Gee. Sounds like how republitards described Clenis. Or like when bu$h called Kerry a flip-flopper. Can republicrites really be thinking of nominating this man? They really live in a fantasy world, don't they?

Romney in a direct interview to the Boston Globe in 2005:

Romney noted that illegal immigrants "contribute in many cases to our economy and to our society."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM6QVNYuqLg

Dont listen to the liberal media, listen to the conservative media. They are all lining up behind Romney while the liberal papers are crapping in their shorts with fear.

So eight or ten pinhead Editors don't like Mitt.

Big Deal.

Who are they?

We're going to go to a bunch of idealistic journalists, to make our decision for us?

I don't think so, no, no no no, no!

McCain is old and tired and no friend of Reagan conserv atives.

He too has a record to be examined. McCain Feingold, Abu Grabe, Keating 5, gang of 14, Immigration bill etc., which he fought diligently for.

On the wrong side of history too many times.

ajarizona

As someone who has also seen Mitt Romney up close, I can tell you, the Concord Monitor is seeing nothing more or less than what it wants to see.

Romney is an honest man, a conservative who knows how to work with Democrats. Mitt is humble and a genuinely good man who is only in it for the right reasons. Does he need money? No. He's earned himself a fortune. Is this about ego? No. This is about service, continuing in the tradition of his father, who some have called the Father of Volunteerism.

Mitt would not be running if he did not genuinely believe he could do something about our economy, and when you look at his credentials, his track record... I can't help but get out of his way as he steamrolls Washington's bureaucracy. A vote for Mitt is a vote for the best possible future for Washington and America, period.

Is it surprising that a liberal rag would try to derail a candidate who will make so many inroads for conservatives, the family, and the Republican Party in America?

You tell me.

I can't decide which Republitard Presidential candidate is worse, they all suck.
Heck, Dan Quayle would have been a "good" candidate in this field, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffery Dahmer would have been solid second tier GOP candidates in this pathetic field.

You Rock, Barack!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYeqzTJci4

Well, the New England liberals have their say...

But Romney looks so presdiential! Can't you just see his portrait in the Museum of American Art in DC where he thinks it will be someday next to Bush 43? One thing is that is clear about Bush 43 he minces his words and sounds bad doing so. But Romney? He minces his words and actually sounds good. So straight forward, so self-assured, so assertive. Just like a car salesman. But when you pay close attention you realize he hasn't said a damned thing. But he looks presidential.

"He too has a record to be examined. McCain Feingold, Abu Grabe, Keating 5, gang of 14, Immigration bill etc., which he fought diligently for.
On the wrong side of history too many times."

ajarizona,

Right you are my fellow traveler! Mitt is the only one to carry out the Crusade. Let's get the journalists while we are at it.

I'm a conservative and I can tell you that slick Mitt is the very last Republican candidate I would ever vote for. The man is a liar plain and simple, and from what Rasmussen is report today I'm not alone in my sentiment towards Mitt.

Rasmussen Core Opposition Poll
Paul 48%
Clinton 47%
Romney 47%
Giuliani 42%
Edwards 38%
Obama 36%
Thompson 34%
Huckabee 34%
McCain 33%

---Dont listen to the liberal media, listen to the conservative media. They are all lining up behind Romney while the liberal papers are crapping in their shorts with fear.----

Why would the liberal media be scared of a guy with the highest core opposition of anyone in the field?

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/for_or_against_presidential_candidates

Why would anyone think John Kerry's second coming is "electable?"

I personally wouldn't vote Romney even if he was the only one running!

Does reporter Jill Zuckman believe that voters are swayed by endorsements by her fellow Dead Tree media colleagues?

If that was the case, the Chicago Tribune 2006 primary endorsement of Ron Gidwitz for governor should have carried weight with Illinois Republicans. Instead, Gidwitz finished an embarrassing 4th.

To the extent Republican voters still pay attention to drive-by media endorsements, those voters will be swayed to go AGAINST the endorsement. After all, the Concord Monitor (circulation 19,000), which endorsed John Kerry over George Bush in 2004, is a Liberal sheet. It's perfectly logical for Republicans to think that the Monitor's interests and beliefs aren't THEIR beliefs and interests.

I hope the NY Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, MSNBC and the Chicago Tribune all endorse McCain. And that Jill Zuckman hypes those endorsements. It will make the job of who NOT to vote for that much easier for Republicans.

