Unified Serenity
20th May 2012, 17:12
I stumbled across this article and might make some more comments on it, but if we are going to dig into Obama's past, let's have a good looksee at Romney's shall we?
Is Mitt Romney a “natural born citizen”?
via Mitt Romney's Father Was A Mexican Citizen When Mitt Was Born. (http://wp.me/psXSG-eOW).
Is Mitt Romney (http://www.biography.com/people/mitt-romney-241055) a “natural born citizen”?
It is absolutely clear that Mitt Romney is NOT a Natural Born Citizen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen_of_the_United_States) unless he can prove that George Romney gained citizenship from naturalization prior to Mitt’s birth in 1947.
Latest 3/12/2012 Rasmussen Poll -> Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Remains On Track In Defeating Incumbent Obama: Outperforming Romney Gingrich & Santorum. (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/03/13/latest-rasmussen-poll-presidential-candidate-ron-paul-remains-on-track-in-defeating-incumbent-obama-outperforming-romney-gingrich-santorum/)
Mitt Romney’s father George was born in Chihuahua, Mexico (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.8141666667,-106.439444444&spn=1.0,1.0&q=28.8141666667,-106.439444444%20%28Chihuahua%29&t=h) in 1907, the son of Gaskell Romney and Anna Amelia Pratt. Three generations of Romneys lived in Mexico (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=19.05,-99.3666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=19.05,-99.3666666667%20%28Mexico%29&t=h) because Miles Park Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt%E2%80%93Romney_family), a polygamist, moved the family there in 1884 (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660198565,00.html) as it became increasingly clear that the U.S. government would not tolerate polygamy in the Utah Territory.
The 1882 Edmunds Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds_Act) stripped polygamists of the basic rights of U.S. citizenship, denying them the right to vote, serve on juries or hold office. Not dissimilar to current immigration raids, U.S. federal agents hunted and arrested polygamists. Polygamists were forced to leave the country or risk jail.
Miles Romney chose to leave the country, bringing his multiple wives and children with him across the southern border. In his 1902 book The Story of the Mormons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon), author William Alexander Linn states that the “Secretario de Fomento of Mexico” related that “The laws of this country [Mexico] do not permit polygamy,” and that the contracts for the establishment of Mormon colonies in Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_colonies_in_Mexico) required the same. If true, Miles Romney then knowingly arrived in direct violation of Mexican immigration law.
Utah became a state in 1896, only after laws were passed there prohibiting polygamy. While polygamy may have been illegal in both countries, the Romneys still found Mexico more to their liking. All four of George’s (Mitt’s father) grandparents would live out their days in Mexico, with Anna’s mother Dorsey being the last to die — in Chihuahua in 1929.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/gaskell-romney-198x3001.jpg?w=588Gaskell Romney
Gaskell and Anna (who were monogamous) were married in 1895, and according to George’s biographer Tom Mahoney, lived in Chihuahua until the height of the Mexican Revolution in 1912. Relative Junius Romney negotiated with rebel leaders to get women and children out of the colony for their safety. Anna, with Mitt’s father George in tow, fled across the U.S. border by train (with no apparent delay or search at the border). A short time later Gaskell, like many Mexican immigrants before and since, covered hundreds of miles under a hot sun, crossing by land into New Mexico.
Gaskell Romney, Mitt’s Grandfather crosses U.S. Border (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_%E2%80%93_United_States_border).
As a Mexican born immigrant, George (Mitt’s father) would do quite honorably, becoming Governor of Michigan and running for the Republican nomination for President in 1968. (Remember George Was Born In Mexico) His support for civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War resulted in his loss to Richard Nixon. His son Mitt is of course where this post begins.
The Mitt Romney Presidential Crux.
Call upon Mitt Romney now to either post Gaskell Romney’s US (http://www.history.com/topics/states) naturaliztion documents (or repatriated record) or George Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney)‘s US naturaliztion documents that he would have filled out and signed when he was 21 years of age, or withdraw from the presidential race as Constitutionally unqualified to take the oath of office of the presidency of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States).
Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/12/24/18501/romney-family-immigration/?mobile=nc)
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mitt-romney-rino-ma11.jpg?w=588
What About Mitt?
In this post I’ll use information I found from the book by Tom Mahoney published in 1960 called ‘The Story Of George Romney. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9780977825349/crooksandliar-20/ref=nosim)“
Mitt comes from a long line of Romney’s that resided in England for generations and when an early Mormon missionary from America named Orson Hyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Hyde) came to England to spread their word, Gaskell Romney and his wife Elizabeth converted in 1839. Soon after they boarded a boat to America. (pg 50)
He and his wife, who had been Elizabeth Gaskell, were attracted by a street meeting of Orson Hyde, one of the first Mormon missionaries to England, and in 1839 were baptized.
First, Mormonism A Short recap:
If you’re not familiar with the Mormon religion, Joesph Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons), the founder, said he had vision as far back as 1820 in upstate New York and traveled West, where his flock finally ending up in Utah, led by Brigham Young after Smith was killed. After writing the Book of Mormon, Smith had a revelation which is known as Article 132 from the Mormon text called Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_and_Covenants), a sort of addendum book to the Book of Mormon. (http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132?lang=eng)
Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded 12 July 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, and also the plurality of wives (see History of the Church, 5:501–7). Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principles involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831.
Smith explained why the Old Testament leaders had multiple wives and soon after “plural” marriage was practiced in the Mormon faith. It was kept pretty secret even from his own flock in the beginning because Smith knew the affect it might have on his community and after polygamy began to take shape it did have a dire effect on his group, but in 1852, Oliver Pratt, a Mormon apostle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle_%28Latter_Day_Saints%29) openly preached the merits of polygamy: (http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/p/POLYGAMY.html)
Polygamy was not openly practiced in the Mormon Church (http://www.lds.org) until 1852 when Orson Pratt, an apostle, made a public speech defending it as a tenet of the church. From 1852 until 1890, Mormon Church leaders preached and encouraged members, especially those in leadership positions, to marry additional wives.
In the 1850′s the Republican Party deemed polygamy as disgraceful as slavery. FOX News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254362,00.html) also discussed Article 132 back in 2007.
Smith’s revelation that God authorized polygamy — remains in Article 132 of the Church’s doctrine and covenants. In addition, Mormon widowers who remarry today believe they will live in eternity with their multiple wives. Mormon genealogical records, among the most detailed and complete of any religion, show that two of Mitt Romney’s great-great grandfathers, Miles Romney and Parley Pratt, had 12 wives each.
What About Mitt?
