window based on a campaign speech.
That isn't true at all, it never has been, the man has been on a single minded political road his entire life, liberal. The man is 66 years old and has never wavered from his political beliefs except when campaigning for this national position to rule the GOP, now that he has wrapped up the nomination he has already moved against the tea party and the right, and reverted back to his pro-abortion position.
Once the election is over, he will do what he wants as he reshapes the party into the image of himself and his mentor, William Weld.
You answer post 52, did you know? Or are you shocked?
Continue rolling toward a dictatorship? We’re already there...
Yeah, AUGUST 27, 2012, Mitt Romney CHANGED BACK TO HIS PRO-ABORTION POSITION.
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