This is the second "non-endorsement" Romney's gotten in a week, last Sunday it was the NRA that didn't endorse him--he is the current leader in this field--

For candidate endorsement log, see website included in this post--

Jill Zuckman ignores the BIG weekend story on the GOP race--how Huckabee allies dissed Rush Limbaugh as being too Beltway, and Limbaugh's response.

Limbaugh has 13-20 million listeners, compared to the Concord Monitor's 19,000 subscribers. And Republicans tend to listen to Rush, rather than read a mini-circulation Lib New Hampshire newspapers.

When it comes to Republicans, these DNC Swamp reporters are completely, absolutely, clueless.

First the liberals went for Romney's religion and he made a magnificent speech. Then they went for his 'flip' on a few issues over the last five years. Rather than credit him for growth, they wish to destroy him for his wisdom.

The truth is that the liberals know that this man of stature and experience is the best man for the job. They only wish he was a Democrat so they could like him.

Bettie S.,

Better lay off the egg nog. The people trashing Romney's religion are the evangelical crowd - including Huckabee.

Anyone that believes that global warming is man-made or that The Concord Monitor isn't biased....raise your hand.

Paulo

Anyone that believes that global warming is man-made or that The Concord Monitor isn't biased....raise your hand.

Paulo

Not only is Willard Mitt a flip-flopper, he's also a serial liar.

From McClatchy Newspapers:
DecamFri, 21 Dec 2007

"Mitt Romney Had a Dream
And it involved his daddy and the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."

In the most-anticipated speech of his political career, speaking on “Faith in America” at College Station, Texas, earlier this month, Mitt Romney evoked the strongest of all symbolic claims to civil-rights credentials:

“I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.”

He has repeated the claim several times to Tim Russert on Meet the Press. While the late George W. Romney, a four-term governor of Michigan, can lay claim to a strong record on civil rights, a tireless investigation by the Phoenix can find no evidence that the senior Romney actually marched with King, nor anything in the public record suggesting that he ever claimed to do so.

Nor did Mitt Romney ever previously claim that this took place, until long after his father passed away in 1995. Not even when defending accusations of the Mormon church’s discriminatory past during his 1994 Senate campaign.

Asked about the specifics of George Romney’s march with MLK, Mitt Romney’s campaign told the Phoenix that it took place in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

But the claim is a lie.

Martin Luther King Jr. never marched in Grosse Pointe, according to the Grosse Pointe Historical Society. “I’m quite certain of that,” says Suzy Berschback, curator of the Grosse Pointe Historical Society.

In fact, King’s only appearance in Grosse Pointe, according to Berschback, took place just three weeks before King was tragically assassinated. But there was no march and George Romney was not there.

Which begs the question: Is Mitt Romney so desperate to become president that he would make up stuff about his late father in order to curry favor with African Americans voters? Is it not a violation of the Churck of Later Day Saints to lie?

Or was Mitt Romney just dreaming?

Opposition to Romney always comes down to the same thing - bigotry. JFK is rolling in his grave because he thought he'd put an end to this. Come on people......evolve.

Appearing on Meet the Press last week, Droid Party candidate Mitt Romney spoke out of so many sides of his metallic mouth that he sounded like a creepy calliope. As a public service let's distill the hour into bite-size pieces and puts them into the giant throbbing translation tube:

"When I said last week that 'freedom requires religion,' I was quoting John Adams. So it's all his fault and he has been dismissed from the campaign."

"I hate discrimination, but I supported my church 100 percent when they discriminated against blacks until 1978. Trust me...my brain is super-advanced so I can do that."

"I support abstinence-only education in schools. Even thought it's been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it doesn't work, it still seems like it should, doesn’t it?"

"Every embryo needs a decent Christian burial."

"No guns for the crazies! Oh no, I just lost half of my supporters by saying that, didn't I..."

"Look Tim, I used to be a Jedi until I was seduced by the dark side. Cut me some slack here. I mean, you try saying 'no' when someone's standing over you with lightning bolts shooting out of his fingers. But to answer your question, yes, Bob Jones and I had a pleasant meeting."

"Let me correct something, Tim. I did not have a pink house! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! That would be, like, so gay!" (Perhaps someone should tell that to Brad Pitt.)

"A fee is not a tax. And when I become president I plan to dig us out of our financial hole by charging fees on the owners of those highway signs that say things like, McDonald's---Next Exit. Two billion bucks per, baby."

"The Brady Bill has been revised several times. Mostly by Satan."

"When I promised to be even more liberal than Ted Kennedy on abortion and gay rights back in 1994, I was speaking as a conservative Republican."

