Woah… Romney Refuses to Back Governor Kasich Against Government Unions
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 12:02 PM
In March the Ohio Senate passed a bill that limited the powers of public employee unions. Radical leftists and union activists held several rallies against the measure.
Of course, the media never reported on the Kasich Hitler signs they were carrying.
Today in Ohio former Governor Mitt Romney would not support Governor Kasich on this hard fought legislative victory.
The Examiner reported:
Campaigning in Ohio today, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stopped by a Republican Party phone-bank making calls in support of Gov. John Kasich’s government union reform referendum, but refused to endorse the actual referendum. CNN’s Peter Hamby called the scene an “incredible moment in politics.”
…Kasich’s new law: 1) bans government unions from bargaining over health insurance, 2) requires that all government union members pay at least 10% of their wages toward their pensions, 3) ends seniority rights as the sole factor in layoffs, 4) replaces seniority pay raises with merit pay raises, 5) bans government unions from striking, and 6) makes government union dues voluntary. But government unions would still be able to bargain about many other topics including pay and working conditions…
…If Romney can’t endorse this common sense reform at the state level, why should conservatives believe he will fight against government unions at the federal level.
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ebayer commented:
“why should conservatives believe he will fight against government unions at the federal level.”
Because we all know he won’t.He’s a RINO and no conservative.
Patty commented:
Romney is wishy washy, period. He is not a conservative. Politician and will say what he thinks is good at the time.
He waits too long to come to decisions that are good for America. You may say some procrastinating is a good thing but can be very dangerous. Just not to happy with the guy.
He doesn’t share my Conservative Values.
Patty commented:
#1
we seem to be thinking the same thing!LOL
DaMav commented:
Folks, there is a reason that Herman Cain is stepping up!
Cain 2012
Let’s do this!
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
He won’t.
Ginger commented:
Because Romney and Perry are clones of Barry Soetoro…./aka/BHO/ and several more names and social security numbers and addresses.
Cain/?
Carbon Pootprint commented:
Romney the white Obama for 2012. There is a reason Jamie Dimon jumped out of Obama’s boat and into Romney’s.
Screw the treasonous “establishment”
mercador commented:
So if it comes to a choice between Romney and Obama. What are we supposed to do find out who is the biggest liar. Not much of a choice. Choice between dumb and dumber.
Ron commented:
SURPRISE! Did any of the Robamaney supporters expect anything less? I’ve told y’all before: Robamaney is Dem in Rino’s clothing. This is the establishment Republicans candidate reaching across the isle ala John McCain. Robamaney is Obamalite. The “O” did model Ocare after Romneycare; Which turns out offered coverage to illegals too. So much for all of his debating skills huh? He sure talks pretty though.
groundling commented:
It would be more approprate for Romney to run on the obama ticket, maybe to replace Biden. He believes in obama(Romney)care and man made global warming (carbon tax). He hides from anything slightly straight foreword or conservative.
Dave commented:
Romney is a Republican establishment Progressive. If he wins the nomination I will vote for Obama. I would rather history blame the Democrats for the demise of the Union.
Ron commented:
So; Have the Robamaneybots chickens come home to roost? There is a reason Robamaney has been campaigning for president during the past six years, he wants to be part of the establishment gaggle that’s gotten us into this mess and are doubling down. I will not waste my vote on Robamaney. He’s a Dem in Rino’s clothing. I made a comment awhile back about Robamaney being a New England Republican and was scoffed at. I have one question for those whom scoffed at my New England Republican comment: How does that crow taste? This is one of those times that I wish that I was wrong.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Cain and Perry can duke it out.
If Romney is “picked” by our media for us, like they did with McCain, Romney will then do everything in his power to get Obama re-elected, just like McCain did the first time. While raking in the $$.
Allen West for VP, either way it falls. Someone has to quell the riots. Riots will be the hallmark of the first 6 months of the new administration, should Obama somehow, by some utterly bizarre fluke, not be able to steal the election. (slim chance, I know) The rioters, egged on by their “pastors” and ACORN and their OTHER “pastors”, the Hip-Hop and R&B community, their Oracles, might just listen to West or Cain. Some old white guy? BURN DOWN THE CITY!
Patty commented:
#11
Dave, Dave, Dave….NO!
texas commented:
#1
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
I don’t know why so many Conservatives have been fooled by Romney’s rhetoric. (Christie also) And the Unions would continue to be intertwined and control USA Gov’t.
