Friday, February 15, 2008
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The Romney Endorsement Of Senator McCain
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Posted by:
Hugh Hewitt at
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Chris Cillizza assesses some of the reasons behind yesterday's news, as well as some interesting details of how it came to occur.
But he and many other commentators skip over the most important explanation --the one that will gather even the Arizona senator's toughest critics into his camp over time: The need for a president committed to pursuing victory in the war across each of its many fronts trumps every other difference, no matter how many or how deep. It is that simple. If you believe Senators Obama and Clinton, they fundamentally fail to understand the consequences of withdrawal in Iraq or the contours of the menace in Iran. Neither appears to grasp the jihadist threat. Senator McCain does. Because Mitt Romney cares deeply about the safety and security of the country, he was certain to endorse Senator McCain. That he did so quickly is a testament to the starkness of the choice facing America, McCain's complete commitment to victory, and Romney's understanding of the stakes.
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get a grib. He has no sense of reality & that's another reason not to vote for him. Last week on Hannity & Colmes, Karl Rove showed on an erasable board how it's impossible for Huckabee to win. IMPOSSIBLE!
Mitt Romney was farther ahead & had a realistic chance to win...the math/statistics prove it!
Huckabee obviously doesn't have the nations well being at hand like Mitt Romney does. As Romney addressed the issues of libralism & global jihad he stated in his speech to CPAC...
"...If this were only about me, I would go on. But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country."
Instead of self indulgent Huckabee "waking up to reality" I understand the bafoon hit the late night talk show circit again. He loves the limelight.
HUCKABEE'S speech should be,..."THIS IS ONLY ABOUT ME, I'M GOING ON. SINCE I ENTERED THIS RACE BECAUSE I LOVE MYSELF AND BECAUSE I LOVE MYSELF,I FEEL I MUST KEEP GOING ON FOR MYSELF."
SELF INDULGENT MIKE HUCKABEE NEEDS TO PUT HIS EGO ON A DIET
SELF INDULGENT MIKE HUCKABEE IS IN THIS FOR HIMSELF...NOT AMERICA!!!
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You Romney ones are still suffering from the same delusion that drove your candidate. Huckabee being in the race was all about Mitt Romney opposition so any lies or half truths he ran to slander Mike were okay. It was supposed to be the same for John McCain. It was all about Mitt. Sorry Mitt even in your theology you don't get to be a god until you die and I know a lot of us weren't going to grant you that here on earth.
Huckabee was never running for VP. That was a pundit line which Romney people grabbed hold of because the other lies weren't working. Gosh what a pathetic excuse for a republican candidate. Go away loser and don't worry about running in 2012, you quit when it got tough now, and the silver spoon is now tarnished. |
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the rest of the candidates. He is the Republicans' Republican. I do not take my marching orders from the Washington insiders or the Republican elite. I oppose John McCain.
Vote for Huckabee!!! |
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I have been ignoring your posts, but saw my name on one of them!! your guy lacks class. Period. I listened to Enid Green today, while driving back from Elko to SLC, and she is in total agreement about your huckster. He has told McCain (she's a gop 'super delegate - if you can call her that - ) that if Huckabee is on for his veep, she will not raise money for him, donate money for him or vote for him. GO ENID!
FYI - she's not alone. I'm with her, and others that far outnumber you will too. Your huckaboom has burst. Tell Mikey toenjoy the caymens. He can stay there for all we care. He's such a slimer. |
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In case you forgot, this is a COMMENTS section. With all those URLs, your credibility goes out the window and few people on this thread are taking you seriously. All those URLs and user comments pasted from other sites show that you let others do your thinking for you. I will scroll past your posts from now, as well. My valuable time is better spent with posters who demonstrate they do their own thinking and reasoning.
As for Mitt Romney, I supported him from day one but might support a McCain-Romney ticket in November. If McCain fights the terrorists while Romney improves the economy, I think that could work out great if they build bridges to one another. The records and backgrounds of both men convince me that they would do very well in those roles. Romney's willingness to sacrifice for a cause greater than himself is an honorable move and I'd like to see Huckabee and Paul do the same. |
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Im wondering if the latest move by John McCain to launch an attack on Obama calling on him to publicly identify the pork barrel projects he sponsored actually shows a total lack of wisdom or rather a wanting to give the Clinton campaign a boast....to what end?? If he truly feels he has the smoking gun items that can bring down the democrat, Obama why do it now? Shouldn't he be holding his fire?
Wouldn't it have been better to wait until the general election? By doing this now isn't he really helping the democrats picking and choosing who would be their best candidate? I would suggest his feet should be put in the fire and challenged and asked by the GOP, why in the world would you do this at this time, if its not for the reason that you're wanting to help and aid one side of the democratic party? And I would ask him, "And why should you want to do that John??" A wild and perhaps crazy thought but could it be that he's really and truly wanting to help engineer putting the Clintons in the White House? Without this motive do his actions really make any sense?
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Iran's oil shipping ports and throttle their economy in one month. I, ever delicate & sensitive to humanitarian concerns, am not opposed to that approach. |
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http://voteforhuckabee.blogspot.com/ |
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9 March 2005
Inside McCain's Reform Institute
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/004026.php
Corsi, Jerome R. 12 February 2008. "John McCain funded by Soros since 2001"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId= 56177
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VoiceofReason 2008-02-15 12:50
A Sub-Commander? Me?! VoR, that's so sweet! but, no, sadly I do not get my marching orders directly from Hugh.
His Vice-Presidential badness, The Cheney "suggests" to Mr. Rove, who in turn spreads the line to Commanders such as Hugh, Rush, Charles, Michelle, etc. Hugh tells off Chowdah and Generalissimo and a few others. Eventually the Word works its way down to your average Rethuglican rank and filer, such as Igor, a palsied, one-eyed, hunchback living in his mommie's basement.
I get my marching orders from Igor's cabana boy.
But that big promotion can't be more than a few years away.
Anyway, fine, Obama has made a few statements of potential policy beyond, "Please, sir, may I have another?" I'd say that the rest all fall under the general rubric of "I am my brother's keeper, and I am my sister's keeper" which I understand to be a constant theme for the Senator from on high.
