Fiscal conservatives

Fiscal conservatives Quotes

Romney said, "Let's be honest about our financial crisis. It has taken way too long to recognize the need for change. A windfall in tax revenues from the Internet boom and the market's irrational exuberance masked the truth. State government spent the windfall and borrowed even more. We've even used up virtually all our cash, borrowed all our cash, borrowed all the banks will lend us and we are still spending more than we are earning. We are facing a financial emergency." Source 01-02-2003 Press Release

Mitt Romney should apeal to Fiscal conservatives.

Reasons to agree:

1. Wiped out the deficit of the Olympic games when he was put in charge there.
2. Balanced the budget in MA.
3. Come up with a market based solution to the health care problems in MA (and done so while getting bi-partisan agreement on it).

If all it takes to be president is having the right beliefs, and passing your litmus test, why aren't you president? Or why don't you run?

You see presidential candidates often try to be "accomplished". Mitt Romney is fricken accomplished. He walked away from Harvard after 5 years with a law and business degree, as the valedictorian cum-laude and all that crap. He chose business instead of law. He started businesses, turned around old ones, and came back and turned around the ones he started, and that failed after he left.

Well, any ways he offers more than just the ability to check your box of saying he agrees with you.

You mentioned his stance on abortion to say he is not conservative. So according to you, a presidential candidate must not only agree with you on every issue but must have always agreed with you sense childhood? There is no room for someone to change even one opinion ever so slightly even if they had a family member DIE of a botched back-alley abortion?

Mitt Romney always said he was pro-choice but believed that states should be able to make up their own minds. He understood that Massachusetts was clearly pro-choice and he said he wasn't going to force his opinions on those who disagree with him! What would you have done if you were running for Governor of Massachusetts? What would you have said if you were running against Ted Kennedy. In my opinion, Mitt Romney is the only creditable politician who can be president during a time when Row vs. Wade is over turned, and each state can choose for themselves. He respects the rule of law, and respected Massachusetts right to be pro-choice.

America will not elect someone who promises to make abortions illegal, however they might elect someone who puts in judges who let the states decide.

Mitt Romney knew in Massachusetts when to fight and when to move onto other issues. So now I'm moving on to other issues.

Mitt Romney is the John Roberts of presidential candidates. Squickey clean of controversy. Fully vetted. He didn't take a pay check for the Olympics or as Governor. Compare this to Hillary and her cattle futures, and all the other unresolved issues of the Clinton presidency that focused on Hillary. Didn't she make off with a lot of furniture from the white house. Mitt Romney is the only person that can run against Hillary. People want a solution to the health care problem. We have two options. Hillary-care 2008 or Romney-Care 2008. They can have Hillary and her cronies give us trail-lawyer care or we can have a market based solution from Mitt. OK maybe I'm over simplifying it. Mitt doesn't even say that his program should be scaled nationwide. That it is a market based program that worked for Massachusetts, but you have your facts all wrong. It is going to cost government less to give the poorest of the poor health insurance with preventative care, than to deal with them in the ER.

Mitt Romney fixed a similar problem in Massachusetts that doesn't get much press. Homeless were staying in hotels if shelters were full. Mitt Romney changed it so that it was a first in first out, instead of a last in first out, and saved the government billions. All this is doing is re-arranging the money that the government already spends so that it will motivate people to do the right thing, naturally, such as buy their own health insurance, stop going to the ER room for a headache because you know the government will pay for it. Mitt Romney is a conservative. He eliminated agencies, government jobs, cut the deficit without raising taxes. He is fascinated with efficiency. He is amazing at cutting fat. W agrees with you on all your litmus test issues that you give, but would you call him a conservative? He is spending like a drunken sailor, but because he said some nice things to the religius right, everyone says that he is ultra-conservative. I can make the case, and will do it latter than George Bush is a moderate, and that Mitt Romney is more conservative than Bush. This can easily be done, and you can do it yourself by looking at their records, if you don't want to wait for me.

I've got to take my kid to the Dr's he has pink eye, and I think I have it too now. But let me start one more issue: If Mitt Romney is not conservative, who is? You know after Keys, you might want someone who is fully vetted, and can win. Is Rudy fully vetted? There are so many skeletons in his closet. And although Bill Clinton was from the right religion (Baptist) republicans would look stupid after saying that someone that maybe we should try and pick someone for the highest office of the country that doesn't go around having terrible affairs—and then we pick someone with one of the weirdest affairs to ever hit the tabloids. And don't even get me started with the Geezer from Arizona. He has agreed with the democrats on all the wrong issues. Gomer-pile (from Virginal) might be the only "conservator" in your books who is running in 08, but he is trying his hardest just to win a re-election. But why the heck am I ripping on Rudy? He is an American hero, but he doesn't meet your litmus test. It shouldn't be my responsibility to prove that Mitt is more vetted than other candidates. You are the one who said he is not conservative enough, who is a better candidate in your eyes?

Can't right much now, but wanted to post the link:

http://capitalfax.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-me-worry-you-worry.html

Check out the facts here, but let me say that Illinois republicans should be the last people on the planet to ask "Is he conservative enough" after the Keys fiasco.

http://capitalfax.blogspot.com/2006/04/what-me-worry-you-worry.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney

You know, the head of the National Republican Governor's association, sounds like a flaming liberal!

“National Review Online is the place to go on the web for insightful, intellectual and honest debate. National Review has done an incredible job of assembling the best and brightest authors and contributors in the country to keep us informed up to the minute, always with a healthy dose of humor.

Besides, where else is a conservative in Massachusetts to go for his news?”

— Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts