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Mitt Quit Too
American Spectator ^ | 7.6.09 @ 1:01PM | By W. James Antle, III

Posted on 07/06/2009 1:12:20 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

A number of Palin defenders have argued that Mitt Romney similarly cut and run from Massachusetts. While there is an important distinction between resigning office and declining to run for reelection -- Romney served out the entire term to which he was elected -- I basically agree with this criticism. Romney's abandonment of Massachusetts during a critical juncture in fights over health care, the budget, and the definition of marriage was the single greatest factor that shifted me from a Romney-sympathetic commentator to a critic. (The spin of Romney's flip-flops by some of his overzealous supporters played a role too, as did his health care plan.)

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watching Romney exit the field while so many of the issues he claimed to care about were in play, leaving the commonwealth to suffer one-party Democratic rule for the first time since the Dukakis years without any serious check or challenge, was too much to take. The man who rode back into the Bay State to save the GOP from a certain disaster at the hands of Jane Swift ended up merely delaying the inevitable for four years.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: mittbots; mittbotzot; mittpetain; mittzot; mythromney; rino; rinopurge; rinoromney; romney; romneybots; scorchinscarchin; stenchofromney; zot; zottingmittbots
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To: hiredhand
Oh now let us keep a few of them for entertainment purposes...

Ball of string and all that...

221 posted on 07/06/2009 7:40:43 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: rabscuttle385
I had almost forgotten I had these. :-)

Useful Useful Useful Useful Useful Useful Useful Useful Useful Useful Useful
222 posted on 07/06/2009 7:44:13 PM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: ejonesie22
Oh now let us keep a few of them for entertainment purposes...

Ball of string and all that...


Good point! If we purge them all now, we definitely lose some very good and well needed entertainment!

I didn't think about it that way. :-)
223 posted on 07/06/2009 7:47:12 PM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
You don’t love Fwanks ?

No and I don't like electrocution either. LOL Sad to say that that man holds a hell bent death grip on our nations future. If ever there was demonic powers given someone he's a good example.

224 posted on 07/06/2009 7:50:21 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgement? Which one say ye?)
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To: Scarchin; 230FMJ; 50mm; A.Hun; abigailsmybaby; AFPhys; Aircop_2006; AliVeritas; Allegra; ...

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Viking Kitty/ZOT ping list!. . . don't be shy.

225 posted on 07/06/2009 7:54:36 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: darkwing104

Zottee of the moment got his/her own thread from the owner:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286990/posts


226 posted on 07/06/2009 8:00:18 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: hiredhand

I’ll say. We still have a major impaction here that needs evacuation...

And, hey, your dog would probably have more intelligent and coherent posts than the Slick Willardbots (and as the old cartoon goes, nobody knows you’re a dog on the internet). ;-D


227 posted on 07/06/2009 8:00:37 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: dynachrome
This is why I prefer to skip these type of threads. It can get nasty real fast.


228 posted on 07/06/2009 8:06:00 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: hiredhand
Never overlook entertainment value.

It is not like we risk them having any susbtative counterpoints. Indeed their antics have driven many borderline Mitt supporters away from the man. They often have been our best player...s

229 posted on 07/06/2009 8:06:02 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: cva66snipe

You know, we joke about these cretins, but it’s no joke when you consider what kind of power they wield. At some point, it goes beyond the incompent and dangerous officeholding thugs themselves to where the people that keep reelecting them need to be held personally liable. Frank has absolutely no business being in any position of authority, period.


230 posted on 07/06/2009 8:12:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Now if Mitt really wanted to do a huge service for the nation above and beyond the call of duty he should move into Barney Frank’s district and run for his seat. That would be an acceptable trade IMO.


231 posted on 07/06/2009 8:29:52 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgement? Which one say ye?)
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To: Scarchin
I’m not going to do it for 3 years.

LOL

No . . . you're not.

ROFLMAO

232 posted on 07/06/2009 8:38:33 PM PDT by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: Petronski

;-)


233 posted on 07/06/2009 8:39:33 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: cva66snipe

They’d never elect him in that district. Sadly, a few decades or so ago, part of that district used to be one of the most reliably Republican in the nation (sent Republicans almost uninterrupted from before the Civil War until 1983, including the prior GOP Speaker of the House, Joe Martin). DINO Gov. Ed King signed off on a redistrict to flush Frank from office in 1982 (when he was a freshman) by combining him with the stronger “R” incumbent Peg Heckler, but to everyone’s shock, Frank beat Heckler. Of course, there was still a MA GOP in those days, you couldn’t even safely gerrymander a single seat in MA to elect even one Republican, it’s not possible.


234 posted on 07/06/2009 8:48:32 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Run him as a DEM then LOL. I don’t like either one but Frank very much less to the point of hate. Still even Romney as a DEM in congress it would be safer for all concerned than having Frank. I mean Mitt can play either party part ya know. Impossible to get rid of Frank but dern a person can wish.


235 posted on 07/06/2009 9:00:29 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgement? Which one say ye?)
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To: cva66snipe

I’ve actually said that if a district must elect a rodent, and I mean a really leftist district, they should be someone so blatantly offensive that they serve as a lightning rod for the opposition to show the rest of the country that people like him should not be trusted with the power of the majority. It’s like when Cynthia McKinney was replaced in Georgia, the current guy in there is a Black Buddhist who votes almost identical to McKinney, but nobody knows who he is, and how can you vilify a friendly Buddhist ? You need an offensive person to match their offensive votes.


236 posted on 07/06/2009 9:05:59 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: trisham

Amazing to see the people from the threads you posted who would not tolerate any criticism of Mittens, or who said that unless McCain picked Romney they wouldn’t support him.

Tolerant lot, aren’t they?


237 posted on 07/06/2009 9:22:51 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney & his sons: members of the 1st Winnebago Motor Home Brigade, aka "The Fightin' RVs")
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To: Scarchin
Scarchin wrote: Go Mitt!!!!

Yes, indeed. Go Mitt. Go anywhere but here.

Oh, you meant it enthusiastically... my bad. Well, if you insist...

::shakes pom poms::

Gimme a F! F!

Gimme a L! L!

Gimme a I! I!

Gimme a P! P!

What does it spell? FLIP!

Gimme a F! F!

Gimme a L! L!

Gimme a O! O!

Gimme a P! P!

What does it spell? FLOP!

Put it all together, and what do you got?

MITT ROMNEY! FLIP FLOPPING Across America!

Wooo Hooo!

238 posted on 07/06/2009 9:37:42 PM PDT by mountainbunny (Mitt Romney & his sons: members of the 1st Winnebago Motor Home Brigade, aka "The Fightin' RVs")
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To: ejonesie22
Never overlook entertainment value.

It is not like we risk them having any susbtative counterpoints. Indeed their antics have driven many borderline Mitt supporters away from the man. They often have been our best player...s


I need to remember more often to have some fun with this sort of thing instead of going for blood first. :-) THANKS for the reminder. I appreciate it! :-)
239 posted on 07/06/2009 9:43:40 PM PDT by hiredhand (Understand the CRA and why we're facing economic collapse - see my about page.)
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To: Scarchin



240 posted on 07/06/2009 11:22:04 PM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (He must fail.)
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