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Rick Perry: Mitt Romney = Obama Lite
New York Daily News ^ | October 13, 2011 | Celeste Katz

Posted on 10/13/2011 12:08:14 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

Rick Perry's campaign is pointing to Mitt Romney's defense of the Wall St. bailouts as the latest sign that he's President Obama's Republican twin.

"This is just one more example about how Mitt Romney has more in common with Obama and the Democrats than with the Republicans," the Texas governor's spokeswoman Catherine Frazier told the Daily News.

Romney defended parts of the bank bailout program during the Republican presidential debate on Tuesday, arguing it was necessary to "keep the entire currency of the country worth something."

The former Massachusetts governor added, "We could have had a complete meltdown of our entire financial system, wiping out all the savings of the American people, so action had to be taken. Was it perfect? No."

The $700 billion TARP package that bailed out struggling banks passed - with Obama's support - in 2008 when George W. Bush was president. Since he took office, Obama has greenlighted bailouts of his own, like the controversial one to help the struggling auto industry


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2true; bailouts; economy; gopprimary; perry2012
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Romney and Obama are kindred spirits in many other ways. Mitt Romney's former science advisers were embraced by the Obama White House, and former Gov. Romney's advisers briefed the White House on RomneyCare for ObamaCare -- all the nightmare programs and regulations that are strangling the economy and killing jobs were nurtured under Gov. Romney and now are being executed by Obama.

Romney’s Troubling Appointments (Mitt's environmental policy team now works for Obama) ......."Significantly, two of Romney’s appointments have how found a home in the Obama White House.....Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator,.......Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate “greenhouse gases” is now Obama’s Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren."........

Romney’s Advisers Met With Obama to Help Craft ‘Obamacare’ “Three of Mitt Romney’s advisers went to the White House at least a dozen times in 2009 to consult on the former Massachusetts governor’s health care plan that President Obama used as a model for his initiative -- now a federal law that all the Republican presidential candidates want to repeal."....

......"It's a "pattern time and time again," said senior campaign strategist David Axelrod. "It’s consistent with a guy who ran for the governorship and the Senate in Massachusetts as a pro-choice moderate who supported civil unions and environmental protections to the guy you see today hard after the Tea Party vote who has thrown all his positions over.” If "you are willing to change positions on fundamental issues of principle, how can we know what you would do as president?" asked Axelrod.

The Democratic National Committee has already established a YouTube channel called "Which Mitt" which highlights his Mitt-flops."..................Source

1 posted on 10/13/2011 12:08:17 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: All; shield

President ZERO 1,926,386 views

Oct 10, 2011 - AD: Romney's Remedy


2 posted on 10/13/2011 12:09:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Rick Perry = Mitt Romney Lite


3 posted on 10/13/2011 12:10:18 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (Perry's idea of border control: Use both hands to welcome the illegals right in)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Also, just like Obama, Romney told the Wall Street protestors that he feels their pain and understands their frustration.


4 posted on 10/13/2011 12:13:08 PM PDT by tirednvirginia
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Jaime Ricardo "Rick" Perry=Al Gore Lite.

Hey RIck: You only went into politics because, after wasting your college years as a male cheerleader, you weren't good for anything but riding a tractor on your li'l ole Pappy's farm. So you got yourself a hairdo never seen before on any real ranch hand, and got into the racket as a career politician. Well, we have news for you. You can't con us any more by trying to climb on the Tea Party bandwagon. You are nothing but a stupid, venal hack career politician. We are fed up with all your ilk, and we will do our best to drive you out of business. We want a citizen patriot as POTUS, not you.

5 posted on 10/13/2011 12:13:49 PM PDT by hellbender
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Same dad?

6 posted on 10/13/2011 12:13:54 PM PDT by x (Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient. Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.)
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To: perfect_rovian_storm

I guess you don’t like this message?


7 posted on 10/13/2011 12:15:42 PM PDT by tirednvirginia
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Oh, my gosh, that’s what I’ve been saying for 2 days! Romney = Obama lite!

RINOS AND DEMOCRATS FOR ROMNEY! YIPEE!


8 posted on 10/13/2011 12:16:50 PM PDT by Eva
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Go here forAnn Barnhardt's opinion of Romney—warning! Not for the faint of heart!!
9 posted on 10/13/2011 12:16:50 PM PDT by notaliberal
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1 minute Perry campaign video: Carbon Copies Romney: "That plant kills people!"

...according to his standards, Romney himself used to be a “radical” environmentalist who supported clean energy policy and opposed a pollution-backed economy. Back in 2005, Romney told the Boston Globe he was “convinced” that cap and trade was “good business.” It was his administration, in fact, that helped guide the development of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap and trade system in the Northeastern U.S. that has raised $860 million for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.

In 2003, Romney fought to protect public health by supporting environmental controls on a Massachusetts coal plant that was responsible for dozens of premature deaths and 14,400 asthma attacks each year, according the Harvard School of Public Health. Announcing new regulations on the coal pollution, Romney said that he would “not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people”:

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people. And that plant kills people and PG&E has been given a notice to have it cleaned up by 2004 and they have thumbed their nose at the people of Massachusetts and Salem Harbor by not cleaning it up on time. So we’re saying, clean it up on time, do the job in the community, invest in cleaning technology.

One has to wonder where the old Romney went. According to Seth Kaplan of the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation, the old Romney disappeared while he was still governor of Massachusetts, posturing for the presidential election in 2007.

“You could see the flip starting to happen then – whether it was directly related to his running for president, you can’t say for sure. But they happened at the exact same time,”... Source

10 posted on 10/13/2011 12:17:32 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: perfect_rovian_storm
Mitt Perry, Rick Romney.

Same, same.

11 posted on 10/13/2011 12:19:56 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( The Prudential Governor... Have you bought your piece of the Rick)
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Same dad?

Same designs on our pocket-books.

12 posted on 10/13/2011 12:20:07 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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I think that you can add Romney’s energy policy to that too. Romney’s stand on carbon credits and AGW make it impossible for him to have any cogent energy policy.


13 posted on 10/13/2011 12:20:50 PM PDT by Eva
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Pot calls kettle black, well damn, are is it rinos of a feather flock together.
14 posted on 10/13/2011 12:20:57 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrat)
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To: hellbender
LOL, all true, Perry and Algore know the same secret hand shake.
15 posted on 10/13/2011 12:23:08 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrat)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Mitt Perry, Rick Romney. Same, same.

Agree 1,000 percent!

16 posted on 10/13/2011 12:26:08 PM PDT by notaliberal
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17 posted on 10/13/2011 12:26:51 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 Woe unto those who say they are Judahites and are not, but are of the syna GOG ue of Satan.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

He’s right. Romney = Obama Lite, a brew we can’t afford to drink.


18 posted on 10/13/2011 12:31:17 PM PDT by ZULU (ANYBODY BUT ROMNEY)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Need to have mod correct headline, one equal mark has been left out.


19 posted on 10/13/2011 12:34:08 PM PDT by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by Perry and his fellow democrat)
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To: org.whodat

LOL, The transitive property of statists...


20 posted on 10/13/2011 12:39:00 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( The Prudential Governor... Have you bought your piece of the Rick)
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