It’s interesting that Romney’s CPAC speech mostly emphasized social issues like abortion and gay marriage.  It’s like he’s trying to be Rick Santorum now, only sadly, he thinks that people are voting for Santorum because of his position on social issues when really they are just voting for Santorum because Santorum is not Romney.

At anyrate, I hope the GOP tries to win this election based on opposition to gay marriage.  They will lose hard.  Not necessarily because most people are now pro-gay marriage, but more so just because they are used to the idea now.  So it’s no longer the rallying issue that it was 8 or even just 4 years ago.

How come everything Romney is against first happened in Massachusetts….?

He also kept polar bears out of Florida and unicorns out of zoos everywhere.  What nothing about converting everyone to Mormonism?

He realizes that that speech just cost him the general, right?

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He does realize that that speech just cost him the general, right?

BAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This man always ends up insulting someone.

I would have never said this even a month ago, and I still don’t deem it likely, but I think a brokered convention is becoming possible. People really don’t like Willard, and I’m not sure he even likes himself.

Although I believe we are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, you are right to say that focusing on social issues is the quickest way to lose the election…especially this one.

Romney opposes gay marriage, just like Obama and Biden, and most of California.

So the gist of it is him saying ‘As governor, I fought long and hard and prevented something that would have increased tourism and brought a lot of outside money into the state and I’m proud of it Make me your president and I’ll fight just as hard to prevent things that could benefit the American people because they offend my narrowminded sense of ideology!’

Bravo Mitt.

That’s what I was thinking too. Imagine all that money that would have paid for things around the state..
Repaving Roads, Improving Bridges, helping out schools. etc

Mitt has to run so far to the right to court the baggers that it’s going to be next to impossible to appeal the center in the general.

I agree – but might it also be the quickest way to tank Romney’s nomination? I mean: who in their right frame of mind is going to try to out-values Santorum? Romney’s problem with the majority of the GOP base already is his ‘perceived’ lack of authenticity & sincerity.

Mitt Romney, channeling his inner Rick Perry.

Simple: at night, Illinois state senator Obama would sneak into the Massachusetts capital with the aid of a set of keys provided him by Ted Kennedy, & cross out all the “not” entries in passed legislation. Every night, & he did hundreds of times; & it’s still a huge secret because it was all covered up.

90% of the people in that room think your in a cult….good luck with them.

This appearance at CPAC may very well prove to be Romney’s undoing. The short term gain of pandering to this fringe group is going to cost him big time in the general, when he has to defend these positions to mainstream voters. Issues like gay marriage — which were convenient red meat morsels to the right wing pitchforker in past elections — have lost most of their potency, and, in fact, may even be a liability to an electorate that has matured.

I know that you folks have difficulty grasping nuance, but Obama and Biden never ran on their opposition to gay marriage or made it in any way central to their electoral appeal. Romney has put the issue front and center now and he’s going to have to explain to voters outside the right wing bubble why stopping marriage equality — an issue that has no secular rational at all — is anything more than pandering to the religious fringe.

Robert’s opposition to Mitt ( 45) Romney tells you a lot. Mitt is a good, decent, hardworking, capable, successful leader who will clean up Obama’s mess.

Robert can’t stand Tollgate Perry, who keeps getting reelected Governor of Texas because he is a good one.

And here lies the problem, the independent voter tends to be liberal on social issues, or at the very least apathetic, pandering like this is a turn off and will come back to bite in the mainstream election especially if it becomes a major issue rather then a footnote of the GOP campaign

What an idiot, gay marriage isn’t even legal in Las Vegas.

Pandering to this unsavory swamp of haters at CPAC will damage Romney.

Romney is telling truth about his opposition.

Obama and Biden are liars, lying to the suckers that are stupid enough to believe their lies.

Maybe you can give him your keys and he can sneak into your house and give you a coherent response.

Mittens Romney desperately trying to capture the Far Right vote. He would clearly use the gay issue in a negative to win the vote.

