Romney: 'Living Life Makes You More Conservative'
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday explained his extreme change in positions since serving as the governor of Massachusetts by saying that he had gotten more conservative by "living life."
Speaking to Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday, half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) had worried that Romney was not conservative enough.
"I base this on a pretty moderate past that he has had — in some case even cases, a liberal past," she said. "But what I want to see is that candidate — and I believe that most voters in the GOP and independents, we will want to see that candidate who we can trust, who will just inherently, instinctively turn right, always err on the side of conservatism, which means smaller, smarter government, more empowerment for the individual, for the private sector."
Fox & Friends co-host host Steve Doocy gave the former governor a chance to respond on Wednesday.
"I'm not quite sure what she would be referring to," Romney shrugged. "I'm pro-life, pro-traditional marriage. I believe in the Second Amendment."
"I think living life tends to make you more conservative," he added. "And if you’ve been in the business world, you can’t help but be conservative, because if you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business."
Some studies suggest that Romney is wrong to assert that "living life tends to make you more conservative."
Research released in 2008 showed that Americans generally become more liberal as they age.
"All the evidence we have found refutes the idea that as people age their attitudes become more conservative or more rigid," University of Vermont sociologist Nicholas Danigelis told Live Science. "More people are changing in a liberal direction than in a conservative direction."
living life makes you more dead inside.
Mmmm, no Mr. Romney.
The most Conservative people I know are some of the most uptight pro-Gun- pro-War, pro-Death Penalty (ie:-"pro-LIFE") once-a-week Cafeteria Catholics I've ever met in my life.
You can call these Conservatives a lot of things, but "fun loving people who enjoy life" DEFINITELY ain't one of 'em.
* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
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Take a shot every time Romney says "conservative." He uses it in every other sentence these days. Think he's trying to convince some folk?
"Better." It's what we should ask of ourselves and of our leaders.
I have lived lots of life and I'm still liberal. I guess it didn't work on me.
My husband has lived lots of life too and he is co-owner of his business. He balances his business budget and he's still liberal too. What are we doing wrong?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
every time yoiu engage in baby making acts.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
some of us are batting 1000
We chose to make no babies because the little rascals grow up to be adults.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Have you stripped out the pension fund, sold off any viable assets, borrowed heavily against the company, and paid yourself huge "management" fees?
If not, according to the Job Cremater, you're doing it wrong.
Hey, I've lived life and it's tended to move me way to the left, or maybe I've just sat still and the country ran way to the right... doesn't matter, it's made me more compassionate, but I can understand what a foreign concept that might be for that fool.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
might make you more conservative, but that's all.
Actually, even then that's only if you're Mitt Romney; i.e., an asshole.
This holds true if one enters life as part of a benighted, intolerant, bigoted, and niggardly family or becomes mentally ill due to severe brain trauma later in life. Granted, as one ages one becomes more cautious and less inclined to pursue reckless lifestyle choices with obvious exceptions to this rule readily coming to mind; but seldom do those of a more humanistic bent become mysanthropic or selfish to the point of becoming what today passes for "conservative", AKA, reactionary! FREE BRADLEY MANNING!!!!!
Do they dream of electric sheep?
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Do they dream of electric sheep?
does it matter? any technology has psychological as well as physical effects, it's just that plane crashes tend to make the news.
deckard was a replicant.
NOOOOOOOO!!!!!
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
Yeah, but it does lose a lot...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
mitt-bot is still calculating
*hourglass*
Dunno, but give me a little while and maybe I can remember it for you, wholesale...
*grin*
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I guess he comes by his flip flopping naturally, too. It comes with living life.
"Fox News is a cancer on our Nation" -- Me
Gee that's funny, I've found the complete exact opposite to be true.
In my experience of living 53 years I seem to get more liberal every year except in one way that agrees with Mittens, I grow more hateful and less tolerant of right wing scumbags every fucking DAY. So in that sense I have become more conservative.
Generally speaking I don't trust anyone making over 150K a year.
With you 100% on that. Now that I'm about to hit 60 the French Revolution solution for the aristos is looking better and better.
Hiding out in a French chateau during a time of war makes you a coward.
Aw, but he was doing the more important work of trying to get upperclass French people into the celestial kingdom, dontcha know... that's oodles more important than making one's self available like most of the rest of one's generation... draft? That's for the brown kids.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
you receive a bottle of brandy signifying you are the last soldier still alive, and hence fulfilling the tontine
In his second term Romney will be so conservative he'll deny ever having HAD a dog.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
Or a cage or a roof or a car... whatever it takes...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
My wife and kids weren't even in the car... I don't even have a car... I don't even have a wife or kids... I'm shocked that you would even say that... why would you even say that? It's so strange that you would even say that...
*appropriate drag off an herbal cigarette* (he is LDS after all...)
