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[RINO] Mitt Romney preps for 2012 with Virginia tour
Politico ^ | 2009-05-22 | Jonathan Martin

Posted on 05/24/2009 9:18:49 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

In another sign that he’s eying a second run for the presidency, Mitt Romney is planning a series of stops in Virginia next week to help Republican candidates running in the commonwealth’s off-year election.

Virginia is one of a handful of states with competitive races this year, and one where Republican officials feel best about their prospects for victory.

The former Massachusetts governor is the featured guest at the high-dollar gala next Friday prior to the Virginia GOP’s state convention in Richmond — one of the party’s chief fundraising events.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 2009; 2012; 2012gopprimary; anyonebutromney; chameleon; justsayno2romney; mcromney; rino; rino5thcolumn; rinoromney; romney; romney2012; romney4obama; romneyantigop; romneytruthfile; romneyunfit; slickwillard; va2009; va2012; vagop; zot
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To: Reaganesque

I would support Liz Cheney. With one big caveat. I am truly in a place where i think legacies and inherited titles are becoming a bad idea.
The sequel is almost never as good as the original. Bush, Kassebaum, AlGore, Daley, the entire Kennedy dynasty,,,

I just currently have a bad taste in my mouth for the child of any politician. Probably unfair, but i do.


81 posted on 05/24/2009 10:41:31 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: Stunned
stunned: "McCain! Without a hint of a doubt the most liberal of the field."


82 posted on 05/24/2009 10:42:06 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Reaganesque

Guess what im saying is that Lynn says the right things and i do feel good about her initially. But my radar is tuned and waiting for the first hint of her supporting *any* New world order, State Dept, North American union, open borders crappola.

I like her, but she hasnt won my trust yet. And it will not be given any faster just because of her last name.


83 posted on 05/24/2009 10:46:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs earn the title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
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To: Stunned

Are you a paid Romney operative?

Aw heck, why am I asking you that? You’d just lie about it if you were, just like the others who were outed.


84 posted on 05/24/2009 10:48:20 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: Reaganesque
"So you're pulling a Pelosi, are you?"

Is that anything like pulling a Slick Willard ?

85 posted on 05/24/2009 11:07:33 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I second your comment. We need to be concentrating on the 2010 election not on 2012. Guessed Mr. Hair missed the memo that said we have a 2010 election and prefers to line up support for his 2012 campaign which is a total waste. No way will he get the nomination no matter how early he starts. People that want to buy elections are not Conservative Republicans who vote in primaries.

Mr. Hair will NEVER get the nomination. Don’t want any primary candidate from 2008 for our nominee or we face another McCain landslide for ZERO!


86 posted on 05/24/2009 11:10:50 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (Mary Fallin for OK Governor in 2010! Mark Rubio for FL Governor in 2010!)
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To: Reaganesque
You know, the problem you have with perpetual lying, like your idol, it's hard to have a convo with you on any given subject. You lie about Limbaugh's support, for one, which has been debunked more times than their are follicles on the Slick One's head. I've said nothing about Liz Cheney. She was working for Fred and apparently served as a foreign policy advisor to your idol. Of course, working for a Trojan Horse Dem agent does call into question her judgment. However, if she wishes to run for some lesser office to make her bones, let her do so. If you're asking me if she's qualified to run for President or VP at this point, the answer is no (and that'd still be a "no" had she not worked for your idol). She hasn't the portfolio, yet. Palin and Sanford are the top two experienced and qualified LEGITIMATE Conservative candidates for President. But being this is FR, you should know that by now instead of asking that trolling question ad infinitum.
87 posted on 05/24/2009 11:14:43 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: rabscuttle385

You said — I will *never* vote for Romney.

And neither will I. But, in my case, it’s because I won’t be voting for a cult-member for President of the United States. I didn’t even have to get to the point of his politics. I stopped right at the point of him being a cult-member.

