Thursday, February 07, 2008
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Romney's Classy Speech Today
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Posted by:
Matt Lewis at
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I know this has been written about a lot today, but I think Mitt Romney did an honorable thing today. By stepping aside, he sacrificed his personal glory for the good of the movement, the good of the party, and the good of the country.
Had things gone a little different, he might be the nominee right now. And keep in mind how far he came; few people knew his name a year ago.
Ultimately, some conservatives still had their doubts about Romney -- but I think this race might be his '76 race. He has proven his conservative bona fides. Don't be surprised if he's the VP pick this year. And even if he's not, I wouldn't be one bit surprised if we someday have a President Romney.
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I agree with you, i wanted Mitt more thatn any other candidate, i am just tired of reading about all these s so called christians ant-moron redarick. To me it is a form of radical jihadist propaganda. |
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MITT will be back! Arngret, he will never be old news - people will always remember his sacrifice for the Republican party, the people and our nation. It's 60's Romney all over again when our Rep. party ousted his father from the nomination when he too was a favourite. His father too withrew from the race because of dirty tricks (ie. West Virginia convention) within his own party and the liberal media. The bigotry in this country is so shameful - what a bunch of hypocrites, so called Christians but in fact the Shmuckabees would do well to learn some of the TRUE teachings of the mormon church - HARRY REID IS A MORMON and if he was running for president he would not have been treated the same way as Romney was by Huckabee supporters and Smuck himself, some preacher...! |
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So there should be nothing to worry about having a mormon in the whitehouse. To all that are still posting about Mitt he's not in it any more for this election. Just move on and pick your candidate!!! Or don't vote! It's old news. |
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What a great speech. If Mitt had more time in the debates to get across these ideas he might still be in the race. I support Paul and am struck by how similar these two candidates are with the exception of the war and foreign policy. Too bad there was no way for these guys to see eye-to-eye. A much better scenario than McCain and Huck. One other thing they both shared - a true belief in religious freedom and dignity for all faiths. Can't say the same for Huck.
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wishes Ronald Reagan could come back more than I do. He was far and away the greatest President of my lifetime. I truly do not expect anyone to ever live up to his accomplishments, his ability to lead or his ability to inspire. For that reason, I hope we can stop comparing candidates to him. Its like comparing the next Green Bay quarterback to Brett Favre. He may be as good in some areas, but the entire package will not be there. There was only one Babe Ruth and there will be only one Ronald Reagan. Every candidate will forever be flawed if that is the comparison- be it Romney, Huckabee, McCain, Thompson or anyone else. We should feel blessed to have been lucky enough to have him. Romney was excellent today. Hopefully he will support McCain whether as VP or not. He has much to offer. Huckabee on his own will have to make the decision when it is right for him. McCain is the Republican candidate. It is for each person to decide will they support him or not. What each person will do I am not sure, but I am sure what Reagan would do. |
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Mitt Romney was a "Republican" governor of one of the most liberal states in the country. Nuff said. A conservative Republican would never be elected Governor of Massachusetts. Mitt was not a conservative and was barely a Republican. |
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Mark writes: Thursday, February, 07, 2008 10:08 PM
Christians will never vote for a Mormon ....
You misphrased it. It should read BIGOTS, not Christians.
Romney had a large portion of the Evangelical vote...look @ the stats!
By the way, did your minister preach this to you?
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I am a Christian and would vote for Romney the Mormon. Therefore your logic is as stupid as you are dumb. |
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Mark, I only had to read line #1 in your above post to realize you have no idea what you are talking about.
This is really one of the downside of blogging, its difficult for someone to feel shame when they write something that makes them look incredibly asinine, because everything is anonymous. But Mark, to the extent possible, you should feel shame for posting such filth and lies. |
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I wish Mitt had not resigned himself to trying to save the party. He was the only one who could have saved our country. Do you realize the next President will nominate our next 4 supreme court judges. That is scarry. Our constitution will be hanging by a thread if the liberals have their way. This goes into our children's generation. Mitt would have been a light at the end of the tunnel. He has the answers to keeping us out of the recession the news media keeps telling us we are coming in to.
By the way MORMONS ARE CHRISTIANS!!!!
We beleive in Christ, We are not a cult, and I am so tired of hearing - Mormons are not Christian and they are a cult - from the uneducated populas.
I am hoping Mitt will consider running for President again in 4 years. I will always vote for him. He is a good person. |
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If you reply to the first question that you don't have a problem with Mitt's religion, that it was his liberal stance on issues, save your diatribe.
