The Tea Party trouble with Romney

A few of highlights from Romney’s record showing just how unfriendly he has been over the years to the ideas the tea party holds dear (links and details further below):

• Romney distanced himself from Reagan and Reagan’s policies
• Romney didn’t like the Contract with America
• Romney led the fight for and implemented health care reform almost identical to ObamaCare 
• Romney called his beta version of ObamaCare “a model for the nation” 
• Romney defended the individual mandate, saying, “I like mandates. The mandates work.” 
• Romney supports cap-and-trade “on a global basis”
• Romney worked to regulate “greenhouse gas emissions” in Massachusetts
• Romney got Massachusetts involved in a regional climate change pact 
• Romney supports ethanol subsidies 
• Romney wants to increase spending “substantially” on energy research  
• Romney opposes the Flat Tax
• Romney refused to support the 2003 Bush tax cuts
• Romney’s claim to not have raised taxes is called “mostly myth” by Cato Institute
• Romney thought Obama’s stimulus would “accelerate the timing of the start of the recovery”
• Romney supports TARP
• Romney says there’s nothing wrong with companies asking for bailouts
• Romney supports No Child Left Behind
• Romney supports reappointing Ben Bernanke to chairman of the Federal Reserve

 The Issue with Romney is the Issues