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Mitt Romney At CPAC: ‘I Was A Severely Conservative Republican Governor’

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While addressing the CPAC crowd today, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made sure to bump up his conservative credentials, telling his audience, for instance, that he would fight for a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a relationship between a woman and a man and reminding them that he has previously vetoed a bill “that would have opened the door to cloning and embryo farming.”

He also spoke about the challenges he’d faced as the Republican governor of a blue state, Massachusetts.

RELATED: Rick Santorum Supporter Foster Friess Opens CPAC Speech With Mitt Romney Joke

“My state was the leading indicator of what liberals would be trying to do across the country,” he said, “and they’re trying to do right now. And I fought against long odds in a deep blue state. But I was a severely conservative Republican governor.”

“I understand the battles we as conservatives must fight because I have been on the front lines, he continued, “and expect to be on those front lines again.”

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  • Verreauxii

    Haha….the ever trusty windvane hard at work. 

  • Anonymous

    Not true, Mitt Obama.
    I mean Barack Romney.
    Whatever.
    You where actually quite the “progressive”.
    And for that reason alone, you should never be allows the presidency.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Valdez/1806887704 Steven Valdez

    I never heard a conservative have to claim he’s severely conservative… what hell does that even mean anyways? 

  • Anonymous

    Replace the word “conservative” with “retarded” and that should help.  

  • Anonymous

    The pandering is pathetic – but I will give him points for the appropriate content and tone for CPAC audience.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SMUGSPLRKQOJBS5T6I4S5H2YSE Andy-48

     I think with the wrong wording he used regarding Embryo farming instead of Stem Cell Research he may have lost the Reagan Republicans…At least what Nancy was for when Ronnie got Alzheimer’s.

  • Anonymous

    So he’s basically saying he was bad at being conservative. Why is this news?

  • Anonymous

    When further questioned what he meant by “severely,” he stammered “they felt like…bags of…sand.”

  • Anonymous

    I think he meant “severely constipated”.

    Today… he’s “severely conservative”

    At the convention…. he’ll be “severely moderate” 

    Good luck with that. 

  • Anonymous

    Is “severe” conservativism merely a tarted up version of compassionate conservatism?

  • Anonymous

     ”Severely conservative”  huh?..  Is it a life threatening??   No.. It’s just an illness.. Get well soon Mittens..

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    May Willard be the first to say “I am not a RINO.”?

  • Hout Bosques

    I’m thinking it’s about to become a twitter hashtag: #severelyconservative.

  • Anonymous

     No, that would be describing you.

  • Anonymous

    You do tactically have to run slightly to the right in the primaries and to the center in the general but this crowd is making him run to a point of no return

  • Gloves Fred Donahue

    Romney is doing just fine. From reporter T. Christopher, who was there:

    “I  spent a few minutes at Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney‘s speech to see how he handled the “lion’s den” that the media kept insisting he was walking into. Instead, he got a rousing, convincing standing ovation from the crowd. Either they’re “falling in line” behind Romney, or they’re putting on a good show to confound the media (whose attentions they are well aware of).”

  • Anonymous

    Additional synonyms of severe, severely: harshly, intractable, obdurate, pitiless, critical, censorious, oppressive

  • Anonymous

     You sound like you are writing a liberal biography.

  • Anonymous

    Sure, Mitt, and I was Joan of Arc in my former life.

  • Anonymous

    “SLICK” is a wind vane on a unicycle!!! LMAO!!!! To be truthful,this entire rightwing circular firing squad is getting monotonous.Lost it’s creativity,what little they had to start with.Starting to YAWN……….ZZZZZZ……

  • Anonymous

    Poor Mitt, you’ve taken more positions than a young couple working their way through the Kama Sutra and everyone knows it. It’s both amusing and sad to watch him dig himself in deeper and deeper every time he gets in front of a Republican crowd, trying to be a hard right social conservative in order to appeal to everyone in the party but moderates, when his best chance of winning the presidency is as a social moderate, fiscal conservative.

    Seriously, when he wins the nomination he’s not going to be able to turn around and say to Democrats or Independent voters, ‘Sorry, I’m really all for birth control and gay rights, I was just saying what I had to to win votes’ so he’s going to have to keep on running as a hard right social conservative and that’s not his strength, nor is it what America wants or needs.

  • Anonymous

    Thanks!

  • Anonymous

    LOl @ the audience .. no one is buying your bull Willard … 

  • Anonymous

    Mitt needs to understand something, if you keep trying to convince people of your ideology, at some point they will step back and think “why does he keep saying that”  and then they will look at his record which, for all practical purposes, shows him to be a moderate, regardless if he likes it or not and then they will think he lied to them and then they won’t trust him, period  

  • Anonymous

     You are welcome- all libs are harshly, intractable, obdurate, pitiless, critical, censorious, oppressive and DAs.

  • Anonymous

    Pandering to the extremist kooks and anti-women yahoos of the GOP base can`t come to any good for Romney.

