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If Obama wins, Romney could be 'repackaged' for 2012 GOP challenge
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 2008-10-28 | Thomas Burr

Posted on 10/28/2008 5:54:24 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

WASHINGTON—A week from today, Americans will pick a new president, but a surprising beneficiary may be off the ballot: Mitt Romney.

With polls in key states forecasting a comfortable victory by Sen. Barack Obama and fellow Democrats, Republicans may find themselves booted out of the White House, shoved further into the minority in Congress and marginalized in the powerhouse of Washington.

If Sen. John McCain loses next Tuesday, Romney could be well positioned to rise as a leader of the Republican Party to guide conservatives through a few years in the political wilderness and a favorite for the GOP presidential nomination come 2012.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; antichrist; gop; liberalrino; obama; rino; romney
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To: GOP_Lady
Sarah has done it to herself.

Oh?

How?

141 posted on 10/28/2008 10:48:39 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Do not post to me again.


142 posted on 10/28/2008 10:49:16 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
Not lies..they were coming from too many different directions at once to be lies.

Ha ha HA!

143 posted on 10/28/2008 10:50:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Mitt Romney
Just a bunch of copy and paste garbage from mostly unsourced attributions.

But them OTHERS are right ON!

144 posted on 10/28/2008 10:51:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GOP_Lady
Well, let me tell you, I work for attorneys (all types and who work on major tasks)and they’re not “just like me,” but I sure trust them and want them to lead, because, unlike me, they know what they’re doing.

Oh... Kay...

145 posted on 10/28/2008 10:52:12 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Whew! Smells like teen spirit in here ...
Just vote people.


146 posted on 10/28/2008 10:54:28 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life - VOTE! ;o)
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To: GOP_Lady
She needed to discuss policy in much more detail (not just generics) and has not done that.

She?

I think you mean OBAMA!

147 posted on 10/28/2008 10:54:28 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I said, “Do not post to me again.”

Can you read?

Go post your wonderful thoughts on the religion Board.

I want nothing to do with people like yourself.

I didn’t want to post this, but you chose not to respect my wishes


148 posted on 10/28/2008 10:57:46 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
Do not post to me again.

Sorry, but if you post something I disagree with I will respond to it.

To NOT use your name as the originator would be rude.

149 posted on 10/28/2008 10:57:54 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GOP_Lady
I want nothing to do with people like yourself.

Then ignore me.

150 posted on 10/28/2008 10:58:50 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

I said, “Do not post to me again.”

Speaking of rude, go post your rude thoughts on the religion board.

Now, make this the LAST time I have to tell you this.


151 posted on 10/28/2008 10:59:42 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
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To: Elsie
No, even the sourced parts were lame attempts at twisting words. Not sure why you took offense at Romney saying that Palin was vetted the same as everyone else. Would you rather that he say that she wasn't vetted? I don't get it.
152 posted on 10/28/2008 11:57:54 AM PDT by Mitt Romney (Romney 2012)
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To: GOP_Lady
Unfortunately, because of lack of oversight by the Congressional dems, the bailout needed to be done.

Really, there were many CONSERVATIVE republicans in both the House and Senate who disagree with you and your so-called conservative candidate Romney.

Guess which "Conservatives" are actually conservative and know what they are talking about?
153 posted on 10/28/2008 12:09:40 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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To: GOP_Lady; Elsie
Now, make this the LAST time I have to tell you this.

When did you become an Admin?
154 posted on 10/28/2008 12:11:30 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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To: Sherman Logan
This was not necessarily fair, as he’s probably a great guy, but he just doesn’t flip many switches.

What irony! You use words like "flip" and "switches" as part of the description of one who didn't know how to stop doing that with issues like pro-life, embryonic stem cells, the homosexual agenda...

155 posted on 10/28/2008 12:32:43 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Mitt Romney
Romney has done 20+ events for McCain/Palin already and seven since the convention. What more do you want?

Hey, Mitt, this speaking about yourself in the third person has just got to go. (Unless, of course, you're rehearsing now for the SNL skit invites for '012...and we all know SNL has had on characters before who speak of themselves in the third person...and for them, it became a bit endearing).

156 posted on 10/28/2008 1:03:06 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: GOP_Lady
Listen, Romney knows what he’s doing. He knows how to raise capital for business.

Oh, great, that's what we need, a Capitalist-in-Chief -- in the hands of sosh pols -- to replace a potential new mold of a distributionist-in-chief...Either way, you get shotgun weddings of where the White House marries Wall Street.

