Mitt Full Of It

Romney responds to his critics: 'I have lived conservatism'

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Come Mitt come clean you know you are an establishment RINO wake up

Hypocrite Mitt Bashes Fellow Candidates

Thursday, February 09, 2012

Mitt Romney Slams GOP RIvals On The Economy

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Hello Mitt you are a hypocrite ROMNEYCARE does that ring a bell.You have a nerve pal going after Santorum and Gingrich when they both worked on welfare reform up against the Clinton Administration back in the 1990's.Also you are going up against the 11th Commandment given to us by the great President Ronald W.Reagan but wait thats right you are a RINO!

These Are The Headlines After Establishment Victory In Sunshine State

In Romney's Victories, Low GOP Turnout - Mike Smithson, Daily Telegraph
Final: Romney 46, Gingrich 32, Santorum 13, Paul 7 last poll numbers from realclearpolitics.com
Romney Leaves Gingrich in His Rearview Mirror - Rich Lowry, FOX News
Inevitability Restored to GOP Frontrunner - John Dickerson, Slate
Is this what we want for America another gutless RINO as a nominee like John McCain was so that Obama can be President for another four years and head closer to our demise.
Romney has the deer in the headlights look about him at every debate it seems like watch him closely he has no record and with the record he has he cannot say that he is one of us God fearing Constitutional Conservatives he is a fraud FRAUD period there is no more tto be said at this point ROMNEY IS A FRAUD and no conservative

David R.Beaupre

RINO Endorses RINO Who Cares!

                                         



Romney accepts McCain’s endorsement in GOP race


MANCHESTER, N.H. — A triumphant Mitt Romney roared into New Hampshire this afternoon trumpeting an endorsement from U.S. Sen. John McCain — the winner of the bitter 2008 Granite State primary — as he seeks to coalesce his support following an Iowa win.
"Our message to President Barack Obama is you can run but you can’t hide from your record,” said an enthused McCain at Manchester Central High School, where Obama spoke to a packed house only two months before. “I’m really here with one reason and one reason only and that is to make sure that we make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States ... New Hampshire is the state that will catapult him to victory in a very short period of time, that’s why I’m here."
Romney welcomed McCain despite a furious battle downplayed his narrow lead in Iowa, calling him, “a friend, an American hero, a giant among men.
Romney’s push to secure his Granite State support comes as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum surprised the nation with a tie finish in Iowa, leading to a big boost as he tours the state today and tomorrow. Romney congratulated Santorum on his campaign earlier today but during the rally made it clear that he is the most electable candidate. He downplayed his slim win in Iowa yesterday.
“What a squeaker, but it sure is nice to have a win, let me tell you, and the question is can we do better in New Hampshire,” said Romney, who later fielded a barrage of often hostile questions about big corporations, why he changed health care, and why he insults Asians.
“I hope I haven’t put any Asians down,” said Romney, who often slams China in his stump speech for violating trade laws. “I love people who come from other lands. I love legal immigrants and if I’m president we’ll have more of them.”
McCain also weighed in, however, blasting the communist country.
“When you carry out a basically totalitarian form of government, then I can’t admire that,” said McCain,
He also trucked out most of his high profile surrogates, including U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte
Nashua resident Brian Dooley said the boost from McCain carries a lot of weight with New Hampshire voters.
“He’s well known and his reputation precedes him. He’s a Republican of the greatest stature,” said Dooley, a Romney supporter. “I think he’s an American hero and the endorsement couldn’t be any stronger.”
Arlene Phillips, of Tuscon, Arizona, however, wasn’t too impressed by the nod.
“He’s O.K. He’s not my favorite,” she shrugged. “He hasn’t been that great for Arizona.

Photo by Nancy Lane

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney appears with Senator John McCain at an event at Central High School in Manchester, New Hampshire, today.

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Who gives a rats $%^^&&**&

Schribman Dead Wrong On Romney

         

So now there is a front-runner. By virtue of mathematics (the money he has raised) and chemistry (the way his rivals treat him), former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts is the leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination.

There's danger in that position. The GOP field didn't gang up on Romney in their New Hampshire debate this past Monday, but that's only because many of the candidates are just getting their campaign legs and are breathing the sweet air of being in presidential politics for the first time.

Once they feel their political survival is at stake, their restraint will disappear, and one after another they will send arrows Romney's way. Those arrows will provide opportunities for fellow contenders — and will challenge Romney's mettle, providing evidence that he is strong enough to engage President Barack Obama in the general election or raising questions about his suitability as the party nominee.

