BUYER BEWARE! What You Would Get In a Vice-President Romney
(Hint: A demagogue who has already changed history)
GUEST COLUMN BY GREGG JACKSON + JOHN HASKINS
When Ann Coulter endorsed Mitt Romney she called the former Massachusetts governor "manifestly our best candidate" -- though the paper for which she is "chief legal correspondent," Human Events, ranked Romney the #8 RINO (Republican In Name Only) in the nation in 2005.
GOP establishment pom pom girl Laura Ingraham and water boy Sean Hannity evangelize Romney on their radio shows as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Romney the wallflower bats his eyelashes and coyly pretends not to notice the increasing speculation of a McCain-Romney ticket--even as he criss-crosses the country campaigning and fundraising for McCain--the same John McCain who Romney said during the primaries was "almost indistinguishable" from Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
But perhaps Romney intended that as a compliment, since Romney was a virtual GOP clone of Barack Obama, until he repackaged himself to seduce conservatives.
As a Boston talk radio host and writer-researcher (respectively), who both initially supported Romney (author Gregg Jackson lived out of state in 2002 and co-author John Haskins voted for him in 2002), we have followed Romney closely and know the truth about his record as very few people in America do. The truth is that many of the leading "conservative" lawyers, radio pundits and pro-family leaders whom we trusted for years have ruthlessly distorted and suppressed the truth about Romney's hideous record as governor -- even after all his "conversions."
It took one hundred million dollars of Romney's personal fortune to waterboard Americans with Orwellian propaganda from "conservative" talk radio, Fox News and "pro-family" lawyers and religious mercenaries. Their consensus is they've rewritten enough history enough to fool enough of the people enough of the time.
Many pundits and political prognosticators are now calling Romney the odds-on favorite to be chosen as McCain's running mate--making it more urgent than ever conservatives--the field slaves of the Republican Party--know the true record of this man.
After reading the truth about this soulless demagogue, whom most of the GOP elites have airbrushed into a quasi-conservative, ask yourself if Mitt Romney is somebody, who as Dr. James Dobson of "Focus on the Family" stated, "is a man pro-family voters could support?"
1. Romney illegally imposed homosexual marriage as he had secretly promised "Log Cabin Republicans" a homosexual activist group he would, given the pretext of a legally meaningless court opinion. He publicly admitted that the four outlaw judges who belched forth the Goodridge opinion (urging the legislature to make sodomy-based "marriage" legal) had violated the state Constitution and their oaths of office. But bizarrely, he flatly contradicted the state constitution he had sworn to uphold by pretending he was bound by this opinion. He also opposed a citizen-led effort to remove the four judges!
He then authorized illegal changes to, and issuance of, still legally null and void marriage licenses to homosexuals in violation of the marriage laws which the state constitution explicitly says only the legislature can change (the same court has admitted this). But Romney and his hired "conservatives" falsely claimed that "everybody (knew) that the (judges) legalized same-sex 'marriage'."
2. AFTER his stage-managed "pro-life conversion" Romney's signature healthcare plan established abortion, with a taxpayer-subsidized $50 co-pay, as a "healthcare benefit." He also created a permanent, official government role for an unelected Planned Parenthood representative on his healthcare board -- but no pro-life appointee. (Again, AFTER HIS PURPORTED "PRO-LIFE CONVERSION").
3. Romney increased government funding for anti-family, anti-morality homosexual propaganda, starting in kindergarten, and refused to defend school children and parents' rights against this indoctrination. When running for the Senate in 1994, Romney promised the homosexual Log Cabin Republicans that as Senator he would be more pro-gay than Ted Kennedy stating in a letter to them, "As we seek to establish full equality for America's gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent."
4. Romney opposes a ban on homosexual boy scoutmasters and supports sexual orientation non-discrimination laws that would force private businesses and religious institutions to, for example, hire cross-dressers and transvestites or face criminal fines and punishment.
6. Romney cited a non-existent state law to force Catholic Charities, the state's largest adoption and foster care agency, to provide children to homosexuals even when normal mother-father families were lined up to give them a home. Even former governor liberal Democrat Mike Dukakis pointed out that this "law" Romney was using was no "law," but merely an executive regulation that a governor can cancel with a stroke of his pen. 7. Romney's GOP mercenaries pass him off as a "fiscal conservative." Yet his "signature" achievement as governor, his government-run "universal" healthcare plan that was endorsed by Ted Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and Planned Parenthood, has been a total economic failure according to the Wall St. Journal, Boston Globe, and Cato Institute. 8. Romney increased taxes and fees by over $800 million which devastated the Massachusetts economy. He also opposed the Bush Tax Cuts earning him praise from uber-liberal Barney Frank.
