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Romney Urges Republicans to 'Stand Up' to Obama's Policies [as he extols the virtues of Romney Care]
Fox News ^ | 2009-07-01

Posted on 07/01/2009 8:31:12 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

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On health care, Romney pointed to the successes of his own plan but criticized Obama's for its emphasis on a public option.

"The president's plan makes an enormous error by saying we're going to put government into the insurance business. We got everyone in Massachusetts insured and we did it without putting government into the insurance business," he said. "We said instead we're going to help people get private free enterprise kind of insurance they can buy from a number of different companies."

He said the system led to plunging premiums while offering a healthy choice of options for consumers.

"It's working well. We got 440,000 more people insured than when the plan was put in place, it costs less than 2 percent of the state budget -- it's a plan that's working, it's a good model," he said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Massachusetts
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To: rabscuttle385

Oh shut up, Mitt, you RINO traitor.


61 posted on 07/01/2009 9:42:55 AM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: steve-b

Why? Because it worked on you? What does that say about you that you have fallen for the MSM’s lies?


62 posted on 07/01/2009 9:44:01 AM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: rabscuttle385

Romney is either delusional, or a liar, or an idiot. I don’t see a fourth choice. His health plan is bankrupting MA.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121728669884991317.html

I pick option 2 - Romney knows it is false, but slickly
repaints it as a success. How could he not know what is
in the facts of the numbers?


63 posted on 07/01/2009 9:44:29 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: dirtboy
"What part of 'When the GOP runs RINOs for president, they lose' are you deliberately ignoring here?"

To me, both George Bushes were RINO's. They were both wishy-washy moderates, and I never would have nominated either of them. But Rush Limbaugh wasn't running, so I showed up and voted for the Bushes, because they were much better than the alternatives.

I truly fear our country is lost. Vote fraud, campaign finance fraud, Welfare voters, white-guilt yuppies, and Conservative who would rather play "Holier-than-thou" than win elections.

64 posted on 07/01/2009 9:44:46 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: rabscuttle385

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65 posted on 07/01/2009 9:50:13 AM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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To: dirtboy
Here's my point. Your only refernece about the GOP winning with real conservatives is Reagan - you have no other example. What happend with Goldwater? Or was he not a "real conservative" either? I remember Reagan running to the center during the election NOT to the right. I'm not rationalizing. I'm not making up lies. You didn't even address the other things I wrote, you just jumped on abortion and rationalized the bill Reagan signed as Governor. I probably would have signed it too. My point in bringing it up is to make folks like you realize the guy was human too.

Further Reagan had to make compromises with a Democrat Congress and he did. I don't care about "establishment pubbies" and who you decide to label as such or who you yell bullcrap at. Get a grip. Are you worried I might vote for Romney against a "real conservative"? Get your real conservative in the game before you worry about that and alienate lots of people who probably would support your candidate. Right now, I don't see a real conservative. Maybe it's Palin, maybe it's not. There's a few years before we know who's in the game anyway.

66 posted on 07/01/2009 9:52:06 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: ejonesie22
It is getting hard to stay ahead of the BS isn’t it..

The Rudy-tooters tried the same crap in 2007. It's hardly a surprise to see the Mitt apologists resort to the same.

67 posted on 07/01/2009 9:56:22 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: rhombus
Your only refernece about the GOP winning with real conservatives is Reagan - you have no other example.

I gave the example of Bush the younger being more conservative than Bush the elder, and W won two elections on his own accord, whereas HW only won running on Reagan's coattails. Goldwater? The country wasn't ready yet. However, the country is still 40 percent self-identified as conservative, and there are plenty of blue-collar Dems who will cross over for the right candidate.

So go ahead with your next lie. It's what the RINO apologists do best. Other than losing presidential elections.

68 posted on 07/01/2009 9:59:12 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy

And they will meet the same fate...


69 posted on 07/01/2009 9:59:20 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: dirtboy
"health of the mother"? Wow, you're really defending Reagan over this and not other Republicans who had to make the same compromise? What a phony. The guy shot you in the ass and you come back with that pathetic excuse?

What about his other points? A case can be made against any Republican and used to keep this country chained to the Democrat party.

You anti-Romney, anti-Rudy, anti-Thompson, anti-Palin, anti-whoever jerks are the problem.

70 posted on 07/01/2009 10:01:16 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: rhombus

You’ll know you’ve won the argument when the flying monkeys trot out their, “Well, tell that to owner of this site!” come-back. Then they ping Jim. Wait for it. It’s priceless.


71 posted on 07/01/2009 10:05:58 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: dirtboy
OK, got it:

RINO wins since Goldwater when we "weren't ready yet: Nixon, H.W. Bush, W. Bush.

Real Conservative wins: Reagan.

RINOs: 3, RealCons: 1

I figure a couple of old farts like us arguing about Regan and now Goldwater probably look pretty ridiculous to the 18 - 40 years olds who now run this country. Good luck convincing them.

72 posted on 07/01/2009 10:07:08 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: NormsRevenge

Mitt the RINO ping


73 posted on 07/01/2009 10:07:16 AM PDT by ColoCdn (Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
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To: Deb
You’ll know you’ve won the argument when the flying monkeys trot out their, “Well, tell that to owner of this site!” come-back. Then they ping Jim. Wait for it. It’s priceless.

I'm telling mommy on you... ;-)

74 posted on 07/01/2009 10:10:11 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus

That’s the spirit.


75 posted on 07/01/2009 10:11:31 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: ejonesie22

It’s not their fault, slick mitt’s been known to change his mind every now and again.


76 posted on 07/01/2009 10:12:51 AM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012!)
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To: rhombus
RINOs: 3, RealCons: 1

Try again, liar.

Bush the elder won on Reagan's coattails. When he ran on his own record in 1992, he got trounced. Bush the younger was more conservative than Bush but not as conservative as Reagan. And he had two very close elections.

So the lesson is, RINO-breath, is for the GOP to run a center-right conservative, not a RINO.

OK, on to your next election-losing lie.

77 posted on 07/01/2009 10:13:01 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Deb
What a phony. The guy shot you in the ass and you come back with that pathetic excuse?

Ah, Deb - the poster who apologizes for Kerick's corruption. You're the poster child of how the GOP lost in 2006 and 2008, so why should anyone listen to you?

Oh, and once again, the bill Reagan signed had exactly those provisions - provisions that are accepted by many in the pro-life movement. The poster claimed that Reagan used to be in favor of abortion, which is a blatant lie.

78 posted on 07/01/2009 10:15:38 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: dirtboy
The guy shot you down and you got nothing.

You don't even know the first thing about Kerick, but you keep blabbin'. Do you ever get anything right?

79 posted on 07/01/2009 10:21:19 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: dirtboy

Liar, liar, liar... RINO-breath? What are you? Five? My pants aren’t on fire but yours are char broiled. See you around, chump.


80 posted on 07/01/2009 10:24:53 AM PDT by rhombus
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