  • Ch Ob

    There is no way that somebody can be “severely conservative” and become governor of one of the bluest states in the nation. Unless…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Romney pandering to a bunch of rightwing nutjobs who allow openly white nationalist speakers to appear on their panels.

  • Anonymous

    Didn’t he say that he were a progressive in the debate?

  • http://www.proactivepolitics.blogspot.com/ Norbit Peters

    Mitt, what are you doing Mitt?
    Lead or get out of the way!

  • Jardino

    FROM DICTIONARY.COM ……………se·vere   /səˈvɪər/ Show Spelled[suh-veer] Show IPA
    adjective, -ver·er, -ver·est. 1. harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws. 2. serious or stern in manner or appearance: a severe face. 3. grave; critical: a severe illness. 4. rigidly restrained in style, taste, manner, etc.; simple, plain, or austere. 5. causing discomfort or distress by extreme character or conditions, as weather, cold, or heat; unpleasantly violent, as rain or wind, or a blow or shock. ****LOL! ROMNEY IS BECOMING AS FUNNY AS BACHMANN AND PALIN !!!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     beat me to it

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JXBK2TVZTPLY4POBMAOOH4NJNA FunLaughterPolitics

    He is “severely” delusional!

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JXBK2TVZTPLY4POBMAOOH4NJNA FunLaughterPolitics

    Just GET OUT OF THE WAY!!

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

     Can you imagine a campaign ad, soundbites from him and in the background Bob Dylan
    the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind….

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    or “tarded”?

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  • http://profile.yahoo.com/JXBK2TVZTPLY4POBMAOOH4NJNA FunLaughterPolitics

    romney’s BEST speech was his last CPAC speech when he stepped down!!!

    What a disappointment this time!!

    GO AWAY ROMNEY!!! STEP DOWN!!!

    WE NEED A “REAL” CONSERVATIVE!!!

  • Anonymous

    I guess it is the same as “very pregnant.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3WWXCOIHYBAQCUVFBNBFSRQRA4 Ardiva

    Go hawk your wares to Gingrich!

  • Anonymous

    This week, we found out that 20% of Republicans won’t vote for the Republican nominee if that nominee isn’t Ron Paul.  Just like in 2008, when Ron Paul doesn’t get the nomination, Ron Paul supporters will throw their support behind Obama.  

  • shonangreg

     Maybe Romney is saying that America needs some “severe lovin’”.

  • Anonymous

     the claim of being MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN CONSERVATIVE will not work for him so he is creating a new term to be used by conservatives who need to hide what being conservative really means.

  • shonangreg

    It is laughable that even the Republicans in the audience can see through Mitt. He just looks like he is making it up as he goes along, “I vetoed a bill blah, blah, blah; I stood up to blah, blah, blah; I was a severely conservative Republican governor; I understand the battles that we conservatives have to blah, blah, blah.”

    Gingrich does a much better job of telling a convincing lie because, you know, “angry people tell the truth — especially when they’re angry at the liberals who are ruining our country!”

    If the Democrat Party were dysfunctional in the same way the Republicans are, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Ed Schultz, and Janeane Garofalo would be on the Presidential primary stage telling us how promiscuously liberal they are. Roger Moore would be telling msnbc anchors what sound bites and lies to be repeated throughout the day. John Edwards would still be a senator, and Anthony Weiner would be preaching to us on how to pick up women on facebook. And Barack Obama would be called a DINO and ignored while he retired to his black-nationalist commune in Chicago.

  • http://twitter.com/MergerProtected H L Kallio

    Strange choice of words Mr. Romney. We conservatives have been called “extremists” for so long that calling yourself “severely conservative” sounds a trifle pandering and is perhaps insightful as to your true thoughts.

  • shonangreg

     Citation, please.

  • Anonymous

    We have it on record you weren´t, so everybody knows you are lying Mitt. And it will cost you in the race big time. If you will make it into the general election it will cost you even more.

    Obama is already winning every time Romney, Gingrich or Santorum start talking.  

  • Anonymous

    and he says it all while reading his telepromter….

    these guys are so stupid…
    remember when rubio attacked obama for reading a telepromter—AS HE WAS READING IT FROM A TELEPROMTER?>>
    hahaha
    goofy screw balls

  • Anonymous

    What a farce…no matter how much money the CPAC’s throw at these losers, at the end of the day, whether it’s Romney or Santorum or Gingrich that nabs the nomination, it won’t matter. All these guys are unelectable, and to be completely honest, they are turning the States into a joke. This party, on the verge of self-destruction, is gonna lead America into the light? Come on! At this point, Obama could be caught on film having relations with endangered species, and he’d still win handily. This is all such a giant waste of money and resources, it’s just unbelievable.

  • Anonymous

    Mittens Romney trying so hard to get the love of the Hard Right…

    …they can’t help, but follow their deep seated suspicions!

    ‘Mitt Romney is a well lubricated weather vane.’ Jon Huntsman

  • Anonymous

    If Romney was a severely conservative governor then Obama is a severely conservative president. 

  • bsorin1

    Is that akin to being severely constipated?

