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Openly gay foreign-policy spokesman for Romney campaign resigns; Update: “He wasn’t under wraps”
HotAir ^ | 05/01/2012 | Allahpundit

Posted on 05/01/2012 4:45:34 PM PDT by izzatzo

Jen Rubin suggests(also, says he was forced out by anti-gay conservatives) that he quit in frustration, because Romney was too afraid of social conservative disapproval to let him speak for the campaign right now even though the OBL anniversary has pushed foreign policy front and center in the campaign. True?

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gay; resigns; romney
Mitt Romney steps in a big ol' cowpie. How many more of these missteps, i.e., revelations about his poor choices for staff/aides, etc. can he survive? This sort of thing shows him to be exactly who many of us think him to be.
1 posted on 05/01/2012 4:45:44 PM PDT by izzatzo
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To: izzatzo

I think Mitt got set up.


2 posted on 05/01/2012 4:48:11 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: izzatzo
Romney was too afraid of social conservative disapproval to let him speak for the campaign

Why would anybody sane (maybe that lets mittens out) choose a spokesman who he's "afraid" of letting speak?

3 posted on 05/01/2012 4:48:54 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: izzatzo

It’s a good-news thing. One less queer to deal with.


4 posted on 05/01/2012 4:49:08 PM PDT by Walrus (Can a president be impeached for stupidity?)
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To: izzatzo

If he wasn’t under wraps was he getting a pedicure, a facial or tanning?


5 posted on 05/01/2012 4:54:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Ich habe keinen Konig aber Gott)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better a queer than a muslim..


6 posted on 05/01/2012 4:55:33 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: Walrus

Also, in the respect that enough force was generated to make him resign. Someone has said that Romney will have to be “nudged” to the right. Maybe so, with a large battering ram and his resisting all the way. Let the “nudging” begin, we know what the alternative is.


7 posted on 05/01/2012 4:58:02 PM PDT by izzatzo (Just beat Obama.)
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To: izzatzo

Romney was too afraid of social conservative disapproval to let him speak for the campaign right now /

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The last two words above speak volumes. Right now means mittens won’t let him speak now, but if he’s nominated the poofter will be back.

Tells me mittens whole attitude towards conservatives will change if he is nominated. He will move farther left than people wish.


8 posted on 05/01/2012 5:09:29 PM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!!)
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To: izzatzo

Etch-a-sketch is working overtime.

Too bad, it doesn’t matter what caricature Romney draws for himself during the election, because that’s what it will be a caricature barely representative of the true liberal known as Romney.


9 posted on 05/01/2012 5:14:29 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: mardi59

“He will move farther left than people wish”

If he move any farther left now he’s going to fold in half.


10 posted on 05/01/2012 5:15:38 PM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: izzatzo

Notice how the never say who these anti-gay conservatives were? This smells like a setup. From what I gather, Mr. Rubin, has been a staunch Republican all along, and he has been “out” all along. So there was no reason for Romney to freak out if he thought the man could do the job.

This may a move to push all conservatives out of the GOP. We know the GOP-E wants us gone.


11 posted on 05/01/2012 5:20:05 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: RS_Rider

If he move any farther left now he’s going to fold in half.

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LOL I was hoping you would say “fall off the planet”.


12 posted on 05/01/2012 5:24:33 PM PDT by mardi59 (THE REBELLION IS ON!!!)
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To: Clock King
We know the GOP-E wants us gone.

I already left.

13 posted on 05/01/2012 5:27:01 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: izzatzo
Romney should have known better than to hire this guy now. 6 months from now he maybe coulda' done it, but not right now.

Anyone half aware of the 2006 campaign remembers the Democrats and their Mark Foley and Senator Craig news stories ~

The Republican party can't afford more of that ~ we don't want to lose Congress.

Let me say this about the whole thing ~ if Mitt actually knew any Republicans besides the big money guys ~ like if he maybe knew some people who were Country Clubbers, or maybe TEAPartiers, or possibly traditional Establishment, or Conservatives, or even a couple of Libertarians ~ you know, the kind of people you run into in the management branches of the Republican party, he'd already have known what the problem in hiring this guy was.

Not that he's a bad man, but the American public does not vote for Republicans who push the homosexual agenda ~ even though it'll vote for any Democrat who thinks all that stuff is OK.

Mitt was engaged in an act that would ultimately LOSE THE WHOLE DARNED ELECTION!

I"m very worried about this guy being so tone deaf to politics ~ he's just not there.

The big money guys ought to reconsider their investment ~ they bought their boy, but he's an idiot ~

14 posted on 05/01/2012 5:46:11 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: dfwgator; Clock King
This business with the gay guy PROVES Romney really doesn't know any Republicans in which to confide. He has a staff of McCain cast off professionals, but they aren't Republicans ~ and certainly not Conservative.

They all acted like this VERY DANGEROUS act was nothing ~ didn't say a thing.

No candidate who endangers every single election this year can be allowed on the ticket!

15 posted on 05/01/2012 5:50:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: izzatzo
>"Romney was too afraid of social conservative disapproval"

Too little, too late, baby killing spawn of satan.

No vote from me!

16 posted on 05/01/2012 6:18:36 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: muawiyah
The big money guys ought to reconsider their investment ~ they bought their boy, but he's an idiot ~

They know exactly what they are getting - a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control liberal from Massachusetts pretending to be a Republican.

You see, in their world, somebody like Sarah Palin or Newt Gingrich can't beat a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control liberal from Chicago.

No, they believe that if you want to beat a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control liberal from Chicago, you need to find your own pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control liberal.
17 posted on 05/01/2012 6:49:15 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: izzatzo
he had superior qualifications for the position

Dealing with Islamic countries?

18 posted on 05/01/2012 7:28:57 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
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To: dfwgator

I honestly believe (for today at least) that the GOP is just the “relief valve” for those of us who won’t accept the collectivist NWO program. It’s become just another form of control.


19 posted on 05/02/2012 9:26:34 AM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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