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Game Over, Mittens ( Lost Tape from ABC News About Romney's 2002 Election Campaign for Gov)
Youtube ^ | Mar 2, 2012 | Mitt Romney

Posted on 03/03/2012 2:28:54 PM PST by Red Steel

[Excerpts from the news video] ...

Mitt Romney- "I'm a big believer in getting money where the money is, and the money is in Washington.

...

I've learned from my Olympic experience, if you have people who really understand how Washington works and have personal associations there, you can get money to help build economic development opportunities. ...

We actually received over 410 million dollars from the Federal Government for the Olympic games. That is a huge increase over anything that I have ever done before. We did that by going after every agency in government.

...

I believe that the number was over a million dollars of Department of Education funding to buy tickets for kids. This way, we got kids there and we also got additional revenues we didn't have. That kind of creativity is what I want to bring in everything we do. ...

I want to go after every grant, every project, every department..."

...

On the 2012 campaign trail Mittens goes on the attack,

"Republicans spend too much money, borrowed too much, and earmarked too much, and Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich have to be held accountable. In this race, I'm the only guy who has not spent time in Washington. "

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


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To: Red Steel
"This is super damaging to Mitt. If you want to take Mittens down here it is.

Thanks ...... I just Tweeted this to Newt and anyone reading his Tweets will also pick it up. :O)

21 posted on 03/03/2012 3:41:26 PM PST by Old Badger (Don't bother me! I still like Palin because she will tell like it is! (Newt too!))
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To: RobbyS

You find yourself making excuses.

I’d rather you say “yeah well I still like him so I’ll vote for him” which I can live with.

But to twist and dance and make more excuses is kind of lame for a FR poster - even moreso for a presidential candidate.

jmo


22 posted on 03/03/2012 3:42:14 PM PST by Principled
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To: Red Steel

I wish you were right. But, MittWitt the Mormon Bishop, is being selected by American Christians to be the GOP nominee. I never thought Id see the day. But here we are.


23 posted on 03/03/2012 3:42:35 PM PST by blasater1960 (Deut 30, Psalm 111...the Torah and the Law, is attainable past, present and forever.)
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To: Red Steel
This is super damaging to Mitt.

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24 posted on 03/03/2012 3:43:37 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: Red Steel

This election will be a liberal vs. a liberal


25 posted on 03/03/2012 3:51:04 PM PST by hannibaal
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To: Riodacat; Red Steel
This is super damaging to Mitt.

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Dream on...

If there was a more viable alternative, Romney would be severely damaged by this and a slew of other flaws as a GOP candidate in 2012. To the typical primary voter, Romney looks to be the least worst option out there, and I am not sure this quote or much of anything will help one of the other three win.

26 posted on 03/03/2012 4:03:20 PM PST by ilgipper (Everything you get from the government was taken from someone else)
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To: Principled

No excuse. But in fact that is how a legislator must operate. He is, after all, responsible only to his constituents. I suggest you read Federalist #10, by Madison. Indeed the most underrated of our founding fathers. From the Mt.Vernon Conference to the spring of 1790, he was the most effective politician in the country. A political genius of the first water. At the Convention, in the Virginia ratification convention, and in the organization of the new government, he got things done. Leadership in a legislative body is very different than leadership in the executive. You are never your own man. The exceptions prove the rule. But men like John Quincy Adams are the exception; he makes Ron Paul seem like a trimmer, but even he made concessions to get things done, for he knew the name of the game.


27 posted on 03/03/2012 4:12:28 PM PST by RobbyS (Christus rex.)
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To: hannibaal
This election will be a liberal vs. a liberal

Obama is a "liberal?" That makes Chavez a liberal.

28 posted on 03/03/2012 4:13:26 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: RobbyS

I suggest you read _all_ the federalist papers ;)

that is how a legislator must operate

Leadership in a legislative body is very different

You are never your own man

Seem like excuses to me. While I will agree that concessions are the bilateral essence of negotiation, the necessary counterpart of concession is gain... there has to be something worth trading for such concessions. The reason for concessions cannot reasonably be “that is how a legislator must operate”, “Leadership in a legislative body is very different”, and “You are never your own man”.

just sayin’


29 posted on 03/03/2012 4:23:36 PM PST by Principled
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To: Red Steel

Too bad the alternatives are Rick “earmarks are good” Santorum and Newt “the ultimate insider” Gingrich.


30 posted on 03/03/2012 4:29:04 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Lady Lucky
“In this race, I’m the only guy who has not spent time in Washington.”

Because I use a really long rake!

When you sup with the devil

You need a long spoon.

31 posted on 03/03/2012 4:30:42 PM PST by spokeshave (Dole/McCain/Romney losers all....NEWT is da Man)
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To: TexasKamaAina
But, but, Romney boasted he's SEVERELY Conservative and attempted to defend his self-characterization too! The left is just getting warmed up. Romney is toast.
32 posted on 03/03/2012 4:31:24 PM PST by wtd
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To: Theodore R.
It’s a decade old and won’t matter to our little Republican primary voters who only know that McPain, Dole, and GHWB say it is “Mitt’s turn.”

And yet, most of the smear jobs done on Newt were blasts from the past too.....

33 posted on 03/03/2012 4:38:15 PM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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To: Red Steel
I can't help thinking that the Dems. are doing everything they can to pick the GOP nominee. Everything they have been planning for the last two years (class warfare, OWS, 99%) is setting up a race against a super rich candidate. Romney is already well know as a flip flopper (the thing that defeated Kerry in ‘04). Mitt is stiff as a board without a prepared text, which makes him even with Pres. Obama. With Romney as the candidate Obamacare is off the table for November.

Herman Cain's take down had too many Chicago machine connections for comfort. The media leads the attack against Santorum. It seems every time a candidate looks like they may take off not only does the Romney/Paul team attack but so does the groups on the left.

I fear that the American people will turn back to a candidate who believes in the wrong things than risk a candidate who believes in nothing and thus appears weak.

34 posted on 03/03/2012 4:59:36 PM PST by Ironsman
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To: Red Steel
Romney, DNC candidate #2

Santorum, DNC candidate #3


Newt needs to DITCH the R party, cause it's the same as the D party!

35 posted on 03/03/2012 5:19:54 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (BO Stinks! So does Mitts magic underwear!)
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To: Red Steel
Mitt Romney- "I'm a big believer in getting money where the money is, and the money is in Washington.

Redistribute the wealth.

36 posted on 03/03/2012 5:27:27 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Red Steel

This is why the democrats are pushing for Mittens now and think they can defeat him in the general.
Obama, Mittens. Not much difference except that Obama truly hates our country.


37 posted on 03/03/2012 5:30:22 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: blasater1960
I never thought Id see the day. But here we are.

You mean, blasater, that you thought the little Republican primary voters could make a sane choice? "Sanity" now means Mittens! It's all they understand. Bob Dole says so too.

38 posted on 03/03/2012 5:30:57 PM PST by Theodore R. (Santorum has one election day left, and I wonder if the American people will respond.)
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To: All
Mitt Romney's real record in Massachusetts
Looks can be deceiving. No Romney, No Way!

39 posted on 03/03/2012 5:32:01 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: Mygirlsmom

Perhaps you should read your tagline again.


40 posted on 03/03/2012 5:32:46 PM PST by floralamiss ("I Picked Rick!" (slogan created by Joe 6-pack))
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