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thehill.com - 4/2/2009

Romney breaks with GOP on the issue of deregulation

— thehill.com — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said Wednesday that his party needs to take a fresh approach... to government regulations in the wake of the economic crisis that has rattled the U.S. and world economies. In an interview with The Hill, Romney ... (more) Romney breaks with GOP on the issue of deregulation

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boston.com - 4/9/2009

GOP cools on a hot-button issue - The Boston Globe

— boston.com — As governor of a blue state, he once said he favored a sensible path to citizenship. Then... came the 2008 presidential campaign. During primary season, Romney hammered - you could say demagogued - rivals like John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike ... (more) GOP cools on a hot-button issue - The Boston Globe

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google.com - 3/30/2009

The Associated Press: Romney's work puts him in 2012 political spotlight

— google.com — 3 hours ago BOSTON (AP) Mitt Romney is building toward a White House bid in 2012 by... judiciously engaging and disengaging with the national debate. The former Massachusetts governor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate is speaking at a political ... (more) The Associated Press: Romney's work puts him in 2012 ...

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Romney Lets His Conservative Mask Slip
Say Anything — For a while now I’ve been saying that Romney is no conservative, and anyone holding him up as the hope for the conservative movement against Obama in 2012 is fooling themselves.  During his campaign for the Republican nomination in 2007/2008 Romney held himself up as a rock-ribbed conservative.  The reality is that he’s a power-hungry politician.  He was one of the first political leaders in America to institute what amounts to a nationalized health care system in Massachusetts, and his various positions on abortion have changed so often in timing so convenient for his political career as to leave one with the notion that Romney (not ...

Regulation
Stubborn Facts — I think that I understand what Mitt Romney is driving at when he says (quoted here) that “[w]e as Republicans misspeak when we say we don’t like regulation. We like modern, up-to-date dynamic regulation that is regularly reviewed, streamlined, modernized and effective.” Romney is right to unpack an easily-parodied rallying cry, particularly when deregulation has been cast as the bad guy in our recent economic travails (an absurd theory, but that's a subject for another day), in order to show why the parody misses the mark. Nevertheless, Romney's remark strikes me as imprecise. I really don't like regulation, particularly federal regulation, and suspect ...