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Only Sarah Palin can Derail Mitt Romney [Interesting Tea Leaves]
Pollinsider ^ | June 3, 2011 | pollinsider

Posted on 06/04/2011 10:32:13 AM PDT by GonzoII

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To: jobim

As gas reachs 4 bucks/gal. and could go higher, not ONE of these ‘’candidates’’ or any of the MSM has mentioned the Nat’l Petroleum Reserve, not even Chris Mathews, the Inquirer won’t even touch it. How about that. Let’s hear a few chords on your guitar Huckabee. Wake up queer baits.


41 posted on 06/04/2011 12:31:03 PM PDT by Waco (Nominate Palin or forget 2012 you lost)
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To: pallis

I agree with you that Romney can definitely win the primary, or at the very least queer it up so that he protects the establishment with a Republican loss.


42 posted on 06/04/2011 12:32:04 PM PDT by ansel12 ( JIM DEMINT "I believe [Palins] done more for the Republican Party than anyone since Ronald Reagan")
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To: GonzoII

I heard that Willard (Mitt) Romney is not running in the Republican primaries he is running in the Democrat primary

As loyal conservatives we shoukd be collecting petitions urging him to do that.


43 posted on 06/04/2011 12:32:50 PM PDT by mosesdapoet ("To punish a province Let it be ruled by a professor " Frederick The Great paraphrased)
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To: mosesdapoet
"As loyal conservatives we shoukd"

What? Our heads? ;0)

44 posted on 06/04/2011 12:49:35 PM PDT by GonzoII (Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)
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To: FrankR

L O L !


45 posted on 06/04/2011 12:52:54 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: onyx

Game On!

46 posted on 06/04/2011 1:04:35 PM PDT by RedMDer (Throw the Rats and RINOs out!)
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To: RegulatorCountry
So, no, TPaw (guffaw) is in no way

Thanks.

47 posted on 06/04/2011 1:07:10 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: RedMDer

Bump!


48 posted on 06/04/2011 1:14:22 PM PDT by GonzoII (Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)
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To: GonzoII

Why doesn’t she run then? What is she afraid of? Debating the other candidates?


49 posted on 06/04/2011 1:14:56 PM PDT by ejdrapes ("Trump is NO conservative." - Jim Robinson)
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To: ejdrapes
"Why doesn’t she run then? What is she afraid of? Debating the other candidates?"

She will run and she's not afraid..she's smart.

50 posted on 06/04/2011 1:18:18 PM PDT by GonzoII (Quia tu es, Deus, fortitudo mea...Quare tristis es anima mea?)
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To: ejdrapes

What are you talking about?


51 posted on 06/04/2011 1:19:57 PM 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: All

Sarah is Patriotic


52 posted on 06/04/2011 1:21:37 PM 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: GonzoII

If Romney wins the nomination, I’m moving to Costa Rica.


53 posted on 06/04/2011 1:52:03 PM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Congress doesn't care a damn about "we the people")
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To: ejdrapes
Why doesn’t she run then? What is she afraid of? Debating the other candidates?

What if she's actually running now? And simply running a smarter campaign?

Is she losing any ground doing what she's doing? No.

Are the other candidates gaining any ground on her, doing what they're doing? No.

For someone so dumb, she might actually be smarter than the rest of us.

54 posted on 06/04/2011 1:54:10 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: itsahoot

Well, you really are a hoot! ;)

200 big ones, eh?


55 posted on 06/04/2011 5:48:49 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: alstewartfan

I understand your point, but just don’t see it happening. I think a candidate will emerge during the run-up to and during the primaries that will bring together enough of the base to become the nominee.

And I don’t think that candidate will be Romney.

I do think we are going to start seeing Romney’s alleged poll numbers and fundraising start tanking percipitously over the next days/weeks. Regardless, he can chug along all he wants, but he’s on the wrong side of history at this point. He is Overcome-By-(Political)-Events.

All it is going to take to make that perfectly clear is for the above-referenced candidate — whoever that turns out to be — to begin to emerge from the pack.


56 posted on 06/04/2011 5:54:02 PM PDT by fightinJAG (I am sick of people adding their comments to titles in the title box. Thank you.)
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To: FrankR

Funny thing, but in certain pictures, Romney begins to look like Olberman. What’s with that?


57 posted on 06/05/2011 10:54:38 AM PDT by thile44 (Simplicity is too complex.)
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To: Diogenesis
Only Sarah can derail Romney? Well, that would only if the GOP abandoned the pre-born en masse. And if that occurs, it's time to abandon the GOP en masse & make it the new Whig party.

