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Romney: "I Do Speak For The Republican Wing Of The Republican Party"
Seeking to contrast himself with Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney borrowed his words from a strange source for a Republican.
Speaking yesterday to a Nevada audience, Romney said: "I believe conservatives across the nation and particularly in states where I have been able to take my message — like Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and Michigan and Florida and Nevada — that conservatives that have heard me time and again recognize that I do speak for the Republican wing of the Republican Party."
The late Senator Paul Wellstone (D-MN) used to frequently describe himself as coming from "the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party," and Howard Dean famously used the same phrase throughout his campaign for president in the 2004 cycle.
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I hear he speaks for both wings: one in the morning, the other in the afternoon.
October 13, 2007 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
With the Religious Right moving towards Romney direction, it does appear that conservative activists have decided to pretend Romney is pure...
October 13, 2007 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
go Romney! if he pulls off a victory which is very possible then dems will pick up 20 seats in the house and atleast 6 in the senate.
October 13, 2007 8:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sometimes I think Rudy is paying this guy to run so his own ideological backward handsprings will seem minor by comparison. I do believe that, concealed somewhere behind all the flip-flopping, Rudy does have some real convictions. (Unfortunately, those convictions consist of taking the police state tactics out of the airports and putting them out into the whole country, but hey, nobody "facist" counts as a kind of conviction.)
But damn, this guy. Day after day, night after night he'll just stand there and brazenly say anything no matter how transparently hypocritical or contradictory of something he said even a few days before. The guy was governer of the People's Commonwealth of Massachusetts and he's strutting around acting like he was the gun-toting rough, tough, two fisted, convict-killing, tax cutting, governor of Okalahoma or Idaho.
One wonders whether he's just an out and out sociopath or something.
October 13, 2007 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Regarding Romney's religion. Interesting post by Steve Benen. No JFK speech. JFK ran at a time when the Protestant/Roman Catholic divide was the burning question. The legacy of the Reformation, the European religious wars,and the power of the Vatican among immigrant populations was still very much at issue. For Romney the issue is with his Fundamentalist true believing Christian Evangelicals. For them there is no grey area. And for them Mormonism isn't real biblical Christianity. Romney can't make the church/state separation argument, because they want fundamentalist bible-thumping theocracy. What he can do is say, we're on the same team because we have the same values, same policies, but he really can't make the claim he's going to fulfill there theocracy agenda.
October 14, 2007 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink