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Crowning Romney backfires on Fox News and RNC as Delegates, Voters say NO!
RightonWeekly ^ | 4/20/2012 | Tamara Heater

Posted on 04/20/2012 8:01:23 PM PDT by katiedidit1

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To: entropy12; Flightdeck; Nik Naym
Romney made his money by breaking up companies and selling the parts and not by restoring them to health.

Romney has no idea how to cut spending and the size of government. He raised taxes and fees by 300% in Mass and passed a state version of cap and trade. Even Obama didn't get that passed.

There's no difference between them.

The Romney Economy

It is arresting to imagine a Romney White House, inevitably filled with as many former Bain colleagues as each of his other public ventures have been: The ­PowerPoints, the 80-20 jargon, the clinical separation of decision-making from ideology, the detachment of those decisions from moral consequence, a persistent blind spot for people as people. It would represent the final ascension of a perfectly American type, one that has already remade the culture of business. I once asked a Bain colleague of Romney’s how Romney thought of his own core competence. “I think Mitt thinks he’s good at being Mitt Romney,” the colleague said.

141 posted on 04/21/2012 11:43:48 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Friends don’t let friends vote RINO.


142 posted on 04/21/2012 11:46:09 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: DJ MacWoW; Flightdeck; Nik Naym

If it is that simple to make money by breaking up corporations, are you going to have a go at it?

I am sure you are lot smarter than Romney, so should have little trouble making $260 million for yourself.


143 posted on 04/21/2012 11:49:22 AM PDT by entropy12 (Winning is the only thing...coach Vince Lombardi. Losers in elections have zero power.)
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To: entropy12; Flightdeck; Nik Naym
The point is that he didn't make his fortune saving anything. What in his background makes you think he can save the economy? Higher fees and taxes? Parceling off companies? Romney agreed with Obama taking over and destroying two car companies. Neither man saved anything.
144 posted on 04/21/2012 12:01:38 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: entropy12
Please name one or two candidates who can win nomination and general election.

Tough to say. I think Gingrich and Palin could both do what Romney can't - motivate Conservatives to get out and vote, since many Conservatives aren't going to vote for somebody like Romney who really should be running with a (D) next to his name. Conservatives know the thread Romney presents to this country.

Gingrich could also take on Obama head-to-head. Romney can get easily flustered, and unlike in the primaries, nothing will be off limits in the general election. Romney really hasn't had the kind of pressure brought to bear on him that will happen in the general.

The most pressure Romney has had was as Governor of Massachusetts, and he bailed on that when he figured out he couldn't win again. I dread the thought of Obama praising Romney in a debate for inspiring him to come up with Obamacare.

There's still time to find somebody that is not going to wreck this country like a Romney administration would.
145 posted on 04/21/2012 12:13:31 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: Jeff Head
If I have to vote for Romney it will be for the preservation of our Republic long enough to get someone in there who can make a real difference. I honestly am concerned that with Obama we will not have that opportunity.

If Romney somehow gets the nomination, with all of his baggage and wacky religious views, he's not going to bow out in 2016 for your mythical person "who can make a real difference" and furthermore, if Romney somehow won re-election, something he's proven that he's not good at, in 2020 he's going to make damn sure to support somebody just as liberal as he is, that's assuming he doesn't turn it over to a Democrat. We need somebody who is going to put the brakes on socialism, not somebody like Romney who is going to take us down that road even further.

Since 1988, we've had George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and John McCain - a 20 year string of liberals who have either lost to Democrats, increased the cost and size of government and then lost to a Democrat, or increased the size, power, cost, and intrusiveness of government and then helped turn it over to Obama.

Willard Romney would not only be continuing that streak, but he would be much more liberal than the two Bushes, McCain, and Dole, and he would be working to ensure that people just as liberal as him permeate the federal government and the leadership of the GOP.

The GOP establishment has hurt this country when it comes to Republican Presidential candidates since 1988.

A vote for a liberal with an (R) next to their name is still a vote for a liberal, and I'm done bending over and spreading for the GOP in the hopes that things will improve in the next election. I've been hearing that crap for decades now, and here we are and Romney is more liberal than any other candidate in the last 24 years.

The GOP establihsment doesn't give a damn about you or me, and they are going to work against our interests. The sooner you wake up and realize that, the better. Picking the lesser evil is still picking evil.
146 posted on 04/21/2012 12:26:21 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: katiedidit1

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147 posted on 04/21/2012 12:40:11 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (the DNC/RNC = D.C. Establishment...Brazilian saying: $AME OLD $H!T, W!TH D!FFERENT FL!E$. :^)
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To: onyx
I’m willing to storm the convention and willing to get arrested...LOL.

I hear ya, but they can't arrest 3 million of us!

I absolutely love this idea.

