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Romney retreats into California seclusion
Tampa Bay Times ^ | Dec. 3, 2012

Posted on 12/03/2012 10:26:14 AM PST by Colofornian

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To: Colofornian

Sorry Mitt,

You were too good of a man for these times. Now a man has to be a lying, dirty double dealing, sorry MoFo to be in politics.


21 posted on 12/03/2012 11:00:57 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: Colofornian

I am sure they are devastated, Romney was groomed for this and I am sure it is a great shock he lost.
They’ll get over this, play with grandkids and like most ‘also rans’, fad away.


22 posted on 12/03/2012 11:01:35 AM PST by svcw (Why is one cell on another planet considered life, and in the womb it is not.)
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To: ansel12

“Ann and Mitt’s public devotion to abortion doesn’t bother you at all?”

I have come to the conclusion that there are MANY “Margaret Sanger conservatives” out there.


23 posted on 12/03/2012 11:02:22 AM PST by Psalm 144 (Not so "commanding", not so "inevitable".)
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To: Catsrus

The election is over, you don’t have to keep promoting the liberal, pro-abortion, gays in the military, homosexual scout leaders, anti-gun, Obamacare, Mitt Romney any more.

The challenge for conservatives now, is to end his disastrous influence on the GOP, and his war against conservatism and the tea party.


24 posted on 12/03/2012 11:04:56 AM PST by ansel12 (The only Senate seat GOP pick up was the Palin endorsed Deb Fischer's successful run in Nebraska)
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To: marron
The problem isn’t Obama, as many have rightly noted, its a country that thinks his is the right direction.

Amen.

25 posted on 12/03/2012 11:05:38 AM PST by madprof98
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To: ansel12; ladyjane

Good reply ansell, no fan of Romney but he would have been an improvement vs Obama. What I don’t get is the bitter FReeper like ladyjane continuing to blame conservatives for the loser that was Romney and co. All I can say is GET A LIFE!


26 posted on 12/03/2012 11:06:19 AM PST by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: ansel12
Mitt Romney never had any loyalty to any state, it is fitting that once he had exploited local politics and moved onto national, that he would move to California.

Good grief. Palm, meet face.

27 posted on 12/03/2012 11:06:19 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: ladyjane

What has people upset is watching their candidate lose was should have been a slam dunk win.


28 posted on 12/03/2012 11:06:32 AM PST by Brookhaven (theconservativehand.com - alt2p.com)
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To: ladyjane

There’s very little to be gained by talking about the Romneys period.


29 posted on 12/03/2012 11:07:23 AM PST by DManA
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To: Colofornian

None of us really give a damn what Romney is up to now. Thanks for the losing campaign, Loser. Thanks for destroying any conservative that stood in your way so we could actually win the election.


30 posted on 12/03/2012 11:08:23 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: marron

You’re right. Mitt could be 5 days cold in the ground and a better President than “O” on his BEST day!


31 posted on 12/03/2012 11:08:51 AM PST by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: ladyjane
Maybe it’s not just the Mormon angle. Maybe it’s class envy. Whatever it is, it’s eating them up.

Get a clue, dear. It wasn't the Mormon angle and it wasn't class envy behind so many American patriots' rejection of Romney. It was HIS RECORD, which was that of a competent functional Democrat. If pro-state-run health care, pro-tax-funded abortion, pro homosexual agenda from elementary schools to the military to adoption agencies, pro global warming and pro activist liberal judges Romney is what the Repblican party offers forth, what the hell is the point of being a Republican?

Some of us don't vote for liberals, period. You do.

32 posted on 12/03/2012 11:09:23 AM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Colofornian

I’ve never read such a ridiculous and sophomoric news article.

The Times is quite literally “reporting” rumors in some cases and making up others. Then it just flat-out beats Romney with a stick putting into the article catch phrases that are totally unnecessary (his “CEO buddies...”).

This article shows that the Left is afraid that Romney will use his near-win to attack from outside of Washington. Something that he should consider.

Like him or not, he landed serious punches on Obama. A Romney untethered by Party could be beneficial.

Besides, Obama didn’t really win anything to brag about - what, his amazing economic and foreign policy plans got him re-elected??? C’mon. Even the vote count was awful close.

If Romney went on the attack and became a talking head (a la Palin) then he could really do some damage to an already fragile Administration.


33 posted on 12/03/2012 11:13:16 AM PST by Noamie
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To: ansel12

I’m not promoting anyone. I merely suggested these were the choices we had this election, so STFU, smart a**.


