Romney says Brown can ‘make history’

The Boston Globe ^ | 01-01-10 | The Boston Globe Staff

[Rome2000]

Romney is right, its not business as usual, and country club RINOs who pretend to be conservative and will say or do anything to get elected are going to have their asses handed to them.

MYTH FLIP SLICK WILLARD RINO ROMNEY being at the top of the list.

[ansel12]

Welcome to your second week at FR, being pro-Romney and anti-Palin, explains your (current?) sign up name on a conservative site.

[fullchroma]

Done as well.

Sweet!

The irony that a Republican in Let’s-pass-Health-Reform-for-Ted! Kennedy’s seat could end the Left's filibuster-proof majority and, maybe, kill their insane, unconstitutional, deadly grab for control and cash is rich.

[presently no screen name]

Ah! Good catch.

Quietcontrarian - YOU aren’t so quiet, after all, are you? Your posts are screaming of what/who you are all about.

[Cheerio]

just sent a little electronic love

[fullchroma]

Cheers!

[presently no screen name]

if they were hanging by their fingertips, would slap at Gov. Romney if he offered them his hand.

That's Mitt's dream - he thrives off of the clueless, disparate and needy for his gain. He's a crumb dropper and the needy gravitate towards it.

He can take his big government controlled healthcare - sugar daddy mindset - and shove it. His mittens can crawl up his butt to feel safe.

[presently no screen name]

Meg Whitman: Romney handpicked me and "I'm A Huge Fan Of Van Jones"

Well, lookie here - Meg is a climate change fan and VanJones fan! HANDPICKED by Mr Deception aka MittRomney.

Hey, Mitt - how is your 'little' following going to cover your butt on this one - the greatest fraud perpetrated on the world for 'control'. And Mitt is for it! Along w/his socialistic mindset for government 'control' healthcare.

[bwc2221]

DeMint probably supported Mitt for the same reason I voted for Mitt in the Michigan primary: he wasn't John McCain.

By the way quietcontrarian: In the Michigan primary, Mitt was big on federal support for the “Detroit Three.” Whatever you think the voters want to hear, that's Mitt.

[Peter Horry]

Looks like mindless slapping to me, be careful you don’t fall.

[ansel12]

We do know that Romney has consistently slapped at the fingers of conservatism, to me, one of the most despicable was to spend months on a national campaign to convince the American public that Ronald Reagan was “adamantly pro-choice” on abortion.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Conservatives should vote for the Dem candidate
to make Romney look bad...”
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Did you forgot your sarcasm tag? (or what?)

[truthguy]

I'm going to make a contribution to Brown.

What's more I'm going to make contribution to a lot of conservative and Republicans across the country who are in positions to WIN.

I get all kinds of solicitations from the National Republican Party, the State Republican Party and the like.

I'm not going to give any more money to these organizations. I will back individual candidates like Brown in Massachusetts or Schiff in Connecticut. I don't know who will be the candidate in Nevada but I will support the Republican who can knock off Harry Reid. My district is so overwhelmingly Democratic, that giving money to the Republican is just about a waste. It's throwing good money after bad.

I want my money to go to the areas that will do the most good. Backing a Republican to run against someone like Nancy Pelosi is a waste. She is in a lunatic district and you could run a corpse with a D beside it against a liberal Republican and the corpse would win.

[truthguy]

Yes, I agree about Whitman. If she didn't have the street smarts to identify Van Jones for the clown he was, then she doesn't have the street smarts to be governor. I would not have been fooled by this snake oil salesman for a microsecond.

Don't get me wrong. Meg Whitman is very talented in Business. She could not have achieved what she has without business talent and savvy. However I don't think her skill set is right for being governor. Yes, I will support her against any Democrat if that what it comes down to.

I REPEAT, IF SHE CAN BE FOOLED BY A CLOWN LIKE VAN JONES, SHE DOESN'T HAVE THE STREET SMARTS TO BE GOVERNOR.

[presently no screen name]

be careful you don’t fall.

Heed your own advice, you're the one on a slippery slope, not I.

[contrarian]

Romney needs to be quiet... and let a real conservative get elected... Mitt... running again ? Puhhleeeze ! GO AWAY! btw.. I am not quiet... ask MY senator and congressman

[presently no screen name]

What does DeMint know that you don't

Nothing. He knew what the rest of us knew - the 'pickings' were intentionally slim.

[Peter Horry]

am well balanced thank you.

The way some people “go off” on any statement that Gov. Romney utters makes it is pretty apparent that they are driven by hate or fear. Tirades against him are often linked to the 2012 presidential election so my guess that many are afraid of him.... afraid he may be the candidate in 2012.

Seems that many feel that their candidate can’t win unless Romney is destroyed... doesn’t say much about their candidate. Hate or fear lead to poor decisions and improper actions, don’t be ruled by either.

[Diogenesis]

Don't think so. Romney has shown reprehensible behavior.
Poor sport, backstabber Romney cannot be trusted.

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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Poor sport spoiler Romney attacks other GOP candidates:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

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At the end of the day, when the RomneyBOT squeeling is peeled away:

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
--  President Ronald Reagan

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[RedStateDefender]

The way some people “go off” on any statement that Gov. Romney utters makes it is pretty apparent that they are driven by hate or fear.

I am so down with you on that statement!

I consider myself a strong, ideological conservative. But I have always been willing to give Gov. Romney a hearing. I look at his life and I see an honorable and capable man who has lived by conservative values. I also admire his intelligence and business experience. I have hardly been able to get to the point of looking at whether he has been sufficiently conservative or is an opportunistic RINO, as his enemies claim. (I can't stand John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and other such RINOs.)

But I always find myself defending Romney without ever getting around to giving his record a hard look. And that is because those against him are so nasty and hysterical.

Perhaps some despise him for purely legitimate ideological reasons. But most conservatives who are fiercely against him are motivated, I'm afraid, by religious bigotry. I have no patience with it.