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In response to a query about Mitt Romney questioning Newt Gingrich’s Ronald Reagan bonafides, Romney just said he “wasn’t terribly politically involved” until he ran for Governor here in Massachusetts.
So Romney “wasn’t terribly politically involved” when he ran against Ted Kennedy in 1994?
He “wasn’t terribly politically involved” when he said he didn’t want to return to Reagan-Bush?
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 1.26.12 @ 9:44PM
You obviously don't like him. What's the point? It sounded perfectly reasonable. Let's look at this way. Of the four remaining candidates he has no federal contamination.
The debate format of picking out all these Hispanics or middle easterners to ask questions is annoying.
JJ| 1.26.12 @ 10:51PM
His whole establishment support is federal contamination. The support of loser candidates like Mc Cain and Dole is federal contamination.
Jack in Wi.| 1.26.12 @ 10:59PM
Mutt=Nutt=Oblabla. They are more of the same.
More torture,and deniel of civil liberties.
More bailouts for their pals.
More Goldman Sachs and the FED running the economy into the ground.
More endless war and final bankruptcy.
Dai Alanye | 1.27.12 @ 12:09AM
Romney wants to be the outsider in Washington. I'll bet if he were appointing a senior officer to one of his compapnies he'd be less excited about getting someone who's an "outsider" to the business world.
Drek| 1.26.12 @ 10:47PM
It doesn't matter Aaron.
The fix is in.
I can't tell you how irritated too by I am by Tyrrel's piece.
Steyn, now Tyrrel too.
Guy's who lament the way things are being done inside the Beltway, yet who effectively supported the nominee, AND THE WING OF THE GOP that intends to do nothing but more of the same.
Both men came out and threw in with the Northeastern wing of the party, the section of the country the GOP doesn't need to prevail, and hasn't carried since Reagan. But more to the point, that section of the party most resistant to change, most in tune with the DC/NYC/MSM axis, most then vulnerable to media and liberal pressure to conform the GOP positions with the prevailing prejudices that swirl up on the Upper East/West Side of Manhattan.
A good chunk of this is about homosexualism.
The Northeastern wing sees continued resistance to the wideranging and ambitious gay agenda as a species of Jim Crow, which will go down in history forever besmirching those involved with it. And they don't have much time or patience with those determined to secure the border or overturn Roe/Casey.
John - TMF| 1.26.12 @ 10:54PM
Since, according to Michael Reagan, Romney voted for Carter, and then Mondale his entire Gingrich is the Anti-Reagan line is pure chutzpah and typical liberal projection. Romney wasn't even a Republican until his Senate race to the Left of Teddy K.
The most anti-Reagan candidate running is Romney... Just ask Bobdole, he'll tell ya. The Establishment hated Reagan and worked to subvert him at every turn.
Half truths, cropped statements, purposeful misinterpretation of statements (misrepresentation is more like it.) are being used to smear Gingrich, now. Isn't it ironic that every single non-Establishment Conservative has been dispatched by the same crowd. They just have gotten closer to full bore panic as Newt has come closer than anyone yet to uniting the 75% non-establishment folks.
The smears are heavy and ugly. Romney does fight dirty when he's doing it against members of his own achem... cough cough.. party.
If he buys and smears his way to the nomination, betcha the squack wagon is left rusting in the barn out back of his other vacation home. He wouldn't dare treat The One that way.
I also think that by August, whoever is left wobbling after all of this is going to have no energy, resources, or support. I hear more and more Non-Romneys taking the Pledge.
I am not voting for Romney. None of the three other voters in my family will vote for him either. Not now, not ever... never. He is a Liberal Democrat who won't be one ounce different than OZero; except get the blame (along with the Republican Party) for the eventual total collapse of the economy.
Gingrich or bust.
-TMF
Elaine Luiz| 1.27.12 @ 11:24AM
100% agree.
Drek| 1.26.12 @ 11:11PM
Romney is like McCain in that regard.
The only people that seem to rouse them into attack mode are those ostensibly on their same side.
But as for obama, -----------------just a disagreement, --------------------- just in over his head.
A Romney victory represents the installment ceremony of the Northeastern wing as our political masters.
They will now decide who is or is not acceptable.
Moreover, they will now decide what issue they deem worth the while pursuing.
They will be the ones deciding what amount of political capital we expend, and on what issue.
All of our Congressional candidates will effectively have to make their peace with them and their control because they'll control purse strings, assignments in Washington as well as access to financiers and any opportunity to move upwards.
They're now our overlords.
They're now the gatekeepers and the tellers of the bank.
People haven't any idea how crucial it was that Romney be wholly rejected.
For a guy like Mark Steyn to throw in with Romney, while he has been singing the song of a need for genuine reform, -------------- just unbelievable.
And their fantasies about his electability are about to be cast violently into the glare of the noonday political Sun, which will be blinding indeed.
Drudge and some others did the heavy labour here. But they won't be able to carry him in a general.
jstwndring| 1.27.12 @ 3:08AM
@Drek and John - TMF,
You guys hit it squarely on the head. Romney is a phony. And it's obvious. I can't believe the conservatives who post responses here in favor of the former Democrat who signed into law, socialized medicine in his state. Norm Coleman, a Romney aid (and another former Democrat), said Obamacare is here to stay. A vote for Romney would change what, exactly? No wonder a pro-Constitution, limited government agenda never gets implemented. We listen to the oh-so-sophisticated "conservative" pundits tell us to vote for socialists. And guess what? We do it!
This truly is a WTF moment.
Drek| 1.27.12 @ 10:29AM
Only Sarah Palin can turn this around now.
Only Sarah Palin has the clout to swing all remaining resistance to Romney behind Gingrich.
And if she doesn't do it? Then we're done.
If Romney wins the nomination, Trump will jump in, because he knows Romney hasn't any intentions to impose the level of change necessary to save the country and economy.
ohio Jim| 1.27.12 @ 12:18PM
It is time for some of the so called conservatives to get off their above the fray crap and come out for one candidate or the other and stop with the bull crap , it is too early, stuff. what are they waiting for nov. I am talking to you mr. limbaugh, mrs. palin and any others that are hiding behind some sorry backside excuse. No guts, no gloria.