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Don’t Run, Mitt. Don’t Run
Townhall.com ^ | January 26, 2015 | Shawn Mitchell

Posted on 01/26/2015 12:18:28 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Mitt shouldn’t overlook an important reason for not running. He won’t win. Either in the primary or the general, he will lose. Political privilege isn’t enough. He needs political appeal, a little media flair, and he doesn’t have it.


21 posted on 01/26/2015 1:01:21 PM PST by pallis (I like white people)
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To: Kaslin

Thank you for the column, this is it exactly. America would be in much better shape if he had won, but he is not the right guy for 2016 now that so much damage has been caused by Obama.


22 posted on 01/26/2015 1:04:26 PM PST by Tamzee (Man is not free unless government is limited. ~~~ Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kaslin

I agree. Mitt’s time has passed. I’ve always thought that if he wanted to run he should run for Senate again. His latest statements on climate change and minimum wage totally disqualify him in my book.


23 posted on 01/26/2015 1:05:43 PM PST by Maelstorm ("I would rather die standing than to live on my knees" Stephane Charbonnier cartoonist Charlie Hedbo)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t Run, Mitt. Don’t Run
Don’t Run, Jeb. Don’t Run
Don’t Run, Marco. Don’t Run
Don’t Run, Huckabee. Don’t Run
Please Run, Cruz. Please Run.
Please Run, Walker, Please Run.
Enough damned Rino crap.


24 posted on 01/26/2015 1:09:14 PM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: Kaslin

I’m fine with MIT running. Just look at all the Money and votes he’ll take away from Bush and Christie.


25 posted on 01/26/2015 2:33:59 PM PST by libstripper (")
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To: Lakeshark

RIGHT ON!!!


26 posted on 01/26/2015 2:35:15 PM PST by libstripper (")
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To: manc

Since none of them wants to back down, I say let them all fight it out and split the RINO vote and money.


27 posted on 01/26/2015 2:37:02 PM PST by libstripper (")
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To: Kaslin

Don’t run Jeb, don’t run.


28 posted on 01/26/2015 2:40:44 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Kaslin

Yeah well don’t go encouraging him..

If you don’t want Willard to run then just say so..

don’t go kissing up to him..

Y’all’ll confuse the po lil liberal..


29 posted on 01/26/2015 2:46:38 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: ansel12

Agree, no one like him gets to where he is by being a good person. there has been a lot of people screwed over and Bush family can piss off too.


30 posted on 01/26/2015 2:58:47 PM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: manc

Plus they would not be fund raising for and supporting democrats to defeat republicans like he did, and fund raising for Planned Parenthood, wanting gay Scout leaders and being so passionately pro-abortion as him, and promoting gays in the military decades ago, and introducing gay marriage to America, and so on.

He is like a lot of horrible people, nice clothes, soft mannerism, and a good haircut, and he never personally does anything to show bad manners in public, so he seems “nice” to many.


31 posted on 01/26/2015 3:09:59 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: ansel12

Ansel12, the primary reason that most good people will not even consider getting involved in politics at any level is because they don’t want to be attacked by people spreading hateful lies about their character and their past.

I do not know what level of involvement you have working with politicians. Because of fund raising activities my wife and I have been deeply involved with for the past several years for the USO and other charitable organizations, we have had a lot of direct contact. Some of them are not people who we have much of a desire to befriend, but most even those many we don’t agree with are generally civic minded people with many admirable qualities. We have known politicians even at the federal level who have been deeply hurt and offended by those who make statements about them that we have known for a fact are completely untrue.

I have never met Mr. Romney; I hope that he chooses not to run for president again... but I do not believe that he is a “foul and despicable person” of “low character and low morals, and a pathological liar.” I have however been reading your posts for several years now and have found them to be offensive on many occasions on a variety of topics. With your nearly constant level of highly vitriolic hyperbole; it makes it nearly impossible to tell whether what whatever it is you are currently ranting about has any actual merit.

Most of the time I simply skip over anything that I realize has come from your keyboard. If you hadn’t made a direct response to my post... I would simply have ignored you this time as well. I am very hopeful that your tone here is not representative of your actual demeanor in real life. If it is I am very sorry for you.


