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Mitt will do fine
Charleston (WV) Daily Mail ^ | April 5, 2012 | Don Surber

Posted on 04/05/2012 12:05:13 PM PDT by Mustang Driver

The press is circulating Republican-insiders stories again, this time saying Mr. Electable is unelectable.

Don’t buy the latest spin from Democrats. Conservatives should stay calm, cool and collected.

Mitt Romney is the most presidential of Republican nominees since 1988. He looks the part, he acts the part and lives the part. He has worked his way up and made it on his own even though his father was a prominent businessman and successful governor. He is the grown-up in the room whose blandness is a strikingly attractive alternative to the All Trauma Obama presidency. Over the years he has taken progressively more responsible positions — from head of the Mormon mission in France to CEO of Bain Capital — that have built his self-confidence and the trust of others. When people talk about the Republican establishment, they are really talking about the successful people who will make up his government. This is about running a government.

President John McCain? Come on. What were we thinking? OK, the bench was thin. President Bush forgot to develop an heir.

Mitt Romney’s blandness is a plus because he exudes grace under pressure. He gets flustered. But he grins and bears it. This will serve him well in a very ugly campaign, perhaps the ugliest since 1800. We know after 4 years of watching President Obama that he is extremely vulnerable under pressure. He cracks. His temper tantrum against the Supreme Court showed how intellectually empty he is. My goodness, it is unprecedented to have justices turn down a law? Talk about acting stupidly. The pressure must be applied carefully and consistently.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsements; endorsements; mitt; romney; romney2012; romneysucks
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To: cotton1706

I like Mark Steyn’s line; it’s better to convince an imperfect person to do the right thing than to wair for somebody perfect.


21 posted on 04/05/2012 12:31:01 PM PDT by Hugin ("Most time a man'll tell you his bad intentions if you listen and let yourself hear"--Open Range)
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To: Mustang Driver
Don Surber sets off my gaydar.....

FMCDH(BITS)

22 posted on 04/05/2012 12:31:48 PM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: forgotten man

I don’t care if he tears down a $50 million house to build a $100 million one. His wealth is not the issue with me. The issues are his love of abortion, sodomites, socialized medicine, taxes, and liberalism in general. And they are insurmountable.


23 posted on 04/05/2012 12:33:25 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon (I can haz Romney's defeat?)
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To: Mustang Driver; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; JulieRNR21; ...

Mitt Romney is the most uninspiring Republican nominee in my lifetime. He makes John McCain, Robert Dole, and Gerald Ford look like excellent choices. Romney has done more flip-flopping than Mary Lou Retton. Read my tagline VERY CLOSELY!!!! I won’t vote for him in the primary. If Gingrich and Santorum drop out, I’ll vote for Ron Paul.


24 posted on 04/05/2012 12:34:04 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (A chameleon belongs in a pet store, not the White House)
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To: forgotten man

I just don’t understand conservatives bashing success. He’s building it with his own money. He’s not running around the planet with an entourage on the taxpayers dime


25 posted on 04/05/2012 12:34:40 PM PDT by jersey117 (The Stepford Media should be sued for malpractice)
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To: Clintonfatigued

I’m looking forward to voting for Rick Santorum in the primaries, and hopefully in the General Election.


26 posted on 04/05/2012 12:35:58 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Mustang Driver

Romney = McCain

How did that work out?


27 posted on 04/05/2012 12:36:57 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Mustang Driver
He looks the part, he acts the part and lives the part.

That's right... Any part you want him to portray... conservative, liberal, moderate, statist, laissez-faire libertarian, anti-gun, pro-gun, pro-border, pro-illegal, pro-growth, enviro-nut...

Whaddayaknow... all those "parts" wrapped up on one. Mitt "Sybil" Romney at your service (or not)!

28 posted on 04/05/2012 12:37:36 PM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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To: Hugin; cotton1706
I like Mark Steyn’s line; it’s better to convince an imperfect person to do the right thing than to wair for somebody perfect.

I like Alexander Hamilton's better:

“If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures.” - Alexander Hamilton
29 posted on 04/05/2012 12:38:14 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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To: forgotten man

Romney’s is one of less than 40 beach houses in La Jolla, worth a cool $12 million, with basement garage space for a least a dozen cars. Mitt plans to greatly expand the the current 3000 sq. ft. living space.


