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Yes, Romney Was the Problem
realclearpolitics.com ^ | November 27, 2012 | Steve Baldwin

Posted on 11/29/2012 7:55:36 AM PST by Resettozero

The GOP establishment and some conservative pundits, such as Ann Coulter, are in full defense mode, claiming that Romney is not responsible for losing to an incumbent responsible for perhaps the most damaging fiscal crises in our nation’s history. Don’t believe it. Romney IS responsible for wasting a billion dollars to carry out an issue-free campaign full of simple-minded platitudes. Indeed, Coulter is leading the charge with her recent column titled, Don’t Blame Romney. It’s sweet to watch Coulter defend her darling Romney, but let’s get real.

The reality is that Romney was one of the worst GOP presidential candidates in modern times. He was not the first choice of most conservative voters but he managed to rise through the ranks in the primary due to conservatives being split 4-5 ways, but also due to a slew of endorsements from conservative leaders and groups that had no business endorsing him – such as Ann Coulter. Repeatedly, Coulter assured conservatives that Romney was one of us and that he would be the “best possible candidate” to face Obama. But as any conservative from Massachusetts knew, Romney was a liberal at heart who, as Governor, led the nation in passing three of the left’s most sacred issues: Same sex marriage, Cap and Trade, and government control of health care.

But the Romney forces were clever. Beginning in 2004, they created a half dozen PACs to give money to conservative and GOP entities all over the country. I’ve reviewed these disclosures and hundreds of GOP and conservative entities benefitted from Romney’s largess. In other words, he bought the support of many “conservative leaders” and used that support to give himself “cred” among conservative voters. It was a phony image though and it’s shameful that so many conservative leaders went along with this ruse.

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KEYWORDS: aristocracy; boughtandpaidfor; failure; gope; gopestablishment; gopoligarchy; romney; romney2012; unelectable
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To: Darksheare
-->>With Romney meeting Obama today forunknown reasons, it’s starting to smell like a thrown election.

Same thing happened before the Florida republican primary. HW Bush and Jeb Bush in the oval office with the marxist. It sent shock waves to the base.

81 posted on 11/29/2012 9:09:43 AM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. Our nation's foundation is under attack.)
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To: Resettozero

Coulter still needs to own up to a simple question:

Why did you endorse Romney so early in the primary season?

Seriously, if not the first pundit to endorse Romney, she was one of the first. And given the litany of things he had previously *done*, not promises for future action, why did she support him? She knew that he was in no way a conservative, and it was pretty obvious that he was two-faced, so his promises meant nothing.

Did she think he would give her a cabinet post? Did she handicap the race and figure he was the only Republican with a chance to win? Is she Karl Rove’s love slave?


82 posted on 11/29/2012 9:10:50 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
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To: DManA
The fact that when cornered you run away speaks volumes.

Yeah, it means you bore me and I've lost all interest in discussing it with you.

83 posted on 11/29/2012 9:11:00 AM PST by softwarecreator
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To: Darksheare

Ah yes, I was specifically told by a RINO poster, the delegates want obama out and it will happen so mitt doesn’t need my vote. And I guess he didn’t need Newt or Sarah at the convention either.

The lesser of two evils did succumb to the greater evil. Gee, who wunda thunk? And now they wonder if Romney was the problem? LOL!!

Next time might the light with a GOOD vs. EVIL? Not a chance with the unteachable.


84 posted on 11/29/2012 9:12:25 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Christie at the beach

“Romney lets you win so Jeb can run in 2016, right?”

I can just imagine the deal making.
If people don’t get it yet that Rinos will always sell out given the chance, they will never understand it and will always be blindsided by it.


85 posted on 11/29/2012 9:12:47 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
->Why did you endorse Romney so early in the primary season?

Without, some of the people like Rush, Hannity, she would not be where she is. She is the Gop operative that does what they say because her money comes from those people who pull her strings. Money moe money..

86 posted on 11/29/2012 9:15:51 AM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. Our nation's foundation is under attack.)
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To: presently no screen name

“Ah yes, I was specifically told by a RINO poster, the delegates want obama out and it will happen so mitt doesn’t need my vote.”

I remember that conversation.
That was one of several talking points pushed out at us that week.
THEN they came back to bully us about it later.
And they continue with the canard “Well, you wanted Obama, enjoy it!”
No, we didn’t want Obama.
The question is: Did Romney really want to win? And did he want to win against Obama as badly as he wanted to win against other Republicans?
Apparently not given the results.
Especially since obvious vote fraud went unaddressed.