Addressing the particular one you mention, his economic policy, let's see...
1. Increase tax rates leading to an economic downturn, increased unemployment, and reduced government revenues.
2. Increase federal regulation of every aspect of individual life that he can think of... you know, for the common good, and all.
3. Hugh--umm, excuse me, hero worship--Huge increases in spending on programs designed to make individuals more dependent on government and less dependent on their own abilities and resources.
So, confiscate, regulate, and enervate the American individual to his limits and simultaneously vertically asymptote the national debt "for our own good." Yup. Just the ticket for the man who would be my keeper.
Assuming his foreign overlords allow him to keep anything (even his head) at all. |
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[Akennas on February 15, 2008 8:27 PM]"the ultra-leftist Concord Monitor editorial board"
Concord Monitor: Romney is a phony
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=222b33a4-9a6e-4a6f-8a4 4-43c2fb31f842%40i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com
"the disgraced knuckle-dragging bigot Gregg Jackson"
"Disgraced" how, exactly?
Lawyers, Leaders and Activists Issue Warning to Voters:
"Conservative Elites" Covering Up Romney's Betrayals on Marriage, Life, Children and Constitution.
http://www.cpoma.org/blog/?p=147
“The Mitt Romney that governed Massachusetts was a man totally without the core principles that Mormons espouse,” said Gregg Jackson, a talk radio host in Boston and author of Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies. "This man is throwing tens of millions of his own dollars into projecting a conservative, pro-family, pro-traditional marriage, pro-life image since he decided to run for president. He wasn’t even a real economic conservative, if you scratch beneath his smooth talking points. He’s the Wizard of Oz, a fake. I’m a professional and Romney fooled me for a good while.”
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A trustworthy, honest leader!!! |
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a Republican's Republican!!! |
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A natural leader for Republicans!!! |
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I have liberated myself from Synthesizer. It's a waste of time trying to decipher what his message is so I'm just scrolling past his posts. If I may make a suggestion, leave him to drool on himself. |
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he, or it, used to spend all its time bashing Romney. Now it seems focused on Romney and McCain. So who could be behind this, the only man left, good ole Huck. |
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It's called cyborg incest - Huckabot 3000's are notorious for engaging in that sordid activity. It is filed under blog-on-blog crime. |
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You are increasingly amusing! Like the Huckabot 3000 that you are, you have no common sense, can't be turned off, and have no human shame, otherwise you would be blushing at what a complete fool you are making of yourself. Clueless to boot - or should that be reboot?
And cut-and-pasting articles by the ultra-leftist Concord Monitor editorial board and the disgraced knuckle-dragging bigot Gregg Jackson doesn't exactly burnish your credentials! |
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I went to some of your links. Are these other blogs? What is the information I am supposed to get from this? |
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[Akennas on February 15, 2008 8:03 PM]"it is nothing but an empty automaton, cutting-and-pasting with no heart and no brain"
26 January 2008. "A Mormon 'Terminator'"
http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20 080126/OPINION/801260310/1017/RSS06
Mitt Romney is kind of like those cyborgs from the Terminator movies who can alter their appearance at will.
Seriously, if it were suddenly revealed that Romney is actually a "terminator" from the future sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor so her son would not be born, I wouldn't bat an eyelash.
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If Hillary Clinton continues to gain among women voters because women want a woman in the White House, I swear, Romney will transgender.
Jackson, Gregg. 4 February 2008. "Why I'm Voting for Mike Huckabee"
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GreggJackson/2008/02/04/ why_im_voting_for_mike_huckabee?page=full&comments=true
Mitt Romney is not only _not_ a conservative on
any issue, he's _not even on the left-right
spectrum_. He has no beliefs. No principles. No
backbone. No soul. He is a soulless creature who
will do and say anything to get elected.
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Corsi, Jerome R. 12 February 2008. "John McCain funded by Soros since 2001"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId= 56177
In 2001, McCain founded the Alexandria, Va.-based Reform Institute as a vehicle to receive funding from George Soros' Open Society Institute and Teresa Heinz Kerry's Tides Foundation and several other prominent non-profit organizations.
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The Reform Institute regularly has supported McCain in various legislative efforts, including on campaign finance reform, global warming and "comprehensive immigration reform," all efforts widely opposed by many in the party's conservative base.
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According to FrontPage Magazine, Teresa Heinz Kerry has provided more than $4 million to the Tides Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by anti-war activist Drummond Pike in 1976 with a history of funding causes such as abortion, homosexual-rights activism and open borders.
what are McCain's dealings with Soros?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1158688259.816638.2510 70%40k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com
this November, vote for POWER for secularist leftist Soros
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1160841250.771887.1844 20%40f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com
don't vote, conservatives, and support the NYT & abortion & jihadism
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1161270398.825774.6087 0%40m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com
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Synthesizer just keep proving me right - it is nothing but an empty automaton, cutting-and-pasting with no heart and no brain. Will someone out there PLEASE flick off its power switch? It's good to save energy, you know. |
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The state of denial the Huckabots are in is remarkable. It reminds me of some mediocre baseball team that keeps yelping, "We aren't out of this yet!" when the leading team's magic number is down to one or two games.
If you are pinning your hopes on Texas, go ahead, but it is not a winner-take-all state. McCain will pick up the lion's share of delegates between now and then. March 4th will push him over the threshold. As I've said before, McCain wasn't even my fourth or fifth choice, but REALITY CHECK TIME! |
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[MaineConservative on February 15, 2008 7:41 PM]"I will not read another of your posts."
Suit yourself.
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[Danny on February 15, 2008 6:21 PM]"Mitt put his money where his mouth is."
Indeed.
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[jea on February 4, 2008 3:30 PM]"Please...
(3) donate - even small amounts help."
Doesn't Romney have enough millions? Donations to the Romney campaign only go to paying off the campaign's debt to Romney, which as of the end of 2007 owed Romney $35 million-- see
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008
How did Romney lose to Huckabee in Iowa?