  • Centrist79

    Mitt will be te eventual nominee, so I am not sure why he is pandering to CPAC. They hate Obama more than they hate Mitt, so at the end of the day they will fall in line as always.

  • Anonymous

    ‘severely Conservative’ sounds like you could clear that up with either education or antibiotics…

    funny you can ‘brag’ about how ‘severely’ conservative you are but even mention having a liberal point of view on an issue and you get called un-American or communist or socialist.

  • Anonymous

    Foster Friess nailed it in his opening joke.  Romney is the biggest 180 spinner in recent history.

  • Anonymous

    I listened to Romney’s speech at CPAC yesterday.  While he is not a great orator – he is a great businessman, statesman and familyman.  He is what we need now to turn this economy around and get our people back to work.

    I don’t care one iota about his oratory skills – I care about his governing skills.  And I believe those to be the best.  I support Mr. Romney.

  • Anonymous

    well there are drug dealers and pimps who are great businessmen…romeny never created any high paying jobs..
    unless you want a more service jobs where we buy chinese crap and sell it at 100 times the cost ie staples and sports authority???
    really?
    obama is a much better statesman–up to 90% approval world wide–and you will not find a better husband and father than obama..
    so—what were u saying?

  • Anonymous

    Mutt is a severely liberal liar.  He’s almost as conservative as Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Another John McCain/  When are you going to stop allowing the entrenched RINOs to pick your candidate?

  • Anonymous

    How do we know that Romney didn’t get rich funding drug deals?  Somebody at the top is making a s***load of money or the drug war would have been suspended and drugs legalized.  The jails are full of people just trying to make a fast buck on substances that shouldn’t hve been criminalized in the first place.  The government has no right to tell you what you may or may not do with you body.  I abhor abortion but cannot bring myself to allow government to ban it.  Same with drugs.  If people want to kill themselves with drugs, so be it,  Let the drugs be cheap and the gene pool cleaned.  Ron Paul is right about the drug war, we lost it a long time ago.  Now the fat cat and criminal gangs are raking in the dough.  Banning alcohol should have taught us that banning substances only produces entrepreneurs that we end up calling criminals.

  • Anonymous

    What is Conservative to a CPAC’r?
    Romneycare – be responsibile for yourself, unless your income is poverty level and then assistance is available.Mormon faith – serve your church, support your church, live a responsible God and family centered life. Respect your body … do not smoke, do not use alcohol.  (For CPAC’rs, while they won’t publicly admit it because it would expose their bigotry, this is their rub about him.)Work – the example of all that free market capitalism can offer to those that achieve due to hard work.

  • Anonymous

    I think what the Mittster meant to say was, “I am desperately conservative”.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rlburcham Ronald Lee Burcham

    Neo-Cons and Progressive Republicans have bastardized the definition of conservative to such an extent that Barack Obama could call himself a conservative  today. I mean, like, give me a break  — Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney as conservatives?? You’re kidding, RIGHT?? All you have to do is a little bit of research on the web about their voting records and it is obvious that they may be conservative by today’s progressive definition of conservative but not one of them can claim to be a Goldwater conservative or a Robert Taft conservative.

    This gibberish that Romney is blabbering about being a conservative may fit into the new Progressive paradigm of Republicanism, but, to those of us who remember his father, George Romney, storming out of the Republican convention in 1964 protesting Goldwater’s policies, Mitt’s claims of conservatism fall into the realm of sheer fantasy. What a liar he is. He will say anything to suck up to a potential voter.

    Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich conservatives?? Yeah, when pigs fly. RINO neo-cons aren’t Republicans. They are fascists who promote corporatism and the military-industrial-complex and will keep those profiteers in business by sacrificing our military on their altar of greed if any one of them is elected.

    There is a big differnece between political entrepreneurs and market entrepreneurs. Romney, Santorum and Gingrich are mouthpieces for corporatist, political entrepreneurs seeking to get richer through government patronage. Market entrepreneurs don’t need government largesse to make a profit. Their expertise puts them in  a class far above, the corporatist leeches of the military-industrial-complex promoted by their sycophants, the Romney, Santorum, Gingrich trilogy. I used sycophants because “a__ kissers” is not good form for a gentleman to use when writing even though it carries a more accurate and meaningful description.

  • http://www.facebook.com/rlburcham Ronald Lee Burcham

    Some neo-cons promoting and defending corporatist, big government conservatism that come to mind are Limbaugh, Hannity, Medved, Boortz, O’Reillly, Levin and FOX News.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt Romney was a conservative…dum dum dum dum dum

  • Anonymous

    Mitt Romney was a conservative…dum dum dum dum dum

  • Anonymous

    Someone should ask Romney how many Blacks and Mexicans belong to his Church .

  • Anonymous

    Pitiful person.  “Prickasaurus Rex.”

  • Anonymous

    Examples of SEVEREThe storm caused severe damage to the roof.The patient is in severe pain.children with severe learning disabilitiesIn the most severe cases, the disease can lead to blindness.He suffered a severe head injury.He faces severe penalties for his actions.The war was a severe test of his leadership.I was a severely conservative Republican governor

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