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Romney on ‘O’Reilly’: Obama is not a socialist
The Washington Post ^ | 2011-12-20 | Erik Wemple

Posted on 12/20/2011 3:58:58 PM PST by rabscuttle385

Edited on 12/20/2011 7:37:06 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

O’Reilly: Is he a socialist?

Romney: You know, I prefer to use the term that he’s just over his head.

O’Reilly: Yeah, but you got to look at his economic plan. An economic plan that’s top down, federal leadership, getting us out of the recession--- he spent trillions of dollars on that. And people say, Listen, the guy’s a socialist — it’s class warfare that’s what he’s gonna wage against you if you get the nomination: You’re a rich guy, you’re out of touch. Is he a socialist?


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To: TheConservativeParty
He’s too weak to even say “socialist”!
McLame was to weak to say “Hussein”.

Democrat-Lite is nowhere near what voters are seeking. Ann Coulter, Karl Rove and the National Review are inadvertently attempting to give Obama a second term. So much for the "supposed" intellectuals. Sunday shows and fake news interviews have become nothing more than blatant liberal campaigning for the "preferred" candidate.

51 posted on 12/20/2011 5:13:54 PM PST by MamaDearest
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To: yarddog
...distinction between Socialist and Communist but Obama is the one which is worse...

Just combine them.... zer0 is an Obamunist.

52 posted on 12/20/2011 5:15:29 PM PST by C210N (Dems: "We must tax you so that we can buy our votes")
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To: rabscuttle385

I’ve never liked Romney. When the government-controlled death panels (state-run healthcare) debate raged, Romney could have helped his career and won many conservative hearts by pointing to the failure of MA’s failed state-run medical system. Instead, he said they were both good ideas.

When McCain and Hackaberry colluded to bump Romney out of the primaries, I felt just a wee bit sorry for Romney.

Now every time he opens his mouth, I dislike him more and more. I don’t quite dislike him as much as I do McCain, but he’s working on it.


53 posted on 12/20/2011 5:23:53 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival. (Karl Denninger has jumped the shark. Do not visit his blog.))
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To: rabscuttle385

BO is a dope. I’m not sure why Romney sat down with this fool.


54 posted on 12/20/2011 5:29:31 PM PST by maineman (BC EAGLES FAN)
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To: rabscuttle385

It pains me to agree with mittens, BO isn’t a socialist.

He’s a Marxist.


55 posted on 12/20/2011 5:35:29 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Mitt doesn’t want to call Obama a socialist because that would make Mitt a socialist also...which he is.


56 posted on 12/20/2011 5:36:46 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: rabscuttle385
Mitt still can't answer a question but dances around it - just like the debates. What a big wuss - he doesn't want negative press - he wants to slide to home plate. He is the SAME as he described barry a big-government liberal Democrat.

NEWT - crush mitt once and for all!
57 posted on 12/20/2011 5:43:17 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: rabscuttle385

Mittens is an idiot. Only Ann Coulter would think he’s Presidential material, much, much less a conservative.


58 posted on 12/20/2011 5:47:53 PM PST by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: rabscuttle385

...he got McWuss syndrome, he can’t and will not call him what he is.....like McWuss wouldn’t say Hussein........typical spineless RINO


59 posted on 12/20/2011 5:49:20 PM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: rabscuttle385

This is a lot like when RINO Romney’s ideological soulmate, John McCain, said sweet things about Obama during the 2008 election.


60 posted on 12/20/2011 5:49:53 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: rabscuttle385

Newt: Obama’s a socialist.
Bachmann: Newt’s a socialist.
Romney: They’re just in over their head.
Huntsman: China is capitalist.
Paul: Iran’s a democracy.
Perry: I’m from Texas.
Cain: 9-9-9!
Santorum: Why am I not getting any questions?
Palin: I’ll never say never again.

“Gingrich recently gave an interview to NPR’s weekend version of the show All Things Considered . Here he takes a position that the Obama administration has created a “secular-socialist machine” that will destroy the country if the Republicans don’t stop it.”

http://mwcnews.net/focus/editorial/3357-newt-gingrich-calls-obama-a-socialist.html


61 posted on 12/20/2011 5:49:53 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Obama in 2012!)
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To: Doogle
I AGREE WITH THAT

It's all a crock... of Barack

Stop6
62 posted on 12/20/2011 5:53:03 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: Old Sarge

Can you imagine how weak he will be in that debate?

Mitt has no fire in his belly for this country - he’s a POS!
And I’m glad he’s exposing his wuss liberal self to the nation as he expects it to be handed to him like everything else in his life. He is NOT one of us but a silver spoon fed liberal.


63 posted on 12/20/2011 5:54:32 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Newt just appeared on O’Reilly and answered every question directly and turned it completely around. No way can Romney do this. Newt will be able to attract enthusiastic support, while Mitt would get—at best—lukewarm support and no enthusiasm.


64 posted on 12/20/2011 5:57:50 PM PST by CASchack
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To: rabscuttle385

Mitt keeeps making it harder, not easier, for us to support him. Sigh.