After outspending Huckabee in 2007 by a factor of 12 to 1?
Romney spent in 2007 $86,068,239.
Huckabee spent in 2007 $7,090,087.
Source:
http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/index.asp?cycle=2008
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I'm begging you. Please give it a rest. You look as delusional as your guy. |
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Even if I had not already voted, I would never cast a vote in Huckabees direction. Period. All the 'soundbites' you spammed, are not even true. He's not principeled. He's not honest. Plus, he's a bit ticked that Romney has so much class, and he lacks it, that McCain has now cast him aside for veep, and no amount of foot kissing will bring McCain back. At last. He saw the light! How about huck stop splitting hairs and do what all classy folks do - drop it, and go home.
vote McCain/Romney. Cant beat that one. |
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It's over for me. I will not read another of your posts. You make absolutely no sense. I hope you have a "helper" at your home who can occasionally wipe the oatmeal off of your chin. |
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Vote Huckabee!!! And continue to tie up the GOP so they have even LESS of a chance to come together and win in the fall!
Sorry, buddy, the miracle isn't gonna happen! With Romney throwing his support to McCain, the fat lady is about to blow out your man's eardrums - even if he IS in the Cayman Islands (wassup wit dat?) |
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Donate a little money too!!! |
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A good and honest man!!!! |
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A man who sticks to his principles!!!! |
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A humble, gracious leader!!!! |
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Huckabee is the best hope for America!!! |
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We all have a responsibility to vote. It's unfathomable that one would thumb their nose at the tremendous sacrifice our forefathers, grandfathers, fathers, etc. have given to assure us that right. It is a sacred right and a sacred responsibility.
I have serious problems with John McCain, and I have said before that I don't believe I could vote for him today and still sleep with myself; however, I don't have to make that determination today - I have many months to decide.
One thing I will guarantee, however, I will vote. I know enough about RackOrama and Ms Rodham that I will not vote for either. I am actually hoping McCain can somehow find a way to convince me that he is worthy of my sacred vote. |
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I really have to wonder if all the people here saying and encouraging others not to vote are not just a bunch of trolls. Make the conservatives think not voting will be the popular thing to do this election. A "repress the vote" movement from the dems.
Here's a question for all you real conservatives. When Jane Fonda starts stumping for the democratic candidate, will you still sit it out, will you vote for her candidate. Who's side will you be on Hanoi Jane's or John McCain's. |
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Pro-Voting does.
State your case whereby Obama or Hillary would be better than McCain?
A "No" vote for McCain is a "Yes" vote for the Dems.
It doesn't get much clearer than that. |
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Thank you, Akennas
We also supported Romney and delivered the majority of our delegates for him in Michigan.
His whole family and extended family is a class act as we still have Romney's in Michigan.
Mitt put his money where his mouth is. The media tried to turn it into a negative, but it reinforces his sincere desire and committment to get us back on the right conservative course.
The flip-flopping accusations were also nonsensical buzzwords. I admire anyone who learns from mistakes and makes the right decisions based on new found convictions.
It is called conservative maturity.
I commend anyone who gets involved in the process to the degree that you are. I, also, was a delegate in the 80's & some of the 90's.
I will be running again this year. We can make a difference. |
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Great post. Everyone knows I am a rabid Romney supporter - I was even county chair for him here in Georgia, a level of participation I had never before attempted (I'm proud to say my county went for Mitt!). I was disappointed by the course of the campaign, and devastated when he bowed out at CPAC: I was ready to work all the way to the convention for him, and vowed I would not only never work for McCain, I would work against him. But Mitt has shown such wonderful grace and class in the ensuing few weeks that I have repented of my rabidity. I will work for the ticket this fall, whether or not Mitt is the VP nominee, because the stakes are just too high. I thank Mitt for the reality check, and suggest many posting on this blog should take a long hard look at the possible results of their bitter intransigence toward the party's apparent standard-bearer. Do not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, because that will only let evil prevail. |
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It must have been a day of great rejoicing in the Synthesizer family when you finally figured out how to post internet links. Since everything on the net is absolutely true and objective, your're now set for life, and you can do it over and over and over and over and over again.
As for the Mitt-hating "Truthseeker," I would simply like to say that the character-assassination really ought to stop. Disagree with Romney all you like, but to slander him as nothing but self-centered (when his thousands and thousands of uncompensated hours of church and community service eloquently demonstrate otherwise) is flatly contemptible. It's a miracle that ANY decent people put up with this sort of malevolent nonsense in order to enter public service. |
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It's baaaaaaack! (I say "It" because I do not believe Synthesizer is a flesh and blood human being. I haven't seen any evidence it has a single brain cell capable of penning an original thought...much like many Huckabee supporters.)
If CDubber is correct, Synthesizer is raking in the quarters. If it is not human, maybe it needs an oil change, or perhaps a motherboard swapout.
Everything Synthesizer has posted TIME after TIME after TIME after TIME has been refuted TIME after TIME after TIME after TIME. Then again, machines are tireless, humans are not. |
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You simply CANNOT have national security if you will not defend your own borders or enforce your own laws. Foreign nationals numbering in the thousands are entering our country at will daily. John McCain has done and will do NOTHING to stop it. Don't believe me? Ask Juan Hernandez!
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I agree with the column written by Chris Cillizza.
We started with 9 candidates. Most of us had strong feelings about one candidate over the others. I'm a conservative competitive passionate person that hates to lose. My preferred candidate is not going to be the republican nominee.
I now look at the stark differences between McCain and Obama (I should throw Hillary's name in here also, but if she manipulates the process now to get the nomination, we will have an even better chance of victory in November).
At least the republican bickering is/should be over now that we have an apparent nominee.
Things should and will get ugly as the Dems duke it out a while.
We need to keep reminding ourselves of the differences -
Natonal Security
Pro-active on terrorism
Fiscal Responsibility
No Earmarking
Pro-Life
Pro-Family
Not subservient to the United Nations
Judges
(Not just the supreme court. Pres Reagan and Pres Bush have made a tremendous difference in the 100's of appointments that has curtailed the out-of-control proliferation of frivilous lawsuits).
