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Posted on 11/19/2011 9:35:20 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
DES MOINES -- On Saturday afternoon at a megachurch in Des Moines, the Republican presidential candidates will gather -- with a notable exception.
....To add insult to injury, he [Mitt Romney] will be spending the day in New Hampshire.
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"Governor Branstad has enormous respect for Governor Romney, but he has decided it's time to hold his feet to the fire," Albrecht said.
Steve Scheffler, head of another Iowa social conservative group, the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, also hosted six candidates -- but no Romney -- at a forum last month. "I think he's arrogant," Scheffler said bluntly in an interview.
"It's becoming irritating to a lot of people that he's not showing up to things," said Scheffler, who is also the state's Republican National Committeeman. There were 1,200 attendees at his event, he noted, all of them likely caucus-goers. Hundreds also attended the Republican Party of Iowa's Nov. 4 Reagan Dinner, and hundreds are expected at Saturday's two events.
Scheffler vowed that the conservatives of Iowa would not take Romney's disrespect lying down, and indeed, anger at Romney appears to be the cause that unites the two pillars of the Iowa GOP -- the business-oriented establishment, represented by Branstad, and the social-conservative grassroots, represented by the FAMiLY LEADER, whose head, Bob Vander Plaats, ran against Branstad in the 2010 gubernatorial primary.
"For him to deliberately shun these events is an insult to Iowans," Scheffler said. And despite early polls showing Romney near the top of the pack, Iowans, he vowed, will have their revenge.
"There is a really strong desire among people who don't want to see Romney win this state," he said. "Don't discount the possibility that people will coalesce around one or two other candidates just to ensure Mitt Romney doesn't win the state by default."
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Perry tells the truth.
So Romney is a coward AND a backstabber of women.
DISGUSTING PIG, he is.
It’s because he an unreliable, flip-flopping liberal.
Love all his ads and this one is excellent too. Thanks you CW for all the work you do sharing things about Perry.
What I don’t about the “Mitt is inevitable” crap is that we’re talking about a guy who will probably lose two of the three big opening contests. He will probably lose Iowa, win New Hamster and then get his butt handed to him in SC. If the same conservative wins IA and SC, Romney’s going to look bad; if two different conservatives win them, Romney will look like just one of the pack, not the inevitable nominee.
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