Patty commented:
Posted
#13 October 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Taqiyyotomist
OH, another bad thing to think about. McCain was sooo wrong.
we are done if Obama gets re-elected the things this nation will see will be even more unbelievable. Just hope there is a majority in both houses. Might help some. But with Obama, the guy is nuts.
Remco Kimber commented:
Romney: “I’ve been running for high public office since 1993, and thinking about doing it all my adult life.”
Beware of anyone who lusts for power. Romney is the perfect example of an individual who will say anything to win. Obviously it is what’s in the heart that really matters. MN cannot be trusted.
Locutisprime commented:
Sooner or later, American conservatives are going to figure out that Romney is every bit as big a RINO as McCain was/is.
Patty commented:
Herman Cain tops Mitt Romney in latest CBS/NYT poll
cbsnews.com
Businessman Herman Cain is now atop the field of Republican White House hopefuls, squeaking past former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the latest CBS News/New York Times poll.
Cain garnered 25 percent support of Republican primary voters in the poll released Tuesday, compared to Romney’s 21 percent.
In early October, the two men were tied at 17 percent.
Read more at cbsnews.com …
StrangernFiction commented:
DIABLO
Ron commented:
Patty: Why would you vote for the lesser of two evils if Robamaney were to get the nom? I’m with Dave @ 11. I won’t vote for Obama, but I won’t vote Obamalite either. I’ll sit this one out. Why vote for the whitewashed version of Hope and Change? There is only one concervative running, and it’s not Herman Cain. People need to wake the hell up, but instead they choose to be wooed into supporting false conservative candidates by snappy comebacks, oneliners and debaters. Woe unto us, let’s do the stupid thing and vote the lesser of two evils. I’m certain it’ll work this time around.
Cutlers bad knee commented:
Romney= Rino
Perry = Horrible in debates
Cain or Newt= the last 2 standing, would crush Odumbo in debates
owl commented:
If Romney wins the primary, I will vote Romney. I hate that. You made me vote McCain. Romney did not inspire me the first go round and after 3 more years of practice, I feel the same. Yeah, he’s smoother. I am sure he is a nice man and has some business experience.
I like Cain but he does not have a elected record I can examine. I need more than WORDS. Mistakes I can handle, but I need to be able to look at them.
I would rather take my chances with a Trump. I know he pays both sides. I have watched his mistakes (out loud). Divorces by the dozen. He has always been out there, flaunting it. So why a Donald? I know he would be slick enough to figure a way around some of the crap or find someone who will. I would have risked Sarah.
Perry can’t talk. Or………he and his handlers are too scared to just let it all hang out. For gosh sakes, if you ever hear anything, hear this. Forget them all. Forget being scared of your foot. These people do not read between lines. Tell them what you think. It does not matter how rough it sounds. Say it. Half believe you are paying for illegals to school. They do not read your thoughts or know. Explain that border. Explain that the land owners pay school taxes to educate what comes across. Explain that 1/3 of our state came from Mexico. Explain the people moving in for jobs and the companies.
I swear I might just switch to Newt.
workingclass artist commented:
Obama is against it so is Obamalite….Continuity!
louie commented:
#23
That’s where my thoughts are. Newt is the smartest out of the bunch.
If the GOP picks the Rinomey, I will walk in the voting booth with a clothes pin on my nose.
Why bother really, the voting machines a fixed.
Leah commented:
Please….anyone who things Romney = Obama has lost touch with reality. I’m not a Romney fan either, mostly because I can’t understand how he was so automatically the frontrunner and the one to beat for this election cycle.
But get serious, a RINO businessman/policy wonk is a FAR cry from the community organizer/socialist/”remaker of this country” that we have now.
LatinosForCain commented:
Folks, wake up we all know the Herman Cain is the one!!!! He is a Conservative not the establishment. To all Latinos, Hispanic wake up and smell the coffee herman cain is the man. He will pick Marco Rubio to end the racist in AMERICA. The Libtard are scare to death and if this happen it will destroy the DEM with the minority voting block!. No more hand out, the Libtard has been brainwashing the Latinos far too long!!! NO MORE of this crazy stuff. It is time to destroy the Libtard and the DEM.
Herman Cain/Marco Rubio 2012
louie commented:
Rinomey is running on the wrong ticket.
Anyone hear that he put his dog on the roof of his car while on a 300 mile family vacation trip? The dog was so frightened, he got the runs and it messed up the windshield. So Willard, (his first name is Willard, ya know) stopped by a car wash and sprayed the car and dog off.