"Iraq is a mess, but don't you dare say that George Bush is arrogant and has a bunker mentality. Can we go to a commercial? I think I need a battery change."

Someone posted that the conservative media is backing Romney...do you know why though?

Romney's company, Bain capital has been in the process since last year of buying out Clear Channel who owns over 1,100 radio stations and over 30 tv stations across the country. It just so happens that Hannity, Rush, Laura Ingraham, and Glenn Beck have contracts with Clear Channel.

Romney is trying to buy the presidency and the media. This election is so important because it is coming down to whether the people elect the president or the media and Wall Street elect him. Please think for yourselves!!! Do the research and you'll see that Romney is a liar who will do anything to be President.

“If you followed only his tenure as governor of Massachusetts, you might imagine Romney as a pragmatic moderate with liberal positions on numerous social issues and an ability to work well with Democrats,’ . . .”

I don’t know about that. When Republican Romney was governor of Massachusetts, the State Legislature (to no one’s surprise) was overwhelmingly Democrat, and “progressive” Democrat at that. So, it was not unusual for the Massachusetts Legislature to send Romney a bill that he would veto, after which the Legislature overwhelmingly overrode his veto. It was rare, indeed, that the Democrat Legislature didn’t get its way. So, if you call getting punked by the Legislature “work[ing] well with Democrats,” then, okay, he worked well with Democrats . . .

. . . just like white mice work well with Boa Constrictors.

But, I wouldn’t say that.

All things considered...age, present and future health, education, political experience, stature, business acumen for change, personal and family success and a faith (evaluate Mormonism as you'd like) that has a reputation for integrity...It appears to me that Romney is that person. We've decided he's getting our family's 11 votes.

Let me remind that Thompson is the only candidate in either race unwilling to dump our economic future on a bizarre carbon swapping scheme without proof of the necessity first. Romney is as bad as any of the D'rats on this issue, but not as poor as McCain.

This is a new one. A newspaper calling for a legitimate candidate to be "stopped."
And they wonder why newspapers are going down the tubes.

I suggest all secular voters leaning towards Romney bone up on Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion. In your reading you'll find Mr. Smith was a less than reputable racist, sexist "water diviner" who, basically, came up with one of the greatest spiritual con jobs in all recorded history.
Vote for Romney? You must be nuts.

Limbaugh has 13-20 million listeners, compared to the Concord Monitor's 19,000 subscribers.
Posted by: Bruce | December 22, 2007 9:52 PM

13-20 million -- most likely the bottom 40% of their high school classes...or at least the ones that bothered to finish high school.

Democracy is long gone in America AKA "the homeland". Have you read the Constitution lately? Or the Bill of Rights? Declaration of Independence? Be a slave and watch TV.

Romney?? You conservatives lost whatever little common sense you thought you had. A "lifelong hunter" who actually hunted twice? A flip-floper all over the abortion & immigration issue that would make Kerry look more decisive. And his fortune? For someone who wears his religion on his sleeve as a campaign promoter, his business tactics in the eighties would have made Gekko envious.

Just look-up all the businesses he drove into bankruptcy for his own profit & ask the hundreds of families that lost their jobs. Maybe this is how he can claim the high ground on family values.

But that's what conservatives are all about. Screwing Amercans for your own personal or corporate good, use religion to show how electable you are, & lie about everything.

We've decided he's getting our family's 11 votes.
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If that's a joke, it's a good one.
Otherwise, how do you mean "family"? Is anyone allowed an independant mind?

Dont listen to the liberal media, listen to the conservative media. They are all lining up behind Romney while the liberal papers are crapping in their shorts with fear.

Posted by: gary | December 22, 2007 6:28 PM

Hardly the case brain wash boy. The republiTARDs are going to take the beating they so richly deserve. No matter which of there miscreants get the nomination. Your living in a fantasy.

Uh oh! No flag pin on his sweater!C

This is a new one. A newspaper calling for a legitimate candidate to be "stopped."
And they wonder why newspapers are going down the tubes.

Posted by: Horace | December 23, 2007 10:58 AM

Hey RNC Brucie, nice try!

When we fail to look for the truth, we fail to see reality. Reality does not fail us.
Intentional ignorance of the truth is complicit approval of the lie.

