Posted on 01/24/2008 5:01:18 AM PST by period end of story
TAMPA, Fla. At the end of the Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire this month, when the Democrats joined the candidates on stage, Mitt Romney found himself momentarily alone as his counterparts mingled, looking around a bit stiffly for a companion.
The moment was emblematic of a broader reality that has helped shape the Republican contest and could take center stage again on Thursday at a debate in Florida. Within the small circle of contenders, Mr. Romney has become the most disliked.
With so much attention recently on the sniping between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama on the Democratic side, the almost visceral scorn directed at Mr. Romney by his rivals has been overshadowed.
Never get into a wrestling match with a pig, Senator John McCain said in New Hampshire this month after reporters asked him about Mr. Romney. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
Mike Huckabees pugilistic campaign chairman, Ed Rollins, appeared to stop just short of threatening Mr. Romney with physical violence at one point.
"What I have to do is make sure that my anger with a guy like Romney, whose teeth I want to knock out, doesnt get in the way of my thought process, Mr. Rollins said.
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He's a Mass liberal, no different than Hill, Obewon or pretty boy.
I’d love to see Ed Rollins confront the Romulan—it would mirror Kevin McBride taking out Mike Tyson!
” I hope Romney wins, but if Romney does win, it is because he started early with each states grassroots, was organized, and was building a base before any of the other candidates had given it a thought. Romney brings something to the table that the other candidates do not have, a great business sense, and organization, that will serve this country well at this juncture of our American History.
I truly Believe that there is an angel in the whirlwind that guides this country. President G. W. Bush was the man our country needed on Sept 11, 2001. And I do believe that the next leader the country needs is Mitt Romney.”
I agree with you. There’s no perfect candidate, and the more I look at the economy, global business experience, taking a mess and making something of it, the better I like Mitt.
Smears are normally directed at someone who is feared, so hearing all of this lets me know that Mitt is feared...........
How soon before you play the “bigot card” FlagLady?
I don’t have to. You play it everytime you post on an anti-Mitt thread by example.
Feared just like hillary and obama!
MrPiper, you must be one of them there haters too if you don't like the flaming liberalism of Mitt Romney. Don't you know that we are just supposed to shut up and vote for the gun grabbing baby killer from Mass.?
LOL! Apparently you missed the Michigan primary when John McCain was speaking, trying to make a gracious concession and the Romulan broke right into the middle it with his "gentlemanly" victory digs.
Yep, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to write it this time around since Fred left
I dont have to. You play it everytime you post on an anti-Mitt thread by example.
You just played it. Now you're out of ammo to defend the liberal Romney.
The Slimes would be happy to see the Huckster or McManiac get the nod, and I don't think that's a coincidence.
That's the second time you've mentioned him.
What's up with that?
Be careful, you are getting dangerously close to being added to “Soliton’s list” that he is compiling to give to the owner of this web site.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957276/posts?page=33#33
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957276/posts?page=218#218
LOL,, looks like good company:-)
More like comparing a stopped up toilet in Calcutta to a running sewer in Calcutta when contrasting Ms. Billy Cigar and the Romulan.
They were gleeful that it wasn’t McCain there, because they would have had quite a mess to clean up. :-)
Give her a few seconds.
You're a riot, Alice.
Do you like Harry Reid or not ? Answer the question.
That’ll work.
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