148 posted on 04/21/2012 12:46:01 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: lu shissler
Exec orders cannot violate the law, but Congress can pass a new law to make a particular exec order obsolete. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration… Remember how Newt accomplished wonders during the Clinton presidency. IF we gain the senate and house we can BLOCK much of Obama's legislation! do NOT let exec. orders scare you...the RNC is scarier. Rattle their cages! send them a loud message!
149 posted on 04/21/2012 12:56:35 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: JerseyDvl
I am saying the way to save conservatism begins at the grassroots level. Gain control of the senate, maintain control of the house and do what Newt did during Clinton's presidency. Block Obama's legislation. It is congress that writes the laws..the president executes them. Exec orders cannot violate the law, but Congress can pass a new law to make a particular exec order obsolete. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration…
150 posted on 04/21/2012 1:01:52 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: Flightdeck

Flightdeck, remember what Newt accomplished under the very liberal Clinton’s term; balanced budget, contract with America; welfare reform and the gop revolution. WE can do it with a republican controlled senate and house. Obama can be blocked.
We would still send the RNC a clear message and take back America via grassroots movement. We don’t need Romney to turn things around..we need control of the senate and house.

RE: Exec orders cannot violate the law, but Congress can pass a new law to make a particular exec order obsolete.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration…;


151 posted on 04/21/2012 1:07:54 PM PDT by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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To: 867V309
I think it's our best chance.

Friend, I couldn't agree with you more.

Yours is an idea that can put the patriotic right back in the position of CAUSE. Lately, too many of us have been feeling like we've become the total effect of what the ruling class has manipulated us into.

This is perhaps one of the best suggestions of an effective way that we can fight back, that I've seen. Heck, we might even win.

Kudos to you.

152 posted on 04/21/2012 1:08:58 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

New tagline ...


153 posted on 04/21/2012 1:10:39 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Romney's role, if elected, is to consolidate Obama's socialist gains.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Yup! Good one!


154 posted on 04/21/2012 1:12:50 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: caww
None of the Elites of either party want this to go to convention....and that's the battle now fought behind the scenes and playing out as we go.

Which is why I like the idea of getting just 1% of the patriotic right (3 million people) to the convention in Tampa to chant, "NO Mitt!"

The elites would buckle, and we'd have a chance of getting a real conservative for our nominee.

155 posted on 04/21/2012 1:28:42 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: caww

Sorry, that would be 1.2 million.


156 posted on 04/21/2012 1:30:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: entropy12
Conservatism is hardly a one-issue movement. There are several major elements in this coalition that serves as the backbone of the larger Republican coalition.

The candidates identified as "Conservative" covered all the main threads of thought and all the issues. The Republican Establishment (a small faction better known 50 years ago as "The Presidential Republicans') did coalesce around their latest candidate ~ Mitt Romney.

You'll notice, though, that throughout the election period Mitt usually didn't get much beyond his basic 22% to 30% but there were several Conservatives who did nearly as well, or even better!

The dominant force in the Republican coalition is Conservative, not Establishment, not TEAParty, not former Democrats parading as newly minted Republicans.

You add up the Conservative vote and they have about 65% of the total votes.

Romney and his propagandists may well fool some people into thinking that his minority position is sweeping the Republican rank and file but the vote totals to date prove him to be little more than a fringe candidate with little support.

Party professionals should have noticed by now that when Mitt ran against himself in the screwy Virginia primary 1,000,000 voters disappeared!

That's some serious SH**.

You can't win an election against even Obama if you can't get supporters to show up ~ which, of course, is the point of a primary election season ~ to see if you really have supporters or simply propagandists.

WIth Newt, there is no "there" there.

WIth Each and Every One of the Conservative Candidates, they proved they have supporters in depth ~ and for a lot less cost than the Mitbots!

Conservatives proved they can coalesce, and the transplanted New York City vote in Florida really shouldn't be anyone's guideline in this election.

157 posted on 04/21/2012 3:13:15 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
Excuse ~ with MITT there is no "there" there.

Newt has supporters in excess, even people who voted for Santorum AND/OR the crazy old geezer ~ good ol' what's his name !~

158 posted on 04/21/2012 3:45:33 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: dirtboy
McCain had some redeeming features. Mitt has none.

McCain was a bridge too far. Romney is a plunge into the political abyss.

159 posted on 04/21/2012 5:23:03 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (Romney's role, if elected, is to consolidate Obama's socialist gains.)
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To: katiedidit1; All
Speaking of Polls:

RNC establishment strategy: Publish no poll numbers; spread the word that Romney is the nominee; have people vote based on blackout and misinformation expecting Romney to win big; then hit hard with Romney’s wins and Newt’s losses to bully Newt into dropping.

Please do yourself the honor of reviewing actual polls by doing a Google search for “2012 Republican presidential polls (name state)” and you will see why the RNC is using this tactic. Then spread the word!

Obama with the dem-media complex, millions of dollars, sycophants everywhere in the media, versus Mitt Romney with the entire conservative media capitulated behind him, his millions, and NEWTON LEROY GINGRICH is only 7 points behind Obama in the lastest Rasmussen tracking?

General gingrich polling

THEY WANT YOU TO THINK IT'S HOPELESS...

GOT PHONE? Make calls into DE this weekend for Newt:

www.phone.newt.org

www.grassroots.newt.org - Great new grassroots site for Newt, lots of people there doing lots of different things for Newt... Jump in!

www.newt.org

www.newt.org/donate

DOWNLOAD NEWT GINGRICH’S CONTRACT WITH AMERICA http://www.newt.org/sites/newt.org/files/images/downloadbrochure.png

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YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!

160 posted on 04/21/2012 5:32:46 PM PDT by true believer forever (GO NEWT! On to Tampa - hang tight - we can do this!!)
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