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We “Do Not Consider Perry a Factor… We Know Who it is Who Will be Our Nominee”
Race 4 2012 ^ | October 4, 2011 | Matt Coulter

Posted on 10/05/2011 1:03:21 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Those words were spoken today by Georgette Mosbacher, RNC Finance Co-Chair and huge GOP fundraiser, after Chris Christie’s announcement. The “we” is all the big bundlers, fundraisers, and money folks who have been sitting on the sidelines waiting for the field to be set — and that quote represents the coalescing around Mitt Romney that is expected to happen rather quickly now. Mosbacher went on to say:

“I think tomorrow, we’ll be contacting one another and probably put something together with Romney… And I would say that the race is now Romney and Obama. Quite frankly, the enthusiasm wasn’t there at the outset. He’s less conservative than a lot of us would like. However, our first and foremost goal is to defeat Obama. And we do believe Romney, in terms of independents, will be a strong candidate. We will coalesce behind him now… the time has come to get behind him… Tomorrow I’ll be on the phone all day. Quite frankly, it’ll be easier, because now we know who it is who will be our nominee. So we will pull our Rolodexes out and get to work.”

Fellow bundler and sideline-sitter John Catsimatidis added, “I’m going to go with Mitt Romney. I don’t think Perry has it in him to do it. He’s a lot better than Sarah Palin, but not a lot lot better.”

Ouch.

In related news, Romney also scored another major fundraiser from the Draft Christie movement: Ken Langone. Langone is the founder of Home Depot and is described as a “titan” in the political money scene. He backed Rudy Giuliani in 2008, helping Giuliani out raise the other candidates. There is evidence that a great deal of the money that had sat on the sidelines so far in this race will now fall into Romney’s coffers.

Rick Perry, for his part, got the endorsement of another Draft Christie member: Gary Kirke, a west Iowa investor and casino owner who had also been sitting on the sidelines until this afternoon.


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To: johncocktoasten
stupid libs will attempt reverse operation chaos in open primary states like nh to give palin the wins.

You are dreaming. If it is whittled to Romney and Palin, there will be a tidal wave of libs for Romney in the primaries just like for McCain.

201 posted on 10/05/2011 4:08:31 AM PDT by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I don’t think Perry has it in him to do it.

Maybe that explains Perry's awful performance--Fred Thompson syndrome. I mean, the guy got elected 3 times in Texas. Hard to believe he did it with the kind of ineptitude he's demonstrated so far. Maybe he just isn't motivated.

I've been saying it looks like we'll end up with Romney. The Cain train will end up at a siding. By the time it becomes apparant, the Tea Party is going to be in shock. And who knows? Maybe they'll hand Obama re-election.

202 posted on 10/05/2011 4:10:46 AM PDT by Huck (Save a pretzel for the gas jets!!)
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To: palmer

Liberals really really hate Palin. Just the idea of her getting in the WH is so horrible to them that I don’t think they could place the ballot for her.


203 posted on 10/05/2011 4:11:32 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I'm a heartless conservative because I love this country.)
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To: bmwcyle
If anyone here is against a candidate, it does not mean they are promoting someone else.

If they are posting against a candidate, they better either be supporting (meaning $$) another candidate, or waiting for Palin. We are getting late in the game and the media has already used the no $$ meme against Cain.

204 posted on 10/05/2011 4:11:45 AM PDT by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Langone is the founder of Home Depot and is described as a “titan” in the political money scene. He backed Rudy Giuliani in 2008, helping Giuliani out raise the other candidates.

So how did this "titan" affect the outcome? Giuliani lost. HELLO?

205 posted on 10/05/2011 4:13:00 AM PDT by montag813 (http://www.StandWithArizona.com)
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To: markomalley

Romney v Obama. That’s a very easy choice.


206 posted on 10/05/2011 4:13:23 AM PDT by Huck (Save a pretzel for the gas jets!!)
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To: Huck

I’m sorry, where did you get that quote?

It wasn’t mine.


207 posted on 10/05/2011 4:14:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Norm Lenhart

Eh, I’m thinking that since Perry’s a dead horse, you no longer need to waste your time. No one is listening to him anymore, right? Just look at the polling. Listen to the posters here.

Romney’s still alive and kicking, though, but you seem to prefer going after the one target that no one cares about anymore.

Why?


