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Who Are You, Mitt?

By: LaborUnionReport (Diary)  |  June 28th, 2011 at 04:30 PM  | 

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If you google the words “Mitt Romney, no apologies,” you’ll find a host of titles of articles such as: No apologies for climate change stance, No apology for individual health care mandate, or Mitt Romney makes no apologies.

If you’re confused about where Mitt stands on the issues today, you’re not alone. However, if you really want to know who Mitt Romney is, try googling “Who Are You Mitt?” and you might just stumble across this video.


So, tell us, Mitt, who are you?
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  • altexas

    Mickey Mouse can beat Obama so if Mitt gets the nod I will vote for him with the same enthusiasm I had for McCain, then go throw up.

    Herman needs to develop and show more expertise in foreign affairs. His one liners are awesome but he will need to develop more and show more depth overall.

    Michele has my attention but the press will hammer her like they do Sarah.

    Still lots of time. Hoping for a real Constitutional Conservative.

    • Next93

      I spent a lot of years voting for democrats; it took Al Gore and the notion of outlawing the internal combustion engine to finally open my eyes. That year, I voted for the non-Buchannon branch of the Libertarians, but I’ve voted straigh Republican since then.

      I voted for McCain, but I have to admit that if he’d won, the country would be on the same path but going down it at a slower rate. I’m not convinced I can even say that much for Romney.

      If he gets the nod, I think I’ll have to go back to voting Libertarian again.

      • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

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        • Next93

          I don’t think it make me a RINO to say that I refuse to hold my nose (again) and vote for a pro-life democrat like Romney. If the conservative wing of the GOP can’t overcome the country-club wing and nominate someone who’s got a better reason for running than “it’s my turn” (like Bob Dole), then there’s no sense in voting for it.

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

            Neocons don’t get dumb and vote for whack job parties.

            But you have time to get your head right and all. Close your eyes and imagine Al Gore President. That almost happened because otherwise smart people were complete idiots and voted Libertarian.

            Don’t be that guy.

          • Next93

            Ok, so suppose I hold my nose and vote for another candidate who’s principals are based on the weekly polls and who’s only vision seems to be “I should be president”?

            Every vote for a candidate like that is an affirmation that we’ll vote for any establishment candidate, as long as there’s an “R” after his/her name. And when the NEXT election comes along, we get ANOTHER candidate who’s known more for “crossing the aisle” than in standing for conservative values. And on and on and on. Eventually we reach a point where there really is no distinction between the candidates, and the Democrats have to nominate a compete and unrepentent socialist just to find someone to the left of the Republican (oh, wait – they already did!)

            And come to think of it, you’re right – I AM a rino. At least, in the sense that I’m a lot more concerned with conservative principals than in being a good Republican. And maybe, just maybe, if the GOP leadership develops a fear of the base bolting, they’ll stop foisting these Dem-Lite candidates on us and bring in someone with fire in the belly and steel in the spine.

          • Jim Tomasik

            You are, as you say, a “RINO” because you are to adamantly conservative and unable to stomach voting for a liberal “RINO” who will probably get the nomination because the conservatives split their votes six ways to Sunday.

          • http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

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          • Next93

            The difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals will do anything, elect ANYONE to make “progress” toward their goal of some vague government-controlled nivana. Conservatives, on the other hand, stand for principals; winning elections by betraying those principals gets us nonsense like “compassionate conservatism”, Medicare part D, NCLB, and Republican co-sponsorship of a cap-and-trade bill.

            What good is it to get the majority in the house if we give chairmanships to people who are too busy “crossing the aisle” to use those chairmanships to stand for the principals that they were put there to defend? What good is it to vote for a Republican president who will double the national debt rather than taking on entitlements, or who will sign on to adding MORE benefits to a medicare system that’s already on course to bankrupt us?

            I understand that “prefect” can’t be allowed to be the enemy of “good”, but at what point do we say we’ve had enough of candidates who are only conservative during election years? When do we stop ignoring voting records because we’re being sung a pretty song, knowing full well that it’ll be a different song after the election?

            I’m tired of holding my nose while I vote. I had to throw my vote away rather than vote for either Bush or Gore, I voted for Bush in the second round because I’d rather see the white house in ashes than in the hands of John Kerry, and I voted for McCain ONLY because I didn’t want to see an inexperienced communist in the white house. I’m getting very, VERY tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. If the GOP can’t get it together to put up a candidate who’s going to actually turn the country into the wind, there’s no sense voting for a caretaker government that simply going to slow the downstream drift.

            And the bare naked truth is, there haven’t been such a candidate since 1980. Seems to me that a party that can’t do better than “We’re not the other guys” for THIRTY YEARS isn’t working.

            I don’t know that the country can take another 4 years of the Democrats in control, but I do know that it can’t take another generation of conservative thinking leashed and bound by a Republican party that lacks the stomach for a fight. Yeah, re-electing Obama may mean the end of the country by 2016, but letting the GOP continue to mail it in will mean the end of the country by 2050 or so, so what difference does it make?

            It’s pretty much like the socialists shoring up the car companies; you’ve saved some jobs for now, but you can’t keep it up forever, and you haven’t made the fundamental (and difficult) changes that are needed for long-term survival – all you’ve managed to do is stave off the end, and when that end comes, it will be a lot worse than it would have been if you’d just let it go.

            At the end of the day, the only weapon I have is my vote, and I’m going to use it. I will happily vote Republican this time if there’s a constitutional conservative with a conservative record and evidence of political willpower. But I’m NOT going to vote, yet again, for a GOP candidate simply because he’s not the Democrat.

