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Bennett Says Romney Compared Tea Party to Ferret
Fox News ^ | August 23, 2012 | By Todd Starnes

Posted on 08/23/2012 7:28:51 PM PDT by RaisingCain

By Todd Starnes Former U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett said Mitt Romney once compared the Tea Party to a ferret

Bennett was a three-term senator from Utah who was ousted at the state’s GOP convention by conservatives.

The Time story recounts a conversation between Bennett said Romney shortly after his ouster.

He said Romney related what he believed to be an apocryphal story about getting bitten by a ferret he had tried to rescue from a dishwasher.

“Mitt said the Tea party people are like that ferret in the dishwasher,” he said in the Time Magazine report. “They’re so frightened and angry, they’ll even bite Bob Bennett, who’s trying to get the country out of this mess.”

The story was adapted from “The New New Deal,” a book written by Michael Grunwald.

Bennett’s office did not respond to calls seeking comment.

Romney campaign spokesperson Andrea Saul did not confirm or deny Romney made the comments.

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mittromney; rino; teaparty
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To: Windy City Conservative

“It doesn’t matter whatever ridiculuous things Romney said in the past, or how ever many TARP bills and bailouts Paul Ryan voted for. Todd Akin is now the biggest threat to the nation.”

Yes. Ann Coulter hates him. That settles that.

Hate Todd Akin, because O’Donnell isn’t running this time.


61 posted on 08/23/2012 8:13:39 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (Voodoo Republicans. Don't read their lips. Watch their hands.)
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To: RaisingCain

I have no reason to not believe Mr. Bennett. After all most if not all of the GOP-E dislike conservatives in general and Tea Party members in particular. No surprise here.


62 posted on 08/23/2012 8:14:27 PM PDT by Tupelo (Republicans, ...Are any of them worthy of my vote?)
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To: RaisingCain
I thought Jim was pretty clear that this wasn’t a GOP website, but a conservative one. I’ve seen nothing to suggest that I’m supposed to lie and claim Mitt Romney isn’t a mush, pathological liar and progressive. That’s your job.

They hate the truth don't they? Don't you know your suppose to hold your nose and vote for the liberal, close your eyes and pretend he's not for abortion and gay adoption/marriage, pretend you can't hear romney’s lies.....just get in line and obey the gop or the romney lovers will intimidate you. You know the gop & romney campaign sent their henchmen out to the blogisphere to keep people in line. They are to treat those conservatives like liberals treat the right. Too bad we could give a %#@& what they post or think. They really should be on mormon.com or iloveromney.com or don’tboeyGod.com or obeythegoportheleftwillend the world......

63 posted on 08/23/2012 8:14:46 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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64 posted on 08/23/2012 8:15:50 PM PDT by 1035rep (Obama: "I killed Bin Laden" ...you didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.)
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65 posted on 08/23/2012 8:19:23 PM PDT by 1035rep (Obama: "I killed Bin Laden" ...you didn't do that. Somebody else made that happen.)
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To: RaisingCain

Umm no.. I am actively working to oust Obama.. Unlike you who has a relentless anti-Romney/pro-Obama agenda.


66 posted on 08/23/2012 8:22:39 PM PDT by jb729
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To: RaisingCain

Mitt does’nt know a ferret from a democrat...one thing he’s on is that he pulled Paul Ryan...he’s kinda like a John McCain...thing is the country has already saw the hope and change BS...Paul Ryan will take the hair over the top!


67 posted on 08/23/2012 8:25:01 PM PDT by hope
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To: GregoTX

You forgot “Tea Baggers”


68 posted on 08/23/2012 8:27:24 PM PDT by funfan
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To: 1035rep

Not really. Same disgust. How about you? Did you get are shivers when the horse was dancing in London. Like that?


69 posted on 08/23/2012 8:31:42 PM PDT by marygonzo
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To: RaisingCain
Last time I checked, about a minute ago or so, the Republican Primaries were over and Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican Nominee.

Is this another Obama and Romney were separated at Birth Thread? That Horse is not only dead, it has turned to dust.

If Romney thinks Tea Party folks are Ferrets, and he fears Ferrets, that's a good thing. Then again, the whole thing is beyond silly with Lord Obama currently at the helm.

Everything else pales in comparison to giving Obama four more years. We can deal with Romney's RINOness next year.

70 posted on 08/23/2012 8:32:02 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Republicans Hope people are Smart, but Democrats Know people are Stupid.)
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To: PhiloBedo
...those angry ferrets that take over the House and Senate are going to keep your sorry, moderate ass in line.

The ferrets may try but the GOPe won't. And I'm afraid the ABO people, if Romney is elected, will just keep saying, well he's better than Obama, he's the lesser of 2 evils. They'll go along to get along.

Another problem is IF the ferrets Do stand against Romney on issues that provides fodder for the socialist left to sweep back in in 2016.

I was at the Ryan rally in Pittsburgh this week. I like him, support him and think he would make a fine president. On the way in I was speaking with someone and mentioned that I though Ryan would make a great president. hHe responded , no you mean Romeny. I shot back no, I'm thinking ahead.

He didn't get it. The mostly GOP audience wouldn't either. They were there for Romney and were "tolerating" Ryan and the Tea Party ferrets.

As far as I'm concerned the GOPe can take a long walk on a short pier.

71 posted on 08/23/2012 8:40:31 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: RaisingCain

So, you want the Obama/Biden ticket to be re-elected over Romney/Ryan?


72 posted on 08/23/2012 8:44:59 PM PDT by swpa_mom
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To: RaisingCain
Mitt Romney endorsed Bob Bennett:

And Mark Levin endorsed Orrin Hatch, who is nearly identical. Politics makes strange bedfellows indeed.

73 posted on 08/23/2012 8:49:24 PM PDT by montag813
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To: RaisingCain

He is not comparing the Tea Party to a ferret. There was a story there: he compared the Tea Party to the frightened ferret he tried to rescue from the dishwasher but bit him. The very person trying to help the ferret bit because it is frightened. Romney was just trying to make an old friend feel better about his loss in the primary. Tea partiers are frightened, but not like they don’t know what they are doing by getting rid of RINOs.


74 posted on 08/23/2012 9:02:03 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Tennessean4Bush

Bennett is a RINO extraordinaire, and he is saying what they all say. That we are emotional, not logical, not enlightened enough to appreciate the RINOs. Screw them and Mitt Romney.


75 posted on 08/23/2012 9:03:31 PM PDT by RaisingCain
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To: RaisingCain

The Tea Party are like bitter ferrets, clinging to pots, pans and spatulas in a dishwasher.


76 posted on 08/23/2012 9:06:47 PM PDT by JediJones (Too Hot for GOP TV: Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Allen West and Donald Trump)
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To: RaisingCain
Please send your invoice for 'services rendered' to:

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Please include copies of your recent posts so that payment
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77 posted on 08/23/2012 9:09:39 PM PDT by mkjessup (0bama squats to pee.)
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To: marygonzo; netmilsmom; Admin Moderator
I’m Lost. Are you a baby killer?

Watch your step n00b.
78 posted on 08/23/2012 9:13:30 PM PDT by mkjessup (0bama squats to pee.)
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To: Lurker

It sure seems that way at times.


79 posted on 08/23/2012 9:23:35 PM PDT by swpa_mom
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The tea-nacious ferret I presume.


80 posted on 08/23/2012 9:36:14 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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