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Mitt Romney Didn’t Just Give Planned Parenthood Money, He Gave Them Extra Power

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  December 30th, 2011 at 04:46 AM  | 

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You should be quite familiar by now with the fact that Mitt Romney gave $150.00 to Planned Parenthood in 1994 when claiming he had always been pro-abortion.

You should also know that in 2004, Mitt Romney says he personally converted to the pro-life position. In fact, according to ABC News on June 14, 2007, “Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has long cited a November 2004 meeting with a Harvard stem-cell researcher as the moment that changed his long-held stance of supporting abortion rights to his current ‘pro-life’ position opposing legal abortion. But several actions Romney took mere months after that meeting call into question how deep-seated his conversion truly was.”

What was one of those actions?

Two months after his pro-life conversion, Mitt Romney appointed Matthew Nestor to the bench in Massachusetts. Romney seeming bowed to political pressure making Nestor a judge even after Nestor, according to the Boston Globe as far back as 1994, had campaigned for political office championing his pro-abortion views.

One year after his pro-life conversion, in July of 2005, Mitt Romney vetoed legislation that would expand the use of the morning after pill arguing that it would contribute to abortions. But just three months later Mitt Romney slid back and signed a bill that expanded state subsidized access to the morning after pill.

Writing in the Boston Globe on October 15, 2005, Stephanie Ebbert noted

Governor Mitt Romney has signed a bill that could expand the number of people who get family-planning services, including the morning-after pill, confusing some abortion and contraception foes who had been heartened by his earlier veto of an emergency contraception bill. … The services include the distribution of condoms, abortion counseling, and the distribution of emergency contraception, or morning after pills, by prescription …

But that’s nothing. Two whole years after the pro-life view had settled into Mitt Romney’s conscience and a year after Mitt Romney had vetoed legislation expanding access to the morning after pill, he expanded access to abortion and gave Planned Parenthood new rights under state law. Yes, that Planned Parenthood.

Mitt Romney is really proud of Romneycare. He champions it as a great healthcare reform for Massachusetts. At one point he claimed it could be a model for the nation, though he now denies that.

According to States News Service on October 2, 2006,

“The following information was released by the Massachusetts Office of the Governor: Governor Mitt Romney today officially launched Commonwealth Care, an innovative health insurance product that will allow thousands of uninsured Massachusetts residents to purchase private health insurance products at affordable rates. Commonwealth Care is a key component of the state’s landmark healthcare reform law approved by the Governor in April. ‘We are now on the road to getting everyone health insurance in Massachusetts,’ said Governor Romney. … ‘Today, we celebrate a great beginning.’

Romney loves to take credit for it.

The law, in addition to providing healthcare coverage for the uninsured and forcing everyone to have insurance, expanded abortion services in the State of Massachusetts. It also required that one member of the MassHealth Payment Policy Board be appointed by Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts.

From Chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006:

SECTION 3. Chapter 6A of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 16I the following 6 sections: . . . Section 16M. (a) There shall be a MassHealth payment policy advisory board. The board shall consist of the secretary of health and human services or his designee, who shall serve as chair, the commissioner of health care financing and policy, and 12 other members: … 1 member appointed by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts … (Massachusetts General Court Website, www.mass.gov, Accessed 2/5/07)

In 2007, Mitt Romney was still denying his healthcare plan did this.

QUESTION: “I noticed some of the conservative groups back in Massachusetts, they complain about there’s a Planned Parenthood rep mandate to be on the planning board for the health care plan. Is that something you just had to deal with in negotiating with the legislature?”

ROMNEY: “It’s certainly not something that was in my bill.”

(Eric Krol, “Full Text Of Romney Interview,” [Arlington Heights, IL] Daily Herald, 6/17/07)

Except it was. Apparently, like with Obamacare, you had to pass the bill to find out what was in it, but once passed, Romney never read it.