And for anyone else that does support Romney..., you might want to go shopping around for another website to post on, then..., in order to avoid some unfortunate problems in the future, if you decide to start posting strongly for Romney... LOL...

It would pay for people to be aware of Jim Robinson’s view on Romney. While I have views on Romney based in him belonging to a non-Christian cult group (i.e., Mormonism...), Jim Robinson has views based upon what he says below...


Unlike Romney’s “National Council for a New America,” Free Republic is a conservative site!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243314/posts
by Jim Robinson

If there is anyone here who doesn’t understand why we cannot support a slick socialist politician like Mitt Romney, God help you, but you’re on the wrong website. We went through this with the abortionist, gay rights activist, illegal alien supporting, gun grabbing Rudy Giuliani until someone created another website call WAnkers for Rudy and they all flew the coop. Hopefully, before too much FReeper blood is shed, someone will create a WAnkers for Romney site and we can be left to fight the good fight as we see fit!

FR is not for everyone!


I’m not saying that” you” (anyone who supports Romney) or anyone else should “go” — but — one better know where they stand in regards to *this site* and the owner of this site, before you go yapping in favor of Romney... :-)


88 posted on 05/24/2009 11:24:24 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: rabscuttle385

Looks like Romney is lining up the “right people” here early...the 2012 nomination is currently his to have...if anyone else wants a shot, they had better get started...magritte


89 posted on 05/24/2009 11:26:32 AM PDT by magritte (When it comes to questions of science...the hotter the chick the “truer” the facts.)
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To: Ol' Sparky
Hope you are right, Sparky. Willard the rat is as stupid as his old man, who was a nitwit Rino. He publicly claimed to have been “brainwashed” into supporting the Vietnam War.

Willard's first national campaign dissolved into dust even though there was no competition. McCain won by default and marched us off a cliff.

90 posted on 05/24/2009 11:30:08 AM PDT by Luke21
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91 posted on 05/24/2009 11:32:32 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper ([Advocate for] Mitt Romney[?], God help you, but you're on the wrong website ~ Jim Robinson)
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To: magritte

Well, he ain’t gonna be supported by Free Republic, that’s for sure... :-)


92 posted on 05/24/2009 11:38:17 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Star Traveler

LOL...I know that...however, FR will be irrelevant if Romney gets all that establishment backing that is needed to win the nomination...I’m a Newt guy myself, who is also unpopular on FR...magritte


93 posted on 05/24/2009 11:41:57 AM PDT by magritte (When it comes to questions of science...the hotter the chick the “truer” the facts.)
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To: magritte

Yeah, if Romney gets the “establishment” backing, he’s basically going to make the GOP lost the election, actually... that’s all that will happen...


94 posted on 05/24/2009 11:42:58 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: Stunned; ejonesie22; novemberslady; MrEdd; fieldmarshaldj; don-o; mnehring; DesertRhino; ...

95 posted on 05/24/2009 11:57:53 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: rabscuttle385

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um2Lxambevc


96 posted on 05/24/2009 12:08:28 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Reaganesque

NO,


97 posted on 05/24/2009 12:32:02 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: FreeInWV
I prefer a candidate who has demonstrated his long held conservative principles through his actions.

Don't bring common sense into a Cannibal Party.

98 posted on 05/24/2009 12:40:44 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Let's hear it for carpetbagger Romney who forced socialized medicine
on citizens without their vote

and then fled the state (The Romney Way!!!!!)

Election2008 Spoiler Mitt Romney chortles,
as he inflicts his socialized medicine (HillaryCARE=ROmneyCARE)
upon the Massachusetts citizens without any of their votes.