In 1862, Miles Romney, a son of Gaskell married Hannah Hood Hill in Salt Lake City and he began to practice plural marriage soon after. He had three wives while living in St. Johns, Arizona. Miles was a carpenter, contractor, builder and publisher of a weekly newspaper. All seemed well for the Romney’s until Congress finally passed the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act in the 1880′s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds_Act) which made polygamy a felony after an earlier act that President Lincoln passed called the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Anti-Bigamy_Act) of 1862 was virtually ignored because Lincoln didn’t want Utah involved in the Civil War. The Edmunds Act finally made the United States take a serious stance against polygamy. After the bill was passed, life for the Romney household took a rather bad turn. (pg. 51)
Overnight he was reduced from the leading citizen of the community to a hounded and hunted man. He and others in the same plight sought asylum in Mexico.
It’s pretty confusing trying to track the Romney genealogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt%E2%80%93Romney_family#Genealogy), but Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather fled with his three wives to Mexico so they could continue their polygamist lifestyle with a multitude of other Mormon polygamists and settled there, cutting land deals with Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz using funds that came from The Mormon Church. President Diaz was happy to have the Mormon settlers there as a buffer against the Apache Indians. (pg.51)
With others, Helaman Pratt obtained permission from Diaz for Miles Park Romney and other Mormon refugees to buy lands and establish colonies in Mexico. Partly with funds advanced by the Church, they purchased large, mostly undeveloped tracts in Sonora and Chihuahua. Diaz was happy to have colonists there as buffers against the Apache Indians
Mitt Romney’s father, George S. Romney was born in Mexico in the Colonia Dublan colony in 1907. It’s not surprising that a Birther-type discussion was raised about George Romney either. (pg. 53)
As his parents had retained their American citizenship, experts on constitutional law believe his birth in Mexico is no bar to George Romney becoming a candidate for President regardless of the U.S. Constitution’s clause: “No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible for the office of President.” No court has interpreted this clause but children born abroad or at sea have been considered “natural-born” citizens for passports and other privileges. If astrology is to be believed, those born in July are receptive to new ideas and adapted to catering to public needs.
Life was very good for the polygamist colonists in Mexico until a civil war broke out there in 1911 and in 1912 as you might expect, their camps were targets for rebels because they had many guns and supplies they needed, raids of their colonies ensued even with Mexican assurances of their safety so many had to flee back to America.
As an expectant mother, Mrs. Romney was given a seat in a coach. With her were Miles, young George (Mitt’s father), who had just celebrated his fifth birthday, and Lawrence, his two-year-old brother; two of her sisters, Miss Amy Pratt, the schoolteacher, and Mrs. Verde Pratt Cardon, wife of Clarence Cardon, then a missionary in Paris, France. Ahead in a freight car were the older Romney boys, Maurice and Douglas. They were cheerful as they arrived in El Paso that afternoon. In all 2,300 Mormon refugees reached El Paso within three days, to become, in the later words of George Romney, “the first displaced persons of the twentieth century.”
In 1890, The Mormon Church lost their case to the Supreme Court which upheld Edmunds-Tucker Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDS_Church_v._United_States) so Utah came out with their Manifesto soon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_Manifesto) afterward which condemned plural marriage:
The “1890 Manifesto”, sometimes simply called “The Manifesto”, is a statement which officially disavowed the continuing practice of plural marriage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_marriage) in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints) (LDS Church). Issued by church president (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Church_%28Latter_Day_Saints%29) Wilford Woodruff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Woodruff) in September 1890, the Manifesto was a response to mounting anti-polygamy pressure from the United States Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress), which by 1890 had disincorporated the church, escheated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat) its assets to the U.S. federal government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States), and imprisoned many prominent polygamist Mormons.
The Manifesto was a dramatic turning point in the history of the LDS Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints). It officially prohibited church members from entering into any marriage prohibited by the law of the land, and made it possible for Utah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah) to become a U.S. state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state).
Nevertheless, even after the Manifesto, the church quietly continued to perform a small number of plural marriages in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico), and Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), thus necessitating a Second Manifesto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Manifesto) during U.S. congressional hearings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot_hearings) in 1904.
I’ve included this point about Utah’s banning polygamy because it appears to be a purely political move even if many Mormons opposed polygamy and as the 2,300 Mormon polygamist refugees fled Mexico, leaving many of their belongings behind, it was the U.S. Government that helped bail them out of their dire situation. (pg. 60)
They had just twenty-five dollars, two suitcases and three bedrolls. Many families were installed in vacant tenements and several hundred were quartered in huge empty lumber sheds on Magoffin Avenue which the Long Lumber Company made available. The U.S. Army supplied rations and loaned tents from Fort Bliss. Mayor C. E. Kelly and city officials joined Church leaders in finding homes and jobs for the refugees. Congress voted $100,000 for their transportation and relief.
If you calculate $100,000 for inflation from 1912, the figure turns into over $2.2 million in 2011. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100%2C000&year1=1913&year2=2011) That’s a lot of government money to people who were basically felons in the eyes of the law. Another fascinating thing happened in 1938. Mexico paid out a huge settlement to those early Mexican colonies because of the revolution. (pg.61)
The colonists eventually in 1938 received from Mexico $2.65 for each $100 of loss during the revolutionary disorders. Gaskell Romney’s losses were so great that he received enough to purchase a comfortable house in Salt Lake City in which he lived his last years.
It’s odd that Mexico would repay monies to the Mormon polygamists after so many years, but one can still make the case that the Romney family was even funded in some part by the Mexican government. To get an idea of how vast the Romney family was because of its polygamist past, in 1922, George Romney (Mitt’s father) had roughly 165 first cousins. (pg.68)
Crooks & Liars (http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/romneys-grandfathers-polygamist-fled-me)
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mzi-grthrpig.jpg?w=588Both Jon Huntsman & Mitt Romney Decendants Of Murdered Polygamist Parley P. Pratt
Polygamist Parley P. Pratt is Great-Great Grandparent to both Jon Huntsman & Mitt Romney.
Parley P. Pratt was shot and killed in Arkansas while trying to court his 12th wife, the perpetrator was her legal husband who was not happy that his wife was planning to take their kids and go live polygamy with Pratt.
Family tree for Mitt is here:
http://www.wargs.com/political/romney.html
Family tree for Jon Hunstman is here:
http://www.wargs.com/political/huntsman.html
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/517krm2ebhl-_sl500_.jpg?w=588Mitt's Father George Romney
Was George Romney (father of Mitt Romney) a natutal born citizen?