I am looking for some honest answers. I have NEVER heard anyone bring up Harry Reid's religion. There are actually about 15 Mormons in Congress.
Are Mormon's equivelent to other groups of minorities in the eyes of the general public? |
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Romney has no class at all, none whatsoever. He said anything to whoever was in front of him. He ran a negative campaign. Couldn't say two words without flip-flopping. He is a disgrace to the human race and the republican party. The pundits that backed him should be ashamed of themselves for misleading and fracturing our party for a slimy liberal like Romney. |
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I would be curious to see if Harry Reid entered into the Primary Presidential race as Democrat, would he be met with the same anti-Mormon bigotry that Romney met.
I would venture to say that many would look past Harry's religion because he is liberal. Explain this to me. Are liberals more open minded than conservatives? |
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Is there any chance we could block Mark from further comments? He is exactly the reason some decent moderates would rather vote democrat than republican. Using religion as some type of litmus test is moronic.
I am a conservative christian, my husband is a conservative christian and many of my friends are conservative christians and we ALL supported Romney.....so your comment about all conservative christions not supporting Romney is obviously misinformed and very myopic.
Suggestion for fellow commenters: just scroll past and ignore all comments by Mark......not worth the time to read. |
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1. He installed and defended gay marriage in Massachusetts.
2. He forced Catholic health care workers in Massachusetts to provide the morning-after abortion pill or face criminal prosecution.
3. He was anti-second ammendment as governor of Massachusetts, while endorsing the Brady bill and supporting a ban on assault weapons. As governor, he voiced his opposition to the NRA.
4. He attended Planned Parenthood fundraisers in the 1990's and with his wife donated money to them.
5. He signed into law the first socialist universal health care system in Massachusetts history and arguably the most socialist plan of its kind in American history.
6. He made abortion on demand a taxpayer funded health care benefit for all Massachusetts residents in 2006 and proudly signed it into law in the presence of a smiling Ted Kennedy.
7. He gave Planned Parenthood a permanent spot on his Massachusetts health plan's advisory board.
8. He is on record as being anti-Reagan during the 1980's and 1990's. Why, in 1994, did Mitt Romney distance himself from Reagan, proudly announce that he was an Independent during the Reagan years, and publicly announce that he wasn't trying to return to Reagan/Bush?
9. In 2006, he is on record as supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants.
10. His economic record as governor was a complete disaster. Under Mitt Romney, Massachusetts job creation ranked 47th in the nation. That's 3rd worst! Only the Hurricane Katrina states had worse economies than Massachusetts under Mitt Romney.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080120/ts_nm/usa_politics_rom ney_record_dc
That's a Liberal.
That's the real Mitt Romney.
Good riddance! |
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Oh, okay SRS, thanks for sharing your expert opinion with us. If only we knew, after all this time we could have just come to you for answers to all of our questions.
Give me a break. Expect to see more of Romney. |
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Oh, okay SRS, thanks for sharing your expert opinion with us. If only we knew, after all this time we could have just come to you for answers to all of our questions.
Give me a break. Expect to see more of Romney. |
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Oh, okay SRS, thanks for sharing your expert opinion with us. If only we knew, after all this time we could have just come to you for answers to all of our questions.
Give me a break. Expect to see more of Romney. |
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I could support a McCain/Romney ticket, but will not ever vote for a McCain/Huckabee ticket. |
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Oh, okay SRS, thanks for sharing your expert opinion with us. If only we knew, after all this time we could have just come to you for answers to all of our questions.
Give me a break. Expect to see more of Romney. |
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Mitt was not the only one, its just that McCain and Huckabee were given a pass. Huck's cheap shots about religion was written off by his supporters. He asks sheepishly "don't mormons teach Jesus and satan are brothers, but hey I am not theologian?" His degree was in theology. The subtle attempts to use his evangelical religion by preaching oops campaining in churches. How about chuck norris' commentaries, or the campaign manager wanting to knock out his teeth or the plastic comments.
McCain took the cheap shots as well. The time tables, or the video clips from 1994.
McCain started out as a conservative, but his record over the last 8 years shows he has changed positions. Atleast Romney changed from a moderate to a conservative. |
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We can certainly argue that point. I think Romney ran a perfectly honorable campaign. He ran comparison ads, which are entirely appropriate, not dirty. I have my opinion and you have yours.
