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Mitt Romney, you’re our only hope
Boston Herald ^ | 7/29/10 | Margery Eagan

Posted on 07/28/2010 9:55:03 PM PDT by pissant

So Mitt Romney - the venture capitalist guru who never sweats - leads all Republicans in a new Zogby poll that has him within striking distance of Obama, 45-43.

Can anyone be surprised? The economy’s a mess. We’re basket cases over keeping jobs and homes. Obama’s reduced to courting Whoopi and Barbara Walters today on “The View,” hoping a cozy chat will reassure the wives of independents and/or Tea Party sympathizers who’ve abandoned the president in droves.

Close your eyes. Envision, for a second, the best known GOP contenders: Sarah Palin, Mike Huckabee, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul. On the Ward Cleaver Reassurance Scale, none comes anywhere close to impeccable and unflappable Mitt with his crisp Power Point efficiency, his broad shoulders, his Vanilla Cokes, his beatific wife, and all those strapping sons with Talbots wives and Pottery Barn kids.

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To: NTHockey
RomneyCARE neutralizes ObamaCARE.
Romney support of illegals neutralizes Obama's.
Romney's parents of Mexican birth neutralize the Obama absent birth certificate issue.
Romney's destruction of Massachusetts neutralizes Obama's destruction of America.
Romney's destruction of the Mass. Constitution to impose gay marriage neutralizes Obama's destruction of the US Constitution.

And by making the carpetbagging backstabber the candidate,
given that Team Romney attacked Gov Palin during Election 2008 to throw the election to Obama,
most Americans would agree that the GOP would not deserve to win, anyway.


Romney praises Obama again
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney praised President Obama
at a GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday ..
"I also think it's important for us to nod to the president when he's right," Romney said....
Romney, who spoke at a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
said he's pleased with the president's plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan
-- lines that drew applause from the partisan audience. He also applauded the president
for standing up to the auto industry.
"I hope he continues to be tough ....The former businessman even offered faint praise for
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, saying that after a series of initial missteps,
"I think he's finally getting close to the right answer."



41 posted on 07/29/2010 4:00:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: tlb
The Boston Herald is the home of opinion like Howie Carr.”


“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.

The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006


"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”

[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006


"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced
,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005


Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys.
He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>


"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!

Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006


42 posted on 07/29/2010 4:03:27 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

If mitt is our only hope... we as a Nation are ****ed!

LLS


43 posted on 07/29/2010 4:28:12 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: pissant
zogby was on hannity the day before the special election and he and rasmussen claimed coakley would thrash Brown. zogby is English for islamic terrorist... at least his brother is one.

LLS

44 posted on 07/29/2010 4:30:43 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: monkeyshine
I have NOTHING against Mormons but I despise liberals to the center of my soul and mitt is a putrid liar liberal.

LLS

45 posted on 07/29/2010 4:33:48 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: tlb
If romney is the only game... I will not play. Forewarned is forearmed.

LLS

46 posted on 07/29/2010 4:35:03 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: tet68

47 posted on 07/29/2010 4:39:45 AM PDT by dubie (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: DangerZone
All joking aside, Romney is the early favorite for the nomination

At this point, four years ago, we were "guaranteed" a Guiliani/Clinton matchup.

I think it's safe to say that all of this talk is premature before the primary campaigns even start. Can we get through the 2010 mid-term elections first, before we start premature speculation on hypothetical "front-runners" and "matchups"?

48 posted on 07/29/2010 4:41:19 AM PDT by kevkrom (De-fund Obamacare in 2011, repeal in 2013!)
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To: eclecticEel
Never listen to people who want to see you fail.

_____________________________________

Or quit.

49 posted on 07/29/2010 4:43:40 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: pissant

Marge, sweetie, you’re writing for the Boston Herald, not Tiger Beat.


50 posted on 07/29/2010 4:44:12 AM PDT by RichInOC (Palin 2012: Real and Spectacular.)
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To: pissant

Mitt Romney was the governor of Massachusetts. That disqualifies him from being President. ......No liberal Yankee Republican is allowed....ever!


51 posted on 07/29/2010 4:47:28 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
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To: dalereed
i wouldn’t vote for that piece of shit if you put a gun to my head!!

