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Was Mitt Romney Right About Everything? From Russia to Detroit, his fans say they’ve been vindicated
BuzzFeed ^ | 09/05/2013 | McKay Coppins

Posted on 09/05/2013 9:40:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind
“I wish he’d run again,” Zwick added. “He’s not going to. But if he did, I’d be right there.”

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I don't know what I'd do if he were to run again. Throwing myself in front of a bus comes to mind.

41 posted on 09/05/2013 10:13:27 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Demographics are destiny. Romney would have won if the population looked like it did in Reagan’s time. But that’s not today’s reality. And while there may have still barely been enough white people in the United States in 2012 to elect a GOP president, Romney wasn’t an energizing enough candidate to pull off the required perfect storm of suburban and exurban turnout - that needed to happen in the face of a tidal wave of media negative coverage.


42 posted on 09/05/2013 10:16:21 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
I think he would have really tried to take on the deficit using moderately conservative solutions.

The problem with that opinion, is that Romney's record as Governor doesn't support that opinion and that is really all we had of any substance to judge him by.

Add to that his penchant of always taking a different position on each policy issue dependent on who he was talking to or which direction the political winds were currently blowing and even the "moderate conservative" policy positions he was positing during the 2012 campaign season couldn't be honestly believed.

He was a completely horrible candidate where the GOP was concerned.

Wrong history, wrong policy position, could not be trusted.
43 posted on 09/05/2013 10:17:05 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SeekAndFind
Palin is being vindicated every minute of the day. Where are the accolades from the MSM or GOP?
44 posted on 09/05/2013 10:17:52 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: humblegunner
He had fans?

Sure he did. Karl Rove loved him. So did Paul Ryan when his turn came.

That makes it plural.

45 posted on 09/05/2013 10:18:33 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Army dad. And damned proud.)
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To: SeekAndFind; greyfoxx39; All
...his adamant opposition to the increasingly unpopular implementation of Obamacare ...

Oh, puh-leeeeeeeeze. Romney agrees in principle with the entire twisted, government-nanny anti-free-market philosophy that is the foundation of Obamacare!!!!

It is just one example of the vast hypocrisy and insidious deceit in this article and in Romney's entire career. He says one thing, and DOES another. Idiots like the author of this article are blind to that truth.

Romney is a vampire -- he needs a stake driven through his political heart, and THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN is to desert the Republican party. I have been registered in the Republican party since 1976, and I faithfully voted for its candidates from 1976 until 2012, when the party had the insane gall to ask me to vote against ALL of my own and America's moral and fiscal interests by "supporting" the placement of government-advancing tyrannical amoral (pro homosexual agenda, pro tax-funded abortion, pro environmental tyranny, pro nationalized health care) Romney in the White House. Voting for Romney would have been every single bit as nuts as voting for Obama. EVERY SINGLE BIT AS NUTS.

The Republican party, however, is completely oblivious to the fact that Romney is the antithesis of EVERYTHING I have been voting Republican for more than 35 years to oppose. As long as guys like Romney are tolerated, let alone promoted in in the Republican party, then the Republican party is the wrong party for me and the wrong party for America.

46 posted on 09/05/2013 10:20:25 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Mr. K
THE ENTIRE GOP opposition and EXPECIALLY the TEA party was right...

That is small consolation for losing to Obama because of a poorly run campaign.

Too bad the republicans spent most of the last presidential campaign fighting over Sandra Fluke and free condoms instead of driving home the truth about Obama:

His nonstop lies, wasting $900 billion in stimulus money by handing it over to his pals, bowing to his muslim rulers, stealing the equity from GM dealers and stockholders to give to his union buds, his multiple unconstitutional acts, Obamacare, Obamacare, Obamacare.....

The list is practically endles.

But republicans let democrats dictate the campaign agenda and they treated Obama the criminal with kid gloves.


47 posted on 09/05/2013 10:21:30 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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To: ilgipper
[Romney] was unquestionably the better option last year...

Absolutely false.

48 posted on 09/05/2013 10:23:07 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: A CA Guy
...I will not call Romney a bad guy or a homosexual. That IMO is a bit childish and not true.

Then you are woefully ignorant of the man Romney. You don't have to be one to worship sodomy, and Romney was a sodomy worshiper. He pledged to sodomize the Boy Scouts years ago. He performed a same-sex "wedding" in Massachusetts after he improperly implemented what the legislature would not. He is all for sodomizing our military, and we would have gotten the same result with Romney as with Obama.

And his pathetic response to a question as to his thoughts on the Chick-fil-A Day demonstration? "That's not part of this campaign."