I assume from your comments that you are a Huckabee supporter. Do you think creating a negative ad (not a comparison ad), deciding not to run it but show it to the media, thus get the ad message out without even having to pay for it, was honorable. Was his question to a NYT reporter, "don't the Mormon's think Jesus and Satan are brothers", honorable? Or could it have been that he knew that comment would be in the headlines as an attack on Romney? Do you think that his answer that he doesn't know if Romney was a Christian was honorable, when as an educated evangelical Christian who once gave the keynote speech at an anti-Mormon convention in Salt Lake City, he obviously had an strong opinion whether Romney was a Christian or not.
We could certainly have a legitamite argument of who ran a dirty campaign, but your first comment had nothing to do with that, just that Chritians would never vote for a Mormon. I, and I believe America, would reject that notion, and it makes you look extremely bigoted. |
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With the most money to spend by far and the full support of secular right-wing radio, Mitt Romney still couldn't win.
It's not that secular conservatives refused to support Romney.
It's that not enough conservative Christians supported him... and they never will.
The Republicans went from Huckabee leading in the polls to McCain leading in the polls.
Mormon Mitt never had a chance... and he never will.
Outright worship of a false god is the kiss of death in the minds of many Republican Christians and that's why the well-financed Romney campaign eventually collapsed in a miserable and bitter defeat. |
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He seems patently insincere in everything he does. He is not a smooth communicator and retail politicking is not his forte. He is awkward and un-eloquent, like George Bush, Sr. (The only reason Bush, Sr. won in 1988 was that Dukakis was way out of the mainstream - a mistake the Democrats won't repeat again).
Further by 2012, regardless of whether McCain wins (and he won't run for a second term) or Clinton/Obama, there will be a whole new crop of GOP leaders by 2012 (Crist, Jindal, even Barbour of Mississippi, or Perry of Texas or Lamar Alexander) who will be far more accomplished and much less damaged than Romney. Romney looks to the GOP today like how Kerry seemed to the Democrats in 2004. When 2012 rolls around, Romney will seem to Republicans like how Democrats see Kerry today , i.e., as an incredibly flawed, unelectable candidate who it was a mistake to nominate.
So, pl. save the misty-eyed mourning. You'll someday be glad that he had his head handed to him and chose to exit the race.
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to CPAC & the nation today. It is represenative of why I know he'd be a fantastic president.
Currently as a nation we have lost a fanstastic oprotunity to have an intelligent,optismistic, enthusiastic, fiscal conservative president who would fight to protect our country & preserve it's foundation.
We'll definitely need him in 4 more years!
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According to Republican exit polls, Mitt ran the most negative campaign.
Can't argue with the opinions of Republican voters who experienced firsthand the onslought of Romney's negative TV ads. Mitt used more dirty tricks during this campaign season than any other Republican candidate. Republican voters found his negative TV ads a despicable act of political cowardice and this turned many voters against him. What a strategy. Bombard the public with negative TV ads that distort your opponent's views and maybe they'll vote for you instead. A shameless and dirty tactic. Didn't work with the Republican party's Christian base who can smell a snake a mile away. |
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Can we please give the Mormon bashing a rest. It makes you look so small. I hope people don't judge all Christians by your idiotic example. |
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I agree that Mitt Romney would be a solid VP candidate if he is interested. It would provide some geographical and ideological balance to the ticket, and a presence that would deflect some concern about McCain's age. There would be any number of tasks he could give leadership for in the administration. I wonder, though, if he would rather bide his time for 2012 and run a corporation, university or foundation in the meantime. Polls are not meaningless. McCain polls well against Hillary Clinton, and the Democrats are foolish enough they still well could nominate her. The fact is that for every vote McCain loses from diehard conservatives who can't understand the importance of national security to the country and sit on their hands election day,he will pick up two from independents who would consider no other Republican.
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The evangelical vote was being split down the middle between Huck and Mitt. Look at the exit polls and get a clue. |
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The similarities between the Clintons and the Huckster are uncanny! Right down to the stolen furniture. Hilarious.
Huck - do the dignified thing and drop out for the good of you buddy, John. I thought you respected him? |
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I see no reason why Christians won't vote for other Christians. Therefore, Mitt as a Mormon, has a perfectly good chance to be elected, Christian that he is. |
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Romney will never become President, because the Christians will never support a Mormon for President.
Huckabee's Christian base even listed McCain as their second choice. Not Romney.
Mormon Mitt has no chance.
Not now.