10. Romney supported McCain-Feingold "campaign finance reform" which shamelessly outlaws political speech -- an unalienable right guaranteed under our state and federal constitutions and for which countless of our young soldiers and sailors have died. 11. Romney backed the McCain-Kennedy "comprehensive immigration reform" (i.e. amnesty), and parts of the McCain-Lieberman "carbon cap and trade" bill. Here's the bottom line: The ruthlessly ambitious and greedy GOP elites have been claiming that Mitt Romney is a fiscal and social conservative who would aid McCain in shoring up grassroots conservative support among Evangelicals and "pocket book conservatives." But McCain would be selecting a soulless and ruthless snake oil salesman, a Republican Barack Obama -- to the left of even McCain himself. After all, Romney, as the Founding Father of Sodomy-Based "Marriage" and $50 dollar taxpayer-funded abortions alone, has accomplished what no Democrat has been able to, much less John McCain. The charade required to successfully portray Romney as a conservative who bravely resisted homosexual "marriage," who opposed the giving of parent-less children to homosexuals and opposed his own $50 abortions involved a massive media campaign of bare-faced lying about the law, the powers conferred upon judges and the legal obligations of the governor himself under the brutally clear Massachusetts Constitution. It required perpetual and overwhelming propaganda assistance from the fervently pro-homosexuality and anti-family news mafia and commentariat (can you even tell the difference anymore?). That the self-styled "conservative" elites took the lead in this Bolshevik-style subversion of a state constitution and in enabling government funding of industrial scale abortion is a frightening indication of why America is slipping into tyranny. Romney's bare-faced lies about the law, his criminal subversion of the oldest functioning constitution in the world -- and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's (similarly illegal) copy-catting -- mark the unofficial end of any semblance of the rule of law in America on the issues that define any society.
As every senior homosexual activist and Democrat strategist understands, the consequences will be sweeping: the end of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association and parents' rights, as already evident in Canada and much of Europe. As Justice Antonin Scalia warned of the Lawrence v. Texas opinion in which a United States Supreme Court majority pretended to have the constitutional authority and power to "strike down" the anti-sodomy laws of states, "this could be the one that swallows the rule of law." It is still swallowing. Lawrence invited Goodridge. Goodridge invited the anti-constitutional and legally void California opinion that Schwarzenegger has used as a justification for trashing the constitution he swore to defend and uphold. And long before the swallowing is done, it will be too late to reverse it. "Citizens, please return to your shopping. All is under control." This is what we call "conservatism" today. Caveat Emptor. Voter Beware! Gregg Jackson is the author of "Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z" and talk radio show host on WRKO in Boston. Co-author John Haskins, proprietor of UndergroundJournal.net, has written on constitutionalism, parents' rights and international affairs in the American Spectator, World, Insight and WorldNetDaily. A former editor, he interviewed Lech Walesa on the tenth anniversary of the fall of communism in Europe and reported from refugee camps during the Balkan War. Comments to RFFM.org's blog which include ad hominems or personal attack will automatically be rejected. No hyperlinks allowed.
Thank You! Someone has to tell the truth about Romney! You've done an excellent job detailing exactly why Romney should NEVER be included on a Presidential Ticket. I for one cannot vote for McCain if Romney is on the ticket!
Posted by: Liz | July 22, 2008 at 05:53 PM
You Hucksters really need to move on.
Log off of Hucksarmy, turn off the computer, go outside, take in some fresh air, take in some deep breaths, and move on. Look, neither Huck nor Romney won. Odds are that neither will be the VP. Do you really understand the ramifications of an Obama presidency?? Are you really prepared to allow that for you own petty bitterness?? Go on and take a break. Try a new perspective. Give up the hate and bitterness. You will feel better. Romney did attack Huck's record (like Thompson did). Thats politics. Its not like he tried to belittle Huck's evangelical faith, right?
Posted by: Brian | July 22, 2008 at 10:11 PM
I don't care if PeeWee Herman is McCain's VP running mate. I will vote McCain. I will do whatever I have to do to stop Barack Obama the corrupt; James Cone Black Liberation Theology of racial hatred; stuttering XXXXX; Media phoney; Bush-clone Obama.
Posted by: 85Yota | July 23, 2008 at 02:34 AM
Brian,
give up the "hate and bitterness?" What the sam hill are you talking about? All this article does is lay out the case against Mitt Romney as McCain's VP choice.
What specific parts from the article do you disagree with and why. Let's debate the substantive points like grown ups instead of ad hominem attacks shall we?
By the way, what does "HucksArmy" have to do with this article? Neither John nor I are members of HA?
Raise the level of your argument instead of your voice.
Posted by: Gregg J | July 23, 2008 at 07:02 PM
Yota, let me get this straight: Obama is a "Bush Clone" and McCain who is more liberal than Bush is superior to Obama? Nice logic bud.
Posted by: Gregg J | July 23, 2008 at 07:59 PM
Thank you. Finally someone not afraid to tell the truth about Romney!!
Posted by: Angela | July 23, 2008 at 08:27 PM
Thanks for the facts; Romney is a fake and absolutely a RINO. He has flip-flopped, sent thousands of jobs overseas, and represents only the Wall Street crowd. I pray McCain will not choose him, because if he does, he will lose. America does not want more of the status quo where special interests and lobbyists rule - we must have change, and Romney is absoutely more of the same. I will vote for McCain, but only if he does not choose Romney as VP. Choosing him would demonstrate that McCain has lost his maverick principles and surrendered to the Republican machine. No to Romney!
Posted by: hsmith | July 25, 2008 at 07:22 PM
Why do I hear different versions of the truth? The facts here are totally miscontrued to tar Romney. Romney didn't have anything to do with the bills he signed as governor. These were bills presented by the congress and judges, if he didn't sign them they would have been overturned in any case.
I don't know the specifics, but I know enough to have been told by lawyers that actually understand how the law works that there was little Romney could do about that. The bills presented had already been approved by Romney and in fact it would have been illegal for him not to sign them. He couldn't even use his veto power to overturn those already made decisions.
You really ought to go further, and read the defense case already made againsta all the points mentioned above and not ony reprint old news.
Why hasn't anyone made a point against the defense to those accusations? Probably, because they can't.
Posted by: deg | August 05, 2008 at 06:58 PM