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To: gusopol3
As defeat settled in, Romney discussed what to say in a concession speech -- which, for all his natural pessimism, Romney had not considered ahead of time. And it was in that moment that some of Romney's passion about the race finally came out, far from the view of voters and television cameras. Stevens suggested that the losing candidate should play an almost "pastoral" role, "soothing" the American people after a long and divisive campaign.

"I don't think it is a time for soothing and everything's fine," said Romney. "I think this is a time for [saying], 'This is really serious, guys. This is really serious.'"

"To get up and soothe is not my inclination," an obviously anguished Romney continued. "I cannot believe that [Obama] is an aberration in the country. I believe we're following the same path of every other great nation, which is we're following greater government, tax rich people, promise more stuff to everybody, borrow until you go over a cliff. And I think we have a very high risk of reaching the tipping point sometime in the next five years. And the idea of saying 'it's just fine, don't worry about it' -- no, it's really not."


Romney got it. Unlike McCain, he understood how serious it was to have Obama as President. For all the negative attacks people make about him, he understood the significance of this election beyond his own personal loss. It was/is a loss for the nation.
73 posted on 01/18/2014 8:12:30 PM PST by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: Girlene

Romney got it. Unlike McCain, he understood how serious it was to have Obama as President
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Yes but understanding and then doing something about it to stop it are two different things...

Willard knew about it and helped the destruction of America along by exploding his ORCA bomb...

DO NOT FORGET ABOUT ORCA...


82 posted on 01/18/2014 9:03:44 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Girlene

Romney despised conservatives and conservatism, that was his interest in politics.

Romney left the GOP because of Reagan and didn’t return to the party until H. W. Bush was defeated, Romney returned to the GOP in October of 1993.

During his years away Romney had become a democrat donor, and even a democrat fund raiser, to defeat GOP candidates. Romney even voted democrat in 1992 and he was campaigning on not having voted for Reagan during his 1994 campaign when he was calling for homosexual Scout leaders and a totally open military for gays.


89 posted on 01/18/2014 10:21:27 PM PST by ansel12 (Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
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