Not ever. |
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Your post was trash. Get your head out of the gutter. |
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Thank you Mitt, Ann, family and all who campaigned and supported for all that you gave and sacrificed. If you decide to run in 1212 you will have my support.
I am not sure if Romney's name will be on the primary ballot when I vote but if it is, out of respect, I am going to vote for Romney.
I feel Huckabee is staying in for his own purposes at this point. Besides I am very apposed to the "unfair tax". I think is clueless on foreign policy and more cluesless than McCain on economic policy.
If McCain wants my vote he needs to make some adjustments on immigration, campaign finance, global warming and the marriage amendment.
He can modify those positions to some degree and I might support him. |
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I agree that Romney's exit from the race was gracious and appropriate. This campaign may serve as a down payment for a future Romney campaign, and at least the next time around, Romney will already have a strong base of support, and won't have to start from scratch to get his name out.
But I think his manner of exit today was good for another reason. Throughout this entire campaign, Romney has been openly and unfairly maligned, ridiculed and despised by his competitors and by the media. He is an incredibly good and honest man, but you would never have known it by reading and hearing what many said about him. But his exit today restores his good reputation to some degree, and provides a positive end to what was a brutal commentary about him during the campaign.
Congrats to Mitt on a good and hard fought campaign. |
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Romney's bloviating, O'Reilly, send the political police.
Two days ago, when it was supposedly going to benefit Romney's campaign, the most important political issue was the economy. This was going to boost Romney's image in the eyes of the voting public. Today, again, in an effort to boost Romney's image, the most critical issue is the war. Very telling.
The voting public is, once again, assumed to be ignorant. Romney's use of the war on terror equates to a dishonorable discharge for Mitt Romney. I think he should apologize to every soldier and veteran whose honor he subverted by manipulating their fight and their courage. The use of the war on terror to bow out of his losing campaign is disgraceful, dishonorable, and decisively manipulative of those who have waged true courage in this war, both physically and politically.
The man I support is more honorable than I in his eloquent response to every shadow that his opponents have tried to cast upon him (including his opponents in the visual and audio media). Mike has never wavered on the issues of concern to conservatives. He's always been 100% pro life, pro-family, pro America. He would not use a failing campaign to subvert the honor of true soldiers in the war on terror.
My apologies to Mike Huckabee, who, as I support him may feel embarrassed by my public disdain of Romney's public display. Mike Huckabee would never call out Romney's behavior.
That's only part of why I support Mike Huck-can-bee a great President.
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But the republican party appears to be stuck on stupid. I always thought this was more of a liberal problem, but it appears to be contagious.
While Republicans were on a Quixotic quest for the "Perfect" candidate, we tossed aside to excellent examples of conservative leadership.
First we tossed aside Fred. Now we've tossed aside mitt. a Thompson/Romney ticket would have been Unbeatable! Now we're stuck with a 24 year veteran of "More of the Same" going up against "Change".
I'm a Lions fan I'm used to losing.
Let's hope we survive till 2012 to correct this mistake.
Romney/Steele '12 |
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I agree this is very much like 1976, where America realized too late that the GOP had nominated the wrong guy. Romney is exactly what America needs and I don't think we have seen the last of him.
I very much want to support the GOP nominee but if the election was today I could not, in good conscience vote for McCain. Normally one starts on the right (or left if a Dem) and then work toward the center after securing the nomination. I don't think McCain can do it backwards. How does he now move to the right, to get support of the conservative base? I don't see how it can happen. I think McCain is doomed, and we'll end up with the equivalent of Jimmy Carter in 1976.
We'll recover, though. We did in '76. |
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Mr. Romney exuded a Presence of Grace and HONOR.
Over the last several months I’ve given every serious candidate,
R or D, a fair hearing with an open mind. I’ve spent much time in D.C. on my travels.
When I stand in front of the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, or enter the Lincoln Memorial,
or stand in the spot where Dr. King spoke the words I have a dream, and think about the souls who had the Vision and Courage
to create America and stand up for Truth and a better way of Life, I feel as if I am on sacred ground.
I’ve spent more time and energy than I care to remember interacting with legislators, staffers and agencies and bureaucrats. Many if not most are well intentioned and basically good people that you sense are stuck in a machine like system devoid of the principles for which the nation stands.
More often than not, for all the flowery rhetoric or partisan divisiveness and tactical maneuvering, D.C. is indeed all about maintaining status quo.
