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Never has a winner looked so beaten (Mitt)
New York Post ^ | January 11, 2012 | John Podhoretz

Posted on 01/11/2012 7:10:01 AM PST by greyfoxx39

Edited on 01/11/2012 7:15:18 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

Perplexing but true: Mitt Romney is on the glide path to the most easily secured nomination a Republican presidential candidate has ever had

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; loser; mitt; nofatladysinging; podhoretz; romney2012; schadenfreude
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To: Mountain Mary

Karl is that you? Just joking...but that is the exactly what Rove and the rest of RINO establishment is counting on.

Not me. I won’t compromise and vote for light socialism under the GOP banner.


21 posted on 01/11/2012 7:40:37 AM PST by vmivol00
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To: StAnDeliver
Puerile speculation. In other words, not gonna happen. Paul has already made it clear he's not going to embarass Rand and taint Rand's political future.

It may have been too early for Rand Paul this election cycle but he is the best candidate out there. His quote that won me over is this one.

"The Democrats want to cut nothing and the Republicans want to cut next to nothing. Neither of them understand the extent of the problem."

What bothers me is all the people on FR taking a shot at Ron Paul when he is the only one I have heard call for making significant cuts to the budget. I believe he said $1 trillion the first year.

For me, there is no more important issue than getting the nation's finances in order and cutting $1 trillion is a good start. Going over the top and calling Paul a Kook takes his contribution - budget cutting - of the table entirely.

What should be said of Paul if you don't like him is, "I have some trouble with Paul on some issues but on his call for cutting $1 trillion from the budget in the first year, he is exactly right."

Or are there some of you on here that don't think that kind of budget cut is necessary?

22 posted on 01/11/2012 7:41:12 AM PST by gunsequalfreedom (Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
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To: Mountain Mary
I think many Conservatives will hold their nose and vote for Mitt

Careful Mary, that's not a very popular view around here.

23 posted on 01/11/2012 7:41:36 AM PST by j_tull ("I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.")
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To: brytlea; Diana in Wisconsin; Kakaze; Tammy8; unkus; metmom; Cap Huff; svcw; leapfrog0202; Concho; ..

Ping


24 posted on 01/11/2012 7:41:56 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Let's not vet Mitt w/Bain so Obama can do it all summer. /sarc)
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To: NKP_Vet
Leftist Mob Mobilizes Against the GOP

In American politics, only the Left mobilizes the mob against its opponents. That’s why history textbooks don’t contain references to marauding bands of Reagan supporters roughing up Mondale backers.

But leftist groups and groups aligned with the Democratic Party have long viewed Republicans as fair game.

The Obama-backed “Occupy” movement has been working nonstop in New Hampshire bullying, intimidating, harassing, and provoking the Republican Party’s presidential candidates. It is the kind of unseemly, Latin American-style political activism that threatens to become a permanent feature of American politics if President Obama wins a second term.

It’s also the classic Saul Alinsky​ “inside/outside” strategy. Ensconced in the White House Obama appears to remain above the fray while his loyal minions on the outside of officialdom do their best to irritate and embarrass his Republican adversaries.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/11/leftist-mob-mobilizes-against-the-gop/

25 posted on 01/11/2012 7:41:56 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

I’m using the conventional definition.


26 posted on 01/11/2012 7:43:06 AM PST by reasonisfaith (Or, more accurately---reason serves faith. See W.L. Craig, and many others.)
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To: Mountain Mary

I agree with you 100%, MM.


27 posted on 01/11/2012 7:43:46 AM PST by sand lake bar (You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
Romney's comments that "He loves to be in a postion to fire people" is not going to play well in the general election that will be about jobs and the economy.

I hate Romney and think he's a disaster in the making but that fire comment will only help him if Obama tries to run with it. It was taken out of context and it was about firing a health provider who doesn't deliver as opposed to government run health care. If they try to use it against him he could create an entire series of commercials based on Obama not wanting people to have any choice when it comes to who they can or can't have for a doctor. That said it's the .1% I agree with from Romey and the 99.9% is still way too much for me to ever support him.s a disaster in the making but that fire comment will only help him if Obama tries to run with it. It was taken out of context and it was about firing a health provider who doesn

28 posted on 01/11/2012 7:45:10 AM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Mountain Mary
But in the end, I think many Conservatives will hold their nose and vote for Mitt if he is the candidate.

And the corrupt, decrepit GOP-E is counting on that to maintain the status quo.

