Romney is not a true Republican because he voted for Paul Tsongas.
Reasons to agree
1. A good republican would never vote for a Democrat. 2. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for the Devil himself. D is for Devil. Even if it is the just the primary and you vote for George H. Bush (like Romney) in the General election.
Reasons to disagree
1. Romney was a good republican because he was very practical. In 1992 there was no Republican primary. He had two options. He could sit on the side lines and not vote (like me this last election cycle) or he could vote for the best candidate who would not likely beat Bush in the General election. Romney chose the latter. This does not make him a bad republican. 2. Paul Tsongas was a fiscal conservative. 3. Paul Tsongas was a good guy. 4. I wish every Republican would have registered as independents in 1992 and voted for Paul Tsongus. Bush would have lost anyways, but we would have had Tsongus instead of Clinton. And now Hillary Clinton. Maybe George H. Bush would have one against Paul Tsongus. Two descent guys, that had nothing to do with Hollywood instead of Bill going against H. Bush in 1992. 5. Maybe Republicans should all claim independent, so that we can vote for Hillary in the Primaries and our guys in the General election. 6. There was no GOP primary contest in 92. In 1992 Mitt Romney voted against Bill Clinton twice. 7. I am a Romney fan, but not even I think Romney was smart enough to see that Bill Clinton was a bigger liability than George H. Bush was an asset for our Country. I am not going to attribute Mitt Romney of difficult political calculus. This was very basic addition. Vote once for the guy you like best, or vote twice? Hmm, let me see…
5:08 PM, February 17, 2007
[Image]Remember back when I said that watching Giuliani tack desperately to the right in order to get the Republican nomination was going to be one of the more entertaining political spectacles of the season? (The same could be said of McCain.) Well, I might have been wrong: it could be that watching Romney tack desperately to the right will be the most fun. He's been having trouble: he supported gay rights, he hoped "the moderates" would control the Senate, "not the Jesse Helmeses", and to top it off, apparently he voted for liberal Democrat Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic primary: It just gets worse and worse for Mitt Romney: It's now emerged that Romney actually voted for a liberal Democrat in 1992. Today's Washington Post piece on the criticism Romney's been taking from conservatives also contains the news that Romney, who was an independent in the early 1990s, voted for Tsongas in the 1992 Dem primary. That means that Romney was not only not conservative early in his career but wasn't even a moderate Republican. The man he voted for was a liberal Democrat who of course vocally supported all the things Romney now claims he's against — gay rights and abortion rights, to name just two.
His affiliation with the LDS (Mormon) church could be the least of his worries.
posted by Zachary Drake at 4:41 AM on Dec 25, 2006
"Tacking right, Romney runs into trouble"
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Romney is not a true Republican because he voted for Paul Tsongas.
Reasons to agree
1. A good republican would never vote for a Democrat.
2. A vote for a Democrat is a vote for the Devil himself. D is for Devil. Even if it is the just the primary and you vote for George H. Bush (like Romney) in the General election.
Reasons to disagree
1. Romney was a good republican because he was very practical. In 1992 there was no Republican primary. He had two options. He could sit on the side lines and not vote (like me this last election cycle) or he could vote for the best candidate who would not likely beat Bush in the General election. Romney chose the latter. This does not make him a bad republican.
2. Paul Tsongas was a fiscal conservative.
3. Paul Tsongas was a good guy.
4. I wish every Republican would have registered as independents in 1992 and voted for Paul Tsongus. Bush would have lost anyways, but we would have had Tsongus instead of Clinton. And now Hillary Clinton. Maybe George H. Bush would have one against Paul Tsongus. Two descent guys, that had nothing to do with Hollywood instead of Bill going against H. Bush in 1992.
5. Maybe Republicans should all claim independent, so that we can vote for Hillary in the Primaries and our guys in the General election.
6. There was no GOP primary contest in 92. In 1992 Mitt Romney voted against Bill Clinton twice.
7. I am a Romney fan, but not even I think Romney was smart enough to see that Bill Clinton was a bigger liability than George H. Bush was an asset for our Country. I am not going to attribute Mitt Romney of difficult political calculus. This was very basic addition. Vote once for the guy you like best, or vote twice? Hmm, let me see…
5:08 PM, February 17, 2007