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Knowing What You Know Now, Would You Have Backed Romney From The Primary?

Posted on 10/16/2012 10:52:22 AM PDT by SarahPalin2012

Or would you have still backed Cain/Gingrich/Santorum/Christie/Palin (whoever your choice was from before or during the primary). I think it's an interesting question. Mitt wasn't my first choice, but am glad that he is doing so well. Would you now prefer Mitt over another who may or may not have done as well? Of course, I myself am a completely committed supporter of Mitt Romney since the primary was decided.


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To: greatvikingone

It don’t matter He is the nominee!!!


21 posted on 10/16/2012 11:01:48 AM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: goldstategop

I’d say rebuilding our navy, reversing defense cuts, backing Israel, standing up to Russia and China- are damn BIG differences.


22 posted on 10/16/2012 11:01:49 AM PDT by Andrei Bulba (No Obama, no way!)
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To: SarahPalin2012

Even Snarlin Arlen Spector would have been a better President than BArry Zerobama... and he was a turncoat and a moron..


23 posted on 10/16/2012 11:02:38 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius

Great Line Up


24 posted on 10/16/2012 11:03:43 AM PDT by mpackard (Read my Lip-Stick)
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To: goldstategop
NO! I won’t for that flip-flopping liberal - either back then or in November. Heck, I’m not even early voting! Why? I can’t stand Mitt Happens. He’s no conservative. He’s a RINO with the R beside his name.

Being in a swing state,if Osama Obama saw your post and was able to contact you he'd invite you to visit the Oval Office where he'd offer to perform an unnatural act on you...right in that little kitchen down the hall.

25 posted on 10/16/2012 11:03:45 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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To: SarahPalin2012

Absolutely not. I’m voting total Conservative on the entirety of the ticket - writing in or voting third party where applicable.

Conservatives were sold out by the Ruling Class, I refuse to be bullied or forced into voting for the presented choices of a Democrat Socialist or an Anti-Colonial Marxist.

If the country wants Leftists to run the oligarchy - they can vote for it without my help.


26 posted on 10/16/2012 11:04:05 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SarahPalin2012

No. Willard was last on my list. Ron Paul was next to last on my list...


27 posted on 10/16/2012 11:04:27 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: SarahPalin2012
Knowing what you know now

What am I supposed to know now?

28 posted on 10/16/2012 11:05:04 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: humblegunner
Uh.. those last two... They didn't run. Did you know?

Dude, please read the whole question. It says "before or during the primary" -- most of us had preferences before anyone was actually running.

29 posted on 10/16/2012 11:05:48 AM PDT by SarahPalin2012
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To: SarahPalin2012
Piece of cake;

In the last debate, replace Mitt with Newt.

But Romney has redeemed himself and calmed any fears I may have had.

Romney held his own, gained ground and has the enemy surrounded.

What will a cornered rat do?

THAT'S the question.

30 posted on 10/16/2012 11:06:53 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: Andrei Bulba

Gingrich comes across WAY more positive than Romney. He had a definitive vision for America that was something you wanted to follow and help make happen.

But time has a way of putting perspective on what is important.

I still do not like Romney and do not trust him, BUT between the disaster brewing in the middle east and our own impending economic disaster which candidate is more likely to keep freedom and liberty intact when the whole world goes crazy? And it IS going to go crazy within the next 4 years.

Romney is no absolute guarantee, but there’s a much better chance we will still have a Constitution after his term rather than a guarantee we will not with Obama.

Mormons also as a generaization believe in preparing for bad times and in defense when necessary. Aside from my beliefs as a Christian about his mortal soul, we are choosing a President not a pastor.

So the choice is clear. If we want an economy and if I want to be able to feed the family and still have a home a couple of years from now Romney is it.


31 posted on 10/16/2012 11:06:53 AM PDT by Advil000
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To: SarahPalin2012

Nine months ago I would have said there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Romney and Obama. Today I know that the 9cents worth of difference is enough for me to work for Romney and for O’s defeat.


32 posted on 10/16/2012 11:07:14 AM PDT by all the best (`~!)
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To: SarahPalin2012
No, but he has so far turned out to be a far better general election candidate than I expected. But I did not start out thinking the man had bad character. Just that he was the choice of the Quisling go along to get along party establishment and that this election was and would have been an opportunity to elect a genuine Conservative and Constitutionalist.

The primaries are like family squabbles. Hot and fierce within the family but when outsiders put their nose in everybody lines up (or should) to give them a good a** kicking. I cannot think of a single Republican I would not prefer over what's in the White House and running the Federal executive agencies now. Guess that makes me a YDR: Yellow Dog Republican.

33 posted on 10/16/2012 11:07:15 AM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: SarahPalin2012
Knowing What You Know Now, Would You Have Backed Romney From The Primary?

No. Romney is better then I had hoped but he was not my first choice. Or my second or third or fourth come to that.

34 posted on 10/16/2012 11:07:53 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Fate plays chess and you don't find out until too late that he's been using two queens all along)
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To: SarahPalin2012

I was actually a strong backer of Perry from the beginning. Looking at the vicious tactics used by the obama team, the media and the left — I don’t think Perry would have been able to out debate obama. He’s probably too nice. I’m glad things turned out as they did.


35 posted on 10/16/2012 11:08:03 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: SarahPalin2012

Initially I was hoping Palin would run. When she demured, I supported Perry until it became obvious he was out of his depth. Then I supported Newt. I still think Newt has the best understanding of the issues and the best solutions. But in based on the current situation, I don’t think Newt or any of them (except maybe Palin) would be doing as well as Romney is now. In other words they probably would lose. So while my heart says otherwise, my head says it worked out for the best.


36 posted on 10/16/2012 11:09:01 AM 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: SarahPalin2012

No.

Cain. Or Newt (arrgh).

Romney is still just a vote against Obama.


37 posted on 10/16/2012 11:10:03 AM PDT by Little Ray (AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Andrei Bulba

IF he keeps those promises. I don’t think anything will change in 2013 with a Romney White House. If it does - I will be pleasantly surprised. But I follow what the guy will do - not what he says.

Talk on the campaign trail is cheap and is mainly for the gullible. My attitude towards Mitt Happens is - “verify, then trust.”


38 posted on 10/16/2012 11:10:10 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Gay State Conservative

I’m still right - conservatives have abandoned principle because they’re hungry for a win. I’m not sanguine and still have mine.


39 posted on 10/16/2012 11:11:43 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: SarahPalin2012

Yes, but I couldn’t have known it. But what I could have known if I had thought about it, was what someone posted recently: Mitt was too clean to be blackmailed and too rich to be bought and something else I dont recall right now. At this point, I think that counts for a lot, because his position on an issue could change in our favor, but his incorruptibility is permanent.


40 posted on 10/16/2012 11:12:06 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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