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Would there be anything preventing Romney from telling the Hard Right to eff-off?

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Seriously....ABO/ODS has their votes in the bag for him. Couldn't he practically propose Federally-funded abortion clinics in gay wedding chapels, officiated by an Iranian ayatollah...

and not lose a single vote of the typical Rightwinger we see here at PJ?
 
He could, but he's smarter than that. No sense if cutting off your nose to spite your face.

He'll do to the far right, what Obama did to the far left. Placate them and get them along for the ride.

It's called politics.
 
W1LLPARK3R said:
couldn't Barry Banker tell the left the same?! since his love of militarism has wrapped up the Redneck, warloving redblooded superpatriot vote and thrwon real Liberals under the bus...
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But if the Banksters say they want war, Obama has no choice but to say "Yes Sir"..."But do we have to win?"
 
The ideology isn't dead. Is the call for smaller, more efficient government dead? How about the call to repeal Obamacare? The call for free market solutions to joblessness? The call for equal opportunity not equal outcomes?

It's nowhere near dead.

With Romney calling for just such things, the ideoligy is hardly dead. And beating Obama is an added bonus.

What's dead is running a campaign on hard right Social Conservatism.

Much like running a platform on hard left idealism.

Neither will get you elected.

When Obama moved to center in the 2008 cycle, did you lament the death of liberalism?
 
But CB, that would be premised on the idea that "old Mitt", the one that was around in the 80s and 90s, even later...is dead and buried and not going to come back to life.
 
Perhaps he is.

You know, like the drug using Obama is dead and buried. Or the sitting in a racist church Obama is dead and buried.

Hey, the past is past, right?
 
Nice try, CB...but these were policy positions and ACTIONS by the former Governor of Massachusetts.

Now..."magically"...he's "Ronald Reagan"? The guy who CREATED "Romneycare" upon which the President's plan was based is going to "repeal it" and be for "small government"????
 
No one is calling him Reagan. (Who, may I remind you, started out as a Democrat?)

Are you suggesting that a person (like Reagan or Romney or even Obama) can't see policy more than one way over a period of a few years?

For example, Obama's policy on Ozone Regulation. Obama thought better of it after only a few months. Or perhaps you mean his 'repositioning' on the closing of the detention center in GITMO?
Or may Obama's (dare I say it) flip flop on the Patriot Act? Or the president's power to attack another nation not an imminent threat to the US? Or maybe his position 'adjustment' on debt ceiling raising (Oh, Senator Obama...where are you when we need you?)

So, you're saying that Obama...has 'magically changed' to FDR, Harry Truman and Bill Clinton all rolled into one?
 
CB, if Romney is comfortable in 2012....would be even more comfortable as incumbent President in 2016....that he faces no "threat" from his Right flank...

is he more likely to "stick to his rock-ribbed conservative principles" if it comes down to a fight with Dems...even doing something unpopular with the Middle/Center/Moderates....

or selling out the Right?
 
I trust him to do what he thinks is best to move the country forward out of this economic mess we're in.

He'll listen to the right, but I think he keeps a more moderate tack.
 
Skip economics, CB.....what about abortion?

You think Romney's strong "pro-life" statements and PROMISES now during the Primaries....will be at the forefront of his General Election strategy, much less Presidency.
 
That IS the point.

I've been watching poltics long enough now to know that the history of any politician's past is the best indicator of his future.

Take Ronald Reagan.

While Reagan was always talking the conservative talk, he was actually a big spender at heart. He tripled the size of California's government when he was in the Governor's Mansion, and quadrupled the national debt when he was in the White House.

George W Bush had an undistinguished record as Texas governor, save for the sweetheart deal he gave his buddies over the stadium and a few other minor scandals.

Had he not started a war in the Middle East and had9/11 not happened, he would have been another Warren Harding, which, except for those two events, he was.

Bill Clinton started as governor of Arkansas with a Hillary led effort to reform education which failed and got him voted out. He came back and left office universally popular.

His presidency went the same way.

So if you want to know what President Romney would look like, take a close look at his record as governor. It's the surest indicator.
 
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