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Steyn Online ^ | 25 Oct 2018 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/27/2018 7:21:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan

Me yesterday:

I shall hold off further comment until more facts are known.

No such circumspection stayed Utah Senate candidate Mitt Romney, who reacted instantly to the "suspicious packages" mailed to the Clintons, Obama, George Soros, CNN and others, and weighed in with boundless confidence:

Hate acts follow hate speech. It is past time for us to turn down and tune out the rabid rhetoric.

This is a nitwit statement even by Mitt's recent standards, and doubtless a preview of the role he intends to play in the Senate. It is also an object lesson in the perils of Tweet-speed insight. "Moderate" "reasonable" "centrists", like all other politicians, should take a deep breath and be mindful of the old adage: Don't just say something, stand there.

"Hate speech" is not a notion a supposedly "severe conservative" (as Mitt once styled himself) would sign on to. "Hate speech" is free speech - because the concept of free speech exists for the speech you hate. In the modern world, "hate speech" is the enforcement arm of identity politics: Once an approved victim group is designated - Muslims, transgenders - "hate speech" is a pseudo-legal concept for shutting people up: Unpersuaded by the benefits of mass Muslim immigration? Concerned that seven-year-olds should not be hustled into "transitioning"? Hate speech, hate speech, hate speech...

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1 posted on 10/27/2018 7:21:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan
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Once a Deep State Never Trumper, always a DS Never Trumper.


2 posted on 10/27/2018 7:31:23 AM PDT by iontheball
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Romney proves unreliable when it counts.

We shall have to put up with him as a senator now, and likely, for the next 18 years. He will be 88 then.

It is hard to believe he is such a reliably Progressive idiot.

Maybe President Trump will be able to transplant some spine and testicular fortitude.

3 posted on 10/27/2018 7:32:28 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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You would think Romnuts would get tired being so wrong so often?
Hmmm..wonder how they maintain power?


4 posted on 10/27/2018 7:34:09 AM PDT by Leep (A)
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"But Mitt took the bait and revealed, yet again, that he's a rube and a patsy and a pushover."
5 posted on 10/27/2018 7:34:52 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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"He totally raped me..!"

"They were LINED UP, taking turns..!"

6 posted on 10/27/2018 7:35:52 AM PDT by gaijin
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Mittins still trying to figure out why he lost to bammy in 2012.


7 posted on 10/27/2018 7:35:59 AM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: Rummyfan

Milt sux.


8 posted on 10/27/2018 7:37:04 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Rummyfan
This is a nitwit statement even by Mitt's recent standards . . .

I didn't know that anything, no matter how stupid, could qualify as a nitwit statement by Mitt's standards. Romney must have smartened up recently if Mark Steyn's assessment is true.

9 posted on 10/27/2018 7:39:48 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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p38
10 posted on 10/27/2018 7:57:31 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Mark Steyn's usual witty, incisive take on things shines brightly in this article about the dim bulbs (like Repub-dem-dim Romney) trying to use this Florida nut and his pseudo-mail-bombs to tell President Trump and all conservatives to just shut up.

As Steyn points out, such stifling of free speech causes much more harm to ensue (e.g., the Saudi Saw Squad), and never works well in the long run.

(Thanks for posting.)

11 posted on 10/27/2018 7:58:06 AM PDT by Songcraft
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Here’s the quote that made me LOL:

“So, if the elites want more Trump, more Brexit, more populism, telling the masses to shut up pretty much ensures they’re going to get it.”

Nothing like the truth for humor.


12 posted on 10/27/2018 8:06:57 AM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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Flake’s replacement I see. Different state, but same flake.


13 posted on 10/27/2018 8:08:00 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Is that real???

Looks like a grocery store bag boy...


14 posted on 10/27/2018 8:19:47 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Ruth Bader Ginsburg doctor is a taxidermist.)
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15 posted on 10/27/2018 8:39:46 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Triggered)
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I have to admit Romney’s not the only politico I once throught was pretty decent. His throwing the 2012 election to the illegal immigrant in chief — cured me of that misapprehension.


16 posted on 10/27/2018 8:58:33 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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I have been SOOO enjoying John McCain’s death!

It has been so restfull to NOT have a dim-bulb “Republican” Senator that the Democrat Media could always count on to put his foot in his own mouth or attack his own party.

I am counting the days, however. I fully expect that when the preening-parakeet, Romney, enters the US Senate, he’s going to twitch once and McQueeg’s reincarnation will be complete.


17 posted on 10/27/2018 9:42:00 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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We would be better off without Romney.


18 posted on 10/27/2018 9:47:42 AM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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Romney must think he will get residuals for his performance in throwing the election for Barack. What a complete tool.


19 posted on 10/27/2018 9:51:43 AM PDT by Steamburg (Other people's money is the only language a politician respects; starve the bastards)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

When you wear the magic Mormon underwear, you gotta wear mom jeans to keep it from riding up.


20 posted on 10/27/2018 10:38:06 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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