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As Democrats avoid Obama, Romney is in demand on the midterm campaign trail (VIDEO)
Washington Post ^
| August 2 2014
| Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Posted on 08/03/2014 11:24:35 AM PDT by PoloSec
President Obama thumped Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, but now their political standings seem reversed. During a summer in which Democratic candidates are keeping their distance from an unpopular president, Romney is emerging as one of the Republican Partys most in-demand campaign surrogates.
Over three days in mid-August, Romney will campaign for GOP Senate and gubernatorial candidates in West Virginia, North Carolina and Arkansas, aides said. In September, he is planning visits to the presidential swing states of Colorado and Virginia.
Romney is filling up his October schedule, as well. Senate hopefuls in Iowa and New Hampshire are eager for him to return before Novembers midterms, while Romney is weighing trips to other Senate battlegrounds. At least one high-profile Senate campaign said it has produced a television advertisement featuring Romney ready to air in the fall.
Democrats dont want to be associated with Barack Obama right now, but Republicans are dying to be associated with Mitt Romney, said Spencer Zwick, a longtime Romney confidant who chaired his national finance council. He added: Candidates, campaigns and donors in competitive races are calling saying, Can we get Mitt here? They say, Weve looked at the polling, and Mitt Romney moves the needle for us. Thats somewhat unexpected for someone who lost the election.
For a party without a consensus leader nor a popular elder statesman like Democratic former president Bill Clinton Romney is stepping forward in both red and blue states to fill that role for the GOP.
Theres a pretty big void in the party right now for national leaders, and Romneys in a unique position, having been around the track, to help fill that void, said Scott Reed, a veteran GOP strategist who oversees the U.S. Chamber of Commerces political operation.
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MSM beginning to push Romney, it will become more intense...
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:24:35 AM PDT
by
PoloSec
To: PoloSec
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:25:39 AM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: PoloSec
YOU ARE THERE
THE IMPOSITION OF OBAMACARE/ROMNEYCARE
AND DEATH PANELS BY MYTH ROMNEY,
THE SWIMMER AND THEIR TRAINED (INCARCERTED, TESTIFYING) FELON.
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:26:06 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: PoloSec
Oh boy. The GOPe Freepers must be ecstatic.
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:28:40 AM PDT
by
deadrock
(I am someone else.)
To: PoloSec
Oh, joy - just what we need - Obama lite, and his RINO freak show. Go away Mitt. You are more deadly than a swig of hemlock.
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:29:02 AM PDT
by
WTFOVR
(I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
To: PoloSec
This shows the bankruptcy of the Republican Party.
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:34:32 AM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
To: Diogenesis
Braying jacka** Ma**holes! Close your mouth Willard, you’re drawing flies.
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08/03/2014 11:39:25 AM PDT
by
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:39:57 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: PoloSec
Romney is NOT in demand. So the MSM wants to push the LOSER because they know
what happened the last time, people stayed home and let the RATs win.
Why not rinse and repeat, it worked last time.
Get lost Romney!
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:40:13 AM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
To: PoloSec
To: PoloSec
To: PoloSec
Romney might make a decent "almost President." Let him travel with future Congressmen to remind people of how a President should comport himself, of what skill looks like.
Mind you, I'm not suggesting that Romney run again. I'm just suggesting that he makes a stark contrast from Obama in people's minds of what a President should be.
-PJ
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:47:20 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: PoloSec
More likely it's the GOP-E backroom boys who're falling back on Plan C after Christie crashed and burned, and then JEB went no where.
Rove and company all have the NYTs, Wapo, LATimes, etc. staff writers and opinion columnists on speed dial.
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:54:35 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: PoloSec
Romney on demand? Who’s demanding this? Obama, the left?
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posted on
08/03/2014 11:57:44 AM PDT
by
Linda Frances
(Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
To: PoloSec
Romney, Clintoon, Obama... Little difference..
Bush had a slight difference hard to see though..
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posted on
08/03/2014 12:00:17 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: PoloSec
The GOP is dead, this confirms it.
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posted on
08/03/2014 12:00:24 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: PoloSec
Romney. Like a recurring rash.
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posted on
08/03/2014 12:02:53 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: hosepipe
Slavery.... the new normal...
Your vote is slave candy..
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posted on
08/03/2014 12:04:40 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: hosepipe
Get used to it..................
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posted on
08/03/2014 12:05:32 PM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
To: PoloSec
BIOYA GOPE
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posted on
08/03/2014 12:08:29 PM PDT
by
Caipirabob
(Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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