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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: ejonesie22

"I'll take the 100,000 volts diwectly in the wectum..."

21 posted on 07/06/2009 1:29:44 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

“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.”

Reality check: He signed a healthcare reform bill (albeit misguided), balanced every budget while he was Governor, and was a vocal advocate on the DOM Act - against an over-whelming democratic legislature and MA Supreme Court.

The dude needs to get his facts straight. He obviously doesn’t live in MA.


22 posted on 07/06/2009 1:31:18 PM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: fieldmarshaldj

never feel it...


23 posted on 07/06/2009 1:31:57 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: raptor29

I hate to break the news to you, but Mitt could now be the front runner for the Republican Party.


24 posted on 07/06/2009 1:33:33 PM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: Servant of the Cross

Actually, I think Chuck Norris shared a pair of Mike Huckabee Underoos with you.
Just not at the same time, I hope.


25 posted on 07/06/2009 1:33:38 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: ejonesie22

His hair only hides his halo because his sense of modesty prevents him from showing us mere mortals how superior he really is.

I bet her speaks french, in russian.


26 posted on 07/06/2009 1:33:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

If Mitt had handed over the reins early, his Lt. Muffy might have had a chance to establish herself—and the state wouldn’t have been lost to Deval. Too bad the occasion arose before Palin had been able to show leadership in the situation!


27 posted on 07/06/2009 1:34:16 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

I don’t believe Romney is what he tries to pass himself off as being. He won’t be getting a vote from me. That’s final.

Persons who serve as Governor are not obligated to serve a second term. If they think they can be of better use somewhere else, they can opt out. I honestly don’t see the shame in that, even for a person I don’t particularly like as a politician.

This comparison is childish. I’m sure it’s well intended, but it really does reflect poorly on the writer.


28 posted on 07/06/2009 1:34:28 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (_Resident of the United States and Kenya's favorite son, Baraaaack Hussein Obamaaaa...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

*chuckles*


29 posted on 07/06/2009 1:34:31 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway)
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To: teddyballgame

Over our dead bodies. :-)


30 posted on 07/06/2009 1:34:34 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

As if the “Palin wasn’t any worse than Obama” wasn’t bad enough, how many people at FR really think the “Palin isn’t really that much worse than Romney” is a rational argument?


31 posted on 07/06/2009 1:34:45 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: 9YearLurker

Slick Willard had no intention of leaving the office to anyone other than a rodent.


32 posted on 07/06/2009 1:35:30 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: teddyballgame

Mitt is definitely the front runner now, as has been, as Charles Krauthammer has noted.
But Rudy Giuliani was the front runner from 2004 until 2007 — the years that don’t really matter much.

So we’ll see what takes shape once the race actually gets under way in a couple years.


33 posted on 07/06/2009 1:35:55 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: teddyballgame

Gosh darn it you are right!

How did I, or anyone else, ever doubt Mitt...

It would be like questioning Zeus

Without all that hookey Greek tragedy stuff of course..


34 posted on 07/06/2009 1:35:57 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: teddyballgame

I was in MA at a time to enthusiastically put Mitt in office, and he not only completely capitulated to the Dem legislature, but he also lifted nary a gubernatorial finger to support candidates across the state, and party insiders were rightly bitter that he did nothing to help the state from spiraling down to a Democrat monopoly.


35 posted on 07/06/2009 1:36:59 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: cripplecreek

With a German accent...

In the orginial Greek...


36 posted on 07/06/2009 1:37:02 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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To: cripplecreek
Still not voting for Romney.

Seconding that.

Again. :)

37 posted on 07/06/2009 1:37:15 PM PDT by Allegra ( Socks)
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To: ejonesie22

Mitt Derangement Syndrome...starting early. It’s gonna be laong three years.


38 posted on 07/06/2009 1:39:17 PM PDT by teddyballgame
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To: CharlesWayneCT

No, the real situation is that Mitt should have gone by what Palin did—but she hadn’t had the chance set the standard yet. (And Mitt chose not to follow Weld’s lead in giving Lt Cellucci the lead time that he clearly needed!)


39 posted on 07/06/2009 1:40:16 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Allegra
Well no one expects you kooky Ron Paul “supporters” to support the most wonderful and handsome Conservative in politics today...

(sir, your meds... SIR!...)

40 posted on 07/06/2009 1:40:20 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Mitt Romney is a more subtle version of Arlen Specter with better hair...)
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