Waffles for breakfast, supper/lunch, dinner 7-days-a-week anyone?

YEAR Obvious Pro-Abortion Romney Romney Feigning 'Pro-Life'
Romney, goin' back to 1970 when Romney's Mom ran for Senate "I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time when my Mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. (October, 1994 Senatorial debate vs. Ted Kennedy) "'He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly,'" Romney adviser Michael Murphy told the conservative National Review..., says the Concord Monitor = So I guess that made him a below-the-radar "flip" acting like a "flop?"
1994 (Campaign) "I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time when my Mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a U.S. Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years that we should sustain and support it, and I sustain and support that law and the right of a woman to make that choice." (October, 1994 Senatorial debate vs. Ted Kennedy) = Mitt the flipster from what most LDS represent their faith as being...BTW, Romney uses the strongest word possible for support – “sustain” ...Note for non-Mormons: Lds use the word “sustain” for support for their own “prophet” Romney has since invoked a "nuanced stance" about what he was in 1994: He says "Look, I was pro-choice. I am pro-life. You can go back to YouTube and look at what I said in 1994. I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice. (Source: Source: 2007 GOP Iowa Straw Poll debate Aug 5, 2007)
1994 (Planned Parenthood ties) → 2001 (a) Romney's wife gives donation to Planned Parenthood... (b) On June 12, 1994, Romney himself attends private Planned Parenthood event at home of a sister-in-law of a Planned Parenthood board member where the president of Planned Parenthood recalls talking to Romney: "Nicki Nichols Gamble, a former president and chief executive of Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, said today that the photo shows Mitt and Ann Romney at a private home in Cohasset in June 1994." Source: See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941932/posts; "Gamble said the pic was snapped at an event at GOP activist Eleanor Bleakie’s house and that she “clearly” remembered speaking with Romney at the event." Source: See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941627/posts; "In fact Romney personally attended the Planned Parenthood event in question on June 12, 1994. Gamble, the President of Massachusuetts Planned Parenthood in 1994, also attended the event at the home of a Republican, Eleanor Bleakie, the sister-in-law of a Planned Parenthood Board member. Both Romney and Michael Kennedy, who appeared on behalf of nephew of Ted Kennedy, attended the event." Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941240/posts 2001: "I do not wish to be labeled pro-choice." (Mitt Romney, Letter to the Editor, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/12/01) = So he doesn't want to be known as a "flop" (so what is he?)
2002-2004 “I will preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose, and have devoted and am dedicated to honoring my word in that regard…(Nov. 2, 2002) = Well, now guess what? He's solidly pro-abortion AGAIN! See also: "I respect and will protect a woman's right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one … Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government's." (Stephanie Ebbert, "Clarity Sought On Romney's Abortion Stance," The Boston Globe, 7/3/05) = Ah, back securely in the "flop" saddle again? Nov. '04: Romney & his wife had simultaneous pro-life "conversions" linked to stem cell research: Romney met w/Dr. Douglas Melton from Harvard Stem Cell Institute: He recalls that it happened in a single revelatory moment, during a Nov. 9, 2004, meeting with an embryonic-stem-cell researcher who said he didn't believe therapeutic cloning presented a moral issue because the embryos were destroyed at 14 days. "It hit me very hard that we had so cheapened the value of human life in a Roe v. Wade environment that it was important to stand for the dignity of human life," Romney says. Source: Time Mag, March 9, 2007 = (So the pro-abortion-but-no-pro-choice-label-please-is-now-a-pro-life-convert?)
2005 May 27 2005: Romney affirms his commitment to being "pro-choice" at a press conference. ("I am absolutely committed to my promise to maintain the status quo with regards to laws relating to abortion and choice.") = OK, this is at least a flop from November '04! What about his gubernatorial record '03-'06? Mitt later says his actions were ALL pro-life. I assume somewhere in '05 some 'pro-life' decisions. "As governor, I’ve had several pieces of legislation reach my desk, which would have expanded abortion rights in Massachusetts. Each of those I vetoed. Every action I’ve taken as the governor that relates to the sanctity of human life, I have stood on the side of life." = So, THESE ACTIONS were not only an '02 commitment reversal, but his May 27, '05 press conference commitment as well. So "flipping" is beginning to be routine