Where in the list above will life under an Obama administration with a rubber stamp Congress be any better??????
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Are Mormons OK with the appointing of open homosexuals to positions of authority?
Jacobs, Ethan. 3 March 2005. "Mitt Romney’s secret gay history!" _Bay Windows_
http://www.baywindows.com/index.php?ch=columnists&sc=the_ro mney_files
Romney also continued Weld’s tradition of appointing openly gay people to key positions in his administration. One of his first cabinet appointments was Daniel Grabauskas, who Romney chose to serve in his cabinet as secretary of the Executive Office of Transportation and Construction.
The new governor’s transition team also included several openly gay people, including Grabauskas, former lieutenant governor candidate and current president of the national Log Cabin Republicans Patrick Guerriero, and former Mass. Log Cabin president Mark Goshko.
Other gay Romney appointees include John Wagner, commissioner of the state welfare department, Mitchell Adams, executive director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, and Jonathan Spampinato, a member of Romney’s Diversity and Equal Opportunity Council. Two out lesbian appointees were fired by the governor shortly after getting legally married to their same-sex partners: Ardith Wieworka, former commissioner of Child Care Services, who was let go last summer, and Katherine Abbott, former commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, who was asked to resign last month after her department was blamed for not adequately clearing sidewalks
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He [Romney] offered political and financial support to two openly gay Republican candidates for state representative in 2004, Richard Babson in the Eighth Suffolk District and Michael Motzkin of the Ninth Essex District, who both lost. Both candidates were promoted as part of the Romney Reform Team.
Romney judges
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=9380a1ac-650e-4e62-a8a 8-cc86e06ca2a1%40q77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com
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Do you approve of Romney's handling of the Boy Scouts in the lead-up to the 2002 Winter Olympics?
25 January 2008
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080125/NATION/22254793 2
Perry vs. Romney
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, has written a book about the Boy Scouts, and he includes a less-than-flattering story about Mitt Romney, suggesting that the Republican presidential hopeful bowed to the homosexual rights lobby during the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
Here is a portion of what Mr. Perry had to say about Mr. Romney in the new book, "On My Honor: Why the American Values of the Boy Scouts Are Worth Fighting For," due out in February from Stroud & Hall Publishers:
"The ACLU's 'fingerprints' aren't on every effort to deny the Boy Scouts access to public facilities and events, though chances are they cheer when kindred groups initiate such efforts. Take the case of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. In the planning stages, when it was faltering financially, Mitt Romney stepped in as president and chief executive officer. He soon straightened things out and set plans in motion to make it a success.
"In 2000 he put out a published call for volunteers ... The Great Salt Lake Council of the BSA, the largest in the nation, with some 80,000 Scouts and 35,000 adult leaders, answered Romney's call for volunteers."
"Some time that fall, however, the Scouts were advised that they were no longer welcome to participate. Chief Scout Executive for the Council, Marty Latimer said, 'We don't understand what's wrong. They just don't want us and won't talk to us.' He said that Romney had not returned calls from several Scout executives seeking an explanation. The Council's President R. Lawry Hunsaker expressed surprise that Romney had ignored Scout leaders for he had once been a Scout and a Scout leader himself. 'We can't get him to return our calls.' "
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CDubber, are you OK with Multimillionaire Mormon Mitt's forcing Catholic hospitals to dispense chemical abortion pills?
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Helman, Scott. 9 December 2005. "Romney says no hospitals are exempt from pill law
He reverses stand on Plan B"
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/12/09/romney _says_no_hospitals_are_exempt_from_pill_law/
Reilly, seeking the Democratic nomination in the governor's race, took credit yesterday, as did other Democrats and reproductive rights organizations, for pressuring Romney to abandon a policy they said would have only burdened victims.
''I think we're all very happy that the administration has backed off on this," Reilly told reporters yesterday at a press conference with representatives of Planned Parenthood and NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. ''This administration was on a road that would have made it worse for women in that position."
Romney flips, & backs forcing Catholic hospitals to dispense morning-after abortion pill
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e6675e4-6f6e-4c84-b1a 1-5d3a743d140e%4021g2000hsj.googlegroups.com
Fournier, Deacon Keith. 1/26/2008. "Let Huckabee Speak, Let Huckabee Run… and check his pockets" _Catholic Online_
http://www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=2659 1
....I found him [Huckabee] to be the most clearly pro-life, pro-family and pro-poor candidate in the current Republican field.
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[dbarney]"I am surprised to the see all the Mormons saying how much they wish Huck would duck out and get lost."
Romney supporters lashing out at Huckabee is quite understandable:
Early on, Romney saw that Rudy and McCain didn't have the support of conservatives.
So, Romney decided to reinvent himself as a conservative so as to obtain the support of conservatives.
The phony Romney failed to make the sale with rank & file conservatives.
Huckabee, a genuine conservative, came along and got the support of many conservatives. If Huckabee hadn't risen dramatically in level of support, then Romney would have had a much better chance of obtaining the support of rank & file conservatives presented with the prospect of a McCain nomination.
Romney fooled many upper echelon social conservatives, e.g. Dobson, but he didn't fool the electorate.
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8 February 2008. Dobson's Huckabee Endorsement
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctliveblog/archives/2008/ 02/citizen_dobsons.html
Thanks, Hugh, for neglecting to tell Dobson about, oh, RomneyCare's $50 abortion co-pays, Romney's appointing homosexual activists as judges, Romney's appointing at least 8 open homosexuals to key positions in his administration, Romney's forcing Catholic hospitals to dispense chemical abortions, Romney's support even as late as mid-December 2007 for using and killing human embryos for research purposes, etc., etc., etc.
Romney owes talk radio debt of gratitude
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.republicans/msg /f66e6dad0487ed0f
RomneyCare funds MA abortions
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.republicans/msg /b8874f14563f4df0
Romney flips, & backs forcing Catholic hospitals to dispense morning-after abortion pill
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3e6675e4-6f6e-4c84-b1a 1-5d3a743d140e%4021g2000hsj.googlegroups.com
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Townhall Reader: "Enough with the lame spam, Synthesizer."
