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Romney Campaign Rejects Using the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Against Obama
NYT ^ | Thursday May 17, 2012

Posted on 05/17/2012 8:26:34 AM PDT by Bigtigermike

Mitt Romney’s campaign manager rejected efforts to use President Obama’s former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, in ads attacking the president, as reportedly planned by a “super PAC” working toward electing Mr. Romney in November.

“Unlike the Obama campaign, Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same,” the campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, said in a statement on Thursday morning. “President Obama’s team said they would ‘kill Romney,’ and, just last week, David Axelrod referred to individuals opposing the president as ‘contract killers.’ It’s clear President Obama’s team is running a campaign of character assassination. We repudiate any efforts on our side to do so.”

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Statements like that from Mr. McCain may be part of the reason Mr. Romney’s campaign quickly rejected the idea of using Mr. Wright as a way of attacking the president. Already, advisers to Mr. Obama have raised the question of whether Mr. Romney will speak out like Mr. McCain did.

“Stunning! Will Mitt stand up, as John McCaln did? Or allow the purveyors of slime to operate on his behalf?” David Axelrod, a senior campaign adviser to Mr. Obama, wrote on Twitter early Thursday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...


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To: Yashcheritsiy
1st..we get rid of the ‘Rat commies in power....then we get rid of the ones in OUR party....

change takes time...it ain't gonna happen overnight.

61 posted on 05/17/2012 9:02:00 AM PDT by rightwingextremist1776
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To: D-fendr
I think this is wise for Romney.

Absolutely. It's all part of plan within a plan within a strategic gambit that makes Napoleon look like a pre-schooler. I mean, Mitt Romney plays ten-dimensional chess and moves the pieces with his mind!

62 posted on 05/17/2012 9:02:18 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (A conservative voting for Romney is like a chicken voting for Col. Sanders)
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To: LouD
Romney needs to talk about the reasons TO vote FOR HIM.

Well, let's see. There's pro-life issues.

Oh, wait.

How about socialized medicine?

Oh, wait.

How about 2A?

Oh, wait.

How about his record appointing judges?

Oh, wait.

How about great hair?

63 posted on 05/17/2012 9:02:38 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Obama vs. Romney: Zero x Zero = Zero.)
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To: Bigtigermike

What would even be the point of running an ad on this now?

After we are acting indignant over the gay marriage distraction attempt, we are now demanding that Rombot run ads on something that should have had traction 4 years ago?

To what effect? To change the subject OFF the economy, because that is all you are going to get.


64 posted on 05/17/2012 9:02:42 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (If case you are wondering, I'm STILL supporting Newt.)
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To: Bigtigermike
Gov. Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy

Which is, of course, why against Conservatives Romney's team:

Bachmann: "Maybe she's a little crazy...innoculations causing brain damage..."

Perry: "Did you seen what was written on the rock at the ranch they used to hunt at?"

Gingrich: "THREE Wives! Omigosh!"

Santorum: "Birth control...did he say you couldn't use birth-control?"

Paul: "He's a little bit crazy, and Rand is a little bit rock and roll."

Ahh, yes, the high road. /Sarc

65 posted on 05/17/2012 9:06:47 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True Supporters of Our Troops Pray they Win every Fight!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Letting the Democrats determine your campaign strategy. Typical Republican MORONS.

Worse. If a candidate has no balls in the campaign, what kind of strength of will can be expected as President.

I fully expected this. But jeez, I am tired of being right.

My 28 yo daughter would, in a 3 way debate with Mittens and Zero, decimate both of them without getting out of breath. Together they don’t add up to half her brain (or real world common sense).

We are so screwed. Our Presidential options are men that are honestly barely qualified to flip hamburgers. Intellectually and morally.


66 posted on 05/17/2012 9:06:56 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there)
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To: New Jersey Realist

What do you mean ‘following...’?

Aren’t they the same bunch who ran McCain’s ‘successful’ campaign?


67 posted on 05/17/2012 9:07:31 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: SERKIT

Why should Romney cut “O” any slack for the “Reverend” Wright video, when the President’s supporters would bust his hump over a HS prank?


68 posted on 05/17/2012 9:08:26 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Copenhagen Smile
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Romney is "pre-compromised" ...

He trembles at the prospect of Axelrod-Obama interjecting "religion" into the campaign (Planet Kolob, et al) ...

Unfortunately, Romney is so pathetically stupid that he doesn't see that Axelrod will interject the Mormon Secret Underwear ... no matter waht Romney says (or doesn't say) about Obama and Rev. Wright ...



However ... all is well ...

Obama's firing too quickly ... and he'll masterfully expose Romney for the corrupt, religious cult "Archbisop" that Romney is ...

just in time for the GOP to nominate Newt and Sarah in Tampa ...