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  • texasref

    Not only was he pro-choice, he led the way to sign legislation (Romneycare) that facilitated abortion-on-demand as recently as 2006.

    Even if you believe him when he says he is pro-life, aren’t there enough other Republicans running for president from which to choose who have always had the good judgment to be pro-life?

    I don’t mind a flip-flop as long as you’re flipping in the right direction, which Romney did. But the timing of his change to coincide with his runs for elective office makes me doubt his sincerity. (See also Perry’s Iowa Caucus-Eve conversion whereby he suddenly now feels all babies have the right to life, not just the ones where the sex that conceived them was legal, but I digress).

    Iowa, you will vote for the man who has been pro-life from start to finish. His name is … well, you have a limited number of choices. Choose well. Our country depends on it. We’ll forgive you if you choose Santorum. We’ll forgive you if you choose Paul. We’ll forgive you if you choose anybody, really. Anybody but Romney.

    You Iowans think you’ll be the laughingstock of the country if you don’t vote for Romney? I got a newsflash for you: the Establishment is baiting you into thinking your future continued relevance depends on you immaculating Mittens. The reality is, the rest of the country (you know, outside the Beltway) is looking to you for leadership, and your relevance will continue (ironically enough) only if you choose someone other than Mittens.

    Please, Iowa. Anyone (and I do mean anyone including the ones who might make some of us conservatives wince, without naming any names) but Willard Mitt Romney.

    Thank you to Erick for the information. I didn’t know those specifics. Timely reporting.

  • http://www.neoavatara.com/blog neoavatara

    Apparently, there are not enough other good Republicans.

    Romney is going to be the nominee, because our all star class of conservatives decided to take a pass, and the ones we got have not lived to the billing, no matter how we would like to spin it.

    Depressing, but that is the reality I am accepting.

  • rwcbarry

    and I will not support him if the establishment nominates him. You can go ahead and say “but if you don’t vote for him, then we get 4 more years of Obama”. This may be true, but I am tired of being essentially forced to elect one lying piece of crap over another lying piece of crap.

    Romney is either a liar, or he is schizophrenic. Obama is a liar, and a narcissist with a socialist agenda. Which is worse?

    One gives us destruction of our country through confusion, and the other gives us destruction of our country through socialism. The end is the same. The difference is how we get there with these two traitors.

  • rwcbarry

    Paul Ryan of Wisconsin would have cleaned all of our candidates, and Obama’s clocks in debates and in ideas. He’s young but he knows every issue inside and out, and has viable solutions to the issues.

    He is the only guy out there that is actually sticking with what he believes, and he believes in strong conservative solutions to our nations problems.

    Paul Ryan is the real deal.

    We need to figure out a way to draft him ASAP!

  • Wiseman

    Romney has achieved great successes in life. He was extremely successful in business, as Govenor and as leader of the Olympic games. He is a great candidate for President and has the best chance at defeating Obama, just look at the latest Rasmussen poll. You Redstate Radicals are so blinded but your ultra conservatism. I am very conservative and I am very excited to vote for Romney. I hope he picks Paul Ryan as his VP! Romney is a good man, Eric is sounding more and more like a political hack!

  • papabear

    When they conceived you, they were dreaming of more than a permanent basement dweller.

  • myuncletom

    Yesterday on radio bashes Santorum for loving babies too much now he bashes Romney for the opposite. I guess he knows whats in men’s souls. But his beloved Rick Perry has never heard of Lawrence v. Texas? WTF!

  • scottb

    that isn’t heard on Fox News, the Mitt Romney Network. It’s about time someone printed the liberal ways of Romney.
    Ann Coulter”s ears should be burning about now, as her slamming of Newt and her love for Mitt in her “human Events” column just went up in smoke.

  • circlegranch

    in ’94 that he’d be running against Kennedy as a pro-choice advocate, but that he’d covertly still be a pro-lifer. He didn’t go to seek the church’s council on how to run against Kennedy and how to win as a pro-life candidate, he TOLD them up front he was changing his position to win. Say anything to get elected?