Wonder if he’ll come out of his meeting with Zero today and go, “There’s nothing to fear from an Obama second term”?


87 posted on 11/29/2012 9:16:43 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Resettozero

Coulter is out of the closet as a RINO that talks tough and acts tough like a hypocrite/actor and likes to bully various specific liberals for show..

Shes ALL TALK no action.. at least Maher puts his money where his mouth is.. She is a disgrace.. NO GRACE.. NO COURAGE.. Shes playing a role.. doing Kabuki Theater..

AND ITS NOT FUNNY... in the least..
She and Maher are doing “GOOD Liberal, BAD Liberal” on the conservatives..
AND the conservatives generally are BUYING IT... I AM NOT...


88 posted on 11/29/2012 9:16:58 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Well, it’s over now. Time to move on.

Trapped Behind Enemy Lines = MOVEON.ORG

If you liked Romney, of course you are deeply disappointed. If you hated him, you can celebrate his loss.

What an idiotic statement - it's not about Romney - IT IS ABOUT AMERICA!! WHO WAS BEST for AMERICA! And not who is next with the greatest campaigning funding to smear a PATRIOT!

The gop handed America over to the lesser of two evils! And it got whipped by the greater evil. And THE PATRIOTS voice of reason was snuffed out.

89 posted on 11/29/2012 9:23:31 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: hosepipe
She and Maher are doing “GOOD Liberal, BAD Liberal” on the conservatives...

Yes, and she is not (never was) attractive to me in any way. Spare the pics from now on. Please?
90 posted on 11/29/2012 9:26:51 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: softwarecreator

Romney was a big part of the problem, I didn’t think he could win and I wanted a Conservative however I supported him with time, money and effort. Now those who said he couldn’t win appear to be right. Those who supported Romney for the nomination including the RNC will say Newt or another Conservative couldn’t have won either but we’ll never know.

Election fraud is more than we realize, early voting everywhere and absentee voting in some states are some of the main sources of fraud and then there are the states with no photo ID law, registering when you vote, no real proof of who you are to register in some states. With the democrats in control does anyone believe any of this will get corrected? Also consider the election day the cheating and intimidation, even in Texas naacp allowed in polls campagning, moving some to front of line so they will have more time to either campaign or go to other precients to vote again, or just get back in line. The democrat ground game is to cheat and their target is the swing states.

I don’t believe my vote will ever count as a whole vote and I don’t have any faith in our election process anymore or any part of the government to fix it.


91 posted on 11/29/2012 9:27:29 AM PST by duffee (Romney 2012, NEWT 2016)
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To: hosepipe

She lives a lifestyle like a protected ... queen. Hides in trench coats but I do see her in Publix. Does not bother me that she is wealthy and protected but it bothers me in how she has played those who trust her so devotedly. It takes all kinds to make the world go around. She is not the only one either who plays the game. Political operatives are quite financially set. At least, Carville works for his team.


92 posted on 11/29/2012 9:27:29 AM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. Our nation's foundation is under attack.)
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To: Darksheare
it’s starting to smell like a thrown election.

Romneycare vs obamacare. Same sex marriage vs. same sex marriage. abortion vs. abortion.

ALL BY DESIGN - squash the conservatives first starting in '08 with the help of the media.

93 posted on 11/29/2012 9:29:24 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Exactly.
Doubt the rino squishes will see it.


94 posted on 11/29/2012 9:32:56 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Darksheare
-->>I can just imagine the deal making.
If people don’t get it yet that Rinos will always sell out given the chance, they will never understand it and will always be blindsided by it.

So very true.. to go along w/theme, we have H. W. Bush says that Bill Clinton is a son. It seems like they know; then we go through the motions. I wonder how they see this. Very odd sickness, if true, what must go on behind the curtain.

95 posted on 11/29/2012 9:36:11 AM PST by Christie at the beach (I like Newt. Our nation's foundation is under attack.)
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To: DManA; softwarecreator

Yep. Beware of those who ‘speak the right things’ and then get cornered when they go off teleprompter and speak from the heart.


96 posted on 11/29/2012 9:36:11 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Mr. Jeeves
And I think the situation will be so bad that Jeb will handily beat whoever the Democrats put up,

That was the *thought* in this election w/Romney- I think you are stuck on what does NOT work.

97 posted on 11/29/2012 9:42:37 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Mitt Romney knew it was his turn, and gosh darn it all to stitches, he DESERVED the chance.