"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"
"Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward.
Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said.
The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled.
Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard.
Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care.
Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
The Healthcare Commission's chairman Sir Ian Kennedy said the investigation followed concerns about a higher than normal death rate at the Trust, which senior managers could not explain.
He said: "The resulting report is a shocking story. Our report tells a story of appalling standards of care and chaotic systems for looking after patients. These are words I have not previously used in any report.
"There were inadequacies in almost every stage of caring for patients. There was no doubt that patients will have suffered and some of them will have died as a result."
Julie Bailey, 47, was so concerned about the care being given to her 86-year-old mother Bella at Stafford Hospital that she and her relatives slept in a chair at her bedside for eight weeks.
She said: "We saw patients drinking out of..."


"Paramedics told: 'Let accident victims die if they want to' in new row over patient rights (UK)"
Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to die.
It has been set up by the ambulance service in London for hundreds of people who have only a few months to live so that they may register their 'death wishes' in advance.
It is believed to be the first in the country, but other trusts around the country are expected to follow suit to comply with Government guidelines which state that patients' wishes should be taken into account, even at the point of death.
Patients' groups and doctors have welcomed the scheme, but it has met opposition from pro-life groups who say it violates the sanctity of life.
The system would come into play if a cancer patient, for example, was in serious pain and rang 999 for help to alleviate the suffering.
But if the paramedics arrived and the patient was close to death, he or she would not be resuscitated if such a request was registered on the database.
This would also be the case if a patient on the database was being transferred between hospitals, and had a heart attack.
Dominica Roberts from the Pro-Life Alliance said: 'This is very sad and very dangerous. It's another step along the slippery slope, at the bottom of which is euthanasia as we see in Holland. 'Paramedics should be there to save lives. They should not be there to let patients die. The medical profession should not agree with someone's belief that their life is worthless.'"


"National Health Preview - The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
"Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country.
It is proving to be instructive, as Mr. Romney's foresight previews what President Obama, Max Baucus, Ted Kennedy and Pete Stark are cooking up for everyone else.
In Massachusetts's latest crisis, Governor Deval Patrick and his Democratic colleagues are starting to move down the path that government health plans always follow when spending collides with reality -- i.e., price controls.
As costs continue to rise, the inevitable results are coverage restrictions and waiting periods. It was only a matter of time.

They're trying to manage the huge costs of the subsidized middle-class insurance program that is gradually swallowing the state budget.
The program provides low- or no-cost coverage to about 165,000 residents, or three-fifths of the newly insured, and is budgeted at $880 million for 2010, a 7.3% single-year increase that is likely to be optimistic.
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006.

What really whipped along RomneyCare were claims that health care would be less expensive if everyone were covered.
But reducing costs while increasing access are irreconcilable issues.
Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."


A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State’s ‘Grand Experiment’ Fails [RomneyCare]
"The Daily News Record, Harrisonburg, Va. - 2009-03-31 "
"For folks increasingly leery of President Obama’s plan to radically overhaul America’s health-care system,
or 17 percent of the nation’s economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time —
that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care."

"Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so.
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
“RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million,
or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents,
has caused Massachusetts’ overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.

So what does Mr. Romney’s successor, Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick, propose as a remedy for these skyrocketing costs?
Well, whaddya think? The standard litany of prescriptions (no pun intended) — price controls and spending caps, for a start, and then, again predictably, waiting periods and limitations on coverage.
As in Europe and Canada, so too in Massachusetts. And, we feel certain, everyone from Mr. Romney to Mr. Patrick said, “It would never happen here.”
But then, such things are inevitable when best-laid plans, with all their monstrous costs, run smack-dab into fiscal reality.


"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"


Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs.
The Government's rationing body said two drugs for advanced breast cancer and a rare form of stomach cancer were too expensive for the NHS.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is expected to confirm guidance in the next few weeks that will effectively ban their use.
The move comes despite a pledge by Nice to be more flexible in giving life-extending drugs
to terminally-ill cancer patients after a public outcry last year over 'death sentence' decisions."

99 posted on 05/24/2009 1:34:54 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: rabscuttle385

100 posted on 05/24/2009 7:47:45 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands ("Failed Obama Administration" (TM))
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