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Live Thread: GOP Primary election results (WI, MD, DC)
April 3, 2012

Posted on 04/03/2012 5:24:56 PM PDT by newzjunkey

Fox News & CNN are projecting Romney wins MD in their banners.

Santorum wasn't on the DC ballot.

Wisconsin polls close at 8pm CDT/9pm EDT.


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; backstabberromney; dc2012; getoutnewt; gopdeathwatch; md2012; mitt4romney; newt; newtgetout; newtsplittingthevote; romney; romney4romney; romneyantiteaparty; ronpaul; santorum; stenchofromney; wi2012
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To: Bellflower; All

That is right GOD must help St Rick this election or we all going to hell.


181 posted on 04/03/2012 8:06:40 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Go Mitt Go!!!)
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To: FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs

Oh, okay, Pattonesque visually, because he hung a flag. Well that’s an accomplishment, right? I can put a flag on the wall behind me right now and be “Pattonesque” as I type. You see, this is how Romney supporters think—or DON’T think. They fall for Romney’s theater and his lies just like bowling pins.

Listen, don’t tell ME to wake up. You are allowing yourself to be hoodwinked by that slick, loathsome, lying, liberal SOB, and by doing so, you are helping to drive this country to ruin. Look at his RECORD, not his FLAG! Pay attention to what he’s done-—signing abortion into law, socialized healthcare, pandering to sodomites——instead of his stupid, fake, canned, PATHETIC speeches.


182 posted on 04/03/2012 8:10:29 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (I can haz Romney's defeat?)
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To: CatherineofAragon; All
I kinda like the LDS and the reason is it was founded here in this country, thanks to our founding fathers who put in a nice little Freedom of Religion clause.

WE ARE ELECTING A PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES... NOT A POPE!!!
183 posted on 04/03/2012 8:11:18 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Go Mitt Go!!!)
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To: Guenevere

Please explain how this ACTUAL voting record of Santorum is conservative....compared to him Newt’s record in congress is head and shoulders more conservative.

Rick Santorum’s voting record:

Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.

Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.

Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit

Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization

Voted for minimum wage increases six times
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.

Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.

Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.

Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.

Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.

Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.

Voted against food stamp REFORM
Voted against Medicaid REFORM
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.

Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry

Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.

Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.

Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.

Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.


184 posted on 04/03/2012 8:11:33 PM PDT by entropy12 (Every tax payer now owes $150,000 towards the national debt. Greek tragedy on the way here.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
PSYCHO-FREEP says, Look at my history.

OK. During the month of March, out of 23 articles that you posted, 20 were related to the Presidential primary. Of these 20, three were pro-Newt, two were indeterminate in their leanings, and 15 presented Santorum in a negative light. (Your comments were worse than the articles posted.) There were no articles (NONE) that were anti-Romney, even though there were multitudes from which to choose.

Here are a few of the articles posted:

In Wisconsin, Romney links Santorum to 'big labor' (March 29)

Rick Santorum’s nice-guy persona is turning a bit testy lately (March 27)

Santorum on defensive as race turns to Louisiana (March 24)

Santorum’s lost message (March 22)

Rick Santorum quiet on economy (March 20)

Specter: I couldn't have done it without Rick (March 16)

Did Santorum beat Gingrich in Mississippi due to Democrat Prank Voting? Alabama? (March 14)

Santorum: "I'd Like Everybody To Get Out" (March 11)

Voters Back Away From Santorum In Ohio (March 6)

Even those articles that you posted that were simply reporting on polls, always cherry-picked polls in which Romney was doing very well, never in polls in which Santorum was leading or doing well.

That was March. February was even worse. Your modus operandi was to present articles critical of Santorum but not of Romney. Yes, glad (and sad) to look at your history.
185 posted on 04/03/2012 8:13:52 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands (Mitt Romney is a handbasket driver. I refuse to ride.)
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To: Mozilla

Yup. When Newt gained ground Santorum, Paul and Santorum attacked him endlessly. Remember how Santorum avoided attacking Romney until Newt was all but out of the race? Ron Paul spent millions with his Anti-Newt video online.


