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Romney gaining conservatives' support, if not their hearts
Washington Post ^ | apr 19, 2012 | Rosalind S. Helderman and Sandhya Somashekhar

Posted on 04/22/2012 7:06:08 AM PDT by Innovative

Mitt Romney was not his first choice for president, but conservative political activist Scott Magill has come to accept that Romney is now his only choice. So Magill is looking for reasons to get jazzed about the candidate he once dismissed.

His list so far: Romney is a Republican who would sign into law legislation passed by a GOP-led House. Romney has started to hit the right talking points. If elected, Romney would have to listen to the conservative base - or risk its wrath at reelection time.

Also, and perhaps most important, Romney is not Barack Obama.

The conservative base appears to be warming to Romney, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted after Santorum's exit, which found that about 80 percent of conservative Republicans hold favorable views of Romney - a record percentage for the candidate.

Santorum's withdrawal from the field has opened the door for many groups that had been uncomfortable with his candidacy to embrace Romney, including the National Right to Life; the Susan B. Anthony List; National Organization for Marriage, which opposes same-sex marriage.

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


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsement; backstabberromney; benedictromney; conservatives; conservativevote; elections; obama; romney; romney2012; romneyantiteaparty; romneysucks; stenchofromney
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To: Wpin
If you cannot understand that, then please try to trust those who do.

The Whig scare tactics aren't working on me this go around. But you are welcome to keep trying....

241 posted on 04/23/2012 5:43:06 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Wpin
The absolutely worse thing we can do is enable the democrat party to consolidate their power in this next election. If you cannot understand that, then please try to trust those who do.

Romney's role, if elected, is to consolidate Obama's socialist gains, with a Republican smiley face painted on it all.

No, I don't trust anyone pushing socialists, no matter what letter is by their name.

242 posted on 04/23/2012 5:54:04 AM PDT by EternalVigilance ('A man with God is always in the majority.' -- John Knox)
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To: Whats-wrong-with-the-truth

You are careless with your ammunition.

Instead of shooting wildly and blindly at others inside our fence and perpetuating conservative fratricide (which is the reason why we ARE NOW STUCK WITH ROMNEY), you should direct your fire at Obama and the Socialists. I hate it when other people take aim and shoot at others inside our fence. It happened all throughout this primary, and it killed us. Now you want to do the same thing all the way into November.

People like you that shoot at others inside our fence who are honestly trying to change this country away from the socialists, are doing more harm than good. As this campaign heats up going into November, and there are only TWO SIDES to choose, you are at risk of marginalizing yourselves (by others) as ENEMIES WITHIN!

You can say whatever you want, it’s a free country (which is why we have a socialist in the White House now to begin with). You are are recent arrival. Your motives are suspect with your quick trigger to shoot others that have been here longer.


243 posted on 04/23/2012 5:59:23 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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To: MARKUSPRIME
No one is worse that Obama no one. Period.

Virgil Goode is better than both of them. Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. Vote for Goode instead. If there isn't a brokered convention and Mitten's liberal plank succeed in poisoning the GOP from the top down, then I'm done with the GOP.

You can vote for evil. I will vote for Goode.

244 posted on 04/23/2012 6:04:33 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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To: Sirius Lee

“Virgil Goode...”

A snowball in Death Valley sitting out in the noonday sun on the 4th of July has a better chance than Virgil Goode.

A vote for Goode IS A VOTE for EVIL...might as well pull the lever for Obama and destroy this country directly...that way you can brag that you were responsible for the destruction.


245 posted on 04/23/2012 6:17:23 AM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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To: LibFreeUSA
Romney=Obomba. Deal with it. Romney doesn't even have half the delegates needed to "wrap up" the Republican nomination and YOU are saying it's over??? Grow a spine and support a real Conservative instead of selling us out. Or move back to Move on dot org or whichever other liberal site you're haling from and where you'll more closely resemble those you're attacking.

And please... Don't try to bully me and give me this crap that you've been posting here for the last 12 years and that that somehow makes your 'opinion' gospel. Like you obomba, for decades, has managed to conceal his true identity (and some will argue he still is hiding his true identity). Your support of the RINO romney (the pro-abortion, pro-sodomite and author of obombneycare) is exposing yours.
If you're supporting romney you are NO CONSERVATIVE.

Look... I'm done kibitzing with you. I don't want anyone to be confused about which of us is the fool.

246 posted on 04/23/2012 6:18:48 AM PDT by Whats-wrong-with-the-truth (Romney (aka - obomney)... Just put the (D) behind your name and be done with it.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Getting tired of being told if I vote for the guy against Obama Im evil. Real tired of it. My family and myself have shed blood for this nation. My grand father is buried in France. No matter what you think the world isn’t a simple as you try and make it out to be. I support conservatives when I can(I voted for Newt in TN), but Im damn sure voting for anyone against the worst president in US history. If you all dont like it tough they are millions like me that will do anything to get marxist Obama out of office because he is destroying the republic. That is his goal.


