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Why Romney Is Right for Iowa, America
TownHall.com ^ | 31 December 2007 | Doug Wilson

Posted on 12/31/2007 8:35:07 PM PST by Spiff

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To: CharlesWayneCT

Hah.


41 posted on 12/31/2007 10:06:24 PM PST by EternalVigilance (<<<<-------Click and view)
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To: EternalVigilance

Well, unfortunately, it looks like you might just have to do that, since there is no “perfect” candidate. (And I’m not inferring that Mr. Romney or Mr. Giuliani will be the nominee.)


42 posted on 12/31/2007 10:07:01 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Compared to Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson is a saint. And believe me, that’s very faint praise.


43 posted on 12/31/2007 10:07:15 PM PST by EternalVigilance (<<<<-------Click and view)
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To: GOP_Lady

My candidate is perfect enough for me. Deep Reagan administration experience in foreign policy, national defense, and dealing with the terrorist threat. Eloquent, consistent (unmoved over decades) defender of the God-given rights to life and liberty that are spelled out in Declaration, the Constitution and the Reagan platform. Without peer in this generation as a communicator of conservatism. An all-around good man. No one else like him, in fact.


44 posted on 12/31/2007 10:11:30 PM PST by EternalVigilance (<<<<-------Click and view)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Good to see you are still here, I thought for a moment the Fred supporters had gotten you banned for not being sufficiently deferential to their candidate.

Do you have some source of information that the site's owner and/or moderators are banning people based on directions from "Fred supporters"?

That's a pretty serious charge to make on FR.

45 posted on 12/31/2007 10:11:34 PM PST by Col Freeper
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To: GOP_Lady
Ok, let’s say that is true. Why has Mitt spent so much money, a good amount of it to recapture gains more than a couple of times. He has made his case over and over, often to the same people. Why is it not sticking.

Given what he has spent in Iowa alone this thing should be in the bag if he was the “Golden One”

Why does he have to burn so much fuel just to maintain his current altitude? That more than anything else is going to become an issue soon. ROI is kicking in for Mitt and the GOP as well...

46 posted on 12/31/2007 10:15:46 PM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
Charles, now you are being ridiculous. No one has been banned for bashing Fred, but for being assholes.
47 posted on 12/31/2007 10:21:36 PM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: ejonesie22
Simple. There is a large choice of candidates. The winner only has to get a small percentage of the vote to win. Money does not ensure victory. If people don’t want to vote for you, they won’t, no matter how much money you spend. The same thing is happening with only three candidates in Iowa on the dem side. There is no “Golden One” for the majority of people.
48 posted on 12/31/2007 10:22:04 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: Col Freeper

The procedure is simple enough, and was used to great effect against Rudy supporters, who frankly were easier targets.

Most people react strongly when they are attacked. So if you can goad them with personal attacks, and do so repeatedly, you can get them to lash out, and if they do so with a personal attack, they can be banned.

It’s like how Draco Malfoy gets Harry Potter in trouble all the time.

However, in this case I was being sarcastic, making a little joke. I imagine EV knows that, as EV hasn’t really been missing or anything, just I haven’t hung around in the same threads for a few days.

For the record, I’d rather not see anybody banned, but have no opinion on the matter of those being banned as that is between the owner of the site and the people being banned. I’ve been led to ask for leniency for one or two people in the past, but haven’t done so recently.


49 posted on 12/31/2007 10:22:28 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: ejonesie22

EV got the joke. :-)


50 posted on 12/31/2007 10:23:50 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: EternalVigilance
If you mean Alan Keyes, I had my picture taken with him and other Freepers at a Right to Life Luncheon. But, unfortunately he is not running. So, you will have to either vote for someone else or sit out.
51 posted on 12/31/2007 10:24:43 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: EternalVigilance

You know I disagree with you on this point, but I do admire both your commitment to principle, and the manner in which you express that commitment, firmly but fairly.


52 posted on 12/31/2007 10:25:35 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Sola Veritas

I’m a born again, bible believing, tongue talker, Jesus Frick Christian and I would vote for Romney.

I used to be a pro choice now I’m a pro life I guess that makes me a flip flapper too.


53 posted on 12/31/2007 10:25:41 PM PST by Lily4Jesus ( Jesus Saves)
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To: GOP_Lady
But, unfortunately he is not running.

You really shouldn't get all your information from the Democrat Media. He is running, and he's just getting started. If you have the guts, and can handle viewing a 2 meg pdf, click on my screenname and go to the link at the top.

54 posted on 12/31/2007 10:29:18 PM PST by EternalVigilance (<<<<-------Click and view)
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To: GOP_Lady

Maybe, but given the amount of money spent by Mitt vs. the others, who is going to be the most economically viable long term.

This may well come into play for Mitt. How much he is going to have to spend to stay even, or more over to pull ahead all they way through the Primary. What are going to be his costs state by state, and a what point does his “self financing” become a philosophical and emotional liability with the base as well as the candidate himself...


55 posted on 12/31/2007 10:29:35 PM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: EternalVigilance

ET, count me in!


56 posted on 12/31/2007 10:30:25 PM PST by luvadavi (Duncan Hunter in 08--a choice not a RINO!)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

If you admire it, follow it. Give up your support for the most liberal Governor in the history of the republic, and support the man who has for decades consistently and courageously stood for the moral principles that undergird our liberty.


57 posted on 12/31/2007 10:31:05 PM PST by EternalVigilance (<<<<-------Click and view)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

SO did I...


58 posted on 12/31/2007 10:32:23 PM PST by ejonesie22 (In America all people have a right to be wrong, some just exercise it a bit much...)
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To: luvadavi

Who knows, maybe enough folks will wake up in time and it won’t come to that.


59 posted on 12/31/2007 10:32:39 PM PST by EternalVigilance (<<<<-------Click and view)
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To: EternalVigilance

Sorry—should have read *EV* !!getting sleepy. Happy New Year all!


60 posted on 12/31/2007 10:34:21 PM PST by luvadavi (Duncan Hunter in 08--a choice not a RINO!)
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