2006 April 12, 2006--Mitt signs his "Commonwealth Care" into existence, thereby expanding abortion access/taxpayer funded abortions for women--including almost 2% of the females of his state who earn $75,000 or more. (Wait a minute, I thought he told us post-'06 that ALL of his actions were "pro-life?"). Also, not only this, but as governor, Romney could exercise veto power to portions of Commonwealth Care. Did Romney exercise this power? (Yes, he vetoed Sections 5, 27, 29, 47, 112, 113, 134 & 137). What prominent section dealing with Planned Parenthood as part of the "payment policy advisory board" did Romney choose NOT to veto? (Section 3) That section mandates that one member of MassHealth Payment Policy Board must be appointed by Planned Parenthood League of MA. (See chapter 58 of the Acts of 2006, section 3 for details). "As governor, I’ve had several pieces of legislation reach my desk, which would have expanded abortion rights in Massachusetts. Each of those I vetoed. Every action I’ve taken as the governor that relates to the sanctity of human life, I have stood on the side of life." = So, then THESE ACTIONS were not only a reversal of his 2002 commitment, but his May 27, 2005 press conference commitment. So "flipping" is still routine
Early 2007 On January 29, 2007 during South Carolina visit, Romney stated: “Over the last multiple years, as you know, I have been effectively pro-choice." (Bruce Smith, "Romney Campaigns in SC with Sen. DeMint," The Associated Press, 1/29/07) = OK how could "every action I've taken as the governor that relates to the sanctity of human life..." AND this statement BOTH be true? Another South Carolina campaign stop has Romney uttering "I was always for life”: "I am firmly pro-life… I was always for life." (Jim Davenport, "Romney Affirms Opposition to Abortion," The Associated Press, 2/9/2007) = Oh, of course as the above shows, he's always been pro-life!
Summer 2007 "I never said I was pro-choice, but my position was effectively pro-choice." Source: 2007 GOP Iowa Straw Poll debate 8/5/2007 = OK...looking at '94 & '02 campaigns, both his public statements, his 2002 voter guide responses, & his actions (which are a major form of expression, ya know!) how could he say he "never said" he was "pro-choice?" Then comes his 8/12/07 interview with Chris Wallace of Fox: "I never called myself pro-choice. I never allowed myself to use the word pro-choice because I didn't FEEL I was pro-choice. I would protect the law, I said, as it was, but I wasn't pro-choice, and so..." = Whatever he was from '70 when his mom ran as pro-abortion senator & he sided w/ her, to 5/27/05, w/whatever interruption he had due to a pro-life altar call in Nov of '04, whatever that was...well, he assures us it wasn't a pro-abortion 'inlook' or outlook 'cause he didn't feel "pro-choice..." = So does that make him a life-long pro-lifer?
December 2007 (Anything 'different' from embryos' perspective than June 2002?) 5.5 years before – June 13, 2002: Romney: ...spoke at a bioethics forum at Brandeis University. In a Boston Globe story filed the next day, he was quoted as saying that he endorsed embryonic stem cell research, hoping it would one day cure his wife's multiple sclerosis. And he went on to say: "I am in favor of stem cell research. I will work and fight for stem cell research," before adding, "I'd be happy to talk to [President Bush] about this, though I don't know if I could budge him an inch." When pressed, however, Romney and his aides declined to offer an opinion on "therapeutic" or embryonic cloning. Source: Weekly Standard December 5, 2007: Romney: ...surplus embryos...Those embryos, I hope, could be available for adoption for people who would like to adopt embryos. But if a parent decides they would want to donate one of those embryos for purposes of research, in my view, that's acceptable. It should not be made against the law." Any "inquiring minds" want to try wrapping their minds around how a politician in one sentence mentions "adopting" embryos out (yes, a great thing to mention!) -- but then in the very NEXT breath says if a "PARENT" wants to be "pro-choice" (Mitt used the word "decides" which is what "pro-choicers" say they want) "to donate one of those embryos for purposes of research, in my view, that's acceptable." Say what???? How about 8-month gestationally-aged infants in the womb, Mitt? Or already-born infants, too, Mitt? If a "parent decides they would want to donate one of those...for purposes of research, in my view, that's acceptable..." No??? What's the 'pro-life' difference, Mitt? Here you call an embryo's mom&dad "parents" -- but "parents" w/ "research" give-away rights? How bizarre we have such schizophrenic "candidate!"

58 posted on 06/05/2011 4:15:03 PM PDT by Colofornian (I already have a God as my leader. Why do I need ANOTHER one as POTUS?)
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To: RegulatorCountry

That was the real Palin. The fake was in the Dark Red.


59 posted on 06/06/2011 10:06:24 AM PDT by Codeflier (Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama - 4 democrat presidents in a row and counting...)
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