Posted on 10/06/2012 1:42:37 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ST. PETERSBURG,Fla.—Mitt Romney, his friends often say, is a private man in a public world. But with just one month left until the election, he has calculated that to win the presidency he must do what for years he has been loath to: share intimate stories about his life.
So it was that as the sun set on his rally here Friday night,...Romney talked about David for the first time himself.
“It was clear he was not going to make it,”Romney said. “I went into his room one night when he was in bed,and he asked me a very difficult question. He said, ‘Mitt, what’s next?’ He called me ‘Brother Romney.’ ‘What’s next?’ And I talked to him about what I believe is next.”
A few days later, when David was in the hospital,he called Romney.
“I was at work and he said,‘Can you come by?’ And he said,‘You went to law school, right?'”
Romney told him yes. “He said,‘Could you come by and write my will for me?'” Romney recalled. “So I went to David’s bedside and got a piece of legal paper, made it look very official. And then David proceeded to tell me what he wanted to give his friends. Talked about his fishing rod, and who would get that. He talked about his skateboard, who’d get that. And his rifle — that went to his brother.”
“I’ve seen the character of a young man like David,” Romney continued. “He had his eyes wide open. There’s a saying — Clear eyes, full heart, can’t lose.’ David couldn’t lose. I loved that young man.”
It just so happens that a banner with the same adage hung over Romney’s holding room backstage at Wednesday night’s debate in Denver. As he walked out to debate the president,Romney looked up and read, “Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose!”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
That's not how I look at it. Perfection is irrelevant. When it comes to voting, I don't give a rat's ass about the candidates' "qualifications". I vote for policy and policy alone. Whichever one is more likely1 to advance policies I like is the one I vote for. If Obama had won the debate going away, I'd be depressed, but I'd still be voting for Romney.
Of course, if my guy turns out to be the best qualified by a wide margin and to have freshly discovered charisma, well, that's fine and dandy! It makes him more likely to be elected, and my policies more likely to be enacted!
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1 More, not most, since third party turds are spoilers!
We have yet to see you speak the truth about how horrible Obama is. Just 100% Romney-bashing. Conclusion: You are a creepy ObamaBot progressive pathological liar troll who embraces the progressive leftist in this race by attacking the Republican alternative incessently.
You are not a real conservative. Real conservatives would be happy that Romney espoused conservatism and won the debate. He sliced and diced Obamacare, over-regulation, high tax rates ... he espoused EXACTLY what those of us who want a Reagan would want him to say. He said it better than GWBush or Dole or McCain.
Oh, and the kicker is - he’s gained about 5 points in the polls. 70% of America knows Romney won. Everyone except morons like you and other Obama koolaid drinkers are happy.
More lies from you ...
“was a bishop in a religious cult”
Your hateful bigotry is showing.
“, saved the Olympics with tax payer money”
Good for him. Saving an Olmypics from scandal and shame was worth it, and its not as if we havent supported other olympics similarly. At least Romney picks winners. Obama spent $90 billion on green energy losers.
” while in the debates lying about his record”
Spoken like an Obama flunky. Romney was truthful. Obama lied.
” gave millions to the LDS”
Good for him. I dont care that its a different religion from mine. He supports good works of a church. I’d say the same if he was supporting Jewish organizations.
Here’s your logo:
“Closed Eyes. Sour Heart. Desperate to Make GOP Lose!”
If you are too stupid to recognize how evil that is, may God have mercy on your soul.
” I haven’t been a Mitt fan, but I agree with your analysis. Mitt is more successful than the vast majority of Americans. He worked hard, and earned his American dream. And what a dream it is. He doesn’t need the job. He makes enough money from his investments to live the rest of his days in absolute splendor.
I’d like to believe that he was being honest when he said that he’s in this race to turn the country around, so that his fellow Americans could reclaim the promise of the Framers and our Constitution. “
Mitt Romney is what Pat Buchanan in 1992 called “a conservative of the heart”.
“We have yet to see you speak the truth about how horrible Obama is. Just 100% Romney-bashing. Conclusion: You are a creepy ObamaBot progressive pathological liar troll who embraces the progressive leftist in this race by attacking the Republican alternative incessently.”
Get back to me when you can point out one false thing I’ve said about Mitt Romney, you useful idiot.
“Barack Obama, for the 1st time in Democrat Party history, had pro tax payer funded abortion on demand up to birth and pro gay marriage planks added to their 2012 platform.
If you are too stupid to recognize how evil that is, may God have mercy on your soul.”
I’m not entirely sure you even believe in God, considering how much you pimp for Mormonism even when you don’t know a thing about it. Just like I told the other creep, let me know just one thing I’ve said that is false about Mittens. Still waiting after all this time.
Let us hope that some of that conservatism works its way up to his head, as well. He's going to be the next president.
Get back to me when you can point out one false thing I have said.
Let’s see you criticisms of Obama the socialist incompetent president who is bent on destroying our nation if given 4 more years.
“Get back to me when you can point out one false thing I have said.
