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EXCLUSIVE: Mitt Romney to Receive Secret Service Protection (due to increased crowd sizes)
Yahoo ^ | 2/1/12 | Emily Friedman - ABC News

Posted on 02/01/2012 9:30:44 AM PST by NormsRevenge

TAMPA - Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has been informed that it will start receiving Secret Service protection on Thursday, two campaign sources and a senior Republican tell ABC News.

Secret Service protection is being given to the campaign not because of a specific threat but because of the increase in crowd sizes as the primary season has progressed over the past few weeks, according to the sources, who refused to be identified because they don't have authority to comment on such matters publicly.

The Secret Service is charged with protecting presidential candidates in addition to the president himself, and providing protection to a candidate before he secures a nomination has become fairly common. Such decisions are made by the Department of Homeland Security, in consultation with congressional leadership.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bsalert; exclusive; mittromney; secretservice
For the GoP and its chances in November..

Uhhh, Santa? This doesn't go to help the 'very poor', does it?

They have safety nets, yaknow.


Poor economy? Yep, but red kettles set record for Salvation Army


1 posted on 02/01/2012 9:30:47 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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It’s also a good way for the Leftists&Media underlings to protect their investment.. the largest since McCain in ‘08.


2 posted on 02/01/2012 9:32:35 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Now what do you suppose the crowd size theshold that triggers SS presence might be?


3 posted on 02/01/2012 9:33:04 AM PST by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: NormsRevenge

I really hate to put on the tinfoil hat, but does this indicate that the “powers that be” have settled on their candidate?


4 posted on 02/01/2012 9:35:13 AM PST by newheart (What this country needs is a good dose of bran. Attack Muffins Unite!)
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To: newheart; All
Cynics. :)
5 posted on 02/01/2012 9:51:55 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: Charles Martel

Now what do you suppose the crowd size theshold that triggers SS presence might be?

At the Villages in Florida he had 3500 supporters in Florida. However, Newt had 4000. But that was the only time Newt had that many. APPARENTLY, Romney had those numbers everywhere he went and it was just to overwhelming for the local police. Who knows if that is true or not. Newt could ask for SS now but would most likely be turned down until he gets his numbers up. Cain was able to get SS protection too because he had the numbers and then the “BS” started coming out and once he left the campaign he lost the SS.


6 posted on 02/01/2012 9:52:21 AM PST by napscoordinator (Go Santorum!)
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To: NormsRevenge
He has NOT had nearly the crowds Newt has had. This is ANOTHER effort by The Establishment in their feeble attempt to make the weak-minded followers of the Nighty State-Run-Media that Romney-the-RINO is inevitable as the Candidate.

Stay thirsty, my friends.....

7 posted on 02/01/2012 10:03:42 AM PST by traditional1 (Stay thirsty, my friends.)
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To: NormsRevenge

this is total BS, Newt draws larger crowds, this is to make it look like radical conservatives are a threat to Myth.


8 posted on 02/01/2012 10:06:22 AM PST by stockpirate (Romney, Ann Coulter & our ruling republican SOCIALISTelites, are Big Government socialists,)
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To: stockpirate

Bingo. Libs marginalizing the opposition, coming to the aid of their “adversary”...Isn’t it wonderful when an election is so meticulously arranged and the libs and repubs coperate so beautifully together, one big happy mob family.


9 posted on 02/01/2012 10:13:18 AM PST by AnTiw1
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To: NormsRevenge

Too much Anti-Mitt propoganda is being used on Romney, I don’t blame them. People who use propoganda, you don’t know what they are capable of. Real Christians don’t use propoganda ever. People who claim to be Christian, yet use propoganda, like your picture, don’t get it that Jesus is the truth, the light and the way. They think the ends justify the means. If you are telling the truth, you wouldn’t use propoganda, ever.


10 posted on 02/01/2012 10:20:56 AM PST by rodeo-mamma (The ends don't justify the means.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Who’s going to be paying for this?

Oh, never mind.


11 posted on 02/01/2012 10:34:07 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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To: rodeo-mamma

Bishop Romney has devoted his life and personal fortune to destroying Christian souls.

Christians will fight the anti-Christian cult leader with everything they have.


12 posted on 02/01/2012 10:55:17 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: traditional1
You could say that over and over again. With 4/5 sons following along with at least wife number one. It makes for a great portrait of bygone days in the era of Norman Rockwell.

I will say that the cult of Mormon is alive and doing fine. Mormons believe that families should be lived out in public as a loud advertisement for their club. Yes, those large families living together are great testimonies of for faithfulness

13 posted on 02/01/2012 10:56:46 AM PST by STD (Cut Taxes, Cut Spending Stupid!)
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To: ansel12

He speaks the truth about Newt, how is that destroying anyone’s soul? Newt says night after night on Fox News, that Mitt lies. But Newt never says how. Mitt says the truth. Anyone who thinks the ends justifies the means, and tells lies is not Christian. I don’t care what church they go to. In the Bible it says there are some people who have never even heard of Jesus, yet they have his spirit, because they live by the truth. There are Mormons who live by the truth. They just happened to have been born into the Church. There is no such thing as a Human made church that is perfect. The real Church is not represented by a building. The real church is within. All human built churches are flawed. Real Christians know that, but they still need a place to worship, so they go to the best place they can find, or they go to the one they were born into.


14 posted on 02/01/2012 11:14:09 AM PST by rodeo-mamma (The ends don't justify the means.)
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To: rodeo-mamma

Oddly enough or not .. or propaganda or not..

I haven’t seen a snip of this comment re: the ‘very poor’ anywhere on Drudge..

or maybe I missed it.

btw Thanks for injecting Jesus into the conversation,

WE, as a people, could use more of it.. no matter what the godless hordes and heathen say. ;-]


15 posted on 02/01/2012 11:33:47 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: rodeo-mamma

Bishop Romney has devoted his life and fortune to converting Christians away from Christ and into his anti-Christian cult.

In politics he has devoted himself largely to promoting abortion and the homosexual agenda, attacking Reagan, conservatism, gun rights and all sorts of left wing perversions.

You support a monster, a horrible man, a left wing man, an anti-Christian man.


16 posted on 02/01/2012 11:33:52 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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