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Making Mitt Romney:
How to fabricate a conservative
Harpers ^
| 11/07
| Ken Silverstein
Posted on 11/05/2007 7:18:29 PM PST by JRochelle
Mitt Romney keeps his South Carolina headquarters in a single-story building at one end of Gervais Street, which is Columbias version of Washingtons K Street, lined with the offices of local lobbyists, P.R. consultants, and other fixers and power brokers. The main room of Romney HQ is decorated with hand-painted red-and-blue signs, mementos from previous campaign events: mitt is my hero! mitts the man! mitts my pick! I visited on a steamy Monday night in late July, a time of year when few South Carolinians are interested in politics and fewer still want their evening interrupted by pitches for a presidential primary six months away. But eleven volunteers, mostly college students, were hunched in cubicles spread around the office, diligently placing cold calls to area residents. Boxes of pepperoni pizza from Dominos (a company Romney backed when he ran the investment firm Bain Capital) were piled on a table against a wall. Well, I understand, maam, theres a long way to go before the election, the volunteer replied. I just hope youll keep us in mind.
-snip- In seeking to woo conservatives, Romney has also used his personal PACthe Commonwealth Political Action Committeeto contribute lavishly to several national pro-life groups, the Federalist Society, the National Review, and the Heritage Foundation, among others.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; clintons4fred; election; elections; mitt; mittromney; phony; romney
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To: JRochelle
In seeking to woo conservatives, Romney has also used his personal PACthe Commonwealth Political Action Committeeto contribute lavishly to several national pro-life groups, the Federalist Society, the National Review, and the Heritage Foundation, among others. That explains a lot...Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review has been in the tank for Mitt from the beginning...now I see why.
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posted on
11/06/2007 6:59:19 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(I have a tagline . I just don't think the forum police will allow me to use it. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!)
To: msuofb; ejonesie22; JRochelle; colorcountry; Petronski
Welcome, n00b...sign up just to post this, eh? Who were you before?
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:03:45 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(I have a tagline . I just don't think the forum police will allow me to use it. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!)
To: JSDude1
Cant say the same about Mr. Romney, nor Mayor Guilani, can we..?No. And don't forget Reagan's stint as Calif. Governor.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:04:56 AM PST
by
Rudder
To: greyfoxx39
84
posted on
11/06/2007 7:06:33 AM PST
by
ejonesie22
(Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
To: Romneyfor President2008
The Clinton machine wants to run against Rudy or ROmney.
You sound like you are on the Romney campaign. N00b.
Tell your boss that phonyness doesn’t play in the conservative party.
“But against Romney, Clinton and her husband will be bogged down in issues like traditional family values, faith, morality, etc.”
Clinton will destroy Romney with his liberal past and his religion. Don’t kid yourself.
If Mitt wins the nomination, Clinton is president.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:07:19 AM PST
by
JRochelle
(Rudy employs a pedophile, Alan Placa.)
To: JRochelle
Clinton will destroy Romney with his liberal past and his religion. Dont kid yourself. If Mitt wins the nomination, Clinton is president.
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Agreed.
86
posted on
11/06/2007 7:08:39 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Romneyfor President2008
Nice to see conservatives turning to a left wing magazine to attack another conservative. Shows what politics do to people. You even duplicated one thread already posted from the Telegraph.co.uk in hopes of slamming Fred.
Pot, meet kettle.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:10:40 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(I have a tagline . I just don't think the forum police will allow me to use it. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!)
To: JSDude1
SO INSTEAD OF ATTACKING THE POINTS; YOU ATTACK THE AUTHOR; HOW TYPICAL OF THE MITT Romney Campaign! The Fredheads won't tolerate a straight news story from the WaPo or NYT.
But to get a hit piece on Romney, it is okay to dredge up an article from this hard core leftist, who writes for Mother Jones and The Nation, and who has written books extolling communist parties in South America. The author needs attacking, not posting at Free Republic.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:15:07 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: msuofb
Now that Thomson has declared he will not interfere with Rowe Vs Wade...LIAR
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:16:33 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Here we go, Steelers. Here we go!)
To: greyfoxx39
You even duplicated one thread already posted from the Telegraph.co.uk in hopes of slamming Fred. The Telegraph is Britain's most conservative major paper, not a leftist rag like Harpers.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:16:39 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: aMorePerfectUnion
You also know that Mitt hired a woman to shape his image as a conservative, right? Why is shaping required, if he is one already?Because he's a fraud.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:17:51 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Here we go, Steelers. Here we go!)
To: Plutarch
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:23:43 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(I have a tagline . I just don't think the forum police will allow me to use it. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!)
To: Plutarch; Clara Lou; Petronski; perfect_rovian_storm; Politicalmom
ROTFL...some can dish it out and sure can’t take it....how many negative threads on Fred have you personally posted, regardless of the source? FRedheads are very familiar with your agenda.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:30:50 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(I have a tagline . I just don't think the forum police will allow me to use it. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!)
To: greyfoxx39
ROTFL...some can dish it out and sure cant take it....how many negative threads on Fred have you personally posted, regardless of the source? None, regardless of source. The most egregious source I ever posted from was the NYT, and that was beyond the pale for the Fredheads. But, the Fredheads can post commie authors all day long, and that is just fine, apparently.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:35:10 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: greyfoxx39
You’re just supposed to read what the Romney Sleaze Machine puts out, believe it, and move on with your day.
How DARE you question it!?!
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:37:26 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Here we go, Steelers. Here we go!)
To: JRochelle
I love this from the article: "The Washington Post discovered that an antiFred Thompson smear site, entitled PhoneyFred.org, was being run by an executive of TTS Strategies. The site was immediately taken down; Romney made pains to distance himself from it, and somuch less believablydid Tompkins, who claimed an employee (Wesley Donahue) had conceived and run the site without his knowledge.
Whatever the truth of the sites origin, the PhoneyFred episode perhaps most vividly showed that when one is contemplating how to sell Mitt Romney, the problem of phoniness can never be far from the brain."
Fredheads remember THIS incident well.
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:37:54 AM PST
by
greyfoxx39
(I have a tagline . I just don't think the forum police will allow me to use it. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE!)
To: greyfoxx39
Bet you dollars to donuts both Tompkins and Donahue carry “the badge.”
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:40:01 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Here we go, Steelers. Here we go!)
To: Petronski
How DARE you question it!?! Apparently, Petronski doesn't question anything written by authors for Mother Jones .
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:44:35 AM PST
by
Plutarch
To: Plutarch
Non sequitur. Were you trying to be funny?
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posted on
11/06/2007 7:46:51 AM PST
by
Petronski
(Here we go, Steelers. Here we go!)
To: JSDude1; redgirlinabluestate; Saundra Duffy; CheyennePress; Canticle_of_Deborah; bethtopaz; ...
SO INSTEAD OF ATTACKING THE POINTS; YOU ATTACK THE AUTHOR; HOW TYPICAL OF THE MITT Romney Campaign! Excuse me in all of the FR reporting on articles on any topic, we always reveal the source or is the left now your new best friend?
Some of you come off as two face!
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posted on
11/06/2007 8:02:46 AM PST
by
restornu
(Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by... PRESS FORWARD MITT)
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