Not according to the historical records.
b. Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, México, 8 July 1907, d. Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 26 July 1995 [SSDI 577-10-6742], bur. Fairview Cemetery, Brighton, Mich.
m. Salt Lake City, Utah, 2 July 1931.
George Romney was born in Mexico to expatriated Mormon parents. George’s father is named Gaskell Romney.
If George Romney was not a “natural born citizen” or became naturalized BEFORE Mitt was born, then neither can Mitt Romeny (his son) be natural born.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/obama-the-unconstitutional-usurper.jpg?w=588&h=761United States Constitution
THE CASE:
Had Romney been successful in 08, we’d still have socialized medicine, only the name would be Romneycare, not Obamacare.
In regards to the missionaries, I point that out to show that the expatriate Mormons HAD to become Mexican citizens since polygamy missionary work by foreigners was prohibited by Mexican law at the time.
Geometry, “if this and this, therefore that.” If Mexico only allowed citizens to conduct missions/missionary work. The Mormons operated missions in Mexico, therefore, the Mormons were Mexican citizens.
Since George W. Romney was born in Mexico, son of the head elder (Gaskell Romney), there for about 3 decades before his birth, said elder must have been a Mexican citizen, therefore, could not bestow American citizenship, let alone “natural born” to George W. Romney. Since George W. Romney was therefore NOT A natural born American citizen, he could not bestow natural born to his son Mitt Romney. It does not matter what state Mitt Romney was born in.
The operative immigration law of nations at the time, each government had a tacit agreement about such expatriates as a matter of being put into delicate situations of having to defend Americans on foreign soil. This procedure was operative when the Mormons fled Utah, the standard being that if an American stayed (at the time the accepted time frame was) 5 or so years, each country would consider they had rejected their native country’s citizenship.
The Mitt Romney Presidential Crux.
Call upon Mitt Romney now to either post Gaskell Romney’s US naturaliztion documents (or repatriated record) or George Romney’s US naturaliztion documents that he would have filled out and signed when he was 21 years of age, or withdraw from the presidential race as Constitutionally unqualified to take the oath of office of the presidency of the United States.
4 Supreme Court Cases define “natural born citizen” (http://usa-wethepeople.com/2010/04/4-supreme-court-cases-define-natural-born-citizen/)
Having the Status of Birthright Citizenship Is Not Sufficient to Make One an Article II “Natural Born” (http://usa-wethepeople.com/2011/09/having-the-status-of-birthright-citizenship-is-not-sufficient-to-make-one-an-article-ii-%e2%80%9cnatural-born%e2%80%9d/)
More Citizenship Information Backed Up By Congressional Records (http://usa-wethepeople.com/2011/09/more-citizenship-information-backed-up-by-congressional-records/)
So will Mitt Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney) be the next president of the United States (http://www.history.com/topics/states)? Well, he certainly fits the part. He looks like a president and he speaks very well. But when you look at what he really stands for that is where things become very troubling. The truth is that Mitt Romney is either very wrong or very “soft” on every single major issue.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/mitt-romney-rino-ma1.jpg?w=588 (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/03/pre-sweetened-mitt-romney-bankers-mainstream-media-prop-president-of-bain-capital-for-14-years/mitt-romney-rino-ma1/)
When you closely examine their positions, there is very, very little difference between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama (http://answers.com/topic/barack-obama#Gale_Contemporary_Black_Biography_d). Sure, Romney and Obama will say the “right things” to the voters during election season, but the reality is that a Romney administration would be so similar to an Obama administration (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/obama-administration) that you would hardly know that a change has taken place. What you are about to read about Mitt Romney should alarm you very much. Mitt Romney would be a an absolute disaster for this country, and America (http://www.history.com/topics/states) cannot afford another disastrous presidency.
Weekend Reflections: ‘Boston Medical’ Victim Of Mitt Romney’s Universal Healthcare, Sues State Of Massachusetts. (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/10/23/nationally-ranked-hospital-boston-medical-victim-of-universal-healthcare-sues-state-of-massachusetts/)
The fact that Barack Obama looked sharp and could give inspiring speeches helped him go a long way back in 2008. Well, it is the same thing with Romney. The guy looks very presidential and he sounds very presidential. When backed into a corner, he is extremely slick. He rarely makes mistakes and he is very polished.
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Mitt Romney has a [URL="http://deadlinelive.info/2011/10/15/mitt-romneys-climate-adviser-john-holdren-mr-drug-the-water-to-sterilize-the-populace-b-o-science-guy/"]clear association (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/03/pre-sweetened-mitt-romney-bankers-mainstream-media-prop-president-of-bain-capital-for-14-years/romney-holdren/) with the Marxist devil himself, John Holdren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren).
“[Obama’s] Science Czar John Holdren, a participant in ClimateGate (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/11/science_czar_jo_1.html) who has advocated de-developing America (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/09/top-obama-advis.html) and putting sterilants in the public water supply (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/07/obamas_totalita.html).”
“Holdren has also spoken in favor of forced abortions, confiscation of babies, targeted as well as mass involuntary sterilization, bureaucratic regulation of family size, and global authoritarian government. If there is a line between ultra-left ideologue and evil maniac, Holdren clearly crosses it.” <Source (http://moonbattery.com/?p=3227)>
Obama Science Czar Led UN Effort to Hide Proceedings, Subvert FOIA, Records Indicate | Competitive Enterprise Institute (http://cei.org/news-releases/obama-science-czar-led-un-effort-hide-proceedings-subvert-foia-records-indicate) – Read the CEI FOIA request (http://cei.org/legal-briefs/foia-request-white-house-office-science-and-technology-john-holdren-director)
Romney’s John Holdren Problem (http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/280238/romneys-john-holdren-problem-greg-pollowitz)
Island (http://island-adv.com/2011/10/why-i-do-not-trust-mitt-romney/)
Mitt Romney is a “politician” in the worst sense of the word. As his past has demonstrated, he will do and say just about anything in order to get elected. The positions he has taken during this campaign season have been carefully calculated to help him win both the Republican nomination and the general election.
That is why so many call Mitt Romney a “flip-flopper”. Romney will take just about any political position if he thinks that it will help him. Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Romney), once made the following statement (http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/22/90847.shtml) about her husband….
“He can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he’s really believing his argument, but he’s not.”
So keep that in mind while reading the following information. Mitt Romney is trying to claim that he is a “conservative” and that he is looking out for the American people, but those claims simply are not true.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/images6.jpeg?w=588 (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/03/pre-sweetened-mitt-romney-bankers-mainstream-media-prop-president-of-bain-capital-for-14-years/images-193/)Obama's Science Fiction Czar & Romney Advisor.
Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts is the first and only state to set CO2 emissions limits on power plants. The limits, which target the six largest and oldest power plants in the state, are the toughest in the nation and are designed to lower emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plant smokestacks.”
“The combination of these market-based mechanisms with stringent CO2 caps will lead to cost-effective environmental gains.”
“In the development of greenhouse gas policy, Romney Administration officials have elicited input from environmental and economic policy experts. These include John Holden, professor of environmental policy at Harvard University and chair of the National Commission on Energy Policyand Billy Pizer, an economist at Resources for the Future, an environmental policy think-tank based in Washington D.C.” <Source (http://myclob.pbworks.com/w/page/21956517/12-07-2005)>
Island (http://island-adv.com/2011/10/why-i-do-not-trust-mitt-romney/)
Uncle Sam Gets Bit
The following are 16 reasons why Mitt Romney would be a really, really bad president….
#1
Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress. Mitt Romney says that he would repeal Obamacare, but the reality is that Romneycare was what Obamacare was based on. In fact, a recent MSNBC article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44854320/ns/politics-decision_2012/#.Tq4Dm3JZowO) brought to light some new information about the relationship between Romneycare and Obamacare….
Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”
The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/89298639-rich-romney.jpg?w=588&h=462
Had Romney been successful in 08, we’d still have socialized medicine, only the name would be Romneycare, not Obamacare.
Mitt Romney continues to defend Romneycare, but the reality is that it really is a total nightmare for Massachusetts. The following is how one blogger (http://klsouth.wordpress.com/top-posts-essays/the-romney-rino-scorecard/)summarized some of the key points of Romneycare….
• Punitive To Individuals. Everyone must buy health insurance or face tax penalties equal to 50% of cost of standard policy.
• Hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on free hospital care were converted into subsidies to help the needy buy insurance.
• A health insurance “exchange” was established to help connect the uninsured with private health plans at more affordable rates.
• Health plans can offer consumers higher deductibles and more restrictive physician and hospital networks in order to lower costs.
• Punitive to Businesses with 11 or more workers that do not offer insurance must pay a $295 per employee fee.
• Established payment policy advisory board; one Board member must be from Planned Parenthood. No pro-life organization represented.
• Provides Taxpayer-Funded Abortions for copay of $50.
So what have been the results of Romneycare in Massachusetts? According to the Daily Caller, health care costs and health insurance premiums have gone up dramatically in Massachusetts (http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/23/skyrocketing-massachusetts-health-costs-could-foreshadow-high-price-of-obamacare/)….
Since the bill became law, the state’s total direct health-care spending has increased by a remarkable 52 percent. Medicaid spending has gone from less than $6 billion a year to more the $9 billion. Many consumers have seen double-digit percentage increases in their premiums.
All of that certainly sounds a whole lot like Obamacare.
Unfortunately, the other Republican candidates have not taken advantage of this weakness. According to one brand new poll (http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8251-F.pdf), 6 times as many Republicans view Romneycare unfavorably as view it favorably. This is something that the other candidates should be jumping on big time.
#2
During his time as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney significantly raised taxes. The following is an excerpt from a CBS News article (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/02/politics/main3445281.shtml)….
Mitt Romney’s Harvard MBA and gold-plated resume convinced many business leaders he would follow in the tradition of corporate-friendly Republicans when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
Within three years, some had a vastly different opinion, after Romney’s efforts raised the tax bill on businesses by $300 million
The same article also notes that Romney jacked up “fees and fines” on Massachusetts taxpayers substantially….
Romney and lawmakers also approved hundreds of millions in higher fees and fines during his four years in office.
Many in the Massachusetts business community were quite disgusted with Romney by the end of his tenure. Peter Nicholas, the chairman of Boston Science Corporation, says that “tax rates on many corporations almost doubled because of legislation supported by Romney. (http://www.romneyexposed.com/2011/06/20/an-open-letter-about-mitt-romney-from-conservatives/)”
#3
Government spending in Massachusetts increased significantly under Mitt Romney. An advocate of smaller government he most definitely is not.
This was especially true for the last two budgets passed under Romney. In fiscal year 2006, government spending in Massachusetts increased by 7.6 percent (http://klsouth.wordpress.com/top-posts-essays/the-romney-rino-scorecard/). In fiscal year 2007, government spending in Massachusetts increased by a whopping10.2 percent (http://klsouth.wordpress.com/top-posts-essays/the-romney-rino-scorecard/).
#4
It turns out that Mitt Romney is a believer in the theory of man-made global warming. In fact, Al Gore recently praised on Mitt Romney on his blog. In a post entitled “Good for Mitt Romney — though we’ve long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis (http://blog.algore.com/2011/06/good_for_mitt_romney_though_we.html)“, Al Gore lavished the following praise on the former Massachusetts governor….
“While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party”
Not only that, it is also very important to remember that while Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts became the very first state (http://www.infowars.com/romney-took-advice-from-obamas-eugenics-enthusiast-science-czar/) to pass a law to regulate carbon emissions.
#5
If Mitt Romney becomes president, we may actually have “cap and trade” shoved down our throats. While campaigning for president in 2007, Mitt Romney said that he would support a “cap and trade” carbon tax scheme for the entire world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGpLOKtQDA)….
“I support Cap-and-Trade on a global basis but not the USA going alone. I want to do it with other nations involved and on a global scale.”
#6
Mitt Romney had a horrible record of creating jobs while governor of Massachusetts. According to Boston Herald business reporter Bret Arends, only one state in the entire country (http://www.romneyexposed.com/2011/06/20/an-open-letter-about-mitt-romney-from-conservatives/) was worse at creating jobs while Romney was in office….
“During the four years Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, it had the second worst jobs record of any state in America…it wasn’t a regional issue. The rest of New England created nearly 200,000 jobs.”
#7
Mitt Romney was a very enthusiastic supporter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aX6T--U8Ll8) of the Wall Street bailouts. When the time comes for more Wall Street bailouts it seems almost certain that Mitt Romney will bail them out again.
#8
If Romney becomes president, get ready for a flood of liberal judges. While he was governor of Massachusetts, there were actually significantly more Democrats (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/25/romney_jurist_picks_not_tilted_to_gop/) among his judicial appointments than there were Republicans.
Continued on next post.....
Is Mitt Romney a “natural born citizen”?
via Mitt Romney's Father Was A Mexican Citizen When Mitt Was Born. (http://wp.me/psXSG-eOW).
Is Mitt Romney (http://www.biography.com/people/mitt-romney-241055) a “natural born citizen”?
