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The day the tea party embraces Mitt Romney is the day the tea party accepts defeat
Vanity | Dec 17, 2012 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 12/17/2011 12:08:08 PM PST by Jim Robinson

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To: DTogo
What if Romney eventually becomes the GOP nominee, and in Nov. '12 it's either him or another 4 years of America's Chickens Coming Home to Roost?

Romney, by virtue of his lack of contrast with 0bama, is probably the weakest GOP candidate who could be nominated in 2012. The resultant de-energizing which would consequently occur within the TEA party base would be a critical factor in the general election, quite possibly tipping the situation in 0bama's favor.

101 posted on 12/17/2011 1:49:43 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these "boncentration bamps")
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To: Jim Robinson

Absolutely agree! No matter if he is the last man standing, do NOT endorse him. NEVAH! Do what you want on election day, and do whats best for the country, but there should be NO endorsement for Romney by the Tea party.


102 posted on 12/17/2011 1:57:52 PM PST by Paradox (The rich SHOULD be paying more taxes, and they WOULD, if they could make more money.)
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To: Bokababe

When a storm is on the way, some folks shake in fear and speak of their impending doom. Others stand strong, look into the eye of the storm and... learn to dance in the rain.

We, together, will get through this storm.

President Newt Gingrich.... fight FOR it, it’s going to happen.


103 posted on 12/17/2011 2:03:51 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: seenenuf

Newt has disclosed all that he needs to about Freddie/Fannie.

GO NEWT GO.......


104 posted on 12/17/2011 2:06:45 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: Jim Robinson
Ditto for NEWT "THE PROGRESSIVE". Is there any way you guys can dust Cain off and bring him back? Or Palin? Or West? Does Paul have the steam to cook these two turkeys?

Newt-Romney, Mitt-Gingrich....six of one, half a dozen of the other.....both of these butterballs occupy the same freezer bin. Do either of those birds have the guts to cut government in half? Because that is what the math says is necessary. I seriously doubt it.

What you simply MUST understand

105 posted on 12/17/2011 2:07:14 PM PST by CanaGuy (If you find life intolerable now, how will you ever endure an eternity of torments? (Thom. à Kempis)
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To: Jim Robinson
Amen!

Check this out Jim.

The Tea Party of America

106 posted on 12/17/2011 2:09:24 PM PST by Waywardson (Carry on! Nothing equals the splendor!)
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To: Jim Robinson
If the Tea Party now embraces Romney, it will have accepted defeat and surrendered to the ruling class.

I agree with that assessment 100 percent.

107 posted on 12/17/2011 2:12:34 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Jim Robinson

AMEN BRother FReep!!!!!!!!

This guy will stay home. No way will I do it! He is the only guy that makes me stay home. I have been an election judge for the past elections. If he is the guy, find someone else.


108 posted on 12/17/2011 2:16:44 PM PST by mmanager (Reagan Revolution + Republican Revolution = Bury Obama in 2012 - Go Newt!)
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To: WayneLusvardi

You have been here far too long to risk zotting by pimping Romney. I hope that you see the light before you, uh....see the “light.”


109 posted on 12/17/2011 2:17:14 PM PST by Grunthor (Unrepentant breeder.)
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To: Jim Robinson
Rebellion is brewing!!

Our Founding Fathers would have started shooting by now. Hell, they would have been finished by now!

110 posted on 12/17/2011 2:17:49 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: 1010RD

I cannot vote for such a liberal as Mitt Romney who is anti-life, anti-gun, anti-natural marriage, and anti-small government.

There is nothing in that that is any better than Obama.

Therefore, I will vote write-in (Palin) or 3rd Party (Constitution) depending on which looks like the better choice.

Ethically, I cannot support Romney. I can support trying to start a conservative party or support an existing conservative party that has nominated a real candidate.


111 posted on 12/17/2011 2:17:53 PM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of our Troops PRAY for their VICTORY!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Thanks, Jim! My pet Romney peeve is that he’s a pandering liar. Pays for an NRA Life Membership, gets his picture taken at Shot Show with LaPierre, announces that he’s a lifelong hunter and gun owner, all in a two week span. Except that he’s not a hunter, and, well, does not nor ever has owned a gun.


112 posted on 12/17/2011 2:22:41 PM PST by DBrow
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To: WayneLusvardi

You are not in our camp. Go away. When it comes time for us to bring arm’s you will be pissing your pant’s.

If Obama gets another term you better be stocked up. It is about to get ugly.


113 posted on 12/17/2011 2:23:37 PM PST by mmanager (Reagan Revolution + Republican Revolution = Bury Obama in 2012 - Go Newt!)
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To: CanaGuy; TheOldLady

Romneybot Zot.


