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Romney’s campaign consultants were incompetent, in it for the money
Conservatives4Palin ^ | November 10 2012 | Doug Brady

Posted on 11/10/2012 8:12:14 PM PST by Bratch

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This mentions Governor Palin but you could carry the main point over to just about any movement conservative, IMO.

Bottom line, the consultants want a non-partisan candidate whom they can maneuver in whatever direction their endless polls and focus groups take them.

1 posted on 11/10/2012 8:12:28 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch

I hope those Judases enjoy their pieces of silver while they can.

Sickening that they’d bet against the country.


2 posted on 11/10/2012 8:15:04 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Bratch

I guess the fact that Mitt was not the candidate that most conservatives wanted had noting to do with it.


3 posted on 11/10/2012 8:19:21 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Bratch

well he could not be called Willard the Wise thats for sure...

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways..James 1:8


4 posted on 11/10/2012 8:23:43 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Bratch

Palin is on my side. I am damn sick of paying a monthly check to a fat bitch wo breeds more fat bitches. I have worked in Atlanta and their whole life is to get your money. I was in a town where the whole black inhabitants were hanging out. I asked if it was a holiday. I got laughed at . Anyone that supports this welfare system is out of their mind. I will take you there. Drinking every day. They do not work. Ever. They breed.


5 posted on 11/10/2012 8:24:44 PM PST by mirkwood (let it burn)
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To: Shadow44
well I 'm guilty of supporting the Romney campaign...I thought he did a pretty good job...

remember, there was unquestionable fraud...in many areas...even Colorado...

so where do we begin criticizing when we don't even know if Romney actually lost?....

solve that question, they we can critique,,,

6 posted on 11/10/2012 8:26:59 PM PST by cherry
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One of Romney’s self-touted selling points has been his great managerial ability. Shouldn’t a good business manager know when he’s being fleeced for a colossal amount of money by a bunch of high priced grifters? A rhetorical question, I know.

This is a good question, and it's not a rhetorical one, either. It's not terribly relevant in this case because in a political campaign, the candidate is not the business manager.

Having said that, I just had a wild thought that the GOP missed a golden opportunity to put together a game plan for 2012 that would have been unstoppable: Nominate a "movement conservative" (I'll use Sarah Palin as an example only because the author uses her in this piece) to go up against Obama, and have Romney manage the financial and organizational aspects of the campaign while the "professionals" run the political side of things.

Just a wild thought here ...

7 posted on 11/10/2012 8:33:18 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: cherry

I gave him money and supported him too. And these allegations infuriate me because I find the idea of him surrounded by backstabbers while people like us are working hard to save our country disgusting.

I believe there was fraud committed, but at the same time Romney seemed to have had his campaign full of consultants who were victims of groupthink and not fully in it to win it.


8 posted on 11/10/2012 8:34:35 PM PST by Shadow44
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To: Bratch; Grampa Dave; tubebender; Carry_Okie; NormsRevenge; ElkGroveDan; ScottinSacto; ...
Your bottom line and this article are precisely correct!!!

I too have been thinking but not wanting to believe this, hoping against hope it wasn't true.

The LOVE of money (not the money itself) is the root of all evil. (and you can look that up!)

Wealthy people don't like to contribute to grassroots campaigns without a political consultant in control so the candidate won't lose control and the peons be havin big parties and barbeeques with their contributions.

They generally don't trust righteous conservative candidates or populist candidates unless a political pro has a short leash on the campaign treasurer.

They're also afraid of being turned on by the conservative candidate after elected should righteous principles in public policy become involved if you know what I mean!!!

9 posted on 11/10/2012 8:35:35 PM PST by SierraWasp (Welcome to the next 50 months of an unprecedebted lame duck session!!!)
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To: Alberta's Child
"This is a good question, and it's not a rhetorical one, either."

The smarter and richer one is, the more challenging and easier to fool they are as a "mark!"

They've become so successful and powerful and over confident that these types can be had easier that some on the lower end of the spectrum that still use common sense (like righteous conservatives who more uncertain and lean on a higher power)!!!

I agree with Rush that Romney is a good human being and would never deliberately hurt a fly. Sometimes, as another good man like Reagan proved, you had to be more assertive and although trying to trust... You had to verify!!!

10 posted on 11/10/2012 8:47:44 PM PST by SierraWasp (Welcome to the next 50 months of an unprecedebted lame duck session!!!)
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To: Bratch

Explains it all, good work


11 posted on 11/10/2012 8:51:49 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY)
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To: doc1019

Who could have beaten this juggernaut - this amalgam of racists, liars, media, illegals, takers, idiots, and on and on and on?

If you confront them you’re demonized as mean, if you play nice you’re portrayed as weak, if you state the hard cold facts the media ignores you, if you make the case for jobs the lazy takers are outraged, if you expect women to behave like adult women and not mindless greedy miscreants whose only concern is their vaginas then you are against women.

When you’ve got the media you’ve got everything.


12 posted on 11/10/2012 8:54:01 PM PST by Aria ( 2008 wasn't an election - it was a coup d'etat.)
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To: SierraWasp

Anybody can be a Monday Morning Quarterback...


13 posted on 11/10/2012 9:02:08 PM PST by tubebender (Evening news is where they begin with "Good Evening," and then proceed to tell you why it isn't.)
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True, but as I said I was not wanting to believe he was being fleeced by greedy consultants. Now it sadly looks more and more like that may have been the case.

Besides, since he lost on Tuesday and this is Saturday and all the Monday morning quarterbacks will be on TV on Sunday morning... You can't possible mean that I'm one of those, right??? (grin)

14 posted on 11/10/2012 9:10:19 PM PST by SierraWasp (Welcome to the next 50 months of an unprecedebted lame duck session!!!)
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To: Bratch

I voted for Romney. I’m not trolling here; but if all this is true about Romney’s team, while Obama’s team effectively got out the vote, can there be any other conclusion than the Dems seem a whole lot smarter than the Reps?

BTW if all the charges of fraud are also true, it appears the Dems outsmarted the pure-as-the-driven-snow, child-like Republicans in fraud as well.


15 posted on 11/10/2012 9:10:45 PM PST by cydcharisse (`)
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To: Bratch

Yep — Mitt got conned as he was conning us —


16 posted on 11/10/2012 9:15:50 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip

Reagan didn’t need no stinking consultants.


17 posted on 11/10/2012 9:16:32 PM PST by dfwgator
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Someone should send this article to Mitt.

He's probably still shaking his head trying to figure out what happened to him mumbling things like "but Rove said ..." and "ORCA ... what happened to ORCA???" -- as he writes another check.

18 posted on 11/10/2012 9:27:51 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: cydcharisse
The Dems probably had an easier time getting local support lined up anyhow. Since when is boring old conservative or even moderate wisdom as glamorous as Forward!TM?
19 posted on 11/10/2012 9:32:24 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: Bratch

Reminds me of Saddam’s “Yes Men” in Baghdad on the eve of the American Invasion on March 17, 2003.


20 posted on 11/10/2012 9:43:46 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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