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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: fieldmarshaldj; ejonesie22; Diogenesis
Wow....I can still smell the ozone. ;-)
We're short one Mittbot?
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posted on
07/06/2009 11:40:27 PM PDT
by
Allegra
( Socks)
To: darkwing104
It was a suicide by zot.
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posted on
07/07/2009 4:03:48 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: mountainbunny
Quite. I particularly liked the thread where no criticism of Mitt was to be allowed. Unintentionally funny.
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posted on
07/07/2009 4:05:57 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Allegra
Yes, the village has gotten its idiot back...
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posted on
07/07/2009 4:17:20 AM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
To: darkwing104; Scarchin
Long time FReeper Scarchin got the ZOT! May have been Mitt himself!
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posted on
07/07/2009 5:03:19 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Jimmy Carter - now the second worst POTUS ever. BHO has #1 spot in his sights.)
To: teddyballgame
I hate to break the news to you, but Mitt could now be the front runner for the Republican RINO Party. FAIL.
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posted on
07/07/2009 5:33:22 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Scarchin
Mouse over the image for a special message from Islmic Rage Kong.
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posted on
07/07/2009 8:36:19 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
To: Scarchin
GO Sarah !!! 2012 !!!
Sarah Palin 2012 !!!
To: fieldmarshaldj
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