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Romney on minimum wage: 'we ought to raise it' (Mitt makes pilgrimage to MSNBC...)
CNN ^ | 5/9/14 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 05/09/2014 9:35:59 AM PDT by jimbo123

In a break with many in the Republican Party, Mitt Romney says he backs a move to raise the minimum wage.

"I, for instance, as you know, part company with many of the conservatives in my party on the issue of the minimum wage, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee said Friday morning.

"I think we ought to raise it, because frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay, and I think communicating that is important to us," Romney added in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


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KEYWORDS: deadinternjoe; designatedloser; mittromney; morningjoe; msnbc; ricksantorum; romney; santorum
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Go away, Mitt.
1 posted on 05/09/2014 9:35:59 AM PDT by jimbo123
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romney. free to pander.


2 posted on 05/09/2014 9:37:22 AM PDT by dadfly
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Romney is the New McCain.


3 posted on 05/09/2014 9:38:27 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: dadfly

The loser speaks, no one listens.


4 posted on 05/09/2014 9:39:20 AM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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To: jimbo123

He also “parts company” with true conservatism. What a socialist idiot!

I’m almost glad he lost.


5 posted on 05/09/2014 9:39:35 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: jimbo123

Never mind the hundreds of thousands of people who will no longer have a job at all.


6 posted on 05/09/2014 9:40:34 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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The dems are going to have no one to run. They should take a look at this lib

Dems are allowed to exalt wealthy white guys. Plus he thinks like them


7 posted on 05/09/2014 9:40:45 AM PDT by stanne
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The big-government/big-corporate crony-fascist complex likes a high minimum wage because it eliminates competition from pesky small businesses.


8 posted on 05/09/2014 9:40:45 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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our party is all about more jobs and better pay,

Yeah, because we meant that government should determine the value of an employee, Mitt. Whatev.
9 posted on 05/09/2014 9:41:15 AM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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this is just proof that the DC insiders have no clue about the real world. They see outside the NYC/Beltway as a serf zone and the insiders are out benevolent aristocrat oligarch rulers.


10 posted on 05/09/2014 9:41:19 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: fwdude

We’ve been here before, on both opinions.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/outcry-mitt-romney-reverses-stance-minimum-wage-181557691.html

Etch-a-sketch principles.


11 posted on 05/09/2014 9:41:32 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (FIGHT! FIGHT! SEVERE CONSERVATIVE AND THE WILD RIGHT!)
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I believe that if you are going to get socialism, may as well get the full measure instead of socialism lite.


12 posted on 05/09/2014 9:41:41 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: 2001convSVT



13 posted on 05/09/2014 9:41:42 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: fwdude

Oh yeah. Every time he speaks, the Rubio’s lose more conservatives in their pres voter pool


14 posted on 05/09/2014 9:42:12 AM PDT by stanne
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To: jimbo123

Seems like he’s really trying to pay penance for his 47% comment by appearing sympathetic to liberal causes. This way he can run for president again.


15 posted on 05/09/2014 9:49:14 AM PDT by thetallguy24
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Is this the same Mitt Romney who, while at Bain, used to go into companies and cut salaries and other costs to turn bankrupt companies back into viable businesses? I guess its just not that important to create viable turn-around and start up companies anymore.


16 posted on 05/09/2014 9:49:49 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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you know... like most of you I think that raising the minimum wage will increase inflation and increase unemployment while eliminating lower wage jobs and will speed up the transition from low wage jobs for people to machines.

BUT.

The polls show the vast majority of US citizens want to raise the minimum wage.

If the job of our representatives in government is to represent our views, shouldn't they support policies “such as this” that the vast majority want, if if we personally disagree with them?

17 posted on 05/09/2014 9:51:56 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: thetallguy24

he has always been sympathetic and supportive of lefty causes. It is conservatism he has to fake


18 posted on 05/09/2014 9:54:11 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: jimbo123

Philosophically tone deaf.


19 posted on 05/09/2014 9:54:42 AM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: jimbo123

You ought to STFU, Mitt.


20 posted on 05/09/2014 9:54:51 AM PDT by dfwgator
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