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Mark Halperin called it the “most important debate moment” of Wednesday night’s CNBC debate. No — it wasn’t Rick Perry’s brain lapse — but instead, Mitt Romney’s attempt to re-frame the debate over ideological consistency.Read this excerpt of the transcript below, and then let’s discuss… HARWOOD: … as you know. Your opponents have said you switched positions on many issues. It is an issue of character, not personal, but political, you seemed to encapsulate it in the last debate when you said, “I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake.”What can you say to Republicans to persuade them that the things...

TIME FOR A NEW REPUBLICAN PARTY BASED ON CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM If Mitt Romney is the 2012 Republican nominee for President, I will not vote. Romney and political operatives like Karl Rove represent an element of the Republican Party that has become indistinguishable from the Democrats. Both parties practice elective despotism. It is a scheme, whereby Republicans and Democrats lie to voters and, through elections, compete for the authority to treat ordinary Americans as serfs; those providing the labor, producing the revenue and spilling the blood to maintain the conditions for political elites and their financial backers to plunder the economy...

Mitt Romney was firm and direct with the abortion rights advocates sitting in his office nine years ago, assuring the group that if elected Massachusetts governor, he would protect the state’s abortion laws. Then, as the meeting drew to a close, the businessman offered an intriguing suggestion — that he would rise to national prominence in the Republican Party as a victor in a liberal state and could use his influence to soften the GOP’s hard-line opposition to abortion.

According to Romney family lawyers it doesn't matter if Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, Kenya, or even Paris: Because his mother was an American (and not even Donald Trump questions that), he is eligible to be President....posted using frpa

In an effort to try to divert attention from the controversial health care legislation he enacted while Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney released the following statement via National Review last week. If I were president, on Day One I would issue an executive order paving the way for Obamacare waivers to all 50 states. The executive order would direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services and all relevant federal officials to return the maximum possible authority to the states to innovate and design health-care solutions that work best for them. (...)The key phrase here is "maximum possible authority." Let's...