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Romney playing role in Calif. governor race (Meg Whitman)
Globe Staff ^ | February 21, 2009 | Sasha Issenberg

Posted on 02/25/2009 8:25:01 AM PST by restornu

WASHINGTON - From a Lexington office complex, Mitt Romney's political action committee has ensured the former presidential candidate's omnipresence on cable news shows, ....

But for the next year and a half, the center of Romney's political universe will shift west to Sacramento, where key parts of his operation have reassembled on behalf of Meg Whitman, a longtime friend and former business colleague ....

The former eBay CEO is still readying her headquarters, but it has already become something of a campaign-in-exile for Romney's ambitions, which could include another presidential run in 2012....

"Mitt's going to be involved in dozens and dozens of races, but one that he's particularly excited about is the race for governor of California," said Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman....

A Whitman victory could deliver Romney a valuable foothold in a state that will likely be a big, early prize on the Republican nominating calendar. Her 2010 campaign will also offer a...

Romney and Whitman both harshly criticized the $787 billion stimulus package championed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, saying it includes too much bloated spending and not enough tax cuts. Whitman is also railing against the plan, signed into law yesterday, of tax increases and spending cuts to plug California's $42 billion budget deficit, saying in a statement it "will kill jobs, hurt families, and make future deficits worse."

The parallel careers of Romney and Whitman - ...

Yet Romney is the only one of the three considered a possible 2012 presidential candidate, ...

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ca2010; calf; calgov2010; megwhitman; romney
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To: EternalVigilance

Good luck with that..


221 posted on 02/25/2009 12:48:10 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: TChris
Convents conjecture is a forte of you Mitt guys, so glad you recognize it, though mine is based on observable trends. As to who backed him in a limited field, well that does not make Mitt a Conservative by any means.

And I don't recall calling anyone naive or stupid, you are getting confused...

222 posted on 02/25/2009 12:50:45 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Badeye

Guess you had a rough childhood. You have my sympathy.

Instead of posting silly juvenile replies, how about posting the evidence you have to back up your off the wall assertions made at post #44. That is something you’re either unwilling or unable to do. Frankly, I think its the latter.


223 posted on 02/25/2009 12:50:53 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: ejonesie22

One can always hope.


224 posted on 02/25/2009 12:51:20 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Where every principled conservative belongs: http://aipnews.com/mxPage.asp?ID=3)
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To: hedgetrimmer
Meg Whitman on Prop 187 :
Whitman also said she would have voted against Proposition 187 had she lived in California when it passed in 1994. The measure ... was intended to deny education, healthcare and other public services to undocumented immigrants. "I would not have been prepared to strip all of those services away from children"
She also supported Barbara Boxer in her 2003 reelection.

As to Arnie's Global Warming legislation, she seems to think that we should spend billions to fight it, but at a federal level. (Give the rights to States?) Whew!

"I would have said, 'Hey listen, let's keep one standard for the country as a whole today; if the economy gets better then let's give those rights to states,' " she said.

Of the three liberals(R) who are predicted to run for Governor, she's quickly emerging at the BOTTOM of my list.

225 posted on 02/25/2009 12:52:04 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
If you just take his positions as stated by him, Romney is without question a Conservative.

Stop right there, that is the issue, nothing else matters.

Stated positions and actual actions are two seperate things. The talk had to match the walk. Mitt's hasn't and with this Whitman endorsement it seems to still be the case.

226 posted on 02/25/2009 12:53:07 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: BarnacleCenturion
Second issue, the “health care thing” in Mass, it was HIS plan, don't try and pass it off as if he was an innocent bystander with little choice but to go along.

Interesting that you would even try and state such after a paragraph where you say we who opposed him were deceitful or dishonest...

227 posted on 02/25/2009 12:55:36 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Reagan Man
>>>>>>Nowhere did I say ‘a quarter of a million posts at Free Republic’.

>>>>>>A quarter of a million posts going back to 1998 ....

That is 250K, right? Right!

ROFL!

228 posted on 02/25/2009 12:56:57 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Reagan Man

Frankly, I don’t give a damn what you think. I’m okay with how the thread portrays me and you.


229 posted on 02/25/2009 12:56:59 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Mitt...


230 posted on 02/25/2009 12:57:37 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Badeye

What a big cry baby.

Can’t back up what you post, so you whine. LMAO


231 posted on 02/25/2009 12:59:36 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: calcowgirl

Stupidity speaks for itself. ;^)


232 posted on 02/25/2009 1:02:22 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: restornu
Resty, you are over your head on this one...

Also don’t mix in anything about Mitt’s religion here. You don't want to open that can of worms. This is about his POLITICS.

You can't have it both ways.

233 posted on 02/25/2009 1:03:23 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Reagan Man

I understand you are desperate for attention. You got it.


234 posted on 02/25/2009 1:03:59 PM PST by Badeye (There are no 'great moments' in Moderate Political History. Only losses.)
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To: BarnacleCenturion
That you contradict yourselves?
235 posted on 02/25/2009 1:05:19 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: EternalVigilance

Indeed, that is the “we have been beaten yet again” fall back position” for all Romney supporters here...


236 posted on 02/25/2009 1:09:06 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Badeye
>>>>>I understand you are desperate for attention.

Not at all. I'm desperate for some factual truth from you. I'll give you a couple hours. Lets see what you come up with.

237 posted on 02/25/2009 1:09:44 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: Badeye
I note the reality of California’s voter demographics, and you act like I’m the ‘bad guy’ here. ... The problem is California is a Liberal Enclave, by a huge margin demographically, for reasons we all know.

The problem is that liberal Republicans are all too quick to throw out the fundamental principles of the party and enable the very liberalism that we should be fighting. Why even bother when some are so willing to give in to the leftists by offering up RINOs as the only solution?

I'm so sick of those who run around alleging that "A conservative can't win" or calling others "single issue voters" who won't aid in electing more liberals.

It sounds like the same campaign nonsense spewed in the 1960s against Reagan. Thankfully, people didn't listen or we wouldn't have had a Governor Reagan, nor a President Reagan. It is an old and tired mantra:

"You need a Republican who can win the confidence of the minorities and who also understands the big business of California.

"Anyone who is tied up with one segment of the political spectrum can't make it.

"It can't be done, it's an impossible task; if a man has this image the party is going to waste a lot of money all for naught.

-- George Christopher, 1965, during his campaign against Ronald Reagan for Governor of California
(source: "George Christopher Will Run as Matter of Principle" Los Angeles Times, June 21, 1965; p.3)

238 posted on 02/25/2009 1:09:45 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: dalereed
Pay or die!

:-)

239 posted on 02/25/2009 1:10:34 PM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Radix
So let me get your logic here.

We hate Mitt because of his religion.

So by that logic, may I assume, as a “Conservative” that you feel that government should interfere in our health care system, that we should be lenient in support for abortion and that you believe there should be certain limits on Second Amendment rights?

I find there to be a certain amount of magic involved there, in the fact that simply because one is a Mormon those positions on what were once Conservative bedrock ideas can so easily be changed.

240 posted on 02/25/2009 1:18:41 PM PST by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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