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Mitt again, Romney re-emerges for likely WH bid (he is still pushing Romneycare!)
The Washington Post ^ | 2010-02-22 | Glen Johnson

Posted on 02/22/2010 12:14:16 PM PST by rabscuttle385

BOSTON -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is stepping back into the public spotlight after spending two years behind the scenes laying the groundwork for a second presidential campaign.

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Romney has shifted from social issues that brought accusations of flip-flopping and undermined his 2008 White House bid. With unemployment hovering around 10 percent, his new focus is on economic themes and fix-it skills he claims as a former businessman. That plays to what some observers believe would be his strength in a second race.

They could also distinguish him from potential rivals such as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who enjoys widespread grass-roots support but doubts about her mastery of policy, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who, like Romney was four years ago, is untested on the national political scene.

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Romney called for lower taxes, more teacher accountability and state-by-state instead of national health insurance expansion, similar to the nearly universal coverage plan he instituted in Massachusetts in 2006.

"There's much more on our positive, intellectually rigorous conservative agenda," he said. "Not all of it is popular. But the American people have shown that they are ready for truth to trump hope. The truth is that government is not the solution to all our problems."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
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To: Diogenesis

Isn’t that the same cat that provclaimed 40 more years of Democratic Party dominance after Jack Squat was elected and even wrote a book entitled such? LMAO.


21 posted on 02/22/2010 12:26:54 PM PST by cranked
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To: rabscuttle385
IMHO, Romney doesn't have a chance unless he renounces Romneycare and pronounces it a failed experiment.
22 posted on 02/22/2010 12:27:13 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: rabscuttle385

Romney is just another great BIG RINO!


23 posted on 02/22/2010 12:28:44 PM PST by A. Morgan (ZER0 is a BIG LIAR!)
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To: Diogenesis
From The Vitamin Press
The Village Idiot People
24 posted on 02/22/2010 12:30:38 PM PST by TheVitaminPress (as goes the Second Amendment . . . so goes the Constitution.)
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To: rabscuttle385

The fastest way for Republicans to lose the next election is for them to force Romney or Huckabee down Conservative throats.

They have learned nothing from Obama’s health care Fiasco.

We dont want Romney or Hucakabee,forced down our throats any more than we want health care, and they had better learn that or face losing. How hard is that for them to understand?


25 posted on 02/22/2010 12:30:48 PM PST by Venturer
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To: rabscuttle385


26 posted on 02/22/2010 12:35:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Doesnt surprise me he never really stopped running just kind of put things on pause until now.


27 posted on 02/22/2010 12:41:08 PM PST by DM1
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To: rabscuttle385

I hope that after Mitt fails to receive the Republican nomination in 2012, he will finally decide to withdraw from public life.


28 posted on 02/22/2010 12:44:17 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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>>>>>Romney called for ... state-by-state instead of national health insurance expansion, similar to the nearly universal coverage plan he instituted in Massachusetts in 2006.

With Scott Brown's help, creating 49 RomneyCare's is job #1.

29 posted on 02/22/2010 12:56:13 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: rabscuttle385

GREAT...another RINO running as an actual American! Will Mitt endorse Obama too?


30 posted on 02/22/2010 1:06:26 PM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: Diogenesis

If it is the Democratic Underground, Soros provides money to them because it’s a Soros organization. This means Romney will be working for Soros.


31 posted on 02/22/2010 1:08:27 PM PST by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: rabscuttle385
Beware of Romney

Symbol of unreasonable fear.

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32 posted on 02/22/2010 1:11:40 PM PST by Peter Horry (Those who aren't responsible always know best.)
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To: Peter Horry

It is a conservatives dislike for a liberal, nothing unreasonable about that.


33 posted on 02/22/2010 1:29:41 PM PST by ansel12 ( (anti SoCon. Earl Warren's court 1953-1969, libertarian hero, anti social conservative loser.))
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To: Peter Horry

The sign says the BOGEYMAN is a story.
BUT Mitt Romney-care is real, and has already
created 1) Romneycare = ObamaCARE
2) the imposition of gay marriage without a vote
3) a coverup of the BIG DIG for campaign $$$$
4) countless illegal alien sanctuaries
5) dirty tricks against the GOP

Mitt Willard Romney-care deserves exactly
the loyalty he gave Gov. Palin — NONE


34 posted on 02/22/2010 1:30:48 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: rabscuttle385

Romney is just another item in the list of political pukes I will not vote for.


35 posted on 02/22/2010 1:30:57 PM PST by pt17
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To: rabscuttle385
OBAMANOMICS--TRICKLE DOWN DESTRUCTION of the economy

SET THEIR LOCAL AND DC LINES ON FIRE!

Sen. Scot Brown's number is 202-224-5443

Rename, repackage, rewrite it a tad smaller, and sell another pig in a poke.

Tennessee has joined several other states in trying to pass a Health Care Freedom Act. NO COLAs for granny, retired Military or retired fed employees. BIG NEW fees for Tricare for Life retired over 65 Military's secondary health ins. (DOD bill already passed, delayed but goes into effect 2011)

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/

New Dem mantra: Woof, woof eat dog food granny....ala let them eat cake.

Obama's War on Seniors

Friday, February 19, 2010

Obama says slight fix will extend Social Security

http://townhall.com/news/us/2010/02/19/obama_says_slight_fix_will_extend_social_security

Socialized Med Thread

TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:

http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html

This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf

http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm

Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09

Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries

Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w

By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009

Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.

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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.

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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.

“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.

Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.

36 posted on 02/22/2010 1:32:57 PM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: Peter Horry

37 posted on 02/22/2010 1:33:12 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: rabscuttle385

Tenncare is a failure too.


38 posted on 02/22/2010 1:33:17 PM PST by GailA (obamacare paid for by cuts & taxes on most vulnerable Veterans, disabled,seniors & retired Military)
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To: rabscuttle385
We The People Will NOT Allow Media To Choose Our Candidates!

Media knows that if Romney is the Republican ticket, it'll be a repeat of the McCain ticket. That's why they'll be pushing Romney on us. And Huckabee, too.
39 posted on 02/22/2010 1:50:09 PM PST by HighlyOpinionated (He has refused his Assent to Laws. He has erected a multitude of New Offices. Who? Obama!)
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To: Diogenesis

Post 37

LOL, Ernest Borgnine accepted a fixed sum, instead of part of the gross, because “nobody would watch a movie about a rat”, guess he was wrong.

This movie, however, illustrates the point I was, and have been making about these Romney posts. When you turn off the music, illuminate the dramatic lighting and recognize the horrified expressions and dramatic dialogue, Willard is an ordinary rodent.

You are, in a sense, doing the same thing that was done to create the atmosphere in this movie, and behaving like a Jerry Springer audience while doing it.


40 posted on 02/22/2010 2:20:00 PM PST by Peter Horry (Those who aren't responsible always know best.)
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