    As it turned out, of course, his lie of changing his abortion stance didn’t work, he still lost.

    This is documented in a new book which is a headliner today at www.washingtonexaminer.com (a conservative newspaper that has endorsed Romney)

  • rayhinkle

    I am convinced that we are losing sight of the big picture. If the Democrats plan for winning was having conservatives do their work for them, they have made excellent strides. It is important to remember that analyzing any candidate to the degree that we are, will bring out lots of blemishes with them. No one is perfect. And there is no such thing as a perfect candidate. So…people who run for office are faced with their background, history, . Even Reagan was a Democrat and he did some things while Governor which could be criticized. I hope that we have not become so strident in our views that we cannot see the big picture. Critical assessment of our candidates is important, but I have not seen any candidate who does not have some issue that can be perceived as inconsistency. Do you really think Romney would be a bad President? I think much of what is going on is purely Media driven and motivated by it’s own need for being relevant and profitable. Some of these issues are merely media “soup de jour” I cannot imagine anyone who would want to go through the scrutiny that we are giving these candidates. If this had been done with Obama, maybe we would be not be suffering under this administration. So…. opinions change and candidates should be allowed to change their minds, especially if it is a reasoned analysis.

  • tnguy

    What I believe is right is all that matters to me. Continuously voting for liberal and moderate republicans is what allowed someone as leftist as Obama to win in the first place. If our side practiced consistent, conservative principles, Obama never even sniffs the white house.

    The democrat party lurches farther to the left, and the republicans follow them, at a distance. It’s time we drew a line in the sand and said, no more. No matter how much Romney supporters protest that he is the candidate to do that, they know in their hearts he is not.

    I believe that only dramatic, immediate change can save our nation from economic ruin. Mitt Romney stands mostly for more of the same. I do not believe him as the devil some others do. I think he would be much the same president that Bush was, that McCain would’ve been.

    To me, that’s unacceptable.

  • macphisto96

    Really? You get in a hizzy about pro-abortion stances of a criminal judge? I love seeing the criticism here with no alternative stances offered. Romney would have had most of his suggestions tossed if he decided to be an obstructionist like you would have liked him to be. Judges in Massachusetts are confirmed by a small body of elected officials that are all liberal Democrats. Had you been governor, you would have done no better.

    There’s this thing called pragmatism that good leaders tend to use. Reagan used it to great effect (and, btw, he actually signed the laws that legalized abortion in California – I’m sure you would have had a field day with that in 1979 and derided Reagan as “not a conservative”.). You pick the fights you can win. If you don’t do that then the general public will look at you and your party as obstructionist. To expect a candidate to do everything you want 100% of the time is delusional, much like the crazy utopian fantasies of the left.

    Romney is pragmatic and that is expected of a businessman like him. I would guess that he considered carefully what line item vetos may be able to get through the legislature and which ones would not. He was not going to jump into a fight that he didn’t have a chance to win – like the Planned Parenthood issue. You can say that he should have, but if you know it’ll get overturned then aren’t you just wasting taxpayer time and money by having the legislature have to vote on it?

  • jjnco73

    A tea party presence will be required for Romney 24/7. I will bet 10K on this.

  • jakeofalltrades

    but he also shouldn’t because that would be obstructionist.

    Glad to know we can count on not being able to count on him.

  • noveldog9

    Yours is one of the few post that make any sense. All the others are obviously trying to bash Romney because they don’t want their man Obama to have to face him.

    Any sane and reasonable person should clearly see that Mitt is the only GOP candidate who has any chance at all against Obama and his machine.

    Speaking of machines. Obama has a powerful one. He has his little ACORNS signing up the do do’s birds right and left. He has bought the union vote. Why do I say this? Because they have vowed to raise over one hundred million dollars for his campaign and have endorsed him. They fully expect to be paid back…with your and my dough.

