Mitt: “I … speak for the Republican wing of the Republican Party”; Flashback video: McCain stumps for Mitt in 2002
posted at 10:28 pm on October 13, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Recognize that formulation? He’s borrowing a phrase from Howard Dean. Really. I thought it was odious in 2004 when Dean-o coined it as an expression of his own alleged authenticity and ideological purity and I think it’s odious now, but Dobson et al. are practically begging for this sort of rhetoric vis-a-vis Giuliani and Mitt needs them to win. So, it’s come to this:
The former Massachusetts governor, who espoused moderate views in his 1994 bid to unseat Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said that when Republicans act like Democrats, the nation loses.
“I believe conservatives across the nation and particularly in states where I have been able to take my message, like Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and Michigan and Florida and Nevada, that conservatives that have heard me time and again recognize that I do speak for the Republican wing of the Republican Party,” Romney said…
“When Republicans act like Democrats, America loses,” he said. “It’s time for Republicans to act like Republicans again.”
Asked later whether he thought Giuliani was a Democrat in Republican clothes, Romney declined to answer.
This is an awfully strange time in American history to be trying to make the Republican tent smaller. Go read what McCain had to say about Mitt’s qualifications as the “real Republican” in the race in response.
Update: The Romney camp parries McCain’s thrust by posting this video from 2002.
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Oh Mcguyver, don’t you know being thorough and honest is a weakness?
WE WANT FOLKSISMS! WE WANT SOUTHERN DRAWL! WE WANT A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING! FRAUD THOMPSON ‘08!
BKennedy on October 14, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Yeah……riiight.
How many times have we heard that Mitt almost seems too perfect:
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And, too good to be true:
Fatalism, not optimism, says: “no candidate is ever good enough, but then when they are good enough, it can’t be true”.
I recommend, prescription strength: Chillpill™
Mcguyver on October 14, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Ha ha ha. Quite right. Quite right.
Troy Rasmussen on October 14, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Interesting analysis for the Rudy naysayers:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/10/rudy_and_religion.html
Bradky on October 15, 2007 at 12:35 AM
Parries? No, they back stab. McCain said a few nice words about Romney and they try and use this against McCain? This is really low, gutter politics. Romney has no ethics.
Bill C on October 15, 2007 at 3:25 AM
An Aussie group from the seventies. I finally got Google to work again. Strange link here in Thailand. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
Texas Nick 77 on October 15, 2007 at 5:12 AM
Thailand? Weren’t you just in Iraq working on a power plant?
csdeven on October 15, 2007 at 8:37 AM
What universe are you living in? Here is what McCain said about Mitt on Saturday.
Mitt, who ran to the left of Ted Kennedy in 1994, was unconditionally supported by McCain as a super-conservative in 2002. Mitt governed more conservatively than he ran in 1994.
So, McCain wants to skewer Mitt as a liberal NOW when he heaped accolades on him when he ran to the left of Ted Kennedy?!
IS THAT WHAT YOU’RE SAYING!? This is really low, gutter politics. Neither you nor McCain have any ethics.
csdeven on October 15, 2007 at 8:48 AM
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