________________________________________

I'm no fan of mitt and I'm sure we can do much better but honestly, if it were down to mitt or four more years of obama (which would literally destroy what's left of America) would you really stay home or cast a protest vote?

52 posted on 07/29/2010 4:48:40 AM PDT by wtc911 ("How you gonna get down that hill?")
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To: bert
The issue is that Romney was a BAD GOVERNOR. Very bad.

While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]


53 posted on 07/29/2010 4:49:15 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: pissant

Really? Then we’re screwed...


54 posted on 07/29/2010 4:49:42 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: DangerZone
All joking aside, Romney is the early favorite for the nomination. That says loads about the GOP right there, but then so did McCain’s nomination.

The GOP has traditionally nominated the person whose "turn it was". An exception to that was W. I would be surprised if Romney wasn't the nominee. And if so then Obamarx wins easily.

55 posted on 07/29/2010 4:52:27 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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To: Wyatt's Torch
If you are correct, then the American people would be like Seamus
on the roof of Myth Romney's car. Abused ... as Romney smiles.


"But the details of the event are more than unseemly — they may, in fact, be illegal.
Massachusetts's animal cruelty laws specifically prohibit anyone
from carrying an animal "in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel
or inhuman manner or in a way and manner which might endanger the
animal carried thereon.
" An officer for the Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals responded to a description of the situation
saying "it's definitely something I'd want to check out." The officer,
Nadia Branca, declined to give a definitive opinion on whether Romney broke the law
but did note that it's against state law to have a dog in an open bed of a pick-up truck,
and "if the dog was being carried in a way that endangers it, that would be illegal."


"Dog on Roof? What Was It Like for Romney's Pooch?
Scientists Say Dog Likely Experienced Wind-Whipped, Uncomfortable Trip
"Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family's hulking Irish setter,
in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon's roof rack.
e'd built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog," read the article.
Jordan Kaplan, the owner of Petaholics, a dog walking service in New York City,
and a lifelong dog owner and dog lover, said Romney's actions were uncalled for.
....What Happens to a Dog on a Roof Traveling 50 MPH?"


"Romney's dog - This is a distinction Mitt Romney probably could do without, but he is surely
the first presidential candidate to be attacked for putting a dog with diarrhea
in a carrier and tying it to the top of a station wagon.
Romney's defense: Seamus liked it. "He scrambled up there every time we went on trips,"
the Republican said during a campaign stop in Pittsburgh. "He got in all by himself and enjoyed it."


"As the oldest son, Tagg Romney commandeered the way-back of the wagon,
keeping his eyes fixed out the rear window, where he glimpsed the first sign of trouble.
''Dad!'' he yelled. ''Gross!'' A brown liquid was dripping down the back window,
payback from an Irish setter who'd been riding on the roof in the wind for hours.
As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust,
Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station.
There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car,
then hopped back onto the highway."


"Story about dog on car roof comes back to bite Romney
Critics, jokesters make issue of tale
TIME.com's Swampland blog has been flooded with more than 200 comments
from readers complaining of animal cruelty"


Romney's bad behavior Exposed by Seamus

"Romney Loses Nomination Over Dog Abuse?
Romney was traveling that summer with his wife, five sons, and Seamus to his parent's cottage on Lake Huron.
But hours into the ride, Seamus apparently suffered diarrhea,
which ran down the back window of the car. Romney's sons, all under 13, howled in disgust.
Romney pulled off the road into a service station.
There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, and they drove on to Ontario.
.....David Kravitz wrote on BlueMassGroup, a liberal blog.
"It also strikes me as classic Romney: it solves a problem efficiently,
in a business-like manner, and with no regard whatsoever
for the suffering that the solution may cause."

56 posted on 07/29/2010 4:55:43 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
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To: pissant

Oh, and Marge...this isn’t the candidate you’re looking for.


57 posted on 07/29/2010 4:55:56 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: pissant

Someone should research if Margery and Mitt have ever rented a room. This is embarrassing.


58 posted on 07/29/2010 4:58:08 AM PDT by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey thingy workin for ya?)
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To: pissant
When contacted about the story.


59 posted on 07/29/2010 5:00:55 AM PDT by McGruff (How's that Hopey Changey thingy workin for ya?)
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To: pissant

Bill O’Reilly surely concurs.......=.=


60 posted on 07/29/2010 5:51:17 AM PDT by cranked
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