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Romney Takes Dig at Rival
Forbes ^ | 09.04.07 | By PHILIP ELLIOTT

Posted on 09/05/2007 5:18:29 PM PDT by meandog

SALEM, N.H. - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in an interview Monday dismissed concerns he's too nice to be a viable candidate in a vicious race, proving it by taking a swipe at yet-to-announced GOP rival Fred Thompson.

"We all get the chance to go on the talk shows. But it's not the sort of questions you get in the debates or the town meetings that I've had," Romney said in an Associated Press interview, alluding to plans by Thompson to formally announced his candidacy during a planned Wednesday night appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno."

"The talk show circuit is fine, but the town meetings show you're willing to listen to people and take their questions," continued Romney...

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: New Hampshire
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You would think that the Romulan would be gentleman enough to have at least let FRed get his feet wet before commencing phasers!

1 posted on 09/05/2007 5:18:34 PM PDT by meandog
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To: meandog

A termite pitching dust bunnies at an elephant.


2 posted on 09/05/2007 5:20:00 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Like the old adage: If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one around to hear it, does it still make a sound?

When Romney speaks is there ever anyone that hears him cares?

3 posted on 09/05/2007 5:24:26 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: meandog
Har, har, that graphic is just brilliant. Too bad this article from yesterday was Already posted .
4 posted on 09/05/2007 5:25:02 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: meandog

Romney’s attacks are lame.


5 posted on 09/05/2007 5:25:39 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: meandog

A real man would have jumped by now. Fred’s been baby-toeing the water for months like a total p-ss.


6 posted on 09/05/2007 5:28:19 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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To: meandog
You would think that the Romulan would be gentleman enough to have at least let FRed get his feet wet before commencing phasers!

And anyway, Romulans used Disruptors , not phasers.

7 posted on 09/05/2007 5:30:26 PM PDT by Plutarch
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To: Blue Highway

Only the Mittwits.


8 posted on 09/05/2007 5:31:53 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: SteveMcKing

Fred waited until the appropriate time. It’s ludicrous how long these election cycles last. They need to be moving the primaries back to the summer of ‘08, not the winter. Enough is enough. We’re going to be running the 2012 campaign in 2009 at this rate.


9 posted on 09/05/2007 5:33:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Fred is the answer for sure. Now, what was the question?


10 posted on 09/05/2007 5:37:51 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (Criticize me if you will but just don't circumcise me any more.)
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To: meandog

Hey Mitt... Fred will fight against dims and the beast... not fellow Republicans... even LIBERAL Republicans like yourself. Iraq is not a “mess” as you stated, but your shadenfraud candidacy certainly is!

You lost me when you blew the question on Iraq, during that New Hampshire town meeting. Be sure to tell your buddies ted and john hello!

LLS


11 posted on 09/05/2007 5:39:07 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: Past Your Eyes

Who gonna save the republic ?


12 posted on 09/05/2007 5:40:12 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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To: SteveMcKing
You do understand that the ridiculous election schedule you bash Fred for not adhering to, was the mutual creation of one HOWARD DEAN and one RAHM EMANUEL.. don’t you?

LLS

13 posted on 09/05/2007 5:41:34 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: SteveMcKing

Candidates attacking their rivals, what will they think of next?


14 posted on 09/05/2007 5:44:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
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To: meandog
Fred was still officially in the Neutral Zone. Don’t the Romulans always attack when the F(r)ederation enters the Neutral Zone? Now the question is whether he’s Picard or Kirk, or at least whether Shatner can loan him a rug. Will the Fred Heads be the star of the red states or will they be wearing red shirts?
15 posted on 09/05/2007 6:28:35 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer
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To: meandog
Your Romulan is far too elegant. The Vulcans were more stylish by far whereas the Romulans were like a pack of plodding German peasants in comparison.

I think you got a Ken Doll Romulan there.
16 posted on 09/05/2007 6:54:03 PM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: LibLieSlayer

“Hey Mitt... Fred will fight against dims and the beast... not fellow Republicans...”

So has Mitt.
http://www.mittromney.com/News/In-The-News/Romney_Criticizes_Reid_For_Stance_On_Iraq

June 16, 2007.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney went after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid with both rhetorical barrels Friday on Reid’s statements that the Iraq war is lost and the troop surge initiative is a failure.

“’If he’d been Valley Forge, he’d have thrown in the white towel and we’d be singing as our national anthem “God Save the Queen,”’ Romney said.

“He was referring to recent statements by Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that President Bush’s troop surge initiative ‘has failed to produce the intended results.’

“’We won the war to knock down Saddam Hussein and remove his army,’ Romney said. ‘We’re now trying to help the Iraqi people establish their own future. That’s a tough challenge.’”


Also, in early August ...

In an August 1 post about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the washingtonpost.com blog The Trail, which the Post subsequently printed in its August 2 edition, Michael D. Shear noted attacks by Romney on Clyburn:

At each [campaign] stop, Romney also took the opportunity to slam South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn, who said Monday that a positive report from Gen. David Petraeus on progress in Iraq “would be a problem for us.” Romney demanded clarification from Clyburn.

“Sometimes they say things they ought to withdraw,” he told reporters.


http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070805/D8QQU2N00.html
Romney goes after Obama in debate:

Romney, too, was eager to criticize Democrats. His chosen target was Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, who said recently he would be willing to meet with the leaders of Cuba, North Korea and Iran in his first year in office, and declared in a speech he would order military action to capture terrorists in Pakistan if that nation’s president did not.

“I mean, in one week he went from saying he’s going to sit down, you know, for tea, with our enemies, but then he’s going to bomb our allies,” said Romney. “I mean, he’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week.”

http://www.nysun.com/article/58911

NASHUA, N.H. — As he campaigns here among die-hard Republicans, Mitt Romney is taking aim at the top tier of Democratic presidential candidates — chiefly Senator Clinton, accusing her of advocating an economic policy in line with Karl Marx.


17 posted on 09/05/2007 7:09:46 PM PDT by WOSG ( Don't tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.)
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18 posted on 09/06/2007 12:55:31 AM PDT by Doofer (Fred Dalton Thompson For President)
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