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Romney bets he can win Iowa without support from social conservatives
The Hill, Washington, DC ^
| 2011-11-23
| Niall Stanage
Posted on 11/23/2011 6:24:48 PM PST by rabscuttle385
After months of uncertainty, Mitt Romney has decided to roll the dice and go for a win in the Iowa caucus.
But the former governor is betting that he can triumph in the state without any significant support from social conservatives — normally a vital voting bloc — and is making no real effort to win them over.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
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To: rabscuttle385
Yeah, those social conservatives and their stickiness on abortion. Why can’t they see the light? /sarcasm.
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:26:50 PM PST
by
writer33
(Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
To: rabscuttle385
Then he knows bupkus about the Iowa GOP.
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:28:27 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
To: rabscuttle385
Good luck with that Mittens.
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:29:00 PM PST
by
datura
(R.I.P. GOP)
To: rabscuttle385
Good luck with that Mittens.
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:29:09 PM PST
by
datura
(R.I.P. GOP)
To: rabscuttle385
No effort to win them over, eh. The moderates can carry him to a failed bout with Obama, then?
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:29:31 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: rabscuttle385
At least he doesn’t have to fight the MSM who isn’t attacking him as they are some of the others.
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:32:47 PM PST
by
umgud
To: rabscuttle385
Romney bets that he can win Iowa by talking out of his mouth in the right direction at the right time calculating a crab angle to compensate for wind correction and smiling to ease concern.
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:35:18 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: rabscuttle385
Split the vote ten ways and it could happen.
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:35:33 PM PST
by
Sybeck1
(Mitt Romney, a piss poor choice)
To: rabscuttle385
Romney doesn’t care if he can win in November without them?
Dole, McCain etc...
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:55:20 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: writer33
And gay rights and indoctrination in the classrooms etc
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posted on
11/23/2011 6:57:37 PM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: rabscuttle385
Is Mitt Romney by saying this flipping the bird at Social Conservatives ?
Jim Rob ? what's your take on this ?
To: rabscuttle385
* Romney bets he can win Iowa without support from social conservatives * so ? whats your plan to do this Mitt ? voter fraud ? stuffing the ballots ? bribes ?
To: Olog-hai
“The moderates can carry him to a failed bout with Obama, then?”
Then it will be the end of America. Our country is on the brink. Four more years of the zer0 will certainly bring about our demise.
Let the revolution begin.
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posted on
11/23/2011 7:13:06 PM PST
by
panaxanax
(0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
To: rabscuttle385
Here is what I don’t get... even the liberals admit that the Republican party has moved much further to the right over the last 20 years... and yet here we are about to possibly nominate the most liberal Republican since ... Nixon (Romney)
I just don’t see that happening.
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posted on
11/23/2011 7:19:06 PM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(I had considered voting for Gingrich... but on second thought ... it would not be "humane")
To: TexasFreeper2009
The problem is is we look over our shoulder we have to ask...how the heck did McCain end up on the ballot in ‘08?
(MSM information management combined with RATS getting to vote in many key REPUB primaries gace us McCain. Suprise, Suprise, RATS love voting for REPUBS who will definitely lose.
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posted on
11/23/2011 7:45:56 PM PST
by
rod1
To: rabscuttle385
IOW, he doesn’t care or want conservative votes.
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posted on
11/23/2011 8:09:47 PM PST
by
bgill
(The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
To: rabscuttle385
Assuming that there is a bloc called "fiscal conservatives" who vote independently of the social conservatives, he still won't have enough supporters to win.
IMO this is his "excuse" for not winning the Iowa caucuses.
He has given up before the race is over.
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posted on
11/23/2011 8:17:29 PM PST
by
Designer
(Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
To: American Constitutionalist
"whats your plan to do this Mitt ?"He has no intention of winning the Iowa caucuses. He thinks he doesn't need Iowa.
We don't need him, either.
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posted on
11/23/2011 8:20:47 PM PST
by
Designer
(Nit-pickin' and chagrinin')
To: Designer
" We don't need him, either. "
The same goes for the Tea Party, and all true conservatives..
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