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CNN: Can Romney Save GOP? (MSM picking candidates again)
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Posted on 11/21/2008 7:50:09 AM PST by Retired Greyhound

The former business consultant and founder of Bain Capital handled economic issues during his campaign with an ease and confidence that seemed to elude Sen. John McCain. As the stock market tanked throughout the fall, a growing chorus of conservative pundits speculated Romney would have boosted the GOP ticket considerably more than Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; gop; rebuilding; romney; willardtherat
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To: ari-freedom

“a cultist? George Romney was the one who said he was brainwashed.”


LOL, “Associated Press obituary in 1995: “George Romney, Who Said Military Brainwashed Him on Vietnam, Dead at 88.”


141 posted on 11/21/2008 11:51:31 AM PST by ansel12 ( When a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived.)
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To: Reagan Man

You have latched onto this issue to put down Romney. No one can speak reason to you. My dad was a real war hero, but he had a much more reasonable attitude than you.


142 posted on 11/21/2008 11:52:25 AM PST by lady lawyer
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To: TChris

People go to work and pay taxes whether it is Madonna, or Mitt Romney or Harry Reid, or Bill Gates, but that doesn’t mean that they should be my president, and it sure doesn’t mean that they are qualified to become the republican candidate for president.

Romney was liberal for almost 60 years and then suddenly switched strategy and his beliefs, for this campaign.

His mother, his father, his proabortion wife, his sons that believe that they serve by working on making their father the commander in chief, it is a family tradition, although probably not as old as the permanent and historical family tradition of never serving in the military.


143 posted on 11/21/2008 12:03:54 PM PST by ansel12 ( When a conservative pundit mocks Wasilla, he's mocking conservatism as it's actually lived.)
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To: MozarkDawg

I think I read Murphy’s autobiography years ago.

Good story about Jimmy Cagney and Murphy. Even though both were big time Democrat’s, I respected both men. Loved Cagney’s movies.


144 posted on 11/21/2008 12:04:25 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: lady lawyer

No. I got latched onto this issue because you made two posts that I thought were pure BULL and needed to be corrected with factual truth. Having said that, its no secret I don’t like Willard. He’s a phony and a fraud. Unless something dramatic takes place, Romney will never get my conservative vote.


145 posted on 11/21/2008 12:08:53 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Grunthor

“What about states that do not register by party?”

The solution? Let them have their say last in line. Me first in the primary elections don’t work. I think the change would let more people have say in the process of selecting the candidates they want, rather than the pundits picking the winner after two states.

Too ofter the candidates are picked by the RNC and the rest are set up to fail because the open primarys early in the process seem to have too much weight.


146 posted on 11/21/2008 12:14:08 PM PST by o_zarkman44 (Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
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To: Retired Greyhound

didn’t take long for the 2012 campaign to begin.. mitt is hitting the ground ‘running’, palin got his attention, that’s for sure.


147 posted on 11/21/2008 12:33:36 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed)
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To: TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl

It is the “palin is bad”

It is now apparent McCain did not suffer a complete rout because of palin.

They are trying to neutralize palin. Imagin the crowds if palin had been at the top of the ticket.

I think Romney DOES IN FACT HAVE A PLACE at the republican table. His ecconomic skills do have value. (you do not become a big league financial player by accident)

CNN is just using up the Obama attack points that would have gone to attack romney.


148 posted on 11/21/2008 12:35:51 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: longtermmemmory

he has microeconomic skills, not macro.


149 posted on 11/21/2008 12:44:05 PM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: Reagan Man
BULL! RomneyCare is government run health care insurance and the first step towards socialized medicine.

No it's not. Period.

If you were interested in the truth, you would know that.

It’s mandated,

Yes, just like auto insurance.

subsidized and controlled by the government.

It's subsidized for the poor only, just like in every other state.

And yes, Massachusetts regulates its insurance market, just like every other state. Romney's plan, however, actually reduced regulation.

Forcing people to purchase a service against their will is called tyranny.

Every state is a tyranny, then, since every state mandates auto insurance.

Subsidizing the premiums for those who can't afford it is called socialism

Then every state in the union is socialist, since every state in the union subsidizes healthcare for its poor.

150 posted on 11/21/2008 1:07:24 PM PST by curiosity
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To: ari-freedom
he has microeconomic skills, not macro.

