Posted on 04/10/2012 6:18:50 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
It was just one line slipped into the middle of a paragraph of Mitt Romeny's speech on April 3 celebrating his primary victories in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia: “And the most vulnerable have been hurt the most — over 30 percent of single moms are struggling in poverty.” Seemingly unremarkable, these 19 words represent one of the many steps Romney will be taking as he treks back to the center in the aftermath of a primary campaign dominated by the hard right... Without drawing attention to his rhetorical shift, Romney, in a speech on March 30 at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc., abandoned his attack on President Obama’s “entitlement society,” faulting Obama’s “government-centered society” instead. There is a powerful rationale behind this shift. In the primaries, Romney’s target audience was well to the right of the mainstream and deeply hostile to the notion of entitlement programs... In the general election, however, voters are less inclined to adopt hostile views of redistributive government programs.
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com ...
If he was any more of a RINO, he’d have a big horn on his nose...............
I wonder which end?................
Here’s another example of Mitt Romney’s plan to “move to the center” for the general election.
This is no longer a trial balloon being sent up by campaign staffers. Articles like this don’t run without clear indicators by the candidate to reporters that it’s the intent of the campaign.
It may well be too late to stop Romney, but the least we can do is make sure Republican voters know what they’re picking in the remaining primaries.
If you love Obama, you’ll like RINOmeny very much.
The vapid dork is exposing his vapid dorkiness.
Thank you, perdogg. I didn’t realize this was a duplicate.
Admin Moderator, I don’t know how to delete a thread I’ve started, or if that’s even possible. Can you pull or lock this, please?
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If you love Obama, you’ll like RINOmeny very much.
The vapid dork is exposing his vapid dorkiness.
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Sir! You insult vapid dorks everywhere. Vapid dorks are harmless.
Don’t set your hair on fire to support Willard.
See my tagline.
Nice! I won’t.
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