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Question: What GOP decade do you believe Romney fits in best with the party overall?
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« on: January 04, 2012, 05:14:23 PM »
Mitt Romney can often seem to not fit in well with the Republican Party of this decade so far. Many claim he is a pseudo – Conservative or, RINO, because of his often moderate stances on the issues. With that in mind, what decade of GOP history do you believe Mitt Romney would be best suited for?

1920 – 29: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover; Laissez – faire economics
1940 – 49: Wendell Willkie, Thomas Dewey, Earl Warren; Moderation
1960 – 69: Richard Nixon, Nelson Rockefeller, Barry Goldwater; “We’re all Keynesians now”
1980 – 89: Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Pat Buchanan; Reaganomics
2000 – 09: George W. Bush, John McCain, Dick Cheney; Neoconservatives

Note: I am not using 'Neoconservative' as a derogatory term.
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« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2012, 05:20:39 PM »
A conservative-ish Republican in the 60's.
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« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2012, 05:25:30 PM »
Yeah, 60s Rockefeller Repub or Nixon w/o the cojones.
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« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2012, 05:27:10 PM »
Today's Romney? He's so inconsistent that there's no right answer. Was there a decade when Republicans would say whatever to whomever if they thought it would increase their electability.
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« Reply #4 on: January 04, 2012, 05:29:26 PM »
He's a modern far-right extremist hatemonger.
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« Reply #5 on: January 04, 2012, 05:31:25 PM »
Quote from: memphis on January 04, 2012, 05:27:10 PM
Today's Romney? He's so inconsistent that there's no right answer. Was there a decade when Republicans would say whatever to whomever if they thought it would increase their electability.

You're describing to an extent the election of 1920.
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« Reply #6 on: January 04, 2012, 05:32:47 PM »
Quote from: Χahar on January 04, 2012, 05:29:26 PM
He's a modern far-right extremist hatemonger.

^^^^

The idea that he's some 60s Rockefeller Republican moderate is laughable.
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« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2012, 05:33:15 PM »
Quote from: Lief on January 04, 2012, 05:32:47 PM
Quote from: Χahar on January 04, 2012, 05:29:26 PM
He's a modern far-right extremist hatemonger.

^^^^

The idea that he's some 60s Rockefeller Republican moderate is laughable.
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« Reply #8 on: January 04, 2012, 05:37:28 PM »
Quote from: Antonio V on January 04, 2012, 05:33:15 PM
Quote from: Lief on January 04, 2012, 05:32:47 PM
Quote from: Χahar on January 04, 2012, 05:29:26 PM
He's a modern far-right extremist hatemonger.

^^^^

The idea that he's some 60s Rockefeller Republican moderate is laughable.
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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2012, 05:46:18 PM »
The 2010's, obviously.
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2012, 05:49:32 PM »
Barry Goldwater was a Keynesian?
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« Reply #11 on: January 04, 2012, 05:52:42 PM »
Quote from: Lief on January 04, 2012, 05:32:47 PM
Quote from: Χahar on January 04, 2012, 05:29:26 PM
He's a modern far-right extremist hatemonger.

^^^^

The idea that he's some 60s Rockefeller Republican moderate is laughable.

Yeah, 'cause he's so very different from his Dad.
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« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2012, 05:52:56 PM »

This.  Romney is well to the left of any 60s Rockefeller Republican moderate.
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« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2012, 05:55:29 PM »
The era of Dewey.
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« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2012, 05:56:09 PM »

The 1960s GOP was dominated by the Rockefeller - Nixon establishment, Goldwater was an outsider at the time. I could not exclude him though because I included every other GOP nominee. He was not a Keynesian; we all know that.
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« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2012, 06:12:00 PM »
Which Romney?
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« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2012, 06:22:47 PM »
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« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2012, 06:26:24 PM »

So, he's basically a copy of his father?
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« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2012, 06:50:49 PM »
He's a 1990s staid Republican.  A jolly sort of person to join fishing for marlins on his yacht and contemptible sh** like that.  The 1980s business execs moving to the top of the ladder and looking for that next rung.

After 2000, the GOP went all-in on cornpone and the fancy suits were gone.
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« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2012, 09:09:26 PM »
The conservative wing of the 60s GOP like his father.
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« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2012, 09:20:10 PM »
No, George Romney was aligned with Rockefeller and Nixon much more than Goldwater and Reagan, the conservatives of the 1960s. Didn't Romney get many of Rockefeller's handlers in '67-8? Didn't Romney go soft on Vietnam? Didn't Romney become Nixon's HUD Secretary and push a fairly big-government agenda there? Maybe Romney was a little more conservative than Rocky, but he was in that wing, not the Goldwater wing.
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« Reply #21 on: January 04, 2012, 09:20:54 PM »
Though I'll add looking at the poll again, Mitt is kind of a Dewey.
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« Reply #22 on: January 04, 2012, 09:36:09 PM »
George Romney was at the very least  moderate and got along very well with liberal Nelson Rockefeller.
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« Reply #23 on: January 04, 2012, 09:49:06 PM »
Probably 1940-49 or 1960-69, although I don't think that Herbert Hoover, Barry Goldwater, or George H.W. Bush truly represented their parties during their respective eras. I'm not sure about Pat Buchanan either, because of his opposition to globalism.
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« Reply #24 on: January 04, 2012, 10:27:12 PM »
The 2100s: When the GOP will nominate robots instead of people.
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