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Mitt Romney: Demise of Legacy Media Empowering Conservative ‘Insurgents,’ ...
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Posted on 10/21/2015 6:31:14 AM PDT by TigerClaws

Failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lamented that the demise of traditional media is empowering Republican “insurgents” and preventing establishment Republicans from compromising more with Democrats.

As the Republican establishment is trying convince Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) 58% to run for House Speaker, Romney told David Axelrod on a recent “The Axe Files” podcast that the “extremes within our respective parties are having a louder and louder voice and demanding more attention” and “immediate action” as opposed to more “collaborative action.”

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To: TigerClaws

“If we can just meet Mr. Hitler *halfway*, so that he agrees to exterminate only *half* the Jews, in the spirit of compromise...”


21 posted on 10/21/2015 6:48:01 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: TigerClaws

Romney knows this because his fellow Mormon, Harry Reid told him


22 posted on 10/21/2015 6:49:22 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: TigerClaws

Hey Mitt!

The U.S. Constitution was WRITTEN BY CONSERVATIVE INSURGENTS!!!

That’s the POINT!!!


23 posted on 10/21/2015 6:49:38 AM PDT by G Larry
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To: ModelBreaker

Trump is popular because of his positions.

The lie that conservatives will ‘pay the price’ for not compromising is just that: A big lie.

Those that give in and DON’T fight Obama are the ones in trouble. Every campaign ad I see is, “Joe Politician stood up to Obama..”


24 posted on 10/21/2015 6:50:32 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

Mr. “Severely” Conservative...fortunately for the rest of us, his opinions don’t carry much weight. Even McQueeq didn’t like him in 2008.


25 posted on 10/21/2015 6:51:36 AM PDT by CASchack
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To: TigerClaws

I think Mitt is right. We haven’t collaborated or compromised. We’ve capitulayed.


26 posted on 10/21/2015 6:56:30 AM PDT by SE Mom (God, restore our beloved country, amen.)
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To: TigerClaws

Interesting that Romney and Hillary have the same identical
enemies.

Not Islamic terrorism.

Not Tyranny.

Not governmental fraud, lying, and their coverup.

Just those pesky conservatives.


27 posted on 10/21/2015 6:58:58 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: TigerClaws
˜Legacy media" and "traditional media" are merely euphemisms for the enemedia and cheerleaders for the left. They might someday be grateful that they became irrelevant and avoided Julius Streicher therapy.

Inasmuch as practicing actual journalism does not seem to be an option for them.

28 posted on 10/21/2015 6:59:54 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: TigerClaws

GOPe bums like Romney have compromised us all the way to socialism . . . yes we are pretty much there already.

Further compromise only digs a deeper hole. Wake up GOPe!!! We don’t want any more of your crony capitalism or socialism. We are NOT your worker ant colony.


29 posted on 10/21/2015 7:04:14 AM PDT by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: TigerClaws
As the Republican establishment is trying convince Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) 58% to run for House Speaker, Romney told David Axelrod on a recent “The Axe Files” podcast that the “extremes within our respective parties are having a louder and louder voice and demanding more attention” and “immediate action” as opposed to more “collaborative action.”

I thought he was a "severe" conservative. There are so many things wrong with this! This is right there with Jeb using that snarky bitch to try to "gotcha ya" Trump about women's issues.

30 posted on 10/21/2015 7:04:18 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son...)
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To: TigerClaws

Let me translate Romney’s lament from Statist to English:

“I miss the good old days where news came from ABC, NBC, CBS or the New York Times. Back in those days it was easy to control the message and therefore control what the people thought.”


31 posted on 10/21/2015 7:15:42 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: TigerClaws

.......Jimmy Carter, over recent decades, has worked hard to become the laughing stock of the world and a total embarrassment to America.

Mitt Romney is gaining on him.


32 posted on 10/21/2015 7:20:31 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: gr8eman

The fact that the GOPe ran a socialist to begin with should be reason enough to send them all packing!


I think that’s what we’re trying to do, send them all packing


33 posted on 10/21/2015 7:21:52 AM PDT by samtheman (2014: Voters elect Repubs to congress... 2015: Repubs defund NOTHING... 2016: Trump/(Cruz or Palin))
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“lol
I would LOVE the left to “collaborate” with us to:

repeal Obamacare.
impeach at least 5 liberal supreme court judges
impeach Obama
deport 20 million illegals and their spawn

But for some reason the left only wants to collaborate when that involves us doing what THEY want. “

Bears repeating.


34 posted on 10/21/2015 7:22:37 AM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Trump/Cruz 2016)
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To: TigerClaws
During WWII collaborators were shot!

I'm just saying.....

35 posted on 10/21/2015 7:23:51 AM PDT by JEDI4S (I don't mean to cause trouble...it just happens naturally through the Force!)
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To: TigerClaws

So in fairness Romney, in his comments, is also calling out the SJWs who are the tail thats wagging the Democratic dog.

And at least on that he’s hitting the target. People need to remember that the Conservative “insurgent” behavior GOPe’ers are decrying is a reaction to the SJW’s dominance of the Democrats that the Dem establishment has fully embraced and the GOPe has proven incapable of countering.


36 posted on 10/21/2015 7:27:04 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: TigerClaws
Failed GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lamented that the demise of traditional media is empowering Republican “insurgents” and preventing establishment Republicans from compromising more with Democrats.

And this is why there was very little enthusiasm for Romney. I knew that if he won, I would be constantly furious with his efforts to compromise with Democrats.

Hello? That's how we got into this mess. Democrats are wrong, and they should not be "compromised" with.

37 posted on 10/21/2015 7:31:18 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: TigerClaws
preventing establishment Republicans from compromising more with Democrats.

The horrors! It's the reason Romney earned and received so few votes. He was merely a slow boat to the same failed policies

38 posted on 10/21/2015 7:35:07 AM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: TigerClaws

When I see these GOP-e tools, such as Mitt Romney implicitly advocating for the shutdown of free expression on the internet, I wonder if it isn’t a good thing that Obama won. With Romney, there would be NO GOP resistance to GOP liberalism, as opposed to token resistance.


39 posted on 10/21/2015 8:47:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
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