What’s next, a McCain-style declaration that “the country won’t be in danger if we re-elect Obama”?


65 posted on 12/20/2011 5:59:42 PM PST by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: maineman

Why because mitt refuses to answer a very legitimate question yet he wants to rule our country? I’d ask mitt the same and a lot more - am I a dope?

What is mitt going to challenge Barry on?


66 posted on 12/20/2011 6:03:08 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: rabscuttle385
A serious presidential candidate would probably want to sidestep questions like that.

But for a lot of people now, calling Obama a socialist is what it's all about, not winning the election.

Is Obama a socialist? Not in the classic sense of demanding public or state ownership of the means of production, but as classic socialism has withered, people come to see it in places where they wouldn't have during socialism's heyday.

Probably more Democrats are going to have connections that could be seen as "red" even as fewer people advocate what socialism actually meant for generations.

67 posted on 12/20/2011 6:03:46 PM PST by x
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To: denydenydeny
Mitt keeeps making it harder, not easier, for us to support him. Sigh.

Explain - who is 'us'.
68 posted on 12/20/2011 6:06:11 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: x
Is Obama a socialist? Not in the classic sense ...

He only just begun with big giant steps - surely, you are aware of that. In dec of '12 - you will eat those weasel words.
69 posted on 12/20/2011 6:09:21 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Willard will never get anything from me, save my utter contempt.


70 posted on 12/20/2011 6:12:33 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: rabscuttle385

If I were a famous American with an 80% approval rating by the public and knew the presidency was mine just for the taking.

I would refuse it.

Being elected after Obama is very much like being made Captain of the Titanic half an hour after it struck the iceberg, or maybe General Paulus being made Field Marshal after he was surrounded by huge numbers of well provisioned Russians in Stalingrad with no hope of being resupplied or evacuated.

Maybe a better example would be being made King of the Persians just before the battle of Arbela.


71 posted on 12/20/2011 6:15:27 PM PST by yarddog
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To: rabscuttle385
Romney: Uh, you know, I consider him a big-government liberal Democrat.

Mittens your a big government liberal Republican who wouldn't recognize a Socialist until he stole all your money. FUMR

72 posted on 12/20/2011 6:15:57 PM PST by A message
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To: rabscuttle385
Romney: Uh, you know, I consider him a big-government liberal Democrat.

That's a Socialist.

(And so is Romeny.)

73 posted on 12/20/2011 6:16:48 PM PST by Semper Mark (Pray. Vote. Buy ammo.)
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Get the Hell out of the way, Romney!


74 posted on 12/20/2011 6:21:49 PM PST by Gene Eric (Save a pretzel for the gas jets.)
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To: Markos33
Romeny = Romney (even though he doesn't rate having his surname spelled correctly.)
75 posted on 12/20/2011 6:22:10 PM PST by Semper Mark (Pray. Vote. Buy ammo.)
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To: CASchack
Newt just appeared on O’Reilly and answered every question directly and turned it completely around. No way can Romney do this. Newt will be able to attract enthusiastic support, while Mitt would get—at best—lukewarm support and no enthusiasm.

Mitt is simply a younger version of McCain. The GOP elites are more interested in being listened to than the future of this country. Gingrich doesn't listen to them and it annoys them greatly. Coulter, Barnes, Crystal, Will, et. al. are lazy. It's easier to find fault with an administration than to support one. It's also much more profitable.

76 posted on 12/20/2011 6:26:42 PM PST by blake6900
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To: rabscuttle385

Perhaps is that the Church of LDS has a lot in common with the church of Black Liberation Theology?


77 posted on 12/20/2011 6:35:04 PM PST by Segovia
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To: hinckley buzzard

Socialism is the gateway to Communism. Socialism is Communism lite, which eventually transforms to Communism.


78 posted on 12/20/2011 6:36:43 PM PST by takenoprisoner (Constitutional Conservatism is Americanism.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Obama is a marxist - Mitt is a socialist. If Mitt get the nomination, God save us...


79 posted on 12/20/2011 6:43:13 PM PST by KeatsforFirstDog
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To: rabscuttle385

FMR, I saw him on O’Reilly and addressed it earlier today here on FR but I will do it again. He’s a sissy a$$ and the last thing we want is him debating the Marxist Kenyan Barry Hussein Soetoro. Newt had the guts to call him an Alinsky radical at the last debate, I think Newt was being kind, but Romney, off the charts on the sissy meter. There would be no debate between Romney and Barry, the Marxist usurper would crush him and Mittens the dog abuser would just smile and take it. NO NO and NO!

I don’t want a repeat of 2008. McPain was Barry’s biggest campaigner. He handed that election to the usurper on a silver platter. I detested McCain then, but I detest him 100 times more now. It was at this moment(see video link below) that I realized once and for all, he had no intention or desire to win that election and was actually helping Hussein. Then he held Sarah back and wouldn’t let her get down and dirty on Barry the Kenyan Marxist, and it was over then.

