Mitt Romney

[American Patriot]

Announced a bit ago.

[Ryan Ruck]

[American Patriot]

lol

[Malsua]

If this ends up being a rehash of the last run with Romney, huckabee and a few side show distractions, say hello to Obama for 4 more.

Romney is a turd and should do the country a favor and not run.

[catfish]

I admit I caucused for Romney last cycle. I felt McCain was too old and didn't really care for anybody else. I won't make that mistake again. I have no idea who I'm picking this time, but there is plenty of time to pick, that's for sure.

These two year campaigns for president really wear me down.

[Ryan Ruck]

I have no idea who I'm picking this time, but there is plenty of time to pick, that's for sure.

*cough* *cough*

[catfish]

*cough* *cough*

Right after I wrote that I started watching Hannity. He was talking about Palin and how some of networks were whining about her. He then shows a clip where Herman Cain was questioned on CNN by I don't know who. The guy says to Cain that he wants a one word answer and the question is something like "are you upset by all the coverage Palin is getting even though she isn't running?", insinuating that Palin was sucking away press time from Cain. Cain, who looked like he was both trying not to laugh and trying not to let his head explode from such a dipshit question, simply said "no".

I've got some reading to do yet, but I do like the guy. After I saw that clip and combine it with some things in the past he did or said that I liked, he is really starting to distance himself from the pack.

BTW, Ryan, your responses above to the news of Romney about sums it up for me. In fact I was driving my mother around when we heard on the news he was running. I said to my moms "I thought he was already in".

[Ryan Ruck]

I've got some reading to do yet, but I do like the guy. After I saw that clip and combine it with some things in the past he did or said that I liked, he is really starting to distance himself from the pack.

That seems to be the case with Herman. The more exposure he gets the more and more popular he becomes.

He's gone from being a relative no-name in the race to tied for 2nd in Iowa in the matter of a couple weeks!

[American Patriot]

Cain-Palin.

Now that's the ticket. LMAO

[Backstop]

Fuck Romney.

I refuse to vote for him.

You can read more here: http://www.ontheissues.org/mitt_romney.htm

That guy is all for an AWB.

[Ryan Ruck]

Not only that but this just came out yesterday. Probably hoping it would go under the radar on a Friday afternoon.

Mitt Romney, GOP Presidential Hopeful, Says Global Warming Is Real

June 3, 2011

Mitt Romney, the newest Republican to declare himself a candidate for President, sounded suspiciously like a Democrat when he said Friday that global warming is real.

"I don't speak for the scientific community, of course," Romney said at a Town Hall-type meeting in New Hampshire. "But I believe the world's getting warmer."

Romney then added, "And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that."

That's heresy in many GOP circles - and a position the other Republican candidates have not taken in public.

But the former Massachusetts governor was just getting warmed up.

The Republican front-runner said he wanted to wean the U.S. off its dependence on foreign oil by seeking alternative sources of energy - something President Obama has also called for.

Romney did not call for more oil drilling in the U.S., as Sarah Palin and other Republicans have been doing. Instead, Romney said Americans should do more to conserve energy.

"I'm told that we use almost twice as much energy per person as does a European, and more like three times as much energy as does a Japanese citizen," he said. "We can do a lot better."

Romney wrapped up his remarks by calling for cooperation with other countries in combating global warming.

"We don't call it America warming, we call it global warming," he said. "And if there's going to be an effort in this, it has to be global in scope."

Romney, who declared his candidacy on Thursday, is already under fire from conservative Republicans for backing a health care reform plan in Massachusetts that's a lot like what the GOP derisively calls Obamacare.

The Republicans are determined to repeal Obama's health care reform plan.

So let's see, pros & cons to a Romney presidency:

Cons

• Romneycare
• Anti "Weapons Of Unusual Lethality" a.k.a. Second Amendment
• For Corn Subsidies
• Globull Warming believer

Pros

• Nice hair?
• Not Obama
• It's his turn!
• ???

[American Patriot]

Wouldnt vote for him at all

[Backstop]

I believe this, although I don't blame you if you do your own research first.

Turned on the radio at 0725, and heard what sounded like Gingrich say Romney's crew - the ones that passed RomneyCare - went to D.C., and told Barry O. and Co. exactly how they were able to get around the law, then actually joined his team and helped him pass ObamaCare.