In that he resembled Bob Dole, running what turned out to be a hopeless campaign, staying on just one narrow message, and never, ever, calling out Bronco Bama directly for the many misjudgments and blatant failures over the prior three and a half years.

Fast and Furious, Benghazi (while mentioned in passing, not hammered on NEARLY enough), Keystone pipeline, shutting down ALL extraction and exploration in the Gulf after one spectacular blowout (which wasn’t even the biggest oil spill ever) and putting the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” into law with ZERO input from Republicans. Of course, we should not let the dance on Osama bin Ladin’s execution go unremarked here, including the “spike” that resonated so badly among the now reconstituted Al Qaeda network.

And in this we should include the other target of opportunity that Mitt Romney did not even touch upon, Harry Reid, who never failed to direct the most scurrilous attacks continuously at Mitt himself.

Of course, the mutual admiration society of Bronco Bama and Chris Christie, following Superstorm Sandy, gave Bronco Bama just that little boost he needed to go over the top, when voter fraud might not have been enough by itself.

But all this is Monday-morning quarterbacking, and spin all the fantasies we want, we shall never overturn the outcome of November 6, 2012.

We can, however, make that “victory” sound pretty hollow, by a little “civil disobedience” and turning the Saul Alinsky tactics back on the now entrenched executive and legislative obstacles to exerting the principles of the American Ideal.

Remember that exchange between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they were cornered on the edge of a cliff overhanging a river, and the proposal was offered that they should jump - the objection from Sundance Kid was “I can’t swim.”

To which Butch Cassidy replies, “Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill ya!”

History does not record whether either one or both managed to come out of the water downstream. But legends live on....


98 posted on 11/29/2012 9:42:53 AM PST by alloysteel (Bronco Bama - the cowboy who whooped up and widened the stampede.)
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To: Christie at the beach

We will see how loud the Rino squishes get come next election cycle.
Dollars to donuts says they do the same thing next time around that they did this time around.

I’m willing to bet that what goes on behind the curtain would anger the populace enough to take to the pitchforks and torches.
BUT, we will never see it.


99 posted on 11/29/2012 9:43:07 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free.....)
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To: Resettozero; All

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No. Romney was NOT the problem.
We could not have won if we put up Jesus Christ himself as candidate.

Polls indicated that Romney was going to win the election. The economy is close to Great Depression era conditions, and unemployment is almost as high as when Obama entered office.
Economic conditions became so dire after Obama took office it prompted the rise of an entire new movement, the Tea Party.
Presidents rarely win reelection when the economy is in the tank.

Mitt knew he had won also when thousands turned up in that parking garage to cheer as he arrived at that airport unannounced. He put his hand over his heart and said ‘That’s how you know you’ve won.’
And he did.

So how did Romney lose a race that numerous reputable polls and pundits predicted would be an easy win, based on historical patterns?

Massive voter fraud.

Romney lost because of this, not any other reason.
Nobody could have won against the fraud planned and perpetrated by the Obama Machine.
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The Republicans- and even the Tea Party, apparently, are too cowardly to speak up against massive voter fraud.
It is up to We The People to get this election overturned.
If we bend over and take this, we will never have another
honest election. Conservatives/Republicans are finished.
We are no better than a banana republic.

It is time we stop blaming Romney, arguing and pointing fingers, trying to figure out how to suck up to minorities and DO something.

Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.

There are massive reports of criminal activity
(not mischief, not shenanigans, as many term the fraud- but CRIMINAL ACTIVITY) going on all over the U.S during the presidential election.
Reports of machines changing votes from Romney to Obama, eyewitness reports of Republican poll watchers who observed busloads of non-English speaking Somalians in Ohio being instructed to vote Obama- the list is endless.

We can not wait for 2014 and 2016 to regroup and figure out new strategies. By then it will be too late. The Marxist/Muslim usurper will have completed his planned distruction of America.

That’s what people fail to understand.

Col Allen West; “I don’t want to see America become like Zimbabwe where people don’t trust their electoral process. If we cannot trust the integrity of the voting system then we are no longer a free republic.

Col West has opened the door.
It’s now up to We The People.

http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/

The evidence is overwhelming!

