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Romney in 2002: "I'm Someone Who is Moderate... My Views Are Progressive"

Translation: I'd run as a Democrat if I thought I had a better chance of winning.
 
It is time to drop from our political vocabulary the once useful word "progressive." When not deceptive, it is meaningless. It is a word that pretends to be descriptive and informative when it is more often an impediment to thought. When used as self-description, it is inevitably self-congratulation.

Progressive in its more general sense means advancing or making progress. It means increasing or developing, usually in a positive sense. When used in a political context, there is often a connotation of reform and improvement. Advertisers could not have come up with a more attractive label for one with a political agenda.

Our progressives continually argue for expanded governmental entitlements, more dependence by the citizenry on our political classes, and the burgeoning welfare state. Old Europe is their model. They tell us to turn over the provision of health care to government bureaucrats under the euphemism of "single payer"; to restrict labor markets and mandate wages in a way that has given Old Europe chronically high unemployment and lower productivity; to raise taxes on the productive that stifles initiative and feeds the voracious bureaucracy; and to restrict trade the result of which inflates prices and restricts consumer choice.
 
Romney has the core convictions of a rock.
 
coolwalker said:
A rock is better than a hard place and we're in a hard place right now. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen a raise in 3 years.
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The problem is that you somehow seem to think our current president is directly responsible for that. This indicates a lack of understanding many, many fundamental realities of how the economy works.
 
coolwalker said:
A rock is better than a hard place and we're in a hard place right now. I don't know about you, but I haven't seen a raise in 3 years.
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You not recieving a raise in three years is somehow the President's fault????? Sounds to me like you either need to do a better job or need to find a better company to work for.
 
smb said:


You not recieving a raise in three years is somehow the President's fault????? Sounds to me like you either need to do a better job or need to find a better company to work for.
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...and be a part of the unemployed...no thank you, I'll stick with what I have...a bird in the hand thing...and the president hasn't done anything to increase the perception that the economy will get any better, in fact we are currently spending 180 million a minute...now that's going thru some cash!
 
Jetboogieman said:
Actually it was a bad move.

And it just so happens Chris Matthews just apologized to Mitt and the Campaign for making the comparison.
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Good, Matthews is a mouthfoamer.
 
I thought for a while that I would consider voting for Romney, but I don't think I can anymore. First of all, nobody on either side of the aisle respects him, so it's hard to imagine how he will get Washington functioning again. Second of all, he might have moderate views somewhere deep down inside, but he's going to support whatever the majority wants at any given moment. I don't like that.
 
coolwalker said:
...and be a part of the unemployed...no thank you, I'll stick with what I have...a bird in the hand thing...and the president hasn't done anything to increase the perception that the economy will get any better, in fact we are currently spending 180 million a minute...now that's going thru some cash!
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So now your inability to find a better job the one you have currently is again the President's fault?????? As far as the perception the economy is getting better that is a no brainer. In late '08 and early '09 the mood was beyond skittish and dire. That mood has definitely changed. There are jobs out there and jobs with companies that are paying raises. My company froze wages and cut contributions to 401K's in early '09. They then started back up with merit raises in late '09 and began matchin 401K contributions again in early '10. The only time period we did not get raises was from mid to late '08 and into mid to late '09. If your company has not given you a raise I in the last three years and you think it impossible to get another job with another company I would look in the mirror for the reasons and not at the White House. The facts are clear. The economy has been steadily improving.
 
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