32 posted on 01/26/2015 3:19:41 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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To: Kaslin

Mr.Romney you simply are not trusted.
That sir is the heart of the matter. You and your team of highly paid consultants miserably failed to earn the trust of the majority of the grass roots people you need to win.

You not only lost their trust Mr. Romney, you burned and buried thinking that it did not matter, money would overcome its loss, and you would float into the White House on wave of campaign donations. Unfortunately for you dollar bills do not vote, people do.

To be blunt, your wasting everyone’s time Mr. Romney. No one trust you other then those whose paycheck you sign.


33 posted on 01/26/2015 3:32:36 PM PST by M.A.Meddybemps (Remember Mississippi! Eh-Yup!)
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To: fireman15

LOL, you don’t seem to know anything about the man.

Instead you launch into nasty little personal attacks that are pure nonsense, no wonder you can’t judge good character, you lack it yourself, don’t you think you should instead be defending your despicable worm of a man? If you have been as knowledgeable about politics as me and others here, then you know that he is a pathological liar, just as I told you in that post.

You can also look at post 31 for a hint of more.


34 posted on 01/26/2015 3:37:38 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: fireman15

Since you ignore your own tag line, perhaps you can look up why Romney is a pathological liar, perhaps why he said that he and his father marched with Martin Luther King, or why he has the character flaw of having a compulsion to lie, which he has demonstrated so often during his life.

Compulsive liars have serious issues, a compulsion to dishonesty for one.


35 posted on 01/26/2015 4:07:30 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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...hateful lies about their character and their past.

TRUTH is that:

1. Romney stated clearly in front of a microphone that he believes that a pregnant minor who wants an abortion but whose parents refuse consent, has the "right" to go to a judge and have him overrule the parents.

2. Romney was a supporter of Gay Youth Pride and his signature is on official proclamations endorsing their "outreach" to kids as young as sixth grade.

3. Romney stated clearly in front of the press that he believes that two homosexual men "who love each other" should be able to adopt children, i.e., the government has a right to prevent adoption agencies from telling those two gay men, "Absolutely NOT because you're gay! We're not entrusting our precious kids to your charge!"

You can pretend that these documented indicators of his character are "hateful lies," but you are only lying to yourself. Face the truth about Romney and OWN IT.

36 posted on 01/26/2015 4:26:50 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: ansel12

Oh, Ansel12, I expected nothing less from you. I am very sorry that you feel that my response to you was a “nasty little personal attack”.

If you would go to the trouble of re-reading my original post you would see that I said his recent statements make him “look like either a gullible idiot or someone who panders to the liberal agenda.” Does this sound like someone “defending your man”? I am sure that he has said a lot of other stupid things over the years. However you have made so many hateful allegations over the years about various topics that turned out to be false that I simply don’t bother trying to check them out any more.

My point to you, and this actually is meant as constructive criticism... is that your inflammatory comments can be counter-productive. You would probably be taken more seriously if you could tone it down a little.


37 posted on 01/26/2015 4:30:51 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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Why don’t you quit lying an man up?

For one thing show us a few of those many statements that you claim are hateful, and were proven false, I would like to see those.

On this thread, why won’t you show me the “inflammatory statements” that you have proved false so far?

So far, you attack, but you can’t defend Mitt Romney, why is that?


38 posted on 01/26/2015 4:37:04 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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Ansel12, thank you for continuing to make my points for me. I will repeat that I have made no comments here defending Mitt Romney about anything. You illustrate perfectly why it is best to choose to ignore your comments. You manage to lower the level of discourse in any discussion to a level of nasty name calling. I do not think that makes you a valuable addition to the community. But Congratulations! You have done it again!


39 posted on 01/26/2015 4:45:39 PM PST by fireman15 (Check your facts before making ignorant statements.)
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I think that there is a lot of evidence that he is a good person,

Evidently not, and your method of personal attacks in defending him on this thread, has shown why you would approve of such a despicable man.

40 posted on 01/26/2015 4:55:57 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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