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Republicans, including Romney, launch new [RINO] group
The Boston Globe ^ | 04-30-09 | The Boston Globe

Posted on 04/30/2009 10:19:57 AM PDT by GOP_Lady

Reeling congressional Republicans today launched a new effort days after their latest setback -- the defection of Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, putting Democrats within reach of potentially being able to push legislation through the Senate without a single Republican vote.

House GOP Whip Eric Cantor announced that the National Council for a New America will hold its first event on Saturday with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who ran last year and could run again in 2012; Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, another possible 2012 contender; former Governor Jeb Bush, the former president's brother; and Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, a former national GOP chairman.

The council appears a way to rebut Democratic portrayals of the GOP as the "party of no" by pulling together a cohesive policy strategy by the opposition.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; abortionist; antigun; bush; ericcantor; gayagenda; gop; jindal; ncna; rebuilding; rino; rinoromney; romney; romneycare; romneytruthfile; socialism
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To: KevinDavis

Governor Haley Barbour — meh
Governor Jeb Bush — meh
Governor Bobby Jindal — Good
Senator John McCain — Crap
Governor Mitt Romney — NO WAY IN HELL


161 posted on 04/30/2009 11:23:43 PM PDT by reaganaut ("When we FACE UP to the Majesty of God, we will find ourselves FACE DOWN in Worship" - Matt Redman)
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To: rintense
You are correct. It makes me think they are all scrambling to become the party of the "Tea Party" group. They were not invited to our party, but they still want to CRASH it.

It is really rather humorous to watch them try to appease all of us with their stupidity and arrogance of trying to feed us that same old SWILL under a new label.

Unless we get some that will return to the REAGAN republicans, I say NO DEAL.

Alas, we keep telling them but they still don't get it.

162 posted on 05/01/2009 12:08:41 AM PDT by annieokie (i)
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To: Madame Dufarge

Could these people get any more tone deaf?

Republicans don’t need to remove ideological filters, they need to build a honking huge stone wall with REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGY painted on it in enormous indelible Day-Glo colors and surrounded with punji sticks to keep “moderates” from breaching the wall.

Boiling oil wouldn’t be a bad idea, either

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Well said. Let’s start the fires.


163 posted on 05/01/2009 12:09:39 AM PDT by reaganaut ("When we FACE UP to the Majesty of God, we will find ourselves FACE DOWN in Worship" - Matt Redman)
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To: CaspersGh0sts

The RINO Romney thing is getting a big old. The guy could have completely sold out after he didn’t get the nomination last time, but he hasn’t. He’s been rock solid in his criticisms of Obama and the liberals in Congress.

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Romney is NO dummy. He knows he has to keep up the facade in order to have a chance at the nom in 2012. The man is no conservative.


164 posted on 05/01/2009 12:16:30 AM PDT by reaganaut ("When we FACE UP to the Majesty of God, we will find ourselves FACE DOWN in Worship" - Matt Redman)
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To: chae

I feel the same way, that speech told me he is very very meek, to passive. I don’t get a good feeling about him. Another Bush redo to me, although I think Bush is stronger of the two, like Jindal, he was not a speaker.


165 posted on 05/01/2009 12:17:48 AM PDT by annieokie (i)
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To: Above My Pay Grade

Mitt might sound good, but he doesn’t believe ANYTHING he says and will say ANYTHING to get elected. Once elected, he will do ANYTHING to get re-elected.

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Yep. He is the epitome of the ends justify the means.


166 posted on 05/01/2009 12:18:29 AM PDT by reaganaut ("When we FACE UP to the Majesty of God, we will find ourselves FACE DOWN in Worship" - Matt Redman)
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To: Tennessee Nana

The only set back I see there is RINO Romney setting back Conservatism to the back of the bus...

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Yep. I am not going to lie.

I don’t LIKE Romney because he is NOT A CONSERVATIVE. I don’t TRUST Romney because he is Mormon. I know waaaay to much about them.


167 posted on 05/01/2009 12:21:05 AM PDT by reaganaut ("When we FACE UP to the Majesty of God, we will find ourselves FACE DOWN in Worship" - Matt Redman)
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To: reaganaut; All

Sorry he doesn’t fit your holier than thou attitude... I remember numnuts like you complaining about Reagan...


168 posted on 05/01/2009 3:44:25 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Now a member of the NRA)
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To: reaganaut

RINO liar, chameleon, carpetbagger, backstabber, socialist Mitt Romney
was already exposed saying ANYTHING to get elected:
Make all the promises you have to...

