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Candidly speaking: If we 'must' settle with Romney... What would be the toughest thing to 'give up'

Posted on 01/18/2012 7:28:44 AM PST by Milagros

What would be the toughest sacrifice?

1) RonmeyCare issue?

2) Values / he's pro-abortion.

(3 Is his Mormonism is an issue by you?)


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To: Milagros

Good question, and I know a lot of us have also been thinking
along these lines.
I don’t know how easy it is to predict that there are any “issues” that would be “sacrificed”, because Romney, by all accounts, will pay lip service to any and all issues he thinks will get him nominated, which means continuing to do well enough in all primaries to keep him in contention.
Early on, he said, with that urgent, nervous smile and that breathless delivery he has, that he was “A Tea Party Person”
because,like them, he “believed in smaller government”. That was supposed to be enough to snare the Tea Party vote without going through the process of the Tea Party promoting HIM (he was supposedly promoting THEM).
The worst thing about Romney (including all the things we know he’s already DONE, like RomneyCare) is that he creates no confidence in us that he even UNDERSTANDS the big picture
of the mess both Dems and RINOS have left us with, how and why it happened, and what kinds of things we have to address NOW to get us out of it.
He spouts nothing but the usual election cycle cliches about jobs, the economy,and making America great again, stuff I have heard my entire lifetime from EVERY challenger to an incumbent, Dem or Repub. He is so Establishment, and so totally lacking in visceral excitement, that it makes my teeth hurt just hearing and looking at him.
Like it or not, the ONLY one who keeps coming back strong, and ON TOP, showing enormous nerve and backbone, not to mention a dizzying and effortless command of issues , is
NEWT. I like him more every day,and look forward to saying more about him as time goes on.
Newt, for all his faults, is ,at least in this field of contenders, shaping up as both a mensch and a COLOSSUS.


41 posted on 01/18/2012 7:59:35 AM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: dfwgator

Do you rhink it’s a possiblity there will be 4 parties in the near future?

* GOP
* Conservatives (TeaParty, etc.)
* DEM
* Liberals (Occupy, Obama-niacs, Carter-ists RonPaul-ists)
???


42 posted on 01/18/2012 8:01:09 AM PST by Milagros (Y)
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To: Milagros
Dem Strategist On Romney: "He's The Guy We Want To Run Against"

Dems Want to Run Against Romney

Why Obama Wants To Run Against Romney


43 posted on 01/18/2012 8:01:20 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Milagros

The first presidential election I’ve sat out since I was of voting age.


44 posted on 01/18/2012 8:02:39 AM PST by Not The Other One
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To: Milagros

If “we” (who’s “we”, Kemosabe?) have to “settle” for Romney the Socialist, I will vote for whatever nonentity the Constitution Party pukes up.


45 posted on 01/18/2012 8:05:04 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Milagros

we would give up spelling and grammar.


46 posted on 01/18/2012 8:10:09 AM PST by campaignPete R-CT (and I will go to southern Maine to campaign.)
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To: Milagros

climate change


47 posted on 01/18/2012 8:10:28 AM PST by larryjohnson (USAF(Ret))
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To: Milagros

Conservatism.


48 posted on 01/18/2012 8:10:59 AM PST by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: Milagros
What would be the toughest sacrifice?

The fact that we settled on another DBM-selected candidate like Romney. And, IMO, if Romney gets the nomination, I think we will have a wishy-washy flip-flopper who will bow to the whims of the Democrats - and that's NOT what we want.

50 posted on 01/18/2012 8:41:29 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: Milagros
Making a slick, oily, arrogant, politician who ran to to left of Ted Kennedy the face of conservatism will set the conservative movement back for at least a decade.
51 posted on 01/18/2012 8:47:02 AM PST by FreedomProtector
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To: Milagros

My soul, it ain’t going to happen.


52 posted on 01/18/2012 8:47:32 AM PST by billys kid (Everything in Massachusetts is illegal)
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To: Milagros

My soul is not for sale.


53 posted on 01/18/2012 8:47:54 AM PST by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed.)
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To: Milagros

My soul is not for sale. I will never vote for Mitt Romney. Period.

Other than that, the biggest thing people will have to give up if Romney gets the nod is the idea that the GOP actually wants to beat the Democrats.


54 posted on 01/18/2012 8:56:07 AM PST by reaganaut (Romney IS Obama - just 'white and delightsome' 2 Nephi 30:6)
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To: Milagros

1. The 1st Amendment right to free association (vs. Romney ban on health care choice)
2. The 2nd Amendment right to keep & bear militia arms (vs. Romney ban on standard defensive weapons)
3. The 4th Amendment right to information privacy (vs. Romney commandeering of health records)
...for starters.


55 posted on 01/18/2012 8:57:05 AM PST by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: Milagros

That we would lose the election because every issue we win on, he loses for us. Obamacare, he gives us Romneycare. Class warfare vs he rapes businesses. Muslim vs Mormom (both religions outside the mainstream and considered extremist). Birth Certificate vs father born in Mexico.


56 posted on 01/18/2012 9:06:28 AM PST by RainMan (As I have been saying for months Newt/Sarah)
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To: TexasCajun
I'm afraid Mutt's core principles may evolve yet again.

Romney is known for having what Thomas Sowell calls a "versatility of conviction".

57 posted on 01/18/2012 10:15:07 AM PST by Retired Greyhound (.)
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To: Not The Other One
The first presidential election I’ve sat out since I was of voting age.

Write-in Palin.
58 posted on 01/18/2012 10:24:10 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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