‘Real News’ War Room: Why Does Romney Struggle Presenting His Conservatism?
A recurring problem for Mitt Romney throughout the Republican primary that has now carried through well into the general election campaign has been a propensity to trip-up when discussing his conservative views in uncontrolled or seemingly private situations. The latest gaffe to create a subsequent media frenzy and raise questions about his candidacy got off the ground Monday, when Mother Jones released a video clip of Romney during a fundraising dinner with supporters in Boca Raton. In the “secret video,” he speaks in an inelegant way about the Obama campaign’s appeal to the 47 percent of the country that doesn’t pay income taxes and is dependent on government assistance.
The uncomfortable soundbite falls in line with hits like ”I’m not concerned about the very poor,” “corporations are people my friend” and “I like being able to fire people who do a service for me,” all moments in the campaign that Romney’s staff and surrogates would like to put in the rearview mirror.
John McCormack of The Weekly Standard writes that these types of gaffes dating back to CPAC 2012 and “I was a severely conservative Republican governor,” may not be a sign of Romney’s difficulties as a campaigner, but a true lack of understanding and belief in conservatism.
“These appear to be the words of somebody who doesn’t understand American conservatism and its relationship to the American idea,” writes McCormack. Going on to add:
The reason such remarks keep slipping out of Mitt Romney’s mouth is not that Romney wants to wage a class war against lower-income Americans. The likely problem is that Mitt Romney is not a conservative–or at least wasn’t a conservative until late in life–but he is running for president as the nominee of the conservative party on a conservative platform. So he has trouble defending conservative ideas. And when he sells himself to conservatives, he sometimes comes across as a right-wing caricature.
The “Real News From TheBlaze” panel Wednesday discussed what Romney’s remarks say about his conservatism, and whether conservatives still attacking Romney this late in the game are cutting off their nose to spite their face:
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Dolt
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 7:07pmIn 2008, we rejected the RINO running for prez. In 2010 we rejected RINOs running for congress. Yet some how all of you so called “conservatives” truly believe we will suddenly choose the RINO candidate in 2012? Well, when Romney loses, just remember that the only people to blame is youself. Ill be voting for actual conservative, constitutional values and his name isnt Romney.
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ashestoashes
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:43pmThis should tell you that you have no voice at all in who is chosen as the candidate. Romney was the least liked..and he was the one shoved down your throats..
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Ex_marine_dude_8313
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:44pmRomney has always been the type of politician that “goes with the flow”. He used to be pro abortion, now he is pro life. He used to advocate universal health, now he does not. He is a hreakin weather vane!!
How could our party put up such a weak candidate??? Disgusting.
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MadAsHeII
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:18pmYes he is the weakest out of all the candidates that were running in the primary. Now Fox News has a poll that shows Obama is up over Romney by a huge percentage in three states that will give him the Electoral: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/19/obama-has-edge-over-romney-in-three-battleground-states/#ixzz2719gIO00
If all of you were to start talking amongst yourselves about voting third party, we might, just might be able to defeat Obama, but it is in the Republicans hands, like it has been since the beginning, to make the difference. You have to come to the realization that Mitt Romney is not the one that will accomplish the goal, but a third party is and the one that is going to be on all 50 + ballots in the states and territories, is Gary Johnson. Sorry, but that is the truth.
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MadAsHeII
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 4:27pmWatch this on the 47% disaster, funny: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-blasts-fox-news-over-romney-video-chaos-on-bullsht-mountain/
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ashestoashes
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:53pmRomney was a liberal who changed to conservative late in life..sure..on the ticket..he is still 100% liberal..It’s like Howdy Doody dressing up as Mickey Mouse..He’s still Howdy Doody..The audience is the only one who gest fooled.. The unfederal reserve picks the candidates..they say..here..you can have our muslim globalist communist puppet..or you can have our mormon globalist communist puppet..we still choose..
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ALL-IN
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 5:37amWhy does Romny struggle to present his conservatism?
Because Romney lives by his own code of ethics.
He is not a show boat. He just quietly goes about his business and his business is sucess!
He does what his consience tells him is right, not what a bunch of people looking to be entertained tell him is right.
The office of the President is a business office, NOT areality show like Obama treats it.
Anyone that is undecided at this point has their head squarely imbeded in their AS$
I am ashamed that this country has so many people that are willing to give up what they have been given for a hollow promise. Little do they know, that once Obama and the like have what ther are after the lives of the useful idiots will be meaningless to them. They will be cast aside at best. Left on the side of the road like a dead skunk.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:06amALL-.IN…I agree with you about Romney, but, to win you need diversified appeal. Mostly Romney has negative support: He’s NOT Obama. That is his strength, but he is in a strange position. I think He’s not appealing to the Christian base cause Most Christians look at Mormonism much as they do any cult. Joseph Smith is presented in history as a charlatan and possibly a mass murderer. However nice mormons appear to be they will always carry this black mark.
He could appeal to social moderates, at the cost of conservative social thinkers. The working class, may respect his business history, but don’t believe he can drive a nail. He has not connected with the suffering blue collar people. He has allowed his message to be diluted by the left’s attack dogs, and has not made headway with many younger voters who would like to see a tattoo or two.
I personally, will probably vote against Obama. and that is the best I can do right now.
