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GOP returns Mitt Romney "gifts"
Politico ^ | 11/15/12 | Ginger Gibson

Posted on 11/15/2012 10:03:20 PM PST by TrueStarSpangled

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To: Jeff Head

Free stuff — gotta see it to believe it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-a-r7iJIU


41 posted on 11/16/2012 2:01:19 AM PST by EverOnward
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To: Jeff Head

Free stuff — gotta see it to believe it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-a-r7iJIU


42 posted on 11/16/2012 2:02:16 AM PST by EverOnward
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To: Jeff Head

Damn right. Romney was spot-on about this, regardless of what “other leading Republicans” have to say about it.

It became a matter of fighting against a pandering incumbent who had and used the full strength of governmental resources to get reelected.

I heard those ads directed at young voters here in Virginia, offering yet more federal student grants... “all we`re asking is for wealthy Americans to contribute more to invest in your educational future. How does that sound?”

On this point, Romney is right. The parasite class will always gravitate to whomever throws them the juiciest bait.


43 posted on 11/16/2012 2:14:27 AM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: 43north

Romney’s right and the RINO’s are showing that they cannot handle to truth.

And what do you call Romney? Are you claiming that Romney is not a RINO? Basically the RINOs are just trying to out do the big RINO.


44 posted on 11/16/2012 2:34:24 AM PST by napscoordinator (GOP Candidate 2020 - "Bloomberg 2020 - We vote for whatever crap the GOP puts in front of us.")
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To: TrueStarSpangled
“So, Rubio and Jindal, the supposed future of this party, seem content to go into full throttle pander mode to ensure future election prospects.”

Well said. We need to look to someone who isn't going to pander and act like Democrats. These two have been crossed off my list.

45 posted on 11/16/2012 3:50:31 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: ScottinVA
I just wish Romney had said more things like this during the campaign and prominently featured that woman with her free Obamaphone (which actually came from the taxpayers of this country, not Obama).

That last debate was as if Romney was in complete agreement with everything Obama said. It was weird. Romney's speaks the truth after the election and the Republicans are running away from the truth.

46 posted on 11/16/2012 3:57:37 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: Tzimisce
So this is what 1 party rule looks like. I hate it.

Me too! The GOP needs to be sent to the nursing home. The tactics are old and out of date. There needs to be a new party created - someone on another had a great name - The Real Conservative Party. IMO, their MAIN issue should always be the economy and fiscal responsibility. Granted there are 4 other poles to the tent, but the center pole needs to be those two tppics. I don't care what color, gender, orgin, religion, sexual orientation you are, but if you share our values you are in. I know I am going to get flamed for that last one, but I don't care - I want to win back the White House in a bad way, and being a little flexible but firm it can be done.

47 posted on 11/16/2012 4:06:19 AM PST by Cyclone59 (Obama is like Ron Burgundy - he will read ANYTHING that is on the teleprompter)
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To: TrueStarSpangled

This election worked out perfectly to Washington DC’s ends. Every advance of the left accrues more power to DC...and then the Oligarghy takes turns playing with the new batch of toys....of which ObamaCare is merely one of the latest games they get to enjoy. Rubio and Jindal merely see their turn coming unless We the People get up on our high horse and do something about it!

Ensuring a “fair vote” in some of the ghetto communities....why would anybody in DC wanna spend time DOING THAT?!!! Hard work, potentially dangerous...and besides could interfere with the whole game!!!

This problem is clearly only solved by We the People out in Flyover Country. If we’re tired of the DC “two party” illusion and want a real system....the hard work starts locally. BTW the left has been there almost 100 years now...and uprooting them will take some effort.


48 posted on 11/16/2012 4:09:22 AM PST by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: TrueStarSpangled
“I don’t think it’s helpful,” Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad told POLITICO at the Republican Governors Association conference on Thursday. “I guess my feeling is that we need to turn the page, and we need to focus on the future and not make excuses for the past.”

Spoken like a true executive who doesn't want, or doesn't know how, to fix any real problem. Yes, by all means let's "move on"... or "forward," if you will.

While still superior to the truly awful Tom Vilsack (currently Obama's Ag Secretary... despite not knowing anything about farming) and Chet "Lumpy Rutherford" Culver, Terry Branstad has never been particularly averse to "free s**t." Without the influx of federal - i.e., other people's - money, Iowa would see depopulation until there were nothing but government workers, landed Junkers, enough low-wage farm supply and roadbuilding workers to service same, and the bones of our ancestors.