Let’s see you criticisms of Obama the socialist incompetent president who is bent on destroying our nation if given 4 more years.”
Just replace everything I say about Romney by inserting Obama’s name into it, except the Mormon parts, since Obama is a Muslim. It’ll help you realize why the election is a farce at the same time too.
No ... YOU prove yourself NOT an ObamaBot shill by ACTUALLY CRITICIZING OBAMA’S REAL RECORD AND WORDS.
I dare ya.
I thought you were just an idiot, but now I know better. Only ObamaBot koolaid drinkers cant dare criticize The One.
You cant do it .... TROLL.
It’s good to know Mittens has good intentions; means well. Be ready to fight him if we are fortunate enough to get Obammy out. Mittens is a liberal.
Fun fact: Your raving anti-Romney sentiment is backfiring. You’re starting to annoy everyone so much with your thread-hijacking ways that it’s driving many people all the more firmly into the Romney camp just so that they won’t have to be associated with you.
And now to wait for you to liken yourself to a prophet.
Nobody on the conservative side believes the be-all and end-all is to just elect Rs instead of Ds.
But we do know that Obama has been bad for freedom, has added $6 trillion to the debt, massively increased govt dependency and is hellbent on even more, with his Govt takeover of healthcare.
The only way out of this trap that will destroy what we know and love in America is to defeat Obama and replace him with Romney. Romney doesnt have to be perfect; it’s enough that he’s not a marxist redistributionist pro-abortion Big Government tax and spender like Obama.
The great news is that this week, we got a better defense of conservative principles out of Romney then we’d had since Reagan - with the exception of perhaps Newt Gingrich.
“Fun fact: Your raving anti-Romney sentiment is backfiring. You’re starting to annoy everyone so much with your thread-hijacking ways that it’s driving many people all the more firmly into the Romney camp just so that they won’t have to be associated with you.
And now to wait for you to liken yourself to a prophet.”
Yeah, all those MittBot fence sitters have been posting in mass about how they’re happily embracing a pathological liar now that I’ve posted.
Oh wait, that isn’t happening. It’s just in you’re silly little MittBot head that is angry that I dared speak the truth about your Messiah. Hope and Change isn’t just a sickness of the left anymore.
Get back to me, like I said, when you can find something incorrect in what I have written of Mittens.
You want to be a mindless Obamabot fine. But drop the hypocritical fake moralizing. There is no way to reconcile a Christan world view with supporting Obama’s pro infanticide political history.
YOU want to posture as if your opposition to Romney is based on your religious views. That is pure nonsense when you honestly compare the two on moral issues.
Don't project your ignorant world view on everyone else. You are happy embracing a pathological liar named Barack Hussein Obama who is actively working against everything YOU claim to be FOR. So spare us the hysteria and the lies.
“You want to be a mindless Obamabot fine. But drop the hypocritical fake moralizing. There is no way to reconcile a Christan world view with supporting Obama’s pro infanticide political history.
YOU want to posture as if your opposition to Romney is based on your religious views. That is pure nonsense when you honestly compare the two on moral issues.”
Well, the premise kind of breaks down when my central argument is that Obama and Romney are relatively the same. It’s because I am against abortion, and compare the two on moral issues, that I cannot partake in this farce. You simply continue to impugn on me everything evil that you can think of, and for what? Politics? You are too animated by something that you, yourself, have absolutely no power or real involvement in. You are, we are, at best pawns in a game of elites who both hate our guts. I simply choose to have my eyes open about it, instead of joining into the Mitt-Train. I’m not stupid enough or unprincipled enough to betray all that I know just to cast a vote in something that has no meaning.
I pointed out your fraud to you quite some time ago. I’ll post it to you again. THIS time actually respond to the points I made not just regurgitate your ignorance based Obamabot talking points.
Barack Obama, for the 1st time in Democrat Party history, had pro tax payer funded abortion on demand up to birth and pro gay marriage planks added to their 2012 platform.
If you are too stupid to recognize how evil that is, may God have mercy on your soul.
“Barack Obama, for the 1st time in Democrat Party history, had pro tax payer funded abortion on demand up to birth and pro gay marriage planks added to their 2012 platform.
If you are too stupid to recognize how evil that is, may God have mercy on your soul.”
Okay, so that makes Romney’s support of abortion OKAY then. That’s why I replied with the Romney camp’s quote that the Republican Platform “isn’t the platform of Mitt Romney.” Mitt has already made it clear that abortion is “settled law,” and even said he supported it for the health and life of the mother, a common refrain that even Obama has used himself. Well, he did walk it back about a week later, but not the “settled” part.
I am going to keep rubbing your noise in this until you finally answer.
You posture as if you opposition to Romney is morally based. Yet you refuse continually to address this action by Obama from Aug 2012.
Don't just regurgitate your ignorance based talking points. Address why you refuse to hold Obama accountable for his current actions.
Barack Obama, for the 1st time in Democrat Party history, had pro tax payer funded abortion on demand up to birth and pro gay marriage planks added to their 2012 platform.
If you are too stupid to recognize how evil that is, may God have mercy on your soul.
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