Mitt Romney is running for President. Mitt Romney is a Mormon who happens to be a Republican. Mitt Romney is a Republican that wants to distance himself from the Republican platform, in order to win votes, because the public simply doesn’t trust Republicans anymore. Could it be because of all of their scandals?
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Romney Tries to Show Voters He 'Gets It'
Republican ReframesDemocrat-Owned IssuesIn Reach for the Middle
By MARY JACOBYSeptember 24, 2007
"Mitt Romney: Opportunistic flip-flopper? Or the rare Republican who "gets it" at a time when his party is losing favor with the general public?
In the battle to define his presidential candidacy, the former Massachusetts governor is trying to swat away charges that he has changed positions on hot-button issues such as abortion, immigration, gun ownership and gay rights to appeal to his party's conservative base.
Yet, even as he tries to distance himself from his moderate record, Mr. Romney also embraces it to reach voters in the middle -- both Republicans uncomfortable with the direction of the party and independent voters he would need in a general election.
The result is that Mr. Romney's stump speech can sound at times part Rush Limbaugh, part Bill Clinton, braiding red-meat conservative lines with feel-your-pain prescriptions for health care and retirement security.
"There's a lot of people who say health care's a Democrat issue," Mr. Romney said at a recent campaign stop in Greenville, S.C. "Well, baloney."
The backdrop to Mr. Romney's appeal is a dramatic shift in public opinion since President Bush's 2004 re-election -- away from the Republican Party and toward an issue set that has traditionally benefited Democrats.
A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll this month found that 47% of respondents viewed the Republican Party negatively, one of the worst scores since the poll began in 1990. The poll showed health care second only to the Iraq war as a concern in voters' minds. More broadly, surveys show economic insecurity ranking with national security as a top worry for Americans.... "
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I don't think its so much that Romney "gets it" as you don't. As a mormon he's running as a nontraditional evangelical. Typcially this is seen being done by Catholics with extreme conservative bents.
Its pretty obvious. He's strongly religous but tries to draw a defined policy line that breaks from the born-again persuasion.
As he moves forward though Romney has failed miserably to overcome his Boston-centric record. He botched the sepctrum slide on abortion horribly.
BTW just to mention it. He is the ascended Bush candidate. There is also a great deal of speculation that his campaign is the one which picked up Rove upon exit.
So what you're saying is... "As a Mormon" he's running on a nontraditional conservative Protestant Christian. Is that it? Sounds like a Mormon to me with a little bit of oxymor(m)on in it.
Is that not what many republicans are doing? They claim to be republican, but not too republican to lose votes. They claim to be a Christian, but not too much of a Christian to lose votes.
Best to describe one's self as a... nontraditional traditionalist, eh?
Regarding abortion... let's see... first he's for safe and legal fetus chopping, something to do with a relative who died from a coat hanger incident, then he's personally against but as governor pro-choice, then Endorsed legalization of RU-486 and not only vetoed the stem cell research bill but vetoed emergency contraception for rape victims.
As Governor his anti-abortion views have "evolved & deepened." Apparently when it's a republican who changes his mind it's referred to as "evolving and deepening." But if it's a commi liberal it's labeled as "flip flopping."
Where were we? …. Mitt opposes Roe v Wade, but won't tamper with abortion laws and is now firmly pro-life, despite 2002 tolerance for abortion and stated that he was effectively pro-choice until cloning changed his opinion.. apparently that was part of “evolving and deepening.”
Dome on Dare! call it as we all see it. This guy's a flip flopping Churchie that has the potential to do just as much damage as Shrub.
What I'm saying is that he's not running as a Mormon. I know you want that really bad but it's not the case.
In fact I would say up until the last few months his history as a candidate was as pure executive ability with no interest in social issues beyond what was directly in front of him. He is all about fiscal issues and making budgets dance to his tune.
Even as prolife he won't act on a single social issue not brought to him (or forced on him). What he will do is choose an adminstrative goal and chase it like a laser beam. Currently his goal is orchestrating a primary victory.
BTW..... Just because someone is pro-choice does not mean they can't oppose the legal jump represented by Roe v. Wade.
What's great.... You have no idea what that legal jump was. You also have no concept of the difference between Scalia and Ginsberg in Constitutional interpretation. Keep up with the wikipedia searches.
Do a search on textualist. You can tear that apart for a few years before you realize it makes sense.
Dare - What I'm saying is that he's not running as a Mormon. I know you want that really bad but it's not the case.
It doesn't matter. He is a Mormon and that's what matters. You think the republican party would sit by and watch an Atheist, who's not running as an Atheist, be President? Riiiiiight.
He is all about fiscal issues and making budgets dance to his tune.
Yeah... him and those magic rocks and Law of Abraham, you know, where the man gets to marry more than one woman like Abraham "did." Which he really didn't, he just had sex with Hagar to plant a seed. Regardless, the religion is wacky and you're simply side stepping it.
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