Sometimes front-runners stumble. Democrat Gary Hart did in 1988, for example, but Mr. Hart's fall was more a matter of personal conduct than political profile.

Mr. Hart was in many ways ideally suited for his party at the end of the Reagan era. He was a Westerner, an apostle of new ideas, no stranger to military issues, nimble in debates and stentorian on the stump. His fall, after an apparent affair with a young woman, was one of the political benchmarks of the era, removing the press's hesitancy to examine the personal lives of politicians and postponing the Democrats in their effort to sculpt a new image for themselves.

Despite the perils in leading the pack, though, it's a lot better to be the front-runner than one of the other contenders. More often than not, front-runners prevail and win their party's nomination: Walter F. Mondale in 1984, George H.W. Bush in 1988, Robert J. Dole in 1996, George W. Bush and Albert Gore Jr. in 2000 are among many examples.

This pattern is particularly strong among Republicans, who, at least in presidential politics, are temperamentally more inclined to respect customary lines of authority and the prerogatives of party elders. Three of their last four elected presidents were respected party figures who had run for the White House before, and the fourth (George W. Bush) was the son of a president, the grandson of a senator, the brother of a governor and himself the governor of the largest state headed by a Republican. Indeed, every Republican nominee for the past four decades, with the exception of Bush and Gerald R. Ford, an appointed but incumbent president, had run for president before.

This factor, along with Romney's bulging campaign treasury and the deference the other candidates displayed last week, underlines Romney's position — a position so commanding that he actually outpolled Obama in the latest Washington Post-ABC News Poll. Indeed, Romney has more than four times as much support in New Hampshire as his nearest rival, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who isn't even in the race (yet).

New Hampshire is vital for Mr. Romney, who owns a vacation home in the state and whose primary residence is in a neighboring state. His defeat there four years ago at the hands of Sen. John McCain represented a substantial repudiation, as Massachusetts politicians from John F. Kennedy's time on have prevailed in New Hampshire -- including Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (1964), who didn't even campaign and managed to beat Sen. Barry Goldwater and Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller in a remarkable write-in effort, and former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (1992). The only exception, besides Mr. Romney, was Edward M. Kennedy, who was defeated by an incumbent president, Jimmy Carter, in 1980.

This time Romney simply cannot afford to lose the state, especially since he has all but abandoned efforts in Iowa, whose caucuses will precede New Hampshire's primary by eight days.

He can explain away a loss in Iowa: He won't have competed, and the contest there is shaping up as a social-conservatism derby that is not to his tastes nor to his strengths. But losing New Hampshire, where he is well-known and where conditions favor him, would be fatal to his presidential hopes — especially since South Carolina, another social-conservative state, is likely to hold the next primary.

Romney was stung in Iowa in 2008 by former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas, which was bad enough, but losing in his home region to McCain five days later was too much for his campaign to absorb.

The big talk in the last days of spring is the way former Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota linked Obama's health care plan, which is anathema to Republicans, to Romney's plan in Massachusetts by speaking of "Obamneycare." Pawlenty used the word again at the debate Monday at St. Anselm College, but its long-term effect may be to elevate Romney into a political, if not moral, equivalent of the president — not the sort of tactic that always benefits a challenger.

The health care issue underlines Romney's biggest task, which is to counter the notion that he is willing to change his views with the political breezes. His opponents believe he supported legalized abortion and a health care plan in Massachusetts because the political atmosphere in the state demanded it, and that he abandoned those views once he ascertained that the national political atmosphere required him to do so. Then again, he is being pilloried for his failure to change his mind on global warming.

The result is a political conundrum for Romney as great as any front-runner has had since Mondale was tarred as being the instrument of traditional Democratic special interests, especially organized labor. If Romney adjusts his position on global warming, he will be declared an opportunist. If he doesn't, he will be at odds with a major tenet of the modern Republican creed.

Right now Romney is determined to make sure Republicans don't change their minds.

The health care issue underlines Romney's biggest task, which is to counter the notion that he is willing to change his views with the political breezes. His opponents believe he supported legalized abortion and a health care plan in Massachusetts because the political atmosphere in the state demanded it, and that he abandoned those views once he ascertained that the national political atmosphere required him to do so. Then again, he is being pilloried for his failure to change his mind on global warming.

The result is a political conundrum for Romney as great as any front-runner has had since Mondale was tarred as being the instrument of traditional Democratic special interests, especially organized labor. If Romney adjusts his position on global warming, he will be declared an opportunist. If he doesn't, he will be at odds with a major tenet of the modern Republican creed.

Right now Romney is determined to make sure Republicans don't change their minds.

