…just saying.

And simply not witty, funny, or helpful in anyway.

Your sour grapes on the Conservative base doesn’t help Romney’s chances.

This picture highlights that we’ve been very consistent in our desire to nominate anyone but Romney.

is a winning strategy when you’re mired at 25% in the polls.

It must be erasable marker, since Perry is going to beat Mitt Romney.

P.S. — Generally not a good idea to make conservatives dislike Mitt Romney more, when you’re obviously advocating his candidacy.

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Like me. I supported Pawlenty in the beginning. After he dropped out I’ve just been sitting back waiting.

Also, Bachmann, Cain, & Paul were never acceptable candidates for me from the very beginning. They eventually showed what I knew all along…and that is they just aren’t ready for the big stage (Paul is the loon we always knew he was).

BTW, in case he’s interested, I found a nice set of footwear for Mitt Romney.

that he works for Mitt Romney.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/justinhart

Not that that’s a big shocker to anyone…but if any of you take this tripe seriously, you should know that ahead of time.

What in heck does just sayin’ really mean? To me, passive aggression pretty much is the last refuge of someone doing the catchin’ instead of the pitchin’. Just sayin’…Teh!

…but it still dose not improve my feelings about Romney.

As a party and a movement we are not doing ourselves any favors with the sniping going on between Romney supporters and non-Romney supporters. Yes we all have our favorite candidates, but spending time on tearing down the other is a complete waist of time.

Any moment you spend negatively attacking GOP candidates is time you’ve waisted not getting to the ultimate goal – beating Obama.

RCP and I both missed when Bachmann led. And I never did find any polls with Pawlenty over 6, so he never led.

Who is the greatest President of our lifetime and the Conservative Icon President? Ronald Reagan.

But if Ronald Reagan were here today, running simply on his time in Sacramento, he would be ripped apart and called 100% not-conservative and a moderates moderate.

- Huge tax increase equal to 1/3 state budget
- 177% Spending increase during his tenure as Gov.
- One of the most aggressive pro-abortion bills passed and signed
- Lots of pro-environmental legislation

I would contend, that every candidate in the field has a record to the Right of Reagan as Governor, yet we keep trying to bring people down…

“This guys not a conservative he once supported individual mandate and sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi”….”Oh yeah, well I will trump your Nancy Pelosi with an Al Gore and letter to Hilary Clinton and receiving of farm subsidies”…”Well, Ive got both of you beat, your guy is ROMNEYCARE”…”Wait a minute, you cant say anything, you worked for the Obama administration”….”Excuse me Senator, but your not conservative, you supported Arlen Spector and voted for the Prescription Drug benefits”…

Sell people as to why your candidate is the best for President of the United States, not cherry picking records as to why someone should have their conservative mancard taken away.

He’s at least as terrible as the alternative!

this is not you?

Co-Chair, Faith and Values Committee Romney for President, Inc. Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Political Organization industry

2007 – Present (4 years)

(doesn’t the ‘present’ mean up to today.

cares!

I will not vote for Romney, if the GOP thinks they can jam a big government liberal down our throats, at this point in our history, then we might just be better off with Obama.

It offends me that the GOP is even trying to do this.

There is no real difference between romney and obama, they are both business as usual. At least with obama, people are pissed off.

If romney is the nominee, I’m going to take a vacation on election day. At least then I’ll enjoy the day.

I consider Romney a barely acceptable nominee. The debates and early votes will tell us if another candidate can stand the spotlight. Limbaugh seems to think Romney is a media bowling pin (set him up and knock him down). I am wondering if the media is sitting on derogatory information about Romney until September or October. There seems to be a “what’s wrong with this picture” lack of media scrutiny of Romney.

Definitely, Perry needs a second look. His record is the best. He has the best story on jobs. His plans are superior to anything anyone else has. He won Saturday night’s debate. He’s got the best ground game. He’s got money in the bank.

Hey streiff – I updated my LinkedIn profile about two years ago… I’m sorry you think I’m lying or otherwise.

