This sounds pretty strange coming from a full-fledged, flip-flopping RINO like Romney:
"I wonder which team [Santorum] was taking it for," Romney quipped, drawing cackles of laughter from the audience.Hey, that's my line. To quote myself from yesterday (sorry):
But while we're speculating, how would Romney have behaved as a US Senator during the Bush years? I've no doubt he would have been a team player, but I'm not sure which team he would have been playing for.Byron York on Twitter:
Wasn't Santorum taking it for George W. Bush, a president Romney supported, for NCLB, legislation Romney supported?Back to Romney:
"I don't know if I've ever seen a politician explain in so many ways why he voted against his principles," Romney also told the Phoenix crowd.Hang on there: Romney has principles? You wouldn't know it from this or this, pieces of the tangled web he has woven over the years around his "stand" on abortion. William Saletan:
Looking at the 1994 and 2007 videos, it’s hard to know which Romney to believe. The transformation they convey is more than a change of mind. It’s a rewriting of emotional experience, or at least what was advertised as emotional experience. Was Romney telling the truth in 1994 when he described how Ann Keenan’s death had shaken his family? Or was he telling the truth in 2007 when he told Tim Russert that abortion was only theoretical to him until he became governor? How can you forget or minimize something you portrayed as so wrenching? How can one man be real unless the other is acting?So -- what exactly are Romney's principles? There's no way of knowing at this point, and it doesn't really matter. His record only makes sense if you see him as a political opportunist. Back in 2002 he was selling himself as a moderate who would work as a liberal change agent from within the GOP. Now he's selling himself as something else. Why should we believe him?
Why, again, would a conservative vote for this guy?
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I find it abhorrent that Romney is bashing Santorum for being a "Washington guy", when the squishy Repub establishment - made up of "Washington guys" - is soundly behind Romney. Duplicitous much?
ReplyDeleteROMNEY IS THE ONLY GUY LEFT WITH ANY PRINCIPLES.
ReplyDeleteWhat are they?
ReplyDeleteI would think that as a Mormon who seems to be in good faith with his church, he has core principles. Great for the Mormon church.
ReplyDeletePolitically, not so much.
But, I will say this. He is a go along to get along guy who wants to have a second term. If (and only if) a strong conservative senate is elected, he will follow the conservative agenda. Not very heartening, but it is probably the best I can say about him.
But, I will say that I am meeting more and more people who are truly conservative and back him. They say his record has been distorted. I don't see it, but they do.
I've heard some of those people on talk radio. When asked to list even two or three positive reasons to vote for Romney, they can't. They're clinging to his supposed electability. Sad.
ReplyDeleteHere in Massachusetts there is no way to regard Romney as a conservative. He seems to be dreaming about all the conservative things he did here, and the ways he supported the Catholic Church's conscience. Granted that the Church here did nothing for herself (that's a different cup of bitterness) during his tenure.
ReplyDeleteI can only hope and pray for a brokered convention in which a serious, consistent, electable conservative emerges. Romney and Santorum -- honestly, which one did more for Obama? That's the only argument left.
Leila:
ReplyDeleteBe careful about the brokered convention wish. I went to a meeting last night about the delegate election for the national convention in Virginia.
Paulites are foaming at the mouth over this. They are organizing in every state and signing up for the conventions in order to vote Paul on a second ballot. Sadly, in VA they are so well organized they they more than likely get many of the delegates we will be sending. The chances of me getting a delegate spot are very small that I have decided to not bother wasting my time going around meeting and talking to people. I have no shot at getting it. The two delegates from district will be voting for Paul on the second ballot.