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Romney Assaulted on Flight Leaving Olympics
Foxnews ^ | 2/16/2010 | Staff

Posted on 02/16/2010 6:36:30 AM PST by Red in Blue PA

Mitt Romney, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, was physically assaulted Monday by a fellow passenger on a flight from Vancouver, Canada, to Los Angeles.

Romney, a 2008 presidential candidate and a potential 2012 contender, asked a passenger who was seated and reclining in front of his wife, Ann, to move his seat upright during take off.

"The passenger became physically violent. Governor Romney did not retaliate, but instead let the airline crew respond to the incident," said Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom.

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KEYWORDS: goodscripting; notbreakingnews; romney; romneybotalert; savedthecrew; savedtheplane; saveolympics; stagedevent; superromney
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1 posted on 02/16/2010 6:36:30 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA

Must have been a FReeper!


2 posted on 02/16/2010 6:38:10 AM PST by CAluvdubya (We need a Commander-in-Chief, not a professor of Law standing at a lectern-Palin 2010)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Search Much?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452248/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452171/posts


3 posted on 02/16/2010 6:38:14 AM PST by 11th Commandment (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/)
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To: Red in Blue PA

he flies coach while every liberal Global Warming truth-denier flies on private jet (or free military luxury jet, like Pelosi) ?


4 posted on 02/16/2010 6:38:24 AM PST by heiss (True Conservatives came from Senate Centrist Coalition!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

RINO hunting is frowned upon in confined spaces. It just isn’t sporting.


5 posted on 02/16/2010 6:38:29 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: CAluvdubya

JimRob??


6 posted on 02/16/2010 6:39:29 AM PST by Obadiah (Democrats and their life partners, the MSM)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I’m glad he’s OK.


7 posted on 02/16/2010 6:39:29 AM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Red in Blue PA

The guy who assaulted didn’t even necessarily know it was Romney. Sounds like he was just really ticked off and flew off the handle. What was Romney doing in the cheap seats anyway?


8 posted on 02/16/2010 6:40:26 AM PST by mlizzy ("Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person" --Mother Teresa.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

I believe this has been posted a few times already.


9 posted on 02/16/2010 6:40:50 AM PST by TChris ("Hello", the politician lied.)
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To: mlizzy

Uh.....saving money?


10 posted on 02/16/2010 6:41:13 AM PST by votemout
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To: ohioWfan

Actually, the guy tried to smack Romney, missed and ran his hand across the top of Romney’s hair... cut his hand to shreds...


11 posted on 02/16/2010 6:43:12 AM PST by dps.inspect
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To: Obadiah

Who is Jim Rob? You must mean Jim Thompson...


12 posted on 02/16/2010 6:43:38 AM PST by Vaquero (BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
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To: Red in Blue PA

Passenger Jim Thompson was unavailable for comment.


13 posted on 02/16/2010 6:43:41 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. (Hi Mom.))
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To: mlizzy

Apparently cheap seats are all that are available on this type of plane.


14 posted on 02/16/2010 6:44:20 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: CAluvdubya
Must have been a FReeper!

No, most FReepers (even the unhinged FReepers) are smart enough not to throw a punch at somebody on an airplane and end up spending the night as a guest of the TSA.

16 posted on 02/16/2010 6:46:02 AM PST by VRWCmember
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To: 11th Commandment

I just assumed this would be in breaking news.


17 posted on 02/16/2010 6:46:37 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: mlizzy
"What was Romney doing in the cheap seats anyway?"

Trying to come off like Brown from Massof2chitts, just a political ploy to appear like one of the flyover citizens....

18 posted on 02/16/2010 6:48:02 AM PST by sniper63 (Bang,Bang, Maxwell's Silver hammer........)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Thanks for posting. I hadn’t seen it.


19 posted on 02/16/2010 6:50:53 AM PST by sarasota
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To: CAluvdubya

that was exactly my thought when i heard it! LOL!


20 posted on 02/16/2010 6:51:36 AM PST by xsmommy
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