satchelmcqueen
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CORRECT! thank you!!!
Mitt Romney should drop out now
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I think the establishment is very concerned that if my some miracle of God Ron Paul would decide to run again in 2016 he'd stand an excellent chance of winning. If they aren't comfortable with their current economic and military timetable having an extra four years may work out nicely for them in the long run.
I don't think the establishment would be worried about Ron Paul in 2016. He'd be 81... The oldest presidential candidate in history.
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I'm sure the Romney spies are getting a kick out of this thread.
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thats a scary thought. lets say who is chosen to take this country further into debt, decline and more wars.
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@alucard13mmfmj: That's actually a really interesting thought, and I wouldn't be surprised if the globalists scum are going to endorse such an idea.
I may post a thread with some donation data from tons of employees from large financial institutions and hedge funds. The donations over the past decade and a half are basically consistent with the party that won for that particular election year. This year, the donations are heavy on the Republican end, suggesting a Republican party win.
I may post a thread with some donation data from tons of employees from large financial institutions and hedge funds. The donations over the past decade and a half are basically consistent with the party that won for that particular election year. This year, the donations are heavy on the Republican end, suggesting a Republican party win.
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You don't say! 
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They can get a kick out of what ever they want. But as usual, they get off on telling people to support them while doing absolutely nothing to offer their own support to others.
What the Romney "spies" really ought to be worried about is just the mere fact that Ron Paul Supporters are now at least HALF of the Republican Party. We are not going to vote for Romney, no way, no how, and just based on those numbers right there, they would lose at least HALF of their votes if Romney somehow snake charms his way into being the Republican Nominee. Basically, we will not vote for Romney, and without us, they stand NO CHANCE of being Obama.
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I bet romney will want to drop out in a few weeks when the Big O campaign really starts to get to work on him. Get ready for them to gather several hundred people who got laid off when their company got liquidated by bain, and parade them out in front of the press one by one, starting with any who are mormon. 'Party unity'? They'll put that name to the test.
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Not trying to burst your scenerio or anything. But, there were like 12 republican candidates that went to the convention. The votes were watered down so bad on the first 5 votes, that anyone could've won. Harding just got lucky. 1 out of 12.
This time around, there are only 2. And Ron Paul has already been labeled by the MSM, and black balled by the establishment. If Ron Paul were to even make it passed the 1st vote, the second one will be rigged.
The establishment OWNS the election and the votes.
Ron Paul stopped campaigning because he knew he couldn't beat the establishment. There just wasn't enough support. Don't get me wrong. I'm still supporting him. I'm still going to go to the state convention, and vote for the three National Delegates that I know will go and fight for RP just as hard as if there were 12 candidates still in the race.
But, you can't deny the primaries. As much of a beauty contest as they are, they are still votes cast by Americans who have a right to chose who they want. The why and hows of their decision is theirs also.
I"m hoping for another Monica Lewinski. Where is she when we really need her?
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I can't even take you seriously. You really believe Paul is going to win the nomination, don't you?
Anesthetized fairy tale land.
I'm here because I'm a Ron Paul supporter, but I'm not going to lie to myself and say we will win. Is there a chance? Absolutely.
However this chance is rather slim and so far the RNC, Romney and his lawyers have done anything and everything to prevent us from winning or to take away our wins.
The establishment won't let us win, therefore we won't win.
I'm not underinformed, I'm a realist.
And even if I'm wrong so what? I don't think I will be, but hell, I hope I will be wrong!
What I originally said needed to be said. I've seen various posts elsewhere creating ridiculous scenarios of what could happen if Romney drops out. It's just not going to happen and to be honest I think people are getting desperate.
I, like many here, don't read the Huffington Post regularly so the odds of everyone understanding your satire when they read this thread was slim.
For what it's worth, I now find the original post comical, seeing as though that was your intent. I apologize for my misunderstanding but I wish people would wake up from this fantasy land where Paul has every last fucking delegate.
Each person will work as hard as they can until they lose hope. You are at that point. I'm not. Every vote counts and even if the GOP steals the nomination, it'll be out there for everyone to see. Bring the real dirt out into public. Mission accomplished either way. Rolling over doesn't accomplish anything.
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Hold on just a sec. If I was totally giving up, I'd stay home instead of spending three days in a room full of Romneycrats........
That's good to hear. Your post sounds like giving up to me, or maybe acceptance that we can't win. I won't accept that until the nomination is official. That's my goal still.
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Irrevelant. We don't have 4 or 8 years left in this country. The laws against freedom and liberty are moving at the speed of light. The police state is in 6th gear people. The elite and those in govt know the financial collapse is coming. Greece and Europe will implode very soon. The propping up is coming to an end. Add on top of that the quad trillion derivative market bust and we are under Marshall law, sitting in FEMA camps, 30,000 drones in the sky, no rights, 450 million rounds of bullets pointing at us, etc.
Seriously, what planet do some of you live on?
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As long as people are stuck in the two party criminal system by design in which they believe their vote matters, the system will win against the people.
