Mitt Romney question?
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I grew up in Taxachusetts.  Their entire delegation to the U.S. Congress is far-left Democrats, so your question is a very good one.  I've asked this of my family that still lives up there, because I was puzzled by it too.  What they tell me is that, despite their leftward bias, they still don't like paying high taxes, and they want a good economy.  So, at the state level, they have often elected moderately conservative Republicans for jobs like Governor, just to balance things out.  However, I don't think Romney is quite as conservative as you think on every issue.  He tends to be somewhat moderate on a few things, and that's what makes him palatable to voters up there.
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YES HE DID!\n Sherman: What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are atheists?\n\nBush: I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in God is important to me.\n\nSherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?\n\nBush: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.\n\nSherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?\n\nBush: Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.\n \nSherman: American Atheists filed the Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit yesterday. Does the Bush campaign have an official response to this filing?\n\nMurnane: It's bullshit.\n\nSherman: What is bullshit?\n\nMurnane: Everything that American Atheists does, Rob, is bullshit.\n\nSherman: Thank you for telling me what the official position of the Bush campaign is on this issue.\n\nMurnane: You're welcome\nhttp://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/ghwbush.htm
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Have you noticed how almost every ad slams the other guy as opposed to the candidate telling us what he plans to accomplish once he gets in office? I have a notion not to vote at all. What's the use?
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He is asking a question. And to my knowledge, no. But I hope someone that knows for sure answers this because this is a very interesting question.
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This site does make for some interesting reading, he has some good stands even on the things that I would disagree with him on.  The most important thing that a campaign of this type could do for this country is actually educate the voters on Special Interest and the money it spends to gain for their interest which is not always ours.  Every few years you need someone to come along and shake things up a bit.  He could do it, he is a well known face and name and that is half the battle in politics.
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that is funny bc just today, i asked my teacher if she was a repub or  demo. and she said she voted by person. i thought that is becoming more common to judge by individual beliefs instead of party, but then she said that she voted for george bush bc he was cuter than kerry. that threw me off!!!
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Again... "moral Republican" is an oxymoron... just ask Abramoff... \nBush is just looking for excuses to stir the pot in middle east so his oil stocks will go up... he's doing a very good job...
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I'm not a republican.  Every day I consider myself more of an independent.  Republicans do not have the corner on blindness.  Labelling is not helping anyone.  My guess is that many republicans truly wanted to improve the lot in life for many in the middle east and elsewhere.  They were frustrated and wanted to confront murderous fanaticism.  They, like many of the majority, were misguided and not well enough versed in history to understand what we were getting into.  The real question is how do we make something decent come out of this horrible situation?  Education,  focus, open discussion, sheer will and avoiding cynicism (like we're doing now).  Merry Christmas!
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I dunno why don't you ask Mitt Romney. Mass have always been racist and will stay that way.  How bout you tell the whites to stay in school, stop shooting up schools, stop doing meth, stop getting addicted to pain kills, stop doing X, stop doing Oxycontin and stop having babies. So next time you want to place having babies and dropping out of school on blacks you first need to take a look at your own race and see that they are doing the same.
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Neddie...have you checked the ratings you're getting for these Q's lately?  Your followers have deserted you and been replaced by a pretty rowdy bunch here!\n\nIf your positions represent the majority of Americans, why isn't that reflected in this forum?  By the way, do you agree with the platforms of the (mostly conservative) Democratic saviors who just got elected?  \n\nA simple yes or no doesn't work, does it.  Why?...it's because life, politics and even Yahoo Answers is complicated.  Don't be afraid of nuance.  It sure beats trying to to fit every odd-shaped peg into one size hole.\n\nI'm getting worried about you.  Maybe you need a little vacation, or perhaps some Yoga and deep breathing execises.  Relax...it's just politics!
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You better hope it isn't Hillary Clinton.  Unless you want to give up your freedoms to an even greater extent.  Do you want to have your taxes raised in order to pay for all the illegals to have health coverage as well?  I would vote for Mitt Romney of Mass.  I think however, that Rudolf Guliani has a good shot at the Presidency.
