“Mitt Romney Was Once A Democrat”

Me too. I grew up.

Old saying:

“If you’re not liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not conservative when you’re older, you have no brain.” 

New saying:

“If you voted for Obama in 2008 to prove you’re not a racist, vote for someone else in 2012 to prove you’re not an idiot”.

It’s no sign of maturity to switch to a party that embraces Palin, birtherism, religious fanatics, a magical faith in tax breaks, unrestrained greed, climate change denial and drill, baby, drill.

That’s not growing up, that’s regressing.

Whole you’ll have to do a lot more than vote for a non Obama candidate to prove you’re not one. :)

My stars that’s an unflattering photograph of Mitt, it makes him look like the devil in some made for TV movie.

But yeah, this should come as no surprise to anyone. Romney has tried to be all things to all men at one point or another, switching his stance on the issues time and time again, heck, he’s cycled through so many positions in the past year or so he could win the Tour de France.

RINO!!!!!1111!!!!!!

What a shocker!

So was RR, The South,Rick Perry etc. Whats the big deal? 

That last quote makes no sense. 

Those who voted for 0bama in 2008 proved that they WERE racists, because they only saw the color of his skin, since there were absolutely no other qualifications for the presidency, with the possible exception of one rousing speech, read off a teleprompter, written by someone else.

I once voted in a Republican primary In Massachusetts where, thankfully, I still live and in the 90s you could actually change back to independent on the way out, it was extremely easy.

Right. It couldn’t be that his ideas for the country were better than those presented by the Republicans he was up against and that people wanted a fresh perspective on Washington from someone untainted with association with the previous regimes that had brought so much misery. Race was the only issue,

I’m sure the majority of the American people that chose Obama over McCain will thank you for that insight as you know their motivation, you know their hearts far better than they ever could. :)

I suppose you are still guilt-ridden and apologetic about slavery that a REPUBLICAN president fought to end over 145 years ago.

Honestly, now: If a white guy had voiced those same ideas as 0bama  did in 2008, would you have stayed home or would have voted Republican?

What the heck was the American party?

For someone who is NOT a racist you seem to talk a LOT about people’s colors. 

Wasn’t Trump a Democrat too?  Makes sense…

Sounds like something out of “Team America.” 

Ah, so a Republican did something good nearly a century and a half ago, that means they’re the party of good ideas in the present day. It’s the same as assuming I’m white and suffering from liberal guilt and that those things are the driving force behind my politics, completely wrong, but thanks for playing, :)

And I believe Obama would have won just as handily were he white, he offered something new while the McCain/Palin ticket was a horribly flawed one that offered nothing but the policies that failed in the Bush years with increased sabre rattling in relation to Iran, much like Mitt Romney is proposing now.

Let me try to respond to your insightful post, item by item:

Palin was the highly successful duly elected governor of a state which features more honest hard working, decent real Americans than California, New York and Illinois combined.

“Birtherism” is nothing more than asking a Presidential candidate to prove eligibility, which President Obama did only under severe duress.

You seem to have forgotten that the Founding Fathers were “religious fanatics” who dared to cross an ocean to find freedom of religion, and gave you the right to do so.

If you think that your tax dollars, confiscated by the government, is better spent by the government than by yourself, you are obviously under the impression that
the government is smarter than you.

Unrestrained greed made people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs create equipment that you are using, on which you peck out your nonsense.

The climate IS changing, nobody denies that. But it is changing everywhere in the Solar System, in spite of the obvious absence of SUV’s and greedy capitalists on Mars, Jupiter, hey, even Pluto.

You and Obama are so beholden to the Arabs/Muslims, whose main ambition is to kill Americans and ruin America, that you betray one of your most staunch ally, Canada, by stopping the Keystone XL pipeline, and deny jobs to thousands of out-of-work oil-riggers to work in their own country.  

So, you think that abolishing slavery by Lincoln was the only good thing a Republican President ever did and reluctantly, you give him credit for that.

How about the Eisenhower (R) Interstate Highway System? I suppose, based on your posts, you never travel on them, because then you would have to leave your Mom’s basement.

How about restoring America’s honor by Ronald Reagan from the 4 year humiliation of the Carter Presidency?

BTW, how did you visualize “fundamental change” spouted by your infallible hero?

Reagan was formerly a Democrat as well, and followed Carter’s Malaise presidency with tax cuts and economic prosperity.    Kind of looks a bit like Reagan as well… 

I thought about responding to your post in kind, but it’s so densely packed with irrelevant GOP talking points that they kind of refute themselves. What drove me out of the Republican party is exactly the kind of thinking you employ here: it’s all truthiness (the Founding Fathers, for instance, were never as religious as you claim), zealotry (Alaska as a beacon of hope against those godless commies on the coasts) and disgusting partisanship (linking Obama to Muslim terrorists).

People who think the way you do are what’s ruined the Republican brand. It once used to stand for fiscal discipline and smart government. Now it’s personified by the intellectual poverty of Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain and, yes, Sarah Palin, the dimmest of the bunch. (And that’s really saying something.)

