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To: jwalsh07

Romney did not “just” get the most votes. He was hand-picked by the GOP establishment, who then went on to destroy his competitors while supporting him. They went after Cain and Bachmann, and then made sure that nobody could even oppose him in Virginia. Only he and Ron Paul made the Virginia ballot.

This was no fair contest that Romney won out of popularity with the people. He had no traction early. None. He won a war of attrition because the GOP establishment that hand-picked him then threw their full support behind him while trashing his opponents.


7 posted on 08/11/2012 11:09:56 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (REPEAL OBAMACARE. Nothing else matters.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Grow up. Or not. I don’t care much either way.


12 posted on 08/11/2012 11:13:56 AM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
This was no fair contest that Romney won out of popularity with the people. He had no traction early. None. He won a war of attrition because the GOP establishment that hand-picked him then threw their full support behind him while trashing his opponents.

Much like Dems in '08. Difference being the Dems had enouogh sense to get behind their guy like it or not.

15 posted on 08/11/2012 11:16:22 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

The GOP establishment didn’t force anybody to vote for anyone. We were well aware of all the candidates. Romney got the most votes in the primary, period.


23 posted on 08/11/2012 11:25:51 AM PDT by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

You’re right of course, but there just aren’t enough sane people in America to make Conservatives a majority. Wish it wan’t so.


26 posted on 08/11/2012 11:30:44 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
This was no fair contest that Romney won out of popularity with the people. He had no traction early. None. He won a war of attrition because the GOP establishment that hand-picked him then threw their full support behind him while trashing his opponents.

Look FRiend, almost every primary that Romney won was because the conservative votes were split among a number of candidates. Had the conservatives gotten their stuff together and fielded just one candidate, we would have very likely defeated Romney and the GOP-e. But the conservatives did not do that. The conservative vote remained split in state after state, allowing Romney to win.

So I ask you, whose fault was it that we were splitting our vote among four (then three, then two...) different conservative candidates?

35 posted on 08/11/2012 11:42:43 AM PDT by kevao
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free
It's hard to see how Virginia could justify putting Gingrich or Perry on the ballot when they failed to get the required number of signatures.

The Phyllis Schlafly "A Choice Not an Echo" thing goes back to the days when there were strong conservative candidates who were denied the nomination: Taft, Goldwater, Reagan. Was Caine or Bachmann or Gingrich or Perry really of the same caliber?

If there had been a qualified conservative in the race, Romney might not have won the nomination. But there wasn't so he did. You can't beat somebody with nobody. You can't even beat nobody with nobody.

62 posted on 08/11/2012 12:45:03 PM PDT by x
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