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The Long-Distance Runner (Be afraid, be very afraid for 2012)
Boston.com ^

Posted on 08/30/2009 10:25:41 AM PDT by Replace all Democrats

Just before Thanksgiving last year, a group of former aides to Mitt Romney convened at his salmon-colored Belmont home, many of them gathering for the first time since Romney had disbanded his presidential campaign some nine months before. Romney had invited them for a post-mortem of the election weeks earlier, the type of dispassionate assessment that the Harvard Business School alumnus so enjoyed. But over cookies, they found few of the metrics for success that Romney prized -- Republicans had been decisively thumped at all levels -- and his attention shifted from 2008 to the future.

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To: Grandma Conservative

It won’t happen. We stopped that Socialist scum twice last year (first in the Presidential primaries, second in being chosen for VP), and we’ll stop him again in ‘12 when he’s older than the “too old Fred Thompson” and a fairly-well exposed con-artist. The base knows what he is, only his stupid little trolls are left to spread around the “big lie” that he’s anything but a cancer. Slick Willard is a sad joke.


181 posted on 09/07/2009 7:39:35 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Jeb ? Nope. I can’t imagine his wanting to run and getting saddled with all his brother’s baggage. Of course, he left the FL GOP in far better shape than his brother did nationally (he’d probably have made a better President than Dubya).


182 posted on 09/07/2009 7:41:28 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Oh YES!! Obama for 4 MORE EONS will be sOOOOOOOOOO much better than Romney....SOOOOOOOOOOOO much better. geesh.....do you want PERFECTION????? This is NOT CHURCH...it’s POLITICS and you vote for the BETTER PERSON.....if you are an adult.


183 posted on 09/07/2009 7:44:55 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

No, Annie, we don’t want perfection, we just want a Conservative. Why do you want Socialist Slick Willard ?


184 posted on 09/07/2009 7:51:19 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

geesh....don’t be ridiculous......I am a conservative, but I have grown up enough to know that a RINO is better than a Liberal Democrat, when that is the choice you have.......guess you don’t think so.


185 posted on 09/07/2009 8:01:49 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Plenty of consultants who worked for the Bushes have moved to Romney. Jeb is looking to 2016. Tim Pawlenty is working on being the anti-Romney candidate. Yesterday on CNN, Pawlenty praised Palin and criticized both RomneyCare and ObamaCare.


186 posted on 09/07/2009 8:11:19 AM PDT by yongin
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To: Ann Archy; Allegra; American Constitutionalist; CanadianMusherinMI; Clemenza; Diogenesis; ...

Annie, your unhinged, overemotional attachment to a Socialist con-artist with a record of destruction indicates you are anything but a Conservative. As for RINOs being better than liberal Democrats ? Nonsense. RINOs ARE liberal Democrats within the GOP. Trojan Horses designed to inflict maximum damage to the party and to Conservativism. Slick Willard is the very definition. A choice between him vs. Zero ? It’s a no brainer. Zero has at least the intellectual integrity to serve openly as a Democrat, he doesn’t pretend to be a Republican and pay off slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging morons and sycophants to go around lying to others how “Conservative” he is.


187 posted on 09/07/2009 8:12:40 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: yongin

Pawlenty’s such a phony. He ought to work on repairing the damage he inflicted to the MN GOP. It’s at its weakest point since Watergate.


188 posted on 09/07/2009 8:16:03 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Ann Archy
You're hysterical and shrill.


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189 posted on 09/07/2009 8:18:34 AM PDT by jla
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To: fieldmarshaldj

right......I think you purists really want the Republicans creamed by the Democrats for decades and decades.

WHO would you vote for in the next election if Romney won the primary and it was him against Obama?? Just answer the question, please.


190 posted on 09/07/2009 8:27:12 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

right......I think you purists really want the Republicans creamed by the Democrats for decades and decades.

WHO would you vote for in the next election if Romney won the primary and it was him against Obama?? Just answer the question, please.

Oh, BTW....I am a Palin supporter all the way.


191 posted on 09/07/2009 8:27:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
"right......I think you purists really want the Republicans creamed by the Democrats for decades and decades."

Unlike you, troll, I want the Republican party run and LED by Republicans, not liberal Socialist Democrats like Slick Willard.

"WHO would you vote for in the next election if Romney won the primary and it was him against Obama?? Just answer the question, please."

Are you too stupid to read my prior post ? I don't vote for Socialists in either party.

"Oh, BTW....I am a Palin supporter all the way."

Pure unadulterated bullcrap. Shills for Slick Willard only do one thing, and that's to shank Sarah.

192 posted on 09/07/2009 8:33:38 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

No thanks, two Bushes were enough. Right now, other than Sarah, I don’t see anyone able to unite the Republican base.


193 posted on 09/07/2009 8:56:52 AM PDT by Grandma Conservative (Quit settling for the lesser of two evils and support conservatives in the primaries.)
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To: yongin; fieldmarshaldj

it is not out of the question that Romney will do a complete implosion in ‘12. He cannot win IOWA, and New Hampshire gave him a cold reception without any competition from the Right.

I do not think Jeb is planning to run, but it isn’t out of the question if there is a clear path to the nomination in the depths of the Obama depression.

Many knee-jerk conservatives will sign up for Jeb ‘12 the same way that they signed up for George ‘88 and George ‘00.


194 posted on 09/07/2009 9:04:55 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I am a Palin supporter and always have been. And if you call me a TROLL one more time, I will hit the ABUSE button. Just because I ask you a question, you question my conservativeness.


195 posted on 09/07/2009 9:11:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Some might sign up for Jeb, but I won’t. It’s too close to a dynasty. We need new blood and fresh faces, and that’s Sarah.


196 posted on 09/07/2009 9:19:30 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Anima Mundi

NO MORE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION CANDIDATES... even if they happen to be Conservative. Skin color should NEVER enter into the equation.

LLS


198 posted on 09/07/2009 10:49:25 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: autumnraine
She took on the repubic party machine in Alaska as well as the evilcrats... she reformed and busted up the good old boy network on both sides of the aisle... and the country club blue blood repubics hate her... they are threatened her and she threatens their control on the money and direction of the party. That is why I back Palin 1000% and why I am no longer formerly a republican.

LLS

199 posted on 09/07/2009 10:52:48 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: AzaleaCity5691
mcdole lost that election all by himself... and no amount of skewed reality from you will change that fact... he played nicey nice with hussein... a cheap chi town commie thug and he would not touch on those issues that would have destroyed hussein. He had his big mouthed, liberal dim trash of a daughter running his Internet presence and his top tier campaign idiots were all dims.

Palin is the only reason that he did as well as he did... and I swear that I (and millions of Conservatives) would NEVER have voted for mcnasty if it had not been for who Michael Reagan calls, “My dad is a skirt”.

LLS

200 posted on 09/07/2009 11:02:04 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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