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/11/video-eyewitness-of-somali-muslim-voter-fraud-in-ohio-by-obama-camp.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-aVy_s76ZY

https://www.facebook.com/lori.patriot/posts/404694619604138

http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-stole-the-election/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?

feature=player_detailpage&v=LbOtYQceBxI-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Hbf3iaEbAuY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dmJtaOO2etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ILJDudUpct0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_rMpQKqZhM

http://obamavoterfraud.blogspot.com/

http://newtgingrich360.com/profiles/blogs/obama-stole-the-election

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/election-fraud-obama-won-more-than-99-percent-of-the-vote-in-more-than-100-ohio-precincts

http://appalachianforums.com/forums/Dickenson_County,_Virginia.pl/md/read/id/255145

http://beforeitsnews.com/election-2012/2012/11/stolen-election-evidence-is-mounting-everything-points-to-stolen-votes-2446928.html

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/adding-up-the-evidence-to-a-stolen-election/

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/allen-west-mitt-romney-and-the-massive-voter-fraud-machine/

http://www.truethevote.org/news/how-widespread-is-voter-fraud-2012-facts-figures

http://foxnewsinsider.com/tag/voter-fraud/

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/01/voter-fraud-is-no-myth-its-more-common-than-you-think/

http://thewillcountynews.com/?p=415

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4279497/obama-stole-election/

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/the-big-list-of-vote-fraud-reports/

http://townhall.com/columnists/rachelalexander/2012/11/11/obama_likely_won_reelection_through_election_fraud/page/full/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/11/333-000-Votes-in-4-Swing-States-Would-Have-Given-Romney-the-Presidency

Accuracy In Media

The Left’s national voter fraud strategy exposed:

http://www.aim.org/special-report/the-lefts-national-vote-fraud-strategy-exposed/

Thousands of military votes uncounted or missing:

http://www.examiner.com/article/cast-aside-thousands-of-votes-from-our-military-troops-uncounted-or-missing

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/09/17/vote-fraud-alert-one-out-of-five-registered-ohio-voters-is-bogus/#.UJsjsmjNq5x.twitter

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/volpe/complaint-filed-over-illegal-alien-voters/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/chicago-source-tells-author-brad-thor-obama-campaign-planning-to-proclaim-early-victory-to-demoralize-romney-supporters/

http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/05/brit-hume-on-presidential-polling-theres-something-wrong-here/#ixzz2BSER1mKj

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/obamas-army-of-illegal-election-workers/

http://mvpproject.org/in-the-news/va-military-absentee-ballots-going-awol-in-2012/

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/03/Dozens-of-Romney-Voters-In-Colorado-Complain-Machines-Changed-Votes-To-Obama

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/11/03/breaking_naacp_takes_over_polling_station_advocates_for_president_obama_at_houston_polling_location

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/02/claims-increasing-switched-votes-in-ohio/

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/more-electronic-voting-machines-changing-romney-votes-to-obama-we-looked-into-it-and-heres-what-a-vendor-told-us/

http://www.marionstar.com/article/20121031/NEWS03/310310009/Problem-found-board-elections?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57550603/citing-high-number-of-rural-black-voters-maine-gop-chair-suspects-improprieties-at-the-polls/

http://www.naturalnews.com/037952_vote_fraud_Philadelphia_elections.html

Demonstration- voter machine hacked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4FPuLNjvAc&feature=youtu.be

http://politicaloutcast.com/2012/11/allen-west-mitt-romney-and-the-massive-voter-fraud-machine/#ixzz2CJk9QHHE

http://www.barackofraudo.com/

Go to http://www.facebookcensorship.com and see the documentation of their censorship and harassment.

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What you can do:
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Visit these sites:

The Competent Conservative: Here’s What You Can Do:

http://thecompetentconservative.com/elections-have-not-yet-been-certified-heres-what-you-can-do/

WND: How Obama Can Be Stopped In The Electoral College:

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/how-obama-can-be-stopped-in-electoral-college/

The Competent Conservative: Here’s What You Can Do:

http://thecompetentconservative.com/elections-have-not-yet-been-certified-heres-what-you-can-do/

http://www.ObamaVoterFraud.com/

Most of ‘Obama Voter Fraud’ activity is moving to FaceBook.
‘Obama Voter Fraud Volunteers
http://www.facebook.com/#!/ObamaVoterFraudVolunteers

‘Obama Voter Fraud’ on FaceBook-
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Sign the petition- over 99,000 and counting -cards, email
http://www.petition2congress.com/8222/petition-recount-on-2012-presidential-election/

Another petition, The ‘We The People’ petition has 60,000 signatures and counting-
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/recount-election/ZQmy0Mlv#thank-you=p

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100 posted on 11/29/2012 9:44:13 AM PST by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN)
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