Unpleasant to contemplate, but on the other hand, it would eliminate most of the diversity imports from Illinois.

Mr. niteowl77

49 posted on 11/16/2012 4:18:31 AM PST by niteowl77 (Getting stuck with other peoples' just desserts good and hard for over 50 years.)
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To: Tzimisce
So this is what 1 party rule looks like.

I hate it.

You're not alone.

50 posted on 11/16/2012 4:47:17 AM PST by EricT. (The GOP's sole purpose is to serve as an ineffective alternative to the Democrat Party.)
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To: gusty

Spot on.


51 posted on 11/16/2012 5:15:22 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: TrueStarSpangled

More RINOs showing their stripes.


52 posted on 11/16/2012 5:23:26 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Re-distribute my work ethic, not my wealth!)
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To: TrueStarSpangled

Wake up and smell the coffee, Terry.
The election was bought and paid for by you and me.


53 posted on 11/16/2012 5:43:26 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (In the game of life, there are no betting limits)
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To: Marcella
“What I have is not an entitlement - I paid for my social security and I pay for Medicare every month.”

Sorry to disillusion you, but they are both “entitlements”.
We were sold a bill of goods to pay into a ponzi scheme.
You have no “defined benefits” chiseled into stone with any of those programs, neither do I.

But where you really fell down was buying into the class warfare arguments in the first place.
Romney may not have articulated it well, but nowhere did he propose taking away social programs or entitlements from people that earned it. His and Ryans plans are the only ones that have articulated a solution to continue funding them.
Obamas plan is to destroy the economy and accelerate the insolvency of the country by overwhelming it with dependency.
Classic Allinsky.

His 47% comments, if you bothered to read what he said was that his policies and strategy were not going to appeal to the 47% that have become dependent on government handouts.
And I hate to break it to you, but S.S. and Medicare have become handouts, because they were redefined as such by Congress.

54 posted on 11/16/2012 5:52:47 AM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (Proudly casting a heavy carbon footprint as I clean my guns ---)
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To: max americana

I disagree. As they grow older, if they have good uinformation in their minds, it will be called into rememberance.

We simplyu have to divise a plan for getting the info out that shows rationally why becoming dependent is bad for their future and how they are being used.

The alternative is to either accept this situation, do nothing, start handing out stuff ourselves and become like the enemy, or attack the very people we need to get to wake up and vote differently. None of those options will work.

Waiting for the train wreck is something I am not wiling to sit by and just let happen because those consequences will be 1) in determinant and 2) awful beyond belief for our own.

It may end up being the only real option left...ie. it may be too late to avoid...but I am not going there without a fight to aoid it if at all possible while maintiaing our principles.

America at the Crossroads of History
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm


55 posted on 11/16/2012 5:55:30 AM PST by Jeff Head
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To: TrueStarSpangled
Life imitates satire.
56 posted on 11/16/2012 6:56:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the psychopath.)
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To: Jeff Head
Sadly, at the 2012 "crossroads of history," "conservatives" turned left.

And then, quite predictably, lost.

Sure hope they've learned something and that they'll come on back to the crossroads.

57 posted on 11/16/2012 7:15:14 AM PST by EternalVigilance (Nice 'til I'm not.)
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To: cynwoody

Why yes, let’s just keep the gravy train running ‘cuz WE’LL know how to make it better. Tell me Rubio, where does the gov’t get the power to pass out the taxpayers $$??? Can you tell me how that’s charity when it’s not YOUR $$ to give??

They’re all lost. Notice there’s no more talk of ending a dept., cutting any laws/regulations. Only, we’ll do it better.

The GOP dog-washers make me sick


58 posted on 11/16/2012 8:57:10 AM PST by i_robot73
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To: SaraJohnson; Marcella

Unfort. you only paid TAXES all those years (FICA and Medicaid). There was, is, will be no promised benefit from the gov’t that can not be rescinded.

Choosing to live your life on the promise of gov’t is a fools errand. There is no legal nor moral authority to enslave any generation for the lies from gov’t.

You want(ed) a defined benefit, there should have been riots to pass the SS privatization.


59 posted on 11/16/2012 9:02:32 AM PST by i_robot73
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