Nothing will ever change. Don't believe me? That is exactly what Paul has said for the last 50 years. There is no difference between the two parties. Sure there is on the surface. But behind the scene, the same shit continues - more spending, more taxes, more debt, more wars, more welfare, a bigger police state.
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you have 2 options then 3rd party Gary Johnson or write in Ron Paul. Problem solved.
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http://news.yahoo.com/romney-stockholm-syndrome-084500644.html
Romney’s Stockholm Syndrome
Mitt Romney’s long slog through the Republicans’ reality-show primary is over.
After the party auditioned a cast of unlikely and occasionally unstable contenders ranging from Michele Bachmann to Herman Cain to a resurgent Rick Santorum, the most responsible man won.
It is a remarkable achievement—he is not just the first non-Protestant to capture the evangelical party’s nomination, but a formerly moderate governor of Massachusetts whose signature achievement was health-care reform will lead the Tea Party insurgency of 2010 into a presidential election.
But having finally outlasted the fringe festival, Mitt Romney seems reluctant to put the reality show behind him. He spent the night of his nomination victory in Las Vegas with Donald Trump, the last big-name bloviating birther.
With friends like these, the etch-a-sketch moment that campaign manager Eric Fehrnstrom infamously promised may be a long time coming. You can take the candidate out of the primary—but can you take the primary out of the candidate?
Romney won this race without ever letting daylight come between him and the far right. Unlike George W. Bush, who warned Republicans in Congress not to “balance the budget on the backs of the poor” when he was running for president—or John McCain, whose principled independence alienated evangelicals and the talk radio crowd—Mitt Romney has spent the better part of the past year trying a “me-too” approach when confronted with conservative criticism. He presented himself as a “severe conservative” at CPAC, refused to condemn Rush Limbaugh for calling Sandra Fluke a slut, and embraced essentially all the social conservative litmus tests required to win the nomination. The best that can be said is that he did these things without much enthusiasm, reflecting the pragmatism of a salesman who knows he must say or do whatever is necessary to hit his target number.
It is worth noting, however, that it took Romney two and a half months longer to reach the magic number than it did George W. Bush or John McCain, both of whom clinched in March. And while the extended primary calendar and proportional delegate system had a lot to do with this dynamic, Romney struggled against a significantly weaker field aided by a big money advantage, routinely outspending opponents 5 to 1. In the wake of Rick Santorum’s surrender six weeks ago, Romney has marched toward the nomination with no active opposition, but he still struggled to exceed 70 percent of the vote in successive primaries. The lesson is at least as old as The Beatles: You Can’t Buy Love.
Now that Romney has made his sale, it can be expected that his moderation will emerge—after all, it was always the unspoken essence of his vaunted “electability.” Romney has real assets in this election, as Democrats are belatedly realizing. He can convincingly sell himself to swing voters as a professional problem-solver—a turnaround expert, not a typical politician—a man whose entire career has been devoted to improving the economic competitiveness of once-proud organizations.
To top it off, Mitt Romney is a man of deep faith and impeccable personal morals, at least as an adult. But perhaps in a nod to rendering “unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s,” is ample evidence of a gap between the candidate’s personal and political values. Tone comes from the top, and Team Romney seems devoted to the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” approach to politics. They have forgotten the homespun wisdom of W: “You can’t take the high horse and then claim the low road.”
Which brings us back to the unfortunate but entirely predictable timing of a fundraiser with Donald Trump in Sin City on the night of the Texas primary. The Donald’s unhinged call into CNN’s Situation Room, where he continued to insist that President Obama was not born in the United States, could not have been designed by the Obama campaign any better if Trump were a political double agent. Romney’s persistent public embrace of the reality-show star turned clownish conspiracy theorist only compounded their problems. What’s worse, it follows a pattern that someone in the Boston HQ ought to have noticed by now: Romney always loses the news cycle when extreme voices from his own party hijack the conversation, whether on birtherism or talk about holding the country hostage to another debt-ceiling game of chicken. Extremes are always ultimately their own side’s worst enemy.
The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza pointed out via Twitter that this June marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s Sister Souljah moment. Bubba was behind in the polls at the time, losing to both Ross Perot and George H. W. Bush. But when the rapper known as Sister Souljah called for a month for black people to kill white people—as a respite from epidemic black-on-black violence—Clinton seized the opportunity to condemn an extremist on his side of the aisle at a Rainbow Coalition convention. Jesse Jackson howled at what he regarded as a “Machiavellian maneuver,” but Clinton’s declaration of independence from the far left sent a signal about his capacity for real leadership that could re-center his party and realign politics.
Romney’s repeated reluctance to take such a stand speaks to the extent to which he is still being held hostage by the right wing reality-show primaries. It reeks of Stockholm Syndrome—Romney seems to think his captors are his friends. If the lure of big money isn’t enough to cause him to break the birther embrace, what will? Where is the red line that Romney won’t cross in his pursuit of political gold?
