Romney -- Ouch

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  • toasty
    Sir Toastiness
    • Jun 2004
    • 6585

    Romney -- Ouch

    Anyone see the anti-endorsement the New Hampshire Concord Monitor gave to Mitt Romney? Not good at all -- but it mirrors a lot of my own thoughts about Romney, that he has no core convictions and will say whatever it politically convenient.

    The Concord Monitor is a Pulitzer Prize winning daily newspaper and website located in the capital city of New Hampshire. The Concord Monitor is Central NH's dominant media with more than 70 percent household penetration. The Monitor is a key source of news and information for Concord, NH.


    Some highlights below, but it's short and worth the read:
    Romney should not be the next president

    If you were building a Republican presidential candidate from a kit, imagine what pieces you might use: an athletic build, ramrod posture, Reaganesque hair, a charismatic speaking style and a crisp dark suit. You'd add a beautiful wife and family, a wildly successful business career and just enough executive government experience. You'd pour in some old GOP bromides - spending cuts and lower taxes - plus some new positions for 2008: anti-immigrant rhetoric and a focus on faith.

    Add it all up and you get Mitt Romney, a disquieting figure who sure looks like the next president and most surely must be stopped.

    * * *

    If you followed only his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and an ability to work well with Democrats. If you followed only his campaign for president, you'd swear he was a red-meat conservative, pandering to the religious right, whatever the cost. Pay attention to both, and you're left to wonder if there's anything at all at his core.

    * * *

    People can change, and intransigence is not necessarily a virtue. But Romney has yet to explain this particular set of turnarounds in a way that convinces voters they are based on anything other than his own ambition.

    * * *

    When New Hampshire partisans are asked to defend the state's first-in-the-nation primary, we talk about our ability to see the candidates up close, ask tough questions and see through the baloney. If a candidate is a phony, we assure ourselves and the rest of the world, we'll know it.

    Mitt Romney is such a candidate. New Hampshire Republicans and independents must vote no.
    Ouch
  • toasty
    Sir Toastiness
    • Jun 2004
    • 6585

    #2
    Re: Romney -- Ouch

    And the hits keep on coming -- a second anti-endorsement in NH...



    [Mitt Romney] has spoken his lines well, but the people can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt.

    Last week Romney was reduced to debating what the meaning of "saw" is. It was only the latest in a string of demonstrably false claims -- he'd been a hunter "pretty much" all his life, he'd had the NRA's endorsement, he marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. -- that call into question the veracity of his justifications for switching sides on immigration, abortion, taxes and his affection for Ronald Reagan.

    In this primary, the more Mitt Romney speaks, the less believable he becomes.
    On the one hand, who really cares about who a newspaper endorses. On the other hand, when you've got editorials from conservative newspapers going out of their way to make sure you don't get elected, it can't be good.

    I'd feel bad for the guy if I didn't think the articles were spot on...

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    • AntonyM
      DUDERZ get a life!!!
      • Oct 2004
      • 6415

      #3
      Re: Romney -- Ouch

      This guy is a fake and a punk
      Regean would not have pissed down his throat
      if it was on fire.
      Originally posted by Shpira
      So came back last night...
      Sven Vath was amazing...he played a god damn killer set...ended up going to that and came to at like 10 am in some whore house in south Amsterdam...no idea how I ended up there...friday was a bit of a blur got really drunk and visited several parties can't remember a whole lot to be honest hehe...saturday was probably the best day that I recall...started up in the nearest coffee shop and going from party to party...beautiful woman, beer and weed...finished the night by taking some shrooms and listening to an amazing elke kleijn set...sunday...i met a nice girl who worked at one of the coffee shops and ended up talking to her for like 6 hours...was supposed to meet her at some DnB party...but instead went for a steak and walked around red light district bars drinking and smoking...monday took it easy went to a coffee shop and took a taxi to airport....

      All in all...I think I will be going back there some time soon
      Originally posted by Illuminate
      Let me get this straight.

      So white-middle class Americans have been told by their Television sets to be fearful of:

      1. Mexicans/Latinos from the South bringing drugs and killings n' shit.
      2. African Americans cause mos def they are raging a race war and want to occupy America like how the plebs occupied Wall St.
      3. Iranians/Afghans/Any one of middle eastern origin to be quite frank, cause you know Islam...
      4. North Koreans/Chinese cause you know everything...

      Am I close here?

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