Sorry, Romney was as leftist as Obama on this issue. He is the Father of Same-sex "Marriage" in this country.

49 posted on 09/05/2013 10:24:48 AM PDT by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone please tell me that this article is a joke. Romney says whatever it is politically expedient for him to say depending on who is audience is. As a result, he’s bound to be accidentally right now and again.


50 posted on 09/05/2013 10:27:28 AM PDT by Antoninus (Sorry, gone rogue.)
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To: A CA Guy

problem was he was a candidate that really did not care about becoming president... he probably would’ve been a very good president...


51 posted on 09/05/2013 10:27:35 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Uncle Miltie
RomneyCare

I rest my case.

A state mandate versus a federal mandate.

Still don't see the difference? One can move out of a state when one disagrees with the state's policies and laws and remain in the USA. What are your options when you don't agree with the federal government's policies and laws?

Not saying I think RomneyCare was a good idea even for my neighbors to the south, but I do think that different states having different policies is a very good thing.

52 posted on 09/05/2013 10:28:06 AM PDT by whd23 (Every time a link is de-blogged an angel gets its wings.)
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To: GeronL

That’s it. It was his blatant dishonesty. He pushed abortion for his entire adult life. Pushed gay rights. Pushed mandated big government healthcare. Pushed liberal judges. Refused to fight for conservatives or conservatism. Then he suddenly claimed he reversed positions on everything, yet he continued flip-flopping on his signature accomplishment. Big Government RomneyCare. He is as dishonest as they come. Will say or do whatever he thinks he has to say or do to get elected. When he stands smiling angelically on a stage bragging about his conservative credentials, he has “LIAR!” written in big bold red letters across his forehead.

He is an insult to conservatism.

Total fraud. Total loser.

By the way,in the debates when asked to list his conservative accomplishments his list had two items. Saved the Olympics, got married and raised a family. Most of what he accomplished as governor was liberal so he drew a blank.


53 posted on 09/05/2013 10:28:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Finny
Bump your #46.

The Republican party, however, is completely oblivious to the fact that Romney is the antithesis of EVERYTHING I have been voting Republican for more than 35 years to oppose.

I just recently dropped my republican voter registration.

54 posted on 09/05/2013 10:29:29 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Any organization that finds it necessary repeat over and over that they are "not a cult," is a cult)
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To: whd23

Romney’s ex-aides were in the room with 0bama designing 0bamaCare.

Romney COULDN’T attack 0bama’s greatest weakness BECAUSE ROMNEY WAS IT’S INTELLECTUAL FATHER.

Still don’t see the issue?


55 posted on 09/05/2013 10:29:49 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Are Marines required to salute Al Qaeda yet?)
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To: whd23

Conservatives do not push anti-free enterprise, anti-liberty big government mandated programs at any level of government.


56 posted on 09/05/2013 10:29:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Personally, I would LOVE to have Mitt and Ann in the WH right now.

Personally, I would HATE seeing the Republican party be responsible for nationalized health care, forced social acceptance of open homosexuality, more and more environmental strangulation of energy and food production (a Republican created the EPA, after all), and public funding of abortion.

If Mitt and Ann were in the WH right now, THAT IS WHAT WOULD BE HAPPENING under the REPUBLICAN banner.

I am glad Romney lost, I thank Almighty God that Romney lost, and the fact that conservative freedom-loving Americans were smart enough and righteous enough to reject the false promise and genuine THREAT, both moral and financial, that Romney represented, is a true sign of hope. We had the MORALITY to reject this amoral person even at the price of having to deal with an equally amoral DEMOCRAT doing the same.

57 posted on 09/05/2013 10:30:53 AM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: whd23; Uncle Miltie
Still don't see the difference? One can move out of a state when one disagrees with the state's policies and laws and remain in the USA. What are your options when you don't agree with the federal government's policies and laws?

That's just plain stupid!

Whether implementing Socialism, in this case socialized medicine, at the Federal or State level doesn't make it any better.

It's like the difference with being shot with a shotgun at close range and stabbed with a knife.

Both can kill you, but you'll probably die more slowly if you are stabbed.
58 posted on 09/05/2013 10:31:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: humblegunner
He had fans?

More like worshippers.

59 posted on 09/05/2013 10:31:15 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Any organization that finds it necessary repeat over and over that they are "not a cult," is a cult)
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To: fwdude
He performed a same-sex "wedding" in Massachusetts after he improperly implemented what the legislature would not.

Not actually true, so far as I can tell.

60 posted on 09/05/2013 10:31:33 AM PDT by x
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