How could I possible be working for Romney for President, Inc. over the past 4 years when it went dormant in 2008 and was only re-launched this year?

Even if Mr. Hart isn’t currently working for Romney, I don’t really think that matters – the point remains that he used to work for his campaign.

This is a lame and unwise attack on non-Romney fans. Trying to be cute and call people “flip-floppers” when your candidate has that label only points the flip-flopper attention back to your candidate.

The majority of the base doesn’t want Romney to be the nominee, and he hasn’t done anything to change that. If you’re a Romney fan, that’s fine, but don’t lash out at those who aren’t.

Isn’t it Romney who has been touting candidates for people to vote for if they have a substantive disagreement with him? I remember him telling us to vote for Cain…until Cain started surging.

Perry’s entry into the race helps Romney?”

Also his blog links directly to his LinkedIn account, so either he is lying or dumb, although both is also an option.

So, per consensus, notwithstanding his oratorical skills, The Newt should be supplanted by Rick.

Mitt supported the individual mandate for health insurance. So did the Heritage Foundation, Newt and most conservatives. They did so with good reason. It reinforces three conservative principles . First, individual responsiblility. It means everybody pulls there own weight and do not place you burdens on others when you can afford to carry your own weight. Secondly, it provides market-based choides. You can pick the type and options for health coverage you want and make the economic choices they entail. Third it is private sector based. It is not a Canadian type government solution.
These reason are why many conservatives favored an individual mandate and many conservative governors have individual mandates for auto insurance.
So what happened when Obama passed the mandate then the conservatives, reading polling data, decided they did not like it. When Obama passed tax cuts the GOP decided they did not like it. If Obama dedicated a memorial to Ronald Reagan the GOP would be denouncing Reagan.
To be sure there is a lot to not like about the Obama administration. However, hating Obama is not a principled idea. Neither is hating Bush or hating Newt. We need to be able to separte the person from their policies. Likewise loving Obama to the point where we lose objectivity is not good either.

I’ve always been a Romney supporter, and I love watching the horserace. It’s been odd watching the evolution of this primary.

I liked Tpaw and thought we had a great primary ahead of us (still hoping for tpaw to be vp). I was disappointed when he dropped off.

When Perry came along I thought we still had a great contest at hand. I was surprised by the anti-Romney sentiment that really surfaced from Perry supporters, but I thought they had legit arguments. I still supported Romney, and could only say let the best candidate win. I love the competition.

When it moved to Cain I was a little troubled. I love the guy, but I never thought this was his time. I was concerned that his lack of experience was a liability. Still I understood the rise. He’s hard not to love. I was very disappointed to see him demolished. I thought he had a great future ahead, and it was ruined by receiving the spotlight too early.

Gingrich though? Seriously guys? Yeah he’s smart, and he is a great source of new ideas. He just doesn’t stand a chance. To go up against Romney and the establishment we pick the most hated establishment Republican in history? You are worried about Romney’s record on things like healthcare and the environment, and so you start to coalesce around someone with the same issues?

I gave you all the benefit of the doubt before, but I just can’t take it anymore. This thread is the embodiment of everything wrong with this primary. Sometimes it seems like you guys would elect hitler before you would pull the lever for Romney. What’s next? Santorum? Huntsman?? Paul???

Oh how I wish we could just go back to arguing the pro’s and con’s of several great candidates. Instead we are trying to play gotcha games with Romney supporters on the front page.

Conservatives are consistent in their distrust of Romney. He takes no bold stands and lacks a single key conservative issue he has not played both sides of and been an advocate for througout his life.

Out of all of his flip flops and duplicity, the one issue he refuses to walk back is the failed Romneycare. Not only is this alarming to conservatives in the age of Obamacare, but it neutralizes Obama’s greatest weakness in the general if Romney can’t declare that Romneycare is a failure and all other programs like it will be as well.

Snarky little slights against conservatives like the flip flopper picture posted above are typical of Romney faithful and just as clueless – we have consistently not supported Romney in this primary as he is not a conservative according to his own record and activism. You don’t just switch up your words and expect us to rally behind you when you have not been in the trenches with us.