34 posted on 12/03/2012 11:19:49 AM PST by Catsrus
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie; All
Sorry Mitt, You were too good of a man for these times...

Too 'good' of a man? Wow!

Mitt advocated just three months ago that babies whose moms' health (not life) was suspect -- as determined by the abortion industry -- were up to be 'snuffed out.' All from a man who believes that pre-existent spirit babies are born on another planet and await bodies to inhabited here.

And a full three years AFTER he supposedly underwent a "pro-life conversion" over embryos, he announced on a Katie Couric interview (Dec 2007) that...
...parents (yes, he properly used the word "parents") could either give up their embryos for adoption [otherwise known as the Snowflake adoption process]...
...OR, parents could choose to give them up for "research"...

My...how "pro-choice" of Mitt on parenting!!!

And you call him "good"

Your pro-life/pro-abort discernment radar is WAY off the mark!!!

Furthermore, in July of 2007, even the Mormon church owned Deseret News questioned Mitt's linkages to the porn industry via being LONG-TIME on the board for Marriott, which has sold porn movies to its customers.

The DesNews wrote an editorial entitled "The Nasty Taint of Pornography" -- and cited Mitt's $25,000 per year he pulled in from Marriott...which totaled into hundreds of thousands of $ from Marriott over the yrs

Lastly this man -- like the 15-20% of all Mormons who are 'temple Mormons' ... Mormons who believe they are "gods in embryo" and will one day steal praise, worship, prayers and glory from THE ONE TRUE GOD ... has no qualms about practicing idolatry.

Your "good" is so relativized that promoting and paying for abortions (what RomneyCare has done); getting employment $ from the porn industry; and practicing open idolatry is ignored.

But, hey, you weren't alone. MILLIONS of others chose to ignore the above as well...proving that they can compromise and capitulate when they want to as well...

35 posted on 12/03/2012 11:21:24 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: CommerceComet

Can you imagine how fruitful the Romneys would be if they were evangelizing the truth of Christianity? May our prayers be heard for their conversion and that they see the light.


36 posted on 12/03/2012 11:22:22 AM PST by Catsrus
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To: Colofornian

Mitt...

Thanks for giving it the old college try, but it’s time to exit the stage now.


37 posted on 12/03/2012 11:22:38 AM PST by ScottinVA (I've never been more disgusted with American voters.)
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To: DManA
There’s very little to be gained by talking about the Romneys period.

(Might be a good pt...except here you are talking about the Romneys :) )

38 posted on 12/03/2012 11:22:48 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: Aria

It’s like this:

I live in CA, the most socialistic and bankrupt and screwed up state in the nation. When I moved here, this was the greatest place. We had EVERYTHING. Great weather, beautiful scenery, gorgeous weather, a Republican governor, a creative, talented, energetic, entrepreneurial population, no shortage of interesting things to due and talented people and creative ideas, and yes, a pro-business environment. In point of fact, I was just a college grad student at the time, by I secured two part time jobs within one week of plane landing down to help pay my way through grad school. Those were the days! We had such a vibrant economy here, anyone who wanted to could find work and become successful.

Then, in 1992, after voting 40 years Republican (except for the 1964 landslide), the state, almost overnight, shifted SOLIDLY BLUE, voting not only for Bill Clinton that year, but Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein as well. CA has not looked bavk ever since....it just turned sold left after 1992.

Now I was always hoping and praying that the rest of the nation would not follow suit. Look at our huge mistakes, our high unemployment, our out of control unions, our massive debt, and out of control spending and state legislature, our intense anti-business climate.....no the rest of the nation seems adamantly determined to make the same mistakes as both California and Europe.

It’s not just the people of CA who have their heads imbedded up their rectums. Obama would have still won the election in both 2008 and 2012 WITHOUT CA’s electoral votes.

I have had more time to adjust than others. Buy my worst nightmares have come true. The rest of the nation is following CA’s (and Europe’s) path towards socialism and government dependence and handouts. Perhaps there are historical forces working out there that we conservatives cannot reverse. Ancient Rome made the same mistakes as the decadent republic and later the emperors made the urban masses dependent upon public largesse. Then it eventually crumbled. The human condition doesn’t change very much over the centuries.


39 posted on 12/03/2012 11:23:11 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Colofornian

I started off this election not liking Romney. By the end, I really thought he’d make a decent president and would be able to try to bring people together to try to resolve our fiscal nightmare. I also saw what a decent person he is personally with all his charitable acts and giving. I guess we’ll never know what type of president he would be but I do think the better man lost the election.


40 posted on 12/03/2012 11:25:51 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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