A status quo that no longer truly serves the people, or helps Lead the Nation into a great & worthy future, but is increasingly fixated and addicted on serving itself. This cycle must end or God forbid our children and their children will know first hand the downward spiral of once great nation. The majority of our electorate seems to spend far more time entertaining themselves with American Idol & “reality shows” than educating themselves about their leadership choices. Unfortunately I think the Nation missed a once in a generation opportunity to put someone in the Oval Office who would have been a true leader, someone with attainment and ability to successfully tackle all the difficult fronts confronting our future, someone able to help us transcend the status quo. For me I hope Mr. Romney will be ready and willing to give Americans a second chance in 2012. No matter who this nation elects this time around, by 2012 I think we’re going to need what Mitt can do more than ever.
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I got to hear the speech in its entirety. It was a fine speech. His delivery isn't quite smooth, but the content was superb in describing Republican principles. That coupled with his last debate performance against McCain was fantastic.
Unfortunately, it was too little, too late. He never did smooth over the authenticity question, but if he continues like this for another four years assuming the Democrats are in office, I think there's a good chance he'd become the next Republican nominee.
A word of advice though, to the Romney supporters (more particularly towards the punditocracy), if you want someone to vote for your candidate, for the love of God don't tell them they're stupid for supporting someone else.
Huckabee was always my #1 guy, and Romney was originally my #2 until Talk Radio and many of his supporters started viciously lashing out. Particularly ironic was seeing Romney supporters calling Huckabee supporters religious nuts, and idiotic social conservatives... and then later claiming that their candidate was a champion of the very political sect they had been skewering a minute before that, and so that we should then vote for Romney. You think your guy's best? Fine. Make the case for him and leave it at that, or if you're going to attack my guy, at least do it on the issues than on baseless insinuations and being the "little boy who cried bigot". McCain crept up to #2 in my book since his campaign treated us better. |
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from Goveror Romney's example today....
In my opinion, America has lost and will suffer for not taking to him as well as we should have and as fast as we should have.... He has the tools to deal with the perils of the day and the Moderates and the Liberals forced us all to have to say No, not today Mitt...How stupid and how blind....
Now, having said all that, I personally thank God that we still have the Governor on our side.... someone of his strength on the Republican Bench... I strongly suspect that there will, in fact, come the day that the Majority of Republicans will STAND UP and say we MUST have Mitt Romney and his skills and abilities in the game fighting for, managing for, and representing us.....
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John will have to stretch to be half the man Mitt is but McCain's speech today was good. We can support John and nudge, demand, and require that John deserve the support of true conservatives.
Mitt took the high road. As his supporters, we can now do the same and deny the White House to the Democrats who do not stand on the same principles.
I like Obama but he needs to attend Mitt's personal school of conservatism asap.
Hillary brings Bill. Enough said. Double trouble. She must not be elected!
Now John is a quick study. He can take the olive branch Mitt gave him today and graft it back into the body politics of conservatism.
John is the man of the hour.
Mitt was right. There isn't time time to turn back the tide. For many reasons this nation was slow to learn enough abut Mitt's platforms and values to give him the nomination. But now, after the fact, the nation does know and respect him.
Starting now, it is time to consolidate, unite, and exert pressure on J MC to move back to GOP traditional values such as John espoused in his speech today. We must unite to see that John wins the election in November and then that he stays accountable to the conservative values in his speech today.
We must have a united face to the world. JOHN is the man of the hour with that stone face. He will protect this nation, of that I am sure.
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Please do NOT stay home. You must vote. You do not have to vote for Hillybama or McAmnesty. There are always other parties and people on the ballot. You could write in Joe Oliva. The important votes are for House and Senate seats. Conservatives MUST win seats in the House. The House is where things get done. It was the passage of H.R. 4437, an enforcement bill, in Dec.05 that sparked the illegal alien protest marches and moved this issue to the front burner. It was the Senate that tried to jam amnesty down our throats. The D's that won seats in '06 were conservatives running on enforcement platforms. One of them, Heath Shuler D-NC, introduced the SAVE Act. Call, e-mail, or write your Congressman and urge support of this legislation. Enforcement is what Americans want, not amnesty.
Amnesty is a losing proposition.
I don't think Hillary is stupid enough to step in front of this bus.
McCain is.
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The Stupid Party
The RNC wants an amnesty candidate.
Don't vote for one.
