On March 30th, 2009 at 10:19 am, misterbee241 said:

[Romney] refused to stand up to the Mass supreme court over gay marriage.

Not sure what you’re referring to; the Mass Supreme Court handed down that decision before Romney became governor. And while he was governor, he was the one who took the gutless wonders on Beacon Hill to court to force them to vote on the referendum petition that voters in Massachusetts had signed – and for which those voters ended up having their names, addresses and phone numbers published by the pro-gay-marriage proponents (but that wasn’t an attempt at intimidation /sarc.). Within the parameters of the state’s constitution, he did what he could to force the legislature to do their jobs.

As to whether he is a true conservative or not, if he had changed his views from being anti-abortion to pro, the left would have lauded him for his evolving point of view. Instead, they excoriate him, and those on the right view him with suspicion.

I for one take him at his word, that in the fact finding sessions he had with the experts on embryonic stem-cell research, he came to the conclusion that not only was that type of research unethical, but that abortion itself was also unethical.

How may of us have likewise changed our opinions because of new information on the subject? I know I did. Does that make me insincere in by pro-life beliefs? Am I not a true conservative? (point of reference: I wrote in Reagan on the 1980 presidential ballot, who, by the way, also changed his stand on abortion).

On March 28th, 2009 at 9:40 am, happyscrapper said:

…if you can trace yourself to a king in England…

Which one have you traced back to? My family has been tracing genealogies since I was really little, so it’s an ongoing interest of mine (kind of like being a fan of the Red Sox – I was born into it)

On March 27th, 2009 at 9:39 pm, happyscrapper said:

On March 27th, 2009 at 8:48 pm, Joy said:
Happy – You and I just may be distantly related by marriage… lol

That’s funny! I have actually found dozens of Alexander cousins on the Web. We are all descended from Jabez Alexander (born in 1755)…One of the Alexander lines goes all the way back to the Mayflower and Elder William Brewster!

Brewster is one of my Mayflower ancestors! We might be related….

a mandatory service requirement was dropped from the GIVE/SERVE package, but is part of a stand-alone bill to establish the “Congressional Commission on Civic Service.”

We have seen the likes of that before. The “mandatory” part will resurface one way or another despite what the CongressCritters say. The parasites of the Federal Bureaucracy re write the rules as they go along.

Actually we do have term limits-two and six years IF the voters would get off their dead butts and vote out the scoundrels.

“Go home to Utah, Orrin, you old RINO, sit on the porch and watch the sun set.” Yes indeed although I would think he prefers Massachusetts by now.He could Room with Romney at House RINO! (take McCain with you)

How long will we have to suffer such fools in Congress (especially in the Republican Party)?
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give me a break… Hatch has come out of the closet with this love for Kennedy, one of the worst people…

At least Mitt Romney hasn’t gone to the dark side and you can still be proud of him!

No, Romney is trying to convince people he came FROM the dark side. He flipped on abortion and gun control when it was politically expedient for him. He refused to stand up to the Mass supreme court over gay marriage. And I am not convinced a true conservative Republican could ever be elected governor of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. After all, they gave Teddy Boy and Jean Francois Kerry lifetime seats in the Senate.
I know Reagan was elected governor of liberal California, but that was over 40 years ago. A true conservative would never, ever be elected governor of California today.

“It is a great honor to be able to add the name of a very good friend and senator, one of the most distinguished of all-time, to this bill,” Hatch told the Senate.

Well, I certainly cant think of any other senator who left a girl friend to drown after he drove drunk off of a bridge and then was never held accountable because he’s a Kennedy, fine upstanding man that he is. Go home to Utah, Orrin, you old RINO, sit on the porch and watch the sun set.
TERM LIMITS NOW!