    The OCCUPY crowd are merely an extension of the Dumb-o-crats with a few honest sincerely folks caught up in the farce(scheme). The multi billionaires will make more billions off of their stupidity and Obama and his cronies fully expect to be reelected with their help.

    If Obama wins we lose. Hand in your weapons of defense, and toss in your pocket books. When he says jump, you ask him, “how high sir”, or you get tossed in prison, or worse.

    Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me. That also applies to each of you. They don’t want to contend with Romney. He is well organized and will not roll over for them.

    Romney/Perry, or who? We need a running mate who is very popular, conservative, and God fearing from either Texas, Florida, or California. They need to help pull the states which Romney is not as popular in.

    Got any candidates in mind?

  • jjnco73

    With Romney, we lose the Obamacare argument too.

  • porkandcheese

    Romney defenders always ask what conservatives expected of him in such a liberal state. The answer is they wanted an advocate for their ideals, and they did not find that in Romney, who just laid down for the Democrats. And to what end? All this so-called reasonable compromise from Romney, and he didn’t even attempt reelection. His polling was in the 30′s on his way out, and he would have been trounced by political novice, Axelrod protege and Obama beta run Patrick. If Romney was only going to serve one term, why not be an obstructionist? In that regard — for sheer political will and courage — Obama will beat him in 2012. The Democrats and their friends in the media know that.

  • Bill S

    I say “wind sock”.

    A person who is willing to compromise their (alleged) core values for a political win cannot be trusted. This is why this entire campaign season has been about Not Romney. About 75% of GOP voters don’t trust him. The evidence clearly backs that suspicion.

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    I’m willing to be pragmatic.

    Given the environment, I’d be willing to say that Romney’s term as Governor would have been successful if he had done two things:

    1. Nominate conservative judges. Keep nominating conservatives and only conservatives.

    2. Build the Republican Party and get new people involved in the process. Build a base in the State House.

    Had he done those two things – or even tried – I’d give him a second look. He didn’t even try.

  • ghostship

    “All the others are obviously trying to bash Romney because they don?t want their man Obama to have to face him.”

    So the people who don’t support Romney are secret Obama supporters?

    Your inability to accept that most of the Republican base doesn’t like your guy has driven you insane.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyXCkjMBK70&feature=related

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    I’m not Erick, but I can tell you that there’s no waffling there.

    Romney’s problem is that he’s held every position on every issue, and all of them as “a matter of conscious”.

    With Santorum, being pro-life is the only thing he’s got going for him and it’s the one issue he can’t do anything about.

  • porkandcheese

    1. Romney appointed mostly Democrats, and not remotely conservative ones at that. Nine out of 36 were Republican judges.

    2. When he left office, Romney left political appointments for his liberal Democrat successor to fill. Romney ended a 16-year run of Republican governors in MA, and he made it hard for a Republican comeback. Likewise, his stint as RGA chairman was largely symbolic and meant to pad his resume only.

  • heraklios

    who will actually cut government spending, cut regulations, and promote pro-growth policies. Since neither Obama nor Romney do any of these, neither should be considered by any conservative when they enter the voting booth.

  • heraklios

    Talk about principles….

  • crosley

    How come none of this bothered you back when you endorsed him for President 4 years ago? None of this is new information. It’s the same with Romney Care, you never said a word about it, until now. In fact, here is what you said about Romney when you endorsed

    ?So if the Presidential Preference Primary in Georgia were tomorrow, I?d vote for Mitt. Sure, he has waffled on social issues ? but I think that highlights his pragmatic approach to politics. He was never going to get elected as a pro-life candidate in Massachusetts and he knew it. I won?t fault him. I think, if he gets elected based on conservative support, he won?t betray that support in office.?

    If someone nearly 20 years ago had a different view on abortion and is now pro-life, isn’t that a good thing? Rick Perry used to be a Democrat that was Al Gore’s campaign chairman in Texas. He also supported HillaryCare.

