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2012-02-12 -Election 2012

Romney vows 'new conservative era' if elected president

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Posted by Fred 2012-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Really? How about my Bucket politician re-regurgitation list is just some outlier to be grasped at AFTER "you" Won? Huh?

Posted by newc 2012-02-12 01:45|| 2012-02-12 01:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Can we store this article and re-post it a year after (if) he's elected?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2012-02-12 03:06|| 2012-02-12 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Accountability is work that all men must demand of "Kings".

Posted by newc 2012-02-12 04:17|| 2012-02-12 04:17|| Front Page Top

#4 He's going to have a soul, brain and spine transplant then?

Wow, didn't think that was possible.

Posted by Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2012-02-12 05:16|| 2012-02-12 05:16|| Front Page Top

#5 A new 'conservative era' with real live conservatives, who will serve conservatively?

Posted by Besoeker 2012-02-12 05:45|| 2012-02-12 05:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The New Hope and Change(tm)?

Posted by Procopius2k 2012-02-12 08:18|| 2012-02-12 08:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Me-ow, Silentbrick! :-D

Love it.

Posted by Barbara 2012-02-12 08:51|| 2012-02-12 08:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I was a severely conservative Republican governor

He will have trouble with debating ObamaCare since RomneyCare isn't so different. What does that leave him to debate Obama as a "severely" conservative candidate?

He was a Pub governor in a blue state with a blue legislature. I wonder how he pulled that off and got anything done? Must have been a high wire balancing act.

Posted by JohnQC 2012-02-12 08:53|| 2012-02-12 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 I wonder how he pulled that off and got anything done?

I was here; he didn't get that much done.

Posted by Raj 2012-02-12 09:03|| 2012-02-12 09:03|| Front Page Top

#10 He keeps using that word 'Conservative'... I don't think it means what he thinks it means.

Posted by CrazyFool 2012-02-12 09:22|| 2012-02-12 09:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Raj, was here and I'm still here.

It sickens me to think that Mitt is probably the best we can get. You're right, he didn't do much and seemed to have no goal but personal power. That's why he was so much the "go along to get along" stooge he seemed to be.

The one thing I can say positively is that he never seemed to be corrupt.

Posted by AlanC 2012-02-12 09:43|| 2012-02-12 09:43|| Front Page Top

#12 What Crazy Fool said

Posted by European Conservative 2012-02-12 10:04|| 2012-02-12 10:04|| Front Page Top

#13 AlanC, if your observation is correct, and he actually wasn't corrupt, that is not a trivial accomplishment.

Posted by Glenmore 2012-02-12 10:07|| 2012-02-12 10:07|| Front Page Top

#14 Thought experiment, based on the comments above: given what Mitt Romney did/did not accomplish as a Republican governor in a strongly Blue state with liberal Democratic control of both house of the state legislature, how is he likely to act as a Republican president with Tea Party Republicans setting the tone in both houses of Congress? We already know the answer for Mr. Obama...

Posted by trailing wife 2012-02-12 10:09|| 2012-02-12 10:09|| Front Page Top

#15 The objective here isn't to re-elect Ronald Reagan -- that's just not on the menu this year. The objective is to un-elect Barack Obama before he does more damage. So all I want to know about any Republican candidate is: Can he beat Obama? And the guy with the highest probability of doing that sure looks like Romney.

Posted by Matt 2012-02-12 10:54|| 2012-02-12 10:54|| Front Page Top

#16 We need a picture of someone selling the Brooklin Bridge.

Posted by Frozen Al 2012-02-12 10:58|| 2012-02-12 10:58|| Front Page Top

#17 Glenmore, given the press that we have here in MA I think that it would have been very obvious if Mitt was seriously corrupt.

But, he is a politician and a wink and a nod to a friend in need or to the friend of a needed ally in the legislature is not beyond belief. By and large though I believe that he was not corrupt.

My biggist problem with Mitt is that he always seemed to be a believer in "Gov't can fix everything", aka big government. Whether that was a result of the politics in this state, bluer than blue, I don't know.

My hope is that if he gets elected he continues to go along to get along and TW's idea of a Tea Party controlled congress holds true.

Posted by AlanC 2012-02-12 11:29|| 2012-02-12 11:29|| Front Page Top

#18 he always seemed to be a believer in "Gov't can fix everything"
I think that belief applies to pretty much anyone in government these days. Some (Obama) more than others, but of the remaining candidates only Ron Paul is a 'misfit' (but then he misfits in everything.)

