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Mitt Romney Is Driving Others Away, Too
The Scratching Post ^ | February 3, 2012 | K T Cat

Posted on 02/03/2012 4:23:43 PM PST by greyfoxx39

Over at Hot Air, Wolf Howling penned a comment that perfectly sums up my feelings about the Florida primary.

I’ve spent the last few weeks watching Romney run the most intellectually dishonest campaign against Gingrich that I could imagine. Romney isn’t making the case that he has a better conservative pedigree, nor that his vision for America is superior or more conservative than Gingrich’s. He spent 17 million doing nothing but trying to delegitimize and demonize Gingrich with gross distortions of history. I haven’t seen anything like this since what the left did to Sarah Palin. And the last time anything like this occurred in the Republican Party, it was the cannibalization of Goldwater in 1964.

For the past two decades in which I have been politically informed and active, I have always believed that the single starkest difference between the left and the right was intellectual honesty. We on the right had it while those on the left dealt mostly in demagoguery and demonization. We on the right were ever willing to debate the facts, those on the left were ever willing to cherry pick the facts, distort the facts, and then use the race card or its many variants to end debate. To use the words of Bookworm Room: “Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.” That illusion is now shattered.

At this point, I wouldn’t vote for Romney for dog catcher even if he was running in a three way race against Lenin and Marx. I will support Republican candidates for Congress and the Senate. But I could not, at this point, vote for any man as scurrilous and underhanded as Romney for President.


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To: MestaMachine; Finny
the more I learn about it, the less I trust it as a real religion. It is more about conquering, as is islam, than it is about spirituality.

My sentiments EXACTLY.

It is a political system. A ruthless one with a charming Manchurian candidate now who's been groomed his whole life. Sound familiar?

141 posted on 02/04/2012 12:49:58 PM PST by b9 (NEWT all the way)
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To: b9

Manchurian candidate...yes. Charming...not so much. There is that element of sleaze that just oozes from both of them. How anybody misses it, I don’t know. I used to feel the same. (well, I still do,) about clinton. You can see the evil so how come everyone doesn’t see it?


142 posted on 02/04/2012 1:02:57 PM PST by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: hoosiermama

I have a big mouth lol and I’m not so politically correct, but I’m willing to do whatever is necessary I’m in Ohio.


143 posted on 02/04/2012 1:12:31 PM PST by StPaulRevert (Go Newt!!! 2012 The battle for America's Souls)
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To: MestaMachine; Finny
You can see the evil so how come everyone doesn’t see it?

So far Romney has managed to appear innocuous to the unenlightened

but SOROS knows, and we have that gift of his statement in Newt's new ad.

It's a start at least.

And of course we have amazing FReepers like you and Finny!
FR posts come up in google searches.

144 posted on 02/04/2012 1:27:12 PM PST by b9 (NEWT all the way)
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To: greyfoxx39

John Sandford

Any books with the word Prey in them.
Amazon has the series listed in order but you don’t HAVE to read them in order.
I’ve also heard the Jack Reacher series is good but haven’t read any of them yet.
And then there is Michael Connelly, who is my second fave.


145 posted on 02/04/2012 1:28:20 PM PST by Mountain Mary (I'll vote for Romney when my pig learns to sing..or when hell freezes over..whichever comes first.)
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To: b9
And of course we have amazing FReepers like you and Finny!

You left a WHOLE LOTTA names off that list, FRiend! Including your own.

146 posted on 02/04/2012 1:31:16 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
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To: Mountain Mary
Well, hello there! I have been a fan of Sandford, Lee Child (Reacher) and Connelly for years.

Have you discovered Dana Stabenow and the Kate Shugak series?

147 posted on 02/04/2012 1:41:56 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Romney seems like a creature put on Earth to blend in with the humans and report back what he finds.)
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To: greyfoxx39

No, but is Dana Stabenow related to Debbie Stabanow,the liberal Demorat from Michigan? LOL.

I’ll look in to your recs. Thanks gf.


148 posted on 02/04/2012 1:51:55 PM PST by Mountain Mary (I'll vote for Romney when my pig learns to sing..or when hell freezes over..whichever comes first.)
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To: Finny

Yes, SO MANY good thinkers here, and cheerleaders like me who can’t write for beans but I sure know smart when I see it!

And my Spidy-sense sure smells a stinky rat, like what Santorum is doing for Mittness Protection Program Go-Youth-Proud ROMNEY.

Shame on anyone supporting either of them.


149 posted on 02/04/2012 2:09:06 PM PST by b9 (NEWT all the way)
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To: Mountain Mary

Dana may be related to Debbie..like so many authors nowadays, she has to get her liberal politics into the book. I’ve learned to just skip them. I simply quit reading Paretsky because of her nasty liberalism.


150 posted on 02/04/2012 2:10:53 PM PST by greyfoxx39 (Romney seems like a creature put on Earth to blend in with the humans and report back what he finds.)
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To: greyfoxx39

The lds-org denies that Jesus is the Creator, that everything was created THROUGH Him, BY Him and FOR Him.

They deny that Jesus created even the angels out of nothing.

They do NOT teach the truth about Jesus.

151 posted on 02/08/2012 8:12:29 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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