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Monday Morning (Noonan: It's Romney)
WSJ ^ | 11/5/2012 | Peggy Noonan

Posted on 11/05/2012 12:14:38 PM PST by RoosterRedux

Romney’s crowds are building—28,000 in Morrisville, Pa., last night; 30,000 in West Chester, Ohio, Friday It isn’t only a triumph of advance planning: People came, they got through security and waited for hours in the cold. His rallies look like rallies now, not enactments. In some new way he’s caught his stride. He looks happy and grateful. His closing speech has been positive, future-looking, sweetly patriotic. His closing ads are sharp—the one about what’s going on at the rallies is moving.

All the vibrations are right. A person who is helping him who is not a longtime Romneyite told me, yesterday: “I joined because I was anti Obama—I’m a patriot, I’ll join up But now I am pro-Romney.” Why? “I’ve spent time with him and I care about him and admire him. He’s a genuinely good man.” Looking at the crowds on TV, hearing them chant “Three more days” and “Two more days”—it feels like a lot of Republicans have gone from anti-Obama to pro-Romney.

Something old is roaring back. One of the Romney campaign’s surrogates, who appeared at a rally with him the other night, spoke of the intensity and joy of the crowd “I worked the rope line, people wouldn’t let go of my hand.” It startled him. A former political figure who’s been in Ohio told me this morning something is moving with evangelicals, other church-going Protestants and religious Catholics. He said what’s happening with them is quiet, unreported and spreading: They really want Romney now, they’ll go out and vote, the election has taken on a new importance to them.

There is no denying the Republicans have the passion now, the enthusiasm. The Democrats do not. Independents are breaking for Romney.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012polls; noonan; romney2012
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1 posted on 11/05/2012 12:14:38 PM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

The Champagne (Champaigne!?) is in the cooler.
Predicting an uncorking at 8:05 EST tomorrow evening.


2 posted on 11/05/2012 12:20:04 PM PST by frankenMonkey
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To: RoosterRedux

For a lift I just watch the Romney at Red Rocks clip.

It fires me up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKGCkZjjO8


3 posted on 11/05/2012 12:20:10 PM PST by nhwingut (Get out & Vote as if your life was on the line. Because it is.)
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4 posted on 11/05/2012 12:20:55 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Yes Toto, it's over!)
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To: frankenMonkey

I am buying my champagne tonight! I have a good feeling about this.


5 posted on 11/05/2012 12:22:23 PM PST by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: DoughtyOne

: )


6 posted on 11/05/2012 12:22:45 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker ((God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.))
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To: DoughtyOne

Without Christie’s abhorrent stunt, this one would be a slam dunk.

I honestly hope he never wins another election as long as he lives.


7 posted on 11/05/2012 12:25:25 PM PST by comebacknewt (Newt (sigh) what could have been . . .)
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To: DoughtyOne
Chipping in and getting your hands dirty on behalf of those with losses caused by Hurricane Sandy.

In between photo ops...


8 posted on 11/05/2012 12:25:38 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Yes Toto, it's over!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Wow, first it was fringe Dick Morris, then Main Stream Barone, yesterday it was pessimist George Will, and finally it is “Jump on the Bandwagon” Noonon. Things are looking good.


9 posted on 11/05/2012 12:27:14 PM PST by MNDude (OWS Movement RIP)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

:^o


10 posted on 11/05/2012 12:27:48 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Yes Toto, it's over!)
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To: comebacknewt

You may be right. I think it was tight already, and his comments didn’t help, but probably didn’t hurt that much either.

I think he screwed up, but he had been going all day and had a lot of constituents dead or in very serious trouble.

I’ll cut him some slack.

I haven’t been a big fan of him for the last six months or so. He didn’t strike me as a bedrock Conservative.


11 posted on 11/05/2012 12:30:20 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Yes Toto, it's over!)
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m all for “Morning in Amerca”.


12 posted on 11/05/2012 12:33:40 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RoosterRedux

This is coming from Peggy Noonan, who has had her lips pressed firmly on Obama’s behind for 4 years now..she is calling this election for Romney its because she KNOWS its in the bag for Romney


13 posted on 11/05/2012 12:34:14 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: RoosterRedux

In honor of Mitt’s ability to appeal to a full spectrum of voters, I wil have a fresh pot of coffee. It didn’t escape my attention that the media has spoken to coffee manufacturers and coffee shops who wonder if Mitt will take away their businesses because he’s Mormon. They stop at nothing. They’re nuts.


14 posted on 11/05/2012 12:36:05 PM PST by FryingPan101 (2016 looms)
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To: DoughtyOne
That pic don't look so bad.Fore Dune is still there and no washed out structures.

Power? One should be prepared to provide one's own for a week or two.

15 posted on 11/05/2012 12:36:06 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: RoosterRedux
Tell me what's worse then this guy dressing up on Halloween?

IMO, it's him being dressed up, and it wasn't for Halloween.

New pajama tops..., lookin' good Barry. Dream on...

Really fills that thing out doesn't he. /s


16 posted on 11/05/2012 12:37:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Yes Toto, it's over!)
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To: Paladin2

I agree.

Water
Food
Power

The area didn’t look that bad, but I’ll bet there’s a lot more water damage than what we can see.


17 posted on 11/05/2012 12:40:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Oh oh oh... ooooh ooooh. Yes Toto, it's over!)
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To: RoosterRedux

I am putting together a play list of songs for Wednesday morning (if things go well). So far I have:

“Zippety Doo Dah” (from Disney’s song of the south)
“Oh What a Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma
“Hit the Road Jack (Barack)” Ray Charles
“Celebrate” Kool and the Gang


18 posted on 11/05/2012 12:41:18 PM PST by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: FryingPan101
Sounds good, I think I'll make a pot myself, with some of that egg nog I bought from the store, and then I'll listen to Sean Hannity and walk the dog.

Wednesday, it's back to the job search, and I hope and pray that businesses will start hiring again with the threat of an Obama administration gone.

19 posted on 11/05/2012 12:41:26 PM PST by erod (I'm a Chicagoan till Chicago ends...)
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To: DoughtyOne
Providing one's own power is a sustainability issue.

Providing for yourself and your near neighbors is the history of America.

20 posted on 11/05/2012 12:43:55 PM PST by Paladin2 (Posting a response is still an issue.....)
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