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I was interested in this paragraph in the article:

Romney, who leads in most polls, has rejected his earlier stands supporting abortion rights, gun control and gay rights. He says his 2006 law requiring Massachusetts residents to obtain health insurance was right for his state at the time, but he has condemned the Obama-backed mandate that would cover all Americans.

1 posted on 05/30/2011 8:48:48 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: LouAvul
Spud Obama
2 posted on 05/30/2011 8:52:03 AM PDT by FrankR (A people that values its privileges above its principles will soon lose both.)
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To: LouAvul

Once past the lips, forever in someone’s history. No thanks, I’ll take a candidate that doesn’t have his history.


3 posted on 05/30/2011 8:52:19 AM PDT by basil (It's time to rid the country of "gun free zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: LouAvul
Those who drift to the right now are just as easily capable of drifting back to the left after election day.
4 posted on 05/30/2011 8:52:46 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: LouAvul

I don’t have any place for so called contenders who are trying to move right after governing as a liberal.


5 posted on 05/30/2011 8:55:23 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: LouAvul
To the right of what?
6 posted on 05/30/2011 8:55:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
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To: LouAvul

They’d better do a lot more than merely drift right if they want my vote.


8 posted on 05/30/2011 8:57:30 AM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: LouAvul
"In that sense, the candidates' repositioning seems savvy or even essential."


12 posted on 05/30/2011 9:11:10 AM PDT by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: LouAvul

What’s this drifting crap? Anybody who drifts is a drifter. Either you are anchored in the constitution, a republic, individual liberty, or you are not.


13 posted on 05/30/2011 9:12:25 AM PDT by C210N (0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
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To: LouAvul

To “drift” implies a lack of foundation or anchors...well that says a lot I guess...


14 posted on 05/30/2011 9:20:26 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: LouAvul

” Republican candidates are drifting rightward on a range of issues, even though more centrist stands might play well in the 2012 general election.”

Says who?

There’s a big difference between being something and simply pandering. Just for some these clueless MSM libs, someone who is socially liberal their entire political career and sees the “light” a week before he/she runs in an election isn’t drifting.

And what about that “centrist” point of view? Seems like a moving target to me; maybe it’s somewhere between wishy and washy. Wishy-washy got us into this mess, and I seriously doubt it can get us out.


17 posted on 05/30/2011 9:27:01 AM PDT by dajeeps
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To: LouAvul

The term used “ More centrist” AKA lefty. The democrats/rino’s and MSM are so far left, they cannot even see the right..


21 posted on 05/30/2011 9:40:08 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: LouAvul

Oh, yeah... like we didn’t learn anything from McCain who “drifted right” during campaigns, then made a mad dash back to the left after re-elections.

Thank you very much, but unless a candidate has been extremely conservative, consistently, for at least two decades, he/she is not an option. How stupid do they think we are?


22 posted on 05/30/2011 9:42:37 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: LouAvul

This entire article is just another case of the media warning us that, if we want to defeat the Dems, we MUST pick a “centrist” candidate. Yeah, we saw what happened in 2008. The “independents” may have gone for Obama (something I’m not convinced of since it seems the libs always like to claim they are “independent, free thinkers,etc., and seem to like to twist the polls by claiming NOT to be a partisan hack) but it didn’t help that many disillusioned and disappointed conservatives simply stayed home. Funny how the press likes to play down that little fact.


23 posted on 05/30/2011 9:55:17 AM PDT by onevoter
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To: LouAvul

Drifting to the right.

Like cheap prostitutes dressing modestly for a day.


25 posted on 05/30/2011 10:20:47 AM PDT by lurk
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To: LouAvul
Like the swallows coming back to Capistrano, every 4 or 6 years almost ALL politicians drift right -- both Democrats and Republicans.

The voters usually fall for it.


27 posted on 05/30/2011 10:51:17 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: LouAvul

Romney and Skerry should hold a flip-flopping contest.

Would be close.


28 posted on 05/30/2011 11:05:32 AM PDT by upchuck (Think you know hardship? Ha! Wait till the dollar is no longer the world's reserve currency.)
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To: LouAvul
GOP presidential contenders drift to the right

Has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.

30 posted on 05/30/2011 1:24:05 PM PDT by hattend (Let's all meet Sarah at her last bus stop -- 1600 Pennsylvania Ave in Jan 2013)
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