169 posted on 05/01/2009 9:29:39 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: annieokie
They were not invited to our party, but they still want to CRASH it.

If you turn on a porch light all the bugs will come out to circle around it. Without a great shining light on the hill like Ronald Reagan around to keep them focused and in line they will wander off to wherever the lights are brightest. In the case of most of the individuals listed in the article that would be any camera light, anywhere, anytime.

170 posted on 05/01/2009 10:28:50 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (America has proved it's not racist. Now it needs to prove it's not suicidal.)
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To: KevinDavis

Sorry he doesn’t fit your holier than thou attitude... I remember numnuts like you complaining about Reagan...

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ROFL. I like Jindal. I don’t like Mitt.

More like i don’t fit Mitt’s “holier than thou” attitude.

Romney is no Reagan. To compare the two is to insult the greatest conservative leader of the 20th Century.


172 posted on 05/01/2009 10:44:14 AM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost, but now am found; was blind but now I see")
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To: Retired Greyhound
The above mentioned are all bright individuals

"what we're aiming to do is to join together in a conversation with the American people" - Eric Cantor

"I’m beginning a conversation — with you, with America.” - Hillary Clinton
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"We're going to spread a wide tent" - John McCain

"In politics, a big tent party or catch-all party is a political party seeking to attract people with diverse viewpoints. The party does not require adherence to some ideology as a criterion for membership." - Wikipedia
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"Instead, this is going to be a living, breathing, expanding group that engages Americans from all walks of life." - Introduction Letter, NCNA

"[T]he words of the [Eighth] Amendment are not precise, and that their scope is not static. The Amendment must draw its meaning from the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society." - Trop vs. Dulles, US Supreme Court
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"This is not a Contract with America" - John McCain

[Decades from now, historians quite likely will reflect back upon the Contract With America as one of the most significant developments in the political history of the United States. As Newt Gingrich, the first Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives in 40 years, has written: "there is no comparable congressional document in our two-hundred-year history."] - Jeffery B. Gayner, Heritage Foundation
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They might be bright, but they speak the language of socialism. And I think we all know by now that is not a winning formula unless you really are a socialist.

173 posted on 05/01/2009 10:49:27 AM PDT by Pan_Yan (America has proved it's not racist. Now it needs to prove it's not suicidal.)
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To: Pan_Yan

I wish McLame were not part of this. He is old news.

But Jindal, Romney, Barbour...those are good voices to have front and center.


174 posted on 05/01/2009 3:43:31 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Retired Greyhound

Lets not even look at his record.

Romney is the most divisive figure in the Republican Party.

The face of your party should not be someone that half your constituents revile.


175 posted on 05/01/2009 6:58:51 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (America has proved it's not racist. Now it needs to prove it's not suicidal.)
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To: Pan_Yan

I think this is more about policy, in which case Romney’s inclusion is appropriate.

He is very articulate on economic matters, and his National Review column about Obama’s reluctant defense of global liberty was spot on.

I don’t have a problem with divisiveness. I would argue that Palin is the most divisive figure in the party, but it has had positive effects. She has effectively rinsed the party of some of it’s weaker elements, e.g. David Brooks, David Frum, Peggy Noonan, etc.


176 posted on 05/02/2009 7:56:46 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: Cheetahcat; staytrue

As I understand it, Jeb Bush changed his mind on offshore drilling after all those oil rigs came through Katrina without fouling up the Gulf of Mexico.


177 posted on 05/02/2009 8:24:02 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Barack Obama: in your guts, you know he's nuts!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“As I understand it, Jeb Bush changed his mind on offshore drilling after all those oil rigs came through Katrina without fouling up the Gulf of Mexico.”

Too little too late he is finished.


178 posted on 05/02/2009 8:56:01 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: MHGinTN
Bobby JIndal is not a Constitutionally eligible citizen for the presidency

Why? Piyush Jindal was born on June 10, 1971 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Punjabi Indian Agrawal immigrants

Nationality by birth...
179 posted on 05/20/2009 8:36:20 AM PDT by Cronos (Ceterum censeo, Mecca et Medina delenda est)
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To: Cronos

Not a natural born citizen by the way the authors of the Constitution defined that title. Neither of Bobby’s parents were yet American citizens when Bobby was born in the USofA. He is a citizen, no question. He is not a natural born citizen however.


180 posted on 05/20/2009 8:55:46 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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