It is absolutely clear that Mitt Romney is NOT a Natural Born Citizen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_born_citizen_of_the_United_States) unless he can prove that George Romney gained citizenship from naturalization prior to Mitt’s birth in 1947.
Latest 3/12/2012 Rasmussen Poll -> Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Remains On Track In Defeating Incumbent Obama: Outperforming Romney Gingrich & Santorum. (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2012/03/13/latest-rasmussen-poll-presidential-candidate-ron-paul-remains-on-track-in-defeating-incumbent-obama-outperforming-romney-gingrich-santorum/)
Mitt Romney’s father George was born in Chihuahua, Mexico (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=28.8141666667,-106.439444444&spn=1.0,1.0&q=28.8141666667,-106.439444444%20%28Chihuahua%29&t=h) in 1907, the son of Gaskell Romney and Anna Amelia Pratt. Three generations of Romneys lived in Mexico (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=19.05,-99.3666666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=19.05,-99.3666666667%20%28Mexico%29&t=h) because Miles Park Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt%E2%80%93Romney_family), a polygamist, moved the family there in 1884 (http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660198565,00.html) as it became increasingly clear that the U.S. government would not tolerate polygamy in the Utah Territory.
The 1882 Edmunds Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds_Act) stripped polygamists of the basic rights of U.S. citizenship, denying them the right to vote, serve on juries or hold office. Not dissimilar to current immigration raids, U.S. federal agents hunted and arrested polygamists. Polygamists were forced to leave the country or risk jail.
Miles Romney chose to leave the country, bringing his multiple wives and children with him across the southern border. In his 1902 book The Story of the Mormons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon), author William Alexander Linn states that the “Secretario de Fomento of Mexico” related that “The laws of this country [Mexico] do not permit polygamy,” and that the contracts for the establishment of Mormon colonies in Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_colonies_in_Mexico) required the same. If true, Miles Romney then knowingly arrived in direct violation of Mexican immigration law.
Utah became a state in 1896, only after laws were passed there prohibiting polygamy. While polygamy may have been illegal in both countries, the Romneys still found Mexico more to their liking. All four of George’s (Mitt’s father) grandparents would live out their days in Mexico, with Anna’s mother Dorsey being the last to die — in Chihuahua in 1929.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/gaskell-romney-198x3001.jpg?w=588Gaskell Romney
Gaskell and Anna (who were monogamous) were married in 1895, and according to George’s biographer Tom Mahoney, lived in Chihuahua until the height of the Mexican Revolution in 1912. Relative Junius Romney negotiated with rebel leaders to get women and children out of the colony for their safety. Anna, with Mitt’s father George in tow, fled across the U.S. border by train (with no apparent delay or search at the border). A short time later Gaskell, like many Mexican immigrants before and since, covered hundreds of miles under a hot sun, crossing by land into New Mexico.
Gaskell Romney, Mitt’s Grandfather crosses U.S. Border (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico_%E2%80%93_United_States_border).
As a Mexican born immigrant, George (Mitt’s father) would do quite honorably, becoming Governor of Michigan and running for the Republican nomination for President in 1968. (Remember George Was Born In Mexico) His support for civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War resulted in his loss to Richard Nixon. His son Mitt is of course where this post begins.
The Mitt Romney Presidential Crux.
Call upon Mitt Romney now to either post Gaskell Romney’s US (http://www.history.com/topics/states) naturaliztion documents (or repatriated record) or George Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney)‘s US naturaliztion documents that he would have filled out and signed when he was 21 years of age, or withdraw from the presidential race as Constitutionally unqualified to take the oath of office of the presidency of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States).
Think Progress (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2007/12/24/18501/romney-family-immigration/?mobile=nc)
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mitt-romney-rino-ma11.jpg?w=588
What About Mitt?
In this post I’ll use information I found from the book by Tom Mahoney published in 1960 called ‘The Story Of George Romney. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9780977825349/crooksandliar-20/ref=nosim)“
Mitt comes from a long line of Romney’s that resided in England for generations and when an early Mormon missionary from America named Orson Hyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Hyde) came to England to spread their word, Gaskell Romney and his wife Elizabeth converted in 1839. Soon after they boarded a boat to America. (pg 50)
He and his wife, who had been Elizabeth Gaskell, were attracted by a street meeting of Orson Hyde, one of the first Mormon missionaries to England, and in 1839 were baptized.
First, Mormonism A Short recap:
If you’re not familiar with the Mormon religion, Joesph Smith (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons), the founder, said he had vision as far back as 1820 in upstate New York and traveled West, where his flock finally ending up in Utah, led by Brigham Young after Smith was killed. After writing the Book of Mormon, Smith had a revelation which is known as Article 132 from the Mormon text called Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_and_Covenants), a sort of addendum book to the Book of Mormon. (http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132?lang=eng)
Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded 12 July 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, and also the plurality of wives (see History of the Church, 5:501–7). Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principles involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831.
Smith explained why the Old Testament leaders had multiple wives and soon after “plural” marriage was practiced in the Mormon faith. It was kept pretty secret even from his own flock in the beginning because Smith knew the affect it might have on his community and after polygamy began to take shape it did have a dire effect on his group, but in 1852, Oliver Pratt, a Mormon apostle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostle_%28Latter_Day_Saints%29) openly preached the merits of polygamy: (http://www.media.utah.edu/UHE/p/POLYGAMY.html)
Polygamy was not openly practiced in the Mormon Church (http://www.lds.org) until 1852 when Orson Pratt, an apostle, made a public speech defending it as a tenet of the church. From 1852 until 1890, Mormon Church leaders preached and encouraged members, especially those in leadership positions, to marry additional wives.
In the 1850′s the Republican Party deemed polygamy as disgraceful as slavery. FOX News (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254362,00.html) also discussed Article 132 back in 2007.
Smith’s revelation that God authorized polygamy — remains in Article 132 of the Church’s doctrine and covenants. In addition, Mormon widowers who remarry today believe they will live in eternity with their multiple wives. Mormon genealogical records, among the most detailed and complete of any religion, show that two of Mitt Romney’s great-great grandfathers, Miles Romney and Parley Pratt, had 12 wives each.
What About Mitt?
In 1862, Miles Romney, a son of Gaskell married Hannah Hood Hill in Salt Lake City and he began to practice plural marriage soon after. He had three wives while living in St. Johns, Arizona. Miles was a carpenter, contractor, builder and publisher of a weekly newspaper. All seemed well for the Romney’s until Congress finally passed the Edmunds Anti-Polygamy Act in the 1880′s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmunds_Act) which made polygamy a felony after an earlier act that President Lincoln passed called the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrill_Anti-Bigamy_Act) of 1862 was virtually ignored because Lincoln didn’t want Utah involved in the Civil War. The Edmunds Act finally made the United States take a serious stance against polygamy. After the bill was passed, life for the Romney household took a rather bad turn. (pg. 51)
Overnight he was reduced from the leading citizen of the community to a hounded and hunted man. He and others in the same plight sought asylum in Mexico.
