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Romney out. Congratulations Freepers on ensuring there was no conservative in the race. (Vanity)

Posted on 02/07/2008 9:51:12 AM PST by mbraynard

You rallied behind someone who never had their heart in the race and was never a leader in their life (Thompson) or never had a chance in hell (Hunter). What is needed more than anything to win the WH is a drive to do the spade work necessary to get there. So by denying Romney victory in IA and NH and SC, and splitting the field, you now have probably the worst enemy of all - someone the Wonderful Mr. Jim Robinson never saw fit to put a 'truth file' on.

So, nice work.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008veep; butwelikehuckabilly; cinonotrino; dramaqueen; foulodors; getagrip; getbent; gop; hardhead; holdmuhwillard; mccain; romney; themythofmythromney; wambulance; willardwost; yourlossfreepers; zot
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To: Hemorrhage
We might backdoor in a President Thompson, President Barbour, or President Romney.

No disrespect to you intended, but this is one of the most hilarious things I've read all day.

New Campaign Slogan: "VOTE MCCAIN!!! He'll be dead in a few years anyway!"

201 posted on 02/07/2008 10:50:08 AM PST by Hazwaste
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To: mbraynard
STOP IT, you're making Britney cry!


202 posted on 02/07/2008 10:50:19 AM PST by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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To: mbraynard

The sun will still rise in the east tomorrow morning and the day after and so on. Vent your feelings, go through the grieving process and then find what positives you can in the situation that the public has provided. No one person or group of people conspired or had the power to make this happen to you, Romney or any of the rest of us. Politics is a rough and tumble profession and those that participate know the consequences going in, if not they are destined to a lot of downers.

Enjoy the ‘sausage’ ...... Life will go on as intended.


203 posted on 02/07/2008 10:51:54 AM PST by deport ( -- Cue Spooky Music --)
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To: SandyInSeattle

To GAIN intelligence!


204 posted on 02/07/2008 10:53:01 AM PST by Yosemitest (It's simple, fight or die.)
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To: mbraynard
What a miserable S.O.B. you are.

You pee down the collective leg of FR & JimRob, then duck for cover.

Over 200 responses to your drivel, and you haven't shown up to defend your lofty position.

Very heroic.

205 posted on 02/07/2008 10:53:10 AM PST by diogenes ghost
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To: mbraynard

First of all, there was no conservative in the race after Thompson dropped out.

Second, No one here is buying the media talking points about “Thompson’s heart not being in it.” so sell that BS somewhere else.

Third, Romney (AKA) the self proclaimed defender of Roe v. Wade and Gay rights, Mr. “I’m not advocating a return to Reagan, Bush.” never had a chance. Those who bought in to the slick hair and multi-million dollar ad campaign instead of falling in line behind an actual conservative, now have only themselves to blame.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.


206 posted on 02/07/2008 10:53:28 AM PST by NavVet ( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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To: mbraynard

I agree with you. Conservatives shot themselves in the foot on this one.


207 posted on 02/07/2008 10:53:40 AM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: RobRoy

Did you know that, on Bush’s recent trip to the Middle East, the Sanhedrin presented President Bush with a scroll that called Bush the Chief Prince of Gog (Ezekiel 38)?


209 posted on 02/07/2008 10:54:29 AM PST by pby
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To: diogenes ghost

“What a miserable S.O.B. you are.
You pee down the collective leg of FR & JimRob, then duck for cover.

Over 200 responses to your drivel, and you haven’t shown up to defend your lofty position.

Very heroic.”

Worth repeating. What a freakin coward.


210 posted on 02/07/2008 10:54:35 AM PST by scottdeus12 (Jesus is real, whether you believe in Him or not.)
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To: TAdams8591

Mitt’s history, as opposed to his platform, was what kept me from supporting him. Is he more capable and dynamic and smarter than McCain? Sure. But I learned my lesson the hard way many times over that a man’s history (at least in a 10 year window) is a far better barometer than campaign promises.


