Mitt's Greatest Hits (on the 2nd Amendment)

Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:30:00

From a GOA e-mail -

Mitt Romney and Gun Control

In the recent Presidential debate, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann said America ’s voters did not need to “settle” for the moderate candidate. Amen to that.

And gun owners do NOT want candidates who talk out of both sides of their mouths.

As the Gun Owners of America’s Board of Directors looks at the Republican candidates running to unseat radical anti-gun President Obama, we see several who have strong pro-gun backgrounds. Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman all have solid pro-gun records and deserve a hard look from pro-gunners.

At least one frontrunner candidate stands in contrast with a decidedly mixed record on the gun issue. While Mitt Romney likes to “talk the pro-gun talk,” he has not always walked the walk.

BS alert-
“The Second Amendment protects the individual right of lawful citizens to keep and bear arms. I strongly support this essential freedom,” Romney assures gun owners these days.

But this is the same Mitt Romney who, as governor, promised not to do anything to “chip away” at Massachusetts ’ extremely restrictive gun laws.

“We do have tough gun laws in Massachusetts ; I support them,” he said during a gubernatorial debate. “I won’t chip away at them; I believe they protect us and provide for our safety.”

Even worse, Romney signed a law to permanently ban many semi-automatic firearms. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense,” Romney said in 2004. “They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

Romney also spoke in favor of the Brady law’s five day waiting period on handguns. The Boston Globe quotes Romney saying, “I don’t think (the waiting period) will have a massive effect on crime but I think it will have a positive effect.”

Mitt Romney doesn’t seem to understand the meaning of “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”

And that makes it all the more troubling that Romney refuses to answer GOA ’s simple candidate questionnaire. In our more than 36 years of experience, a candidate is usually hiding anti-gun views if he or she refuses to come clean in writing with specific commitments to the Second Amendment.

Today, Romney may be a favorite “Republican Establishment” candidate of the national press corps. But that is exactly what gun owners DON’T need in a new President. We need someone who will stand by true constitutional principles and protect the Second Amendment.

IMO, he can take a long walk off a short ballot. I still can't envision him getting my vote. If the choice is Owebama and this RINO, the R's deserve the results of such a demonstrable lack of principle, and they have 4 more years to right the ship.

Post by **OakRidgeStars** » Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:32:56

'Ol Mittens is the master of the flip-flop

Reverenddel · Post by **Reverenddel** » Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:38:27

He's Clinton with Dark hair, and a better press agent!

Jakeiscrazy · Post by **Jakeiscrazy** » Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:53:34

Reverenddel wrote:He's Clinton with Dark hair, and a better press agent!

Winner so far! Keep em coming!

VBshooter · Post by **VBshooter** » Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:06:58

The Great White Obama!! Same BS, Different wrapper

grumpyMSG · Post by **grumpyMSG** » Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:56:29

OakRidgeStars wrote:'Ol Mittens is the master of the flip-flop

Reverenddel wrote:He's Clinton with Dark hair, and a better press agent!

More like John Kerry who was "for the war, before he was against it", at least Mitt earned his money instead of marrying it...

Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:04:52

I can't really argue with that, Charles. Being both wrong and intellectually dishonest is enough for me, though.

HK91762mm · Post by **HK91762mm** » Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:47:56

Im at a loss as to why the NRA and GOA have not given the call to arms over this guy,
Im from Ny and we were boned by this Pataki guy who ran as a repub and then turned traitor and shoved gun bans up out butts as bad a Cuomo wished he could have -- Romey will turn on us and Pass gun Bans --hes no friend of gun owners -Like ALGORE I hope we send him packing over the gun ban issue!!!

wda82 · Post by **wda82** » Sun, 02 Oct 2011 07:05:10

Lol, hope you guys and find your perfect candidate/Reagan reincarnation even tho by todays standards Reagan would be considered a liberal, but hey don't truth get in the way of the message

gunderwood · Post by **gunderwood** » Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:49:31

Tweaker wrote:I can't really argue with that, Charles. Being both wrong and intellectually dishonest is enough for me, though.

+1

Yes, I can't vote for that man.

Tweaker · Post by **Tweaker** » Sun, 02 Oct 2011 23:28:53

Perfect? No one is!

Fundamentally flawed in regard to what I consider the most important litmus test of the belief in individual freedom and the correct superiority of the free man vs. the federal .gov?

ROMNEY FAILS THIS SIMPLE TEST

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