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I heard Hutchinson (the independent candidate) speak last year, and I was impressed with him. He's a great speaker and he seems to have a solid plan for the state. Unfortunately, I don't think he'll win (polls are putting him far behind Hatch and Pawlenty) so we will have to consider who of the remaining two candidates we would like to see win.\n\nI generally think Pawlenty has done a decent job thus far, and as such I'll probably vote for him again, but I can't tell you how to vote.  I was a little put off by the fact that Hatch has been so abrasive to reporters.\n\nTry looking at this website: http://www.vote-smart.org/ for information about where candidates stand on certain issues.
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He took money from the insurance companies for his campaign, yet tells us he'll do something about the rates....yea right!!!!.\n\nI wrote and asked how he stood on Illegal Immigration and his office said he supports stronger borders and funding the police in this State to go after them....yet he surely doesn't say much about it in public, therefore I feel he is once again pulling the wool over every ones eyes in order to get elected.\n\nI have written to Charlie about many issues that as Attorney General he had control over and he NEVER responded to me in any way shape or form.\nHe is a lying, cheating, 20 plus year politician who doesn't deserve to be anything but unemployed.\n\nHe did not get my vote for governor and neither did Davis.\nI voted absentee ballot, I want my vote to count and do not trust the machines.\n\nAs a veteran, Thank you for voting, even if it cancels out my vote.  :)
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I don't know how Republicans that are self-described "values voters" can vote for Jim Talent.  Sure, he is against embryonic stem cell research funding, which you folks like, but he is also gay.  How are you going to square those two things?
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On the face of it, yes, he appears to have sold out completely to the forces of darkness. But given the respect I've always had for the man (including casting my vote for him in the 2000 Maryland Republican Primary, which as a registered Independent I was allowed to vote on), I like to believe he is doing all this to secure the nomination but will then return to form as a presidential candidate. Yeah, I know it sounds like wishful thinking but the alternative is too painful to accept. McCain has long been one of the few republicans I had any respect for and it's sickening to think he's actually become one of "them."
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Please cite your sources for an accusation of racism in the GOP.  (Just for the record, I am NOT, and have never been, a Republican.)\nIf the GOP is racist, why did its first president - Abraham Lincoln - actively work to denounce and end slavery?  Why did a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote FOR the Civil Rights Act of 1964?  Why, during the current administration, did they appoint Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice to positions of power?  Why do plenty of Republicans support Ms. Rice as a candidate for President in 2008?\nPlease, even if you are, like me, not a GOP kind of person, at least give credit where credit is due.
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I laughed so hard at this answer.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\nThe Republicans like him because he could hold together a majority and get laws they favored passed. He is know worse then any other politician, just much more effective. I'm a liberal, and I would love someone like him on our side, we just get flakes, \n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nThat because all you libs are flakes.  \n\nAnyway to answer the question: \nFrom what has been disclosed to the public about the charges against him, there is no case.  He is essentially being charged with helping get a donation to the Republican party with the understanding that that much money would come back to him from the Republican party to help with his campaign.\n\nThis goes on all the time, it is why all the campaign finance laws to date are all ridiculous.  Let me break it down some for you.\nNow parts of this have changed with McCains idiotic campaign finance reform law that by some miracle got past the Supreme Court but that is after the fact and another discussion.  Delays issues come from before that.\n\nThe law says YOU can only give so much money to a person running for office i.e. hard money.\nThe law says YOU can give all the money you would like to the political party of your choice i.e. soft money.\nThe political parties then decide how much of the total monies they have to give to individual's running for office.\n\nSurely you can see how absurd this is, but that was the law, what you could not do "wink, wink" is give a big donation to a individual by washing it through the party, knowingly.  But this is of course EXACTLY what everyone did.  It is actually why the idiotic McCain bill came to pass in the first place because everyone did what DeLay was accused of.\n\nThis is all simply a political move to force DeLay to step down, because he was killing the libs in Congress.  He got things done, the way they are supposed to get done and he was good at it.  Much like Newt Gingrinch who was also very good at what he did, so they targeted him.  \n\nThe real discussion here should be campaign financing.  Any limits put on campaign donations, essentially restricts your right to free speach.  Which is exactly the type of speech the 1st Amendment was geared at.  The idiotic McCain bill, put even more restrictions of things, but like all politicians they left loop holes so that you could circumvent the laws.   What needs to be done and what ALL American's should be demanding (especially the libs) is no restrictions in anyway whatsoever on campaign donations, but also FULL disclosure of who donated and how much and when.