    Perry\’s Support of HillaryCare
    Al Gore\’s Campaign Chairman

    But I guess all of that gets washed away if you get a little special attention from a certain campaign.

  • nomonk

    We have heard this from Newt and now we here it form voters. You have heard the term “Yellow Dog Democrat”. Well I’m here to tell ya I’ll vote for a “BLUE DAWG” running on the republican ticket over Obama.

    My God can the worst candidate put forth on the republican ticket not be better than the Ass we have in the White House now?

    I am scared to death of Ron Paul and his foreign policy of Pulling ALL the troops home and let’s be friends with Iran.. If he wins the Republican Primary, I’ll vote for him. If he runs as an independent he will give Obama a last term and destroy America.

  • heraklios

    I am from Kentucky. Tell me, what is a rich, elitist, unprincipled moneyman from the northeast going to do for me. He is proven to be unprincipled. He is a proven supporter of big government, government run health care, abortion on demand. If elected, he will cater to his Bain Capital/Wall Street buddies and to hell with the guy in TN or KY trying to work, run a small business, or otherwise make a living. He is the antithesis of what southerners represent. How can you vote for him??

  • maus99

    As far as I’m concerned, no MAN should be telling WOMEN what they CAN and CANNOT do to their bodies. The GOP needs to get off this ANTI ABORTION band wagon. You are just chasing people away from the GOP.

    Mitt Romney is a fine candidate. He is a business man, and at least has a BRAIN .. unlike the nitwit we have in the White House now.

    Obama has NO IDEA what he is doing … nor any idea HOW TO DO IT !

  • Bill S

    The GOP isn’t worth supporting if it supports abortion. Let ‘em go.

    Perhaps the Libertarian Party is a better place for you.

  • circlegranch

    .

  • circlegranch

    making sex ed for kids available via texting?

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/29/denver-planned-parenthood-affiliate-offers-sex-ed-texting

  • goodgovernance

    You know, as much as I vehemently dislike Romney, it would be one thing if he became the nominee after a knock-down, drag out fight. At least if that were the case we could at least know we’d toughened him up for the political fight of his life, and made a lasting impression that the conservative base cannot be taken for granted (because let’s face it, if Mitt’s the nominee, the base is no longer his primary constituency — the independents and Reagan Democrats will be. We’re going to see ALL SORTS of flip-flops and have-it-both-ways from Romney if that scenario comes to pass).

    But to have Romney just waltz into the nomination without any of the other candidates really seriously going after him, aside from Huntsman and Gingrich, is just maddening. We’ll have that on our heads if we let Romney win Iowa and New Hampshire, because we weren’t smart enough to see the danger.

    Don’t get taken in by the Guliani, “let’s wait until some of the later states” strategy. The idea these are a separate contests not influenced by the ones that came before is a joke. Nothing makes somebody look like a winner more than racking up a few wins, and if Romney takes Iowa and New Hampshire, the argument that he’s the inevitable candidate (up until now, completely not true) will really start to sink in with rank and file Republicans. The contest will be over before it really even began.

    The window of opportunity to become the not-Romney is really closing fast. The conservative candidates in the race need to start focusing all their fire on Willard, the phoney. Once he’s gone then they can go back to fighting amongst each other.

    The candidates figured this out in ’08. Why can’t they see the logic of it now?

  • jakeofalltrades

    Pro-lifers are not against abortion because of what it does to the mother’s body. We’re against it because of what it does to someone else’s body.

    You are a hypocrit because you are against people controlling other people’s bodies while allowing women to kill their children.

    That’s just demonic moral turpitude, right there.

  • rec0n

    Like putty. He’ll take any form required.

  • rwcbarry

    over the other candidates. If Perry is still alive after the republicans trash him, he has got my vote for sure.

    We are screwed with Romney.

