It takes a hypocrite.
By on Apr 17th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
It takes a hypocrite.
Former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA) said last week that Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is wrong when she says “it takes a village” to raise a child. “I think it’s time for us to recognize every child deserves a mother and a father,” Romney said. “The statement, however, runs counter to what The Boston Globe quoted him as saying in 1998: ‘Hillary Clinton is very much right, it does take a village, and we are a village and we need to work together in a non-skeptical, no-finger-pointing way.’”
UPDATE: We would be loathe not to mention Romney’s explanation: “On Monday, Romney’s campaign said his Globe comments were about public-private partnerships, not families. Romney was referencing corporations, not parents, the campaign said.”
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Not only is a mitt something one sticks one’s hand into the rear of, this Mitt sticks his whole foot in there.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:00 pmRomney has obviously grown out of the Clinton nanny state mindset. Good for him.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:00 pmWho needs a village when the kid can have 4 or 5 Moms?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:04 pmParents dont need the government meddling in the internal family affairs… but it sure is smart for the government to offer as much help as our society can give …IF the parents want to accept it.
Why is everything an either/or?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:04 pm“I think it’s time for us to recognize every child deserves a mother and a father,â€
And even with a mother and a father, it still takes a village to raise a child, Mr. Romney.
Beyond anyone’s domestic situation, fact remains that a healthy, supportive community is essential in the development of healthy, law-abiding citizens.
What a fool this man is.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:05 pmThe hypocritometer just went off the scale along with the Patrick1 is a stupidfu*kometer.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:05 pmlol, Patrick1 is making excuses for Mitts flip flopping. Typical wishy washy hypocrite.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:06 pmNot an excuse. He has grown. Similar to the way the Washington Post has grown in telling Pelosi that her surrender to Islamo Fascism is nutty.
It doesn’t take much effort to learn that the Clinton model that has a hard time delivering the mail can’t possibly raise a child.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:08 pmPathetic bastard’s not even a competent flip-flopper.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:08 pmIt takes a village idiot to run for the GOP. Are you up for it, Patrick1trickpony?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:08 pm“I think it’s time for us to recognize every child deserves a mother and a father,†Romney said
Sounds like Mitt wants a mommy and daddy state of government eh P1?
Mitt was for nanny government before he was for Mommy Daddy government! Vote for Mitt and Big Mommy Daddy Goverment to rule your life!!
April 17th, 2007 at 1:10 pmIt takes a village to raise a child, but only one bullet to kill them.
And we’ve been killing them by the THOUSANDS.
Enabled by Miz Clinton’s votes and politics.
So, TP calling Mr. Romney a hypocrite is accurate, but it is also the pot calling the kettle black.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:10 pmJust another case of Mitt Romney running away from his past.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pmWow,
This guys is like a fish out of water. Flipping and flopping all over the place.
What a pandering little weasel.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:11 pmIt doesn’t take much effort to learn that the Clinton model that has a hard time delivering the mail can’t possibly raise a child. Comment by Patrick1
LMAO, yet you want mommy daddy Mitt government to raise and molest them. Wanna see my list of Republican pedophiles again?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:14 pmpatwit the half wit says
repbulicans “grow”
Democrats “flipflop”
I’d engage in witty reparte with you pat with but my mom said never get into a battle of wits with an unarmed man.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:15 pmFlip-Flop. Anyway you try to spin it, this is a FLIP FLOP. Goodbye, Mitt, we hardly knew ye.
By the way, did I mention FLIP-FLOP?? FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP FLIP-FLOP
April 17th, 2007 at 1:17 pmIt takes a village to raise a child. It only takes a village idiot to raise a Patrick1.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:21 pmIt takes a bunch of religious crackpots with the support of their cult to raise children who will follow the leader. Jim Jones had nothing on these people. You think Bush is bad? Wait till you see how crazy things get when these batards try to impose the state religion on us. Bush was just a warm up, these people take this shit seriously….look at that Jeffs guy and his followers.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:23 pmBravely spoken Mitt.
But what happens to the kids when their father is killed in Iraq? Do we just write the mother and kids off like the muslims do in Iraq and other muslim countries.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:25 pmGave ‘jake’ the day off, did you patrick1?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:26 pmPatwit has clenis envy.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:27 pmMitt has come out against same-village marriage.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:30 pmSimilar to the way the Washington Post has grown in telling Pelosi that her surrender to Islamo Fascism is nutty.
EXCEPT…the Post Opinion section contradicted ITS OWN REPORTERS IN THE SAME DAY’S PUBLICATION!
That’s not growth, Patrick my boy. That’s flat out left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. And considering the absolute dreck that the Post’s opinion section churns out, I’m more inclined to take the word of the actual reporters.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:30 pmRomney’s Macacca moment. Remember the reaction to Kerry’s “I was for it before I was against it” gaffe that brought out the flip flops? This will be Romney’s.
