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Can Mitt Romney hit the reset button on presidential campaign? (The Etch A Sketch "Conservative")
Washington Post ^ | 3/24/12 | Dan Balz

Posted on 03/24/2012 2:08:37 PM PDT by jimbo123

It is easy to understand why last week’s Etch a Sketch moment was described as the perfect metaphor for a presidential candidate who has struggled to answer the question of who he is and what he believes. It was a gaffe that fed a stereotype that shapes the political image of Mitt Romney.

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1 posted on 03/24/2012 2:08:42 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123
Can Mitt Romney hit the reset button

Etch A Sketch doesn't have a reset button!

2 posted on 03/24/2012 2:19:39 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: jimbo123

What does reset mean in this case?

He’s won Obama strongholds he can’t hope to win in November while insulting conservatives with comments about perfect trees and cheesy grits.

So is he going to reset and run as the “severe” conservative he claims to be or reset and run somewhere between Hillary Clinton and Barrack Obama?


3 posted on 03/24/2012 2:22:44 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: jimbo123

Can Mitt Romney hit the reset button on presidential campaign?
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Hope not. TAKE IT TO TAMPA!! Ryan / Rubio 2012.


4 posted on 03/24/2012 3:10:07 PM PDT by no dems (Take it to Tampa: Palin / Ryan or Palin / Rubio or Ryan/Rubio in 2012)
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To: cripplecreek

He’s going to have to hit that button several times.

Video Uncovered: Romney in ‘02: ‘Only Connection’ to the Republican Party Is My Party Registration
The Blaze ^ | 3/23/12

With his conservative credentials still taking fire over “Etch A Sketchgate,” Mitt Romney is facing a new potential obstacle to his argument that he is unfailingly a Republican.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2862919/posts


5 posted on 03/24/2012 3:10:58 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Only God can change a heart, but we can pray for hearts to be changed)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Captain Bishop Etch-a-sketch:
"I bet $10,000 that this thingy is the perfect size.
Have some minion mount it on the roof
of my wife’s second Cadillac.
"


Willard, what the hell is that child doing on the roof?

Captain Etch-a-Sketch: “Silly woman. Even when it falls off and dies,
I'll just have Fehrnstrom hit my PR-‘Reset’.


6 posted on 03/24/2012 3:17:08 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Diogenesis
The Mittwit admires Michigan's perfectly tall trees.

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7 posted on 03/24/2012 3:21:24 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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