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Mass. Gov. Romney Apologizes for Remark (had referred to Big Dig a "tar baby")
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Posted on 07/31/2006 8:36:10 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney speaks during an indoor picnic with Story County Republicans, Saturday, July 29, 2006, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:37:04 AM PDT
by
FRONTLINER
(McBride for Senate and Crist for Governor ! True Conservatives who can win in '06 !)
To: NormsRevenge
Give it up, Romney, you've got no shot.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:37:07 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: NormsRevenge
Victimhood has its rewards.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:37:30 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: NormsRevenge
That remark's gonna scotch his presidential ambitions.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:37:37 AM PDT
by
Oratam
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:37:38 AM PDT
by
NYleatherneck
(It ain't a World War until the French surrender.)
To: Oratam
As if his Universal Healthcare fiasco already didn't?
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:38:16 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: NormsRevenge
Well, what do you know, black leaders are outraged once more.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:38:29 AM PDT
by
nygoose
To: NormsRevenge
Mitt should have used "steaming pile of s**t". I don't think it has an advocacy group.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:38:51 AM PDT
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: NormsRevenge
No New Englander is getting elected President ... be they GOP or DIM. Period.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:38:56 AM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
To: Oratam
If he puts a little English on this, he can spin it to his advantage.
To: randog
Mitt should have used "steaming pile of s**t". I don't think it has an advocacy group. I think the Nation of Islam would take offense. There is no bigger "steaming pile of s**t" in the country.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:40:33 AM PDT
by
AbeKrieger
(Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
To: NormsRevenge
When, precisely, did "tar baby" become a racial epithet? I've got a hunch that it never was, and it's only somewhat taboo now because some paranoid 1960s civil rights clown was on a Liberal Newspeak crusade and decided that the term might possibly in some cases be considered somewhat racist by some people at some point.
Romney was right, though; the Big Dig is a tar baby, and the legislature should opt for a more niggardly budget.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:41:35 AM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: AbeKrieger
Steaming piles of s**t all across the country are offended by your comparison.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:42:25 AM PDT
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: randog
Mitt should have used "steaming pile of s**t". I don't think it has an advocacy group.Duh! Read the Democrat platform. That's their constituency!
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:42:27 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: NormsRevenge
How silly. People need to grow up and get thicker skins. If that's all it takes to upset them they have no business in any sort of public life.
susie
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:42:32 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
To: NormsRevenge
"He was unaware some people find the term offensive..."Tarbaby is a racist term?Your not alone Mitt.It's news to me as well.Of course from this point onward you'll be labeled a racist or at the least "racially insensitive."
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:42:37 AM PDT
by
Thombo2
To: Oratam
That remark's gonna scotch his presidential ambitions. Yeah, it's definitely going to be a chink in his armor...
To: Gordongekko909
It comes from Uncle Remus' tale "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story." In the story, Brer Rabbit is tricked into hitting a doll covered in tar. As he struggles with the doll he gets stuck in the tar and trapped by Brer Fox, who is waiting nearby. The phrase is used along the lines of "quagmire," where the more you struggle the more stuck and trapped you are.
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posted on
07/31/2006 8:43:19 AM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(God Protect Israel.)
To: NormsRevenge
"Tar baby is a totally inappropriate phrase in the 21st century," said Larry Jones, a black Republican and civil rights activist. Except, of course, when it is used by one of the many black folklorists who are getting government grants to revive the Uncle Remus tales.
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