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http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/07/romney_makes_his_vp_case.html Romney Makes His VP Case
Time ^ | July 16, 2008 | Michael Scherer

Posted on 07/16/2008 3:29:43 PM PDT by Plutarch

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To: Reaganesque

It’s bad enough that I believed long ago that he was worthy of my assistance in helping to elect him and that I devoted ANY time to his candidacy. I still have to live with that shame of being fooled by that liberal fraud. Fortunately, that’s why I unapologetically continue to openly expose this flim-flam man after I recognized the TRUTH about Slick Willard. :-)


641 posted on 07/18/2008 1:15:53 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Still no answer. You can’t answer, can you? If you’re so concerned about truth, shouldn’t you engage in it as well or is truth a standard that you only hold others to?


642 posted on 07/18/2008 1:34:29 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Reaganesque

You have consistently attempted to make the argument about me. This is not about me, despite you and your compatriots coordinated “swarm” attacks against myself and others that dare speak the truth. I find it curious your obsession with finding out the number of days/weeks/months when I was in Massachusetts in 1994, as if it has any bearing on your idol’s record in office, which didn’t begin until over 8 years after the fact, and you continue to demonstrate a singular disinterest and lack of concern about the true subject at hand. You know full well my time in MA is a red herring.

Fact is, this is about your liberal idol, Slick Willard *omney, and nobody else. You have to attack those that shine the light of truth on him and his record because your idol hasn’t a leg to stand on in the credibility department with respect to either a “Conservative” record, “finding” Conservatism or accomplishments and leadership AS an elected official. Even more galling to you, not a single charge I’ve made against him is a false one (worse than that, there are things I have not even touched upon yet that add to the overall mountain of evidence to his glaring unsuitability (to use a polite phrase) for any office down to the level of dogcatcher).


643 posted on 07/18/2008 1:58:58 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
So, we have learned three basic things here:

1. Limbaugh, Coulter, Bork etc. are liberals in disquise.

2. Limbaugh, Coulter, Bork etc. may be Conservatives after all but, they were bought off by the Romney campaign.

3. A source's credibility is irrelevant and its mean and unfair to ask about it.

Thanks for your co-operation. You were very helpful.

644 posted on 07/18/2008 9:54:13 PM PDT by Reaganesque
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To: Wuli

Fair enough, but which VP pick will be better than Romney then?

Some of the conservatives that I might like such as Mike Pence will equally add ‘zilch’ in electability. So what of it?
Got any better ideas?
Portman of Ohio?


645 posted on 07/18/2008 10:27:22 PM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - NObama, stop the Hype and Chains candidate)
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To: ejonesie22

“Obfuscating, ignoring and misdirected responses to Mitt’s real record,”

The anti-Mitt posters here have distorted the Romney record on a repeated basis and just repeat the nonsense, using the ol’ ‘big lie’ strategy, when challenged. One the lies blames him for gay marriage when it was Mass SC decision that he didnt author and which he opposed from the get-go that made it happen. The cycle goes around on it.

“So what’s your point?” What’s their point in lying about Romney is my point. Why slander a good man just for the crime of being insufficiently conservative? it’s destructive. Just say you wish Romney had a more conservative record and leave it at that. The slanders suck.


646 posted on 07/19/2008 6:35:32 PM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - NObama, stop the Hype and Chains candidate)
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Since I never slander the man, that is easy enough to stop. However I will meet you half way, you guys quite selling him as the second coming of Reagan, (indeed leave Reagan out of it when talking of Mitt), quit trying to twists his forays to the left as “conservative moves” because he did it, instead of someone with a D after their name, and I'll agree with you that some things are over the top.

I understand he is a point of expediency at a time when there is a dearth of Conservatives out there on the national stage, and that the public face needs a name and a champion, hence his "popularity" with Conservative luminaries, but here among peers I refuse to pretend he is "all that" for serious Conservatives. For right now, with few exceptions, as far as conservative positions and ideals, he is not much more than a website of positions, backed by prayerful hopes that he is serious about keeping true to those ideals.

The fact that doses of that reality have to be splashed on the "Mitt is king Conservative" crowd here on the most conservative of websites, a place where we can "let our hair down" so to speak, a place where we can be honest, is a bit disappointing.

Or perhaps it is most telling about his supporters.

647 posted on 07/19/2008 7:06:30 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: ejonesie22

“Since I never slander the man, that is easy enough to stop.”

Sorry for the confusion, I was not accussing you, but others on the thread. Its clear who I’ve tangled with.

“However I will meet you half way, you guys quite selling him as the second coming of Reagan” I really never have, although half in jest I said Romney was the next “Reagan”.
Really, we wont get another Reagan, not the iconic perfect Reagan of our dreams... BUT, we dont need that. We just need someone who is a reliable conservative who can articulate the conservative vision well. Romney is articulate, and has been articulating the conservative themes.

“I understand he is a point of expediency at a time when there is a dearth of Conservatives out there on the national stage, and that the public face needs a name and a champion, hence his “popularity” with Conservative luminaries, but here among peers I refuse to pretend he is “all that” for serious Conservatives.”

Then maybe we are in violent agreement. There was a time that I thought he was our best candidate vs Huck, McCain and Rudy. I still think that he would make a better President than McCain. Or Obama or Hillary of course. but perfect or ideal for conservatives? No.


648 posted on 07/19/2008 9:41:05 PM PDT by WOSG (http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ - NObama, stop the Hype and Chains candidate)
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To: WOSG
Only two issues then. I don't feel Mitt is a reliable conservative, and there will be another in the mold of Reagan, not an exact copy, but of the same mind. As times grow tougher over the next few years, that person will rise to the challenge. Then it will be up to us to stop the single issue BS and vanity candidate bit and elect them.
649 posted on 07/20/2008 6:34:38 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery.)
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To: WOSG

“Got any better ideas?”

see post # 211 at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047636/posts


650 posted on 07/20/2008 8:28:57 AM PDT by Wuli
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