# Romney, toeing the party line **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 26, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-toeing-the-party-line/292071 "2005-02-26T23:54:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bubba\_jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e95f7d/32.png) [@bubba\_jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubba_jr)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-toeing-the-party-line/292071/1 "2005-02-26T23:54:46Z")
''We cut more state and city workers in Massachusetts than any other state in America," Romney said. ''We found a way to do more with fewer." > **[Romney links gay marriage, US prestige](http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/02/26/romney_links_gay_marriage_us_prestige/)** > > SALT LAKE CITY -- Speaking before an adoring audience of Utah Republicans last night, Governor Mitt Romney drew a link between America's prestige around the world and the legalization of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts. What a classy little republican, bragging about unemploying people due to the wonderful tax cuts that were susposed to make more jobs. What a lying sack of shit. My mother works in a state hospital, and has said that if Romney set foot in that hospital he would be lucky to leave alive. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-toeing-the-party-line/292071/2 "2005-02-27T06:10:44Z")
Why should he set foot in a Massachusetts state hospital anyway, except for a photo op? He’s too busy junketing to places like South Carolina, laying the groundwork for his Presidential run in 2008. This state is just a stepping stone, and he’s stomping away at us. ---
**Author:** ![milroyj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@milroyj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milroyj)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-toeing-the-party-line/292071/3 "2005-02-27T06:15:43Z")
What is Romney lying about? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-toeing-the-party-line/292071/4 "2005-02-27T06:31:20Z")
> [@bubba jr](#): > > What a classy little republican, bragging about unemploying people due to the wonderful tax cuts that were susposed to make more jobs. What a lying sack of shit. My mother works in a state hospital, and has said that if Romney set foot in that hospital he would be lucky to leave alive. Your mom sounds unstable, or your mom is suggesting that her fellow workers are unstable. Which is it? ---
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-toeing-the-party-line/292071/5 "2005-02-27T06:45:36Z")
Hm why don’t we get back to pitting the biggoted Governor. > [@Giant Douchebag](#): > > Romney said, ''Some [same-sex couples] are actually having children born to them." Complaining about an effort to use gender-neutral language to describe parents on birth certificates, he also said: ''It’s not right on paper. It’s not right in fact. Every child has a right to a mother and a father." > [@Asshole](#): > > He blasted Democrats in Congress for criticizing the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, which he said are succeeding. ''To those who yearn for world peace, I hope they remember that its staunchest ally is a strong America," Romney said > [@Shitstain](#): > > ''America cannot continue to lead the family of nations around the world if we suffer the collapse of the family here at home," Romney said, calling the Supreme Judicial Court’s legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts ''a blow to the family." > [@(insert insult here)](#): > > 'America’s culture is also defined by the fact that we are a religious people," Romney said. ''We recognize our God not only in our Declaration of Independence, but even in our currency. And we are also unique in that we recognize that the family is the fundamental building block of American society." > [@Orin Hatch](#): > > ''If he chooses to run for president, and he can overcome the Atlantic Coast-Northeast very liberal image, I think he has an excellent chance to be president," Hatch said Well he certainly is ‘overcoming’ his image as a Northeast liberal and replacing it with one of an asshat. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-toeing-the-party-line/292071/6 "2005-02-27T09:15:29Z")
**treis** , calling someone a giant douchebag and an asshole are accepted here. Calling someone a shitstain is allowed. Even imploring people to invent an invective is invited. But calling someone an Orrin Hatch is simply uncalled-for! It’s the one term that should be stricken from civilized discourse. The person who flaunts the epithet in public should be similarly stricken, preferably down.