186 posted on 04/03/2012 8:16:05 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: LovedSinner
Those are not my numbers, they come from the exit polls. There was a high number of Democrats that voted for Santorum and they were Obama Democrats. There is no such thing as a Reagan Democrat anymore. But that really does not matter any longer. The election is over. Romney swept all 3 Winner Take All states for 98 Delegates.

Romney now only needs 42% of the remaining Delegates and since he already has 58% of the delegates to date, that number is realistic. It is what it is. Reality does not choose sides.

187 posted on 04/03/2012 8:17:23 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: entropy12

Rick didn’t enact Romneycare. He didn’t repeatedly change positions and lie about it, and he doesn’t spend money like it’s water. So given his voting record or Mitt’s overall record, I’ll take Rick.


188 posted on 04/03/2012 8:18:05 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: entropy12

Rick didn’t enact Romneycare. He didn’t repeatedly change positions and lie about it, and he doesn’t spend money like it’s water. So given his voting record or Mitt’s overall record, I’ll take Rick.


189 posted on 04/03/2012 8:18:20 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: jeltz25

It hurt Bachmann. Only because I recall Palin supporters attacking the field before Palin said she wasn’t running. ZMany people aimed their fire at Bachmann when she won the Iowa Straw Poll. I know that then Rick Perry people attacked Bachmann instead of Romney because she posed a threat. She was such a threat that Santorum’s backers (some people who endorsed him) in December wanted her out of the race when she was Polling higher than Santorum. They manged to poison the waters all these people and turned people against Bachmann. SO she had no chance. I went to Santorum eventually because there was nobody else left.


190 posted on 04/03/2012 8:18:20 PM PDT by Mozilla (Rush: Romney is winning like a liberal...that is cause he is a liberal)
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To: AmericanInTokyo; Steelfish; Guenevere; parksstp; Lazlo in PA; American Constitutionalist; Kenny

Based on Romney’s win margin in Wisconsin so far, it;s less than 6% which is the percentage that Newt recieved. If we figure that Newt’s voters would have went for Santorum, the split vote has again cost Santorum a key win. I’m beginning to believe that Newt wants Romney over Santorum.


191 posted on 04/03/2012 8:18:28 PM PDT by Pinkbell (Rick Santorum For President (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89LGhm-Ztc))
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To: KevinDavis

I knew you’d bring up freedom of religion, as though I’m somehow preventing Romney from his religion of choice, or as if I have to approve of it. You know better, I’m sure, but I figured you’d try, anyway.

Like I said, you don’t get it. You know ZIP about Mormonism and the Mormon church’s view of Romney’s role in their prophecies. You can have your abortion-loving, homosexual-pandering, Planned Parenthood supporting, tax raising cult member. Tell me-—does it bother you at ALL that he has held such liberal positions?


192 posted on 04/03/2012 8:18:28 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (I can haz Romney's defeat?)
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To: jeltz25

It hurt Bachmann. Only because I recall Palin supporters attacking the field before Palin said she wasn’t running. Many people aimed their fire at Bachmann when she won the Iowa Straw Poll. I know that then Rick Perry people attacked Bachmann instead of Romney because she posed a threat. She was such a threat that Santorum’s backers (some people who endorsed him) in December wanted her out of the race when she was Polling higher than Santorum. They manged to poison the waters all these people and turned people against Bachmann. SO she had no chance. I went to Santorum eventually because there was nobody else left.


193 posted on 04/03/2012 8:18:49 PM PDT by Mozilla (Rush: Romney is winning like a liberal...that is cause he is a liberal)
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To: jeltz25

Actually, it did. By delaying so many in the review of the declared candidates, her supporters then had precious little time to assess them once she finally bowed out.

Initially, they didn’t review Perry, so it was just a bunch of uninformed fools playing ‘follow-the-leader’ when he was the frontrunner. When he stumbled, they latched onto the next frontrunner, again... without review. And so on and so forth.

As for Newt, Santorum was pressured to drop out so that the race could gel between two candidates, the Romney... and the not Romney. He refused, for he believed in his supporters. Supporters, I might add, who were looking for a Pope to lead us instead of a President. And that drove many away.