Conservatives: Consistently anti Romney. Insulting us gets you nowhere. We would have to flip flop to support Romney, but since you mocking us as flip floppers, perhaps we shouldn’t support him at all.

When liberals don’t touch a Republican Candidate it is time to burn the Trojan horse.

Romney’s team has probably provided better opposition research to the press than their own people could gather. The fact he has been the “front-runner” for some time and they simply retread the “flip-flopper” theme out there since 2008, with nothing new should be a clue. Meanwhile every other candidate who starts to reach bigger poll numbers gets flamed. That doesn’t pass the smell test.

That $900 million Obama campaign fund doesn’t buy a bunch of dummies. It purchases the craftiest, most conniving liars and thieves money can buy. They are simply waiting for the right moment to beat the “mane man’s” weaknesses like a chicken-fried steak.

I see a consistent rejection of Romney as the nominee.

I’d prefer Huntsman. He’s been far more consistent and has impressive credentials. I’m just not sure that his “don’t peak too soon” strategy will work out for him in NH.

Interesting quote from Michael Medved on Romney: In February 2008, the most influential and persuasive right-winger of ’em all threw his all-important support to Romney’s then struggling candidacy. “I think now, based on the way the campaign has shaken out, that there probably is a candidate on our side who does embody all three legs of the conservative stool, and that’s Romney,” Rush Limbaugh told his huge audience. “The three legs of the stool are national security/foreign policy, the social conservatives, and the fiscal conservatives.”

But as far as I’m concerned, Mitt Romney has held one fundamental principle for years and years: He would very much like to be president, please.

How’s this for flip flopping?

“So if the Presidential Preference Primary in Georgia were tomorrow, I’d vote for Mitt. Sure, he has waffled on social issues — but I think that highlights his pragmatic approach to politics. He was never going to get elected as a pro-life candidate in Massachusetts and he knew it. I won’t fault him. I think, if he gets elected based on conservative support, he won’t betray that support in office.”

“Giluiani had leadership. Romney had conservatism. Make no mistake about that.The people who want a conservative have found their man, it seems. Mitt Romney was pitch perfect and willing to talk social issues — something totally missing from Giuliani’s speech. And people noticed.I have to say that it was a tremendous speech. I actually could not listen to all of Rudy’s, but Mitt’s was great.”
“Mitt was followed by Ann Coulter who put the red meat conservative seal of approval on him. It was an excellent speech that should resolve all fears conservatives have about Romney.”

Of course, this was 2008, so I guess you’re allowed to flip flop every 4 years.

then changed this time is quite simple: the world changed. In 2008, Romney’s failures were overlooked because they just seemed to be the “ideas of Massachusetts.” The wisdom of the day was that to be a governor in a liberal state, you have to govern liberal(Chris Christie, more or less, destroys that). We never thought what would happen in large part in Massachusetts would happen to America as a whole and here we are: Obamneycare has passed. We saw democrats who said they were conservative vote for it and we saw the tides change.
We see a politician who, will criticize others for being “career politicians,” yet one has to wonder: if it wasn’t for his electoral failures, wouldn’t he have near two decades under his belt as a politician? Wouldn’t that be a career politician?
We see a guy who’s business experience, which he promotes constantly, not help in Massachusetts as healthcare costs go up and his state still was not business friendly. And even then, the business acumen can be called out as we see how he did business(Bought companies, leveraged them to raise capital and if they constantly stay at that rate, they’d fail).
We accept the fact that politicians change, I mean, Reagan was once pro-choice, and changed on a few others issues, much like Romney. But unlike Romney, Reagan admitted his mistakes and was able to joke about it. Romney, which proof to the contrary, stands by them.
But now we see a world in which these over reachings are reality. We see politicians who will lie for convenience and we have no reason to believe Romney is any different. There was no grand “I saw the light!” moment, there was just “I’ve changed my mind” without an explanation as to why.

In 2007, it was astroturfing commenting.

In 2011, it’s an honest, ridiculous, apples-to-oranges diary.

I see progress.