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1 posted on 05/22/2012 2:54:25 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem

No ROMNEY. NO RomneyCARE.

NO MORE ROMNEY LIES.

NO MORE ROMNEY OVERRIDE OF CONSTITUTIONS.

NO MORE RINOS.


2 posted on 05/22/2012 2:58:02 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: neverdem

Nope. Not voting for evil.


3 posted on 05/22/2012 2:58:48 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (If you like lying Socialist dirtbags, you'll love Slick Willard)
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To: neverdem

I don’t see it as voting for a Republican. I see it as voting for the lesser of two Democrats. And the Democrats saddled us with McCain in 2008 as well.

With no Democrat challenger, we again got Democrat crossover voters mucking about with the process of REPUBLICANS determining their candidate.

I live in Texas where the past umpteen election cycles have provided me only Democrat and undeclared Democrat candidates for Governor (or “former” Democrats who were Dem through the years of Reagan and Bush).

I absolutely will vote against Obama in 2012.


4 posted on 05/22/2012 2:58:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama has cut and run from what he called "the right war".)
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To: neverdem
<"Supporting Romney as the only alternative to Obama doesn’t mean that conservatives have to spend the summer and fall defending Romneycare to their friends or making excuses about his history of flipflops to their neighbors."

This is the first time the Republican party will have a nominee who's impossible to defend. I watched some of Hannity's show last week, and I marveled at the fact that he never promoted Romney's record or accomplishments......instead, he concentrated on Obama's villainy. How in the world can a presidential campaign be won with the sentiment, "Hey, at least I'm not the other guy!"

5 posted on 05/22/2012 3:04:08 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: neverdem
Nope. Mitt? Never!

The author should spend his time and effort to endeavor to dump Mitt and get a small-gvernment traditional values candidate.

6 posted on 05/22/2012 3:04:30 PM PDT by donna (The fruits of Feminism: Angry fathers, bitter mothers, fat kids and political correctness.)
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To: neverdem

Mr Romney... night and day we will focus on 2016. You may have pulled this one off, but I will personally, doggedly primary a true conservative against you, if you win. If 2012 does not dissolve the GOP-e, then I will do my level best to gather around me those who will dissolve it in 2016. Do not rest on your nomination, we will never surrender and we will never give in.


10 posted on 05/22/2012 3:10:02 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: neverdem

The author asserts that Obama will be far worse that Romney. I have to say I disagree. On the issues that matter to me, there is almost NO decernable difference between the two. To me, they are both socialist intent on bringing big government, nanny state control to America and in the process distroy the America I know and love.

I will not vote for either socialist.


11 posted on 05/22/2012 3:13:19 PM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: neverdem

For Americans, this will be the first time in our history that they have ever voted for a man who thinks he is becoming a God, and who will become an actual deity to be worshiped by his subjects, in his own heaven.


12 posted on 05/22/2012 3:13:19 PM PDT by ansel12 ( The first American vote for a man who believes that he will become literally God, an actual deity.)
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To: neverdem
Ironically, one of the most frustrating aspects of Romney’s character — a calculating political nature that has enabled him to effortlessly reverse prior statements and positions — could prove essential to conservative efforts to pressure him into doing the right thing.

Huh? Conservative efforts may be able to pressure him into saying the right thing (sort of -- he doesn't seem to know what conservatism is) . . . "doing" is another story!

13 posted on 05/22/2012 3:16:24 PM PDT by maryz
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To: neverdem
Ironically, one of the most frustrating aspects of Romney’s character — a calculating political nature that has enabled him to effortlessly reverse prior statements and positions — could prove essential to conservative efforts to pressure him into doing the right thing.

Critics of Romney who argue that he’s really a liberal and boosters who claim that he’s a true conservative both err by attempting to understand Romney through an ideological prism. In reality, he’s a businessman who wants to apply his well-honed management skills to the public sector. If one is to be successful in the business world, the important thing is to satisfy customers and maximize profits.

This is pretty much what I've been saying all along. The Romney-haters on this site insist that he's a genuine, ideological leftist. This is foolish. Romney gets along by going along. It is up to us to make sure that it is conservatism with which he finds himself going along.

We need to get Romney elected, get genuine conservatives elected to as many other offices as possible, and then start a morning-in-America nationwide conservative revival along the lines of the big tent, small government, free enterprise, fiscally conservative tea party movement agenda.

We conservatives have a lot of good young prospects coming up through the ranks. It is a tragedy that none were ready to assume the mantle this year but that's how it goes. We work with what we have now and set ourselves for steady progress over the longer term.

Start where you are.
Use what you've got.
Do what you can.

This is the way of success.

14 posted on 05/22/2012 3:21:09 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: neverdem

This whole campaign season is rather novel for me. If I turn on the news and there’s a Crossfire-style segment with pundits representing Obama versus Romney, I turn it off. If I click on to talk-radio and the discussion is defending Romney, I click it off. I see Romney giving a speech on tv, I turn it off just like I turn off Obama’s. This is a total reversal for me, after three decades as a political junkie.

During election cycles I’ve always had someone to root for each time, but this time, I can’t get myself the least bit invested in the proceedings. It all seems so pointless. The only thing left that manages to somewhat get my pulse-rate up is the potential of Tea Party type candidates to successfully oust the old-guard GOP-e into a well-earned oblivion.


19 posted on 05/22/2012 3:49:05 PM PDT by greene66
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To: neverdem

RomneyCare.

That’s all I ever need to know.


20 posted on 05/22/2012 3:59:57 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (The Presidential Race is about the relative light reflectivity of your Slavemaster.)
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To: neverdem
That’s why it is important for conservatives to make it clear early that they will have no qualms about criticizing Romney if he doesn’t run and govern as a conservative.

Perhaps conservatives could write Mutt a strongly worded letter or something.

Sigh.

25 posted on 05/22/2012 4:50:46 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Obama vs. Romney: Zero x Zero = Zero.)
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To: neverdem

Klein has the right take on how to play Romney - support him but keep agitating for an implementation of solid conservative principles.


30 posted on 05/22/2012 7:16:00 PM PDT by citizen (Obama blames:Arab Spring,Banks,Big Oil,Bush,Ceos,Coal,Euro Zone,FNC,Jpn Tsunami,T Party,Wall St,You)
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To: neverdem

So Phil Klein has been reading the more thoughtful FR posts on the matter and he’s written a book consolidating them. What does he say that hasn’t been said here?


34 posted on 05/23/2012 1:33:08 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: neverdem

http://www.tomhoefling.com/


46 posted on 05/23/2012 12:07:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Party like it's 1860. www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: neverdem

The problem with Phil Klein’s conclusion is that either way you cut it you end up with a pro-choice democrat socialist.

NO.

http://www.tomhoefling.com/


47 posted on 05/23/2012 12:15:49 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Party like it's 1860. www.SelfGovernment.US)
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To: neverdem
Supporting Romney as the only alternative to Obama doesn’t mean that conservatives have to spend the summer and fall defending Romneycare to their friends or making excuses about his history of flipflops to their neighbors. By staying true to their principles, conservatives will not only feel better about themselves, but they’ll also improve the odds that...blah, blah, blah...

That's like saying that by fooling around a spouse can stay true to their mate and "feel good about themselves."

Totally illogical nonsense.

Nutritionally, you are what you eat. Politically, you are what you endorse, no matter how much you try to deny or justify it.

48 posted on 05/23/2012 12:22:45 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Party like it's 1860. www.SelfGovernment.US)
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