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Romney: Cabinet won't be ‘filled with academics and politicians’
ABC News ^ | July 10, 2012 | Holly Bailey

Posted on 07/09/2012 8:05:11 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Mitt Romney still isn't talking about his search for a vice presidential running mate, but he offered some hints in a radio interview Monday about how he would staff his potential White House.

In an interview with conservative radio host Michael Medved, Romney said his potential Cabinet would be made up of people who have had "real jobs." In a shot at President Barack Obama, the Republican nominee said, "My Cabinet will not be filled with academics and politicians alone."

"It would be a very different lineup than the president has assembled. His team is almost entirely void of anyone with any experience in the business sector, in the private sector, that understands how the economy works," Romney told Medved. …

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Ugh; "different than" instead of "different from" . . . pet peeve.
1 posted on 07/09/2012 8:05:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

“Different from” also requires a “what.”

In this setting, “different than” seems to work OK. It doesn’t sound like a misunderestimated Bushism.


2 posted on 07/09/2012 8:08:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: Olog-hai

Romney’s cabinet will be filled with RINOs and Moderates eager to reach across the aisle and work with hardcore libs that gave us Obamacare.....


3 posted on 07/09/2012 8:13:57 PM PDT by Tzimisce (THIS SUCKS)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

it won’t be filled with anybody if he doesn’t start taking a stand except on platitudes . Who is running this tepid campaign?


4 posted on 07/09/2012 8:14:02 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: Olog-hai

It ain’t gonna be filled with anyone if you don’t start running, Ken.


5 posted on 07/09/2012 8:16:32 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: marygonzo

Mary welcome.

Now I say exactly the opposite. :D


6 posted on 07/09/2012 8:18:18 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: chris37

Maybe Romney is thinking about playing rope a dope with Obama until fall, then pouring on the power. He wouldn’t be the first Republican to do that. But he’s sure got a large potential audience of folks who would be very grateful to see him slap Obama around verbally for several months. It would energize his base better.


7 posted on 07/09/2012 8:20:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: Olog-hai

” - - - understands how the economy works - - - “

Yawn - - - . Wake me when the Romney Campaign and Combined Paint Drying contest is over.


8 posted on 07/09/2012 8:26:21 PM PDT by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Tzimisce
It's an improvement if we get rid of all the academicians and pontificators ~ so that's a start. Now, for some policies ~ Romney hasn't told us what he imagines it would be like for him to be in charge.

Hope he remembers that if he appoints a whole big bunch of Mormons we will get suspicious of his motives (even the Mormons would get suspicious at that point wouldn't they).

(snork)>

9 posted on 07/09/2012 8:29:23 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: Olog-hai

Is Romney supposed to name his entire cabinet and VP now, 4 months out? Have other presidential candidates have done this so early in the campaign?


10 posted on 07/09/2012 8:31:19 PM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Seriously, a guy without the Conservative base (that's a hard core 40% of all Republican votes) has really got to start slapping the snot out of Obama pretty soon ~ like last month or something ~ because he has to build a whole new following out of Democrat riff raff.

Starting the campaign after the Convention isn't going to work this time.

11 posted on 07/09/2012 8:31:25 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

What the LDS does behind closed doors is a mystery to me. Mitt is a high muckety muck in an organization that has tried hard in the recent past to put on a clean-living charm offensive. I.e. the Osmonds and such. But somehow they forgot to clue in the good bishop not to just fold like a coward to gay marriage in Massachusetts, or to impose adoption rules that many religious groups (for that matter, AFAIK, even clean living Mormons) couldn’t meet. The theology is hokum, I have no doubt. But surely you’d think they’d care about their image.


12 posted on 07/09/2012 8:34:10 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (let me ABOs run loose, lew)
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To: Olog-hai
I'd be satisfied with the few who could clean the office and render pigs...

...and maybe even wash the Siamese cats ...

13 posted on 07/09/2012 8:36:26 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Olog-hai

“In an interview with conservative radio host Michael Medved”

That was good for a chuckle. Snort, snort. Bwhahahahahahahahahaha.


14 posted on 07/09/2012 8:39:34 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: HiTech RedNeck

The average American, unfortunately, has the attention span of a gnat. He can get it through their thick skulls just how THOROUGHLY Obama has wrecked this nation and their future, but the fireworks can wait until later, even then he’s going to be competing with football and another season of “Real Housewives”. Decisions, decisions!/s;)


15 posted on 07/09/2012 8:48:53 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Olog-hai

It will be filled with his crony buddies (mostly Mormon like Mike Lee) and that is only if this idiot can win.


16 posted on 07/09/2012 8:52:38 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: muawiyah

even the Mormons would get suspicious at that point wouldn’t they

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No, they will just see it as further fulfillment of the prophecy and coming millennium when the LDS takeover the entire world government and Jesus rules from Missori (no, I am not kidding and yes, I can source that).


17 posted on 07/09/2012 8:55:03 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: Olog-hai

Romney should have stated that he would appoint to his cabinet capitalists, free marketeers and those who did paid their federal income taxes, unlike the Obama administration which was filled out with marxists and tax evaders.


18 posted on 07/09/2012 9:11:17 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: Olog-hai

Is Romney still running??


19 posted on 07/09/2012 9:27:11 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Olog-hai

Romney won’t be able to get any air time, because by the time he’s decided to start going for it, they’ll all be bought up by Obama or his thousands of pacs.


20 posted on 07/09/2012 9:34:13 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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To: Gator113
Is Romney still running??

Yes. In a surprise double-whammy Obama has named Romney as VP on his ticket; Romney is likewise expected to name Obama as his VP runningmate.
More at eleven.

21 posted on 07/09/2012 9:36:24 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Tzar
Oddly enough, that was the early election system. Before joint tickets, the second place candidate became VP.

I know that; but the again, we didn't have president/VP tickets either.

23 posted on 07/09/2012 10:06:50 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Dogbert41
Romney won’t be able to get any air time, because by the time he’s decided to start going for it, they’ll all be bought up by Obama or his thousands of pacs.

You mean like Romney did throughout the primaries? Somehow I doubt it. More likely he's waiting because it would be a waste of money now. Nobocy is paying attention. Besides, there will be plenty of third party ads attacking Obama.

24 posted on 07/09/2012 10:07:30 PM PDT by Hugin ("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
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To: OneWingedShark

As crazy as this election cycle has been, that wouldn’t surprise me.


25 posted on 07/09/2012 10:27:52 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Olog-hai

He actually used ‘different than’ in a subtly correct way:

http://www.uhv.edu/ac/newsletters/writing/grammartip2005.10.04.htm


26 posted on 07/10/2012 2:24:47 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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