208 posted on 10/05/2011 4:14:33 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Huck

“Maybe they’ll hand Obama re-election. “

No, I think Romney could win. And that will really change the GOP


209 posted on 10/05/2011 4:14:42 AM PDT by ari-freedom (I'm a heartless conservative because I love this country.)
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To: behzinlea
There will be two, maybe three SCOTUS vacancies in the next term. WHOEVER is the Republican nominee he or she is almost guaranteed to give this nation a more conservative SCOTUS bench than Obama.

What in the world makes you think that Mittens would nominate a Thomas or a Scalia?

Remember who appointed John Paul Stevens? A Republican.

Or Harry Blackmun...A Republican.

Or David Souter...A Republican.

Or Earl Warren...A Republican.

We could really use some more of those types.

Anybody who makes George HW Bush seem conservative is too liberal for me.

210 posted on 10/05/2011 4:14:50 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good-Pope Leo XIII)
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To: ari-freedom

You are right that libs hate Palin. Where I work is lib central and hatred is an understatement. I have asked libs directly who they would vote for if they cross in the primary and all of them say Romney.


211 posted on 10/05/2011 4:14:57 AM PDT by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: Doofer
More than likely and now the MSM will try and destroy Cain.

And then the Obama team will destroy Romney. They've expected him for two years now, and I am told by mole friends they have absolutely devastating ads ALREADY MADE against him.

212 posted on 10/05/2011 4:16:04 AM PDT by montag813 (http://www.StandWithArizona.com)
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To: ari-freedom

I will be eternally grateful that he did tell the truth about his stance on illegals. But it appears to me that was a calculated political decision that backfired badly.

I agree 100% though. Definitely a much bigger problem. He’s entitled to ‘think’ that way (though I think he’s VERY misguided for doing it) but while many in TX might believe it too, many more in America don’t...and it’s those ‘many more’ he’s trying to get votes from for the Big Chair. And then rubbing our noses in it with the ‘heartless’ comment finished him.


213 posted on 10/05/2011 4:16:15 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: markomalley

“Don’t like it? Then talk to the management to have me zotted.”

Boy, are you ever sensitive! No, you are entitled to your opinion.

If you want to leave the door open to four more years of Obama supreme court appointments and are OK with four more years of Holder because the GOP nominee is not conservative enough, hey - your choice.

I don’t know who “Mittens” is, but yeah, any GOP nominee would be better. Absolutely. Even anyone McCain would have chosen would be better than Sotomayor and Holder.


214 posted on 10/05/2011 4:17:14 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: bmwcyle

No. I’m pointing out the logic fallacy of someone saying that a candidate is toast, with no more support... in other words, a dead horse.

And then spending all this time continuing to do so.

If the candidate is as dead as the poster claims, there would *BE* no need to continually beat the dead horse.

Do you understand that concept?


215 posted on 10/05/2011 4:19:18 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla

I notice a clear and direct answer was not enough for you to understand. Try reading it again. Slower.


216 posted on 10/05/2011 4:19:21 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart (Chief Druid of Trollhenge: Cult of Palin)
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To: Jonty30

All that money didn’t do Rudy much good last time...


217 posted on 10/05/2011 4:19:33 AM PDT by RockinRight (If everyone wants to ride in the wagon, then who is pulling it?)
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To: Nextrush

Right.

Another conservative to divide the conservative vote even further and hand Romney the nomination.

We forget that outside the echo chamber of Free Republic there are tons of moderates and disaffected Democrats and even more totally apolitical folks who trudge to the polls only in a Presidential year because the race is so high profile.

Palin cannot and will not win those votes.

I think Cain can while giving us the strongest conservative philosophy possible.

But I will state on the record, right now that if Romney emerges as the nominee I will wholeheartedly support him. You can delude yourselves all you want that he might be as bad as Obama, but it’s just not true. We need to get rid of the anti-American in the office.


218 posted on 10/05/2011 4:19:47 AM PDT by GatorGirl (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Apparently, the RNC really does want a re-run of 2008. Why in God's name would an independent who voted for Obama in 2008 want to vote for mini-me-Obama in 2012? Why have the lite version when you can have the real thing?

Furthermore, who is this money wh%re to say who the nominee is going to be before we even get to the final nominating session? No wonder he likes Romney, he's just as much of a top-down fascist as Romney is - telling us "little people" who we will support come November. If this is a legitimate story, then this guy's just lost a huge chunk of the conservative base, which will simply reinforce the loss to Obama in 2012


219 posted on 10/05/2011 4:20:22 AM PDT by Oceander (Why vote for Mitt "Mini-me Obama" Romney when you can have the real Obama?)
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To: 9YearLurker

If Palin gets in, her timing will have been impecable.


220 posted on 10/05/2011 4:21:52 AM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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