The Romney Paradox

Trust Mitt Romney????? He is the one who spent several hundred thousand dollars in attack ads on Mike Huckabee. His most dishonest ad was the one where he suggests that Mike is soft on crime. Mitt used a haft truth to paint Mike as soft. Mike Huckabee did reduce the percentage of sentence served from 70% to 50% due to prison overcrowding. But the dirty little secret was that Arkansas sentences were still much longer than those of Romneys Massachusetts. He has not show Mike proper respect and until he apoligizes to Mike about the dishonest ads.... I would never vote for him over Mike.
If Romney would reach out to Huckabee, maybe the conservatives could beat McCain, but Romney will have to get off his high horse and I don't see that happening.

 

Romney is a flip flopper, much the way FoxNews characterized John Kerry in the 2004 Election.

If you haven't already seen it,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI

 

He also lies, and was pwned by a reporter.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=va6BGC7OJlU

 

:thumbs: for saying "pwned." I'm sure 95% of the people here won't understand the term!

 

I'm hip. I'm with it! Not bad for an old fart, eh? :smilewinkgrin:

 

No.

Neither do I trust John McCain.

Nor Obama and certainly not Hillary.

 

==I am not afraid of Romney, I just don't trust him. In my view he is the Republican version of Hillary Clinton. He will be anything he needs to be to win an office. He is a liberal when he needs to be and a conservative when he needs to be. McCain is not my first choice, and I disagree with him on more than one issue, but at least he is generally consistant. We know where John McCain stands on issues.

 

:laugh: :laugh:
I never saw that one.

Did you notice how Romney kept trying to make the same statement, almost verbatim?

 

==Bingo! The fact is that if Mitt Romney was a Democrat the same professing Conservatives who are supporting him would be calling him Mitt the flip or something like that. I guess it just goes to show how some professing Conservatives have adopted the Sean Hannity ethic. What is that? When your side does it, it is ok. When the other side does it, it is an outrage.

 

Trust Romney, no way. It is no paradox, it is snake oil.

 

I trust Obama - to take us in the WRONG direction.

Seriously, though, This is how I rate the candidates for trustworthiness of character amd integrity (regardless of political positions):

1. Huckabee
2. Obama
3. McCain
4. (empty)
5. (empty)
6. Clinton / Romney (tied)

 

Okay, I'll bite. What does it mean?

 

Let me refer you to THIS. Bottom line...when someone is so smacked down by an opponent, they are said to be pwned...a variant of "owned", probably started as a typo, but it caught on and gained a life of its own.

 

Thank you. Will this be on the final exam?

 

Huckabee seems to be the most sincere of the major candidates to me. I think he's a very good communicator and seems to be willing to take an unpopular position if it is what he believes is right.

My business partner has an 11 year old son who is very active in environmental causes. He took his son to S. Carolina a few weeks back to try to interview the candidates. He said Huckabee (and his wife), Obama (and his wife), and McCain all spoke to his son for a few minutes despite all the distractions around them. Hillary and Romney wouldn't give him the time of day.

See for yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTgWeSvM1eg

 

So many of our pasts presidents have claimed to be Christians. Yet, I have read autobiographies and other things quoting them in office or out of the public limelight, using God's name in vain or other profain words.

So though I do believe it is important that a man who leads our nation believes in God, it is getting increasingly harder for me to put too much stock in a presidential candidate who claims to be a Christian or otherwise.

 

Yes, but it's "open book". :thumbs:

 

Well, I wouldn't vote for someone just because they CLAIM to be a Christian either. All kinds of people claim christianity. The question is whether they show evidence of being genuine about their claim (and that doesn't mean they have to be perfect, just mostly consistent)

But I also don't want a candidate who is AFRAID to talk about their faith. Frankly I think that is where we are as a society today. Most voters don't want to hear anything about a candidate's religious convictions. It's the old Bill Clinton idea of we are supposed to somehow divorce our religious faith from our public life. A religion that doesn't impact your whole life is not genuine, it's compartmentalized.

What we really have going on today is secular bigotry against those who would practice their faith in EVERY aspect of their lives.