Bush/Cheney Impeach/Imprison

Let me remind that Thompson is the only....
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Wait. What? What happened to the connies that insist that celebrities cannot espouse political opinions? All of a sudden it's ok? Oh yeah, I forgot. The last two darlings of the republicrite party were actors - rayguns and herr gropinator. I guess that the celebrity complaint only counts when it's Natalie Mains or Barbara Streisand.

John E: Try paying attention. The Romney MLK march was witnessed by two women in Grosse Pointe.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7524.html

"The Swamp" is a good title for these articles published under this name. You start reading the articles and regularly say to yourself "WHAT"????? The text at the beginning makes no sense + is poorly written. The Tribune writers must think we have nothing else to do.

Come on Bruce. Address a real issue for once; What do you make of not flag pin?

It was a big deal for you on that 'Bama posting a few back.

John Dementia too.

I AGREE with the Concord:

http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/12/new-hampshire-newspaper-concord-monitor.html#links

I think what would be worst, would be a Black Muslim, like Barack Obama, being elected President. He has done nothing for Illinois, keep him out of the White House!!!

What took the Monitor so long? Deomcrats have known this all along.

About time someone in the media described Romney as he truly is: phony, and devoid of any real positions, beliefs, and bends the tuth to put it nicely. His attacks lately on McCain And Huckabe shows he is made from the same stuff that occupies the Oval Office now: name callers and LIARS.

You know what the real problem with conservatives is, (there's more then one, but that's for another blog). It's not the "liberal" media, whatever right-winged conspiracy that is. It's that there are conservatives blind enough to back Romney in the first place.

Your ship is already sinking, why are you adding dead weight?

Romney looks and acts fake. There's something very odd and weird about him. This MLK story doesn't help his credibility.

To the writer who complained about the Tribune's endorsement of Gidwitz: Perhaps if the Republican voters had followed the Tribune's endorsement we wouldn't be stuck with Blago for another four years.

"Limbaugh has 13-20 million listeners, compared to the Concord Monitor's 19,000 subscribers.
Posted by: Bruce

13-20 million -- most likely the bottom 40% of their high school classes...or at least the ones that bothered to finish high school.

Posted by: DD"

Actually, "DD", surveys have shown that the talk radio listening public has a higher than average education.

Sorry to present this "inconvenient truth" to your wildly inaccurate stereotyping.

Actually, "DD", surveys have shown that the talk radio listening public has a higher than average education.

Sorry to present this "inconvenient truth" to your wildly inaccurate stereotyping.

Posted by: Bruce | December 24, 2007 9:27 AM

Really Brucie?

Why don't you provide some PROOF to back up this claim?

That's right, you can't...

Republitards don't know what to say or think about any given issue until they get their marching orders from their overlords i. e. oxycontin addict Rush, Fixed News Channel.

[quote]
Limbaugh has 13-20 million listeners, compared to the Concord Monitor's 19,000 subscribers. And Republicans tend to listen to Rush, rather than read a mini-circulation Lib New Hampshire newspapers.

Posted by: Bruce | December 22, 2007 9:52 PM
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But those 19,000 readers of the Concord Monitor have intelligence, unlike the millions of sheep who listen to that bloviating bigot on the radio.

That's what scares Bruce the most: Liberals think, while Republic Party trolls just do what they're told.

Hitler had a regular audience on Reich radio too, we all know how that turned out.

Romney the liar: put a fork in him, he's DONE.

I'd vote for my dog before I'd ever vote for Romney.

I asked my dog what she thought and she said she's still pissed off about Romney tying up his dog to the roof rack of his car and driving on a 12 hour drive to Ontario.

ROMNEY DOG ON VACATION
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/06/romneys-dog-vacation/

Evangelicals, who are beginning to realize that Huckabee is bad on educational choice, illegal immigration, and national defense, will come around to see that Rudy is the only candidate who can beat Hillary.

And as far as Romney goes, evangelicals compare the writings of Mormonism to the Bible and conclude that Mormonism has about as much to do with Christianity as does Voodoo, so that Romney has the audacity to say that Mormonism has anything to do with Christianity is galling, so he's out.

"A Black Muslim, like Barack Obama"

Frankie, Frankie, Frankie, do you have the tiniest clue just how incredibly ignorant that statement is?

No. I didn't think so.

Wow, what a wide range of comments. I want to print a definition of a word.
Bi-got "A person of strong conviction or prejudice especially in matters of religion, race or politics, who is intolerant of those who differ with him"
I'm sure none of you are guilty of this. Have a great day.

Romney=Egomanic,sexist, flip-flopper, snake-oil salesman. Agent of He Should Not Be Named.