211 posted on 02/07/2008 10:55:35 AM PST by pissant (Time for a CONSERVATIVE party)
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To: mbraynard
We can thank talk radio and conservative punditry and people like you that wanted to anoint a Massachusetts liberal as the conservative savior.

That you were stupid enough to drink the Kool-Aid and believe there was any difference between McCain and Romney is YOUR problem.

The truth is if the conservative punditry hadn't stuck its nose in the race and tried to manipulate it, Mike Huckabee, a more conservative candidate that McCain or Romney, would have won the nomination.

212 posted on 02/07/2008 10:56:17 AM PST by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: Hemorrhage
What war on terror credentials? McCain has none. Just follow his amnesty votes, his opposition to a border fence, his attitude towards treatment of terrorists, and worst of all his vote AGAINST barring terrorist. Leave our borders unprotected? That makes no sense in view of 9/11.

To hope for McCain to die in office is unrealistic. Imagine the damage someone of his bad character and mental health can do.

213 posted on 02/07/2008 10:57:20 AM PST by Jane Austen
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To: RobRoy
And the only thing that could turn this country back to conservative would be something MUCH worse than 911 or even Pearl Harbor.

W could have done it. He was standing at the crossroads of history, with a nation united in grief and righteous anger. He had a nearly unprecedented opportunity to move the country in the right direction.

Unfortunately, he's not terribly interested in conservatism. So he let history slip through his fingers.

214 posted on 02/07/2008 10:57:21 AM PST by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
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To: mbraynard

See Ya! Start your own website? Half Awakes?


215 posted on 02/07/2008 10:58:00 AM PST by Afronaut (RIght now Ron Paul has my vote. He has become the only choice.)
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To: mbraynard

Oh please, a vote for a liberal is still a vote for a liberal, whether they have an “R” next to their name or a “D” and when you support liberal Republicans, you are sending a message to the GOP leadership and big donors that it’s okay if they move to the left. Romney, Huckster, and McCain are all way too liberal for a lot of us.


216 posted on 02/07/2008 10:58:53 AM PST by af_vet_rr
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To: MeanWestTexan
Romney is a light-weight ninny....

If his daddy had not given the boy a fortune to start with....

where would he be?

217 posted on 02/07/2008 10:58:55 AM PST by pointsal (q)
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To: mbraynard
Yep.

Nope.

Massage the state by state data any way you like, if all the Thompson votes had gone to Romney, unlikely, in SC he would have edged out Huck for 2nd, might have got those 5 delegates. That's about it.

You would have heard the same address you heard today.

You may not like to hear it, but as the best financed candidate in the race, he simply couldn't make the sale.

218 posted on 02/07/2008 10:58:58 AM PST by SJackson (If 45 million children had lived, they'd be defending America, filling jobs, paying SS-Z. Miller)
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To: mbraynard; All
I understand your anger, but your anger is better directed at the non-conservative majority in the GOP than at conservative Freepers. If Freepers had as much influence as you say, Hunter and Thompson would be left fighting for the nomination, not McCain and Huckabee

I've come to the sad realization that McCain is not a RINO. Before the flame throwers come out, listen to my explanation. How can somebody be a Republican In Name Only if the majority of the party is willing to vote for him? I would argure that I and the vast majority of Freepers are the real RINOS because we are conservatives. Conservatives are a small and decreasing minority in the GOP. The GOP is on the downslope toward being a slightly less liberal party than the 'rat party.

What has caused this sad state of affairs? It's not the good conservative majority Freepers. It's the non-conservative majority of the GOP willing to accept open borders, high taxes, huge nanny-state government, abortion, out-of-control goverment spending and First and Second Amendment infringements just so the guy who gets the presidency has an "R" instead of a "D" after his name.

There, I feel better now!

219 posted on 02/07/2008 10:59:14 AM PST by 50mm (I love the smell of napalm in the morning...It smells like victory!)
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To: Hazwaste

Optimism never dies. Should be the title of the next Bond movie.

H


220 posted on 02/07/2008 10:59:28 AM PST by SnakeDoctor
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