Romney shedding another skin to gain acceptance…

…Keep going!

This guy is such a liar who lacks conviction…..pathetic!

More Romney LIES! What he said isn’t even true.

He said, ‘And I successfully prohibited out-of-state couples from coming to our state to get married and then going home.’

False! He wasn’t successful, unless you count success as merely temporary. Very shortly after Romney invoked an old Massachusetts law to keep out-of-staters from marrying in state, that law was repealed by the legislature. By the way, that law was originally intended to keep mixed-race couples from the South from coming up to Massachusetts to marry. And Romney embraced it. Nice, huh?

But back to the point, that law was rescinded within the year after Romney invoked it and so this bold claim by Romney is nothing other than a lie!

I’m going to assume at some point the Republicans, Ron Paul not included, will realize that the economy is tanked, we have soldiers dying in foreign countries, we have a drug war raging on our southern border… 

Please, someone, anyone….?

I’m going to assume at some point the Republicans, Ron Paul not included, will realize that the economy is tanked, we have soldiers dying in foreign countries, we have a drug war raging on our southern border… 

Please, someone, anyone….?

Mitt did a great job today! He is the only one who can beat Obama! Sanatorium would get squashed!!

It’s a shame that he is being coached to pander to the far right.  Someone wrote that line for him, he would never use that kind of language.  Mitt Romney should be himself and tell his handlers to go to hell.  

yeah good luck with that.

Presumably the MMSM/LSM/DBM/Librul Media are part of the conspiracy? Does Tina-in-Tampa know of this?

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romney will LOSE big time!!

ALL Moderates Lose!!

He CANNOT even get 35% support from the Republican party…no matter how
much the “ESTABLISHMENT” shoves him down our throat!!! He
couldn’t even win against McCain the last go around!! How does he now become a
“winner”? By what standard or measure?

In the states that he won, voter turn out was way down!!

In the state that NEWT won, voter turn out was UP 35%!!!

romney will be a repeat of ’08 – McCain….BOTH MODERATE LOSERS!!

The BEST speech that romney gave at CPAC was the last one – when he stepped down!!

GO AWAY ROMNEY!!!! STEP DOWN!!!

Yes everyone is so used to it, that is why people vote for it–oh wait, they don’t. Well, everyone is so used to it that an uber-liberal President of course supports it–oh wait, he doesn’t. Well, let’s just pretend it’s accepted for the sake of influencing readers in this comments stream.

you have great delusional mitt love and please can the 1950s lyrics

Republicans have nothing else because the economy seems to be on the mend although the number of jobs being adding is below expectation. If Republicans continue to be negative about the economy they will be rightfully percieved as rooting against the economy so the only thing they have left are social issues, but if Obama continues to gift them issues like the contraceptive rules then they may be onto something.

Do you think Romney even believes this stuff that he is spitting out? Being a politician is really the lowest job in the world. All you really are is a salesman. You know that cars a piece of shit but ill tell you what you wanna here so you buy it.

Romney is running in the wrong race on the wrong side and at the wrong time. He’s a liberal trying to wear an ill-fitting conservative suit. The things he has accomplished cannot be talked about in the circles he is traveling in.  Political ideologies aside, he will not win against the President because he is not owning who he is.   

“Now, you may recall that during my term in office, our conservative values came under attack, less than one year after I took office, the Supreme Court found a right to same-sex marriage in the constitution written by John Adams!” (W. Mitt-Shredded Safety Net’ Romney)

…I so agree!
Who’da thunk it?

…Republicans, damaging the constitution, (with It’s ‘freedom from’ an exclusive, ‘state’ religion), by insisting (only) Judeo-Christian marriage-rites are allowed, regardless of the needs/beliefs of other, (gay, atheist, agnostic and ‘poly-theist’) citizens!

Thanks, Mr. Romney, for reminding one & all:
no citizen has moral-obligations to live their lives according to another citizen’s (superficial-public-piety-related) ‘religious’ beliefs!

