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The Man Who Likes Mandates
Weekly Standard ^ | March 26, 2012 | Bill Kristol

Posted on 03/18/2012 7:18:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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1 posted on 03/18/2012 7:18:31 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yet, another example of how Romney is BHO lite.


2 posted on 03/18/2012 7:22:58 AM PDT by svcw (CLEAN WATER & Education http://www.longlostsis.com/PI/MayanHelp2012.html)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
the author is close- but not quite

At a moment in history when we need a bold commitment to reform, a fundamental willingness to limit the state and revitalize self-government, Romney’s achievements and qualifications seem out of step with the times. The GOP establishment is trying to force yet another establishment hack on us, oblivious to (or worse unwilling to give us) the drastic deconstruction of the the government we want

There... fixed it

3 posted on 03/18/2012 7:25:05 AM PDT by Mr. K (If Romney wins the primary, I am writing-in PALIN)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Am I wrong or is this whole state’s rights thing not work so good as of late? Especially, when you have a jr dictator using the Federal government to supercedes a state’s decisions?
You know like how Obama stuck his big ears in Az over immigration. And, recently in NC In the seemingly neverending crusade to pervert thats states definition of marriage?


4 posted on 03/18/2012 7:37:28 AM PDT by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Romney: If somebody is making, let’s say $100,000 a year, and doesn’t have health insurance, and they show up at the hospital, and they need a $1,000 repair of some kind for something that’s gone wrong. And they say, “Look, I’m not insured, I’m not going to pay.” Do you think they should pay or not?

So he is arguing the government can easily get the money owed if they call it a tax, and they cannot get the money owed if it is called a debt.

And he wonders why there is such a disconnect.

Similarly Ms. Fluke wants her "health care" to be between her and her doctor, but not the one who is paying for it. But when you invite your fellow citizens in to pay, then you have inextricably given them a say in your health care.

5 posted on 03/18/2012 7:55:44 AM PDT by ALPAPilot
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Exactly why Conservatives do not like Romney.

He is Obama with no tan.

I am against Obama, not because he is black, but because of his policies, Why would I wantto replace him with a white man with the same policies?
Simple, I don’t—it has nothing to do with race. It is Obama’s spending spree, his Obamacare, his rejection of our friends and his helping the Muslim Brotherhood.

I don’t know about Obama’s Birth certificate, but born here or not Obama is no American. Nor is Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or Steny Hoyer.


6 posted on 03/18/2012 7:59:02 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I'll tell you why Gingrich would be a disaster as President. You're not going to like it but it's the truth.

It's his name. Ging-ritch. It already sounds like a nasty word, and the media would turn it into a swear-word before by his second year in office. In 2014, the MSM will make sure that every single Republican in the House and the Senate is tied right to Gingritch. 2014 would be a rout of historic proportions. The Democrat rabble that is washed in in the wake of this debacle will be made up of worse than Alan Greyson and Anthony Weiner. In fact, those two might very swirl back in, and they'll be among the moderates. They'll use Gingritch just like they used Boosh. Make it into an obscenity. And our "new" American electorate will eat it up. Mark my words.

Gingritch gone in one, just like Obama. Tit for tat. The MSM will make it so. Sorry to be the bringer of such bad news. I don't like it either.

7 posted on 03/18/2012 8:18:45 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Scanned the headline too quickly and saw:

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The Man Who Likes Manatees

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8 posted on 03/18/2012 9:27:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (If my candidate doesn't win the nomination I'm going to kick my feet, cry like a baby, and stay home)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Very interesting blast from the past.
BUMP!


9 posted on 03/18/2012 9:35:19 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Steely Tom; Cincinatus' Wife

Do as you please and talk yourself into paralysis over what can be done to someone’s name.

You won’t find me joining in, whatever happens.

Is the answer the NAME Santorum?

Already it has become Sanctitorum or just plain Rick Sanctimonious.

Some say, Saint Rick.

The only complaint I ever heard about Gingrich’s same was the Newt part. People said, who would want a President called Newt?

People can’t change their name or what their detractors decide to do with their name.

Obsess on that as the death knell if you wish.

Obama’s name has had everything under the sun done to it.

There’s a book in a chain bookstore, but by a local author, called “Obamanation”.

We are going with IDEAS. If a name does you in, the country is gone anyhow.


10 posted on 03/18/2012 10:22:10 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: Steely Tom
"Gingrich's sname"
11 posted on 03/18/2012 10:25:43 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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To: Steely Tom

Gingrich for good or ill stands no chance for the GOP top spot, because his elected experience is all in the House.


12 posted on 03/18/2012 11:27:01 AM PDT by steve8714 (Clay...Carnahan...who is the least of these?)
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To: Steely Tom

In fact, Garfield is the last elected president whose experience was last in the House. This ensures also no “President Ron Paul”.


13 posted on 03/18/2012 11:34:34 AM PDT by steve8714 (Clay...Carnahan...who is the least of these?)
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To: steve8714; Steely Tom; Cincinatus' Wife

Senators don’t do well either, but especially those who lose their seat by 18 points.

Romney is a MA liberal masquerading as a conservative when it suits him, but even now he constantly slips up and shows his true colors, because that can’t be helped. Such kinds of truths will out, as they say.

Tell you what, you join with Steely Tom who says it’s aaaaaaaalllllllll in the name and what your enemies can do to twist it around, and the both of you post downers to your hearts’ content.

You won’t find me there.

And that will be true, regardless of what happens.


14 posted on 03/18/2012 11:37:59 AM PDT by txrangerette ("HOLD TO THE TRUTH...SPEAK WITHOUT FEAR" - Glenn Beck)
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Gingrich for good or ill stands no chance for the GOP top spot, because his elected experience is all in the House.

Huh??

From my perspective, that's a lot of pluses +++++++++++ in his favor. Then too, he was the SPEAKER of the House that brought us the Republican revolution in 1994.

15 posted on 03/18/2012 12:11:07 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: txrangerette

:)


16 posted on 03/18/2012 12:12:43 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Mitt Romney: 'No, no, I like mandates coercion. The mandates coercion works.'

Here, I've fixed it.

17 posted on 03/18/2012 12:13:42 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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“I am against Obama, not because he is black, but because of his policies”

He’s not even black, but he pretends to be.


18 posted on 03/18/2012 12:15:52 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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He is black when he wants to be.

He is filled with hatred for anything white.

He is a typical Mulatto. Mad at both parents for what he is, but leaning towards his black side because he is accepted easier there.


19 posted on 03/18/2012 12:22:05 PM PDT by Venturer
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His “black” side is Arab. Many Arabs are black.


20 posted on 03/18/2012 1:05:38 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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