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What the Romney boomlet says about the establishment GOP's feeble 2016 field
theweek.com ^ | 9/29/14 | W. James Antle III

Posted on 09/29/2014 8:38:47 AM PDT by cotton1706

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To: svcw
I didn't say Romney was a conservative.
I don't believe Romney would accept a VP position. However He has experience and organizational skills that Cruz has not demonstrated.
Cruz is a very smart man and he knows that he has to have people that can make the trains run on time.
I am not aware that Romney spends the majority of his press time trashing conservatives.

How about a Cruz/Walker ticket?

21 posted on 09/29/2014 11:11:34 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: oldbrowser

Haven’t thought about it.
Waiting to see what happens in November.
I think you are giving Romney to much private sector credit, he has a political record.


22 posted on 09/29/2014 11:19:39 AM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: oldbrowser

I believe, at this moment anyways. that either Cruz or Walker will be the nominee.

Whoever wins it needs to play for the long haul. That means looking 16 years out and bringing in a good Conservative as VP, someone who can pick up the standard and run with it down the road.

Right now I’d lean towards a Walker/Cruz ticket. On the basis of Walker having more exec experience, and on Senators generally not running all that great at the top of tickets.


23 posted on 09/29/2014 11:20:47 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: svcw
Clinton is a straw dog, she’s never going to run. Her baggage is BAGGAGE. With the new grand baby, and her obvious health issues she has a reason not to run.

I think Hillary would be a disaster for Dems who need young people to vote and Hillary is not appealing to that group.

24 posted on 09/29/2014 11:24:26 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

She is going to run. Expect John F’n Kerry to be the best man.


25 posted on 09/29/2014 11:26:48 AM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: oldbrowser
If Cruz were to win, I guarantee he picks a RINO squish like Romney as his running mate.

If he wins, he will need to (and want to) unite the party. I am looking forward to the head explosions that will occur on FR if he wins.

26 posted on 09/29/2014 11:27:24 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark
If he wins, he will need to (and want to) unite the party. I am looking forward to the head explosions that will occur on FR if he wins.

If anybody can bring everyone together it will be Cruz.
The trolls will be working overtime if he tries it.

27 posted on 09/29/2014 11:32:41 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: oldbrowser
If he wins, and I hope he does, I will genuinely enjoy watching him pick his running mate.

Among other things, he's really smart, will want to win, and I guarantee a fun show around here when he goes about actually winning as Reagan did.

28 posted on 09/29/2014 11:38:24 AM PDT by Lakeshark
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To: eyedigress

Hillary won’t run.

The fake Indian will, as it meets the Dems requirement that their next candidate can’t be criticized, and if they are, the critics can be called racists.

It has worked wonders for Obama.


29 posted on 09/29/2014 11:42:20 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Liawatha is no Obama.


30 posted on 09/29/2014 11:54:01 AM PDT by eyedigress (e(!zOld storm chaser from the west)/?s)
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To: oldbrowser

Yes, Romney has actually won an election and was a failed one term governor.

He was a dismal failure and had to give up running for reelection and left with 34% approval, hardly the record that means we should make him the governor of the nation.


31 posted on 09/29/2014 12:05:31 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: 1Old Pro

There are two maybe three people in this world Clinton appeals to.
Her very new granddaughter, her daughter (amazing how close a new mom becomes to her mom) and even Bill, now that they are grandparents together and don’t have to be husband and wife.


32 posted on 09/29/2014 12:47:03 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: ansel12
He was a dismal failure and had to give up running for reelection and left with 34% approval, hardly the record that means we should make him the governor of the nation.

Politics aside, I was thinking of his experience in the business world.

33 posted on 09/29/2014 3:13:15 PM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: svcw

Hmmmmm......... not so sure about that. I think Hillary still wants to be the first female POTUS.


34 posted on 09/29/2014 3:55:05 PM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: oldbrowser

Let’s talk about choosing a president, “politics aside”?

Mormon rich kid gets richer with Mormon teamwork, big deal, but my interest is in his ability to lead and govern in an executive political office, he was a dismal failure.


35 posted on 09/29/2014 3:57:16 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Maceman; All

No more voting for RINOs ever, under any circumstances. Period.
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But...but....but.... a lot of folks on this website, our FReeper family members, demand that we still vote for McConnell, Cochran, Graham......... Oh my! What to do? If I don’t vote for the RINOs I’ll be called a traitor, a troll and...... nasty, nasty, names. Now I’m confused.


36 posted on 09/29/2014 3:59:54 PM PDT by Din Maker (I've always been crazy, but, that's the only thing that's kept me from going insane.)
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To: cotton1706
--- That may seem hard to believe given how the establishment dominated the Tea Party in this year's Senate primaries. ---

It's the incumbency, stupid.

37 posted on 09/29/2014 4:10:06 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Din Maker

As a woman, I am telling you everything changes when you have your first granddaughter
Children change much, grandchildren change things on steroids PLUS she has serious health issues


38 posted on 09/29/2014 4:58:28 PM PDT by svcw (Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
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To: cotton1706
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero (Ancient Roman Lawyer, Writer, Scholar, Orator and Statesman, 106 BC-43 BC)


39 posted on 09/29/2014 8:16:32 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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