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HE'S IN - Mitt Romney Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/11/mitt_romney_forms_presidential_exploratory_committee.html ^

Posted on 04/11/2011 1:50:11 PM PDT by RED SOUTH

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To: Diogenesis

That is awesome!!!


41 posted on 04/11/2011 2:23:16 PM PDT by MissTed ( Since beginning the gin and tonic diet, I've already lost two days!)
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To: RED SOUTH

He is running as a Democrat right???


42 posted on 04/11/2011 2:23:29 PM PDT by Cheetahcat ( November 4 2008 ,A date which will live in Infamy.)
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To: Little Pharma
"Romney is a financial bohemoth who has led the pack since polling began after 2010."

WRONG. All the money was his and his fanatics.

WRONG. Romney has not even been close to the front among CONSERVATIVES.

WRONG. Romney attacked Gov. Palin and her children
on the EVE of election 2008.

The backstabber will not get many votes.

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."

[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]


43 posted on 04/11/2011 2:24:34 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

Absolutely not. I’m still waiting for a candidate that I can back, but the reality is that Romney may have announced an intention today, but he’s been preparing since the day he lost the nomination in the last cycle. He has to be viewed as the distant leader, although early in the game.

Maybe he’s the Rory McIlroy of the GOP Masters.


44 posted on 04/11/2011 2:25:19 PM PDT by Little Pharma
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To: RED SOUTH

NNNnnnnnOOOOOoooooooo!!!!!!!!! anyone but mitt...or mcpain...or huckabee...or anyone who’s last name is bush.....or trump....or anyone with senator before their first name....


45 posted on 04/11/2011 2:30:55 PM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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To: RED SOUTH

Mitt, sometimes no really means Hell no.


46 posted on 04/11/2011 2:32:46 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Little Pharma
"Romney has to be viewed as the distant leader,
although early in the game.

To Conservatives, Romney is viewed as a backstabbing RINO.

Any more questions?


Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."


"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online: The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."


Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney


"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"


Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson
."

47 posted on 04/11/2011 2:34:34 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda)
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To: RED SOUTH

Piss on Romney


48 posted on 04/11/2011 2:35:38 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("[T]here is nothing so aggravating [in life] as being condescended to by an idiot" ~ Ann Coulter)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Sure he’s got a job - he is RINO-in-chief and his job is running for president. He will run until it’s “his turn” and he gets the nomination. Looks like a RINO slugfest is shaping up between romney and trump.


49 posted on 04/11/2011 2:37:54 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Diogenesis

Every link supports my supposition, he’s a tough competitor. I hope they conservative who jumps in will be as tough.

Unfortunately “Conservative” is only a Party in New York. In many states, dems can cross over to vote in the GOP primary (GOP in SC just lost a suit trying to keep dems fronm voting in the GOP primary).

A strong conservative has to come forward and he (or she) better have access to big bucks, Romney’s been raising non-stop!!!!


50 posted on 04/11/2011 2:40:26 PM PDT by Little Pharma
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To: RED SOUTH

Posted on C4P

Romney’s slogan, “Believe in America” was once John kerry’s slogan.

Hmm! The father of Obamacare, steals off his buddy Kerry

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/


51 posted on 04/11/2011 2:44:10 PM PDT by newfreep (Palin/West 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
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To: Little Pharma

You’re new around these parts ..... and this may be your first ‘Romney thread’?


52 posted on 04/11/2011 2:45:00 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: RED SOUTH
Mitt Romney: It is time that we put America back on a course of greatness, with a growing economy, good jobs and fiscal discipline in Washington.

"It is for that reason that I will not seek the Republican nomination for President in 2012." -- Myth Romney

53 posted on 04/11/2011 2:46:14 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: RED SOUTH

That’s all right. I had something else to do on election day 2012.


54 posted on 04/11/2011 2:48:36 PM PDT by madprof98 ("moritur et ridet" - salvianus)
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To: RED SOUTH
Our feckless GOP leaders are back in control, eh?
55 posted on 04/11/2011 2:50:35 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Little Pharma

56 posted on 04/11/2011 2:51:50 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda)
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To: RED SOUTH

I won’t vote for him, even against Obama.


57 posted on 04/11/2011 2:52:27 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: RED SOUTH

Hey Mitt, you must not read Free Republic! Here’s your first NO VOTE!! NO!


58 posted on 04/11/2011 2:55:34 PM PDT by blondee123 (TRUMP=WINNING OBAMA=YOU'RE FIRED!!!)
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To: RED SOUTH

Mitt For Brains, Donald Trump is calling. He wants to hire you. To walk his dog.


59 posted on 04/11/2011 2:56:37 PM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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To: Little Pharma

Milt Romney - the Magic RINO:
"I'm not running as the Republican view
or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.

(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)



"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn't make any sense at all.""

--  President Ronald Reagan



60 posted on 04/11/2011 2:56:37 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda)
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