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The “electorate is not where it needs to be for us to succeed,” his campaign PowerPoint had concluded; hence, the strategy has been to move Romney where he needs to be to succeed.
1 posted on 11/05/2007 7:18:29 PM PST by JRochelle
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To: JRochelle

That was a quote from the last paragraph.


2 posted on 11/05/2007 7:19:10 PM PST by JRochelle (Rudy employs a pedophile, Alan Placa.)
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To: JRochelle

There is a conservative vacuum, and that makes an opportunity for pretenders to be promoted.


3 posted on 11/05/2007 7:22:15 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: JRochelle
ah...this is a liberal author pushing a liberal candidate, right?
Unable to type, I best STFU...LOL
Should the author not be a liberal, my apology.
5 posted on 11/05/2007 7:23:41 PM PST by no-to-illegals (God Bless Our Men and Women in Uniform, Our Heroes. And Vote For Mr. Duncan Hunter, America! TLWNW)
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To: JRochelle
Romney's candidacy is something of a back-handed compliment to conservatives: he still believes he needs to get the conservative vote in order to win.

When all of the Republican candidates stand for nothing but watered-down leftism, i.e. compassionate conservatism, then we will know it is time to walk ... or time to regain control.

12 posted on 11/05/2007 7:30:33 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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Mitt Romney is the only top tier Republican candidate who has lived his life following the principles of Conservative values.

People who try to say he is not Conservative come across as silly and petty.
14 posted on 11/05/2007 7:33:09 PM PST by elizabetty ("Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." .Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: JRochelle

So a liberal rag now becomes gospel to the Mitt haters. Who would have thunk it?


20 posted on 11/05/2007 7:47:15 PM PST by TheLion (How about "Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement," for a change)
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To: JRochelle
In seeking to woo buy conservatives,
21 posted on 11/05/2007 7:48:49 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: JRochelle
When all is said and done, all we have left to judge a slick politician by is his past records. Here's Flip-flopping Myth On the Issues
26 posted on 11/05/2007 7:52:00 PM PST by dit_xi
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To: JRochelle
Silverstein had been a contributing editor to Harper's before joining the Los Angeles Times... He has also written for Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Slate, and Salon.

It is bad enough this article is in Harpers, but the writer is even worse, contributing to the moonbat Mother Jones and the hard left The Nation. Why the heck should we take advise from this guy?

32 posted on 11/05/2007 8:00:09 PM PST by Plutarch
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What DID I say a long time ago..”It’s all bought and paid-for”..”Mitt Romney’s campaign is a fake, and it won’t play down here”.\ I dont fault him for changing his mind, or even making mistakes in policy in the past (we have all done that to some degree..), yet there’s one think you can’t buy and that is a true sense of trust, and not just one tricking one into believeing you (Romney or anyone) are the right candidate; He lacks soul~


35 posted on 11/05/2007 8:02:18 PM PST by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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No one will ever be Republican-enough for the Kamikazes.

The only ones with absolute purity: themselves. Or so they would have us think.

44 posted on 11/05/2007 8:20:35 PM PST by mtntop3
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To: JRochelle

a bit harsh on Romney


47 posted on 11/05/2007 8:29:55 PM PST by wardaddy (This country is being destroyed by folks who could have never created it.)
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To: JRochelle

a) Pay Disney countless millions to construct an animatronic weatherboy.

b) Fill his head with conservative platitudes.

c) Ascend to boundless power.


53 posted on 11/05/2007 9:04:34 PM PST by Petronski (Here we go, Steelers. Here we go!)
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To: JRochelle

Harpers is the one that had a fake article on the RNC convention.

Nice to see conservatives turning to a left wing magazine to attack another conservative. Shows what politics do to people. This must be another Clinton approved thread.


70 posted on 11/06/2007 3:18:08 AM PST by Romneyfor President2008
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To: Reaganesque; redgirlinabluestate; sandude; Saundra Duffy; CheyennePress; Canticle_of_Deborah; ...
The author of this hit piece Ken Silverstein no doubt a friend of the left!

Ken Silverstein is the Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine and writes Washington Babylon for Harper's online.

A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Silverstein has covered such topics as intelligence collaboration between the CIA and controversial foreign governments in Sudan and Libya, political corruption in Washington, and links between American oil companies and repressive foreign governments. His 2004 series “The Politics of Petroleum,” co-written with T. Christian Miller, won an Overseas Press Club Award. His stories on ties between the government of Equatorial Guinea and major U.S. companies—including Riggs Bank, ExxonMobil and Marathon Oil—led to the convening of a federal grand jury, and to investigations by the Senate and the Securities and Exchange Commission. His report, co-written with Chuck Neubauer, on a lobbying business opened by Karen Weldon, daughter of Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, led to the opening of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.

Silverstein has been an outspoken gadfly in the newspaper business. In December of 2005, a memo he wrote to his editors at the Los Angeles Times expressing his dismay over their insistence on false “balance” was discussed in an article by Michael Massing in The New York Review of Books. While reporting on potential voter fraud in St. Louis in 2004, Silverstein was angered to learn that his findings were to be woven into a larger “balanced” piece on accusations being made nationwide, when it was clear that Republican charges of irregularities in St. Louis were insubstantial. “I am completely exasperated by this approach to the news,” Silverstein wrote. “The idea seems to be that we go out to report but when it comes time to write we turn off our brains and repeat the spin from both sides.”

Silverstein had been a contributing editor to Harper's before joining the Times. One of his pieces for the magazine, The Radioactive Boy Scout, became a highly acclaimed book of the same title published by Random House in 2004. He has also written for Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Slate, and Salon. From 1989 to 1993 he was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Brazil.

77 posted on 11/06/2007 4:19:34 AM PST by restornu (Improve The Shining Moment! Don't let them pass you by... PRESS FORWARD MITT)
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To: JRochelle
I love this from the article: "The Washington Post discovered that an anti–Fred 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 so—much less believably—did Tompkins, who claimed an employee (Wesley Donahue) had conceived and run the site without his knowledge. Whatever the truth of the site’s 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."

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Fredheads remember THIS incident well.

96 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!)
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To: JRochelle
From the article:

Like Romney, McKissick is perfectly groomed, with not a single hair askew.

Hey, I'm not looking for someone who can do a brill creme commercial.

102 posted on 11/06/2007 8:22:15 AM PST by Colofornian
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To: JRochelle
From the article:

...said one young woman, reading from a script into a cell phone. After running through a list of Romney’s accomplishments—rescuing the 2000 Olympics in Salt Lake City...

Hey, I'm not looking for a chief Olympian.

103 posted on 11/06/2007 8:23:20 AM PST by Colofornian
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