157 posted on 10/28/2008 1:07:46 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Spiff; svcw
Dr. Willke was a founder of the National Right To Life Committee and served for 10 years as its founding president. Dr. Willke serves as president of the Life Issues Institute, Inc., and founding president of the International Right to Life Federation. I challenge you to find an endorsement for any presidential candidate in this cycle that came from someone with stronger pro-life credentials.

Before this graph, you cite a Willke quote where he spouted MR's oft-cited Every decision...made as governor was on the side of life.

How do you make sense of the following statement Romney made 2 days after his supposed personal anti-abortion, pro-parental consent…favor of a ban on…partial-birth abortion?: "I am absolutely committed to my promise to maintain the status quo with regards to laws relating to abortion and choice." (May 27, 2005 press conference).

I mean, "Wow! Spiff, just wow!" Those late-term babies in the womb on May 27, 2005 were glad to hear that stellar "pro-life" conviction from such a stellar "anti-abortion" officeholder!!!

As for the pro-life doc from Cincinnati, this was just a line Willke was fed from the Romney camp. How do we know this "every decision" comment is just tripe? Well, I just quoted you above a statement Romney made in 2005, after he was supposedly more fully “converted” to a pro-life stance. Romney made a “decision” at that press conference to express his commitment to pro-abortion laws. And, he followed thru on that pro-abortion “decision” in April of 2006 when RomneyCare subsidized $50 taxpayer-funded abortions for women above the Medicaid eligibility line; and when Romney completed his 13-year hand-holding tour with Planned Parenthood by not vetoing the section where a PP rep permanently became part of the RomneyCare oversight board. (It's not just that Romney was beholden to a court order to provide abortions for low-income uninsured women; Romney himself said that 1/4th of the women of his state--almost 2% of the population--were uninsured AND were earning $75,000 or more).

158 posted on 10/28/2008 1:47:08 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: Spiff; Fiji Hill; svcw
So, in your world, every person who has ever been soft on the pro-life issue should never change their mind and become pro-life. No one should listen to anything the conservatives and groups like Right To Life say about the abortion issue because, even if they come over fully to the pro-life side, you're still going to condemn them. Why should anyone listen to conservatives and change their minds if they're not going to be recognized for learning the truth and making the right decisions. The attitude you display, and those like you, actually serves to discourage anyone from changing their opinion. It is self-defeating and damages the pro-life cause. [Spiff]

Romney took…
… 3 different positions on forcing businesses to hire alternative sexual orientation minorities in 13 years (for it in ’94; against it in ’06; then in late ’97 he decides he’s for it again—only not the feds…he wants the states to implement it;
…three different positions on embryonic stem cell research in 5.5 years--offering a distorted twist last December when he told Katie Couric that a "parent" could either have their frozen embryo "adopted" or they could "donate" him or her to "research" [for dissection]--something perfectly "acceptable" to him...[AND EMBRYONIC STEM CELL RESEARCH WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HIS GENESIS TO BECOMING 'PRO-LIFE?']...
… abortion weaves that were even worse: Pro-abortion in 1994; didn't wish to be labeled "pro-choice" in 2001; back to his heftiest pro-abortion actions & rhetoric in 2002; pro-life actions in Winter/spring 2005; pro-abortion commitment re-stated on May 27, 2005 sandwiched between pro-life actions; back to aiding & abetting Planned Parenthood & taxpayer subsidized abortions in Spring of 2006. Then a year full of 2007 where he would alternately tell us that he was "effectively pro-choice...the last multiple years" but that he was "always pro-life" (11 days apart). By 2007, he was saying he was "never pro-choice" 'cause he never allowed to call himself "pro-choice."

Whew!!! Come, on, Spiff, pro-lifers – just like Mormons welcoming new Mormon converts -- will settle for two positions (a “before” and “after”). But the weird nuancing he attempted in the ’07 campaign alone – never mind acting like a dog returning to his own vomit in May of ’05 and merging abortion and Planned Parenthood into RomneyCare that makes it quite obvious he could not stick to his “new” position without taking yet a “newer” stance.

159 posted on 10/28/2008 1:56:35 PM PDT by Colofornian
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To: GOP_Lady
Speaking of rude, go post your rude thoughts on the religion board.

Rude thoughts?

Who knew that ASKING for facts was rude?

160 posted on 10/28/2008 2:00:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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