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Hey, even brainless losers gotta make a living...
You earned enough for a Big Mac today, Synthesizer! Now you won't have to dig through Mom's fridge.
What will you do when Schmuckabee is out of the race? Ah, there's always Viagra spam... |
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Wow! I hear everyone, people don't like McCain he's too liberal,Romney's a winer, Huckabee is a bigot! Wow, they all have one thing in common, they are human, and like all of us they live in America!! The one thing I can say about all of them is all though human , they all seem like good men with good qualities too! I am still on the fence to choose a candidate, but I still have a choice. I do believe in america we all have the right to vote as long as there is a choice and last time I checked there still is! I consider myself conservative and believe in the constitution. I dont beleive that Wa. or the GOP has the right to force who I can vote for. That is one thing Mike Huckabee says right. Hmm, I'll have to think more about that!!!! |
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but he is what we have. I believe he could easily be on a Napoleonic mission. What a choice, take the risk we'll surrender, or take the risk we'll get carried away . . . and wind up at Waterloo.
Romney had to support the Party's nominee. Romney is a Republican. Surrender is not an option. |
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I am surprised to the see all the Mormons saying how much they wish Huck would duck out and get lost. I am Mormon and a huge Romney supporter. I did not appreciate Huck's treatment of Romney's religion. I was very disappointed in Romney's campaign suspension. However, I would support Huck ANY DAY over McCain. Huck is a populist, but at least he is socially conservative. McCain is a pro-war socialist. That is scary! |
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Because- he will, immediately if elected, open the borders to anyone in the world who wants to march across- terrorists, Mexicans, anyone. And that war, the invasion across our southern border, is the most immediate threat we have. They are already here, not half the globe away from us- 15-20 million, bankrupting the treasury, our medical and education systems, destroying the environment of the border states, etc.
If McCain won't fight that immediate and winnable war, what makes anyone believe he will do anything else to preserve the US???
Let him TODAY demand the double fence on the border be accelerated toward completion by mid-2009. We are paying him a senator's salary- he could earn it today, instead of promising what he would do later. |
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"By their fruits, ye shall know them."
I did not say anything bad about hucks kids. Only that he has a daughter working on his campaign, and a son is is MIA. |
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Well pray for McCain then. Zell Miller completely turned around after we prayed for him in Georgia!!! |
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No and I don't consider them minions....but fellow Republicans, who we need to help us beat Nasticrats. |
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Sorry Mr. Hewitt...
McCain is against pouring water over the faces of the terrorists for vital information to save lives.
It is no wonder why Liberals, even commenting on your blog, desperately pushed and voted for the Senator of 24 years.
McCain was wrong on the Gulf War, Kosovo, and actually demeaned Sec. Rumsfeld for personal political gain.
This is not going to be a very strong CIC in the GWOT, and might actually be just as bad as those on the Democrat Side.
He is already pushing a Gasoline Tax to address global warming...
The McCain Folly is a disaster, and many will lose credibility trying to sell the old Keating 5 Member.
Mr. Romney shows the class that Senator McCain lacks.
Real Republicans, better build up the sound Representation in the House and Senate, to prepare for either LIBERAL Senator who follows populist fashion entering the WH.
McCain is a disaster... |
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And Principled man. For the sake of party unity, especially when McCain faces great profound doubt among consertives over his record on stem cell reseach, immigration, global warming, tax cuts.
Romney, is conservative, warm, charming, principled, articulate, Reaganesque, and most important he is not Washington politicion , and the conservative base trust and love him, most positive factor to have him on McCain side.
God Bless Romney. He reminds me of the great knight that falls on the sword for the good of the cause.
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Where did that come from?
Obama (finally) did lay down some specific policy proposals, and if Americans didn't know him before, they should take note.
This is THE most liberal agenda I have ever seen, starting with that global poverty act. I hope America wakes up and looks beyond his rock star appeal and see him for what he is - beyond liberal - socialist! |
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We are the hope of the future,"
We can "remake this world as it should be."
Believe in me and I shall redeem not just you but your country -- nay, we can become "a hymn that will heal this nation, repair this world, and make this time different than all the rest."
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS HE SAYING?...NOTHING. Sounds like his minister's writing his speaches.
Obamas "cultish" rants are rather creepy. There's no plan of action only emotional rhetoric to the downtrodden. America thrives on substance, something we can grasp, a plan of action.
Please read:Obama, the Platitude Salesman
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, February 15, 2008
THIS IS IN THE TOWNHALL COLUMNIST SECTION!!!
A MUST READ.
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Have they (Huckster and his minions) not judged all of us? |
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Obama,"We must do whatever is necessary to end gun violence..."
End the 2nd Ammendment? |
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Do you really want to judge the family members and relationships of the Huckabees? |
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Do you just make stuff up out of whole cloth? Or has someone told you these things and, like Hugh, you just regurgitate them.
Look, if you disagree with Obama's policies, fair enough. But dont repeat the tired old line that he has made no substantive policy statements -- particularly when he had a major economic policy address just this week. I suggest you do your own due diligence and steer clear of the propoganda. His website is replete with quite boring substantive policy statements that go into details ad nauseam.
Again, you probably will disagree with almost every position Obama takes. But at least your disagreement will be an honest one as opposed to the canard about him having no positions. |
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future!
As Romney stated in his speech to CPAC & the nation "...If this were only about me, I would go on. But I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country."
Self-Indulgent Huckabigot is proving quite the opposite of himself...HUCKABEE'S speech to America should be,..."THIS IS ONLY ABOUT ME, I'M GOING ON. SINCE I ENTERED THIS RACE BECAUSE I LOVE MYSELF AND BECAUSE I LOVE MYSELF,I FEEL I MUST KEEP GOING ON FOR MYSELF."
SELF INDULGENT MIKE HUCKABEE NEEDS TO PUT HIS EGO ON A DIET!