All modern macroeconmic theory is based on micro foundations.

Your idea of there being a dichotomy between micro and macroeconomics is about 20 years out of date.

151 posted on 11/21/2008 1:08:51 PM PST by curiosity
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To: Retired Greyhound
Another 4 years as Gov. and Sarah will be plenty ready.

No. She won't be ready for a Presidential role.

Mitt is ready NOW. It's too bad he didn't get it.

Thankfully Mitt is peaking up more - especially about these (union payback) bailouts. They shouldn't happen. Mitt has the experience in business and already has the political experience NOW that Sarah lacks. Let her be a VP.

152 posted on 11/21/2008 1:09:12 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: curiosity

“Then every state in the union is socialist, since every state in the union subsidizes healthcare for its poor.” Bingo. The rest of us are already paying for health care for — not just the truly “poor” — but for everyone who chooses not to get health insurance then shows up at the emergency room.

But this “socialized medicine” canard is deliberately distorted by the Romney haters.


153 posted on 11/21/2008 1:09:34 PM PST by lady lawyer
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Sarah Palin did more in nine weeks of campaigning for the Republican party than Romney

What exactly did she do?

154 posted on 11/21/2008 1:10:57 PM PST by curiosity
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To: Red_Devil 232
Exactly!

It was not Repulbicans who picked McCain. Thank you for the post!

155 posted on 11/21/2008 1:26:25 PM PST by TAdams8591 (He's not MY President!)
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To: broncobilly
Oh, a Romneybot is heard from. I knew I'd smoke a few out by telling the truth about that Janus-faced fraud. Face it, my good man....its over. Romney is through. The rank and file conservatives don't want that cardboard fake anywhere near the seat of power.


156 posted on 11/21/2008 1:58:11 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: TChris
Someone who abandons the Reagan playbook for "bipartisanship".

Someone who was pro-choice to run for Massachussetts governor, but suddenly became pro-life to run for the GOP nomination.

Someone who signed a statewide universal health care package when a governor, but ran on a fiscal conservative small-government platform in his quest for the White House.

Someone who pulls stunts like THIS:

157 posted on 11/21/2008 2:06:54 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine ("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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To: redgirlinabluestate

Remember how I said the GOP is becoming balkanized?

Take a look at Michael Reagan’s latest commentary

—snip—

“This is Balkanization at its worst. The Republican Party is broken up into a lot of large pockets nursing our own prejudices and our own grudges, and unwilling to accept the other guy’s opinion if he doesn’t agree with us on every issue 100 percent of the time. So we break up into factions, allowing a single issue to divide us when we agree on everything else.

—snip—

We are further Balkanized by becoming a party of personalities. We are attaching ourselves to certain individuals, and as a result we have become a party of people and not a party of principles. We are Romney-ites, or Huckabee or Giuliani devotees, or McCain-ites, or supporters of Gov. Sarah Palin — when we need to be just plain Republicans.”

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mreagan/2008/mr_11211.shtml


158 posted on 11/21/2008 2:10:54 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: Emperor Palpatine
Someone who was pro-choice to run for Massachussetts governor, but suddenly became pro-life to run for the GOP nomination.

So Mitt Romney is the only RINO then?

I want a definition of the term!

It's thrown around a LOT on FR, and as nearly as I can tell, it has about as much meaning as does the word "Nazi" when spoken by a Democrat protester. Specifically, the name "RINO", when applied by a FReeper, seems to mean, "I (strongly) disagree with what he/she did/does/said/says."

That being the case, I think every single FReeper, every single conservative commentator and probably every single Republican politician in history, with the POSSIBLE exception of Ronald Reagan, is a RINO in someone's eyes.

The label "RINO" is meaningless.

159 posted on 11/21/2008 2:16:14 PM PST by TChris (So many useful idiots...)
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To: longtermmemmory
I think Romney DOES IN FACT HAVE A PLACE at the republican table. His ecconomic skills do have value. (you do not become a big league financial player by accident)

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I agree with you, as long as Romney continues to move to the right. I don't think he is either electable or desirable as president, however. I don't want a man whose entire family has declined to defend our country as CIC. I'd also like to see some firming up of his statements regarding abortion. His move from pro-choice to pro-life is still in its infancy. No pun intended.

160 posted on 11/21/2008 2:23:12 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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