The Mittster Mash: What Others are Saying, and Writing

This verse of The Mittster Mash scans the world for the constant variety of validly negative items about Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney (of which there is no shortage).

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John Haskins of the Parents Rights Coalition, in an e-mail release, on Romney’s lack of profamily bona fides, in part (link to the full letter, signed by nine Massachusetts and nine national pro-family leaders, is here; bolds mostly mine; Upddate — Picked up by WorldNetDaily):

A growing list of conservative leaders are circulating a strong public warning about “the conservative establishment’s aggressive cover-up of the pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gay adoption policies” of Mitt Romney while governor of Massachusetts. The letter accuses Romney’s stable of prominent “conservative” leaders, lawyers and pundits of gross malpractice, ruthless ambition and dishonesty toward voters.

It calls on principled conservatives to firmly condemn the rent-a-conservative feeding frenzy on Mitt Romney’s money and the cover-up of his actions as governor — most of which he did while pretending he was forced to either by judges or non-existent laws.

Their letter details numerous stunning aspects of Romney’s record that are known to few Americans. These include:
- boosting funding for pro-homosexuality indoctrination of schoolchildren, and refusing to order his education officials to enforce parents’ legal right to protect their own children from unwanted indoctrination about homosexuality.
- falsely claiming Massachusetts law required Catholic adoption and foster care agency to give children to homosexual couples.
- personally issuing over 180 special same-sex marriage certificates purely at his own discretion, and claiming a law forced him.
- lying about the state constitution by pretending Massachusetts judges have legal authority to create “gay marriage” and using that deception to force officials to issue marriage licenses illegally modified without the legislature’s approval and perform the ceremonies, thus fulfilling a secret 2002 campaign promise to homosexual groups.
- claiming that a law somehow “forced’ him to sign a new law subsidizing abortions at $50 each with Planned Parenthood established as the fox guarding the henhouse.
- and many other actions in return for campaign promises Romney made to gay groups and the pro-abortion lobby.

“The entire record of Mitt Romney’s political career is that of a man whose Mormon background has no more influenced his zigzagging statements, positions and policies than Ted Kennedy’s or Hillary Clinton’s religion influences theirs,” said John Haskins, of the Parents’ Rights Coalition, who like the other signers from Massachusetts, regrets having voted for Romney four years ago. …..

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The Manchester Union Leader, Dec. 26, on Romney’s credibility:

THERE IS A reason Mitt Romney has not received a single newspaper endorsement in New Hampshire. It’s the same reason his poll numbers are dropping. He has not been able to convince the people of this state that he’s the conservative he says he is.

Like a lot of people in New Hampshire, we wanted to believe Romney. We gave him the benefit of the doubt. We listened very carefully to his expertly rehearsed sales pitch. But in the end he didn’t close the deal for us. Now, two weeks before the primary, the same is happening with voters.

….. How could that be? Romney has all the advantages: money, organization, geographic proximity, statesman-like hair, etc.

But he lacks something John McCain has in spades: conviction.

Granite Staters want a candidate who will look them in the eye and tell them the truth. John McCain has done that day in and day out, never wavering, never faltering, never pandering.

Mitt Romney has not. He has spoken his lines well, but the people can sense that the words are memorized, not heartfelt.

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Green Mountain Politics, yesterday, on the “back and forth” between Romney and John McCain (NY Times article here) over who has more foreign-policy experience (or as apparently claimed by Romney, whether you even need any for the job of president):

Senator McCain has the “McCain Surge” (and more than two decades of national security experience) while Governor Romney (probably) has the Winter Olympics.

So, if likely GOP Primary voters want to elect a candidate who will ensure that the ski jump and slalom run are in absolutely tip-top condition well, they know who they should pick.

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A not very current and otherwise ridiculously partisan dKospedia entry on Romney nevertheless has some I-believe accurate info that should give Republicans who wish to grow the party bone-chilling shivers:

During the 2004 election cycle, Romney recruited more than 100 GOP legislative candidates — collectively called “Team Reform” — for the Massachusetts House and Senate, putting his name on the line. While he spent much of the 2004 election campaigning for George W Bush in New Hampshire and Michigan, he did manage to secure more than $3 million from the Republican party for his efforts to reduce the Democratic hold on the legislature. In the end, these efforts failed resoundingly. Not only did Romney’s team fail to pick up any seats, the state GOP lost two seats in the House and one in the Senate.

The lefty Romney Is A Fraud site confirms this, and notes that it happened even though George Bush’s percentage of the vote went from 32% in 2000 to 37% in 2004.

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“Candor Gap” — Just this weekend, Romney was not going to run negative campaign ads before he decided to run negative campaign ads.

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John Hawkins, in his process-of-elimination video endorsement of Fred Thompson, has this to say about Romney:

Okay, I’m kind of stumped here. What does Mitt Romney even have going for him? The hair? Is it that he “looks” presidential? I have no idea, because the guy is an unelectable flip-flopper, and didn’t Repbulicans spend all of 2004 hammering John Kerry for being a flip-flopper?

And there’s no proof that Romney loves children or puppies (see the vid; you’ll get it).

As a matter of fact, at least in terms of full-grown dogs, there’s this. Dog lovers, prepare to be outraged. This story alone should have finished the guy off.

I looked for a debunk of this story, and found none (given how it developed, I don’t see how there could be). If there is one, e-mail me about it.