David M. Shribman, a North Shore native and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

(mailto:dshribman@post-gazette.com , 412 263-1890). Follow him on Twitter at ShribmanPG)

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Romney is the perceived front runner by the left wing establishment media not the Conservative movement just want to make that clear.

GOP Needs To Wake Up

A Campaign For Every Viewpoint, Romney 2012

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We can not afford to have this bumbling RINO idiot for the 2012 Republican nomination.God help us.

Romney Defends Massachusetts Health Care Plan

  Obama's Running Mate From Wall Street Journal Opinion Editorial

 


Mitt Romney travels to Ann Arbor today to deliver what his campaign bills as a major address laying out his "2012 principles for health-care reform." These are likely to be sensible, but what we'll be listening for is how he explains his health-care principles of five years ago.
As everyone knows, the health reform Mr. Romney passed in 2006 as Massachusetts Governor was the prototype for President Obama's version and gave national health care a huge political boost. Mr. Romney now claims ObamaCare should be repealed, but his failure to explain his own role or admit any errors suggests serious flaws both in his candidacy and as a potential President.
There's a lot to learn from the failure of the ObamaCare model that began in Massachusetts, which is now moving to impose price controls on all hospitals, doctors and other providers. Not that anyone would know listening to Mr. Romney. In the paperback edition of his campaign book "No Apology," he calls the plan a "success," and he has defended it in numerous media appearances as he plans his White House run.

Editorial Writer Joe Rago previews Romney's speech today.

Mr. Romney has lately qualified his praise, saying in a speech in New Hampshire in March that "our experiment wasn't perfect—some things worked, some things didn't, and some things I'd change." He's mostly avoided specifics other than retreating to the cover of state experimentation, but we can fill in the details based on interviews with Romney staffers as well as others present at the creation.
When Mr. Romney took office in 2003, the state was already enforcing public utility-style regulation of insurers for premiums and multiple benefit mandates. The resulting distortions were increasing rates fast, along with the natural increases from good but expensive Massachusetts medicine.

Mr. Romney applied the approach that succeeded when he was a Bain & Company business consultant: He convened an expert task force. His health-care commission immersed itself in data, crunched the numbers and came up with a technocratic solution.
The conceit was that a universal reform would cover everyone and all but pay for itself by reorganizing the state's health-care finances. Since 1985, Massachusetts footed most of the bill when the uninsured showed up for treatment through a $800 million fund for uncompensated care. That money, along with extra federal Medicaid dollars under a special waiver, would subsidize lower- and middle-income residents.
In the name of personal responsibility, Mr. Romney also introduced the individual mandate, first in the nation, requiring everyone to buy coverage or else pay a penalty. Free riders, he said, transferred their own costs to others, either through higher premiums or taxes. This is the same argument the Obama Administration is now using to justify the coercion of the individual mandate in the federal courts. Because the states have police powers under the Constitution, Mr. Romney's plan posed no legal problems. His blunder was his philosophy of government.
The people who don't buy coverage though they can afford it aren't really a major fiscal problem—unless the goal of the individual mandate is to force them to subsidize others. People who are priced out of coverage require subsidies—so in practice the logic of the individual mandate is that it is a government mandate too. Entitlements automatically grow and grow, and then the political class begins to make decisions that used to be left to markets and individuals.
Massachusetts took off on this entitlement trajectory after Mr. Romney signed the bill in 2006 and stepped down to run for President two years later. Let's go to the data, all of which are state-reported, in search of evidence of Mr. Romney's "success."
The only good news we can find is that the uninsured rate has dropped to 2% today from 6% in 2006. Yet four out of five of the newly insured receive low- or no-cost coverage from the government. The subsidies will cost at least $830 million in 2011 and are growing, conservatively measured, at 5.1% a year. Total state health-care spending as a share of the budget has grown from about 16% in the 1980s to 30% in 2006 to 40% today. The national state average is about 25%.
The safety-net fund that was supposed to be unwound, well, wasn't. Uncompensated hospital care rose 5% from 2008 to 2009, and 15% from 2009 to 2010, hitting $475 million (though the state only paid out $405 million). "Avoidable" use of emergency rooms—that is, for routine care like a sore throat—increased 9% between 2004 and 2008. Meanwhile, unsubsidized insurance premiums for individuals and small businesses have climbed to among the highest in the nation.
Like Mr. Obama's reform, RomneyCare was predicated on the illusion that insurance would be less expensive if everyone were covered. Even if this theory were plausible, it is not true in Massachusetts today. So as costs continue to climb, Mr. Romney's Democratic successor now wants to create a central board of political appointees to decide how much doctors and hospitals should be paid for thousands of services.
The Romney camp blames all this on a failure of execution, not of design. But by this cause-and-effect standard, Mr. Romney could push someone out of an airplane and blame the ground for killing him. Once government takes on the direct or implicit liability of paying for health care for everyone, the only way to afford it is through raw political control of all medical decisions.
Mr. Romney's refusal to appreciate this, then and now, reveals a troubling failure of political understanding and principle. The raucous national debate over health care isn't about this or that technocratic detail, but about basic differences over the role of government. In the current debate over Medicare, Paul Ryan wants to reduce costs by encouraging private competition while Mr. Obama wants the cost-cutting done by a body of unelected experts like the one emerging in Massachusetts.
Mr. Romney's fundamental error was assuming that such differences could be parsed by his own group of experts, as if government can be run by management consultants. He still seems to believe he somehow squared the views of Jonathan Gruber, the MIT evangelist for ObamaCare, with those of the Heritage Foundation.
In reality, his ostensible liberal allies like the late Ted Kennedy saw an opening to advance their own priorities, and in Mr. Romney they took advantage of a politician who still doesn't seem to understand how government works. It's no accident that RomneyCare's most vociferous defenders now are in the White House and left-wing media and think tanks. They know what happened, even if he doesn't.

