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Palin versus Obama for President in 2012? If so, the GOP will have an image problem (Poll to FReep)
The New York Daily News ^ | November 17, 2010 | Joshua Greenman

Posted on 11/17/2010 1:08:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: ansel12
LOL, you mean you trying to knock off the conservative frontrunner for the presidential nomination? Yeah, I will challenge that left wing type of activism.

You are REALLY over the edge with that comment. I'm stating my opinion, not trying to knock off anyone. Calling me a left wing activist is the worst kind of ad hominum attack...go back to DU with the rest of the disruptor trolls.

61 posted on 11/17/2010 2:37:46 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: 6ppc
When have conservatives been this well positioned to take the primary at this stage, and you want to defeat our frontrunner?

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62 posted on 11/17/2010 2:38:01 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: kcvl

He looks like a rubber chicken guy to me. A couple in his car, one hidden in his desk an a half dozen in his bedroom, located in the basement of his mothers house.

Yep, he’s got rubber chicken written all over him. LOL


63 posted on 11/17/2010 2:38:41 PM PST by Gator113 ("Don't touch my junk......")
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To: lady lawyer
I want the most conservative candidate who can win. Period.

Romney is just fine with you, and you prefer him to the conservative that is leading him in the polling.

64 posted on 11/17/2010 2:41:23 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: rbmillerjr

Hardcore Mitt supporters don’t drink.... it is against their religion.


65 posted on 11/17/2010 2:42:04 PM PST by allmendream (Tea Party did not send the GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism.)
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To: ansel12

I cut my teeth in federal court defending an abortion statute against an attack by the ACLU. I came late to my support for Romney because of his prior position on abortion. But, by the time I settled on someone enought to donate, he was the most conservative person left standing, who I thought could have won the general election. Actually, if he had been nominated, he may well have beat Obama. By election day, the economy was the big issue, and Romney could have mopped up the floor with Obama on that issue.

Romney’s positions on things like gay marriage have been flat out lied about on FR.


66 posted on 11/17/2010 2:42:53 PM PST by lady lawyer
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To: ansel12

If the polls show she can win, then fine, but it’s way too early to believe any polls. Winning the nomination is not the same as winning the general...we found that out in 2008.


67 posted on 11/17/2010 2:43:18 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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To: ansel12

Romney would, I think, have a better chance of winning a general election.


68 posted on 11/17/2010 2:45:22 PM PST by lady lawyer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, yeah, and Joshua, words mean things. To refer to the Palins as “the Lohans of politics”, given what the Palins have done with their lives, and the Lohans have done with theirs, is slanderous.


69 posted on 11/17/2010 2:46:39 PM PST by RichInOC (Palin 2012: Real And Spectacular.)
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To: lady lawyer

But, having said that, I’m still not sure I will support him this time. I have to see who else is running. If the big issue is the economy, Romney would be a strong candidate. If the big issue is health care, not so much.


70 posted on 11/17/2010 2:46:39 PM PST by lady lawyer
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To: ansel12

The polling to which you point is among Republicans. There are fewer Republicans than Democrats in the US. We have to win the votes of a lot of non-Republicans. Palin’s numbers are much, much worse among the population as a whole.

Winning a primary is much different than winning a general election.


71 posted on 11/17/2010 2:50:01 PM PST by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer
Romney’s positions on things like gay marriage have been flat out lied about on FR.

FR is one of the few places to get the truth on Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney: "I'm not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses."

Mitt Romney:"One issue I want to clarify concerns President Clinton’s “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue” military policy. I believe that the Clinton compromise was a step in the right direction. I am also convinced that it is the first of a number of steps that will ultimately lead to gays and lesbians being able to serve openly and honestly in our nation’s military. That goal will only be reached when preventing discrimination against gays and lesbians is a mainstream concern, which is a goal we share."

72 posted on 11/17/2010 2:51:11 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: Diogenesis

PING


73 posted on 11/17/2010 2:54:33 PM PST by sarah fan UK
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To: lady lawyer
Romney would, I think, have a better chance of winning a general election.

That is just your liberal wishing, Romney doesn't win elections, he has at least as much time in politics as Governor Palin, yet he has only won one election, Governor Romney wanted to run for reelection but his own polling told him that was impossible, so he left after his one failed term, with a 34% approval rating, and the Democrats took over the seat.

To run as the GOP candidate, then one has to win the GOP primary, with all the money, and all the forces, and organization, Romney couldn't come close, he ran third, the guy is a loser for the GOP, and social conservatives will not support him.

74 posted on 11/17/2010 2:58:32 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: lady lawyer; Jim Robinson

Just so you are in no doubt, here is the head FReeper’s view of Romney. FYI.

Jim Robinson to Saundra Duffy

Eff Romney, abortionist/statist big government pig!!

ObamaCare = RomneyCare!!

Eff sociialized healthcare! Eff state forced mandates on free citizens! Eff taxpayer funded abortion! Eff the lying SOB MITT ROMNEY!!!! PUKE!!!


75 posted on 11/17/2010 3:01:54 PM PST by sarah fan UK
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To: ansel12

As I said, winning a primary is much different than winning a general election. McCain won the primaries. But I think Romney would have done better in the general than McCain did.


76 posted on 11/17/2010 3:03:29 PM PST by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer

I may not support an obscure, unknown, conservative, fantasy candidate that is a 1 percenter, but when the conservative candidate is a proven campaigner and winner, and is also the clear frontrunner to take the GOP nomination, then I support that candidate, you clearly will fight to stop them.

Conservatism is something that you want to stop.


77 posted on 11/17/2010 3:04:24 PM PST by ansel12 (Mitt Romney supporter, and anti-tea party figure, Eric Cantor, won this battle.)
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To: sarah fan UK

Yes. I’ve seen that. Classy and compelling. But, on substance, he’s right that Romneycare will be a huge albatross.


78 posted on 11/17/2010 3:05:16 PM PST by lady lawyer
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To: lady lawyer

Not unless he chose Sarah as his running mate, and I doubt she would have accepted.


79 posted on 11/17/2010 3:05:16 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: ansel12

If she ends up being the nominee, I will support her with money and time. I just hope that somebody more substantial and electable comes along.


80 posted on 11/17/2010 3:07:25 PM PST by lady lawyer
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