[American Patriot]

July 1, 2011 1:38 PM

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Romney flip-flops on charges against Obama

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Corbett B. Daly

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answers a question during the first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., June 13, 2011.
(Credit: AP Photo/Jim Cole)
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Thursday backtracked on a central theme of his presidential campaign: that President Obama has made a struggling U.S. economy even worse.
"I didn't say that things are worse," Romney said at a press conference in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
The comments came in response to a question from an NBC producer who asked the putative front-runner for the Republican nomination to explain his factually inaccurate statements on the campaign trail about the struggling U.S. economy.
During last month's Republican debate in New Hampshire, Romney said Mr. Obama "didn't create the recession, but he made it worse and longer."
Economic growth is considered by economists to be the best overall measure of the economy's performance, and the data clearly show a fragile economy that was falling off a cliff a couple years ago. In the last three months of 2008, just before Mr. Obama took office, the U.S. economy contracted at a 6.8 percent annualized pace, according to the Commerce Department.
In the first three months of 2009, which includes Mr. Obama's January 20, 2009 inauguration, the economy contracted at a 4.9 percent pace. The economy grew at a 1.9 percent annualized rate in the first three months of this year after growing at a 3.1 percent pace in the three months through last December.
And job growth, which is even more important for most voters, shows a similar story: weak but better than it was. The economy lost 820,000 jobs in January 2009 and continued to lose jobs every month through early 2010. Job creation in mid-2010 see-sawed between growth and loss until October, when there were 171,000 jobs created. The economy has added at least some jobs every month since, though just 54,000 jobs were added in May, the most recent month for which data is available.
These numbers are by no means stellar, but they clearly paint a picture that shows improvement from a very weak starting point. The unemployment rate, which economists consider a so-called lagging indicator, started at 7.8 percent when Mr. Obama took office and peaked at 10.1 percent in October 2009. In May, the Labor Department reported the unemployment rate at 9.1 percent, still considered too high by most economists.
And it was not just the one comment at the New Hampshire debate. Romney has made the "Obama made it worse" line a theme of his nascent campaign. On Monday in New Hampshire, Romney said "the president's failed. He did not cause this recession, but he made it worse."
Until Thursday in Pennsylvania. When he backtracked.
"I did not say that things were worse, what I said was that the economy hasn't turned around, that you have 20 million Americans out of work or seriously unemployed," Romney said.
There were 13.9 million unemployed Americans in May, according the Labor Department, though an additional 10 million or so Americans are considered underemployed.
The former head of Bain Capital said the economy would be his top priority if he were in the White House.
"I can assure voters that if I were president of the United States I would spend every waking moment doing what I could to get Americans back to work," Romney said.

[American Patriot]

No votes for no backbone.

[Ryan Ruck]

That would make an EXCELLENT bumper sticker Rick!

No Backbone, No Votes!

[Backstop]

Just watch - Romney will get the GOP nomination.

[American Patriot]

I think Backstop is right... though, I am sure Cain will get a bump.

I listened to Romney when he was pretty much shouted down at the State Fair yesterday (or day before?) and he handled himself well there. He wasn't in a suit, he looked like a normal man for once and not a stuffed suit, not at all uncomfortable in his jeans.

On the other hand the clips I've seen thus far on FNC this morning of him, he's uncomfortable in his suit and apparently his skin.

Makes me think he's uncomfortable in this kind of job (campaigning) - which actually might be a good thing.

I think that someone who is comfortable campaigning is someone who will continue to campaign, like Obama for example.

Truth be known, I never have liked this guy. He's the son of a man who was governor of Michigan when I was growing up and as far as I am concerned his Dad was actually a Progressive/Liberal/Socialist - even though he was a REPUBLICAN. I don't remember him very well, but I remember that he did some things that wasn't liked.

Then again - perhaps I'm remembering all of this through the eyes of my parents (Democrats).

I suspect in this case I'm somewhat jaded by my own Democrat background - BUT, when it comes down to it, I don't like him for some reason I honestly can't put my finger on it.

[Ryan Ruck]

I listened to Romney when he was pretty much shouted down at the State Fair yesterday (or day before?) and he handled himself well there.

I disagree Rick. I think he handled that situation extraordinarily poorly.

Rather than getting into a childish shouting match, he should have used a tactic that a former co-worker was famous for using with customers that would talk over him.

He would stop talking, let the person talk until finish, then sit there staring at the person without saying anything for a good 20-30 seconds to create a nice uncomfortable silence, then ask "Are you finished?"

Would have worked perfectly in this scenario. The leftie would have run out of steam eventually and Romney wouldn't have sounded like a grade-schooler in a shouting match like he did, in my opinion.

[Backstop]

I refuse to vote for him, but just for grins, here he says he won't raise taxes.