Posted on 02/19/2012 4:43:53 AM PST by jenk
Mitt Romney's literature and signs have been at every Republican event for years. He had quite an organization in 2008 with signs that said, "Michigan for Mitt," with the cute reference of the appearance of the lower peninsula being a mitten, and Mitt's name, well, it's just precious.
But here we are, 9 days from Michigan's Presidential Primary, which the GOP in Michigan moved up and lost half of it's delegates as a result, and now Mitt has to actually compete.
Mitt lost Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, South Carolina, and Minnesota, and may lose Maine. He has so far won New Hampshire and Florida.
So as I read what is happening downstate and about how wonderful Mitt is, I noticed how the press says Romney has not defended the auto bailout, and that it will hurt him. Michigan Republicans defend the auto-bailout because Michigan is the auto industry and it's too big to fail, etc.
But the auto rescue is an awkward issue in a state in which both Republicans and Democrats wholeheartedly supported it.Even if he wins Michigan, Mr Romney will still be dogged by the auto rescue in the general election. Mr Patterson, a supporter, says: "That’s something that Mitt is going to have to address."
Then I typed, "Mitt Romney supported auto bailouts," into my little google search thingy and I found out that he flip-flopped on that issue too.
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Actually, he bought Florida with $17 mil in negative ads against Newt.
So much for that “inevitability” argument. Bite it, Mitt.
Does Romney really believe that Obama is simply “in over his head”?
it’s funny. He sounds like he’s singing that song, “with trees and flowers and chirping birds, and basket weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes, and they’re coming to take me away, haha!”
Live in Michigan. I got up at six AM this morning. Turned on the local news and in a half hour saw four Romney commercials attacking Santorum.
These are nasty ads.
Mitt fights dirty. And if he fights this dirty in his campaign, you can imagine how dirty he will be once in office.
Don't let Mitt's smile beguile! He's a liar!
Mitt said that Rombo ad was the nastiest ad he’s ever seen. LOL
Actually final total was more like 20 million. One percent was positive. It was in Spanish in the Cuban area.
They are all over Arizona, too. You can’t watch the news without 3 or 4 of them showing.
Wow! Simply amazing!
Hahah! That’s a great ad! Romney is one dirty SOB.
that was the most to-the-point truest ad on the airwaves. of course romney hates it! LOL!
Perfect!
Are they as nasty as his anti-Newt ads? From what I hear on the news, the anti-Rick ads are fairly mild, just saying he’s a Washington insider. The talking heads say that’s because there really isn’t much to attack with Santorum, and these ads will backfire.
I was listening to Larry Kudlow yesterday and he made a good point. When 0bama released his proposed budget (a.k.a. his campaign platform), Romney had a golden opportunity to refute it piece by piece on free market and conservative principles. Instead he said nothing. To me this shows he just wants to run as 0bama-lite.
Mitt really screwed up yesterday. He was busy proving himself to be a native son by sounding as if he’s never been here and throwing out bizarre statements about Michigan trees being just the right height.
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