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Romney leads in Fla., but obstacles loom large
boston.com ^ | January 29, 2012 | Michael Kranish

Posted on 01/29/2012 7:20:17 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

MIAMI - Florida’s voters effectively ended Mitt Romney’s presidential dream four years ago. He won in only about one-third of the 67 counties, gained the support of only 9 percent of Cuban Americans, rejected advice from local advisers, and misplayed the ideological landscape.

Now the political battlefield, the issues, and the competition are different - but the stakes in Tuesday’s vote are even higher as the one-time front-runner battles to regain his primacy against the candidate who has emerged as his chief challenger, Newt Gingrich. After Romney was sent reeling by Gingrich’s victory a week ago in South Carolina, he has used a barrage of attacks in debates and television commercials to pull ahead in several recent Florida polls.

In order to win, analysts said, Romney must find a way to pick up support in what are considered several states within the state. There are swaths of traditionally conservative areas that may be most hospitable to Gingrich; condos filled with snowbirds from the north and Midwest that could be tilted to Romney; economically distressed suburbs and cities along the state’s midsection that are up for grabs; and a Hispanic community that is diverse and divided.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cuba; florida; gingrich; mittromney; newtgingrich
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To: 4Runner
Wall Street Journal
41 posted on 01/29/2012 9:41:17 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: trebb

Just wish them a “Merry Christmas”. That pretty much shuts them up.


42 posted on 01/29/2012 9:44:08 AM PST by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: COBOL2Java

The muslims call it taqiyya!


43 posted on 01/29/2012 9:45:03 AM PST by Lady Lucky (A tea party in name only is worse than no tea party at all.)
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To: trebb
Exactly. Satan always uses something good to drawn people into his deception. He covers/wraps his deception into something good and members being part of it, they are unknowingly part of his lie. They are now in bondage to satan willingly whether they know it or not. And ignorance isn't an excuse for as God says, My people suffer for a lack of knowledge. They will suffer for not believing Him alone but man. But they will suffer because of their own decision.

And that's what mitt is doing. First claiming to be a conservative HA HA! and then even a republican - when his record is liberal. So he's deceiving those who aren't grounded in good beliefs also. He should never be on the R ticket - he and his ilk defames it. But that's by design.

What was once considered good - Grand Old Party - is now tainted BIG TIME. And they align themselves with the left - almost like they are one but keep some split ONLY for appearance sake to gather more in. We want to leave it because it left us because evil invaded it, also, as evil evades anything good to destroy it.

John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly." The thief being satan vs. God, the spirit of God. The thief stealing our God-given rights, our economy, our children through liberal education. What was once abundant, prosperous has faded. America was abundant-everyone wanted to come to America, now they are reducing it down - as even our credit rating is down. Who else but the R have been pro American. Now, even those who claim conservative are not either as evil has invaded that, also.

IMO, the GOP E really means the GOP Evil.

44 posted on 01/29/2012 10:14:10 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: 4Runner

Yes, he was in Florida last night on stage with Newt and Col West and he endorsed him. There was a live thread on it last night.

Newt gave an AWESOME speech!


45 posted on 01/29/2012 10:17:20 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: 4Runner

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839522/posts

Here is one thread where you can hear his speech!!


46 posted on 01/29/2012 10:20:43 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

Prayer Thread for the country:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839468/posts?q=1&;page=1


47 posted on 01/29/2012 10:22:43 AM PST by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: MissMagnolia

Thank you, MM - this is MUCH needed!


48 posted on 01/29/2012 10:24:19 AM PST by presently no screen name
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To: presently no screen name

I am starting to think the real reason they hung Ceaucescu is not because he was a tyrant but because he paid “his” national debt, a big no no.

Many commies I see support Romney over Obama - or at least in appearance, because you never see what resignated suicidal people they are anyways in private. They are pragmatics. They say Romney made his own money, not Obama, and they do not want to go back to the misery of Ceaucescu types Occupy Wall Street.

