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Romney says he is "in sync" with Tea Party
Yahoo ^ | 8/17/11 | Jason McLure - Reuters

Posted on 08/17/2011 1:45:25 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

BERLIN, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, seen by many as the choice of moderate Republicans in 2012, sought to widen his appeal on Wednesday by saying he was "in sync" with the conservative Tea Party.

Romney met with a group of about 25 steelworkers at a campaign stop in the northern New Hampshire town of Berlin.

The former corporate raider, who has a net worth of about $250 million, got a less rapt reception than at some of his meetings with fellow business professionals.

The workers peppered Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, with questions about why cutting government spending would stimulate the economy, how he would adequately protect Social Security and whether he considered himself a member of the Tea Party.

Romney hedged on the latter question.

"I don't know that you sign a membership," he said. "What I consider myself is someone who is in sync with the Tea Party."

Many Tea Party members don't see themselves as "in sync" with Romney, however. In Massachusetts he helped author the statewide healthcare mandate that was an inspiration for President Barack Obama's 2010 national health reforms

Obamacare and Romneycare, as they are derisively referred too, are disliked by the Tea Party as an example of government overreach. Romney has defended the state law while promising to repeal the federal version, should he be elected.

Romney reiterated his view that military spending should be exempt from any attempt to balance the federal budget. Defense spending accounts for about half of discretionary U.S. federal spending.

"I am not in favor of cutting defense," he said. "Some people would like to cut that down dramatically, not me."

Romney echoed many of the talking points voiced in Bedford, New Hampshire, by Republican rival Rick Perry, the governor of Texas.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mitt; obamacare; romney; romneycare; sync; teaparty
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1 posted on 08/17/2011 1:45:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge

If Romney was any more full of $h1+ he would explode.


2 posted on 08/17/2011 1:47:17 PM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: NormsRevenge

By “in sync” Romney means he is the “polar opposite.”


3 posted on 08/17/2011 1:48:08 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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He thought speaking at an elevator company would give him a lift.. OH boy. :-]

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shakes hands with employees during a visit to Stanley Elevators in Merrimack, New Hampshire August 16, 2011. REUTERS/Brian Snyder


4 posted on 08/17/2011 1:48:08 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

What a MAROON! Romney: Slick RINO used car salesman who thinks he is going to be “god” of his own planet. Not this one pal.


5 posted on 08/17/2011 1:49:20 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord deliver us from evil and from those perpetuating it, in Jesus name, amen.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah, I have a garbage disposal in my Tea Party Sink into which I’ll feed small bits of Mitt 0bamney.


6 posted on 08/17/2011 1:50:33 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Gore Lauds Romney on Climate Position; 0bamaCare was based on RomneyCare.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Mitt is a deceived man for sure.


7 posted on 08/17/2011 1:52:28 PM PDT by vicar7
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To: NormsRevenge

“You Lie”


8 posted on 08/17/2011 1:52:52 PM PDT by SanFranDan
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To: NormsRevenge
"What I consider myself is someone who is in sync with the Tea Party."

Hey Mitt, you are what people think you are and you are NOT in sync with the TEA party, perhaps in the sink....

9 posted on 08/17/2011 1:53:24 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: NormsRevenge

Trouble is, we aren’t in sync with Romney. What a dolt.


10 posted on 08/17/2011 1:53:58 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I know that God's tomorrow will be better than today!" A. H. Ackley)
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To: RatRipper

It would be great for the teaparty to declare and publish their official agenda — item by item.

This way, presidential candidates can point at each item individually and declare to the public which ones they agree with.

Ah, but that would make matters too simple and we certainly do not want that to happen in American politics. How else can politicians blow smoke up the public’s donkey?


11 posted on 08/17/2011 1:54:45 PM PDT by 353FMG (Liberalism is Satan's handiwork.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah, sure. Blaah Blaah Blaah.

The best thing you can say about “Mitt” is he isn;t B.O.

A Romney candidacy would alienate the south over Mormonism and alienate conservatives over the Second Amendment and Romneycare.

A real foolish choice he would be.


12 posted on 08/17/2011 1:55:10 PM PDT by ZULU (McConnell and Boehner are the Judas and Ephialtes of the 21st Century)
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To: NormsRevenge

Typical superficial reporting too. The workers asked a bunch of questions about what Romney would do to cut spending and revive the economy and what he would do with Social Security. I’d like to see the answers to those questions reported. That would be news. Instead we get the soap opera of Romney vs. the Tea Party (the reporter knew that would make Romney look bad) and Romeny v. Perry. I’m not voting for Romney but the press does no one a service by reporting these non-stories instead of the real news about what Romney says he will actually do with spending, Social Security and creating jobs.


13 posted on 08/17/2011 1:56:49 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: NormsRevenge

If you are for the status quo of a mixed economy and political eclecticism, then you are incompatible with the Tea Party


14 posted on 08/17/2011 1:59:04 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: NormsRevenge
Mittens must have had this in mind...
 

 
 
.... when he said that.


15 posted on 08/17/2011 1:59:54 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (BADNAP)
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To: NormsRevenge

What an outstanding opportunity for someone skilled at Photoshop to depict Mitt as part of a boy band.


16 posted on 08/17/2011 2:00:24 PM PDT by denydenydeny (Rage all you want, looters & moochers, but the gods of the copybook headings are your masters now.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Romney’s in the sync...

AH no...

Hes down the toilet...

and if you do have Rom,ney in your sync...

a good dose of Dra-the-RINO will move him...


17 posted on 08/17/2011 2:01:13 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: NormsRevenge

Run! Hide under the tea party’s skirts!


18 posted on 08/17/2011 2:02:26 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: NormsRevenge

Stating it does not make it so Myth.


19 posted on 08/17/2011 2:04:48 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: NormsRevenge
"That's so gay!"


20 posted on 08/17/2011 2:04:48 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Gore Lauds Romney on Climate Position; 0bamaCare was based on RomneyCare.)
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