Posted on 10/18/2011 9:17:29 AM PDT by parksstp
Folks, In light of the recent posts JR posted on why FR can never support Romney (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2793300/posts), the time has come to take action and ensure that he is not the Republican Nominee in 2012. As you can tell from JR’s post, Mitt has quite a detailed laundry list of items that go far beyond Romneycare, yet in the current political cycle so far, it seems like the driving message so far has been that Romneycare is his “only” flaw. Our conservative candidates in the race have helped raise up this view. Not a single one of them has taken a shot at Mitt outside Romneycare. It seems like many of them are playing the defeatist card and hoping to be on the short list for No. 2. This is unacceptable and if we allow it to continue, we will indeed be saddled with Romney as a nominee.
Therefore, I propose to you “Operation Don’t Tread on Us”. Since the mainstream media will not report and our purported conservative candidates will not bring up in the debates Romney’s full position/issue record, it’s time for the good people of the Tea Party and FR to “help” them out.
What do I mean? I mean doing the job these people were supposed to be doing. Putting Mitt on the spot and asking him the tough questions: like climate change, mandates, and having the quotes ready to contradict the answer he tries to throw at us. From now until the caucus/primaries, we must:
(1)Actively attend and Infiltrate all public Romney Campaign Events and (2)Ensure we get the chance to ask him OUR questions on his record and (3)Have a camera and/or tape recorder ready to go to get his statements on record
Romney has been ignoring the Tea Party for the most part because he knows he differs with us too greatly to ever get any substantial support. We have, in turn, ignored him, and left him to do his bidding with the establishment and moderate wing of the GOP. This must stop now.
Exhibit A: Obama encounter with the Tea Party (This is what we need to do to Romney)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqy5rwX2Io8
Exhibit B: Wisconsin Senators Go AWOL (Whatever Campaign Event Romney is at, We MUST be there also to ask the tough questions)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFveowfazqU
Exhibit C: This video has it good (Tea Party Protestors in NH)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YTspLRqHg8&feature=related
I have tried to find a direct clip of Romney encountering Tea Party members asking the “Important” questions, and have found none, a sign that his operational minions are good at keeping them out. Therefore, we’re going to have to get creative at getting in and getting our questions raised and answered (or at least on tape).
Politco has the events calendar for each Presidential candidate laid out. It’s still early, so most candidates have not booked really far in advance for the events they are going to attend because it depends on the polls.
http://www.politico.com/2012-election/calendar/?date=2011-11-06
Romney has the following events scheduled for the upcoming week. Any FReepers or Tea Party members near Sioux Falls, I highly encourage you to go and ask the questions raised under JR’s post concerning Romney’s record. And make sure you get it on tape or audio! If we make the effort to consistently, as a group, challenge Romney on his stances at every major event between now and the first caucuses/primaries, there is NO way he will be able to beat out the other conservatives in the race.
But time is running out. The last major debate for a while is taking place in Vegas. And the first major contests are less than 60-70 days away. We MUST act NOW.
•Oct 19 – 7 pm Speaking at the Sioux Falls Chamber Of Commerce 1101 Northwest Ave., Sioux Falls, S.D. •Oct 20 – No time given Attending a fundraiser hosted by Gov. Dave Heineman 555 South 10th St., Omaha, Neb. •Oct 26 – No time given Hosting a breakfast fundraiser with members of Congress Washington, D.C.
One last idea. How realistic would it be to bus people into NH for the primary vote to "help" our conservative candidate. Remember, NH has some crazy rules in addition to being an open primary, that all you have to do is "declare" your intention to relocate to the state and they'll let you vote. This strategy was enough to give Hillary the win when Obama had a 10+ lead there. I think if we were successful doing this, you'll pull Romney's "home state" under him.
I’ll go to NH
Cain winning there would put a fork in Mitt-for-brains
My suggestion is to make it clear to the establishment GOP that if Romney wins the nomination, the GOP is no different that the Democrat Party and that a third party will now be supported by those who refuse to support either of our current parties.
Sure, a third part won’t win, but it is time to begin that third party who represents the conservative portion of the country, and although it will take several cycles to become the “replacement” for the Republican party, you have to start the process somewhere.
All Cain has to do is make a good showing in New Hampshire. He doesn't have to win it with voter fraud.
The primary nomination will be decided in Florida.
Just curiously, with electronic ballots, how would a person write in a candidate?
I would not worry too much about Romney.
Once the actual primary results start coming in, what has been going on in the media and RINO establishment is going to become abundantly clear.
Romney’s front runner status is going to crash like a house of cards, and the absurd level of media propaganda to choose Obama’s opponent will backfire big time.
I would just say keep good notes on who is propping this guy up, so when Romney crashes, his false prophets will crash with him.
I think the Republican Party, as part of the ruling coalition, is beyond saving.
Romney has been “chosen”, and if he is NOT the nominee I will be amazed.
I’m voting for Gingrich in the NH primary, FWIW.
When Mitt accepts the nomination, remember, I told you so. Hopefully this will all be clear by March so that a new opposition organization can be formed.
I think the Republican Party, as part of the ruling coalition, is beyond saving.
Romney has been “chosen”, and if he is NOT the nominee I will be amazed.
I’m voting for Gingrich in the NH primary, FWIW.
When Mitt accepts the nomination, remember, I told you so. Hopefully this will all be clear by March so that a new opposition organization can be formed.
Cain? Why Cain? Don’t you know that Cain is just Mitt’s stalking horse! Cain-Mitt, Mitt-Cain, it doesn’t matter Mitt has merely sent his errand-boy Cain out to fetch him the nomination. Why even with 51% of the delegates Cain will just turn them over to Mitt. Cain is running just to sell books and get a nice cushy job on Fox don’t you know that? Cain is part of the FED! Cain has horns and a tail! Cain wants your first born in taxes!
That’s OK I am positive that someone will be along shortly to explain it to you.
I think we are pretty close to settling this, one way or the other. Our current path to communism is unsustainable, and the rate of progress down that slippery slope is too fast for us frogs to miss the boiling of the water. Either we vote out the socialists in a free and fair election, or they steal another election, and things get ugly. I’m hoping for a peaceful solution in which someone like Cain takes the White House with a flood of Tea Party republicans to drive the agenda back to constitutional government so that it doesn’t matter what Cain has in mind. If we don’t repeal ObamaCare and scale back the massive federal government expansion, no later than 2013, I’m not optimistic about the next option being as peaceful as I would prefer.
It’s not voter fraud if it’s written into the state rules and done in accordance with them. At the time those people voted for Hillary, they may well have been 100% committed to relocating to NH, but the next day changed their mind.
The only thing Ron Paul leads is the march to the mental ward for the medication that will put him under heavy sedation.
The people who support Romney are the same people who voted for McCain. There are millions of RINO voters out there (that’s how RINO’s get elected).
You might think you are damaging Romney with his RINO videos and quotes but what you are really doing is advertising Romney to the millions of RINO voters who are looking for a moderate. If the moderates coalesce around him he’ll follow the path paved by McCain in 2008.
No, FR is fully committed to stopping anyone who has a chance of stopping Romney. Perry, Cain, you name him, we’ll destroy him. Because destruction is what we’re good at.
Just unethical.
Assure the outcome of an election!? That sounds like stuff liberals do.
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