Mitt Romney has demonstrated radical flip-flops
Posted on 12/15/2007 6:35:58 AM PST by dano1
Romney was happy to help that scrutiny along by airing the first negative ad of the Republican campaign in Iowa, a spot this week highlighting Huckabee's record on illegal immigration. The former Massachusetts governor would not rule out focusing on prison commutations Huckabee issued while in office.
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O'Brien says now, "Mitt Romney has demonstrated, given the radical flip-flops he has taken from the time he ran for governor ...
Romney has done little to conceal he is going after Huckabee — not to mention the national Republican poll leader, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
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Concerned the race was slipping away from him, Romney decided last week to visit the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas. He used the venue, just 90 miles (145 kilometers) from where Democrat John F. Kennedy talked about separating church from state in the 1960 campaign....
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This week, he began airing his immigration ad. "If you agree with Mike Huckabee's positions, it's a positive ad for him. If you agree with my position, it's a positive ad for me," he told NBC's "Today" show.
That has been followed by efforts to get surrogates to assail Huckabee in South Carolina, as well as almost daily e-mails from the Romney campaign focused on Huckabee.
One set, titled "Those Who Know Him Best," has contained criticisms of the former governor leveled by fellow Arkansans. Another set, titled "No Laughing Matter," takes aim at Huckabee's views juxtaposed against his recent statement in a radio interview, "I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night."
A third genre of e-mail, sent Friday, pointed to a Townhall.com column critical of Romney's rival.
Its title? "Huckacide."
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Mitt Romney has demonstrated radical flip-flops
You’re pushing your luck, spammer.
Tick-toc. Tick-toc. Tick-toc.
Huckster is in the 14th minute of his 15 minutes.
He’s a Clinton shill...their glass-jaw candidate, who will lose by 20 points in a general election as his social liberal side is exposed.
Huckabee Sees WH 'Bunker Mentality'
ap | 12/14/07 | LIBBY QUAID
Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq.
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor now running for the Republican presidential nomination, lays out a policy plan that is long on optimism but short on details in the January-February issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations. A copy of his article was released Friday.
"American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out," Huckabee said. "The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States' main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists."
In one specific criticism, Huckabee said Bush did not send enough troops to invade Iraq. And he accused the president of marginalizing Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, who said at the outset of the war that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the invasion. "I would have met with Shinseki privately and carefully weighed his advice," Huckabee said.
He said this year's troop increase under Bush has resulted in significant but tenuous gains, and he said — much as Bush has — that he would not withdraw troops from Iraq any faster than Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander there, recommends. The military has now slowly begun to reverse the troop increase.
Try posting the truth dano1, you probably will not get many more chances. You and Dane are the worst spammers on FR.
Don’t worry, when Dano1 gets called out , he/she will just switch to that other alias .....
I can forgive the flip-flops of someone who has served in elective office four short years (and has a sterling record in the private sector long before that) far easier than I can forgive the deceptions and back-stabbing of someone who has held elective office for nearly two decades!
Hopefully they'll BOTH get stepped on.
"PLEASE HELP US, ADMIN MOD, YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE!"
Huckabusted.
LOL !
Well, he could have come after Huckabee like a endocrinologist but that probably wouldn't have worked very well.
I think this might backfire on Romney. He’s taking out negative ads on both Guliani and Huckabee. People are going to wake up and see that this guy will say anything and do anything to win. Once again, does anybody know of a conservative getting elected to anything in Massachusetts?
Romney is the establishment/Bush candidate so Huckabee has nothing to lose by pointing out the admin’s mistakes. Going into Iraq light was a huge error in hindsight, although the main reason it was done that way was too appease the Dems.
When did Bush endorse Mitt?
Or a proctologist...
You should vote for him if you want a liberal in the Oval Office. Otherwise do everything you can to stop this doofus.
Well, that’s kind of what I think, but I want see why people are backing this guy. Clearly somebody supports him, even some people on this site. I want somebody to convince me I should support him in the general election if God forbid, he gets the nomination. Oh wait, I forgot, God is on Huckabee’s side.....
As best I can determine, he has two backers on this site. Neither of them can deny his record of hiking taxes, welcoming illegals, granting an unprecendented amount of clemency, and engaging in practices that have justifiably raised eyebrows among those concerned with ethics.
At one time, I liked him. The more I got to know about him, the more I realized that I wish he would join the other party, where he belongs.
I think it’s pretty clear the establishment is going to back Mitt. They like his business background, blue blood credentials and impressively organized campaign. National Review (The WFB crowd) has already endorsed him and the elder Bush was pretty friendly before that faith speech.
Your comment is on-target, I admit. I wouldn't ask that he be banished, only calmed down a little.
Posting about Huckabee is fine, in moderation. What dano1/dane have been doing is swamping the forum to the point where it's really become annoying, because their posts don't advance the political discussion -- they only trumpet the latest transient poll or sound-bite.
I'm a Fred fan at present, but even so, if one or two individuals were posting a news blip every time Fred sneezed, I'd be annoyed at them too, and ask them to calm down a bit.
Maybe I'm an oddball, but I come to FreeRepublic for interesting and reasoned discussion of Constitutional issues, politics, social trends, and the occasional religious, sexual, historical, or other notable event. I do NOT come here to merely read about how one politician or another is up a point in some random poll -- I can read that on CNN.com.
But you are right -- the existence of the spammers and trolls proves FR is (pretty darn) free. I do like it that way.
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What does a liberal Republican do when he is afraid to face grass roots conservatives himself? He pays his coffee and errand boy minimum wage to do it for him
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Sitting in a cubicle at campaign headquarters you search Conservative websites like the NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Salon, CNN and Daily Kos looking for favorable articles about the Huckster to post on FR
...(oooh, here's one from DU!)
Armed with nothing but talking points from Hucks' website, you attempt to convince conservatives that your candidate is not a Christian socialist or a pro-life Democrat
...(Jesus would want amnesty for illegals)
When FReepers say Huck is a fiscal liberal, algore loving environmental wacko, open border amnesty pusher, Jimmy Carter foreign policy appeaser, nanny state smoker banner you provide the brilliant original response...a link to his campaign website
...(copy, paste, copy, paste)
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All we need is a leftist who is pro-life, has an R next to his name, and talks about Jesus.
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