114 posted on 12/17/2011 2:25:14 PM PST by jazusamo (The real minimum wage is zero: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Jim Robinson

Thanks for this thread Jim.
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Romney is just another throw-back RINO who wants to “go along to get along.” (Everything will be just fine as long as we continue to cave-in to the left as the left continues to move to the left, until there is nothing left of America.) Time and events have passed him by, as well as the 24 % of Republicans who still believe that America is back in the “I Like Ike” Era.

Romney and his supporters do not realize that the US Federal Government is in the early stage of a terminal financial death spiral. The “can cannot be kicked down the road” anymore, because the “road” ended when our Total National Debt exceeded 15 TRILLION dollars.

Those of us in the 53 % that pay personal FIT and who are TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY know that ANY Federal Politician who does not reduce the US FEDERAL Government baseline spending is, to use the frog in the pot of water analogy, turning up the heat under the pot that we, the former “Silent Majority” and are now the TEA Party, politely float in.

Romney is one who will “turn up the heat on our pot of nearly boiling water.”
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To borrow a quote from the flag-page of a VERY wise FReeper:

“-— “When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.”

Thomas Paine, Common Sense US patriot & political philosopher (1737 - 1809) - - - “

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With Paine’s quote in mind, let us examine ourselves a bit.

Do we sit politely on our hands and let the counter-culture manipulate us?

If so, do we even recognize that we are being manipulated?

In my humble, but ALWAYS correct opinion, manipulation by the counter-culture is done by the following:

Racial profiling; Freedom from Religion; The American Civil Liberties Destruction Union (ACLDU); charge of being a Right-Wing Extremist, Right-Wing Hypocrite, Right-Wing Millionaire, Right-Wing Businessman, etc.; and of course, that all inclusive violation of the non-existant, (thank you Reagan for your timely veto), Fairness Doctrine.

Feel free to add to this manipulation list, as it is high time for us to shed the self-imposed tolerance of the shackles that keep us from living up to the standards that our Founding Fathers fought so hard to set in place for us, the polite frogs that just float around in the almost boiling pot of hot water.


115 posted on 12/17/2011 2:26:09 PM PST by Graewoulf (( obama"care" violates the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND is illegal by the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: WayneLusvardi
If conservative Republicans vote for Romney they will own him. He will be compelled to pay back those who voted for him.

That is not accurate.

116 posted on 12/17/2011 2:34:09 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: Jim Robinson
I'm a conflicted Constitutional Christian conservative/economic libertarian when it comes to Gingrich for several reasons. It really appears he's the best of the lot right now. But I find myself thinking about the upcoming 2012 POTUS debates. The debates, of course, will be run by The One's campaign organization, the MSM, so our guy will have a significant disadvantage before the opening bell. If Obama is close to Gingrich at the time of the debates, we could be in trouble. We know the questions will be slanted toward Obama. But if Obama is close, then probably it will be formatted so they have almost no time to answer. It will mostly be a fashion show. I think the slender, black, and smooth Obama wins the fashion show against the the fat, white-haired wrinkly dude.

I see two possible and radically different scenarios in the debates:

1) Despite the slanted questions and format, the short, fat wrinkly dude skewers The One in the debates and somehow wins the hearts of enough American people to win, or

2) With the help of his MSM organization, The One gets the questions that lets him show his best side, parries Gingrich's attacks, counters effectively with carefully orchestrated attacks of his own, and is left looking like the slender "cool" guy against a fat old wrinkly guy.

What can we do? Pray hard and hope for the best. Maybe somehow yell PALIN!!! hard enough to change her mind. That's about all I can think of right now.

117 posted on 12/17/2011 2:34:39 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: montyspython; WayneLusvardi; Jim Robinson

Dude. Chill. You don’t get to determine who is ZOTTED. The guy expressed an opinion, and Jim Robinson himself responded with a reasonable, respectful yet unapologetic answer.

Jim is pretty good at figuring out who is a blatant RINO and who is a conservative with an alternative point of view, trying to find a way to keep Hussein from staying in power...which is one reason to thank the man for FR.


118 posted on 12/17/2011 2:42:13 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: JCG; All; Jim Robinson

“If people get ZOT’d merely for expressing a different opinion, you don’t have to ZOT me. I’m outta here.”

Newt, with all his flaws and imperfect record, is more conservative than Ann Coulter. Personally, I’m sick of her being quoted and posted here on FR. Were it up to me, anything linked to her would be zotted, and anyone peddling the harlot would be zotted as well.

I am a social/moral conservative...and even I can see that Newt, overall, is the only real choice left to us.

You are fortunate that Mr. Robinson is more forebearant than myself. For supporting “Ann Coulter” is equivalent to supporting Mitt Romney.


119 posted on 12/17/2011 2:42:39 PM PST by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: PapaNew

I’ll say this for Noot:

He’s no wimp, and if presented with an improper debate question, he’ll change it to a proper one, and answer that.


120 posted on 12/17/2011 2:43:04 PM PST by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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