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Romney ticks off viable GOP candidates; excludes Trump, doesn’t mention Carson
Washington Times ^ | 9/30/15 | Stephen Dinan

Posted on 09/30/2015 11:06:08 AM PDT by jimbo123

Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney listed a half-dozen Republican candidates he said could qualify as mainstream conservatives his party could live with in a general election — and said he didn’t think Donald J. Trump was one of those.

Mr. Romney, a two-time candidate who was the party’s standard-bearer in 2012, ticked off New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and businesswoman Carly Fiorina as viable options.

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Mr. Romney did not mention retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who along with Mr. Trump and Ms. Fiorina has captured an anti-establishment sentiment within the GOP primary electorate.

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


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KEYWORDS: backstabberromney; bishopromneycare; gope; loserromney; mittens; rinoromney; rinoromneycare; rnc; romneycare4ever; romneycare4you; saboteurromney
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To: LTC.Ret

I was going to post the same thing until I saw yours.


21 posted on 09/30/2015 11:14:36 AM PDT by Amntn
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To: jimbo123

Mitt “LOSER” Romney GOPe / RINO approved candidates:

Chris Christie
John Kasich
Jeb Bush
Marco Rubio
Linda Graham
Carly Fiorina


22 posted on 09/30/2015 11:15:01 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (We must first defeat RINOs before we can even encounter a Democrat to fight)
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To: jimbo123

well that settles it then....


23 posted on 09/30/2015 11:15:11 AM PDT by rrrod (Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

He could have at least thrown in the former governor of New York, who is doing just as well as Lynsie Gram.

I don’t know, but I just have a little soft spot for New Yorkers. And “Governor of New York” just sounds muscular, what with TR and Nelson Rockefeller and Al Smith (who went on to help create the Empire State Building) and Charles Evan Hughes and Aver2ll Harriamann and Thomas Dewey (who almost defeated Truman.....lol).

I have a soft spot for South Carolina, also. But not for this homo from there now running for Prez.

I would think that Mitt would have more appropriately included Pataki over Gram.....


24 posted on 09/30/2015 11:15:33 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: jimbo123

Romney should know who the viable candidates are, because he was one, wasn’t he? Or, at least that is what the powers that be told us. Sorry, Mitt, go sit down and be quiet.


25 posted on 09/30/2015 11:16:03 AM PDT by euram
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To: ConservativeDude

Every time. I have fond memories of the great things President Dole accomplished and then President McCain built on.. But it was President Romney that really showed the wonders of what moderates could accomplish.


26 posted on 09/30/2015 11:16:22 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: jimbo123

Other than Democrat-Owned reporters, who’s asking your opinion, Mitt? We conservatives will think for ourselves this time. We haven’t yet reached the point where we have to ‘settle’ for another fake.


27 posted on 09/30/2015 11:16:49 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: Norm Lenhart

LOL!!!!


28 posted on 09/30/2015 11:17:00 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Norm Lenhart

Wait...you forgot the great second term of Bush, which was of course really Reagan’s fourth term!


29 posted on 09/30/2015 11:17:30 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: jimbo123
Wow...they're rolling out the big guns now...

(snicker)

30 posted on 09/30/2015 11:17:33 AM PDT by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the GOPee does not want you.)
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To: jimbo123
Mr. Romney said the rise of what he called “insurgent” candidates is a symbol of voters’ frustration with nothing getting done in Washington. The former one-term Massachusetts governor proposed changing the Senate’s filibuster rule, saying that when the Senate is controlled by a different party than the president, the filibuster should go away.

He said that elevates issues and lets voters see Congress working, and leaves the president a check on bills he doesn’t like.

“Let him veto them if he feels they’re not appropriate,” Mr. Romney said.

31 posted on 09/30/2015 11:17:35 AM PDT by Read Write Repeat (Not one convinced me they want the job yet)
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To: ConservativeDude

Pataki actually had a couple conservative moments in office so thats why he was excluded.


32 posted on 09/30/2015 11:17:45 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: jimbo123

Who asked him?


33 posted on 09/30/2015 11:18:19 AM PDT by HandyDandy (Don't make-up stuff. It just wastes everybody's time.)
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To: ConservativeDude

I was blinded by the glory ;)


34 posted on 09/30/2015 11:18:37 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Right!

You know, from a NY Republican, you can’t expect anything. So if you get something conservative, you just have to rejoice.

But a sitting Senator from South Carolina? We have every right to expect conservatism. But Linda is just pathetic....


35 posted on 09/30/2015 11:19:19 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: jimbo123

Jackass.


36 posted on 09/30/2015 11:19:47 AM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: ConservativeDude
Mr. Romney, a two-time candidate who was the party’s standard-bearer in 2012, ticked off New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and businesswoman Carly Fiorina as viable options.



NO...NO...a thousand times NO!!



errr...MAYBE??




37 posted on 09/30/2015 11:19:52 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough--the Low Information President Obie from Nairobi goes golfing/fundraising)
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To: jimbo123

Are all Mormon Bishops, like Mr. RomneyCARE,
also racist against black American physicians??


38 posted on 09/30/2015 11:21:44 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: jimbo123

Trump response: “Mitt who? THAT loser? You want to take direction from a loser?”


39 posted on 09/30/2015 11:22:09 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi (NOPe to GOPe)
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To: jimbo123

40 posted on 09/30/2015 11:22:49 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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