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Romney On Palin Doubting He Is Conservative: "Not Quite Sure What She'd Be Referring To"
Real Clear Politics ^ | February 15, 2012 | Staff

Posted on 02/15/2012 7:33:27 AM PST by C19fan

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney responds to Sarah Palin saying she is not convinced he is a conservative during his appearance on Wednesday's "FOX & Friends."

"Well we should probably spend some time with Sarah Palin, although she is hard to find. She's on your show all the time," Romney said.

"I'm not quite sure what she'd be referring to. I'm pro-life, pro-traditional marriage. I believe in the second amendment. As governor, I balanced the budget every year I was in office. Put in place a $2 million rainy-day fund. Cut taxes 19 times," he also said.

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To: C19fan

I am having a hard time figuring out where Palin is coming from or what her agenda is.I almost suspect, she is wishing for a Brokered Convention and the call may go out to her. That is wanting the nomination without having to fight for it.


21 posted on 02/15/2012 7:59:06 AM PST by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: fishtank
His reply reminds me of the phrase on whether the LDS Church holds that, “God the Father was once a man, Mormon LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinckley said, “I don’t know that we teach it.”

Taqiyya, "milk before meat", what's the difference?

22 posted on 02/15/2012 7:59:50 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Mitt Romney is SEVERELY conservative - so severe, it hurts him to be conservative!)
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To: fishtank
I am not sure what the LDS teaches about most anything. that being said, I am comfortable with many a Mormon as President. I am just not comfortable with the Mormon Mitt Romney as President.
23 posted on 02/15/2012 8:01:56 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: C19fan
"Well we should probably spend some time with Sarah Palin, although she is hard to find. She's on your show all the time," Romney said.

So, she's not THAT hard to find.

Her studio is in Wasilla. Even I know how to get to her house. (never visited, just driven by)

24 posted on 02/15/2012 8:01:56 AM PST by hattend (Jesus wants me to make churches pay for abortions. - Barack Obama)
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To: C19fan

Romney: “I believe in the second amendment.”

You are a LIAR you scum-bag! You signed a permanent “[so-called] assault weapons” ban.

ESAD, Romney.


25 posted on 02/15/2012 8:07:04 AM PST by Peet (Cogito ergo dubito.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
She is coming from the point of view as a Conservative pundit analyzing why Romney is stuck at under 30% after six years of nonstop campaigning.

She has the same agenda as every true Conservative, the replacement of Obama with the most Conservative Republican possible so we can start to turn back the country from imminent disaster.

26 posted on 02/15/2012 8:07:37 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

But there’s not a single nationally known mormon politician who is a conservative.

The reason for that is explained in my tagline.

The lds-org does NOT believe that mankind is a fallen, sinful creature.

From that reality springs the Founding Fathers belief in:

(1) checks and balances of power,

(2) a tri-partite government, split evenly between executive, legislative and judicial,

(3) the electoral college, balancing the weight of small populations in rural areas with large amounts of people in the cities.


27 posted on 02/15/2012 8:11:23 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: hattend
So, she's not THAT hard to find.

To say the least, I just saw Larry the cable guy simply drive to her house and talk to Todd. Todd even sent him to his in laws to check out their house. Sarah left him a note as she was finishing a run. He simply drove right up to the house. Might I suggest a telephone call Willard?

28 posted on 02/15/2012 8:12:48 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: fishtank
As I said I know nothing about Mormonism,except that lots of them are in Kirtland, OH just a couple dozen miles from my house. I also know thaty the ozmonds are Mormons and that the Mormons have a real good choir.
29 posted on 02/15/2012 8:16:07 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
"I am having a hard time figuring out where Palin is coming from or what her agenda is.I almost suspect, she is wishing for a Brokered Convention and the call may go out to her.

We have a Bingo! Now, as to interpretation - you may see it as her wanting the nomination without working for it. Though I see where you are coming from, I see Sarah's moves as the work of a savvy politician deciding that the MSM was going to make sure the republican primarys delivered damaged goods and avoiding that trap.

30 posted on 02/15/2012 8:32:01 AM PST by In Maryland ("Truth? We don't need no stinkin' truth!" - Official Motto of the Main Stream Media)
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To: ClearCase_guy
People trust Sarah. They sense that she is very real.
People do not trust Mitt. They sense that he is a phony.



31 posted on 02/15/2012 8:32:11 AM PST by crosshairs (Liberalism is to truth, what east is to west.)
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To: C19fan

In this comment, Romney sounds just exactly like our grandson explaining the baseball that he’d just thrown through the kitchen window.

...except that Mitt’s not ten years old and this is a he** of a lot more serious than fifty bucks worth of glass.

(Plus considering the hatchet jobs his staff has done on Palin, I’d wonder if he really wants to get into her vicinity. Or if she’d welcome his insincere a$$ in the door.)


32 posted on 02/15/2012 8:33:53 AM PST by Unrepentant VN Vet ((338 and a wakeup) Truth, I know, always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition.)
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To: MrB
A conservative, a moderate, and a liberal walk into a bar,

So, who was the conservative?

33 posted on 02/15/2012 8:46:07 AM PST by slowhandluke (It's hard to be cynical enough in this age.)
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To: Da Coyote

I haven’t ever seen a candidate with such a halting and hesitating style of speech, short of an impediment, as Romney exhibits. The fact that he doesn’t have a clue who he is, or what he believes, exacerbates the problem as he says nothing really, but spews data like a robot. It’s eerie for me.

God be with us.


34 posted on 02/15/2012 8:49:20 AM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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To: C19fan

He just can’t help but be smarmy. Twist and spin and deception is his natural response. If the guy would just say, “You know, I was governor of one of the most liberal states in the union. As such, some of the things I did as their governor represented the will of the people, not necessarily my personal beliefs. And those things, while they may be right for Massachusetts, are not right for America. That’s one of the things that makes this country great, the ability for the 50 sovereign States to act as models and labs for other States. Particularly for those items over which the federal government has no authority.” Or words to that effect, he might actually garner some Conservative support.


35 posted on 02/15/2012 8:52:57 AM PST by tnlibertarian (Selfishly stealing other people's witticisms for taglines since 2002.)
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To: C19fan
I believe in the second amendment.

Riiiiiiight. As a collective, not an individual right. And if he does think it's an individual right, he thinks it's for hunting, like the Elmer Fudds in the NRA.

Sorry, Willard. Will not vote for you, under any circumstances, you gun-banning, abortion-supporting, statist liar.

36 posted on 02/15/2012 9:05:45 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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To: Old Retired Army Guy
I am having a hard time figuring out where Palin is coming from or what her agenda is.I almost suspect, she is wishing for a Brokered Convention and the call may go out to her. That is wanting the nomination without having to fight for it.

Reliable as the rain in posting a negative spin on Governor Palin.
37 posted on 02/15/2012 9:05:54 AM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: fishtank
"Not Quite Sure Which Mitt Romney She'd Be Referring To"...there, fixed it.
38 posted on 02/15/2012 9:12:32 AM PST by AnTiw1 (I lived through a mormon hell, I will not live in a country with a mormon president.)
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To: G Larry

But he’s “severly” conservative whatever that means.


39 posted on 02/15/2012 9:16:36 AM PST by duffee (NEWT 2012)
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To: C19fan
romney dunce, Remedial Conservatism
40 posted on 02/15/2012 9:22:37 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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