  • Samsara

    Rodger Alies and the Bush/Republican establishment have picked the nominee, plain and simple.

    Even Hannity is towing the line. Last time around he savaged McCain for his liberal stances. This time he doesn’t even touch the “official” candidate. Why the difference in Hannity’s behavior?

    McCain was not a friend of the Bush/Ailes party establishment. Too many NO votes on things like Medicare part D and unpaid for tax cuts. And his stance against Rumsfeld’s small footprint strategy in Iraq won him no friends with Bush/Establishment Republicans. Romney has the support of both the Bushes and Fox. Sean Hannity, like any good attack dog, obeys commands.

    And Ann Coulter….a Mitten. Wow!

    This morning the Fox and Friends were just gushing over Mitt and his wonderful family (they are wonderful by the way). Meanwhile they continue to attack Newt for supporting Romneycare…and give Romney a pass.

    The fix is in?relax and have a drink.

    Perhaps the people who use the term RINO should reconsider. If Mitt is the nominee, and his Big Government Republicanism wins the day, doesn’t that make the conservatives who support him the real Republicans in Name Only.

    If this campaign is any indication, the term RINO may one day be a label to be proud of.

  • buster93

    What has Romney done since running for President in 2008. ? Anything current with job creation? Things have changed alot since he was Governor. Has had to get the borders secure? Delt with hurricanes Rita and Katrina? Has he served in the Military?Has he created the jobs that RICK PERRY has? Did he grow up on a farm ? Has he ever not had running water. Has he ever had to stretch a paycheck to feed a family?RICK PERRY gets it!!AMERICANS are hurting and these are people that may not have a 401K but people trying to provide for there families. RICK PERRY gets it!!!!
    Rasmussen Poll is attached with FOX so no I refuse to drink there Koolaid. More big government. Lets see what Romney’s plan is onearmarks or will he change his mind. What year was the Olympic games ? Will he change his mind regarding abortion? Ok Wiseman how can you say you are conservative?. No your a moderate Republican. Look up the Founding Fathers and watch the Patriot ,

    RICK PERRY 2012

  • texasref

    I can’t get the chunks out from between the keys where I type, thanks a lot.

  • texasref

    I will vote for him over Obama in the general and promptly retire from politics permanently. I will check the heck out. I’m serious. My passion will be gone. If the fix can be in this blatantly in this environment with this much conservative passion and it still goes the way of the old boys network, then it’s too late, nothing can be done, and this is just glorified mental [starts with an M].

  • Samsara

    Politico is running a story restating what everyone knows, the Fix is in.
    Erick?s post from yesterday is mentioned by david Lane, a ?largely below-the-radar Christian conservative activist?

    Politico:
    ?The liberal Media and “Policy Boys” are giving Santorum a bump in Iowa at just the right time (if we had 2-3 weeks we could discuss Santorum backing Specter over Toomey in 04′, which cost Santorum his PA Senate seat in 2006

    http://www.redstate.com/erick/2011/12/29/rick-santorum-earmarxists-and-the-pro-life-statist/

    …Romney needs Santorum in Iowa real bad…if Newt or Rick Perry get their ticket punched in Iowa, Romney’s dead

    FOX (i.e., Krauthammer-former Mondale speech writer, brilliant, and certainly no Evangelical), National Review, Drudge Report, Ann Coulter, et al, have pulled out all the stops, they’re swinging for the fence for Romney?

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2011/12/david-lane-blasts-romneydrudgecoulter-axis-109098.html

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    is that he’d need a poll.

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    In 08, by the time Erick endorsed Romney, Romney was the “anti-McCain”. Heck, I voted for Romeny in the primary in AZ.

    As far as your incredibly stupid links, those have been debunked and beaten to death here months ago.

    Go troll somewhere else.

  • gekster

    Alot, and I mean alot of times the ball falls just short, even though it looks like it is going over.
    The establishment may tell us who to vote for,
    but they can’t make us vote for anyone but who we decide to vote for.
    They can’t pull the lever for us.
    And most Americans don’t like being told what to do.