McCain telling people they don’t have to be afraid of him and how decent he is. FUJM and FUMR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrnRU3ocIH4


80 posted on 12/20/2011 6:57:05 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: RobertClark
Roses are red Violets are blue Obama’s a socialist Marxist and Romney is too. There, fixed it.
81 posted on 12/20/2011 7:00:47 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: rabscuttle385
Obama is not a socialist

And And Romney is not McDole warmed over.

82 posted on 12/20/2011 7:01:14 PM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's "Economics In One Lesson.")
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To: Roy Baty; onyx; TheOldLady

Aw aw, you are treading on dangerous ground supporting Mittens the dog abuser on this forum.


83 posted on 12/20/2011 7:02:30 PM PST by mojitojoe (SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
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To: KeatsforFirstDog
"Obama is a marxist - Mitt is a socialist."

I totally agree.
And If Jeb Bush enters the race I'd like to be the first to say I'll stay home and let the Marxists win.

84 posted on 12/20/2011 7:02:41 PM PST by ME-262 (We need Term Limits for the federal house and senate. We need new Bums up there.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Romney never misses a chance to disappoint.


85 posted on 12/20/2011 7:13:33 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: presently no screen name
Explain - who is 'us'.

Us = Conservatives who vote in Republican primaries.

Not exactly sure why this rather innocuous statement (Romney makes it hard for conservatives to support him) should put a bug up your ass.

86 posted on 12/20/2011 7:18:28 PM PST by denydenydeny (The more a system is all about equality in theory the more it's an aristocracy in practice.)
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To: americanophile

If one reads your home page they might think someone has hijacked your screen name.


87 posted on 12/20/2011 7:18:58 PM PST by itsahoot (Throw them all out! Especially the Frugal Socialists who call themselves Republicans.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Actually, I think the proper term for Obama would be a fascist.

Fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

That sounds pretty much like him:

Yup, that sounds like Obama...

88 posted on 12/20/2011 7:23:53 PM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: CincyRichieRich

Bachman can win all we have to do is Vote for Her....


89 posted on 12/20/2011 7:35:38 PM PST by LtKerst (Lt Kerst)
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To: rabscuttle385

How could anyone vote for a politician as weak as this?

If he cannot even bring himself to tell the truth about Obama’s political notions, then what use is Romney to any free man?

Never would anyone so weak get my vote for it is obvious that he would not fight, and only surrender more of our ground to the left, and we can afford to lose precious little of what remains of that.


90 posted on 12/20/2011 7:37:05 PM PST by wistful
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To: mojitojoe

Oh no! I see some others applauding Romney’s restraint. Geeez.


91 posted on 12/20/2011 7:42:26 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC:DONATE MONTHLY! Sarah's New Ping List - tell me if you want on it.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

I can see Mitt endorsing Obama if he doesn’t get the nomination. That whole birds of a feather thing....

Oh, and nice job on Letterman Mittens — what a clown!


92 posted on 12/20/2011 8:01:03 PM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: rabscuttle385

“Obama is not a socialist...”

...and O’Reilly is not an idiot.

I think this pretty well covers it.


93 posted on 12/20/2011 8:09:14 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Santorum..., are you giving it some thought? I knew you would.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Dr Paul MD will whip Romney like a red headed step child in 3 weeks and then we will see who the socialists are.


94 posted on 12/20/2011 8:21:43 PM PST by Ardenroad gal
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To: rabscuttle385

There’s nothing worse than seeing “conservative” 0bama apologist O’Reilly try to mix it up with Mr. RINO-care. They tip-toe around the fact that 0bama sucks but they’re scared to death of saying something that will trip up their agendas and contradict past 0bama minimizing and rationalizing. These guys are both total clowns.


95 posted on 12/20/2011 8:23:56 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Liberalism is a social disease.)
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To: jonrick46

Mitt knows ducks well. He is willing to attack Conservatives, but not Obama — Could it be that Romney’s ducks look just like Barry’s?


96 posted on 12/20/2011 8:32:18 PM PST by womanvet (The lesser of 2 evils is Romney. TR: No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency)
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To: MaxMax

McCain did not lose the election because he was considered a moderate. He lost because he was a BAD choice to go against the cool & hip persona of OBAMA. Not realizing that same comparison between Newt and Obama is a huge oversight. You give the average voter much more credit for voting “policy” than is warranted. They are not analyzing policy as you do here. Unfortunate, but in this culture, that’s the way it is. There are just too many uninformeds and stupids who will pull the lever for O again, unless they at the very least, have a likeable candidate to otherwise vote for. That would not be Newt.


97 posted on 12/20/2011 8:38:23 PM PST by adc
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To: svcw

It’s a mormon thing.


98 posted on 12/20/2011 8:54:23 PM PST by madmaximus (Anyone But Robamney.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Obama is a communist, and Mitt is a Rockefeller Repuke Country-clubbing Ann-the-tranny-Coulter inside-the-beltway DC RINO National Socialist.

FUMR!!!


99 posted on 12/20/2011 8:58:34 PM PST by madmaximus (Anyone But Robamney.)
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To: jonrick46

Come on Mitt! Use your head!
__________________________________

LEAVE THE HAIR ALONE !!!

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!


100 posted on 12/20/2011 9:06:02 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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