Militant Conservative commented:
Anyone but Obama.
Preferably a conservative black man.
Crimedog commented:
This is so weak. His comments on Ohio were perfectly fine. Romney is running a very disciplined campaign. He has chosen his fights (i.e. obamaCare repeal, etc.) He will not be dragged into any other matters that will fuel talking point attacks on him in the general.
RedBeard commented:
So… there are some so-called conservatives posting here who would throw such a massive temper tantrum that they would vote for Obama over Romney? No, those folks are not genuine conservatives. They are either false-flag leftie trolls, Paulian wackos, or simply talking out of their nethermost orifice out of boredom.
The first goal of any true conservative in 2012 is unseating Barack Obama, by voting for whichever candidate wins the Republican nomination. PERIOD.
workingclass artist commented:
What is obvious is how pathetic voters are in search of another idol personality.
I’ll stick with results in actual governance & good solid plans for economic recovery. That is what will beat Obama and lead to an effective first term in office.
I’m sticking with the governor from Texas who has never lost an election.
Gig Em’
Perry 2012
Dave commented:
#26
Leah,
How are they different? Global Warming, Unions, Health Care, Immigration, power through red tape… One is more radical, but they both have the same politics.
I was born at the end of the Baby Boomers. Long ago I began to pray that we could survive them.
exceller commented:
please, anyone but Romney. don’t listen to party stalwarts like Rove and company. we need much better than him at this point.
workingclass artist commented:
@#30
NRLB is not a side issue…and neither is public sector union fights in the states…especially states that are going broke and re-considering right to work legislation.
Or did you miss the significance of the 2010 elections?
Perry who was leader of the RGA certainly didn’t as they planned the strategy.
donh commented:
Myth Romney is the Republican Michael Dukakis. He is owned by those who see Government as a family business to be passed out to their friends and family members. He will keep the Solyndra deals funded and the nanny state growing.
bigL commented:
I wonder if Cain can run with Petraeus>Or what would bereal good would be Bolton. Some adult that calls a spade, a spade around the world.
Further the fund-raising calif and the Occupy groups a re a fraud imo. They are designed to give an aura of support and/or raising funds. but the support is peanuts and illusory and the money is no whre near what has been touted by obama and what is needed.He has had limited fund-raising imo and the real money will come from elsewhere, where there is darkness.
Obama is Obam-boozler, look over here, look over here.
And everyone can relax, Romney will not win the Prexy,no way. He has never had more
than 25-28% support.
Better work on the Senate
Meg commented:
Herman Cain is the man. He loves this country and will get it back to what it was before Obama. As far as Newt goes, I like him and he is a great historian. His wife is or wants to be an elitist. She will make a terrible first lady. His first staff quit because of her. Lets put some plain people in the white house to bring dignity back to this country.
Andrew X commented:
Hold on a minute. I have no love for Romney, I’m a disappointed Palin guy at heart, but waddya gonna do. Thing is, I have dug around and I cannot find ANY details on this story other than a single tweet by a CNN (ahem) reporter. Even the Examiner blog takes the tweet, and just accepts it at face value.
So Romney “visited the phone bank workers, but refused to endorse the actual referendum”. So what the hell does that mean?? Did he in fact condemn it and say it should lose? (That would be disgraceful.) Did he say “I’m agnostic about it”…. as he visited the phone bank for it? Exactly what was asked, and exactly what was answered?
Again, no fan of Romney am I. But as I dug on the story, the first sense that hit me as I did so was the “48 hour rule”. Any story that seems “too good to check” is one you might want to give 48 hour or so to let the collective Net shake it out. This isn’t “too good to check” for us (maybe for the left it is), but the sheer absence of detail leaves me wary.
Let’s give this one some ripening time. Forgive me if a single, somewhat vague tweet from a CNN reporter ain’t quite enough for me. And let Romney, who will inevitably be asked point blank about it now, be clear about what this is about.
And he damn sure should endorse Kasich on this matter, no doubt.
Got Billy Ayers on Speed Dial commented:
They should throw his sorry butt out of the party.
These governors are sticking their necks out to straighten out their state budgets and taking on the unsustainable problems and this moron shows no spine.
Meg commented:
According to the radio today, only 37 per cent are for Kasich’s Senate Bill 5 in Ohio. I am voting for it and I hope it will pass.
Valerie commented:
Andrew X has a point. I don’t trust Romney on this issue, but I don’t understand the scenario.
“Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney stopped by a Republican Party phone-bank making calls in support of Gov. John Kasich’s government union reform referendum, but refused to endorse the actual referendum.”
Why would he visit a site doing this kind of work, if he didn’t support it? Isn’t a visit like this popularly known as a “show of support”? If he did not support that legislation, wouldn’t he quietly excuse himself from the visit, much the Democrats have done with meetings involving Obama? Did his staff F**k *p really big-time, or did the CNN reporter lie?
Bluebay commented:
No surprise here. Once a progressive always a progressive. Time to take this to the GOP before 2012, unless we are happy with the current FIX. None of these candidates are conservatively viable to take down obama. None.
workingclass artist commented:
@AndrewX
Romney went there for a photo op that fell flat when he was asked an actual question. Deer in headlights sort of dodgey thingy.
Otherwise known as Then Why the Hell go there??
workingclass artist commented:
“Romney’s spokesperson says he thinks voters should decide the matter without outside interference.
Actually, it turns out, he explicitly supported the measure before he decided not to say anything about it.
Forget the flip flopping. This is just pathetic. if he doesn’t think outsiders should get involved why go to the phone bank at all? Oh right, he wants people to think he supports it but wants to be able to say he didn’t. That makes “leading from behind” seem downright courageous.
Is the GOP really going to nominate someone so cowardly he won’t take a clear stand on one of the top issues of the day for conservative voters? Well, unless Perry can forcefully, articulately and effectively sell and defend his economic plan, it seems so.” -DrewM
http://minx.cc/?post=323009
Texas Conservative commented:
Mike Huckabee was just in Ohio in support of Kasich and SB5.
Romney used it as a campaign event and failed to support Gov Kasich and SB5.
Romney stuck his finger in the wind and declined to do the right thing.
We need Mike Huckabee to get into this race.
Romney is a weak front runner and would be a weak nominee/president.
Courage and conviction are what the voters are looking for and Romney is lacking that in spades.
Rose commented:
Anyone who compares Marxist Liberal politicians to Hitler are supposed to be washed out of Politics PERMANENTLY. Yet they routinely do this to Republican politicians over such issues as whether Public Employees who belong to FAT UNIONS and get paid 3 – 4 – 6 times more than CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES doing the same job, crash govt budgets and FIGHT DIRTY FOR FATTER CONTRACTS THAN EVER, are allowed to simply waltz all over those ORDINARY CITIZENS and their tax dollars earned at HARD WORK without benefit of UNION MINDERS who make sure MINIMUM OUTPUT is EVER generated, and make sure the CIVILIAN CITIZENS are always the LOSERS who foot whatever bill the UNION THUGS and POLITICIANS want to roll over on the Civilians…
Those union thugs want to walk around in their protests, breaking laws and destroying private property, and use the name of a HITLER on the politicians who stand between them and the CIVILIANS without penalty – comparing their struggles to obtain OVER-FAT PAYCHECKS to the distresses of the pain and suffering of the mass populations at the hands of the likes of UNION PET MARXIST LEADERSHIP.
I hope this all means that Mitt is toast.
Rose commented:
I have other issues with Mike Huckabee – his all-out support of ALL THINGS McCAIN for instance – especially for SHAMNESTY, “hoping, What if we give the vote to those Illegal aliens, all those illegals who have stronger family values than Americans, what if THEY will be the Key to vote to strike down Roe V Wade” – as if a former gov doesn’t know how UNJUST RULINGS get struck down. May 27, 2007, The Call.
#1AMERICAN commented:
romney is NO good for the USA…good riddance mitt….now will someone with some balls and common sense please step to the front
CT commented:
Don’t know how you come back from this one Mittens you appear to be either a coward or a jerk.
Rose commented:
Cain is a Federal reservist and wants to protect it. He is a Diversity Czar that thinks AND ACTS like Jesse Jackson when it comes to fellow Republicans. I won’t vote for him at all. That tells me that millions would stay home and not vote AT ALL!.
Ripped commented:
I hope you wannabe conservatives are waking up and realizing that there is no difference between 0bama, Romney, Perry and Cain. If you nominate one of the 3 stooges to run against 0blunder it won’t matter who wins, the outcome will be the same.
All of them are establishment candidates.
Ron Paul is the real deal among the contenders for the Republican nomination.
When Rick Perry was getting Ds in Economics 101, Ron Paul was writing books on Austrian Economics.
When Michele Bachmann was campaigning for Jimmy Carter, Ron Paul was one of four congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan on his second run.