I don’t know why we are even talking about Social issues right now. Frankly I do not care what
people decide to do in the privacy of their own home. Honestly how does that affect your life? 
Government does not need to get involved in social matters any more then they need to get
involved in what light bulbs we use or what food we eat or what cars we drive. 

If Joe & Jim wanted to be together or Mary and Karen want to share their life together, Is that
really any of your business.  I don’t think so!   

My main goal is trying to get this Marxist out of the white house. “what ever happened to 
getting government out of our lives”  You can’t pick and choose !  

There you go again…
Mitt Romney came out swinging against marriage equality during his Friday CPAC address, claiming he “prevented Massachusetts from becoming the Las Vegas of gay marriage.” He said this one month after he told a New Hampshire debate audience that “if people are looking for someone who will discriminate against gays or will in any way try and suggest that people that have different sexual orientations don’t have full rights in this country, they won’t find that in me.”

Mitt Romney Tells CPAC: ‘I Prevented Massachusetts From Becoming The Las Vegas Of Gay Marriage’

…And Jesus came and touched my forehead!

Good for Romney.  We should not discriminate against gays.  He should have said
it at Sea Pac.   

what a disgrace this prick is,,, then again, what a disgrace the republican party is…. it’s completely full of bigoted stupid people and nothing more.

BTW dumbfks, since when is gay marriage legal and running rampant here in Vegas?

idiots

my understanding s that mittens cpac talking points were adjusted totally because of santorum’s 3 state win….if newt were still his biggest competitor, they’d probably be focusing on the moon..

Ohh, thank God for that!  Gather ye up your Mormon Underwear!

 Jane W, good show. Here is more on Mitt.

Romney exposedhttp://tinyurl.com/86meydk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vS9SF3vc-A

Snakes On A Campaign, M Romney, by Southern
Avengerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3etUOq7hVE

Fake Conservative Mitt:http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh123.htm

http://godfatherpolitics.com/3369/is-mitt-romney-a-fiscal-and-social-liberal/SamFox

 Jon, Ron Paul agrees with you. He is the only candidate who would slow down big brother.

Even though he does not believe in gay marriage, he would let states decide the issue & get the feds out. He would not push gays one way or the other, Ron knows it’s not a fed issue in the 1st place. Ron Paul is the only candidate who wants to let people make their own personal life choices & live with the results, good or bad.

Ron realizes that some people choose what others object to. But he knows that if we don’t have a great degree of tolerance, ALL of us could come under govt domination. He knows you can’t pick & choose one over another with out endangering every one’s personal freedoms & liberty.

Ron Paul is 180′ different from Santorum. Ron would never say what Rick said. Santorum’s own words as he rails on freedom &
individualism.  

“One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a
Libertarianish right.

They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do
whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our
regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get
involved in cultural issues.

That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such
society that I’m aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it
succeeds as a culture.” http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread793960/pg1

Hear Rick’s own words from the video in the above link. This idiotic
comment alone should get Santorum bounced. Rick is diametrically opposed to Ron
Paul’s  personal freedom & liberty message.One of Ron’s strong points is his push for getting govt off our backs, all of our backs. He is the only candidate, R or D, that would do more than say the words.SamFox

 Romney is a 2 face 2 tongue.

Snakes On A Campaign, M Romney, by Southern
Avengerhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3etUOq7hVE

Fake Conservative Mitt:http://www.newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh123.htm

http://godfatherpolitics.com/3369/is-mitt-romney-a-fiscal-and-social-liberal/

SamFox

It’s not.
Mitt, god bless him, was referring to the Vegas right of instant, drive thru, totally serious, Hetro marriages. You know, the good kind!
Next he’ll be referring to his ancestral homelands version of the instant divorce. (But not for gays)

Republicans are killing the party by focusing on these social issues. They need to get back to attacking big government. I think the majority of Americans could care less about gay marriage. We need someone who is going to improve the economy.