It’s pretty confusing trying to track the Romney genealogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt%E2%80%93Romney_family#Genealogy), but Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather fled with his three wives to Mexico so they could continue their polygamist lifestyle with a multitude of other Mormon polygamists and settled there, cutting land deals with Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz using funds that came from The Mormon Church. President Diaz was happy to have the Mormon settlers there as a buffer against the Apache Indians. (pg.51)
With others, Helaman Pratt obtained permission from Diaz for Miles Park Romney and other Mormon refugees to buy lands and establish colonies in Mexico. Partly with funds advanced by the Church, they purchased large, mostly undeveloped tracts in Sonora and Chihuahua. Diaz was happy to have colonists there as buffers against the Apache Indians
Mitt Romney’s father, George S. Romney was born in Mexico in the Colonia Dublan colony in 1907. It’s not surprising that a Birther-type discussion was raised about George Romney either. (pg. 53)
As his parents had retained their American citizenship, experts on constitutional law believe his birth in Mexico is no bar to George Romney becoming a candidate for President regardless of the U.S. Constitution’s clause: “No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible for the office of President.” No court has interpreted this clause but children born abroad or at sea have been considered “natural-born” citizens for passports and other privileges. If astrology is to be believed, those born in July are receptive to new ideas and adapted to catering to public needs.
Life was very good for the polygamist colonists in Mexico until a civil war broke out there in 1911 and in 1912 as you might expect, their camps were targets for rebels because they had many guns and supplies they needed, raids of their colonies ensued even with Mexican assurances of their safety so many had to flee back to America.
As an expectant mother, Mrs. Romney was given a seat in a coach. With her were Miles, young George (Mitt’s father), who had just celebrated his fifth birthday, and Lawrence, his two-year-old brother; two of her sisters, Miss Amy Pratt, the schoolteacher, and Mrs. Verde Pratt Cardon, wife of Clarence Cardon, then a missionary in Paris, France. Ahead in a freight car were the older Romney boys, Maurice and Douglas. They were cheerful as they arrived in El Paso that afternoon. In all 2,300 Mormon refugees reached El Paso within three days, to become, in the later words of George Romney, “the first displaced persons of the twentieth century.”
In 1890, The Mormon Church lost their case to the Supreme Court which upheld Edmunds-Tucker Act (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDS_Church_v._United_States) so Utah came out with their Manifesto soon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1890_Manifesto) afterward which condemned plural marriage:
The “1890 Manifesto”, sometimes simply called “The Manifesto”, is a statement which officially disavowed the continuing practice of plural marriage (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_marriage) in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints) (LDS Church). Issued by church president (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Church_%28Latter_Day_Saints%29) Wilford Woodruff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilford_Woodruff) in September 1890, the Manifesto was a response to mounting anti-polygamy pressure from the United States Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congress), which by 1890 had disincorporated the church, escheated (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escheat) its assets to the U.S. federal government (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_government_of_the_United_States), and imprisoned many prominent polygamist Mormons.
The Manifesto was a dramatic turning point in the history of the LDS Church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints). It officially prohibited church members from entering into any marriage prohibited by the law of the land, and made it possible for Utah (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah) to become a U.S. state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state).
Nevertheless, even after the Manifesto, the church quietly continued to perform a small number of plural marriages in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States), Mexico (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico), and Canada (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), thus necessitating a Second Manifesto (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Manifesto) during U.S. congressional hearings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Smoot_hearings) in 1904.
I’ve included this point about Utah’s banning polygamy because it appears to be a purely political move even if many Mormons opposed polygamy and as the 2,300 Mormon polygamist refugees fled Mexico, leaving many of their belongings behind, it was the U.S. Government that helped bail them out of their dire situation. (pg. 60)
They had just twenty-five dollars, two suitcases and three bedrolls. Many families were installed in vacant tenements and several hundred were quartered in huge empty lumber sheds on Magoffin Avenue which the Long Lumber Company made available. The U.S. Army supplied rations and loaned tents from Fort Bliss. Mayor C. E. Kelly and city officials joined Church leaders in finding homes and jobs for the refugees. Congress voted $100,000 for their transportation and relief.
If you calculate $100,000 for inflation from 1912, the figure turns into over $2.2 million in 2011. (http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100%2C000&year1=1913&year2=2011) That’s a lot of government money to people who were basically felons in the eyes of the law. Another fascinating thing happened in 1938. Mexico paid out a huge settlement to those early Mexican colonies because of the revolution. (pg.61)
The colonists eventually in 1938 received from Mexico $2.65 for each $100 of loss during the revolutionary disorders. Gaskell Romney’s losses were so great that he received enough to purchase a comfortable house in Salt Lake City in which he lived his last years.
It’s odd that Mexico would repay monies to the Mormon polygamists after so many years, but one can still make the case that the Romney family was even funded in some part by the Mexican government. To get an idea of how vast the Romney family was because of its polygamist past, in 1922, George Romney (Mitt’s father) had roughly 165 first cousins. (pg.68)
Crooks & Liars (http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/romneys-grandfathers-polygamist-fled-me)
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mzi-grthrpig.jpg?w=588Both Jon Huntsman & Mitt Romney Decendants Of Murdered Polygamist Parley P. Pratt
Polygamist Parley P. Pratt is Great-Great Grandparent to both Jon Huntsman & Mitt Romney.
Parley P. Pratt was shot and killed in Arkansas while trying to court his 12th wife, the perpetrator was her legal husband who was not happy that his wife was planning to take their kids and go live polygamy with Pratt.
Family tree for Mitt is here:
http://www.wargs.com/political/romney.html
Family tree for Jon Hunstman is here:
http://www.wargs.com/political/huntsman.html
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/517krm2ebhl-_sl500_.jpg?w=588Mitt's Father George Romney
Was George Romney (father of Mitt Romney) a natutal born citizen?
Not according to the historical records.
b. Colonia Dublán, Galeana, Chihuahua, México, 8 July 1907, d. Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 26 July 1995 [SSDI 577-10-6742], bur. Fairview Cemetery, Brighton, Mich.
m. Salt Lake City, Utah, 2 July 1931.