30 posted on 04/05/2012 12:38:25 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Clintonfatigued
Mitt Romney is the most uninspiring Republican nominee in my lifetime. He makes John McCain, Robert Dole, and Gerald Ford look like excellent choices.

Romney is better on television than all three of them put together. Nothing is going to change if the banks decide to let him win the election, but at least he'll be a bit harder for the MSM to criticize than GWB was.

31 posted on 04/05/2012 12:40:26 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’ve been looking for that Hamilton quote! Thanks!


32 posted on 04/05/2012 12:42:11 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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To: DannyTN; All
You're talking the sad, sad, common-sense truth.

People are so busy looking behind them in their panic, that they're failing to watch where they're headed. They forget that in voting "against" something, they are also voting FOR something, and voting FOR liberalism always empowers liberalism.

Courage -- including the courage to risk a much-weakened Obama for another four years as the price of fighting to preserve the Republican party as an antidote to liberalism -- is our best chance of being victorious in the long term to save America from socialism. The best way to weaken Obama AND Romney, regardless of who wins, is to vote third-party to dilute the percentage plurality of the winner.

Romney in the White House, the product of fear, panic, and desperation, would be the the agent that brought the Republican party to surrender to statism and liberalism; Romney would be the catalyst to make the Republican party a wholesale enabler of liberalism and disabler of any Republican fight against it.

Romney has consistently promoted the very crushing government statism that stifles morality, freedom, and prosperity, and which nourishes strife and repression -- cap-and-trade regulation to squelch energy and production; on-demand tax-funded abortion; forced acceptance of open homosexuality in all corners of our lives and punishment for resisting it; nationalized health care. Voting for Romney is NUTS.

33 posted on 04/05/2012 12:44:05 PM PDT by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent (By the way, Ted, voting for Romney is voting stupid.))
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To: Mustang Driver

A B O

The communist ghetto street thug and marxist street leech parasite needs to go.


34 posted on 04/05/2012 12:45:28 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: GraceG

“Romney’s watered down Republicanism will not “fix” anythign and the economy will stagnate “

All he’s got to do is approve the Keystone pipeline and some drilling here and there, lay off the coal plants, chip away at welfare, cancel Obamacare -

all of which I do believe he’ll do if elected, and I am not a Romney cheerleader.

This economy would take off like a rocket.


35 posted on 04/05/2012 12:45:34 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
panicked voters running in his direction with the type of stupidity we’ve seen out of him in the past couple of weeks.

Problem is, a large percentage of American voters are dimmer than a 5-watt nightlight in a warehouse at midnight. With the "media's" collective nose firmly planted up Obama's backside, who will inform them they're authorized to panic?

36 posted on 04/05/2012 12:46:38 PM PDT by ScottinVA (A single drop of American blood for muslims is one drop too many!)
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To: Mustang Driver
OK, the bench was thin. President Bush forgot to develop an heir.

Some of us think he has way too many actually.

37 posted on 04/05/2012 12:48:27 PM PDT by throwback (The object of opening the mind, is as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.)
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To: Persevero
All he’s got to do is approve the Keystone pipeline and some drilling here and there, lay off the coal plants, chip away at welfare, cancel Obamacare - all of which I do believe he’ll do if elected, and I am not a Romney cheerleader.

I hope you are right.....but I've little confidence in Romney..and the GOP.

38 posted on 04/05/2012 12:48:27 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The MSM is the most dangerous entity in the United States of America.)
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To: PSYCHO-FREEP
Oh, I am sure that our side is much more determined to prevent another 2008 McCain sleep fest. You can bet that we will come out swinging and countering every bit or propaganda Obama can sling.

I don't believe that Romney and the RNC will ever attack Obama as fiercely as they attacked Newt or Santorum. The attack on Newt in Florida was over the top and I don't believe Romney will come close to that when the general election rolls around. He'll be wary of making the moderat middle mad.

TS

39 posted on 04/05/2012 12:50:30 PM PDT by The Shrew (www.wintersoldier.com; www.tstrs.com; The Truth Shall Set You Free!)
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To: Persevero
cancel Obamacare -

all of which I do believe he’ll do if elected, and I am not a Romney cheerleader.


Except his campaign staff have said alternately that they intend to keep parts of the bill and also to implement Romneycare at the state level across the whole country.

So who are we to believe, your hope, or his campaign staff.
40 posted on 04/05/2012 12:51:09 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
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