Conservatives, be careful what you wish for with Mitt Romney | Fox News - Juan Williams::
November 2, 2012 - "An open letter to my conservative readers.
"In the last month Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, has been busy taking back nearly every promise he made to you in the GOP primaries. Why the conservative silence?
"Remember that for the last two years, true conservatives expressed grave doubts – in public and in private – about Romney as a flip-flopper, a politician lacking an ideological core....
"In the final weeks of the campaign, Romney has been touting his record of bipartisanship when he was Governor of Massachusetts by saying he was able to work with a “legislature that was 87 percent Democrat.' He worked with them to passed 'RomneyCare' - the first state government takeover of the health care with an individual mandate....
"On energy, Romney was able to work with his Democratic legislature to raise his state’s gas tax by 400 percent.... Romney and his Democratic legislature raised taxes and fees for the average person in Massachusetts by $1,227. Romney and his Democratic legislature also passed a permanent assault weapons ban for Massachusetts and increased fees for hunting licenses and gun ownership....
"Conservatives must be careful not to abandon their principles out of blind hated for President Obama. In their zeal to make Obama a one-term president, they may just elect someone who ends up implementing policies that are to the left of George W. Bush and Barack Obama."
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November 2, 2012 - "An open letter to my conservative readers.
"In the last month Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, has been busy taking back nearly every promise he made to you in the GOP primaries. Why the conservative silence?
"Remember that for the last two years, true conservatives expressed grave doubts – in public and in private – about Romney as a flip-flopper, a politician lacking an ideological core....
"In the final weeks of the campaign, Romney has been touting his record of bipartisanship when he was Governor of Massachusetts by saying he was able to work with a “legislature that was 87 percent Democrat.' He worked with them to passed 'RomneyCare' - the first state government takeover of the health care with an individual mandate....
"On energy, Romney was able to work with his Democratic legislature to raise his state’s gas tax by 400 percent.... Romney and his Democratic legislature raised taxes and fees for the average person in Massachusetts by $1,227. Romney and his Democratic legislature also passed a permanent assault weapons ban for Massachusetts and increased fees for hunting licenses and gun ownership....
"Conservatives must be careful not to abandon their principles out of blind hated for President Obama. In their zeal to make Obama a one-term president, they may just elect someone who ends up implementing policies that are to the left of George W. Bush and Barack Obama."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/02/conservatives-be-careful-what-wish-for-with-mitt-romney/?intcmp=obinsite#ixzz2BL9A0gxN
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