George Romney was born in Mexico to expatriated Mormon parents. George’s father is named Gaskell Romney.
If George Romney was not a “natural born citizen” or became naturalized BEFORE Mitt was born, then neither can Mitt Romeny (his son) be natural born.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/obama-the-unconstitutional-usurper.jpg?w=588&h=761United States Constitution
THE CASE:
Had Romney been successful in 08, we’d still have socialized medicine, only the name would be Romneycare, not Obamacare.
In regards to the missionaries, I point that out to show that the expatriate Mormons HAD to become Mexican citizens since polygamy missionary work by foreigners was prohibited by Mexican law at the time.
Geometry, “if this and this, therefore that.” If Mexico only allowed citizens to conduct missions/missionary work. The Mormons operated missions in Mexico, therefore, the Mormons were Mexican citizens.
Since George W. Romney was born in Mexico, son of the head elder (Gaskell Romney), there for about 3 decades before his birth, said elder must have been a Mexican citizen, therefore, could not bestow American citizenship, let alone “natural born” to George W. Romney. Since George W. Romney was therefore NOT A natural born American citizen, he could not bestow natural born to his son Mitt Romney. It does not matter what state Mitt Romney was born in.
The operative immigration law of nations at the time, each government had a tacit agreement about such expatriates as a matter of being put into delicate situations of having to defend Americans on foreign soil. This procedure was operative when the Mormons fled Utah, the standard being that if an American stayed (at the time the accepted time frame was) 5 or so years, each country would consider they had rejected their native country’s citizenship.
The Mitt Romney Presidential Crux.
Call upon Mitt Romney now to either post Gaskell Romney’s US naturaliztion documents (or repatriated record) or George Romney’s US naturaliztion documents that he would have filled out and signed when he was 21 years of age, or withdraw from the presidential race as Constitutionally unqualified to take the oath of office of the presidency of the United States.
4 Supreme Court Cases define “natural born citizen” (http://usa-wethepeople.com/2010/04/4-supreme-court-cases-define-natural-born-citizen/)
Having the Status of Birthright Citizenship Is Not Sufficient to Make One an Article II “Natural Born” (http://usa-wethepeople.com/2011/09/having-the-status-of-birthright-citizenship-is-not-sufficient-to-make-one-an-article-ii-%e2%80%9cnatural-born%e2%80%9d/)
More Citizenship Information Backed Up By Congressional Records (http://usa-wethepeople.com/2011/09/more-citizenship-information-backed-up-by-congressional-records/)
So will Mitt Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney) be the next president of the United States (http://www.history.com/topics/states)? Well, he certainly fits the part. He looks like a president and he speaks very well. But when you look at what he really stands for that is where things become very troubling. The truth is that Mitt Romney is either very wrong or very “soft” on every single major issue.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/mitt-romney-rino-ma1.jpg?w=588 (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/03/pre-sweetened-mitt-romney-bankers-mainstream-media-prop-president-of-bain-capital-for-14-years/mitt-romney-rino-ma1/)
When you closely examine their positions, there is very, very little difference between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama (http://answers.com/topic/barack-obama#Gale_Contemporary_Black_Biography_d). Sure, Romney and Obama will say the “right things” to the voters during election season, but the reality is that a Romney administration would be so similar to an Obama administration (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/obama-administration) that you would hardly know that a change has taken place. What you are about to read about Mitt Romney should alarm you very much. Mitt Romney would be a an absolute disaster for this country, and America (http://www.history.com/topics/states) cannot afford another disastrous presidency.
Weekend Reflections: ‘Boston Medical’ Victim Of Mitt Romney’s Universal Healthcare, Sues State Of Massachusetts. (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/10/23/nationally-ranked-hospital-boston-medical-victim-of-universal-healthcare-sues-state-of-massachusetts/)
The fact that Barack Obama looked sharp and could give inspiring speeches helped him go a long way back in 2008. Well, it is the same thing with Romney. The guy looks very presidential and he sounds very presidential. When backed into a corner, he is extremely slick. He rarely makes mistakes and he is very polished.
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Mitt Romney has a [URL="http://deadlinelive.info/2011/10/15/mitt-romneys-climate-adviser-john-holdren-mr-drug-the-water-to-sterilize-the-populace-b-o-science-guy/"]clear association (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/03/pre-sweetened-mitt-romney-bankers-mainstream-media-prop-president-of-bain-capital-for-14-years/romney-holdren/) with the Marxist devil himself, John Holdren (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Holdren).
“[Obama’s] Science Czar John Holdren, a participant in ClimateGate (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/11/science_czar_jo_1.html) who has advocated de-developing America (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/09/top-obama-advis.html) and putting sterilants in the public water supply (http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/07/obamas_totalita.html).”
“Holdren has also spoken in favor of forced abortions, confiscation of babies, targeted as well as mass involuntary sterilization, bureaucratic regulation of family size, and global authoritarian government. If there is a line between ultra-left ideologue and evil maniac, Holdren clearly crosses it.” <Source (http://moonbattery.com/?p=3227)>
Obama Science Czar Led UN Effort to Hide Proceedings, Subvert FOIA, Records Indicate | Competitive Enterprise Institute (http://cei.org/news-releases/obama-science-czar-led-un-effort-hide-proceedings-subvert-foia-records-indicate) – Read the CEI FOIA request (http://cei.org/legal-briefs/foia-request-white-house-office-science-and-technology-john-holdren-director)
Romney’s John Holdren Problem (http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/280238/romneys-john-holdren-problem-greg-pollowitz)
Island (http://island-adv.com/2011/10/why-i-do-not-trust-mitt-romney/)
Mitt Romney is a “politician” in the worst sense of the word. As his past has demonstrated, he will do and say just about anything in order to get elected. The positions he has taken during this campaign season have been carefully calculated to help him win both the Republican nomination and the general election.
That is why so many call Mitt Romney a “flip-flopper”. Romney will take just about any political position if he thinks that it will help him. Mitt Romney’s wife, Ann Romney (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Romney), once made the following statement (http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/5/22/90847.shtml) about her husband….
“He can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he’s really believing his argument, but he’s not.”
So keep that in mind while reading the following information. Mitt Romney is trying to claim that he is a “conservative” and that he is looking out for the American people, but those claims simply are not true.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/images6.jpeg?w=588 (http://politicalvelcraft.org/2011/11/03/pre-sweetened-mitt-romney-bankers-mainstream-media-prop-president-of-bain-capital-for-14-years/images-193/)Obama's Science Fiction Czar & Romney Advisor.
Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts is the first and only state to set CO2 emissions limits on power plants. The limits, which target the six largest and oldest power plants in the state, are the toughest in the nation and are designed to lower emissions of nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and mercury from power plant smokestacks.”
“The combination of these market-based mechanisms with stringent CO2 caps will lead to cost-effective environmental gains.”
“In the development of greenhouse gas policy, Romney Administration officials have elicited input from environmental and economic policy experts. These include John Holden, professor of environmental policy at Harvard University and chair of the National Commission on Energy Policyand Billy Pizer, an economist at Resources for the Future, an environmental policy think-tank based in Washington D.C.” <Source (http://myclob.pbworks.com/w/page/21956517/12-07-2005)>
Island (http://island-adv.com/2011/10/why-i-do-not-trust-mitt-romney/)
Uncle Sam Gets Bit
The following are 16 reasons why Mitt Romney would be a really, really bad president….
#1
Obamacare was one of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed by the U.S. Congress. Mitt Romney says that he would repeal Obamacare, but the reality is that Romneycare was what Obamacare was based on. In fact, a recent MSNBC article (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44854320/ns/politics-decision_2012/#.Tq4Dm3JZowO) brought to light some new information about the relationship between Romneycare and Obamacare….
Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”
The records, gleaned from White House visitor logs reviewed by NBC News, show that senior White House officials had a dozen meetings in 2009 with three health-care advisers and experts who helped shape the health care reform law signed by Romney in 2006, when the Republican presidential candidate was governor of Massachusetts.
http://rasica.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/89298639-rich-romney.jpg?w=588&h=462
Had Romney been successful in 08, we’d still have socialized medicine, only the name would be Romneycare, not Obamacare.
Mitt Romney continues to defend Romneycare, but the reality is that it really is a total nightmare for Massachusetts. The following is how one blogger (http://klsouth.wordpress.com/top-posts-essays/the-romney-rino-scorecard/)summarized some of the key points of Romneycare….
• Punitive To Individuals. Everyone must buy health insurance or face tax penalties equal to 50% of cost of standard policy.
• Hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on free hospital care were converted into subsidies to help the needy buy insurance.
• A health insurance “exchange” was established to help connect the uninsured with private health plans at more affordable rates.
• Health plans can offer consumers higher deductibles and more restrictive physician and hospital networks in order to lower costs.
• Punitive to Businesses with 11 or more workers that do not offer insurance must pay a $295 per employee fee.
• Established payment policy advisory board; one Board member must be from Planned Parenthood. No pro-life organization represented.
• Provides Taxpayer-Funded Abortions for copay of $50.
So what have been the results of Romneycare in Massachusetts? According to the Daily Caller, health care costs and health insurance premiums have gone up dramatically in Massachusetts (http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/23/skyrocketing-massachusetts-health-costs-could-foreshadow-high-price-of-obamacare/)….
Since the bill became law, the state’s total direct health-care spending has increased by a remarkable 52 percent. Medicaid spending has gone from less than $6 billion a year to more the $9 billion. Many consumers have seen double-digit percentage increases in their premiums.
All of that certainly sounds a whole lot like Obamacare.
Unfortunately, the other Republican candidates have not taken advantage of this weakness. According to one brand new poll (http://www.kff.org/kaiserpolls/upload/8251-F.pdf), 6 times as many Republicans view Romneycare unfavorably as view it favorably. This is something that the other candidates should be jumping on big time.
#2
During his time as governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney significantly raised taxes. The following is an excerpt from a CBS News article (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/02/politics/main3445281.shtml)….
Mitt Romney’s Harvard MBA and gold-plated resume convinced many business leaders he would follow in the tradition of corporate-friendly Republicans when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2002.
Within three years, some had a vastly different opinion, after Romney’s efforts raised the tax bill on businesses by $300 million
The same article also notes that Romney jacked up “fees and fines” on Massachusetts taxpayers substantially….
Romney and lawmakers also approved hundreds of millions in higher fees and fines during his four years in office.
Many in the Massachusetts business community were quite disgusted with Romney by the end of his tenure. Peter Nicholas, the chairman of Boston Science Corporation, says that “tax rates on many corporations almost doubled because of legislation supported by Romney. (http://www.romneyexposed.com/2011/06/20/an-open-letter-about-mitt-romney-from-conservatives/)”
#3
Government spending in Massachusetts increased significantly under Mitt Romney. An advocate of smaller government he most definitely is not.
This was especially true for the last two budgets passed under Romney. In fiscal year 2006, government spending in Massachusetts increased by 7.6 percent (http://klsouth.wordpress.com/top-posts-essays/the-romney-rino-scorecard/). In fiscal year 2007, government spending in Massachusetts increased by a whopping10.2 percent (http://klsouth.wordpress.com/top-posts-essays/the-romney-rino-scorecard/).
#4
It turns out that Mitt Romney is a believer in the theory of man-made global warming. In fact, Al Gore recently praised on Mitt Romney on his blog. In a post entitled “Good for Mitt Romney — though we’ve long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis (http://blog.algore.com/2011/06/good_for_mitt_romney_though_we.html)“, Al Gore lavished the following praise on the former Massachusetts governor….
“While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party”
Not only that, it is also very important to remember that while Mitt Romney was governor, Massachusetts became the very first state (http://www.infowars.com/romney-took-advice-from-obamas-eugenics-enthusiast-science-czar/) to pass a law to regulate carbon emissions.
#5
If Mitt Romney becomes president, we may actually have “cap and trade” shoved down our throats. While campaigning for president in 2007, Mitt Romney said that he would support a “cap and trade” carbon tax scheme for the entire world (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAGpLOKtQDA)….
“I support Cap-and-Trade on a global basis but not the USA going alone. I want to do it with other nations involved and on a global scale.”
#6
Mitt Romney had a horrible record of creating jobs while governor of Massachusetts. According to Boston Herald business reporter Bret Arends, only one state in the entire country (http://www.romneyexposed.com/2011/06/20/an-open-letter-about-mitt-romney-from-conservatives/) was worse at creating jobs while Romney was in office….
“During the four years Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts, it had the second worst jobs record of any state in America…it wasn’t a regional issue. The rest of New England created nearly 200,000 jobs.”
#7
Mitt Romney was a very enthusiastic supporter (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aX6T--U8Ll8) of the Wall Street bailouts. When the time comes for more Wall Street bailouts it seems almost certain that Mitt Romney will bail them out again.
#8
If Romney becomes president, get ready for a flood of liberal judges. While he was governor of Massachusetts, there were actually significantly more Democrats (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/25/romney_jurist_picks_not_tilted_to_gop/) among his judicial appointments than there were Republicans.
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