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Romney representing the GOP accurately?

Does Romney accurately represent Republicans?


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Hey everyone,

I'm currently a college student writing a paper based on Mitt Romney; throughout the semester I've written various other papers about the community and functionality of this site specifically and was hoping you guys would be able to take a minute and help me on my last project for my class.

Do you think Mitt Romney's stance on issues across the board accurately represents the majority of Republicans? I'm curious to see why or why not as well if you wouldn't mind; I know his own party has had difficulty embracing him and I'm hoping to discover why that is.

Thanks!
 
If true I think they are ...He reminds me a lot of John Kerry in 2004.
 
I think there could be no more fitting representative of the supply side/ deregulation party than the King of the 1%, who proposes to carry on the GOP tradition for the last 30 years of cutting taxes for the rich, financial deregulation, and increased military spending.

This will be one of the most poetically represented presidential elections in our history, IMO.
 
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His job isn't to represent Republicans. His job is to convince us that he can represent America.

I remain unconvinced, but he's would still be my President after I don't vote for him.
 
Drunken, I completely agree with you; yet the reason I asked specifically about representing the GOP was because it seemed that the republicans had to be almost 'forced' to accept him - satirically Stephen Colbert had his "Countdown to Loving Mitt" clock were he explained the hesitance to accept him as the nominee. Personally I identify myself as an Independent and because of this I wanted to get follow republicans' view on the issue and possibly explain their reasoning for or against Mitt Romney.
 
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Drunken, I completely agree with you; yet the reason I asked specifically about representing the GOP was because it seemed that the republicans had to be almost 'forced' to accept him - satirically Stephen Colbert had his "Countdown to Loving Mitt" clock were he explained the hesitance to accept him as the nominee. Personally I identify myself as an Independent and because of this I wanted to get follow republicans' view on the issue and possibly explain their reasoning for or against Mitt Romney.

First off, Mitt created RomneyCare. ObamaCare is actually RomneyCare version 2.0. Mitt Romney also raised taxes in Massachusetts.

On many of the other issues, Romney has flip-flopped so many times I don't know where he currently stands on them.
 
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Romney also believes in global warming.
He needs to come here and freeze his butt off.
 
Are we talking before or after he shakes the Etch-A-Sketch? LOL
 
Hey everyone,

I'm currently a college student writing a paper based on Mitt Romney; throughout the semester I've written various other papers about the community and functionality of this site specifically and was hoping you guys would be able to take a minute and help me on my last project for my class.

Do you think Mitt Romney's stance on issues across the board accurately represents the majority of Republicans? I'm curious to see why or why not as well if you wouldn't mind; I know his own party has had difficulty embracing him and I'm hoping to discover why that is.

Thanks!

I think he represents the GOP perfectly. He's always switching his stories, he'll never be honest with us, he'll never tell us his intentions or goals, and in the end he's out for himself and himself alone.
 
I think there could be no more fitting representative of the supply side/ deregulation party than the King of the 1%, who proposes to carry on the GOP tradition for the last 30 years of cutting taxes for the rich, financial deregulation, and increased military spending.

This will be one of the most poetically represented presidential elections in our history, IMO.

Romney's individual mandate and assault weapons ban is deregulation and supply side policy?
 
Romney's individual mandate and assault weapons ban is deregulation and supply side policy?
Yeah, just like how Medicare Part D was fiscally conservative. Whodathunkit? In my experience, a lot of liberals seem to have a very skewed concept of the political spectrum.
 
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Romney's individual mandate and assault weapons ban is deregulation and supply side policy?

I'm convinced that's more an attack on guns themselves and not so much an issue of personal economics.
 
Romney's individual mandate and assault weapons ban is deregulation and supply side policy?

I'm talking about Romney promising to once again deregulate his Wall Street cronies, and provide even bigger tax cuts to the rich at the expense of seniors and the middle class.

30 years of this GOP tactic has been quite enough for me!
 
IMO, we no longer have Dems and the GOP.
We have independents, (by far the largest group), liberals and conservatives (the other 30 to 60 %)..
There is something that I do not like about Romney - maybe that he represents the 1% of our nation....
 
Hey everyone,

I'm currently a college student writing a paper based on Mitt Romney; throughout the semester I've written various other papers about the community and functionality of this site specifically and was hoping you guys would be able to take a minute and help me on my last project for my class.

Do you think Mitt Romney's stance on issues across the board accurately represents the majority of Republicans? I'm curious to see why or why not as well if you wouldn't mind; I know his own party has had difficulty embracing him and I'm hoping to discover why that is.

Thanks!

I see Romney as representative of a small portion of the GOP, but as there are many aspects and factions within the party he cannot possibly represent a majority...any more than Obama does for Democrats.
 
I'm convinced that's more an attack on guns themselves and not so much an issue of personal economics.

Of course it's an issue of personal economics. It is restricting me from buying and selling guns.

I'm talking about Romney promising to once again deregulate his Wall Street cronies

I would not consider removing rules or "deregulating" from financial institutions that exist and operate within the state and all of it's additional regulations a form of deregulation. Especially when the institution is created by a "regulation" and especially when that "regulation" aims to reward/bailout the so called "deregulated" thing.

and provide even bigger tax cuts to the rich at the expense of seniors and the middle class.

Cool, let's tax cut the middle class as well then. They'll have more money to spend on what the suppliers have to sell.
 
I voted no even though I could have made the case for a yes. Let me explain. Mitt Romney is a "blow with the wind" candidate. He takes whatever stands will help him most politically at that moment. That's why we have a different Romney when he's running for MA governor, versus the Republican nomination, versus the general presidential election. I voted no because I don't think the average Republican believes it's good policy to just flip flop to whatever position suits him best at that moment. I've been extremely critical of the Republican Party, but I don't believe most Republicans think flip flopping is acceptable.

I could have voted yes if I only went by the positions Romney is taking right now. If you judged him with a short-term memory, you could say he represents a lot of Republicans' views. If you go by the positions he's taken in his political career, you have to conclude he's not a Republican. He's not a Democrat. He's not a Libertarian. He's not a Socialist. He's a ping pong ball.
 
Does Romney accurately represent Republicans?
yes i suppose.
since he has such a huge lead in the primaries,
the majority of republicans must like him,
and think he represents them pretty well.
 
Why is this an RIP thread?
 
I think he represents the GOP perfectly. He's always switching his stories, he'll never be honest with us, he'll never tell us his intentions or goals, and in the end he's out for himself and himself alone.

Or in other words hes a politician :)
 
I would not consider removing rules or "deregulating" from financial institutions that exist and operate within the state and all of it's additional regulations a form of deregulation. Especially when the institution is created by a "regulation" and especially when that "regulation" aims to reward/bailout the so called "deregulated" thing.

Well you are obviously more fond than I am of bailing out banks too big to fail that deregulation created.


Cool, let's tax cut the middle class as well then. They'll have more money to spend on what the suppliers have to sell.

The Democrats did cut the taxes for the middle class, Romney proposes ending that and giving even bigger tax cuts to the rich, which do not benefit the middle class.

Thanks, but no thanks!

And while I would have rather we went with a public option for health care, I prefer Obamacare to the Idon'tcare by Romney.
 
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