Posted by Glenmore 2012-02-12 11:36|| 2012-02-12 11:36|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm with Matt. You got to war with the guy that you have, not what you wish you had. It IS a war. If you think Obama was an arrogant radical socialist before, wait til he doesn't have to worry about re-election. How many Supreme Court justices will he get to appoint? How many Fed judges? If Mittens wins the primary, and it increasingly looks like he will, then I'm pulling the lever for Mittens and pushing him to be more conservative. Make him promise positions that we can hold him to

Posted by Frank G 2012-02-12 12:44|| 2012-02-12 12:44|| Front Page Top

#20 President of what?

I'm thinking the Boston Lions Club. Kiwanis?

Posted by Anonymoose 2012-02-12 13:20|| 2012-02-12 13:20|| Front Page Top

#21 #16 We need a picture of someone selling the Brooklin Bridge

Three card monty will have to do...

Posted by badanov 2012-02-12 13:25|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2012-02-12 13:25|| Front Page Top

#22 Actually all 3 of the GOP candidate are fans of Big Government depending on what Big Government is doing for their favorite causes. Santorum's voting record reveals a lot of that, and Gingrich & Romney both favor the Individual Mandate. Romney's record in Mass is not that good, and Gingrich's couch trip with Pelosi shows his tendency to weathervane around to very bad ideas.

So its all a matter of which one do you think can beat Obama and still be "fixable" in office in terms of court appointments, veto of pork bills, and rolling back Obama care and all the Czars and bad executive policy Obama has made.

(not counting Ron Paul, his foreign policy and conspiracy mongering mark him as a loony on anything other than smaller government and parts of economic policy)

Posted by OldSpook 2012-02-12 13:37|| 2012-02-12 13:37|| Front Page Top

#23 Anyway, how many of you who voted for McCain would consider Romney more conservative? I do, not by much, but I think he is. So its an improvement from 08, going from "worse" to "bad" from a conservative/libertarian viewpoint.

Most important is, win or lose, whoever the candidate is, he must NOT hurt the down ticket. The GOP has an opportunity to put some more real conservatives into the Senate (maybe enough to take control), and to keep control of the House.

I wonder how we would now feel looking back at 4 years of the President (Fred) Thompson administration's work?

Posted by OldSpook 2012-02-12 13:42|| 2012-02-12 13:42|| Front Page Top

#24 "He keeps using that word 'Conservative'... I don't think it means what he thinks it means."

I don't think Romney knows what he think it means, CF. :-(

Posted by Barbara 2012-02-12 13:52|| 2012-02-12 13:52|| Front Page Top

#25 "thinks"

:-(

Posted by Barbara 2012-02-12 14:00|| 2012-02-12 14:00|| Front Page Top

#26
Mittens, Newt, and the Doctor:

~~Sound good on stage~~
~~Appear credible<~~
~~Have well thought out plans~~
~~Inspire voter confidence~~
Are all looking for a new line of work.

Oh well, one out of four... not bad I suppose.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-02-12 14:01|| 2012-02-12 14:01|| Front Page Top

#27 A guy on TV said the following:

A conservative, a moderate, and a liberal go into a bar. The bartender says: "How you doing Mitt?"

Posted by JohnQC 2012-02-12 14:28|| 2012-02-12 14:28|| Front Page Top

#28 This coming from the guy who's flip-flopped so many times, I bet his wife is wondering if the wedding vows were serious.

Posted by Charles 2012-02-12 18:11|| 2012-02-12 18:11|| Front Page Top

#29 Newt's wedding vows certainly were not. You know its bad when he has kids from his first wife (who he cheated on with wife #2) trying to discredit the second wife (who he cheated on with wife #3) for criticizing the third wife.

Posted by OldSpook 2012-02-12 18:33|| 2012-02-12 18:33|| Front Page Top

#30 That's a keeper, John. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2012-02-12 18:37|| 2012-02-12 18:37|| Front Page Top

#31 Mitt can't win. Just like McCain and Dole couldn't win. Republican turnout is already down in the primaries. He's a Schlapschwanz with no base. And if he can't motivate Republicans, how will he motivate independents?

Posted by Iblis 2012-02-12 20:35|| 2012-02-12 20:35|| Front Page Top