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Romney Loyalists Hyping Comeback: 'Republicans Are Dying to Be Associated with Him'
Breitbart's Big Government ^ | August 3, 2014 | Tony Lee

Posted on 08/03/2014 6:36:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Mitt Romney loyalists are trying to gin up the narrative that Republicans just can't get enough of Romney.

“Democrats don’t want to be associated with Barack Obama right now, but Republicans are dying to be associated with Mitt Romney,” Spencer Zwick, "a longtime Romney confidant who chaired his national finance council," claimed to the Washington Post. The Chamber of Commerce, which has vowed to wage war on the Tea Party and push through amnesty legislation, glowingly praised Romney, alleging he would be in a "commanding position" if he entered the 2016 race.

Romney is reportedly set to make trips to West Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Colorado, and Virginia to campaign for Republicans. Yet besides the media, most of the people clamoring for another Romney "comeback" are his loyalists and closest advisers, who defied all statistical models to lose an election many thought should never have been lost.

In a July article for Politico Magazine, Emil Henry, who "served in multiple roles in the 2012 campaign, including adviser to the economic team, television surrogate and fundraiser," laughingly alleged that "Romney is re-emerging as the de facto leader of the Republican Party."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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To: swpa_mom; Diogenesis; CatherineofAragon; trisham; onyx; xzins; P-Marlowe; Jim Robinson; ...
You dont want the democrats to lose, do you?

Here's what you don't get, if someone like Romney wins, the Democrats win too because he's basically one of them.

Here is what Romney is responsible for:

1. Romneycare was the prototype for Obamacare. Romney the liberal "Republican" achieved socialized medicine which the Democrats had been attempting for decades.

2. Same-sex "marriage" was something the Democrats had been thinking about for years, but were too afraid to try because of public backlash. So, Romney stepped up and paved the way for them.

3. Romney even saw to it that Romneycare paid for abortion, something that the Democrats had wanted since Reagan. Romney did this because he is and always has been pro-abortion.

In the end, there's not a damn bit of difference between Romney, Obama and Hillary (Bill Clinton, at least when he was president, was probably slightly to the right of Romney).

161 posted on 08/05/2014 6:43:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Thank you, wags.


162 posted on 08/05/2014 6:45:05 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: swpa_mom
So, according to one of the main characters here on the premiere conservative website...

Repeat your snark much, mom? Jeez.

You slam this site, you mock it's posters/members....even on your homepage...why are you here? To spread your love of all things McRomney/RINO? No thanks.

You've told the owner he can ban you. If you don't like this "premier conservative website" and the "main characters" (and others) who post here, why don't you do yourself a favor and ban yourself?

163 posted on 08/05/2014 6:57:19 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: swpa_mom; wagglebee; Admin Moderator; 50mm; Old Sarge
From your homepage.......

this (former) premiere conservative website has become a total joke. It’s run by a few foul mouthed fake conservatives who want nothing other than to elect democrats. They get together and attack en masse and they have called Rick Santorum a liberal, Cruz a liberal, Sarah Palin? She’s a liberal. Rick Perry? he’s really a liberal.

They just use this forum in order to attack each other. It’s a circular firing squad.

Which leads to some questions.....

Just WHY are you here?

Does that include you, since you are also posting here?

So, IBTZ!!!

164 posted on 08/05/2014 7:08:30 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Jane Long; swpa_mom; Diogenesis; CatherineofAragon; trisham; onyx; xzins; P-Marlowe; ...
You've told the owner he can ban you. If you don't like this "premier conservative website" and the "main characters" (and others) who post here, why don't you do yourself a favor and ban yourself?

Because trolls have much more credibility on the anti-FReeper sites if they get zotted. We saw it with the Bug Zapper thread seven years ago.

165 posted on 08/05/2014 7:09:47 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: metmom

Holy cow.


166 posted on 08/05/2014 7:12:40 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: wagglebee

How pathetic is that?


167 posted on 08/05/2014 7:13:22 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
It's what they do, they can't be a "real" anti-FReeper without being zotted. Although, I'm not even sure what cesspool the anti-FReepers are infesting these days.
168 posted on 08/05/2014 7:15:39 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

It’s too bad they don’t have a life that that is what they live for.


169 posted on 08/05/2014 7:17:29 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Romney Loyalists Hyping Comeback: 'Republicans Are Dying to Be Associated with Him'

I believe the term that they are using is "I wouldn't be caught dead associating with him." Easy mistake to make.

170 posted on 08/05/2014 7:19:19 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: metmom; swpa_mom; trisham
Here's what I don't get, the troll has been here since 2010, what is the "former" that she refers to?

FReepers have NEVER supported Romney. There was some lukewarm resignation about voting for him in 2012, but it was far from supportive.

I don't think Romney really wanted to win as evidenced by the fact that he never attacked Obama the way he attacked the other Republican candidates for the nomination, I'm pretty sure he just wanted to make sure a conservative didn't win.

171 posted on 08/05/2014 7:21:27 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: DoodleDawg

I don’t know about that. There’s a lot of buyer’s remorse out there over not electing Romney in ‘12, with polls showing that in a do-over he’d beat Obama by close to 10 points.

That’s something that GOP candidates can, should, and hopefully are leveraging this year to build upon their electoral bases.

That doesn’t mean that Romney is the best or right candidate for 2016. He’s not. He won’t be running against Obama but against someone else (possibly Hillary) in a completly different environment. So running on 2012 buyer’s remorse won’t be effective. Assuming that the eventual Dem candidate will effectively separate themself from Obama, it might even be a detriment.

But that doesn’t mean that we should turn our backs on an effective way to turn out additional pro-GOP votes this year just because we don’t like the guy and hate the idea of him running again.


172 posted on 08/05/2014 7:31:48 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: wagglebee

If Romney is the Republican nominee in 2016, he will lose. It’s as simple as that.


173 posted on 08/05/2014 7:31:53 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
Politics aside, he was a horrible candidate.
174 posted on 08/05/2014 7:33:59 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

This one is definitely yearning for the Z.


175 posted on 08/05/2014 7:36:14 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: trisham

No More McRomenys!


176 posted on 08/05/2014 7:37:53 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: wagglebee

Oh, I think he wanted to win. I think the issue was that he believed he was going to win. So he kicked back and tried to coast to the finish line.

Which is a seriously dumb thing to do, given the stakes.


177 posted on 08/05/2014 7:39:54 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: Jane Long; trisham; metmom
The Romneyites will never be as bad as the Rooty Rooters were.
178 posted on 08/05/2014 7:40:09 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: tanknetter
You might be right.

He did a pretty good job in the first debate, then he just sat back and listened to Karl Rove (I never did get Rove's appeal).

179 posted on 08/05/2014 7:41:51 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

Yup, he crushed Obama in the first debate. Had he repeated that in the second and third one he’d be President.

I also think that being attacked directly by Candy Crowley tripped him up pretty badly and he never recovered, which killed his debate performance from then on out. I did a lot of highschool and college forensics, and can really sympathize with him on that. It’s hard to absorb, but harder to recover from.

Hopefully future presidential GOP debate prep will include a lot of emphasis on what to do after getting sandbagged by the “moderator”. ...


180 posted on 08/05/2014 7:48:56 AM PDT by tanknetter
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