Republicans still have Rudy. Don’t they?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:32 pmdon’t the liberal wackos say, when one of their political gods get caught being hypocrites, that the different oppinion so many years later is a sign of growth and maturity?
so, let us get it straight….if a Democrat Politician is caught being a hypocrite pathetic, laughable sites like thinkprogress.org will be the first one to defend them by saying that the Democrat Politician matured Isn’t this what all the Kerry apologists said about Kerry’s flip-flops? YES!
but if a right wing politician is caught being a hypocrite it is because he is a hypocrite, right?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:32 pmI agree with the poster that said it takes a mother and father to raise a child…in Mitty baby’s religion he can have all the mothers he wants, so why settle for a village.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:35 pmWon’t all the brain dead doinks quickly forget about the slander they impose on a Democrat like Kerry. A flip flop is a flip flop and Romney is rolling down the hill. Pro Choice not Pro Choice, hunter not a hunter, Same sex marriage not same sex marriage, pro union not pro union. Romney changes his position more the Jeff Gannon in some of his special photos.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:41 pmGreat title TP – Someone should spoof a book cover with Romney as the author “It Takes a Hypocrite”
April 17th, 2007 at 1:48 pmbut if a right wing politician is caught being a hypocrite it is because he is a hypocrite, right?
Comment by Captain Kirk
Conservatism, be it left or right, is organized hypocrisy Kirk.
April 17th, 2007 at 1:48 pmOn one hand, a women with only one child and a constantly cheating hubby. On the other, a man with 5 children, many grandchildren, and faithful for 38 years. And considering the context, the debate now is over the definition of the family. It wasn’t then. Business: Agile (flip-flop) = Successful
April 17th, 2007 at 1:53 pmconservatism is organized hypocrisy, what? Zep Tepi what do you mean?
April 17th, 2007 at 1:58 pmEverything else in your post is complete garbage and a waste of electrons, except this last part, which is spot on.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:01 pmand just so people know, I do believe Mitt is as a much of a flip-flopper as Kerry was, he will never win the primaries.
but I think it is sad how Libeals who claim to be so open minded, so tolerant are the first one to attack religious people….
Liberals, you who claim to love the Constitution so much…..THERE IS NO RELIGIOUS LITMUS TEST FOR BECOMING PRESIDENT! or for that matter to hold any government office. I know you “tolerant” liberals would love it if it existed, but it doesn’t. Go create your own nazi like or communist like country if you want a religious litmus test.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:04 pmis there any issue where mitt hasn’t flip-flopped or pandered? it’s like he’s racing mccain to ‘zero dignity’.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pmspudge_boy,
my ignorant fellow human being, most wacked out liberals like you are a waste of air, sadly enough you have the right to be ignorant and spew your ignorance.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:05 pm#34 – “Go create your own nazi like or communist like country if you want a religious litmus test.” Comment by Captain Kirk — April 17, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
If you think that communists are liberals, then that means the Nazi’s were conservatives.
Liberal = communist
Fascist = conservative
Simple enough for a “conservative” to remember.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:11 pm#36 – “most wacked out liberals like you are a waste of air, sadly enough you have the right to be ignorant and spew your ignorance.” Comment by Captain Kirk — April 17, 2007 @ 2:05 pm
Just like all the self-blinded, self-righteous, wrong-headed conservatives like you have the right to be ignorant and spew your ignorance. Your point being????
April 17th, 2007 at 2:13 pmCapt Kirk,
Conservatives attack religion as much as anyone else does. Stop with the posturing.
Atheists, and other non christians, are firmly in the cross hairs many in the conservative movement. Espcecially the Christian Right and commentators like Bill O’Reilly.
Glenn Beck demand that Congressman Goode from Minnesotat prove to him that he is not a terrorist simply because he is Muslim.
Wake up Cappie!!
April 17th, 2007 at 2:26 pmCaptain Kirk sez:
You might want to tell that to your conservative brethren, who were apoplectic at the prospect of Keith Ellison swearing in on a copy of the Qur’an.
April 17th, 2007 at 2:29 pmMr. Romney
I consider a religious congregation as a “village” and an important component in raising a child. Don’t you?
April 17th, 2007 at 2:39 pmOh my God are we still arguing about this phrase?
Did anyone tell Mitzy that the 90’s are over?
April 17th, 2007 at 2:50 pmCap’n Kirk,
April 17th, 2007 at 3:02 pmDamnit, Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a politician!
“I think it’s time for us to recognize every child deserves a mother and a father,†Romney said
I think it’s time for Romney to recognize that every child biologically has a mother and a father.
If a father chooses not to participate in a child’s life, that’s on him. My ex sent his money every without fail, but showing his face around my sons was a rare occasion.
So I’d agree with Hillary on this one — it takes a village.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:16 pmHey Mitt,
Lets stop treating corporations like people.
April 17th, 2007 at 4:28 pmPoliticians say whatever is politically expedient for them to say at the time. That goes for all politicians. (with few exceptions).
April 17th, 2007 at 4:42 pmI wonder if that includes all the children whose fathers and mothers have lost their lives in Iraq?
April 17th, 2007 at 4:43 pm#47 Nope, for’ners don’t count.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:57 pm#44 If a father chooses not to participate in a child’s life, that’s on him. My ex sent his money every without fail, but showing his face around my sons was a rare occasion.
Or a mother. It happens both ways.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:58 pm