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Romney Touts Ability to Find Common Ground With Democrats
Michelle Malkin ^ | 6/28/2011 | Doug Powers

Posted on 06/28/2011 1:11:58 PM PDT by Lakeshark

As Democratic and Republican leaders in Washington struggled to find agreement on spending cuts and extending the debt limit, Mitt Romney struck a conciliatory note in New Hampshire on Monday by lamenting partisan feuding while touting his record of working with Democrats — even the Senate’s onetime liberal lion Edward M. Kennedy. [...]

At both stops, Romney pointed to the warmth between former President Reagan and former Democratic House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill as an example of what is needed in the Capitol.

“I worked with [former Massachusetts Sen.] Ted Kennedy, for Pete’s sakes,” Romney said in Concord, noting that they disagreed on “almost everything.”

(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...


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To: edcoil

“Romney Touts Ability to Find Common Ground With Democrats”

Yeah, and as you point out, that is the main problem with so many of the republicans.


21 posted on 06/28/2011 1:25:21 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Texas resident
or he has had his head in the sand for the last 20 years.

I might politely suggest it has been far closer to something in his own body than the sand....

:-)

22 posted on 06/28/2011 1:26:23 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Lakeshark
I'm sure Chamberlain bragged about his ability to work with Hitler too. Some say he was just naive. However: If you hold this view, reading The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion will shock. You will find out that the British ruling class found nothing abhorrent in the Nazis. They welcomed Hitler's regime (as they did Franco's and Mussolini's), encouraged Germany to re-arm, and fully expected to work in alliance with it, right up until 1939. The book dispels the idea that Chamberlain desired a deal with Hitler because he was naive or wanted to avoid bloodshed. Indeed much of Chamberlain's hopes rested on encouraging Germany to go to war - against the Soviet Union. I'm not comparing Romney with Chamberlain other than making a point that working with one's opponents is either naive or there is a hidden agenda.
23 posted on 06/28/2011 1:26:29 PM PDT by dblshot
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To: Lakeshark

Does the RINO think that this is going to win conservatives hearts?


24 posted on 06/28/2011 1:26:51 PM PDT by Grunthor (Support a POTUS candidate but don't get emotionally invested like a liberal.)
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To: Red Badger

Romney reminds us so much of McCain.


25 posted on 06/28/2011 1:27:11 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Pollster1
He can find common ground with quite a few Republicans. Lugar, Snowe, Lindsy Graham, McCain, etc. What he can't do is find common ground with the Tea Party and without their support, he is dead.
26 posted on 06/28/2011 1:28:15 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: Lakeshark
BIRDS OF A FEATHER...............
27 posted on 06/28/2011 1:29:34 PM PDT by no dems (When I learn that a person, regardless of who they are, is a Democrat, I lose respect for them.)
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To: Lakeshark

McCain Jr.


28 posted on 06/28/2011 1:30:13 PM PDT by rod1
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To: Lakeshark
“I worked with [former Massachusetts Sen.] Ted Kennedy, for Pete’s sakes,”

We know! On RomneyCare. That's the PROBLEM, not a PLUS.

Get a clue -there IS no 'working WITH" the devil. they do NOT work 'with' us, the ride roughshod until our RHINO's give in.

You do not make deals with the devil and come out even, let alone ahead..."for Pete's " or anyone Else's sake.

We realize you're making nice with them still, so's they'll continue to back you for our candidate - but we don't want you, you lily-livered traitor, aka "Plastic Man"

29 posted on 06/28/2011 1:33:02 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (I AM ISRAEL)
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To: 353FMG

All RINOS act alike, ie, liberals..................


30 posted on 06/28/2011 1:34:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: Bobalu
I wish I knew what some of these ‘Conservatives’ like Mitt find so attractive about the bi-partisan, ‘common ground’ path.

It is a blind alley and we have been down there before. Why are there any REMAINING Conservatives STILL think THAT is the way? When a cat sits on a hot stove and gets burned, he won't sit on another hot stove again.... and if he's a real smart cat, he will never sit on a cold one EITHER!!

31 posted on 06/28/2011 1:35:27 PM PDT by SMARTY ("Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. " Arthur Wellesley)
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To: fish hawk
What he can't do is find common ground with the Tea Party and without their support, he is dead.

Don't be so sure. The NE liberal RINO Club will support him to the hilt.............

32 posted on 06/28/2011 1:36:01 PM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: Lakeshark

Birds of a feather, eh? He agrees so much he should run as a Democrat.


33 posted on 06/28/2011 1:37:58 PM PDT by 5thGenTexan
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To: Pollster1

If the Republicans could find common ground with the Constitution, then I would listen.


34 posted on 06/28/2011 1:45:04 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Lakeshark
Mitt Romney struck a conciliatory note in New Hampshire on Monday by lamenting partisan feuding while touting his record of working with Democrats

Hey Mitt, why don't you change parties and run against Obama in the primary????

If we wanted to elect someone who could get along with the Democrats, we'd vote for a Democrat! I don't vote to send anyone to DC to get along with the enemy.

35 posted on 06/28/2011 1:53:11 PM PDT by Retired COB (Still mad about Campaign Finance Reform)
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To: Red Badger

I’m hoping there are way more Tea Party “get out and vote” members than there are RINO lovers.


36 posted on 06/28/2011 1:54:23 PM PDT by fish hawk
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To: fish hawk

The Tea Party people are spread out all over the country. The NE RINOs are concentrated....................


37 posted on 06/28/2011 1:59:33 PM PDT by Red Badger (Nothing is a 'right' if someone has to give it to you................)
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To: Lakeshark

Romney, he is not like the others.


38 posted on 06/28/2011 2:00:01 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. - Leto II: Dar-es-Balat)
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To: Lakeshark

There is no common ground. Except on the chasing interns front where members of both parties have manged to find a consensus.


39 posted on 06/28/2011 2:00:40 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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To: Lakeshark

Assuming we win the Presidency, we will pick up a lot of seats in the Senate. We’ll wind up with 55 to 60 seats and, if we don’t hit 60 in 2012, we’ll for sure hit 60 in 2014.

Bottom line: we don’t need no stinkin’ Democrats.


40 posted on 06/28/2011 2:07:57 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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