Another amnesty will result in Democrat majorities for decades, or until they are supplanted by the La Raza Party, why doesn't the RNC know that? How stupid do you have to be to import voters for the opposition at the same time you alienate your own voters? Nominating any of the amnesty supporters is a losing proposition, we will not support them. If the GOP intends to surrender our sovereignty and abandon the rule of law, they will find in November 2008, that they still have their big money/cheap labor donors, but they do not have voters. GOP-RIP
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SECOND LOOK AT JINDAL/STEELE 2012 |
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Mitt was gracious(complimented his opponents)
never got one compliment that was authenic!
He's intelligent(his accomplishments prove that)
He was an outsider, he threatened to take d.c. apart..and put it together again(clean out the pork,perks!) and he would have! Had the looks and demeanor! Was humble(admitted he was wrong on
abortion-publicly)and he always liked to get others opinion..not arrogant like rudy,mcjuan!
And he didnt wear his religion on his sleeve(huckster)!Was very moral...38 years of a clean marriage. He was honest regardles of what others said about him.Changing your opinion...is not didhonesty! mc juan was good at the lies..and it didnt stop his momentum! gawd I cant believe mitt isnt goin to the white house...stupid GOP!
ELVIS IS LEAVING THE BUILDING....SCREW THE GOP!
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Mitt had too much stacked against him. He is too decent to pull the dirty tricks that McCain and Huckabee thrive on. He is unwilling to engage in class warfare, again a useful too in McCain's and Huckabee's political tool chests. He is also too capable, disciplined and accomplished for the MSM to allow him to become the Republican nominee. Now the MSM have their opponent of choice - the free pass Johnny McCain the third has enjoyed will switch to a torrent of negative stories as Mr. McCain has a warehouse full of skeletons.
Democracy requires an educated and honest electorate to succeed. Second, it requires selfless and honest candidates who put their country first and believe that they are servant leaders. We had only one part of these two requirements - Mitt Romney is a class act who was purposely mischaracterized by the media to an uniformed and easily manipulated electorate. Unfortunately, a large fraction of my fellow Republicans are too stupid to understand that you don't listen to a liberal media to get advice on who the Republican nominee should be.
God bless you Gov. Romney. You are a true patriot and a class act. You sacrificed your time, talent and treasure in an attempt to save us from ourselves. Unfortunately, we're too cynical and self-loathing to take the hand of him who would pull us out of the pit. |
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Total class, intelligence and ability--- Everything America needs during this critical time. What a shame--
Now we get to face 4 years of a Democratic Presidency (high taxes, economy in ruin, amnesty, etc.). McCain/Huckabee will never get enough Republicans to vote for them. I'll take Obama any day over those two clowns. At least Obama's honest and not such a sleaze like McCain/Huck. MSM is going to rake McCain through the mud---and sadly, it won't take much effort to do it.
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You'll be missed, Mitt! Your exit from this race was both classy and honorable. I look forward to seeing you in the public's eye again in the future! |
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Imagine, over the last decade, a point at which the McCainEnstien ever showed class to his party? If Romney had pressed on he could have claimed the maverick mantle...a good thing until yesterday. Now McLiar says being a party man is the honorable thing to do. Good luck finding an elite talking head pointing that out. |
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Anybody who doubted Romney's conservatism only needs to read this speech. A liberal couldn't give it because they wouldn't understand half of the concepts even mentioned. |
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Maybe so....Romney's speech could be looked as so.....but this is one conservative who is not voting for John M.
John has left the conservative movement.....in so far as McCain/Finegold....Kennedy.
AND how he wanted to be a part of the gang of 14.....treatment of Conservatives who want the illegals to go home.....not undocumented workers...lets call them what they are... ILLEGALS.
I live in southern calif and experience first hand how we have lost 80% of our trama centers....and the list goes on. And the only reason are the illegals are utilizing are free resources....and guess what resources then become depleted.
So for this election cycle I do NOT care for McCain to win....and would want a dem to win. THe country will see the affects and then finally a real conservative would have a chance.
Good lord how we have moved away from our roots since Reagan....and even GW Bush only legacy outside of 911 will be the Supreme Court justices he appointed....outside of that even he too was not conservative. OK maybe taxes.....BUT he way over spent not including the war.
God help us.....
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Why didn't he give a speech like that last week? Sounded like the best speech of his campaign.
Sure wish he would of hung on a bit longer. First Thompson, now Romney. This is so depressing, and the end of the GOP. |
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Yes, Romney is indeed a statesman, not necessarily a politician. He will learn from this experience and be back again. America needs him, and unfortunately we will have to wait another 48 months.
He showed today that he is indeed the most gracious, honorable, and intelligent man in the race. Too bad people realized it too late. |
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