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Sputtering Romney campaign retools message (Drudge-Rhoades carpetbomb strategy backfired on Mitt?)
UPI ^ | 2/10/12 | UPI

Posted on 02/10/2012 8:00:45 AM PST by jimbo123

Some Republicans expressed concern that Mitt Romney's campaign is stuck in neutral and limping, not lunging, toward the party's U.S. presidential nomination.

Even before Rick Santorum's sweep of contests in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri Tuesday, the Romney campaign was getting warnings and advice from Republicans concerned about the former Massachusetts governor's performance on the stump, which hasn't improved since the state caucuses and primaries began early in January,

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To: Lady Lucky

Yes, this can be seen in his previous campaigns- I will not change or chip away at (fill in blank). He’s said the same, recently, about federal firearms laws, I will not change them.

I wonder what he’d really do as President. Look at all the stuff that happened in Massachusetts with him as Governor, and none of it was because of a decision he made! He was either forced into doing it by circumstances beyond his control (gay marriage, homosexual adoptions) or it somehow just happened.

Like keeping uniformed Boy Scouts out of the Olympics, apparently nobody made that decision, but it was not to be changed or challenged.


21 posted on 02/10/2012 8:51:34 AM PST by DBrow
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To: chrisnj

Newt has taken the heat, and were it not for Newt Romney would probably coasted on to the nomination. Newt made Romney expose himself.


22 posted on 02/10/2012 8:55:27 AM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: duffee
Why hasn’t Paul ever attacked Romney?

I read a piece recently that Paul and Milt are close friends. Someone argued last night that Paul is the real stalking horse for Milt and that if the delegate count gets close, Paul will throw his to Milt in return for Rand being VP. Makes as much sense as anything on this weird relationship.

23 posted on 02/10/2012 8:55:30 AM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: hoosiermama

The funny thing is that Mitt has probably never seen the inside of a bar.


24 posted on 02/10/2012 8:56:53 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Go Newt!)
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To: jimbo123
Message to the GOP Establishment and Mitt Romney:

IT'S NOT US; IT'S YOU.

25 posted on 02/10/2012 8:59:43 AM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (You cannot fix stupid. Not even with JB Weld.)
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To: DBrow

As with gay marriage, so with contraceptions under Romneycare. He blames the courts when it was the interpretation of his lawyers, he blames the legislature when it was the interpretation of his lawyers — and then he goes ahead with his liberal decision.


26 posted on 02/10/2012 9:01:54 AM PST by Lady Lucky (Public education -- government cheese for the brain.)
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To: Lady Lucky
Aside from the flipping, Romney has another shortcoming. He doesn't have much in the way of positive ideas.

what do you mean not positive.....why just the other day he told a conservative audience he was "for America".

27 posted on 02/10/2012 9:02:25 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
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To: Lady Lucky
Several business leaders have stated that Santorum’s economic and tax plans are the best from any candidate this year.

I am a Newt guy, but Santorum does get praise for his economic ideas from Wall Street Journal and IBD.

28 posted on 02/10/2012 9:03:21 AM PST by Kansas58
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To: RoosterRedux

Thought of that too. First thing that came to my mind....Shirley Temple?


29 posted on 02/10/2012 9:03:49 AM PST by hoosiermama (Stand with God and Sarah, the Gipper and Newt will be standing next to you.)
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To: hoosiermama

He is an odd duck, isn’t he?


30 posted on 02/10/2012 9:18:26 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Go Newt!)
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To: jimbo123
The GOP-e thinks it’s as simple as retooling the message? It’s not the message. It’s the candidate.

how do you retool a doofus?

31 posted on 02/10/2012 9:20:39 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan
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To: Lazlo in PA

I believe there is a possibility that Paul and Romney have made a deal that RP will not run 3rd party if Romney gets the nomination and that Romney will select Rand Paul for VEEP and that Paul will spend and attack any candidate who gets near or ahead of Romney.

The Rand Paul VEEP selection would make sense as Ky. is far enough South and he is perceived to be Conservative and to have Tea Party support. I believe he’s un-principled enough to enter into such a deal by the way he lied about “Breaking News” to get on Hannity’s show to read a letter he had written to an Iowa newspaper denigrating Gingrich.

Someone and I believe it was Oliver North once said “The thing about paranoia is that you only have to be right once to make it worthwhile”


32 posted on 02/10/2012 9:34:16 AM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

No, BASIC.


33 posted on 02/10/2012 9:38:17 AM PST by NathanR
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To: jimbo123

Like this wasn’t the obvious outcome of Mittens crapping his own bed....

He is one dumb SOB......

Mittens is done...he just doesn’t know it yet....


34 posted on 02/10/2012 9:38:37 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I actually voted for Romney in the 2008 primary because I thought that he would be better than McCain or Huckabee. Hard to believe, much less admit.

If you think about it, Romney’s two wins have been in states with same day registration allowed and no Democrat primary to compete. I think that Rpmney’s broad support may have been a carefully constructed and very expensive illusion.


35 posted on 02/10/2012 9:39:22 AM PST by Eva
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP

“That is one of the classic problems with using deep personal attacks and the personal destruction approach.”

As Rev. Wright would say: “de chickens have done come home to roost.” Romney will now reap what he has sown. At the end of the day, people are beginning to recognize that Romney doesn’t have any plan, except to win at any cost. It’s just another way that he’s just like Obama.


36 posted on 02/10/2012 9:50:02 AM PST by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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To: vette6387
At the end of the day, people are beginning to recognize that Romney doesn’t have any plan, except to win at any cost. It’s just another way that he’s just like Obama.

Exactly.
37 posted on 02/10/2012 10:12:49 AM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

ABR: It doesn’t matter what language Romney uses; look at his record. He’s a liberal! It’s telling that the media only think that their “chosen” candidate whomever that may be Romney, Obama, McCainiac, etc.. it’s about “messagaging” and not about policy..WAKE UP CALL INDEED!


38 posted on 02/10/2012 1:54:51 PM PST by JSDude1
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