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New and Improved Romney
Boston Phoenix ^ | February 10, 2010 | DAVID S. BERNSTEIN

Posted on 02/11/2010 2:34:09 AM PST by iowamark

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(David S. Bernstein can be reached at dbernstein@phx.com)
1 posted on 02/11/2010 2:34:09 AM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark
He ain't gettin’ my vote...not ever. If he's the nominee, I'm staying home or voting third party, period.
2 posted on 02/11/2010 2:37:10 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: iowamark

We don’t need no more STINKIN’ USED CAR SALESMAN gringo!


3 posted on 02/11/2010 2:37:18 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: iowamark

Along with his business and now political networks, and a network of support through the Mormon church, Romney’s got both the Harvard Law and Business School alumni networks to tap. That makes for some pretty good fundraising sources.

On the other hand, you just know that the gals on the View will be preoccupied with trying to get him to say something bad about Palin—because she’s a thousand times more interesting than he’ll ever be.


4 posted on 02/11/2010 2:49:55 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: iowamark

Romney_care vs Obama_care

I dont CARE for either.


5 posted on 02/11/2010 2:52:27 AM PST by taxcontrol
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To: AlaskaErik

No you won’t.


6 posted on 02/11/2010 2:55:34 AM PST by Onerom99 (I)
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To: iowamark
"David S. Bernstein can be reached at dbernstein@mittromney.com"
7 posted on 02/11/2010 2:58:32 AM PST by newfreep (Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: 9YearLurker
Unlike Gov. Palin, backstabber Mitt Romney is a proven bad governor,
a loser followed only RomneyBOTs, blind and on their knees.

"While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

8 posted on 02/11/2010 3:02:39 AM PST by Diogenesis (Alea iacta est.)
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To: iowamark

NOT A CHANCE. He might as well forget it.


9 posted on 02/11/2010 3:03:10 AM PST by flash2368
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To: iowamark

Mitt is toast.


10 posted on 02/11/2010 3:04:38 AM PST by Leisler (We are in the best of hands)
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To: iowamark

That’s a lot of ink to spill on a lost cause. No Romney. Never.


11 posted on 02/11/2010 3:04:48 AM PST by Rastus
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To: iowamark
Never vote for Willard the RAT!
12 posted on 02/11/2010 3:08:01 AM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: iowamark
Romney tanks out a real conservative site:

RESULTS – Feb. 2010 Early Freerepublic.com straw vote

Governor Palin - 102 votes - THE WINNER


None Of The Above - 12 votes
Barbour - 10 votes
Hunter - 8 votes
Demint - 7 votes

Pence - 3 votes
Ryan - 3 votes
Jindal - 2 votes
Jeb Bush - 2 votes
Liz Cheney - 2 votes
Mitch Daniels - 2 votes
Newt Gingrich - 2 votes

Thune, Gary Johnson, Joe Wilson, Scott Brown and Rick Perry - each 1 vote.
Romney and Huckabee - 0, that is zero, no, zed votes


13 posted on 02/11/2010 3:08:19 AM PST by Diogenesis (Alea iacta est.)
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Fascinating, though, with his strategists essentially admitting that he flipped in 2008 to posturing as a conservative that he isn’t in order to try to win nationally. Remember how that was supposed to be the real Mitt, who had had to hide it while being governor of a liberal state?

For 2012, with the economic/big government issues looming so large, his team says he’s going to flop back again to the moderate Mitt who won in MA. (I guess he saw how the press lifted ‘moderate McCain’.) Now this is supposed to be the ‘real’ Mitt?


14 posted on 02/11/2010 3:10:43 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: iowamark

I’m remembering that there was a Romneycare before there was an Obamacare. He is not Republican. How in he— could this guy expect to get elected from energized conservatives. Why doesn’t he just go away he. Just go away. You couldn’t beat Juan. He lost to Juan. We didn’t have much to choose from. Sad. I love Jim Demint. ~


15 posted on 02/11/2010 3:15:55 AM PST by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: iowamark
"Whereas most superheroes' secret identities (Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker) are their true identities
--the people they were before their parents were murdered or they were bitten by radioactive spiders
or exposed to gamma rays or what have you--Superman was born Superman.
It's Clark Kent that is the invented alias, the pose, the "costume."
And in the way Superman plays Kent--weak, self-doubting, cowardly--
we can see what he thinks of the human race overall.
It occurred to me that the same is true of Mitt Romney's desperate,
if never terribly persuasive, impersonation of a conservative Republican."
[from "Mitt Romney as Tarantino's Superman", New Republic]

16 posted on 02/11/2010 3:18:40 AM PST by Diogenesis (Alea iacta est.)
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To: iowamark

What a pant load.


17 posted on 02/11/2010 3:21:21 AM PST by A2J (Buck Religion)
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To: iowamark

Good and comprehensive article. Thanks for posting. Just so much I wanted to comment on as I read the article:

1) Romney is admitting he was a lying huckster that was just pretending he was a conservative! (think about it).

2) Romney is a terrible politician. Rich enough to buy a Governor’s mansion (think of all the terrible politicians with giant bankrolls who are Senators and Governors), but not good enough to win the Presidency.

3) How do I know Romney is a terrible politician?

a) Last campaign he outspent everyone and lost to a geriatric that was no-one I knows first choice.

b) He can’t read the “times.” The times are more conservative and more populist than any I can remember since Carter. Yet Romney is planning to run to the left and as an elitist Mr. Fix-it. “I’m smarter than the other elitist Mr. Fixits like Paulson and Bernacke . . .”

4) He wants to ignore conservatives, the South, and Christians and win the Republican nomination. And he wants us to think he’s smart . . .

5) He won Florida last nomination. Not this time. That’s a pledge. I’ll work my tail off against this guy.


18 posted on 02/11/2010 3:31:10 AM PST by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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To: Diogenesis

0 votes for Romney when his campaign is not operational. Watch the return of the paid shills to FR when the campaign is in full swing.


19 posted on 02/11/2010 3:34:03 AM PST by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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I agree with everything but for point 5.

Didn’t McLame score a killing win in the Florida primary?


20 posted on 02/11/2010 3:39:06 AM PST by Yossarian
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