Romney is a narcissist and that means that he is changing from a businessman in whom we would trust money to a political tyrant who is using money as a phallic symbol of his own attraction. That Romney and the GOP E is/are a penis and a greed, is obvious now.

I do not support Gingrich but the symbolics against establishment, the language... it puts their feet to the fire and reality.

The communist domino is falling all over the right. Obama being supported/defended by conservatives in the media was the big red flag.

It is my sincere belief, however, that money is not everything. ONce one is insane and with alzeimer, one is not liked. There is something about mental illness that frightens people. No matter how rich the douche bag is at the bar, how retardedly he uses money as a substitute for his temporary or permanent mental illness, he will still be shied away from, used and the mental sanity or understanding will prevail, even if it comes from a start-up pimp there.

In fact, a start up pimp in a bar will get accolades from the rich Romney and GOP E, and that is why these fools admire comunists.


49 posted on 01/29/2012 10:26:37 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: presently no screen name

Ping anybody you think would be interested - the fellowship of praying together is comforting & the power of prayer is amazing.


50 posted on 01/29/2012 10:26:47 AM PST by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
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To: swamprebel

I watched a Romney campaign event yesterday. He’s still saying Newt was “fined”.


51 posted on 01/29/2012 10:33:40 AM PST by freemarketsfreeminds
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To: CanadianBloodAmericanHeart

Obama will get him on the job fear factor and greed guilt big time.

Romney is DOA.

Gingrich is the ONLY ONE who can counter Obama as a personal record of his primary campaign on the Obama hypocrisy.

Tarp be gone:

No bailout, it never were about shutting factories.

But they want people to fear that.

Only Newt can express this, though he errs in interventionisms.

workers tread and tread... indeed... to the rise up, to the rise up, as a prop,

as a prop, to the party line hashing energy they cannot have. The worker

produces the propaganda like it produces shoes, without caring what it is for.

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Thus, the only thing Newt need to hone on the language is Reform! New shoes! Better looking factories! Better products!

Involve the worker in the sell of a good product he can feel good about, and not this Obama crap propaganda BS.

This is what the government should arbitrate (and not regulate) for.


52 posted on 01/29/2012 10:34:20 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: CanadianBloodAmericanHeart

Indeed, Romney’s faith philantropy will be mocked as hypocritical by Obama when Romney said “corporations are people too”, implying corporate greed was fine and that investing in the worker and products to sell was not.

Romney is DOA, liberals know it and the GOP E shoots itself.


53 posted on 01/29/2012 10:37:06 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: freemarketsfreeminds
Senior Citizens should know Romney was a Director of Damon Corporation (quest labs). During his watch, Damon Corporation was found guilty of the largest Medicare Fraud violation case of the 1990’s.

Medicare is currently insolvent partially because of practices like Romeny’s Damon Corporation

54 posted on 01/29/2012 10:45:20 AM PST by swamprebel (Where liberty dwells, there is my country.)
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To: presently no screen name
-- [Romney is] allowed to be a liar, he's been give the pass as if it's a good thing. --

I wonder if, in his mind, it's a "white lie."

-- Satan is the father of lies/deception and he deceived them, also. Good vs evil is a spiritual war. --

Yes, it is. I don't think Romney is on the side of "good" in that war. He appeals to the base side of humanity.

55 posted on 01/29/2012 10:53:56 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: presently no screen name
John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it more abundantly." The thief being satan vs. God, the spirit of God. The thief stealing our God-given rights, our economy, our children through liberal education. What was once abundant, prosperous has faded. America was abundant-everyone wanted to come to America, now they are reducing it down - as even our credit rating is down. Who else but the R have been pro American. Now, even those who claim conservative are not either as evil has invaded that, also. IMO, the GOP E really means the GOP Evil.

I also don't think that when it comes to leftists and those on the right, that the below is a coincidence. I believe the Left truly are the evil goats. Too bad that not all those who claim to be the sheep on the right act that way.

The Sheep and the Goats 31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ 37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ 40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ 41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ 44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ 46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”

56 posted on 02/03/2012 2:18:26 AM PST by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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