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As predicted, polling shows Romney speech only solidified Trump’s support
Canada Free Press ^
| 03/08/16
| Robert Laurie
Posted on 03/08/2016 3:03:23 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Flop.
As we’ve discussed previously, Mitt Romney’s attack on Donald Trump was as transparently hypocritical as it was misguided. Here was a two-time failed candidate levying a series of charges against Trump - most of which Harry Reid had previously used against Romney himself. It was the weakest of cheap shots.
Within a day it became clear to anyone who was watching the 2016 election that the speech had succeeded only in that it further divided the GOP or strengthened Trump’s position. It was, to be blunt, a grotesque miscalculation.
Now we know that what we assumed during that first day is indeed true. Romney’s diatribe has failed to sway most Republicans, while strengthening the resolve of the Trump faithful.
TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: backfire; gope; polls; republicans; romney; romney2016; trump
To: Sean_Anthony
Why of course...silly conniving / goofy Romney!
- - and the connving GOPe!
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:09:13 PM PST
by
Mr Apple
( COULTER on Hillary defending child rapist Thomas Taylor www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdkTqkLbL_4)
To: Sean_Anthony
What polling would that be?
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:09:54 PM PST
by
dangus
To: Sean_Anthony
Add Mitt Romney to the list! ;-)
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:10:17 PM PST
by
SubMareener
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To: Sean_Anthony
OMG!!! The calm, cool, and collected GOP Establishment has just come out with a BLISTERING anti-Trump ad!
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:13:30 PM PST
by
Penelope Dreadful
(And there is Pansies, that's for thoughts. (Ophelia, from Hamlet))
To: Penelope Dreadful
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:15:28 PM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:18:14 PM PST
by
Penelope Dreadful
(And there is Pansies, that's for thoughts. (Ophelia, from Hamlet))
To: Sean_Anthony
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:29:27 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(Semper Fidelis - Molon Labe - Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: Sean_Anthony
The fact that the RNC sent Romney out to make a speech like that proves conclusively that they just haven’t got a clue, not an inkling of what brought about Trump.
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:36:02 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Sean_Anthony
The left will always tell you who they are scared of and of course I include little ole mittens.
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:40:09 PM PST
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: Don Corleone
Romney bum of the month. His father tried the same thing with Golswater.
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posted on
03/08/2016 3:41:57 PM PST
by
magua
(baby)
To: Sean_Anthony
So we should listen to the guy who got bitch slapped by Candy Crowley, laid down then bent over for obozo in 08 & 12 because__________________? 
To: Sean_Anthony
We hated voting for Mitt in 2012 and we hate hearing from Mitt in 2016.
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posted on
03/08/2016 4:12:05 PM PST
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
To: Penelope Dreadful
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posted on
03/08/2016 4:27:52 PM PST
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
To: ex91B10
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posted on
03/08/2016 4:34:06 PM PST
by
Penelope Dreadful
(And there is Pansies, that's for thoughts. (Ophelia, from Hamlet))
To: Sean_Anthony
It was, to be blunt, a grotesque miscalculation. Today's GOP leadership is a grotesque miscalculation.
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posted on
03/08/2016 4:35:51 PM PST
by
COBOL2Java
(Rubio: All the slipperiness of Bill Clinton, with none of the smarts.)
To: Penelope Dreadful
Youtube is good for a few things.
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posted on
03/08/2016 4:41:56 PM PST
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
To: Dick Bachert
Where's that picture of Romney as an effete French aristocrat wearing that "Eustace Tilly" (guy from the New Yorker cover) look on his face, in front of the tumbril and guillotine?
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posted on
03/08/2016 5:02:48 PM PST
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Sean_Anthony
A radio host recently explained the GOP elite fighting Trump harder than they do the Democrats.
If they lose this election, it would be fourth out of five or so, Bush 2 being the only recent win in a generation. So they are used to losing, and they are fine being the opposition party that is barely opposing, and they love getting accolades for compromising even that.
But they are TERRIFIED of losing control of the base, because that is the source of their limited power and all their income and legitimacy.
So they see losing the base as worse than the country sliding deeper into a hole under yet another Democrat.
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posted on
03/08/2016 5:18:00 PM PST
by
tbw2
To: Sean_Anthony
I can’t speak for anyone but Twinkie and it did for me.
Romney sounded like Ned in the First Reader. I voted for
him once; but NEVER AGAIN!
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posted on
03/08/2016 5:54:37 PM PST
by
Twinkie
(John 3:16)
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