Common folk?!?! You mean liberal loons. I don't blame him in the least for going low wattage at this point. Imagine the spectacle, the professional protesters out in force, perhaps a homosexual activist throwing glitter on him? Oh and the "unbiased" reporting of one of the Oregonian's finest? GHW Bush didn't call this place "Little Beirut" for nothing.

I wonder how he would have been received if he had shut down the freeway system and burden the tax payers for extra police security.

I feel sorry for him. Having to play dumb to pander to the "Tea baggers". It must be hard when your party is taken over by drop outs, bankrupts and people who speak in tongues. It is sad to see him having to run away from his health care bill in Mass just because it is very much like the one the President got in place. Tough to see someone apologizing for something he should be proud of just to appease of bunch of Fox News dittoheads.

Yeah, those crazy liberal loons exercising their constitutional rights to assembly and free speech, right PomMom?

Romney has less to worry about from them then he does from his own party:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0611/Conservatives_against_Romney.html

For several conservative organizations, antagonism toward Romney runs so deep that they are actually gearing up to wage campaigns against him.

Probably the most prominent group targeting Romney is FreedomWorks, the Dick Armey-led conservative organization. The group has been increasingly vocal about its opposition to the former governor of Massachusetts. “Romney has a record and we don’t really like it that much,” Adam Brandon, FreedomWorks’ communications director, recently told The Huffington Post. Now the group is threatening to unleash part of its $25 million treasure trove in an attempt to sink his candidacy. Brendan Steinhauser, the group’s director of federal and state campaigns, tells me the only way Romney might avoid this fate is to start by apologizing unequivocally for “RomneyCare” and make other outreach efforts to conservatives. Otherwise, the group, which boasts over a million members, more than 750,000 fans on Facebook, and an equally large activist email list, is ready to mobilize against him. “The question of whether Romney is acceptable on policy is a huge question, and I don’t think that he is, because of health care in particular, and because of his supplying a bunch of bad ideas,” says Steinhauser. “And we believe we can get a rock-solid fiscal conservative elected president.”

When are we all going to stop the "libtard-repiglican" in-fighting BS, and recognize they're all various shades of corrupt and none of them give a whit for the common folk?

GHW Bush didn't call this place "Little Beirut"

Did that start with Papa Bush, or was it Papa Bush's handler (a.k.a. President Reagan)?

The GOP could solve this whole Tea Party/Establishment conundrum in one fell swoop if Romney could see his way clear to bringing Bachmann aboard as his running mate. Note only would they be the best-looking ticket in the history of tickets, they just might win. A guy can dream, can't he?