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Romney Takes Ownership of Brown Victory
ABC The Note ^ | February 2, 2010 | Rick Klien

Posted on 02/02/2010 11:40:49 AM PST by yongin

ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: For those reading 2012 implications out of Sen.-elect Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney’s monthly PAC newsletter provides some insights.

Brown, R-Mass., is featured in two pictures in the newsletter, and Romney takes full ownership of his victory:

“As supporters of the PAC, you deserve a thank you,” the newsletter from Romney’s Free Strong America PAC reads. “Your support made it possible for Governor Romney to get behind Senator Brown from the very beginning, when polls showed him a 30-point underdog and everyone assumed the outcome was pre-ordained in favor of the Democrats.”

“Governor Romney asked his entire political team to help the then-unknown Brown, and he raised early money for him at a time when very few people would give him a second look.”

Indeed, several key figures in Brown’s victory -- notably Eric Fehrnstrom, Beth Myers, and Peter Flaherty -- were and continue to be Romney people.

Brown’s campaign manager, Beth Lindstrom, was a member of Romney’s Cabinet; his press secretary, Felix Browne, was a deputy press secretary under Gov. Romney; Brown finance director Priscilla Ruzzo held that same post in Romney’s 1994 Senate race; and Will Ritter was a key advance staffer for Romney before he worked for Brown’s campaign.

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To: svcw; lady lawyer

And for the record, if Scott Brown is pro-abortion, he is not a Conservative either and I withdraw my support of him.


221 posted on 02/02/2010 3:37:19 PM PST by T Minus Four (Donate to Haiti now and sponsor a Haitian child for the long term - Worldvision.com)
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To: lady lawyer
There’s a difference between taking the libertarian position and being “pro” abortion.

That is ridiculous, the libertarian position is the pro abortion position.

222 posted on 02/02/2010 5:10:58 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: lady lawyer
If I didn’t love my country so much, the ugliness at FR would drive me away from conservatism altogether. This place really does put the dark side of conservatism on display for all to see.

Gee, the sacrifices that you make for your country, even trolling for Mitt Romney on freerepublic.

Aren't you the noble beast.

223 posted on 02/02/2010 5:13:58 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: ansel12

The CREED OF THE ROMNEYBOT

The greatest way a RomneyBOT can serve America
is by lying for their shapeshifting, backstabbing,
fascist, socialist wannabe.

224 posted on 02/02/2010 5:17:36 PM PST by Diogenesis
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To: T Minus Four

Brown has been clear about his position on abortion from the beginning.


225 posted on 02/02/2010 5:18:53 PM PST by svcw (Ellie and Mark come out come out where ever you are.....)
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To: Diogenesis; lady lawyer

“Mitt Romney went a step further in a 1978 interview with the Boston Herald. Talking about the Mormon Church and racial discrimination, he said: “My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.”

Yesterday, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom acknowledged that was not true. “Mitt Romney did not march with Martin Luther King,” he said in an e-mail statement to the Globe.”


226 posted on 02/02/2010 5:24:29 PM PST by ansel12 (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.)
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To: yongin; mlizzy

How did I know that this was coming?


227 posted on 02/02/2010 5:24:56 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ansel12
Hmm. Reminds me that Mitt also claimed that he saw his father march with MLK.

Many people don't know that Mitt Romney has also claimed at times that he himself marched with MLK.

Was that before or after he weally, weally wanted to run LURP teams in Vietnam?

228 posted on 02/02/2010 5:37:11 PM PST by Leisler (We are in the best of hands)
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To: goldstategop

Explain Muffy Healy?


229 posted on 02/02/2010 5:37:59 PM PST by Leisler (We are in the best of hands)
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To: yongin

Screw Mit the worthless piece of sh-t. He will NEVER EVER...be elected president of the US. Sorry assed used car salesman that he is.


230 posted on 02/02/2010 5:40:45 PM PST by Snurple (VEGETARIAN, OLD INDIAN WORD FOR BAD HUNTER.)
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To: Salvation
How did I know that this was coming? You called this awhile ago, didn't you? A match made in, er, ... well, you know. One's got money, the other has ... ... a Cosmo spread?
231 posted on 02/02/2010 5:42:19 PM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Anyway, Brown was like a 2002 version of Romney, without the Mormonism. (Brown is Christian Reformed).

And patriotism. Brown was a Army officer, unlike the Mitt and six generations of Romney males, none who have ever, not once in two hundred years, worn a uniform. ( what's up with that? )

232 posted on 02/02/2010 5:48:02 PM PST by Leisler (We are in the best of hands)
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To: Servant of the Cross

What a busy, tchotchke portrait.


233 posted on 02/02/2010 5:51:50 PM PST by Leisler (We are in the best of hands)
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To: T Minus Four

Unfortunately, he is. He doesn’t support partial-birth abortion, or government funding for abortion, but does not want to overturn Roe V. Wade, which means he won’t be on our side in a judicial filibuster.


234 posted on 02/02/2010 5:56:11 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Leisler

That is correct.


235 posted on 02/02/2010 6:01:39 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: svcw

Well then, I’m glad he took the seat in Mass, but I certainly won’t be joining his fan club. Baby steps I guess.


236 posted on 02/02/2010 6:05:21 PM PST by T Minus Four (Donate to Haiti now and sponsor a Haitian child for the long term - Worldvision.com)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Sigh. Another RINO.


237 posted on 02/02/2010 6:08:52 PM PST by T Minus Four (Donate to Haiti now and sponsor a Haitian child for the long term - Worldvision.com)
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To: T Minus Four

Thats what I think. I will not support him for pres (if he chose that route) but I was tickled pink when “Kennedy” seat went down.


238 posted on 02/02/2010 6:12:17 PM PST by svcw (Ellie and Mark come out come out where ever you are.....)
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To: mlizzy

LOL!


239 posted on 02/02/2010 7:59:27 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ansel12

Yesterday, Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom acknowledged that was not true. “Mitt Romney did not march with Martin Luther King,”
_________________________________________________

Fehrnstrom went on to say, “No Mitt mis spoke...

Yes they were all together during the march...

Why they even rode together in George Romneys car...George, Lenora, Mitt and Martin...

Reporter: Really ??? Why thats swell...

EF: Yesirree...George was a leader in civil rights. Why he was so civil minded he let King drive his brand new automobile...now dont that beat all ???


240 posted on 02/02/2010 8:23:10 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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