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For a potential President whose core argument is that he knows how to revive free market economic growth, this amounts to a fatal flaw. Presidents lead by offering a vision for the country rooted in certain principles, not by promising a technocracy that runs on "data." Mr. Romney's highest principle seems to be faith in his own expertise.
More immediately for his Republican candidacy, the debate over ObamaCare and the larger entitlement state may be the central question of the 2012 election. On that question, Mr. Romney is compromised and not credible. If he does not change his message, he might as well try to knock off Joe Biden and get on the Obama ticket.

Mitt Romney announces White House exploratory committee By Dave Wedge Boston Herald Political Reporter

Mitt is back in.
Former Bay State Gov. Mitt Romney officially jumped into the 2012 presidential race today by forming an exploratory committee. Taking a cue from President Obama, Romney made the announcement in a video blasted out over Facebook and Twitter after meeting with students at the University of New Hampshire. Obama announced his reelection campaign via YouTube just days ago.
"It is time that we put America back on a course of greatness, with a growing economy, good jobs and fiscal discipline in Washington," Romney says in the video. "I believe in America. I believe in the freedom and opportunity, and the principles of our constitution, that have led us to become the greatest nation in the history of the earth – and I believe that these principles will confirm American’s future as well."
Romney, who stands as the GOP frontrunner in many polls, ran in 2008 but lost in the Republican primary to Sen. John McCain. Romney has been targeted by Democrats and Republicans over his health care policy in Massachusetts, which led to the nation’s first universal health insurance program. The initiative, signed by Romney five years ago, has been portrayed as the blueprint for Obamacare.
Romney is viewed as a stiff challenger this time around as he’s already been vetted by opponents and withstood the harsh rigors of a presidential campaign, including taking hits during debates and bouncing back. Since 2008, Romney has spent a great deal of time and money building upon his national political machine, focusing on helping Republicans win races across the country. He also wrote the book, "No Apologies: The Case for American Greatness," which many pundits said was a signal he would in fact run for president again.
"This effort is not about a person, it is about the cause of American freedom and greatness," Romney says in the video.

Mitt Romney Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee

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Hey Mitt wake up!Remember the SameSex Marriage Issue and now Romney/Obama Care.Mitt you are a liberal baffoon RINO quit while you are behind

Romney A Fraud For President

 If the man in this picture is to become President this country is in serious serious trouble.He was a failure as Governor of Massachusetts on two fronts politically.He was the reason why Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to have Universal Health Care passed currently known as "Romney Care" which was the model nationally now known as "Obama Care" and if Mitt Romney becomes the Republican Nominee for 2012 if he is elected to the Oval office he will push for the Health Care that is there right now.
 Second is the Same sex marriage issue.Which became law back in 2003 because Gov.Romney along with a so called "Blue Dog Democrat" House Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Thomas Finneran at the time didn't have the guts and backbone to stand up to the left wing Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court that broke the Massachusetts Constitution by violating the Separation of Powers act by telling the legislature to make law by ordering the lawmaker to vote on making Same sex marriage law.
 To be honest I don't believe that Romney has learned his lesson from the aforementioned issues.A real principled CONSERVATIVE would have fought tooth and nail to defend the Constitution which he swore to defend to begin after all it is in their oath of office.We need our next President to be a strong Constitutionally minded leader party affiliation is irrelevant.