      • unclefred

        I was and remain no fan of McCain’s RINOish ways, but in fact had McCain been elected we’d have no obama care, it’s doubtful that the fed would be printing money wildly, we would not have Czars, we would not have the NLRB telling businesses that they could not open a plant in a right to work state, we would not have a justice department refusing to pursue black panthers who interfered with voters, we would not have a President who bows to all and has no spine for actual decision making.

        The path that McCain would have pursued would have been that of a liberal republican with moderate progressive tendencies. It would not be the unimpeded path of an ideologically committed marxist. While both paths are repugnant, they are different, Equating them except for pace is an excellent talking point, but not reality.

        I have less use for Romney than you. Far less because I was able to watch his conduct as governor. However should he get the nomination, which I fervently hope he does not, I will pull out all the stops to elect him.

        Given the choice of ANY RINO, with a Republican majority in the Senate and house, vs Obama for 4 more years I’ll take the RINO in a heartbeat. Sure, I’d rather have a conservative and who knows that may be our choice, but if you can toss your vote away in protest at the risk of leaving the current clown we have as POTUS, then I suggest you review the last 2 1/2 years. Then ask yourself, if you really want to see true mob rule, and the utter obliteration of the rule of law. For that is what you risk.

        • Jim Tomasik

          to someone who appears to be an independent.

          My counter to your response is to point out the fact that John McCain is honorable even if he is not “conservative”. He would have been a man of his word. Romney has proven he is not. There is no evidence that he will keep his word and not solidify some of the bad things Obama has done especially Obamneycare.

          I fully expect Romney would try to fix it instead of kill it if he were to be elected
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          • unclefred

            I can certainly imagine that Romney might prefer fixing Obama Care, but, even were he to win, I doubt that he’ll have the chance.

            If the we take the Senate and WH and hold the house, I predict that before the end of March 2013, both chambers will have an up or down vote on repealing Obama care. I predict that there will be so much disarray among Dems in the Senate that they will not be able to muster a filibuster and that the repeal bill will pass both chambers, probably with some Democrat support.

            Even if Romney wins, and desires to “fix” Obama Care, he’ll sign the repeal, as will any other Republican president. To do anything else would end his administration before it was done forming.

            I agree that Romney lacks principles. While that is very important in the primary, it becomes meaningless should he become the nominee. Given the alternative, total all out support of the eventual Republican nominee is the only reasonable response to the current administration.

          • izoneguy

            to repeal ObamaCare is assuming he wins the nomination and then the general.
            I don’t think Mitt has a shot at either.

  • Wes_W

    He is great in the video. He wasnt in the race very long, but he sure did have a good time during his short stint. Fred was a brief ray of sunshine in a group of horrible candidates for the 2008 Republican primary.

  • silentcal2012

    Glad people bringing up the past. Mitt debated kennedy when perry was purging his dem roots. And no one was talking tea parties. Hypocrites will be exposed. Mitts ammo locker is deep. The purists will be humliated.

    • silentcal2012

      Doublecheck their nineties records. It isnt pretty for the self-righteous purists.

      • http://thethinkingvoter.blogspot.com abierubin

        is because he wants to divert the attention from his flip-floppping leftist record. Mitt wants to close potholes on the road which leads to a deadly cliff, not get this country off that cliff and onto a safer road heading towards this country’s future success.

        I’ve expanded on this topic today in my diary, “Romney and Obama are busy with the bumps in the road”

  • whit3

    No appologies is the reason why I cannot support or vote for Mitt Romney. Our country would have the choice of Obama or Diet Obama.

    I still believe the news media is playing up Romney in their hope that he would be the Republican nominee. They will support the one they feel that Obama can beat.

    • Adjoran

      You don’t have to like Romney’s record to realize he’d be much better than Obama.

      Reorganizing failing enterprises is how he got rich. And if you don’t think the appointment power matters, think how long you’ll be saying “Justice Sotomayor” and “Justice Kagan.”

      If we nominated a sack of loose dog poop, it would do a better job than Obama. But it would need your vote – and so will whoever gets the GOP nod, like ‘em or not.

  • californiagold

    I’m no fan of Romney, but if elected, he’d be far better for the country than Obama. As long as the republicans keep a majority in the house, Romney would be pressured to do what the party wants him to do. And if he wants to avoid a primary challenge in 2016, he’ll need to pacify conservatives.

  • Remington_Steele

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    • Remington_Steele

      Please excuse my Chaney style shot into the general replies. That 5 was meant for Adjoran’s ‘You CANNOT be serious’

    • Remington_Steele

      Please excuse my Chaney style shot into the general replies. That 5 was meant for Adjoran’s ‘You CANNOT be serious’

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  • http://www.tinfoilhelicopter.com lunaticrex

    I will vote for him. I will not vote to make him the nominee.

    As far as getting the nomination, the MSM seem to be continuing apace to pitch him as the Republican nominee. I read an article in the Times last Sunday about a plan to use “mystery shoppers” to check on availability of appointments with primary care physicians and internists. Good piece, but my point here is, in the last two paragraphs on the first page, the author refers to Massachusetts’ healthcare program, but never mentions Romney as being involved at all.

    Seems the push to get Mitt nominated is rolling along just fine in the liberal media.

    • http://www.tinfoilhelicopter.com lunaticrex

      Here’s the link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/27/health/policy/27docs.html?_r=1&hp

      Mea culpa. Must read instructions.