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Romney Promises Super Tuesday Surprise
Washington Post ^ | February 4, 2008 | Glenn Kessler

Posted on 02/04/2008 1:03:09 PM PST by americanophile

ATLANTA -- The pundits may have counted him out, but former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney sounds like a man who plans to keep going, no matter what happens at the polls on Super Tuesday. Romney acknowledged he is the underdog, but said he would "surprise" people who were counting on a McCain sweep. "I am definitely the underdog compared to Sen. McCain, a number of people have proclaimed that," Romney told reporters after a rally in downtown Atlanta. "But the nice thing about being the underdog is they typically win." Romney said he sensed a "shift in the tide" as Republicans contemplated McCain as the potential nominee. "I plan on doing real well on Tuesday," he said. "I don't think we are halfway through as of Tuesday, maybe about halfway, and then we will go on and continue to rack up delegates, and I am planning on winning this nomination." At every stop in a whirlwind tour of battleground states, Romney has knocked McCain as a "liberal" who votes for higher taxes or wants to allow illegal immigrants to become citizens. He constantly insists that it has become a two-man race, even as former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee continues in the race, effectively splitting the conservative vote with Romney.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; immigration; romney; supertuesday
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To: americanophile

I hope he is right. I’m not quite up for a “Go Mitt,” but I will give a hearty “Lose McCain!”


41 posted on 02/04/2008 1:40:05 PM PST by pallis
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To: icwhatudo

What is telling to me about those polls is they are about 1,000 people lighter.

I can’t vote in them, as there is no “none of the above.”


42 posted on 02/04/2008 1:41:24 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Don't blame me; I will write in Thompson.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

I didn’t know taxes were so high in Georgia. That said in rankings Georgia is below Massachusetts in the tax burden (state and local). With unfunded mandates by the feds, the states are actually surprisingly close in actual overall tax rates. One example:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/335.html


43 posted on 02/04/2008 1:41:35 PM PST by Greg F (Romney appointed homosexual activists as judges in Massachusetts.)
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To: Greg F

Can you identify those judges by name please?


44 posted on 02/04/2008 1:41:54 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (For evil to win, it is only necessary for Jimmy Carter to be considered a role model.)
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To: Greg F
McCain...

* Was a champion of the Law of the Sea. Now says he’d vote against it
* Was a co-sponsor of the DREAM act (illegal immigrant children can become citizens by graduating high school). Then voted against his own bill.
* Sponsored legislation to reveal grassroots lobbyists to reveal their donors. Now opposes his own measure.
* He was so into “campaign finance reform” that name is on the bill — “McCain Feingold”. Now says he opposes some of the provisions of his own bill.
* Championed immigration reform law for three years. Now would vote against it.
* Spent “decades” trying to take both sides of the aisle on Roe v. Wade, and now has spent “decades fighting for the unborn”
* Voted against the Bush tax cuts and now pledges to make them permanent.

What else will he do when he get a chair behind the desk in the oval office. I believe he has poked us in the Conservative eye to many times. I thank you for your 27 years of republican votes.

45 posted on 02/04/2008 1:42:14 PM PST by bgierhart (I stand behind my President)
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To: OldGuard1

When it comes to flip-flopping, John Kerry could take lessons from McCain.


46 posted on 02/04/2008 1:43:10 PM PST by Signalman
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To: americanophile

If he’s wrong, does that make him a false prophet?


47 posted on 02/04/2008 1:43:49 PM PST by Colofornian
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To: Bushman2
It is time to stand up for the Conervative Principles and vot for ROMNEY!!

Welcome to Bizzaro-World.

48 posted on 02/04/2008 1:44:46 PM PST by EternalVigilance (2008: The election in which any memory of the past is obliterated.)
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To: To Hell With Poverty

OK:

Romney . . . in May selected for a district court judgeship Stephen S. Abany, a former board member of the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association who organized the group’s opposition to a 1999 bill to outlaw same-sex marriage. Just two days before the nomination, Romney was lamenting the liberal tilt of the state’s bench, telling Fox News that ‘’our courts have a record here in Massachusetts, don’t they, of being a little blue and being Kerry-like.”

Another Romney choice for the bench is Marianne C. Hinkle, a registered Democrat who worked as an aide to Governor Michael S. Dukakis in the late 1970s and prosecuted John C. Salvi III in the 1994 Brookline abortion clinic shootings. Hinkle, in her application for the bench, describes herself as a longtime active member of Dignity/USA, a group that advocates for expanded gay rights in the Catholic Church and society generally.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/07/25/romney_jurist_picks_not_tilted_to_gop/?page=2

Now admit he’s a liberal pretending to be a conservative for short term gains in the Republican Presidential race! C’mon . . . admit it.