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Or that there is video of him saying the crate was "air tight". No one seems to be astonished by that remark. If the crate was air tight, that just makes it worse because had it really been air tight the dog would have died.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Actually, I believe as we get older we become more compassionate and less hardened in our views. We see more gray as opposed to black and white. Our certainties become fewer. Life beats us up and teaches us that bad things happen to good people and luck oftens dictates our station. Anyone that hardens as they get older tends to be bitter, selfish and shallow. The older we get, the more empathy we should have. Empathy is a very liberal emotion. Of course, if you have Romney's money, you can insulate yourself from the harshness of reality. I wonder if all those who were victums of his downsizing and outsourcing embrace his "you are the master or your fate" and "on your own" conservative mentality.
living fabulously wealthy makes you more conservative
My lifelong Republican father has sure embraced liberalism lately.
My mother just had a stroke and is paralyzed down half her body and he has been her caregiver for the past few weeks.
They're both about five years from Medicare and uninsured, and now that he's seen the hospital bills, Universal Health Care seems to a much better idea now.
if you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business.
Then explain how how Bain Capital through mismanagement and sharp dealing managed to drive businesses into bankruptcy and still score a hefty profit.
Being in business means you have to balance budgets, and that means you have to be conservative because why? Since when do conservatives balance budgets?
to get you to vote for them. Once they're in office, they spend like drunken sailors, cut taxes and anything that helps the poor and the afflicted.
Remember what Darth Cheney said: "Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter; this is our due". and so he and Dubya bankrupted the country.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
Well, they try to...
But it usually involves balancing it on the backs of the poorest and least able to fight back, so it never seems to work quite how they think...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
you become more wealthy at the same time. Like Mitt.
And, with the Baby Boomers, if his statement were true, wouldn't conservatives be winning by landslides all the time? Given older people vote way more than the yunguns.
I've seen some stuff, man. And some thangs...
"If you’ve been in the business world, you can’t help but be conservative." Isn't this a bit like putting the cart before the horse? And Palin's criticism of Romney as having once been "moderate" is almost as frightening as his compulsion to dance to her malevolent, disjointed tune. Clearly, the time for moderation and compromise is over, if it ever was a possibility. The gloves must come off.
Romney: 'Living Life as a Rich, Self Centered Asshole Makes You More Conservative'
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
but your's hit it on the head.
In Romney's case, living life seems to make you more sanctimonious.
No, shittens, raking in buttloads of cash for little work makes you more conservative... though, I see how you might confuse the two...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
than in a conservative direction."
yeah, because more people are poor than are rich; and this will continue until we have systemic change.
some of us....out there surfing, backcountry skiing...
mountain climbing or hiking the Grand Canyon....
and meeting no conservatives along the way....
don't really live up to his definition of living life....
Living Life = Making Assloads of Money off the Backs of Poor People
me-oww!
Romney is a complete clown and can never be elected Prez.
...then Jesus got the death penalty before he would become a Republican.
Hey Mitt, do you know how to turn a conversative into a liberal?
You put him the the military, you Pussy. MIlitary will take hair off your head and put it on your cajonnes.
destroyed the EU in the guise of conservative AUSTERITY!
It is not working in GERMANY EITHER:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/economics-...
what the military did to me.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
We who actually served and actually got it that no one prays for peace more than we who have prepared for (or conducted) war.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I do to, but to me it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Election 2012: Be Educated! Be Active! Vote!
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Mr. Romney,
I own a business. I don't want to "balance a budget" because that means all I did was "break even". I have a loss for the year, but I also didn't make any profit. And whether my company makes a profit, breaks even or has a loss, it is carrying short term (revolving) and long term debt. The short term debt allows the company to operate on a day to day basis as it waits to be paid for its goods. The long term debt is for infrastructure, equipment and capital improvements.
Election 2012: Be Educated! Be Active! Vote!
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conservatism is his game
everyday he be hustlin' other trust fundies just the same....
Ah, yiaaaahhhhh.... dat's right.
CTHULHU 2012 "Why vote for a lesser evil?"
'loving' life....makes you more liberal!
'living life' listening to JERKS LIKE YOU has exactly the opposite effect.... THAT makes you an IDIOT!!
Makes you more and more liberal. I'm old.
The main objective should be how to stop the Rethugs from rethugging.
I'm just kind of remembering the old Bill Cosby routine about the facial expressions that seem to be common when one has a toddler...
I'm kinda finding that WTF expression to be forming permanently... at least the bumpersticker slogans of tha past seemed to make some kind of perverse sense... these guys just seem to be just phoning it in...
Very much how I felt about the earlier post with Ricky the Froth's comment about marriage equality watering down marriage...
Maybe it's just me, but at this point. just gotta ask, what the fuck does that even mean? Stick a couple of words together with a conjunction or two and run with it?
Jeeezis!
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Busting Myth, People Turn More Liberal With Age
http://www.livescience.com/2360-busting-myth-...
How old is Romney again?
...from experience.
That is why the Occupy movement does not exist. Nor does over half of America. They just haven't lived. That's what Mitt Romney just said. All you little people haven't really lived.
I believe you're thinking of Alzheimers' Mitt.
Mittens: "if you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business."
He then added: "For instance, look at most of the companies I helped run into the ground at Bain."
Seriously, WTF? Any business that was run by insisting on a yearly budget balance would be *out* of business pretty quickly. Has Mittens forgotten the role of debt in matching the payment terms on an asset to the lifetime of that asset?
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