Reagan was pro choice when Governor of CA. Romney pretended to be pro choice whole running for the Senate against Kennedy in 1994. Romney position on gay marriage has not changed.

Basilsbest on January 6, 2013 at 3:16 PM

Pretended to be pro-choice? Puh-leeze.

First, that speaks to the flip-flopping nature of Romney — which is that he’ll tell anyone what they want to hear. That is dishonorable to begin with. Next, Romney made passionate defenses of abortion in both his senatorial as well as his gubernatorial run. So this is all pretend? And what, am I supposed to believe that when he told the Des Moines Register he’d do nothing about abortion that he was pretending again? Yeah, right!

His gay marriage position hasn’t changed? So, when he ran to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights, he was a solid pro-marriage conservative? You know, the same one who was the first governor to ever implement gay marriage in the country?

Romney supported a ban on assault weapons but was otherwise not in support of gun control. Romney is as honorable, decent and accomplished a leader as the GOP will ever have. Anyone who would describe him as despicable is both despicable and unhinged.

George W. Bush was far more honorable than that sleazy hack ever was.

The problem with the GOP is too many extremists like Stoic Patriot, though one would be too many. They are a small but noisy and angry minority who are totally out of touch with the mainstream of society.

Sure, so the pro-life plurality/majority that shows up in polls is completely out of touch with the mainstream. And so too are the 50% of Americans who oppose gay marriage. And so are the majority who support the second amendment. Riiiiiiiiiight.

And it’s way more than 47% of Americans who are irresponsible.

An honorable man doesn’t change their position depending on who their audience is. An honorable man doesn’t let political allies change the rules of petition processes and delegate allocation during or after the game. An honorable man doesn’t dismiss 47% of the American people as irresponsible.

Mitt Romney was not an honorable man. And proven leader? The only thing the guy was was a proven disaster. From abortion to gay marriage to Romneycare to gun control, he was a despicable man who thankfully never seized control of the reins of power.

Reagan was pro choice when Governor of CA. Romney pretended to be pro choice whole running for the Senate against Kennedy in 1994. Romney position on gay marriage has not changed. Romney supported a ban on assault weapons but was otherwise not in support of gun control. Romney is as honorable, decent and accomplished a leader as the GOP will ever have. Anyone who would describe him as despicable is both despicable and unhinged.

The problem with the GOP is too many extremists like Stoic Patriot, though one would be too many. They are a small but noisy and angry minority who are totally out of touch with the mainstream of society.

If you want to know what is going on in Boston, for normal people, there is The Herald to read. Sometimes they put AP stories in the Herald “As Filler” and the readers are catching on to that, because usually there is some insult to free and thinking people’s intelligence in the first paragraph.

The news in Boston is This: Duval Patrick is an absentee Governor, Hands Off, Governor. It is probably best that way, we have mostly liberals in the legislature and they have a political machine that processes all the spare government jobs, and hands them out to hacks, their relatives and their wives in secret, and they hire their friends too and no one does their job. It is the opposite of a merit system, you have to hire the worst workers and pay them the most, and they can’t ever be let go.

Why does this BOSTON news matter to you? Because out there in Fly Over country 50 people have been sickened/died from a contaminated cortisone prepared here in a lab which was supposed to be monitored by Highly Paid Massachusetts GOVERNMENT workers.

The supervisor of all this Safety, was let go. Her name was Mary Beth Heffernan. She was suspended from her job…pending the investigation. You may have head the NEWS from Boston was that new safety precautions are a TOP PRIORITY of Duval Patrick.

And that was in the news. But you did not see that the lady in charge is being rewarded in his Culture of Corruption, with a judgeship. THAT IS THE NEWS, not that some republicans somewhere are featured in the news quibbling.

The real news:
http://howiecarr.us/2012/12/18/the-states-next-hack-judge/

Ryan Williams, a Republican operative and former Romney aide. “It doesn’t make us look like we’re in a position to challenge the president and hold him accountable to the promises he made.”
Sounds like a great platform for a presidential candiidate. Too bad you didn’t try it. Wethal on January 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM

Too bad you missed it. Stoned?

The country could have had a proven leader and experienced businessman with an admirable work ethic, who would not have spent weeks in Hawaii on the taxpayer dime or played golf at every opportunity. An honorable and decent man who would have done his level best to get the country back on track, as daunting a task as that now is thanks to Obama and the Dems.

Meredith on January 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM

An honorable man doesn’t change their position depending on who their audience is. An honorable man doesn’t let political allies change the rules of petition processes and delegate allocation during or after the game. An honorable man doesn’t dismiss 47% of the American people as irresponsible.

Mitt Romney was not an honorable man. And proven leader? The only thing the guy was was a proven disaster. From abortion to gay marriage to Romneycare to gun control, he was a despicable man who thankfully never seized control of the reins of power.

Conservatives didn’t want him. And the TruCons here at HA (some of whom have shown themselves to be anti-Mormon bigots) are indeed very angry people, bitter that the majority won’t recognize their moral superiority, determined to destroy the Republican Party–which they are thus far accomplishing in a spectacular, albeit counterproductive, manner.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Meredith on January 6, 2013 at 2:13 PM

The TruCons as you call them aren’t interested in their moral standing versus those of others. All they want are leaders who are moral, not lying, opportunistic weasels like Willard.

If demands that those who lead the GOP ought to…

1.) maintain good character and
2.) have an ideology that conforms to the platform of the party

…are too “extreme”, then the party deserves to die.

A good chunk are not Rs any more. They are Ds now.

Conservatives didn’t want him. And the TruCons here at HA (some of whom have shown themselves to be anti-Mormon bigots) are indeed very angry people, bitter that the majority won’t recognize their moral superiority, determined to destroy the Republican Party–which they are thus far accomplishing in a spectacular, albeit counterproductive, manner.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.