  • Wubbies World

    … completely out of context. I was here and involved in those discussions that your statement is drawn from. In the context of 2008, McCain was viewed as the problem, which was proven during the general election. Romney was viewed as an alternative option.

    In the context of any election, no candidate is perfect and we all strive to get the best choice from the imperfect. We are doing the same today. I am a Perry supporter, but I also know Perry has his positions I do not like at all. However, it is a choice of best alternatives.

    In 2008, Romney was a better alternative that McCain. Now this year, Perry is a better alternative to Romney to me. In 2016, if there is a better alternative to Perry. I will argue that position as well.

  • myuncletom

    Thinking means that u live in a country you actually have to win votes of ppl outside of the deep south. I have thought about these things. Lets face it, we don’t have great ppl running this yr, but I refuse to reelect Obama to stay “pure”. Romney is our best shot because he can take back some of the states Obama won namely Fl., Ohio, Virginia, NH, and possibly Michigan to name a few. Please tell me which other Candidate has any possible chance at removing all of these diverse states from the Dem column. I’m waiting….?

  • giatny

    There is a choice between Obama and Romney.
    Forget the other fools on the stage. They do not
    and should not have a chance in the national
    election. These tirades by Republicans only
    bolster Obama. Newsflash: Roe v Wade and DADT are not going to be reversed; the 2nd amendment will stand as is; Obamacare will be reformed; and gay marriage will continue in certain states. Like it or not, that is what the majority of the country wants. Without an immediate restraining order on
    Obama’s agenda, unelected bureaucrats will
    have effective control of the entire economy. It might be too late already, but the only hope for
    salvation is Romney. Obama has discovered that
    the agencies can issue regulations on anything
    he could not get through Congress with near
    immunity because he can veto any Congressional
    attempts to reverse their rulings. The continued
    stupidity of the Republican Party is stunning.
    Unless they wake up, Obama’s reign will continue
    and America will be history.

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    Personally, I doubt it, but that’s just an opinion – like yours – and based on guesswork – like yours.

    I don’t deal in “electability” – certainly not this far out from the general – I deal in experience and accomplishments. Romney’s experience is anything but impressive, he’s proved himself to be a will of the wisp, he’ll say whatever he has to and swear to a lifelong position at the drop of a dime.

    The Republican candidate – whoever it is (less Ron Paul and Santorum) – will most likely win Florida, Virginia and NH for a couple of reasons – support of popular incumbent Republicans and the disaster that is Obama. Ohio is likely to be a Dem win because of ballot initiatives designed to maximize Dem turnout and fraud. Michigan is an equally good shot for Republican because of the disaster that is the economy, although the UAW will pull out all stops for TheOne and that will equally impact any Republican, possibly Romney more than the others because of his history at Bain.

    Romney isn’t necessarily our “best shot” because you can be guaranteed that BO has one heck of an opposition research book on him and from our side, he’s just another uninspiring schumck with no core who will happily continue to expand government. He’s got no history of ever resisting that and in order to potentially get elected in a Blue state, he promised repeatedly he wouldn’t stand in the way.

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    If you think that odorous deposit qualifies as “thought” you’re an idiot.

  • tomatin

    I really don’t know how anyone who calls themselves conservative can vote for a guy that will just say anything to get elected. I use to think the GOP was better than this.

    Article from Examiner

    “According to Scott, Romney revealed that polling from Richard Wirthlin, Ronald Reagan’s former pollster whom Romney had hired for the ’94 campaign, showed it would be impossible for a pro-life candidate to win statewide office in Massachusetts. In light of that, Romney decided to run as a pro-choice candidate, pledging to support Roe v. Wade, while remaining personally pro-life.”

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/york-romney-briefed-church-abortion-stance/282721

    The bottom line is he lied to get elected.