49 posted on 02/04/2008 1:48:25 PM PST by Greg F (Romney appointed homosexual activists as judges in Massachusetts.)
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To: americanophile
"But the nice thing about being the underdog is they typically win."

Um.... no.

50 posted on 02/04/2008 1:53:05 PM PST by JohnnyZ ("Make all the promises you have to" -- Mitt Romney)
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To: americanophile

Has anyone asked Hillary if she had input on Janet Reno’s Waco decision? She has all this *experience*.


51 posted on 02/04/2008 1:54:44 PM PST by sodpoodle
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To: Count of Monte Logan

Surprise?

It would be surprising to see Romney be truthful,
to stop blaming others, and stop hiding behind his religion.


52 posted on 02/04/2008 2:00:00 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: americanophile

but will the senile seniors realize it is not 1955?


53 posted on 02/04/2008 2:03:28 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Diogenesis

is that you mc cain?


54 posted on 02/04/2008 2:05:25 PM PST by bgierhart (I stand behind my President)
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To: Hoodat

“Just to let you know, this charismatic Christian is praying hard for a Romney win.
Dear Lord, please give us the leader that pleases you - not the leader we deserve.”

Amen!


55 posted on 02/04/2008 2:22:39 PM PST by tabsternager
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To: americanophile
>>>>"But the nice thing about being the underdog is they typically win."

Mitt must have watched the superbowl on Sunday.

56 posted on 02/04/2008 2:35:47 PM PST by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
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To: Jeff Head

bttt


57 posted on 02/04/2008 2:45:02 PM PST by Matchett-PI (Romney will get the nomination if I have anything to do with it.)
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To: Bushman2
Dude, I need advice.

Folks I really would like to support Mitt, however, I just have a few questions. Here are a few articles that I found on the net regarding Mitt. Boy, I sure would appreciate some answers to these very factual articles and youtube postings. The part that concerns me the most is when one hears Mitt in his own words. Any suggestions

Mitt on Illegal Immigration

Mitt Romney Supports Bush/McCain Amnesty Plan..IN HIS OWN WORDS

Illegal immigrants toiled for governor Romney'

Romney's lawn care company hires illegal immigrants...AGAIN!

Why did Mitt Romney hire illegal immigrants to work in his mansion?

Why do anti-illegal imigrant people hire illegal immigrants?

Romney's Lawn Trouble

Romney painters facing inquiry...violating labor laws and hiring illegals..otra ves!

Mitt on McCain/Fiengold

Mitt's Demands Campaign Finance Reforms

Mitt on Abortion

Mitt trashs Pro-Lifers

Mitt on Republicans

Mitt trashs Reagan

Mitt trashs Republicans

Mitt trashs Reagan Otra Ves

Mitt trashes the Contract with American and the Republicans Again

Mitt on Healthcare Debacle

Mitt and Hillary both in Favor of Mandates for Healthcare



RomneyCare still a spiraling fiscal disaster

Romneycare Mandates..Massachusetts Health Plan Denounced As Imminent 'Disaster'

Romney quiet on health care because his plan is a dismal failure

It's hard to tell everyone you're the heir to Ronald Reagan while you're touting Hillary Clinton's health care plan. There is no material difference between the two

Mitt on Liberal Judges

Romney appointed liberal judges in Massachusetts

Romney Jurist Not Tilted to Gop

Mitt on the Second Amendment

Mitt Romney - Gun Control

Mitt Romney Flip Flops on Gun Control



Mitt on the Taxes

Romney's tax record gets a closer look

Romney oversaw millions in fee hikes as Massachusetts governor

Romney - Increased state fees and taxes by three quarters of a billion dollars


58 posted on 02/04/2008 3:11:05 PM PST by Fred (Looking Forward to Impeaching the other Clinton)
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To: Jibaholic
Does Romney have pictures of Coulter and Limbaugh having sex with children?

You're being irrational. How about Hannity, Beck, Levin, and scores of others? Perhaps - you're just wrong.
59 posted on 02/04/2008 3:18:45 PM PST by CottonBall (The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 ))
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To: Greg F
But I’m in the group that will not vote for Romney at all if he is nominated. First time in 27 years that I won’t vote for the Republican for President if that is the circumstance.

I think the group that won't vote for McCain is much, much larger.
60 posted on 02/04/2008 3:20:42 PM PST by CottonBall (The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. (Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854 ))
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