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When Muslim's flood over the border at a rate of a million per year and demand healthcare, education, and the right to vote, only then will the threat of Islam "trump other difference[s], no matter how many or how deep."
It is that simple. |
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Exactly! I walk beside as well - well maybe a little ahead once in a while (just kidding). I would be interested if anyone else saw the clip. I would love Fox to resurect it and just show how gallant he really is.
As for Romney, he is an honest descent man. What he was fighting was the huck's religionists. He governed as a conservative, and I will always believe that he was always prolife.
I guess Mormons are the only religion you can make fun of and have the rest of the country with you. It's hard for any of us to understand. The people I know are honorable and would help anyone, they give of themselves and their means. We don't presume to call you not a Christian, and we can't understand why you presume to judge us.
PC, Queen, etc., all know what huck was trying to do with his question to the times reporter. It doesn't take a genius, and we all know that he spoke at an anti-mormon rally in Salt Lake. It doesn't fool us.
So goodbye huckelberry. |
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He and McCain hate each other. The only reason Mitt held his nose and "endorsed" McCain is that he hopes McCain will toss him a bone - as in running mate spot. That would be a true laugh a minute. Mitt only does what will benefit Mitt, period. Empty suit! |
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Hugh, when will you see that we have been had? I hope you can resurrect your own credibility and career from this fiasco, but imo, supporting McCain is not the way to do it.
We believed in Romney or, more accurately, we WANTED to believe in Romney. But in the end, all he gave us were words and more words. He caved in so fast, I wonder if he and his family received threats. I wonder if McCain has something on all these other candidates who fold and then "endorse" him.
Romney may be a "good man," but I truly wonder how he became a multi-millionaire because his campaign was one mistake after another, crowned with this unnecessary capitulation to McCain. He doesn't have his finger on the pulse of the public the way Huck does, nor does he connect the way Dubya does. Face it, the presidency has been dumbed down. America doesn't want a smarty-pants.
As for what Romney wants, or wanted, it's clearly not the presidency or what is best for America. He never got off the defensive and his ads were lame.
I will never again support any candidate. Why should I fight for them when they won't fight for themselves and for what is right?
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That there aren't more people like Romney willing to put their differences with McCain away for the good of the country. I still stand by my statement that anyone who would sit idly by and let the Democrats win in November is no conservative; it's nice to see Romney may be one afterall following his comments and endorsement yesterday. |
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Hugh, when will you see that we have been had? I hope you can resurrect your own credibility and career from this fiasco, but imo, supporting McCain is not the way to do it.
We believed in Romney or, more accurately, we WANTED to believe in Romney. But in the end, all he gave us were words and more words. He caved in so fast, I wonder if he and his family received threats. I wonder if McCain has something on all these other candidates who fold and then "endorse" him.
Romney may be a "good man," but I truly wonder how he became a multi-millionaire because his campaign was one mistake after another, crowned with this unnecessary capitulation to McCain. He doesn't have his finger on the pulse of the public the way Huck does, nor does he connect the way Dubya does. Face it, the presidency has been dumbed down. America doesn't want a smarty-pants.
As for what Romney wants, or wanted, it's clearly not the presidency or what is best for America. He never got off the defensive and his ads were lame.
I will never again support any candidate. Why should I fight for them when they won't fight for themselves and for what is right?
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I strongly preferred Mitt Romney, and see lots to be unhappy about in McCain.
But let's get real.
A rapid pull-out from Iraq would be disastrous, not only for Iraq, but for America's security. Simply disastrous. Catastrophic.
And that is what Obama wants.
This issue is simply too big and too important -- potentially for generations to come -- for conservatives to sulk and pout and help to deliver the presidency to the Democrats.
Moreover, couple the issue of the conflict with radical jihadist Islam with the matter of appointments to the Supreme Court, another area in which the damage inflicted by a Democratic administration could be severe and could last for generations, and it becomes obvious: Obama (or Clinton) simply must be defeated.
And if you aren't going to defeat the Democrats with Senator McCain, just who is it, precisely, that you're going to defeat them with? With that proven vote-getter Ron Paul -- who, anyway, wants rapid withdrawal from Iraq himself? Or, perhaps, with the Christian leader and student of miracles, not math (or foreign policy), Mike Huckabee?
It's time to get serious and to grow up. This isn't a game.
(I would, by the way, be much happier about Senator McCain's candidacy if he would select Mitt Romney as his running mate.) |
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would have never let me walk down steep stairs alone. Something about them mormon men... they know how to treat a lady! I don't walk behind my husband. I walk beside him. I feel sorry for Janet Huckabee. The kids? One daughter is helping. The son is off the radar as he's not the best type of kid you want hanging around cameras. |
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As I was watching Fox last night, and Huckabee was on a stage somewhere with his wife, he said his piece, whatever it was, and walked off stage with his wife. The fellow on the tv was still speaking and you could see huckelberry, behind him, walk over to the stairs and proceed down, never once looking back at his wife to give her a hand coming down the apparantely steep stairs. Even at the bottom he didn't turn and help her, just walked off and his wife, with some difficulty, tried to make her way down them alone. There was no comment and I'm not sure who all saw it, but I thought about his opinion of women (subservient etc.,) and wondered when off camera if this is the way he really is.
You would never see Romney leave his wife to navigate steep stairs alone, never, NEVER, NEVER.
Why don't we see the huck's kids out supporting him?
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Romney is a true Grown-Up in a world of midgets: competed hard, but now with the primaries over, puts the party's (and country's) interest first, instead of pursuing ego trips like Huckabee. I'd like to see him as VP candidate. |
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Conservatives and GOP indeed part ways, Pasadena Phil. I couldn't agree more. Romney's endorsement is a disappointment, as are those from other "republicans".
I will not only NOT support McCain, but I am strongly considering launching a pro-conservative, anti-McCain website. |
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If you care about conservatism, don't vote for either candidate of the United Establishment Party. Didn't song but same results once elected and they don't like YOU. |
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Romney is on McCain's short, short list for veep, and Huckaberry is left completly off. Well, at least McCain (71) knows math. |
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People may ask how Romney and McCain can attack each other so flagrantly the week before and then cozy up today.
