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McCain a booster as Romney works to win over skeptics [Romney convinced McCain to back TARP]
The Boston Globe ^ | 2009-10-01 | Sasha Issenberg

Posted on 09/30/2009 10:09:58 PM PDT by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON - Mitt Romney had already sent out invitations for his Phoenix fund-raiser, offering supporters the chance to meet him in a Chase Field luxury box over a $300-per-person lunch or a $3,000 VIP reception.

But when former rival John McCain called with an offer to be listed as host for the event in his hometown, Romney happily went back to the printer for a new invitation with McCain’s name emblazoned on it.

Yesterday, McCain’s gesture helped Romney’s political action committee raise about $80,000. It also consummated an 18-month rapprochement between two competitors who battled for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Acrimony has been replaced by a professional friendship, the latest success in Romney’s methodical campaign to win over past skeptics as he prepares for another presidential run in 2012.

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To: rabscuttle385

Why do I have this sick feeling in my gut that Romney has already been chosen to be our candidate in 2012?


41 posted on 10/01/2009 4:58:59 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Bullsh*t)
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To: rabscuttle385
Endangered white rhinos...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Endangered white rinos...


 

42 posted on 10/01/2009 5:00:09 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Why do I have this sick feeling in my gut that Romney has already been chosen to be our candidate in 2012?

If Romney is the candidate I would actually, for the first time in my life, consider staying home, making some popcorn, and watching as he loses and the marxist revolution just sinks this country.

(I probably wouldn't really do it but I'd sure consider it.)

43 posted on 10/01/2009 5:05:16 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: rabscuttle385

Looks like the battle lines for 2012 are forming. In the words of another former presidential candidate “Bring It Onnnnna!”


44 posted on 10/01/2009 5:11:01 AM PDT by McGruff (Go rogue baby, go rogue!)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Well, that's what the beltway RINO crowd is certainly plotting. They're not even trying to hide it. That's why they've desperately been trying to undermine Sarah Palin's Conservative/Libertarian insurgency so that they can pave the way for "next man in line" Romney. However, things are much different now than in early 2008, and I don't think the grassroots is going to stand for it this time. The beltway RINOs are going to learn some hard truths I think once Sarah doubles down and turns up the heat in the next two years. Her early rallies in 2012 will tell the tale, as to exactly where Romney, Pawlenty, and Huck all stand with the main street GOP at that time. Heck, this article says that only 150 people showed up for the Romney/McCain event.

Now imagine how many would have showed up if Sarah had been there.

45 posted on 10/01/2009 5:14:07 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Jim, here’s another one for your official truth file...


46 posted on 10/01/2009 5:17:14 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain said it was Bush who convinced him. Which is it? Doesn’t matter. In the end he was applying for a job where he was supposed to be the final authority and this just reveals he not only made the wrong decisions but trust the wrong people for advice.

Romney supported it himself. He’s worthless as well.


47 posted on 10/01/2009 5:44:07 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: conservativebuckeye

Romney has the inside track for 2012 because Republican primary voters in NH, SC, VA, and other early states are so uninformed that all they know to do is support the best known candidate. Hence Dole in 1996 and McPain in 2008. They are fully predictable.


48 posted on 10/01/2009 5:54:30 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: reagan_fanatic

The children of those who selected Dole will be for Romney. Plus George Romney never had “his turn”.


49 posted on 10/01/2009 5:56:04 AM PDT by Theodore R.
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To: rabscuttle385

We could have bailed out Lehman Brothers without TARP.


50 posted on 10/01/2009 6:24:25 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Arizona Carolyn
$80,000 isn’t very much money at all .....

Exactly....I raised $17,000 for a presidential candidate in 1999. That sould have been 10x that amount

51 posted on 10/01/2009 6:34:37 AM PDT by MadelineZapeezda (*I can see Sarah's political ascendancy from my house!!!!! .........*posterchild)
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To: Theodore R.

Nonsense. We stopped that trash last year, we’ll stop him again. He’s a laughing stock to the base.


52 posted on 10/01/2009 6:36:48 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Carl LaFong

“Dumb and Dumber,RINO edition.”

RINO and RINOer.

:)


53 posted on 10/01/2009 6:38:26 AM PDT by maggief
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To: rabscuttle385

[Romney convinced McCain to back TARP]

LOL, Romney screwed him over but GOOD!


54 posted on 10/01/2009 7:00:50 AM PDT by Grunthor (Gun toting, Bible thumping Flag waver. According to the left, I am a racist.)
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To: conservativebuckeye

“It’s definitely within the realm of possibility that Romney was trying to sabotage McCain.”

If true, that would prove one thing. Not even Romney is ALL bad.


55 posted on 10/01/2009 7:02:10 AM PDT by Grunthor (Gun toting, Bible thumping Flag waver. According to the left, I am a racist.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Given the amount of people on this forum with a visceral hatred of Romney, and he’s not my favorite by a long shot, I will laugh myself silly if A) Sarah Palin picks him to be her VP or B) he wins the nomination and people have to swallow their bile and support him or allow the Marxist in Chief to continue his reign of terror.

(I realize this post could get me flamed by the Romney haters, but I hope they understand that I am NOT a fan of his, I just don’t harbor the hatred that they cling to like an alcoholic to a fifth of Jack)


56 posted on 10/01/2009 7:07:28 AM PDT by Grunthor (Gun toting, Bible thumping Flag waver. According to the left, I am a racist.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Wow. Romney might have lost the 2008 election.


57 posted on 10/01/2009 7:09:22 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might)
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To: PhilDragoo

“McCain’s immigration madness cost the party its triple-grip on power.”

This has hurt the GOP more than anything else IMHO.


58 posted on 10/01/2009 7:51:41 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Grunthor; fieldmarshaldj; ejonesie22; Diogenesis; greyfoxx39
he wins the nomination and people have to swallow their bile and support him

I will NOT support Romney under any circumstances whatsoever.

59 posted on 10/01/2009 7:53:06 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Kick corrupt Democrats *AND* Republicans out of office in 2010!)
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To: rabscuttle385

“I will NOT support Romney under any circumstances whatsoever.”

Versus the current Marxist in Chief? If those are my choices, I might. I didn’t vote for McCain and neither did millions of others that otherwise might have voted GOP last year. I readily admit that there was and remains not a gnats ass worth of difference between Obama and McCain.

But after four years of this fascist/socialist cabal? Yeah, I might vote for Romney if he got the nod. Again, he’s not my first, second or even third choice but he’s not Obama either. McCain was.

I dislike many things about Romney but I have never harbored the same disgust for him that I did and do for McCain.


60 posted on 10/01/2009 8:01:37 AM PDT by Grunthor (Gun toting, Bible thumping Flag waver. According to the left, I am a racist.)
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