247 posted on 04/23/2012 6:22:44 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: Sirius Lee

Getting tired of being told if I vote for the guy against Obama Im evil. Real tired of it. My family and myself have shed blood for this nation. My grand father is buried in France. No matter what you think the world isn’t a simple as you try and make it out to be. I support conservatives when I can(I voted for Newt in TN), but Im damn sure voting for anyone against the worst president in US history. If you all dont like it tough they are millions like me that will do anything to get marxist Obama out of office because he is destroying the republic. That is his goal.


248 posted on 04/23/2012 6:22:52 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: Innovative

To those who think that Romney is better than Obama...

What proof do you have that he won’t be WORSE than Obama???\

At least Obama is being held (somewhat) accountable by the Republican-led House.

If Mitt was POTUS that same Republican house would vote for his legislation for the sake of party unity. (see TARP, Sarbanes-Oxley, No Child Left Behind etc...)

HOLDING OUT FOR A CONSERVATIVE IN 2016!


249 posted on 04/23/2012 7:33:57 AM PDT by libdestroyer
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To: libdestroyer

Alot of the pro obamas are the newly signed up. Strange huh.;) Romney doesnt hate America like Obama does and he isnt anti-Whitey with the black liberation theology BS. I would vote for Michael Myers or a piece of excrement over the marxist muslim Obama.


250 posted on 04/23/2012 7:38:55 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: LibFreeUSA
Obama is the enemy!

NO. LIBERALISM IS THE ENEMY. I don't care what party a candidate belongs to. Apparently to some (including yourself), all that a candidate needs to get your vote is the letter "R"
251 posted on 04/23/2012 7:39:13 AM PDT by libdestroyer
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To: MARKUSPRIME

You have:

1. no proof that Obama hates this country (he probably thinks he’s making it better by implementing socialist policy)

2. no proof that Romney DOESN’T hate his country. He is, after all, LYING to his own party about his liberal record.

Again, just because Mitt has an “R” next to his name...


252 posted on 04/23/2012 7:48:15 AM PDT by libdestroyer
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea
A vote for Goode IS A VOTE for EVIL...might as well pull the lever for Obama and destroy this country directly...that way you can brag that you were responsible for the destruction.

A vote for Goode is a vote for Goode. A vote for Obama or Romney is a vote for evil. If you vote for Obama or Romney you might as well pull the lever for Obama or Romney and destroy the country directly. In this way you can brag about how you voted against Goode and claim responsibility for the destruction.

Have fun throwing your vote away on Obamney.

253 posted on 04/23/2012 7:53:54 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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To: MARKUSPRIME

Why did Obama (who you admit is hurting the republic) get elected in the first place?

ANSWER: We fielded an incredibly pathetic RINO candidate in the entire party.

And you want to do it again?


254 posted on 04/23/2012 7:54:17 AM PDT by libdestroyer
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To: EternalVigilance

“Romney’s role, if elected, is to consolidate Obama’s socialist gains, with a Republican smiley face painted on it all. “

That simply is not a true statement...there is a world of difference between Romney and Obama...really.


255 posted on 04/23/2012 7:57:37 AM PDT by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: libdestroyer

Because we have so many leftist dumbass socialist in this country and we fielded a weak candidate. Obama does hate the US you can see it in his polices,the church he attended for 21 years,hanging out with the Black Panthers,Bill Ayers, communist party USA,their love for MAO, and is a student of Saul Alinsky.You newly signed up Obots can go FK yourselves.


256 posted on 04/23/2012 7:58:48 AM PDT by MARKUSPRIME
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To: MARKUSPRIME
If you all dont like it tough they are millions like me that will do anything to get marxist Obama out of office because he is destroying the republic.

You won't do it by voting another marxist like Mittens in.

I support conservatives when I can(I voted for Newt in TN), but Im damn sure voting for anyone against the worst president in US history.

Virgil Goode is running against the worst president in US history as well as another liberal candidate with an (R) after his name who is probably even worse since Congress will rubber stamp the spread of communism as long as it has an (R) on it.

257 posted on 04/23/2012 7:58:54 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (Sofa King Mitt Odd Did Obamneycare)
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To: Whats-wrong-with-the-truth

If Newt is still in it when it gets to my state, he will get my vote. However, the damage has been done to split the conservative vote early on. Neither Newt nor Rick were man enough to get together to save the day for the conservatives to prevent Romney from getting traction. For that, I am not guilty!

You have time to re-think things. Wait until the real shelling from the socialist begins unabated and the war finally starts in SEPTEMBER.

Regardless of who is the “R” in November, I will vote for the “R”. Obama is the worse enemy. The entire conservative elected and non-elected ‘leaders’ will be supporting whatever the ticket is to defeat Obama. Palin, Rush, Demint, will all be supporting the ticket.

I will be one of those engaged, and shooting at the real enemy. Once things start to really heat up, it will be difficult for you, and others like you, to continue to shoot at our flank from within.


258 posted on 04/23/2012 8:01:56 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Pick Your Poison)
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To: LibFreeUSA
If Newt is still in it when it gets to my state, he will get my vote... Regardless of who is the “R” in November, I will vote for the “R”...
Agreed... and agreed...
259 posted on 04/23/2012 8:06:05 AM PDT by samtheman ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ-4gnNz0vc)
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To: Wpin

That’s retarded coming from in the gutter mitt pusher.


260 posted on 04/23/2012 8:06:56 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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