    Who knows what he’s lying about now.

  • tomatin

    I’ll vote every Republican down ticket but refuse to vote for a guy with zero integrity.

  • Bill S

    We already whacked one commenter for banging the “I’LL NEVER VOTE FOR HIM!!!11!” drum too hard. It wouldn’t hurt my feelings to do it again.

    This site promotes “conservative in the primary, GOP in the general”. Promoting the idea of not voting for the nominee because your pet candidate didn’t get chosen is contraindicated.

  • tomatin

    I don’t have a pet like most. I have a couple of candidates I like most for different reasons. I will gladly vote for any of the other candidates except for Romney and Paul because neither is a conservative again for different reasons. A conservative does not govern like Obama on many issues and then conveniently flip flop back to being a conservative to win the GOP nod. And a conservative does not back islamofascists over one of our best allies.

    So bang away and tell me with a straight face how Romney the self proclaimed moderate progressive is conservative.

    RS can promote the GOP including the RINO’s if it wants.

    Believe me if Romney wins the GOP nomination and even if he does get elected he all but destroys the TPM and conservatism for that matter.

    It’s not even just about principle it’s better long term strategy for the GOP if Romney loses.

  • antisesquipedalion

    there is NO evidence that this guy is either a conservative or electable (5 wins 22 attempts) nothing to see here– move on !!

  • bogeyman

    He doesn’t want to build the fence and he is against e verify, which would ensure that Americans get jobs and not illegals. Perry just wants the illegals so that Big Ag gets cheap labor. Screw that, at least Romney has the guts to say that illegals should leave.

    I don’t have a heart because I am sick and tired of free tuition, welfare and food stamps for millions of illegals? Take a hike Perry!

  • sunshinek67

    dude….

  • gekster

    1. The federal Government makes all states give wellfare, healthcare, and K-12 education. Along with that, the feds keeps states from deporting illegals on their own.
    2. The instate tuition is not free. If you would bother to find out the facts, you would know that the illegals have to pay thier own way, no handouts.
    3. Perry is for strategic placing of the fence. Tell me how you build a fence in the middle of the Rio Grande river.
    Perry has also dispatched National Guard, Texas Rangers on the Texas border along with the Border Patrol, at the expence of the state of Texas,
    something the Feds won’t do.

    Before you spout off, you should at least get a hint of what the facts are.

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    Single Issue Values Voters have a long history of being way to stupid to recognize they’re being used.

  • pttx333

    m

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    nt

  • acat

    Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts.

    That last Governor of Texas did pretty well, all things considered.

    Mew

  • acat

    (Cheshire grin)

  • Bill S

    It’s something north of there.

  • olds88er

    Can you cite for me where this action is recorded? The Mormon Church instructs its members as part of their religious teachings that they cannot use ANY type of birth control. every child is sent by God and no member can interfere with that. I have served in public office and sometimes you vote for something you don’t want in order to be able to bring the subject up at a later time. Read Robert’s Rules of Order and you will find it there. It’s called” voting on the prevailing side”. Romney was a Mormon bishop(same job as a parish priest,) and I have a hard time being convinced he was in favor of abortion.

  • sunshinek67

    ;)

  • DannoJyD

    Good for you. It is nice to come across another thinking American doing the work that ‘Real Americans refuse to do’.

  • renny

    but what good are your constant drumbeats to pound at Romney? He will be the Rep’s pres. nominee, and the point is not to produce the perfect candidate for Reps. but to defeat obama at all costs.

    Some posts are beginning to sound suspiciously like retreads of complaints against McCain in 2008, and we see how successful those criiticisms and attacks were.

  • commonsenseobserver

    In any case, Gov. Romney may have donated to Planned Parenthood etc., but he fought consistently for the pro-life cause as Governor, as the NRLC and the SBA List know, which is why they’ve both endorsed him. He made a speech to NRLC recently, I believe.