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Mitt Schwarzenegger. Rhino at best?
Orange Punch, the political commentary blog of the Orange County Register ^ | 3-23-2012 | Mark Landsbaum

Posted on 03/23/2012 7:44:25 AM PDT by Mark Landsbaum

Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up? Or maybe better yet, leave.

After trying for years with mixed success at best to persuade the core of Republican voters that he’s like them and not a Republican in Name Only (Rhino), Romney was betrayed by his own campaign’s candid admission last week.

Asked whether the candidate had moved too far to the right for the general election, Romney aide Eric Fehrnstrom told CNN that the GOP hopeful would hit a reset button for the fall campaign. “It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch,” he said. “You can kind of shake it up and restart it all over again.”

Funny thing, his Republican opponents – and many GOP voters – have been accusing Romney of just that...

(Excerpt) Read more at orangepunch.ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: election; etchasketch; mittromney; rhino

1 posted on 03/23/2012 7:44:37 AM PDT by Mark Landsbaum
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To: Mark Landsbaum

I’d be shocked if Mitt won the white house. Sadly I wouldn’t be shocked if he switched parties after doing so.

He’s made it pretty clear that he has no love for conservatives.


2 posted on 03/23/2012 7:47:28 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: Mark Landsbaum

I don't know. The article title just reminded me of this bag of German candy from "The Simpsons."

3 posted on 03/23/2012 7:49:01 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: Mark Landsbaum; humblegunner

Get it right: RINO. not Rhino.


4 posted on 03/23/2012 7:52:55 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'll "vote for an orange juice can", over Barry 0bummer and another 4yrs of his Regime From Hell!)
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To: Mark Landsbaum

The cancer of Obama”care” now extends to choosing a “Public health expert for the World Bank Presidency.”
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The major problem with THE NINE SUPREMES is that they are chosen for political reasons by the POTUS, and then they vote as an un-accountable democracy, for a Nation that is NOT a Democracy, but a REPUBLIC.

As a result, THE NINE SUPREMES commonly vote 5 to 4 on most issues. Constitutionality is seldom a consideration, and their up-coming ruling on Obama”care” will prove my point.

Now is the time to stand and deliver to address our grievances to the dictates of the Left.

Oppose the dictates of Dictator Baby-Doc Barack!

Our ONLY chance to ABOLISH Obama”care” rests with THE NINE SUPREMES, because Romney will be defeated by Obama.

IMHO, if Romney is anointed as the RNC Nominee, THE main issue in the National Election, Obama”care,” will be taken off the campaign table. Hence, Romney will not only lose, but suffer another crushing, and sadly typical, RINO defeat.

To those who want poster ideas, here are a few ideas for demonstration posters:

Obama”care” was robo-signed by Congress, and is therefore illegal.

Obama”care” was 2700 pages long, and is still being written, but not by Congress: witness the forced contraception coverage recently added by HHS Regulators.

Obama”care” has caused “The Catholic Spring.”

Obama”care” reduces competition, and therefore is illegal by the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law.

Obama”care” is designed to be a US Federal Government monopoly, with no competition.

Obama”care” also is illegal according to the US Constitution, because it violates our freedom of choice.

Will THE NINE SUPREMES notice any of these three violations? I seriously doubt it.

Impeached Bill Clinton proved that the US President is above US Federal Law, so anything that the President wants he gets, regardless of the Federal Laws that he has violated.


5 posted on 03/23/2012 8:00:06 AM PDT by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: cripplecreek
He’s made it pretty clear that he has no love for conservatives.

I would have thought that anyone of age to vote would have by now learned that what a politician has done tells you who the politician is MUCH more than who a politician tells you they are.

Yet the GOP is willing to toss their base under the bus to promote a liberal thug who insists that he is "severely" conservative.

6 posted on 03/23/2012 8:02:15 AM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Mark Landsbaum

A liberal a moderate and a conservative walk into a bar, the bartender looks up and says hello Mr. Romney.


7 posted on 03/23/2012 8:17:35 AM PDT by THE_RAIDER (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing their idiot.)
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To: Mark Landsbaum

A liberal a moderate and a conservative walk into a bar, the bartender looks up and says hello Mr. Romney.


8 posted on 03/23/2012 8:34:51 AM PDT by THE_RAIDER (Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing their idiot.)
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To: carriage_hill

“Get it right: RINO. not Rhino”

Thank you...that drives me nuts!


9 posted on 03/23/2012 8:44:49 AM PDT by PeachyKeen
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To: THE_RAIDER

The Problem as I see it with Romney is that he will be such a mediocre President that even if he does win he will be so middle of the road as to “not upset the apple cart” that the economy will not bloom and then in 4 years it will assure that the democrats take back power on the whole meme that the “economy didn’t recover”.

Not to mention any GOP president is going to be so damned hated no matter how “moderate” they are. Mittens will get so damned gun shy that he will be ineffective and the MSM and the Democrat controlled media will smell blood and keep attacking him even as he retreats and this will paralyze him to what needs to be done to restore the economy and defuse all of Obama’s horrible regulatory actions.

Newt is going to be hated like hell anyways and HE KNOWS THAT, but he also knows that he will have the people who put him there behind even if the Media doesn’t paint it that way every night at 5:00pm.

So therefore, Newt (who thrives on antagonism instead of flinching from it) will take the bold measures to recover the economy despite being thrashed every night on the MSM news channels. In Four years the MSM will be flabbergasted like their were on election night in 1984, because the man on the street will notice the economy improvement.

Mitt is a Flincher, Newt is a Clincher

Definition of a Clincher:

a decisive fact, argument, act, or remark

Definition of a Flincher:

to withdraw or shrink from or as if from pain

We are so SOL if Either Mittens gets in or Barry gets a second term.

Mittens would only slow things down and then in four years the GOP would be blamed so much but with little to show we would still be in an economic malaise the likes of Carter’s worst dreams. This would GUARANTEE a Democrat Victory over the house the senate and even the presidency in 2016. They would not be pulling any punches as they would run someone that would make Obama look like a middle of the road moderate. Because they know they would have a very good chance of winning. Not to mention the class warfare game that could be played to Bolshevik conclusion during that election if we get Romney and mediocre performance out of him which is very much likely.

Of course Obama winning would be a very much “nothing to lose” second term that would see him likely either completely destroying the economy so badly that they play the game of “Destroy and Support” in that they would destroy the economy and then support the people as the “great savior” thus ensuring either “Glorious Revolution” or the mass construction project of making millions more so dependent that they will have a permanent grip on power that would only come undone with Blood sweat and tears, but mostly Blood and Tears.

ABO and ABR, because we really need Newt or maybe Santorum if we get desperate, heck I would even take, heaven forbid (I can’t believe I am saying this), Ron Paul over Romney for the reasons above.

So I repeat once more: Newt is the Clincher, and Mitt is the Flincher.


10 posted on 03/23/2012 8:57:32 AM PDT by GraceG
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