29 posted on 01/11/2012 7:46:35 AM PST by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: Mountain Mary

But if Santorum is the candidate—or even Gingrich—they won’t have to hold their nose when they vote.

Gingrich is clearly the anti-establishment candidate.

If Santorum does well in SC, he will be met with a new level of attacks from the left.


30 posted on 01/11/2012 7:46:50 AM PST by reasonisfaith (Or, more accurately---reason serves faith. See W.L. Craig, and many others.)
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To: svcw
If Romney is the winner, America still loses, he is no different politically and has already stated he WANTS to work with democrats.

If Romney wins the general election, Reagan conservatism and the Tea Party movement are forever dead. The Republican Party establishment for the next generation will be able to point to the "victory" of Mitt Romney as evidence that the party nominee must be a moderate and the MSM will happily sing that tune. If you are a true conservative who is tempted to hold your nose and vote for Romney, think about that - you're signing the death warrant for the best political hope this nation has.

31 posted on 01/11/2012 7:48:30 AM PST by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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To: Proud2BeRight
The race is going to begin when we get to bigger primaries with registered GOP only and hopefully the conservatives get together to agree on one candidate so the conservative majority stop splitting the vote.

Iowa and New Hampshire should be a distant insignificant memories soon.

Evangelical leaders are meeting to push back against Mitt.

Evangelicals planning plot against Romney

"Mitt Romney hasn’t got a prayer.

That is, if the most prominent evangelical leaders in the country — who are holding crisis talks next weekend in Texas over the thinning herd of viable GOP challengers — have anything to say about it.

-SNIP-

Yet with Romney on a fast track — having won the Iowa caucuses and going into New Hampshire with a luxurious 24-point lead and South Carolina with a small lead — the meeting’s only agenda is to anoint an alternative candidate."

God be with them.

32 posted on 01/11/2012 7:53:52 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Let's not vet Mitt w/Bain so Obama can do it all summer. /sarc)
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To: greyfoxx39

Vulture capitalists are always gimlet-eyed.


33 posted on 01/11/2012 7:55:08 AM PST by tumblindice (Rew Scromney)
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To: greyfoxx39

Very interesting! Thanks. I wish them well.


34 posted on 01/11/2012 7:57:20 AM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: greyfoxx39
"Never has a winner looked so beaten (Mitt)"

We should be proud, he follows in the footsteps of eminently beatable candidates such as Dole and McCain. This trend will continue all the time that we allow those Liberal, faux GOP voters in the Northeast to bless our candidates at the beginning of each cycle's campaign.

35 posted on 01/11/2012 8:00:46 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: reasonisfaith

Which is?


36 posted on 01/11/2012 8:01:49 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: McGavin999
Apologies to all. My post #1 was ill-written.

I was considering the candidates who were NOT already in the race in response to Podhoretz' comment "And because every other plausible major candidate refused to run in 2011". Palin was the one who came to my mind.

I would vote for any republican candidate who is running to defeat Obama.

37 posted on 01/11/2012 8:03:53 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Let's not vet Mitt w/Bain so Obama can do it all summer. /sarc)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
I hate Romney and think he's a disaster in the making but that fire comment will only help him if Obama tries to run with it.

It does not matter that it is taken out of context. People will NOT sit still long enough for you to try to explain it away.

He said the words, they will play the short clip, and people will believe that Romney is a rich guy who likes firing people.

It won't backfire against Obama, it will assure his re-election.

38 posted on 01/11/2012 8:07:32 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: All; Jim Robinson
WOW..."Romney’s critics have accused him of destroying jobs in order to increase profits for his investment firm, Bain Capital, but speaking Wednesday on CBS, Romney said that what he did was no different from the Obama administration’s auto industry bailouts.

“In the general election I’ll be pointing out that the president took the reins at General Motors and Chrysler – closed factories, closed dealerships laid off thousands and thousands of workers – he did it to try to save the business,” Romney said Wednesday on CBS.

Romney likens work at Bain Capital to Obama’s auto industry bailout


39 posted on 01/11/2012 8:10:21 AM PST by greyfoxx39 (Let's not vet Mitt w/Bain so Obama can do it all summer. /sarc)
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To: CommerceComet

I will not vote for Paul, Romney or Huntsman if any where to win the nomination - Period!!
I will vote all other offices, just not president.


40 posted on 01/11/2012 8:11:51 AM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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