Good luck trying to attract voters who care about this country to a party built on a such a feeble and willfully ignorant base.

 Historical note: When that Republican president ended slavery, the Republican party split. Today’s party is those who wanted to keep slavery. It is called history. Read it.

Answer to second question – anyone could have beaten the Republican in 2008. The recession guaranteed that.

Actually, Reagan raised taxes first, then cut them as the economy recovered. He did a great job getting America going again, but be honest about what he did. Reagan also presided over the then largest ever increase in government spending to stimulate the economy.

In just 24 hours Williard has emerged as a former Democrat favoring federal wage controls with “birther” endorsement.  His choice to take a decade long vacation from the “free market” has either eroded his management skills or they have been greatly overstated.  

How many of the good ideas the Republican party has had in the past would fly with todays Republican party? Do you honestly believe the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 would pass if put before the republicans of today? No-one else does. The republican party has lurched so far to the right it’s unrecognisable when compared to the party of even Reagan’s time and as you only have yourselves to blame for that.

Having to refer to great things done decades ago to try and justify the modern republican party doesn’t reflect well on today’s right, nor does your resorting to insulting those who disagree with you, GavinsPapa. Please carry on though, as you’re coming off really well..:)

 You’re an idiot too. Lincoln did NOT fight to end slavery. The Civil War was about preserving the Union (of States).

The Emancipation Proclamation was just a by product of it..Since at the time there were only 4 Union States that still had slavery, and the Proclamation did NOT free the slaves in Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, (and what would become West Virginia)
So your assertion that a Republican Lincoln “fought” to end slavery is null and void of truth.

 How about the Eisenhower (R) Interstate Highway System?

Socialist.

 do they ever?

 True he started out with tax cuts…Then he raised taxes 18 times.

RI is the same way. If you vote in a primary, you’re technically enrolled in the party whose ballot you select. Then, once you’ve voted, you can immediately sign a disaffiliation form. It’s a very common thing to do. 

Romney once a democrat. 

Weren’t we all?  It is said that when young it is easy to be a democrat.  But when we get older, wiser, and get more responsibility – we tend to become republicans.

Romney once a democrat.  So what.

I replied to your post as I clearly stated, point by point. The fact you can not or dare not reply to my post point by point – actually, originally YOUR points – but with falsehoods, denigration, Democrat platitudes, name-calling and offensive adjectives proves that your arguments are factually challenged.

You claim to have been a Republican once. If true, you may have still been a Republican when the party you currently carry water for, wrote Ronald Reagan off as an “amiable dunce”. When it comes to the alleged demise of the Republican Party, keep in mind the words of Mark Twain.

Not entirely true. There are plenty of folks raised in right wing environments who grow up and become Liberals. The conventional wisdom you describe is a great example of limited understanding.

Now my comment is even funnier (to me, anyway)

I think it’s funny how the MSM and Democrats mock Romney – an uptight, Northeastern, well educated, wealthy, elitest, liberal… If he had a D next to his name, they would love him.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/joe-scarborough-on-mitt-romney-and-president-obama-weve-got-two-major-candidates-who-are-awkward/#comment-428550652

These are the words of Mark Twain that your post brings to mind:

“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”

it takes a special man to be the first person to reply to his own post. I guess that way you don’t run the risk of EVERYONE telling you how irrelevant your post are

Only for short term gain, Like He is now doing by claiming to be a conservative, When in Reality He is for Mittens and Mittens benefit and gain alone.

Thanks for displaying your ignorance. Not that I am surprised.

The words I was referring to were (paraphrased): The news of my demise was greatly exaggerated.

The most emailed document this weekend in Conservative circles. 

JFK was a democrat too, but if you listen to his tapes he sounds like a republican today … it is just how far left this country has gone…

You would have hated him to

Speaking of Doctor Paul, now we know the “real truth”, all thanks to
this liberal magazine called The New Republic. Some liberal guy named
James Kirchick went over 20 years of Ron Paul Investment Newsletters
and found 12 sentences “offensive” and “racist” in articles that he did
not write from 1992, some 20 years ago, you know, when he was delivering
those 2000 babies! No, the “n” word was never used, but he did call a
spade a spade which today is only Politically Correct when black comics
say such things. Black teenaged robbers who are fast! Come on Dr Paul,
you could catch them! So we really must take our hats off to our
liberal media. Now we know Dr. Paul is “really” a card carrying kkk
white supremacist neo-nazi loving racist! (What old white man isn’t?
Right liberal media? Wink, wink.) So all that Bill of Rights-Civil
Rights talk from Ron Paul, why that turns out to be just a clever ruse!
Thank you liberal media, you can go back to uncritically worshiping the
first black President. (What, there is nothing racist about that). So
thank you liberal media for all your hard work at putting this all into
context for us, and thank you The New Republic for asking liberals,
“What are Ron Paul’s liberal fans thinking?” and then failing to ask
them directly. Yes, voting Democrat has never been easier. It’s as
simple as black and white.

