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McCain, Romney acrimony dates back to Olympics
LA Times ^ | 2/3/08 | By Bob Drogin, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Posted on 02/03/2008 10:04:54 AM PST by BurbankKarl

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To: bmwcyle

Ping.


21 posted on 02/03/2008 10:30:42 AM PST by Apple Blossom (...around here, city hall is something of a between meals snack.)
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To: Reagan Man

Isn’t that something. I have said before, if people on this forum had any idea the actions of some of those people looking on in approval, they would cringe. I’d wager that Ted is more than likely tame when compared to some of the others.


22 posted on 02/03/2008 10:30:47 AM PST by DoughtyOne (McCain: RNC will adore him. Get ready for McCain day in photos & Prayer threads. Oh the humanities!)
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To: Reagan Man
The Utah Olympics was the only Olympics to run in the black since the 1960s ! So thank God McCamnesty was not in charge.
23 posted on 02/03/2008 10:31:10 AM PST by ncalburt
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To: BurbankKarl

Slick Willard boasts great financial acumen in saving the Utah Olympic Games.

In point of fact he arranged a federal bailout. Wow! Impressive.


24 posted on 02/03/2008 10:31:48 AM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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To: squidly

That’s why there’s no Department of Education, right?


25 posted on 02/03/2008 10:31:52 AM PST by Checkers (I'd say John McCain is a Dick Nixon, but Nixon didn't hate Republicans.)
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To: BurbankKarl

LATIMES, who cares?


26 posted on 02/03/2008 10:32:51 AM PST by bmwcyle (What is the American voter thinking?)
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To: squidly; vbmoneyspender

Folks can say whatever they want to say about McCain, and a lot of it is true, but the guy has always been against big spending, with the exception of military spending.

****

In McCain’s own words, squidly!

McCain Can’t Be President

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/908572/mccain_cant_be_president/

Don’t Ask McCain

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1073039/dont_ask_mccain/


27 posted on 02/03/2008 10:33:09 AM PST by restornu (John McCain motto: “Republican by day, Democrat by night” *** Romney is the true American Capitalist)
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To: BurbankKarl
You and every homey
Would rather have Mitt Romney
The truth is now so plain
Your candidate's McCain
He'll win fans of Bobby Vinton
Lose race to Rodham Klinton

28 posted on 02/03/2008 10:34:44 AM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: squidly; libbylu; vbmoneyspender; rhombus

“I realize that it’s difficult to say one nice thing on this board about John McCain, but he does have a redeeming quality or two.”

John exhales carbon dioxide and that’s good for plants and trees. So he’s got that goin’ for him.


29 posted on 02/03/2008 10:35:16 AM PST by Checkers (I'd say John McCain is a Dick Nixon, but Nixon didn't hate Republicans.)
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To: JaneNC
I like Rasmussen's daily tracking polls. However, according to RealClearPolitics.com`s cumulative results of all recent polling data, McCrazy leads Willard the Myth.

The numbers are 43.0% for JohnnyMac to 24.3% for RomneyHack.

With three moderate-liberal-Rino choices left, whats a conservative to do?

GO NOBODY!

30 posted on 02/03/2008 10:37:18 AM PST by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Willard, conservatives don't vote for liberals. GO NOBODY!)
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To: Apple Blossom

“The American public gets to bail out everything! It doesn’t even have to be a home grown disaster. Tsunami relief is bad enough, and we’ve bailed out Florida for one hurricane after another. Funny, I don’t remember his speaking out on the shake down of the American public to send aid to Katrina victims. He must have missed that on the news...”

Maybe he was trolling with John Kerry looking for a younger, richer wife.


31 posted on 02/03/2008 10:38:24 AM PST by Checkers (I'd say John McCain is a Dick Nixon, but Nixon didn't hate Republicans.)
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To: ncalburt

oh please...the LA Olympics made a boatload of cash.


32 posted on 02/03/2008 10:39:02 AM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: squidly

How much will he spend on millions of more illegals coming into the country under his watch?


33 posted on 02/03/2008 10:40:08 AM PST by Invincibly Ignorant
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To: squidly

McCain was just pissed because that money wasn’t being spent in his state.


34 posted on 02/03/2008 10:40:13 AM PST by Doohickey (McCain 2008: A President with Tourette's will make press conferences interesting...)
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To: Revolting cat!

Burma Shave


35 posted on 02/03/2008 10:40:20 AM PST by Checkers (I'd say John McCain is a Dick Nixon, but Nixon didn't hate Republicans.)
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To: Petronski; colorcountry; greyfoxx39; Elsie
My daddy always said: You can be a genius money manager with a bag of Other Peoples Money.

Almost said OPM. Now that's another story for another day about Utah druggies.

36 posted on 02/03/2008 10:41:24 AM PST by Utah Binger (Nabakov slept here while trying to find the butterfiles)
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To: BurbankKarl
The Olympics was in trouble. How big the trouble was, most of us here can't honestly say.

But obviously, the trouble was big enough that the Olympic Committee and their Utah hosts felt they needed a high-powered "turnaround artist" to fix the mess. That's why they hired Romney, whom some considered to be the top business consultant in the USA.

After they hired him, the Olympics went off without a hitch. Therefore he gets the lion's share of the credit. What's hard to understand about this story?

(And by the way, stockmarket guru Jim Cramer doesn't call Romney merely the best "business consultant." He says Romney is probably the best "businessman" in the USA. Works for me.)

37 posted on 02/03/2008 10:42:32 AM PST by Hawthorn
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To: squidly

Not true...His Amnesty bill calls for tons of federal government spending..he brands himself as a so called tight spender when once again is not true...he voted for many spending bills for his buddy Kennedy, Biden, etc..Reason he voted against tax cuts is because he wanted more money to go through his and fellow washinton buddie grubbie hands in Washington..no other reason.


38 posted on 02/03/2008 10:43:33 AM PST by GoMonster (GO)
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To: DoughtyOne

Since you gave me an slight opening, I must extend my remarks a bit.

With all the attacks on McCain -— most of that criticism warranted and justified -— FReepers are overlooking the obvious liberalism of Romney. Its amazing the choices some so-called conservatives will make in the name of political expediency. That drops them in line with Romney’s own efforts at the political shell game. And here I thought Giuliani was the biggest opportunist of recent vintage. Rooty can’t match Myth in that regard.


39 posted on 02/03/2008 10:44:47 AM PST by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Willard, conservatives don't vote for liberals. GO NOBODY!)
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To: colorcountry; greyfoxx39; Elsie

And BTW, the Olympics was a failure for local businesses like mine which spent over twenty thousand on promotions that promised huge returns. S**t returns is what happened.


40 posted on 02/03/2008 10:45:13 AM PST by Utah Binger (Nabakov slept here while trying to find the butterfiles)
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