Besides politics, I think Romney is acknowledging what most people know to be true. Romney is a good man who ran a very bad campaign. In the end politics is just way to complex to over strategize and that is what he and his advisors tried to do. (Not as bad a Rudy though) Now he has made smart move after smart move. He had a rousing CPAC speech, followed by an endorsement of the front runner isolating Huck. He is looking to 2012 and building up support in his party across the spectrum.
McCain for his part is playing political calculus. I think that is why Huck is fighting. I think that he came to a conclusion that McCain would likely shut him out of the VP spot in favor of a more main-line conservative. By building up support he can say he has a real constituency.
What I ask though is what really are the issues sep. them. Amendments for abortion and gays? Those two ideas usually are put under the dreaded "fairy tale" label. Judges is where the issue is at. And then stem cells. We really can't build a campaign about an irrelevent issue now can we.
McCain is def. a values conservative. Even better he will employ a true road map to a pro-life pro-marriage world instead of these red meat carryings on.
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You know, I did assume you were a guy. I don't know why I would assume that. I have a brother in Oregon - what a beautiful state. I used to live in Idaho, where I met many LDS and have no higher regard for any group anywhere. As a whole, they were the most Christian living people I have ever known. Totally selfless, service oriented people. I have been the recipient many times of that service.
I know there will always be people like Mourn and Rushashambles who denigrate Romney and think he won't be a future force and standard bearer for the conservative movement, but I respectfully think they are wrong and that Romney is the future. |
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I came to be a Romney supporter. I will hold my nose and vote for McCain in November. If McCain can prevent economic collapse and/or a nuclear detonation in this country in the next 4 to 8 years, we may live to fight another day (Deo Volente). It was interesting to hear of Huckabee's reaction on Cavuto. I think the governor still has some serious sour grapes regarding Romney. Time to exhibit some of the Grace that you claim to have received governor. |
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I completely agree with you, I find it hilarious that you inferred from my posts that I support a goober like Huckabee. I happen to think Romney is much smarter, more worldly and experienced and infinitely more fit to run the country than an idiot like Huckabee.
At least I would have thought that if he hadn't tried to pass himself off as everything he is not and if he hadn't started just saying whatever the people closest to him at any given time wanted to hear.
I have a lot of respect for what Romney has accomplished as a governor, businessman and as the savior of the Olympics in my home town of Salt Lake City. But if there is one thing most Americans don't like, its a fake. They can spot one a mile away. And that's what Romney's "new" far right-wing persona is, dead-to-rights fake. Its why he lost in every state where he didn't have a constituency already biased to him for reasons of geography or faith.
So, sorry, your attempts to assume that I am critical of Romney because I support someone else are completely wrong. That's how you think, not me. I'm merely pointing out why he lost and why he will continue to lose as long as he continues to be so transparent he could keep a salad fresh for a week. |
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Wanna talk fake? I read a pro-huckaberry article about his trip, where the guy (from his staff) said that huckleberry often has trouble paying his mortgage. (Which was why he was jetting off to the Caymens to hauck his book). HE LIVES IN ARKANSAS where housing prices are low. If he can't even balance his family budget to fit in a mortgage payment each month, you think I should trust him with the country's budget? NOT.
The race is over for Huck. Go home. Get a job so you can support your family in the style they want to be accustomed to. Maybe it's time for him to focus his hate to Romney on something positive - like finishing his education so he can get a job like Romney had. Oh never mind. To do what Romeny did (and still fulfill his duties as a lay-leader in his church), taks braincells. Something Huck lacks. |
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Huckabee has two problems that cloud his future:
1. He has no class
2. He has a habit of telling lies
3. He is a practiced and slick "cheap shot" artist
Huckabee's lack of grace and class is self-evident and I won't comment further.
As for his lying, Huckabee has claimed, even as recently as yesterday, that Romney has attacked him personally.
The facts are that while Romney has publicized Huckabee's past actions as Governor with well documented historical facts, Romney has never said a word about Huckabee as a person, a family breadwinner as a preacher, or as a "Christian Leader". If you can cite to a personal attack Romney has made on Huckabee or on his religion, post it here.
Huckabee, on the other hand, has attacked Romney’s religion [comment to the NY Times on what Mormons ‘believe’, back-handedly intimating Romney is not a Christian as though Romney doesn’t believe in Christ as his personal Savior].
Huckabee has attacked Romney’s character [referring to Romney as ‘the guy that would fire you at your job’, claiming that Romney has attacked when Romney hasn’t, intimating that Romney is a liar]
Huckabee has attacked Romney as a family breadwinner [denigrating Romney’s business success and the wealth that flowed therefrom].
The only thing Huckabee hasn’t yet done is mock Romney’s wife for having MS.
These are the facts, as hard as they might be for you Huckabee supporters to admit. Huckabee has shown himself to be a disgrace as a candidate, and as a person.
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Thank you, I've enjoyed your comments over the past weeks. You are spot on! |
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Non mormons. Sorry. I know were a HUGE group of people, but were not that huge! |
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Mormons who voted for Romney from CA to Fla. He would have won West VA, until your 'honorable' guy pulled his fast trick. And you might want to E-mail Huckleberry and tell him that Romeny threw in the towell. He's STILL running against him.
Thinking voters voted for Romeny and even weighed out McCain. Huckleberry voters, from my experience on this borard, are one issue voters. And that issue is religion. |
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Welcme Sis! I'm LDS mom from CA, transplanted to 'zion' (not really, but housing prices work out better for stay home's).
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Security says it all...run an open borders lump of meat against a couple of socialists. The lemmings will have no choice but to vote for McCain. Sorry. Not going to be force fed a bad candidate. McCain may prosecute the war well (assuming he doesn't change course on that as well) but he is worthless on border security and on giving terrorist civil rights. Hillary and Obama may not want to fight the war on terror, but we can exert more pressure on them as a minority than we can exert on McCain as members of his party when he veers off and does something stupid. No, I will not take the lesser of two evils choice. I am not going to play this game with the GOP. No vote for McCain. They will either produce a candidate who is worth voting for, or they can go without me, win, or lose, I don't care. It's all a loss for me at this point. |
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The thinking voters wrote off Romney, that's why he's not in the race.
