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The Tea Party Could Be Republicans’ Biggest Foe Come 2012 (Mitt a "moderate conservative")
The Bottom Line of UC Santa Barbara ^ | April 16, 2011 | Tim Fucci

Posted on 04/17/2011 1:30:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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"Former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney has also made a name for him for himself since the 2008 Republican primary. He is a younger, moderate conservative and the current frontrunner among Republican constituents."

Hahahaha! Stop! I'm wheezing! C'mon, stop! My sides hurt!!

1 posted on 04/17/2011 1:30:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The one term Governor Romney left office with 34% approval, he was a failure regardless of right or left.


2 posted on 04/17/2011 1:36:54 AM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Totally gay.


3 posted on 04/17/2011 1:38:54 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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Romney is seen as “the next in line” by Republicans for the presidency

The RINO wing's wet dream....

4 posted on 04/17/2011 1:44:35 AM PDT by freebilly
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Political analysis from the college paper at UC Santa Barbara. I am so impressed!


5 posted on 04/17/2011 1:49:42 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla (Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable -- Daniel Webster)
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There go the commie libs again. Worrrying about the Republicans. They really need to worry about their own ‘RAT party and how it has been hijacked by CPUSA.


6 posted on 04/17/2011 1:49:58 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The "Rich" is not obligated to provide anyone with a BIG nanny state government.)
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"The RINO wing's wet dream...."

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The Weekly Standard & the National Review are both pumping Romney.
7 posted on 04/17/2011 1:55:20 AM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; ansel12; Diogenesis; Impy; Clemenza; Crichton

Wait a sec... “Younger” ?!? Remember the trolls in ‘07/’08 complaining about how Fred Thompson was “too old” ? Slick Willard will be OLDER in November 2012 than Fred Thompson was in the early primary days of 2008... just 4 months short of 66. That’s “younger” ? WHAT ?!


8 posted on 04/17/2011 1:59:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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But, that is what the MittPimps ( Karl Marx Rove ) want for our GOP nominee in 2012.

9 posted on 04/17/2011 2:01:17 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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" Wait a sec... “Younger” ?!? Remember the trolls in ‘07/’08 complaining about how Fred Thompson was “too old” ? Slick Willard will be OLDER in November 2012 than Fred Thompson was in the early primary days of 2008... just 4 months short of 66. That’s “younger” ? WHAT ?! "

Yeah, I remember the MittPimps saying that....
10 posted on 04/17/2011 2:02:55 AM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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Steven Begakis, third-year Political Science and Economics double major and UCSB College Republicans president, said he hopes Republicans nominate a true conservative candidate that can articulate the conservative philosophy to the American people.

Here's their "Republican" expert.

11 posted on 04/17/2011 2:05:42 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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Mitt's 'I was for it but now I'm against it' RomneyCare is a millstone around his neck, it's made him unelectable.

You'll need a weathervane to determine which way Romney will stand on any given issue. Mitt will change his policies at any given moment depending on who is listening. Just too fake, plastic and untrustworthy.

Charles Baker In 2006 when Romneycare was being instituted, Romney's friends were celebrating. Charlie (I only made $1.7 million at Harvard Pilgrim) Baker got a gold-mine future in the insurance industry with the mandatory purchase of insurance - not a tax, but a purchase you can't refuse. Obamacare and Romneycare - the two are very, similar.

Please choose a better nominee. This guy is a phony.

Mitt Romney

Romneycare = Obamacare which = Big Government
Big Government = End of liberty = End of America
Repeal Obamacare
Repeal Romneycare
12 posted on 04/17/2011 2:20:44 AM PDT by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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To: ansel12
The one term Governor Romney left office with 34% approval

So in Mass this is a bad thing?

13 posted on 04/17/2011 2:54:49 AM PDT by byteback
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

Political analysis from the college paper at UC Santa Barbara. I am so impressed!

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You are so right, I couldn’t agree more !!


14 posted on 04/17/2011 3:00:44 AM PDT by W-Girl
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To: byteback

Yes, Mitt Romney failed when he was in office.


15 posted on 04/17/2011 3:11:07 AM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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Palin wrongly drew comparisons between Barack Obama and terrorists by emphasising his middle name, Hussein, and by over-exaggerating Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers, a radical political activist from the 1960s.

That, and the pinata statement tell me this is another Lefty hack trying to demoralise conservatives.

16 posted on 04/17/2011 3:37:21 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: byteback
You are such a RomneyBOT.


“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.

The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006


"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”

[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006


"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced
,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005


Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys.
He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>


"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!

Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006


17 posted on 04/17/2011 4:06:59 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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"Mitt Romney ... is a younger, moderate conservative .."

The author either sleeps with Mitt Romney OR is mentally ill.

Romney is Not Conservative.
Romney is an old, old, Mexican (ineligible).
Romney is a proven-failed Governor.

MITT ROMNEY - THE PROVEN BAD GOVERNOR

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."

[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]



18 posted on 04/17/2011 4:07:02 AM PDT by Diogenesis ( Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, “Who is that man ?”
You try so hard
But you don’t understand
Just what you’ll say
When you get home.

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones ?


19 posted on 04/17/2011 4:13:48 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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Mitt isn’t even conservative enough to be a compassionate conservative.


20 posted on 04/17/2011 4:34:28 AM PDT by Leisler (11% GDP of borrowing this year alone, gives 2% GDP boost! Woohoo!)
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