When Herman Cain was working for the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul was trying to end it.
When they were working for the IRS [Bachmann], managing a presidential campaign for Al Gore [Perry], instituting forced vaccinations of pre-teen girls in exchange for campaign donations [Perry], and signing into law the state version of Obamacare [Romney], Ron Paul was the lone voice and Nay vote in opposition to government expansion.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who predicted and warned against the economic crisis, who understood and explained the reasons for it, and who offers a viable solution.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who really means it when he says he wants to bring our troops home and scale down our unsustainable and unreasonable empire.
Ron Paul is the only candidate who is serious about slashing spending and eliminating taxes.
Even though others are now trying to sound like him, there is only one Ron Paul. And there is only one candidate who can beat Obama: Ron Paul.
Reaganite Republican commented:
This guy is one oily reptile…
Rose commented:
I don’t understand why so many Conservatives are hopping on the band wagons with so much alacrity for RINOS with KNOWN DIM PLANKS in their own campaigns.
Very sad. I’ve read some articles by several different folks that the Conservatives are content to sleep through the utter destruction of America and the Constitution, well into the One World Govt these Dims have planned for us. That the Conservatives don’t REALLY have the Fight they have been TALKING for the last several years.
Some of you guys really make me wonder.
KNOWN DIM PLANKS and all you worry about is if they can beat Obama – you don’t seem to care what they themselves would do to America.
Just like when Republicans kept voting for Arnold Schwarzenegger…
cal rifkin commented:
Hey, you could do worse than Mitt…not getting sucked into the vortex of a state’s political struggles is not an unintelligent move for a national candidate. For Mitt, getting through the primaries will be like walking through a minefield. If he emerges unscathed, I will be surprised.
Jeannine Richardson commented:
Romney is in NH today. He’s not in Ohio. Where do these rumors get started?
workingclass artist commented:
@#46 Texas Conservative
Perry campaign asked Romney to pony up his tax returns today….
*snicker*
Romney pulled this trick on Ted Kennedy in his failed senate run…now it’s his turn
obfuscatenot commented:
Romney is too much like Bill O’Reilly for my comfort. He likes to split the difference between the “liberal” and the “conservative”. Sadly , we’ve had such an overdose of liberal, the only way to cure that is for a heavy dose of 100% Conservative- Mitt Romney is not it.
Vince commented:
I really hope “Willard Mitt Romney” is NOT the nominee. I’m sick and tired of voting for the lesser of two evils but will PLUG my nose.
Not voting at all will be a vote for the other side.
Willard? GEEZE!
Speaking Clearly commented:
And Romney is who we are going to end up with as the Republican nomination, unless Conservatives press the candidates hard, on who is the most conservative, and then rally around them.
If you just set back and wait, or watch Fox News every day, Rino Romney will be the candidate, and the next President.
Bachmann is the most conservative, but it will take alot more support to get her elected at this point.
If Perry would rethink his weakness on dealing with illegals, then he would be a nice choice.
I like Cain, but think he would make a better Senator, then President.
I’m not sure that Huntsman is even a man, the way he acts.
As many negative things you can nit-pick about Ginchrich….I am starting to think that he is the best choice, and most electable right if we can keep Romney from getting the nomination.
I didn’t favor Gingrich in the beginning, but it’s obvious that Karl Rove, and the rest of the Establishment in the GOP and mainstream media want Rino Romney to be nominee.
While I think Bachmann would be the strongest supporter of Tea Party/Constitutional/Fiscal causes….I would be more comfortable with Gingrich, than Romney.
VengefulSpatula commented:
I’m not surprised. Romney sucks and always has.
Molon Labe commented:
It would be interesting to see a followup on this to see where the other GOP candidates stand. In fact some sort of position on all major issues would help voters make a determination based on their records as opposed to their latest posturings.
jainphx commented:
Anybody but Romney, thats all there is to it. Wait must add Paul.
UpChuck.Liberals commented:
Strike TWO
Molon Labe commented:
I see Perry is polling below Ron Paul. Maybe he could get the Ronulians if he promised them all a free ticket to the mother ship and all the drugs they want..
Perry is a poor imitation of a conservative. I hope Cain doesn’t screw up but I worry about Jessie Jackson endorsement of him when Cain ran for senate. Of course his 9-9-9 plan is DOA. But Perry’s plan is far, far worse.
xqqme commented:
Bill Cunninham is on Ed Schultz going after Issue2 Ohio needs to become a right to work state. period