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Obama Considering Romney As V-P: No, McCain Considering Romney As V-P: The Former A Better Fit
RFFM.org ^ | July 20, 2008 | Gregg Jackson and John Haskins

Posted on 07/20/2008 11:08:05 AM PDT by Daniel T. Zanoza

Guest Column

BUYER BEWARE! What You Would Get In a Vice-President Romney

Hint: a demagogue who has already changed history)

When Ann Coulter endorsed Mitt Romney she called the former Massachusetts governor "manifestly our best candidate" -- though the paper for which she is "chief legal correspondent," Human Events, ranked Romney the #8 RINO (Republican In Name Only) in the nation in 2005.

GOP establishment pom pom girl Laura Ingraham and water boy Sean Hannity evangelize Romney on their radio shows as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

Curiouser and curiouser!

Romney the wallflower bats his eyelashes and coyly pretends not to notice the increasing speculation of a McCain-Romney ticket--even as he criss-crosses the country campaigning and fundraising for McCain--the same John McCain who Romney said during the primaries was "almost indistinguishable" from Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton...

(Excerpt) Read more at rffm.typepad.com ...


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; flipromney; mccain; obama; romney; romneycare; slickwillard; vicepresident
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1 posted on 07/20/2008 11:08:06 AM PDT by Daniel T. Zanoza
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza
McCain & Palin 2008
2 posted on 07/20/2008 11:11:14 AM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (http://auntiecoosa.blogspot.com -- read, learn, blog, or get out of my way.)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

load of crap.
I love Mitt.
If Mitt were Bambi’s vp i might vote that way.


3 posted on 07/20/2008 11:14:51 AM PDT by libbylu
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza
GOP establishment pom pom girl Laura Ingraham and water boy Sean Hannity

I couldn't read past the mindless drivel....

4 posted on 07/20/2008 11:15:43 AM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (Voting for McCain, not because I want to, because I have to.)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

I nominate this as the “Worst Post Of The Year” on FR.


5 posted on 07/20/2008 11:23:23 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Bobkk47
I nominate Romney for "worst alledged conservative" this year. Are McCain and potential vice presidents Lieberman, Graham and Bloomberg conservatives? No. But hardly anyone really has the gall to call them as such.

There are a lot of people actually call pro-abortion, anti-second amendment rights Massachusetts RINO Romney a conservative.

6 posted on 07/20/2008 11:27:33 AM PDT by Baron OBeef Dip
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

All the liberals on FR love Romnycare and it’s author. Expect them to give you hell.


7 posted on 07/20/2008 11:27:42 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza
It took one hundred million dollars of Romney's personal fortune to waterboard Americans with Orwellian propaganda...

Misuse of language like this cheapens the argument the authors are trying to make and also drives voters like me away from reading the column.

PS - I am no Romney fan.

8 posted on 07/20/2008 11:29:08 AM PDT by sauropod (God created asphalt so yuppies can go four-wheeling.)
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To: Baron OBeef Dip

“There are a lot of people actually call pro-abortion”

Do you want anyone to take you seriously, or have you been living under a rock for the past few years?


9 posted on 07/20/2008 12:12:56 PM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

Get real. This is nothing but PR bs from idiots who just want to muddy up the waters.


10 posted on 07/20/2008 12:14:39 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

Aw, Jeez...


11 posted on 07/20/2008 12:15:41 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains...)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

I’m beginning to think there are some 3rd column dimocRATS on Free Republic.


12 posted on 07/20/2008 12:58:41 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: The Iceman Cometh

Yep!

It’s just mindless drivel.

Thats about as far as I read too.

What’s sad is that there are some Freepers who subscribe to some of that mindless drivel.


13 posted on 07/20/2008 4:23:53 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza
>>>Human Events, ranked Romney the #8 RINO (Republican In Name Only) in the nation in 2005.

They put him on it 2005 b/c they didn't believe his conversion on abortion. Yet they didn't include Guliani who openly supports abortion and was an obvious presidential candidate at that time. Which makes me think wonder how accurate the list was. (They left McCain off the list as well).

75% of FReepers figured out that Romney was for real. Not the perfect conservative but he passed muster. A bronze medal finish on FR in 2008 behind Fred and Duncan is worth more than an outdated Human Events list. Besides Romney won the actual conservative vote. Rush quoted a FR post that detailed the data that showed most conservatives voted for him.

14 posted on 07/20/2008 4:53:43 PM PDT by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

“GOP establishment pom pom girl Laura Ingraham”

Written as if the writer had never listened to Lauras’ show.


15 posted on 07/20/2008 6:22:23 PM PDT by Grunthor (I see you are playing stupid again. Looks like you're winning too.)
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To: Baron OBeef Dip

“pro-abortion, anti-second amendment rights Massachusetts RINO Romney”

Can I buy some pot from you?

(sarcasm)


16 posted on 07/20/2008 6:23:49 PM PDT by Grunthor (I see you are playing stupid again. Looks like you're winning too.)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza
McCain should start giving George Allen a 2nd look. I'm sure that the "macaca" comment is history now and has made Allen into a better person. Allen has gubernatorial and Senator experience, he's young, tall, and conservative.

I don't disagree with the author here, I'm pretty familiar with Romney's flip-flops and liberalism. Unfortunately for the author, if Romney becomes VP it'll be a blank slate, I could care less what he did in MA as long as he doesn't do the same nationally. And let's face it, Romney would be a fool to govern liberally if he becomes President, it would completely destroy the GOP. I just feel that Romney is still one of the few good options out there but if McCain can find someone better with qualifications equal or superior to Romney then it's all good.

17 posted on 07/20/2008 7:17:19 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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To: Daniel T. Zanoza

And BTW - calling Romney the Republican version of Barack Obama is so disingenuous that it threatens the credibility of the rest of the author’s inconsistent and borderline hyperbolic article.


18 posted on 07/20/2008 7:20:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (BARACK OBAMA WILL SAVE US! HE HAS RISEN!!)
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To: HighlyOpinionated

Palin would be good...


19 posted on 07/20/2008 9:01:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; Tennessee Nana; Reagan Man; EternalVigilance; Clemenza; JohnnyZ; ...

You’re right, because if Obama does for the national Democrat party what Slick Willard did in Massachusetts for the GOP, after 2010, the Democrats won’t have Congress or the Presidency for the next 50 years. That alone might be the best reason to vote for the guy. ;-)


20 posted on 07/20/2008 9:02:13 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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