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Re: What is Wrong with This Guy? (Guy = Romney)
National Review Online - The Corner ^ | February 1, 2012 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/01/2012 9:21:03 AM PST by C19fan

Jonah, I agree with you on the general tin-ear of Romney. He’s extremely un-nimble on the stump, which means that Republicans will be gambling that he can be sufficiently insulated and managed across the finish line without offering up any campaign-detonating hostage to fortune.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; nationalreview; romney; steyn
Steyn gets to the truth about Romney.
1 posted on 02/01/2012 9:21:05 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Spot on, Mark.

And the description of Myth’s stump speech as “...the most Americanly American America that any American has ever Americanized over...” is classic.


2 posted on 02/01/2012 9:29:20 AM PST by newheart (What this country needs is a good dose of bran. Attack Muffins Unite!)
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To: C19fan
He’s extremely un-nimble on the stump, which means that Republicans will be gambling that he can be sufficiently insulated and managed across the finish line without offering up any campaign-detonating hostage to fortune.

Remind you of anyone?

3 posted on 02/01/2012 9:31:45 AM PST by Thane_Banquo
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To: C19fan

Why would one vote for weathervane RINOmney when they can vote for the Obamaloon and get the full-fledged socialist?

After all, the only diff between the vapid dork and the Cretin-in-Chief is that the dork will take just a bit longer to come to the incorrect conclusion.


4 posted on 02/01/2012 9:33:55 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan
Steyn gets to the truth about Romney.

Steyn needs to use that copy as an audio YouTube link so we can hear it delivered in his inimitable style. Such clarity of thought in such a short space with multiple opportunities for expanding his thoughts to really nail Romney. Any RomneyBot's support should wither in light of how he is exposed in just this small article on a single subject. He is rapidly approaching Gore and Kerry on the clueless and wooden measurement scales.

5 posted on 02/01/2012 9:36:02 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: C19fan

If Romney ends up being the Republican nominee (NOT the Tea Party nominee or the conservative nominee), the campaign between he and Obama will be something akin to a debate between Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.

Take your pick as to which is which.

Also, if Romney is the nominee, IMO, zero gets a second term because not that many people will go out to vote for him.


6 posted on 02/01/2012 9:54:42 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: T-Bird45

With romney as the nominee we will slowly bleed to death to up to the 2012 election.


7 posted on 02/01/2012 9:55:03 AM PST by Josa
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To: C19fan

So they worked OT to sideline Palin for her so-called lack of intellect. Now they are stuck with a bumbling thurston howell iii caricature. LOL!


8 posted on 02/01/2012 10:04:48 AM PST by nhwingut (Sarah Palin 12... No One Else (Maybe Tim Thomas))
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To: C19fan

Maybe now Mark will stop bashing Newt night and day.


9 posted on 02/01/2012 10:41:50 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: newheart

Darn, you beat me to it. Luv Stein.


10 posted on 02/01/2012 11:19:58 AM PST by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: C19fan

Romney is the anti-Reagan.

Ronald Reagan would have never made such a stupid statement because Reagan, unlike the statist Romney, did not believe in a permanent underclass that must forever be consigned to a “safety net”.

That’s is the patrician view that has marked progressive elitists forever.

Ronald Reagan would have spoken about expanding opportunity to allow those people to rise up out of poverty.


11 posted on 02/01/2012 11:27:10 AM PST by Yankee (ANNOY THE RNC AND THE MEDIA: NOMINATE NEWT GINGRICH!)
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To: C19fan
Gee, could this be the problem?
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12 posted on 02/01/2012 11:30:20 AM PST by Dick Bachert (Obozo deserves another term: IN LEAVENWORTH. 25 to life sounds about right!)
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To: C19fan

It’s a little late for the “smart” conservatives to wake up to the empty suit that is Romney and the GOP.

They emboldened Mittens and the Rinos to carpet bomb the conservative movement. Who is going to vote for him beyond the “GOP Proud” pup tent and the elitists who switched from Bammy? Gross.


13 posted on 02/01/2012 5:13:05 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: C19fan
Thanks for posting this. I've seen a number of threads where FReepers seem to be laboring under the impression that Steyn is pro-Romney.

Steyn is pro any conservative willing to address this country's ever more massive fiscal problems, and has been harsh on any and all candidates trying to evade these realities.

King Mitten hasn't uttered one statement in this entire campaign that made me believe that he has any grasp of these problems. Yes, he comes off as a "moderate": a moderate Democrat.

14 posted on 02/02/2012 9:32:23 AM PST by mojito
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