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California GOP lawmakers endorse Mitt Romney
Inside Bay Area . com ^ | 6/23/11 | Josh Richman

Posted on 06/23/2011 12:52:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, on a fundraising trip through California this week, has rolled out endorsements from a bunch of GOP lawmakers.

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House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, said in Romney’s news release that President Obama’s policies have failed California and the nation, while Romney “has a proven record of job creation in both the private sector and as a governor.”

Similarly, state Senate Republican Leader Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga, said Romney’s record as governor “speaks for itself.”

“He created jobs, balanced budgets, and cut taxes,” Dutton said. “Mitt Romney knows how the economy works and he has the much-needed experience to lead the country out of the economic downturn.”

Also endorsing Romney are Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs; state Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Moorpark; state Sen. Sharon Runner, R-Lancaster; state Sen. Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar; state Sen. Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo; state Sen. Mark Wyland, R-Del Mar; Assemblyman Paul Cook, R-Yucca Valley; and Assemblyman Jim Silva, R-Huntington Beach.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: blakeslee; bonomack; cagop; california; cook; dutton; endorse; gop; huff; mckeon; mittromney; romney; romneyendorsements; runner; silva; strickland; wyland
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To: NormsRevenge

Note to my Congress critters: Anyone who endorses Romney in the 2012 primaries will not get my vote in your next election.


21 posted on 06/23/2011 1:17:45 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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To: NormsRevenge

Seems pretty early to be endorsing candidates.


22 posted on 06/23/2011 1:18:46 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Jim Noble
at Treasury I'm sure he would kick ass.

Just because Mitt didn't screw up all the contacts he got from his daddy's Rolodex doesn't make him eminently qualified. Personally, I think that Herman Cain is far more qualified to serve at Treasury or Commerce than Romney. His self-made man story isn't an myth.

23 posted on 06/23/2011 1:23:13 PM PDT by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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To: Jim Noble
But he's nice to children and dogs

Well, he's nice to children, anyway. Not sure about the dogs.

(Note: Just a little joke. I don't have much of an opinion about the "dog on the car roof" issue, but it was Leno fodder for a week or so back in '08.)

24 posted on 06/23/2011 1:24:58 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: NormsRevenge

As a Californian, I say to the Republican politicians in this state, “STFU and stop telling us conservative Republicans who you support. We don’t want your stinking Romney, nor do we want Huntsman or anyone else from the RINO group.

As for Mary Bono, my representative, I am sending her a letter about her dumb move.


25 posted on 06/23/2011 1:24:58 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: NormsRevenge
“He created jobs, balanced budgets, and cut taxes,”

Cut taxes, but didn't he also raise fees by hundreds of millions of dollar?

26 posted on 06/23/2011 1:25:23 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: NormsRevenge

I just don’t get it with the Romney bandwagoneers.

1. EVEN WITHOUT THE ROMNEYCARE ISSUE, he’s too liberal and flipfloppy.

2. EVEN WITHOUT ALL THE OTHER BAGGAGE, i.e., even if he were perfect otherwise (which he ain’t), ROMNEYCARE IS AN ABSOLUTE DISQUALIFIER FOR HIM, or at least is so where he’s refused to say “I messed up, worst mistake of my public life” instead of embracing it and reaffirming it.

Just don’t get it at all. Mary Bono Mack, Buck McKeon, don’t you oppose ObamaCare? So how is nominting Mr. RomneyCare going to help us?


27 posted on 06/23/2011 1:28:15 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: CommerceComet

Romney is the NEW John McLaim...
The ringer from the shadow government..

What shadow gov’t?... I dunno if anybody knew it wouldnt be in the shadows.


28 posted on 06/23/2011 1:32:17 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: pogo101; Jim Noble
Lets say nicer than Johnson

I want to adopt Darrell E. Issa as my congressmen. He is in an adjoining district.

29 posted on 06/23/2011 1:56:30 PM PDT by ThomasThomas (I am still looking for that box I am supposed to think out of.)
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To: pogo101
I just don’t get it with the Romney bandwagoneers

Your betters have decided.

What they are doing now is redefining the spectrum so that: Communists = left, socialists = moderate, RINOs = right, conservatives = radical public enemies.

Mitt and Huntsman's jobs are to set the acceptable right boundary of public discourse somewhere to the left of (true)center.

And the GOP elected officials, most of whom are leftists themselves, are on board.

Look, I really do think Romney the nominee is a done deal. There's nothing that can stop it.

Start thinking about what you are going to do the day after.

30 posted on 06/23/2011 2:01:37 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: svcw

More untrue nonsense.


31 posted on 06/23/2011 2:01:56 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Quit the Mitt! Mormons for Herman Cain!)
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To: Jim Noble

Sarah Palin can and will stop Romneycare.


32 posted on 06/23/2011 2:04:53 PM PDT by free me (Sarah Palin 2012 - GAME ON!!)
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To: free me
Romneycare is stopping itself.
33 posted on 06/23/2011 2:11:54 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: Jim Noble
Look, I really do think Romney the nominee is a done deal

I understand what you really mean, but at this point we have to fight like hell to nominate someone better and electable. Pawlenty? Perry? Others? Too soon to say -- which is my point vs. these CA legislators.

I held my nose and voted for McCain last time for the sake of judicial picks and GWOT/Defense. I might do it again (for Romney), but wouldn't it be nicer NOT to have to hold the nose?

34 posted on 06/23/2011 2:12:06 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Read my post #20.


35 posted on 06/23/2011 2:12:42 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: Jim Noble
at Treasury I'm sure he would kick ass.

"Treasury" is fifth in line of succession to the presidency - way too close.

36 posted on 06/23/2011 2:23:51 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58
IF, in a crisis, Mitt succeeded to the Presidency as #5 I'm sure he would be a fine caretaker.

He's NOT a thinker and he's NOT an ideologue.

The experts all agreed Romneycare was the way to go, so he did Romneycare.

If he were surrounded by members of a Palin administration and had to carry the ball until the next election, it would be fine with me.

37 posted on 06/23/2011 2:27:21 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The Constitution is overthrown. The Revolution is betrayed.)
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To: Jim Noble; Graybeard58

Great satire, you forgot to point that out, however.


38 posted on 06/23/2011 2:42:43 PM PDT by svcw (Non forgiveness is like holding a hot coal thinking the other person will be blistered)
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To: NormsRevenge

California is a lost cause. They can have Mittens. I just wish he would run for state office there instead of the GOP nomination.


39 posted on 06/23/2011 3:52:04 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Terrorism is nothing more than Kinetic Islam)
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To: Jim Noble

Save your defeatism.

What happens after is Obama kicks his butt. We can’t have that.


40 posted on 06/23/2011 4:34:29 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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