Had he been focusing on the TEA party platform that won us such a victory in 2010, he’d have easily attracted much more support. But he didn’t, nor do his die-hard supporters even much like that platform. Why, that’d leave us without the gentle, corrective hand of government to reward us when we behave like good little Christian boys and girls... and punish us when we don’t.

Additionally, it really didn’t help that when he *FINALLY* realized that he ought to make some mention of the TEA party platform, he just cribbed Newt’s own positions that had been released the previous month... and made a quick hash of it. Just long enough to get the words out of his mouth before focusing on his true loves.

(The sad thing is that won’t even register as wrong in their eyes. It’ll just be viewed as the posting of some EEEVIL G-d-hating Communist swine that’s out to destroy everything good and holy. BURN THE WITCH!!!)


194 posted on 04/03/2012 8:20:18 PM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: gogogodzilla
Nahh, Santorum just thinks that he’s running for the second coming of Christ.


Sounds like you don't like Christians. Rick does not deserve this. So many of you guys slam Rick because he has faith. Some people around here acts like dumocrat who listens to the obama media and regurgitates it. Do you believe what the obama media and the establishment rinos say about Rick? Have you ever heard a complete speech by Rick? Rick give a great stump speech. Are you pro-abortion or pro-gay? Is Rick NOT suppose to mention that? It is a great issue to bring up and remind people that obama (and romney) are for abortion up to 9 months in the womb. I assume you don't believe in God, otherwise you would have a heathy fear of Him. Either that, or you are a mormon.

195 posted on 04/03/2012 8:23:58 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness.)
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To: gogogodzilla

Two events in this primary are what gave us Romney. Just two.

First, all of the Palin supporters refused to believe that she wouldn’t run, despite the fact that she did nothing to prepare for it (no state organizations, no signatures to get on ballots). And that resulted in a large number of conservatives not even bothering to look at the declared candidates. Furthermore, that delayed any chance of us gelling behind a declared candidate to stop Romney. So, by the time the deluded fools finally figured it out, they ended up panicking and jumping from candidate to candidate without really looking them over.


It was Palin’s fault? Please. It was Romney’s dishonest attacks and $$$ that caused people to jump from candidate to candidate. The reason we have Romney has been all about $$$ and the bombs he threw. Without that, he’d be sitting at home by now.


196 posted on 04/03/2012 8:24:14 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: CatherineofAragon

I understand that.. I’m a NEWT DEWD! But if Newt doesn’t get the nomination I have no choice but to vote for Mitt on Nov. 6th because I sure as hell AIN’T VOTIN’ FOR 0BAMA!!!!! If you don’t vote for the Republican nominee you might as well vote for 0bama because that’s the end result of your abstention. I’m DONE with this conversation and will now yield the floor for your last word..


197 posted on 04/03/2012 8:24:52 PM PDT by FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs
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To: tsowellfan

Yeah they all were like that except Perry. Perry was attacking Romney but he faltered away. Newt then took over. If Bachmann had gone aggressively against Romney maybe she might have done better. But there was a rooting section against her from the start.


198 posted on 04/03/2012 8:25:18 PM PDT by Mozilla (Rush: Romney is winning like a liberal...that is cause he is a liberal)
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To: entropy12
[You are correct in that Romney does not enthuse voters to come out. But then why are conservative voters NOT turning out in droves to vote for the “real conservative”, Santorum? Very baffling?]

LOL! Baffling indeed! Why is that,.......if Santo is such a “TURN ON”, then Romney should have lost by last month.

But then, this is not the most brilliant group of pseudo cons we have ever seen either.

199 posted on 04/03/2012 8:27:03 PM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP (If you come to a fork in the road, take it........)
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To: Kenny

I would take Rick anyday over Mitt also. But I thought I was comparing Rick with Newt, not Mitt. I will take Newt anyday over Rick.


200 posted on 04/03/2012 8:28:11 PM PDT by entropy12 (Every tax payer now owes $150,000 towards the national debt. Greek tragedy on the way here.)
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