Obama and Romney ... two examples of naive "Hitleresque" generals on campaign ...

Obama wins a landslide against Juan McCain in 2008 ... SIMPLY because Obama is black ... and Obama thinks he's Napoleon ...

Romney "savagely" carpet-bombs fellow Republicans in 2102 ... with his (looted) Bain Capital millions ... and the Mormom Celestial God-Child likewise thinks he's a Napoleon ...

Disaster awaits them both ...




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69 posted on 05/17/2012 9:10:48 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin will DEFEAT the Obama-Romney Socialist Gay-Marriage Axis of Evil)
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To: New Jersey Realist
This is kind of like a - so, when did you stop beating your wife strategy. It may or may not work.
70 posted on 05/17/2012 9:16:15 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: kevkrom
Yeah, but this is Romney we're talking about. He has a long-established MO of keeping his own hands ostensibly clean while surrogates do all of the dirty work. This is totally in character but does not mean that the Wright stuff won't be used.

Exactly. Romney is ruthless. This is what they say for public consumption. Probably saying this sort of thing to undercut the Obama campaigns soon-to-be effort to paint Willard as a "weird" Mormon. The reality is, Romney and his people are absolutely viscous and will do anything they feel will give them political advantage.

71 posted on 05/17/2012 9:16:37 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Bigtigermike
Romney is running a campaign based on jobs and the economy, and we encourage everyone else to do the same

And Wright's philosophy which is obviously shared by Obama has nothing to do with our dismal economy? The most we get of Obama's philosophy comes from his speechwriters. Wright's sermons are a window into Obama's soul.

D*mn wright, it's an issue.

ML/NJ

72 posted on 05/17/2012 9:19:47 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: MissesBush
In theory, a Super PAC is not subject to candidate control. wiki has:
According to Federal Election Commission advisories, Super PACs are not allowed to coordinate directly with candidates or political parties. This is intended to prevent them from operating campaigns that complement or parallel those of the candidates they support or engaging in negotiation that could result in quid pro quo bargaining between donors to the PAC and the candidate or officeholder. However, it is legal for candidates and Super PAC managers to discuss campaign strategy and tactics through the media.
So, if an independent PAC decided to run ads covering Rev Wright, allegations of Obama's gay lovers, etc, in theory there would not be any way for either Romney nor Obama to stop them.
73 posted on 05/17/2012 9:20:23 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I canÂ’t be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: Bigtigermike

I imagine the Romney campaign will not bring up Wright until the word “Mormon” is drilled into the national conversation on a scale like nothing we have seen. That will happen sooner than planned due to Obama’s sagging poll numbers. The war on women/attack Anne Romney thing didn’t work, dog-gate didn’t work, Romney as a bully fell apart, so religion has to be coming up fast. Romney shouldn’t use it until Obama does, then hit him hard. They have counter-punched a lot better than I had expected to this point, so there’s no reason to think they won’t with this issue. It might be the easiest one.


74 posted on 05/17/2012 9:24:35 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: C19fan

actually ... you haven’t seen ANYTHING of what Axelrod has in store of the celestial god child from the planet kolob .... which is located in the constellation cancer (i’m not making that up, either) ....


75 posted on 05/17/2012 9:26:17 AM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin will DEFEAT the Obama-Romney Socialist Gay-Marriage Axis of Evil)
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To: cdcdawg

“Go Mormon on us, and we’ll go Muzzie on you.”


76 posted on 05/17/2012 9:27:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: cripplecreek

Yep. Then Florida, I think there were several other states as well.
I will not vote for that liberal called Romney.


77 posted on 05/17/2012 9:30:05 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: rightwingextremist1776
If this clown from massholechuchits doesn't come out with guns blazing against the commie usurper he con NOT count on my vote...I'm already holding my nose.

What you said! I'm already prepared to vomit all over my ballot just to get Comrade Zero out, but this is just too much like McQueeg back in 08.

78 posted on 05/17/2012 9:31:19 AM PDT by Marathoner (If the election was Obama vs. Satan I'd have to flip a coin.)
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To: cdcdawg

Romney hitting anyone hard other than a conservative is laughable.


79 posted on 05/17/2012 9:32:30 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: C19fan
"Romney is as gutless as McQueeg."

True. Nevertheless, some folks who've decided to vote for him are finding it necessary to engage in fairy tales about him. The other day, someone was talking about how tough a fighter Romney is, and how he's going to chop Obama to pieces, LOL.

Romney will only fight conservatives, and in the most vicious way he can manage. When it comes to his own kind (liberals), he's a quisling.

80 posted on 05/17/2012 9:32:40 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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