The fact that his long-fought-for nomination victory is being overshadowed by this radioactive distraction ought to be wakeup call enough. Romney is now the leader of the Republican Party and it’s his responsibility to stand tall and set a tone that shows a capacity to be president of the United States. Failure to confront and condemn ignorance and hate indicates precisely the opposite."
Romney’s Stockholm Syndrome
Mitt Romney’s long slog through the Republicans’ reality-show primary is over.
After the party auditioned a cast of unlikely and occasionally unstable contenders ranging from Michele Bachmann to Herman Cain to a resurgent Rick Santorum, the most responsible man won.
It is a remarkable achievement—he is not just the first non-Protestant to capture the evangelical party’s nomination, but a formerly moderate governor of Massachusetts whose signature achievement was health-care reform will lead the Tea Party insurgency of 2010 into a presidential election.
But having finally outlasted the fringe festival, Mitt Romney seems reluctant to put the reality show behind him. He spent the night of his nomination victory in Las Vegas with Donald Trump, the last big-name bloviating birther.
With friends like these, the etch-a-sketch moment that campaign manager Eric Fehrnstrom infamously promised may be a long time coming. You can take the candidate out of the primary—but can you take the primary out of the candidate?
Romney won this race without ever letting daylight come between him and the far right. Unlike George W. Bush, who warned Republicans in Congress not to “balance the budget on the backs of the poor” when he was running for president—or John McCain, whose principled independence alienated evangelicals and the talk radio crowd—Mitt Romney has spent the better part of the past year trying a “me-too” approach when confronted with conservative criticism. He presented himself as a “severe conservative” at CPAC, refused to condemn Rush Limbaugh for calling Sandra Fluke a slut, and embraced essentially all the social conservative litmus tests required to win the nomination. The best that can be said is that he did these things without much enthusiasm, reflecting the pragmatism of a salesman who knows he must say or do whatever is necessary to hit his target number.
It is worth noting, however, that it took Romney two and a half months longer to reach the magic number than it did George W. Bush or John McCain, both of whom clinched in March. And while the extended primary calendar and proportional delegate system had a lot to do with this dynamic, Romney struggled against a significantly weaker field aided by a big money advantage, routinely outspending opponents 5 to 1. In the wake of Rick Santorum’s surrender six weeks ago, Romney has marched toward the nomination with no active opposition, but he still struggled to exceed 70 percent of the vote in successive primaries. The lesson is at least as old as The Beatles: You Can’t Buy Love.
Now that Romney has made his sale, it can be expected that his moderation will emerge—after all, it was always the unspoken essence of his vaunted “electability.” Romney has real assets in this election, as Democrats are belatedly realizing. He can convincingly sell himself to swing voters as a professional problem-solver—a turnaround expert, not a typical politician—a man whose entire career has been devoted to improving the economic competitiveness of once-proud organizations.
To top it off, Mitt Romney is a man of deep faith and impeccable personal morals, at least as an adult. But perhaps in a nod to rendering “unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s,” is ample evidence of a gap between the candidate’s personal and political values. Tone comes from the top, and Team Romney seems devoted to the “enemy of my enemy is my friend” approach to politics. They have forgotten the homespun wisdom of W: “You can’t take the high horse and then claim the low road.”
Which brings us back to the unfortunate but entirely predictable timing of a fundraiser with Donald Trump in Sin City on the night of the Texas primary. The Donald’s unhinged call into CNN’s Situation Room, where he continued to insist that President Obama was not born in the United States, could not have been designed by the Obama campaign any better if Trump were a political double agent. Romney’s persistent public embrace of the reality-show star turned clownish conspiracy theorist only compounded their problems. What’s worse, it follows a pattern that someone in the Boston HQ ought to have noticed by now: Romney always loses the news cycle when extreme voices from his own party hijack the conversation, whether on birtherism or talk about holding the country hostage to another debt-ceiling game of chicken. Extremes are always ultimately their own side’s worst enemy.
The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza pointed out via Twitter that this June marks the 20th anniversary of Bill Clinton’s Sister Souljah moment. Bubba was behind in the polls at the time, losing to both Ross Perot and George H. W. Bush. But when the rapper known as Sister Souljah called for a month for black people to kill white people—as a respite from epidemic black-on-black violence—Clinton seized the opportunity to condemn an extremist on his side of the aisle at a Rainbow Coalition convention. Jesse Jackson howled at what he regarded as a “Machiavellian maneuver,” but Clinton’s declaration of independence from the far left sent a signal about his capacity for real leadership that could re-center his party and realign politics.
Romney’s repeated reluctance to take such a stand speaks to the extent to which he is still being held hostage by the right wing reality-show primaries. It reeks of Stockholm Syndrome—Romney seems to think his captors are his friends. If the lure of big money isn’t enough to cause him to break the birther embrace, what will? Where is the red line that Romney won’t cross in his pursuit of political gold?
The fact that his long-fought-for nomination victory is being overshadowed by this radioactive distraction ought to be wakeup call enough. Romney is now the leader of the Republican Party and it’s his responsibility to stand tall and set a tone that shows a capacity to be president of the United States. Failure to confront and condemn ignorance and hate indicates precisely the opposite."
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