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What Was Romney Planning? (His transition team was planning an impressive ship-of-state had he won)
National Review ^ | 01/21/2013 | John Fund

Posted on 01/21/2013 5:50:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/21/2013 5:50:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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Who gives a red rats patoot what Romney had planned?

He never planned to win anyway,He worked hard in the Primary’s and folded in the General. He hurt his Republican opponents folded and bowed to Obama.

Romney to me is just another name to despise, for his Massachusetts version of Obamacare and his run for President he gave up on in the final months.


2 posted on 01/21/2013 5:58:15 AM PST by Venturer
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To: SeekAndFind

Next article:
“Strategies the Chiefs would employ against the 49ers in the Super Bowl.”


3 posted on 01/21/2013 6:00:34 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: Venturer

Those thoughts and 3 bucks will get you a cup of bitter tasting coffee. Does he know how much of your mind he continues to occupy?


4 posted on 01/21/2013 6:00:47 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Interesting read. Even with faults, it would have been light years better than what we are about to face.


5 posted on 01/21/2013 6:01:23 AM PST by SueRae (It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It sounds to me like Romney and his team spent a lot of time and effort in putting the cart before the horse.


6 posted on 01/21/2013 6:05:25 AM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds to me like just another expensive Wonk Factory operation. Only coming from the Right and not the Left.


7 posted on 01/21/2013 6:09:10 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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He sure doesn’t and he probably doesn’t care.

No more than I care what he would have done as President.

Screw him


8 posted on 01/21/2013 6:09:39 AM PST by Venturer
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I'm still waiting for the purists to tell us what to do. I mean they got what they wanted after Romney was nominated with Obama's win. How does this fit into their plans?

Step 1: Ensure Romney loses the General to stick it to the GOPe Step 2: ? Step 3: Profits!

9 posted on 01/21/2013 6:10:36 AM PST by chargers fan
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I disagree...well, somewhat. I am was an ‘anybody but Romney’, and he lost for the reasons we all feared/expected. I do believe Romney as a man performed as well as anything I expected from a candidate. As a candidate, he prepared and executed extremely well. I was pleasantly surprised. His speeches, his debates (the first two), etc were very good. I commended him at the time, and won’t second guess now.

What lost this was the strategy team and underlying beliefs and skills. Romney as a man deserves a big part of this because it ultimately is his belief set that drove how the team was built. This is the problem we all had with Romney as a candidate. He is a moderate who fell for the age old myths about moderate Republicans. Their team assumed Obama would remain unpopular, and all they had to do was present a viable alternative. Everything was done to make Romney look presidential. They needed to build an undeniable case why Obama had failed, and did not do that. In essence, they let him off the ropes. The political team Reagan built for 1980 and 1984 would have eviscerated Obama.

That’s where I agree. I am pissed that the idiot consultancy class sunk this ship. I was upset during the convention when I heard a high ranking official say ‘we aren’t going to hammer on Obama failures because people already know about them’. The campaign apparatus failed dramatically, but this article and Romney preparation show they did a number of things well, at the same time. This team was simply build with the wrong people, and was outmatched in organization.


10 posted on 01/21/2013 6:12:58 AM PST by ilgipper (Obama supporters are comprised of the uninformed & the ill-informed)
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Yeah, because what we have to face over the next 4 years is soooooo much better knowing this RINO didn’t get elected.


11 posted on 01/21/2013 6:15:06 AM PST by MDspinboyredux
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To: FamiliarFace

Yep. No federal funding unspent in the process, either.


12 posted on 01/21/2013 6:16:57 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: chargers fan

Which ‘purists’ are you referring to? Name names.


13 posted on 01/21/2013 6:19:35 AM PST by skeeter
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To: Venturer

Woulda, shoulda, coulda. Who cares is right.


14 posted on 01/21/2013 6:30:15 AM PST by albie
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To: MDspinboyredux

Your sarcasm is misdirected, but that’s fine.


15 posted on 01/21/2013 6:30:37 AM PST by Venturer
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To: skeeter

One thing I’ve learned is that there is nothing lower than a bottom feeding scumbag moderate who spews crap about “purists”. They spend so much time on their knees servicing their liberal friends that they think its mother’s milk.


16 posted on 01/21/2013 6:31:18 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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I’ll consider myself a purist- I despise Romney as a Northeastern gun-grabbing leftwing fag-supporting RINO. I voted for him anyway, although I won’t do anything like that again, because his winning would have been pointless, and only emboldens the leftists in the GOP.

“I’m still waiting for the purists to tell us what to do.”

Ok. Take your left-wingers and ESAD. Get out of the Republican party, go join the democommies and quit trying to sell moderate socialism to conservatives.


17 posted on 01/21/2013 6:36:51 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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Ok. Take your left-wingers and ESAD. Get out of the Republican party, go join the democommies and quit trying to sell moderate socialism to conservatives.

I'll second that. The GOP has been moderated into a coma and its about time the "moderates" hike up their big girl panties and moderate the party that actually needs it.
18 posted on 01/21/2013 6:40:13 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

He should have been planning how to keep Obama’s henchmen form hacking into voting machines and stealing the election. Until Republicans figure that out, they will never win again.

A wise solution would be to abolish all voting except voting in person on election day. Ideally, voters should be required to put their index finger into indelible ink, Iraqi-style. These simple fixes would keep felons, illegals, multiple voters, and the dead out of the count, so Democrats would never agree to it.


19 posted on 01/21/2013 6:42:09 AM PST by txrefugee
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I believe their plan-after-winning reflects their plan-to-win. RINO losers. It really took some incompetence to lose to nobama and his commie friends.


20 posted on 01/21/2013 6:44:18 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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