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The Challenge Ahead for Romney-Ryan
Townhall.com ^ | August 12, 2012 | Carol Platt Liebau

Posted on 08/12/2012 4:55:37 PM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/12/2012 4:55:43 PM PDT by Kaslin
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I don’t get it. If Romney is such a liberal, why go to the lying, distorting, crazed lengths to which the press extends themselves while tottering on the brink of extinction?

Curious. If he’s as big a liberal as some of us say he is, they can’t lose.


2 posted on 08/12/2012 4:58:50 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Clamo, clamatis, omnes clamamus pro glace lactis." - Universal truth.)
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It's not a question of bringing Priebus up to speed ~ he engineered this Romney takeover ~ so he should have been prepared unless he has his mind in the clouds (of something) and believes this election can be won WITHOUT Social Conservatives, and through adroit use of negative advertising on cable TV.

Bwahahahahahahahahaaaa!

3 posted on 08/12/2012 5:02:24 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

You seem to express schadenfreude in you criticism of Priebus. Sort of like the scene where Slim Pickens triumphantly straddles the bomb as it plummets to the earth far below.

Obama is trying to destroy our country, and I take this as an attack against my family. My vote for Ryan will be personal, not political.

As another poster put it, a lame duck Obama is infinitely worse than a first term Romney.


4 posted on 08/12/2012 5:10:31 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: reasonisfaith
Take as personal as you want. How I vote is my business.

In this election if you believe as you believe, let me add this ~ both Romney and Obama pose an equal threat to our future.

5 posted on 08/12/2012 5:14:31 PM PDT by muawiyah
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Lame duck Obama has no limits. Think of a virulent anti-American in the White House with no limits.

First term Romney is at worst status quo, but more likely will mean at least partly a turnaround until Ryan can get in there.

Maybe Ryan/West in 2016 or 2020.


6 posted on 08/12/2012 5:21:58 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: reasonisfaith
BTW, I opposed the selection of Priebus as RNC Chairman the second his name was put forward. He's been in the bag with Romney since the beginning of time.

If they'd listened to me they'd gotten someone with a winner's attitude ~ not that of the lapdog we have running the RNC.

BTW, the last guy we had as Chairman presided over one of the greatest electoral victories in Republican history. Whatever he did, or didn't do, should be a guide to his successors. Alas, we had a whole lot of folks on FR and throughout the Conservative movement who thought Mike Steele was a loser ~ despite that victory.

Obviously MIke knew some things that Priebus hasn't learned yet else we wouldn't be in this mess where your great messianic, almost god-like (listen to the ads) figure has us running behind the Democrats a good 5 to 10 points almost everywhere.

Steele had 2010 wrapped up before August as I recall. The Democrats were going down hard, and they did go down hard.

This is different ~ we don't have a winner, or even someone who knows how to be a winner. The Democrats will pull out all the stops, lie their lips dry, and in the end ~ as both candidates lurch to the bottom of the popularity pile, they will do everything they can ~ lawful or unlawful ~ to seize the powers of government.

You guys aren't prepared for it.

7 posted on 08/12/2012 5:22:07 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
No they don't. They're not equal just similar in some political leanings or in Romneys case expediency.

Don't agree with Mitt except for his 15% financial conservatism but he is nothing like the Socialist spoiled brat that this country crapped out in 2008 and we now call Mr Present.

8 posted on 08/12/2012 5:22:49 PM PDT by liberty or death
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To: muawiyah

Lame duck Obama has no limits. Think of a virulent anti-American in the White House with no limits.

First term Romney is at worst status quo, but more likely will mean at least partly a turnaround until Ryan can get in there.

Maybe Ryan/West in 2016 or 2020.


9 posted on 08/12/2012 5:22:58 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: muawiyah

“If they’d listened to me they’d gotten someone with a winner’s attitude”

So why a “winner’s attitude” then but a loser’s attitude now?


10 posted on 08/12/2012 5:24:34 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: liberty or death
Romney's record is the equal of Obama's in terms of evil and disrespect for standards of democratic self-government.

These guys are no different.

11 posted on 08/12/2012 5:25:00 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: reasonisfaith
You do understand I'm just the messenger. I didn't pick your loser ~ you picked him ~ or you let him slip in without resistance.

Nobody has to follow a loser.

12 posted on 08/12/2012 5:27:16 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

To equivocate Obama and Romney is political illiteracy.


13 posted on 08/12/2012 5:29:22 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
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To: rbmillerjr

To fail to notice that there’s no difference between these two is to be brain dead!


14 posted on 08/12/2012 5:30:27 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

“Nobody has to follow a loser.”

This is why I’m not following your message.


15 posted on 08/12/2012 5:34:07 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (Why do you seek the living among the dead? (Luke 24:5))
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To: jessduntno

I always like the idea of judging a person by his enemies.

If the left hates Romney, there has to be something to commend him.


16 posted on 08/12/2012 5:35:09 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: muawiyah

You can’t offer a serious argument that the two are the same.


17 posted on 08/12/2012 5:36:48 PM PDT by rbmillerjr (Conservative Economic and National Security Commentary: econus.blogspot.com)
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To: rbmillerjr

You are wasting your time.

These guys take it as a badge of honor that they hate Romney as much as they do Obama. It proves they are the “true conservatives”.

It matters not that any objective analysis would show significant differences between the two candidates. What matters is that their conservative bonafides remain in tact.

That way they can maintain their air of superiority over those of us who may not be Romney fans but are realistic enough to see that four more years of Obama damage may not leave much of a country left to save.


18 posted on 08/12/2012 5:38:40 PM PDT by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: reasonisfaith
At the moment I'm not running for anything and I don't need followers.

On the other hand the Republicans owe me and 55 million other voters a decent candidate who can win.

They haven't delivered the goods.

19 posted on 08/12/2012 5:38:43 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Persevero

The problem is the right hates Romney too.


20 posted on 08/12/2012 5:39:25 PM PDT by colorcountry (The gospel will transform our politics, not vice versa (Romans 12:1,2))
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