As everyone now knows, we TEA Party Republicans are the “real
conservatives” and they know that President Obama has governed this
country just like another big spending moderate Republican; i.e. Obama
just raised the debt ceiling yet again, gave still more money for dept
of education, gave still more money for the TSA, gave still more money
for the banks, more to the dept of HUD, gave still more money for
government health care and on and on. Nothing has been cut. Just like a
good follower GW Bush, he resigned patriot act, resigned the Military
Commissions Act, resigned FISA, kept gitmo and other American overseas
gulags, invaded still more countries, signed NDAA, attacked pot smokers
in California disregarding states rights and always sided with Israel
over Palestinian objections to more settlements on Palestinian land.
But, we have had enough of Washington! We have been Taxed Enough
Already! That means we must “Stop the Spending!”
([Oh, so who are you voting for Mr. TEA party man?])

“Well we need somebody who can beat Obama. So we think Mitt Romney
will get our vote. We think he can get “America working again”.

([What did you say?])

Yes, I do really believe that!

([Well that's why there is just is no hope for America])

Hey, what do you mean “that’s why there is no hope for America”…?
Hey, come back here! What do you mean by that? Hey, I asked you a
question!”

If you are young and Republican, you have no heart. If you are old and vote Democrat, you have no brain… looks like Mittens has both a heart and a brain, eh?

Mitt will join any party or believe anything, if the polls tell him to do so.

If you’re still a Republican after 8 years of Bush, there’s no hope for you.

Reagan raised taxes and sent the deficit through the roof.

Regressives is what we is,and we be regressives till we die.WHOOPIE!! LET’S CELEBRATE REGRESSIVEISM!!!!!  Afterwards, we can paint the walls in the cave.

Ignorance is what we is and we be ignorance till we die.WHOOPIE!! LET’S CELEBRATE IGNORANCEISM.Afterwards we can paint the rock roof.

OH!!!!! OH!!!!!!! You must have not been here before, they don’t like it when you start tossing facts around.

SLICK, is neither a D or an R, Slick is a used car salesperson,telling you what you want to hear,caressing your ego,and being the most helpful human on a flat earth.All the while,calculating the numbers and deciding the best way to fill his pockets and his cronies pockets with the most cash from your stupid arse.He’s only a half step above “I can see Russia from my house”.Good Luck trying to sell a used car salesperson to America.

Well, when the option is a street hustler who’s already robbed you, it’s not such a hard sale.

So what!  I was a Lifetime Democrat, only voting Republican twice.  I voted for Carter and I voted for Reagan to get rid of worthless Carter.  I liked Carter a lot, but he was a horrible President.  I never voted for either Bush or Gore, figured neither were worth spitting on.  I did vote for Kerry and I most likely would have voted for Clinton, but Obama won the nomination.  After listening to Obama’s speeches, I was less than impressed.  I had never seen a President use a Dummy Board, most always read from notes or had it memorized or spoke from the heart.  Then Obama said he wanted a Domestic military just as well funded as the current military.  I thought the NG was for that!  Alarm Bells!!!  Then he wanted to share my hard earned wages with those who are too lazy to work!  More Alarms!  So many things, So many Alarms!  I voted for McCain because McCain was a fellow Vet and, although Obama was never vetted, McCain was.  I just could not get myself to support someone who’s only accomplishment in life was Reading a Dummy Board!  No Record, No Accomplishments, No Past, Nothing!!!  I was thrilled when Pelosi became SOH, thought she would keep Bush in line.  Well, when Obama won, seems like the Democratic Party turned into a horribly ugly Legion of Demons, forcing policies on We, the People, behind closed doors.  I had thought Carter was a bad President, but had a good heart, just out of his league.  Well, I cannot stand Obama because he constantly Lies and smirks, lectures, when he has no idea what the heck he is doing.  I have the highest respect for the Office of the President, always have, always will.  But I have totally No Respect for the man who now calls himself President, the Great Uniter(lol), the worst President in the history of America, B. H. Obama!  Even Carter was Smarter and a lot more likable!  I pray he is kicked out in November, we cannot stand four more years of this unstable Narcisist!

Would you be referring to the CHICKENHAWK VILLAGE IDIOT FROM TEXAS, who ran up this nation’s credit card to the breaking point.Or maybe that other CHICKENHAWK WHO CAN’T SHOOT STRAIGHT, you know the one that blathered that DEFECITS DON’T MATTER!!! Take some advice nimrod Pablo, SLICK may end up with a massive corporate war chest, but chances the deluded are going to sell this piece of work to the American electorate are SLIM and NONE.The only chance SLICK may have is if he runs as a mime.LMAO!!!!!!!

And if you’re still a Democrat after 4 years of Obama, there is NO hope at all for you.

Donald Trump is nothing more than a modern day PT Barnum

 I. E. Samuel Jackson the actor: “I voted for Obama because he was black.”

If you still buy into EITHER party and their money grubbing masqueraders, there is no hope for this country period.