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Originally Posted by CC1
Your premise is wrong when you say you will fault the 75% "for believing his lying rhetoric". I am sure most are like me who are under no illusion that Romney is a conservative. He is in fact a moderate. However he is a moderate who has been a very successful Governor and Businessman. A moderate is not a conservative but is certainly much better than a liberal. Yes we will blame you guys who are hell bent that if you can't nominate a conservative then you just aren't going to vote. That is not rational thinking. The primaries are over and now you vote for the most conservative guy in the running who can win. In this case that is Romney whether you like it or not.
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The Republican Party, IMO, wouldn't be in the shape it is in if the thinking wasn't, "A moderate is not a conservative, but is certainly much better than a liberal."
I agree with a comment from the WSJ about Romney back in 2008 when he ran against McCain - "The problem is not that Mr. Romney is willing to reconsider his former thinking. Nor is it so much that his apparent convictions always seem in sync with the audience to which he is speaking at the moment. … Plenty of politicians attune their positions to new constituencies. The larger danger is that Mr. Romney’s conversions are not motivated by expediency or mere pandering but may represent his real governing philosophy."
And was he a successful Governor? I doubt that he was. Even in a Democratic state, if he was that great, he would have been re-elected.
Quoting, State of Massachusetts Treasurer, Timothy P. Cahill - "As state treasurer, I can speak with authority about the Massachusetts pilot program. It has been a fiscal train wreck.
The universal insurance coverage we adopted in 2006 was projected to cost taxpayers $88 million a year. However, since this program was adopted in 2006, our health-care costs have in total exceeded $4 billion. The cost of Massachusetts’ plan has blown a hole in the Commonwealth’s budget. Just last Thursday, Gov. Deval Patrick’s office announced a $294 million shortfall related to health-care costs.
If not for federal Medicaid reimbursements and commitments from Washington to prop up this plan, Massachusetts would be broke. The only reason MassCare has survived is that we have been repeatedly bailed out by the federal government."
Anywayssss, I'm going to hang around with my rebel buddies now. I guess I'll take a time out from AFF. Don't want to keep you guys riled up.
After all, tomorrow is another day...