Let's see, he won the Mountain west where his Mormon constituency is. He won his home state, he won the state where he was governor. He won a couple more where no one campaigned because of lack of delgates, like Maine and Alaska. The two states he won with consequential populations and correspondingly large numbers of delegates and electoral votes were Michigan and Massachusettes, states he was pretty much guarnateed to win.
Basically, he outspent everyone else in the race to win the states he would have won if he didn't spend a penny. And that's with the entire conservative talk-radio machine behind him.
Tell me again how I should "get used to it"? If you nominate that pompous, phony, flip-flopping stuffed-suit again, you'll see what you have to get used to: losing.
Ironically, had Romney run as the moderate, bipartisan, fiscally-conservative, socially liberal tolerant governor of Massachusettes that he actually is, he probably would have won the Presidency. |
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So how does this work, exactly?
"Yes, John McCain blatantly and knowingly lied about my position on Iraq in an 11th hour dirty trick that possibly cost me Florida, the nomination, and the presidency. Yet he is definitely the right snake in the grass, er, *man* to lead this country and he has my full support."
Politics is a weird business. |
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Me too. I studied all the candidates seriously and determined a long time ago that Romney was our best candidate. What took talk radio so long?
It was painfully obvious watching the uncomfortable McCain yesterday that we are nominating the wrong guy. What a shame!
Maine, I'm am LDS mom from Oregon. A lot of people on TH think I'm a guy, just thought you might like to know. |
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Have written off Huckabee...a long time ago. That sound you are hearing from his campaign? It's the sound of his veep run imploding, while Romney star continues to rise. Huckabee can take some class lessons from Romney. But Huck is so filled with hate for Romeny - because of Religion - that he can't see the forest for the trees.
Huck, enjoy the Caymens. We truly won't miss you being gone. Your a bitter man, and your bitterness and hate will do you in. |
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Based on her previous posts, she is not worth responding to. Or he, whatever.
Move along, nothing to see here . . . |
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To have any chance of a future run for the presidency, let's face it, he had to endorse the GOP candidate. I, however, am one who believes it was the war on terror that was the final motivator. He is deeply concerned for the safety of the country, and he did the right thing for the country, but it also undeniably helps his future.
I have been a Romney supporter from day one and in my opinion he is the best hope as the future standard-bearer for our party. He never lied to me
Mourn and Rushashamoron, you guys may not like it but you better get used to it. |
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What PC and Hughbert are out to lunch on is how the GOP will view this endorsement thing. Because either Mitt is oblivous to the fact that the drive bys of talkradio had written off Huckabee and he still got more of the conservative vote than McCain. Or he is just showing his true colors as the previous comment suggests. I think it is the latter. Romney is not a conservative he is a RINO. He is a brilliant businessman so are alot of liberals. He was the leader of a small state that did show economic gains. However all 50 states showed gains in that time period his were on the lower end. He is for welfare-healthcare, and the minute talkradio endorsed him he bribed the Michigan vote will a big 3 buyout plan of 6 billion. That doesn't sound conservative. Let it burn those off you who fell for Mitt. He is a paper tiger conservative through and through and he lied to you!!! |
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This post is just as blind as most of your previous ones on Romney. Even Cillizza's article that you cite makes it clear that Romney is doing this for himself, not for the party. Romney has never, ever been about anything but Romney. He changed most of his major stances on social issues just to run to the right of McCain. His speech about stepping down for the good of the party was so trasnparently full of self-interest its amazing that it could fool even the party members who refuse to think for themselves, let alone someone like you, Hugh.
When will people realize that everything Romney does is calculated and political. In this way he is not dissimilar from Hillary Clinton or even John McCain who somehow manages to continue to fool people into thinking he is a consistent straight-talker.
You guys blew it backing this robotic cypher for so long and now you're going along with his lies once again so you can set yourself up to be taken again in 2012. And I hope you do because ROmney will never, ever win a general election in this country because the liberals and moderates can see right through him. I still don't get why you cannot. |
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My preference was for Romney but Johnny Mac is a good choice and he's a solid Republican with conservative tendencies much of the time. Even Ronald Magnus raised taxes and his efforts at arms for drugs exchange was ridiculously bad. But overall, Reagan was a great president.
Besides, Johnny Mac will forgive those of us who started out in the Romney camp; although he might not forget about that; :)!
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But Romney's endorsement also clearly illustrates how bad the conservative movement is right now. As I left the Minnesota caucus 2 weeks back after voting for Romney, I felt good about voting for the "truest" conservative. I understand politics, but Romneys endorsement wipes away that good feeling. |
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Is the WOT, and he did the right thing. He still has fundamental differences with John McCain, but sees the reality that with a democrat in the WH we would be in danger of losing the gains made in Iraq and the WOT, and that we need a president who sees the danger of the course Iran is now persuing.
Romney has been ever so much more presidential in the past week than McCain, it surely hurts to see that we are nominating the wrong person. Especially yesterday when Romney looked and sounded much better than McCain, and was very gracious and complimentary to McCain in his announcement. The contrast was stark, seeing McCain standing next to him with a frown and shifting eyes. He looked extremely uncomfortable and his remarks to Romney were barely civil, considering what was taking place. He hardly said anything positive in response to Romney at all. It was actually a little painful to watch.
This is where buyer's remorse is becoming more and more obvious. |
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Also note that the only substantive policy statement that Obama has made -- aside from retreat from Iraq and willingness to meet with anyone on any terms they might dictate -- comes from his Virginia (I think) victory speech a few days age.
He said that we need to learn that "we are all our brothers' keeper, and we are all our sisters' keeper."
I am an American. I don't have any d@mn keeper.
I am not a fan of McCain, but I recognize the stakes. A vote for the non-Republican is a vote for enslavement of the individual by the state as well as our eventual defeat by our foreign enemies. |
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