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David Frum: Can Mitt Romney be president? The outlook is sunny. But he faces rough seas ahead
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| November 10, 2010
| David Frum
Posted on 11/10/2010 5:18:48 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
He can run on the “RomneyCare” record!/s
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:31:06 PM PST
by
dynachrome
("Our forefathers didn't bury their guns. They buried those that tried to take them.")
To: Colonel_Flagg
"It will be very hard to be elected without the support of the Republican base"
McCain did it and I could find a member of the base that supported him in a primary...magritte
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:31:14 PM PST
by
magritte
("There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself "Do trousers matter?")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Can Mitt Romney be president? Maybe. But not with my vote.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:31:19 PM PST
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: Arizona Carolyn
"Why if he is so brilliant on finance has he been so silent on Bernanke?" You don't get invited to Beltway & Manhattan parties by bashing other CFR members.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:31:25 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney is a mayonnaise sandwich on white bread.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:31:31 PM PST
by
Mortrey
(Impeach President Soros)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I didn’t vote for a democrat president who thinks government-run and mandated healthcare debacle, I sure as hell am not going to vote for a RINO republican who implemented the same damn thing.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:31:35 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:34:04 PM PST
by
ansel12
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As long as he doesn’t need my vote he can be.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:34:33 PM PST
by
GBA
(Not on our watch!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As the Tea Party says - no way!
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:35:08 PM PST
by
Deagle
To: Mortrey
Mitt Romney is a mayonnaise sandwich on white bread. With the crust removed, and quarter sliced.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:38:17 PM PST
by
ansel12
To: ansel12
Okay. I’d read that he is.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:41:51 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Not unless something has changed recently.
I delved into it back during the primary, he has spoken to them but wasn’t a member, not that it bothers me, Fred Thompson was CFR.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:44:40 PM PST
by
ansel12
To: ansel12
So was General Al Haig, who I worked for back in 1987-88. But that was then and this is now.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:46:20 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The sort of person who writes a big check to the GOP every cycle may see in Romney a competent CEO for the United States.I don't care, We the People are the board of directors.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:46:45 PM PST
by
Inyo-Mono
(Had God not driven man from the Garden of Eden the Sierra Club surely would have.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I could support Mitt. I totally haven’t made up my mind. But Mitt, Sarah, Huck, Newt, DeMint, Trump... I could go for any of them. Who wouldn’t I go for? Polenty, Brownstripe, Bloomberg, any of the other RINOs.
Hell, I’d even probably go for Rick Perry if he managed to convince enough of the peops.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:46:45 PM PST
by
ichabod1
(Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
To: Deagle
Lotsa people hate Romney because he’s LDS. Are you a religious bigot, beagle?
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:48:03 PM PST
by
ichabod1
(Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
What BS.
Fact: The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election in 2008!!!!!!!
So rather than help the GOP, Romney and
TeamROMNEY (Frum, Wallace, Parker, etc) decided
to attack Gov. Palin to throw Election 2008
just as they would also do in 2010 in several states.
And now, Romney has the audacity to demand to be REWARDED
for his twice-inflicted massacres against the GOP?
"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 (2008, weeks before the election) Early Show appearance."
David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."
David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician
I will support him without qualm."
Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"Im told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palins people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romneys former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off
.hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."
"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the Diva leak was Nicolle Wallaces husband."
Kathleen Parker: "[I]t is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem." "Parker ... says something publicly that many of us have thought privately
but lacked the courage to say out loud - Palin should step down:"
"Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out"
Kathleen Parker: "Romney would bring more than squeaky clean qualifications
and youthful good looks to the ticket.
Romney would seem a logical choice."
"Parker: Romney raised bar on freedoms"
Kathleen Parker: "If Kennedy's speech was an important landmark in American political history,
Romney's was surpassing. With heartfelt humility and poetic eloquence,
he tracked the nation's struggle with and for freedom."
Staggering bigotry of Kathleen Parker - UPDATED"
Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:50:01 PM PST
by
Diogenesis
('Freedom is the light of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A Frum endorsement would be the kiss of death for Romney.
Even without an endorsement, the thought that Mitt would give Frum a job weighs heavily against his candidacy.
Somebody should ask him during the campaign, just so we don't get saddled with David Frum if Romney does get the nomination.
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:50:53 PM PST
by
x
To: Pan_Yan
Uh.. two campaigns on which he worked with his Father, George H.W. Bush? Where he met his young carouser pal, a fellow named Karl Rove?
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:51:52 PM PST
by
ichabod1
(Hail Mary Full of Grace, The Lord Is With Thee...)
To: x
Isn’t Steve Schmidt already working for Myth? Game over!!
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posted on
11/10/2010 5:52:12 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. ~Mencken)
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