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MadAsHeII
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:35pm@Allin, “He does what his consience tells him is right.” Did his conscience tell him to go along with his attorney and the RNC when they changed the rules at the convention, against the voice of the people, to silence grassroots candidates? That is where the Romney mess up is at. I tried to get all of you to call your local GOP headquarters and the Romney campaign to voice your disgust for this, but apparently you did not. Romney is the weakest candidate out of all the candidates we had to choose from in the primary. Now we are stuck with him on the Republican ballot and he does not have what it takes to win. What does everyone suggest we do? I believe that getting behind a third party candidate, like Johnson, for one election, would get Obama out, and it would send a clear message to both parties that we are not going to take it anymore. In four years, maybe the Republicans will put up a true Conservative for us to get behind. But, we will not get there unless Republicans get their heads out of their @sses and get together on getting Obama out. Romney will not do it, I just do not see how he can at this point.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html
Plus Obama has gained 10 electoral this week: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html
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Stab_friendly
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:20amI keep waiting for that “Mission Impossible” moment that Mitt Romney pulls his mask off and it turns out to be John Kerry….
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:07amFRIENDLY….touche’
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Ex_marine_dude_8313
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:38pmlol I am afraid we conservatives are stuck with a guy who is not.
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legendarytwo
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:34amMitt thinks God is going to do what he should be doing and the RNC is just stupid. Mitt and RNC are helping Obama by continuing to say the president wants to help everyone with social programs and healthcare with other peoples money. People don’t mind that, the rich have plenty of money. THE PEOPLE NEED TO BE TOLD OBAMA WANTS TO BANKRUPT OUR COUNTRY IN THE NAME OF HELPING PEOPLE. That is called evil intentions. He doesn’t give a crap about poor people. He is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. AND WHEN AMERICA IS BANKRUPT THEY WILL GET NOTHING BUT SLAVERY.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:18amMore and more people are coming to realize that progressivism is the same monster, left or right. We have a choice between two candidates that will spoon feed the poor, allow moral compromise, and ignore constitutional legalities.
Progressive thought is Globalist thought. Globalist thought is totalitarian thought. Globalism cannot co-exist with constitutional liberty. Globalism cannot co-exist with bible bangin’ Christianity. The future belongs to the NWO. There is no way to stop it, save extinction level catastrophe.
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coizinho
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:31amAdd your comments
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MadAsHeII
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:11amI will add that I do not believe Romney has a chance in heII of winning the election, and I think that if everyone really wants BO out, they better start colluding and vote for Gary Johnson. If you guys are smart, that is what you will start doing. Ron Paul would have been better, but Ron Paul is out and Johnson is on the ballot in all 50 states.
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:04amMADASHEll. You’re right… Ron Paul’s out (he certainly was a POS wasn’t he?). Now the Paul acolytes opine that Gary Johnson is the important force in this election and not Romney. That Johnson offers real choice, and more importantly, that Ron Paul supporters should jump ship to the Liberal-tarian party and vote for The Governor. Why would Ron Paul supporters or anyone else do that?
For most Paul parrots it was Ron Paul or nobody… and now you’re saying all the Ron Paul scholars should go back on their word (Ron Paul do or die)? Or those of us out here who think both Paul and now Johnson have been and would be an absolute contributer to the moral decay of our society (morally bankrupt socially-Liberal-tarian views)… you now want us (we, them) to vote away from our consciences, our Conservative values and morals (our common sense) and go with another big government guy named Johnson?
You should check out Johnson’s record in New Mexico and stop with the song and dance…
Attention alleged Libertarians (Liberal-tarians)… Governor Johnson expanded New Mexico’s public debt just as quickly during his adminsitration as President Obama has during his and he did so during a monstrous economic boom rather than a time of recession. He has no record to run on when it comes to “fiscal restraint”… Johnson did just as much damage to New Mexico’s debt profile on a percentage basis as President Obama has nationally!
Must be just about about the dope…
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:31amMy two cents……The people who installed Obama in the office he holds, were able to do it without vetting or qualifications or eligibility. The out come of this election depends on them, not the electorate.
We have surely lost our national sovereignty. If this cabal believes that Romney can help them more than Obama can, Romney will win. Since Obama has proven himself to be rather foolish and ineffectual, Romney may just be the next POTUS. Obama will have his talk show and we merrily “progress” into the NWO.
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MadAsHeII
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 3:55pm@TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12, I think I told you this the first time you replied to me, that your name on here tells it all on your mindset. I will not take anyone serious that shows such bigotry towards one man or one groups ideology. You are against all that is libertarian and all that you say is biased. I know this, Mitt Romney has very little chance of winning the election, so I would say that voting for him is a wasted vote, and I now consider my vote for him in the primary wasted. He was not the guy that the party should have pushed, they should have pushed Santorum or Gingrich, and after they dropped out, I believe now that they should have pushed Paul. any one of those three would have been in a better position to defeat Obama, but alas, we have Mitt Romney. He will be the cause of Obama getting reelected. The only chance that I see at this point is, Gary Johnson, but he will not win if Republicans do not get behind him, and with the mindsets I see, I do not think that will happen, so four more years of Obama is what we are going to get and the country will stay divided until the economy crashes and we all have nothing.
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coizinho
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:17amI think I did a big mistake to switch to DISH because of the BLAZE. I don’t want to hear this amateur people all the time said bad things about Romney, if want to see division into my party, I would watch Fox News. Why Democrats pretended to be Independent always have to said bad thinks about Republicans, no wounder why America is in decline, because false Americans. Democrats always defend each other, even if don’t believe what they said. And for tell that true, I don’t care anymore, just because people like you guys. Good By!!
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:46amSank choo velly solly see choo go…..by now.
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PointBreak
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:55pmUh, BECAUSE HE’S NOT A CONSERVATIVE?????
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Sirfoldallot
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:38amThx u.
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barber2
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:40pmThis topic has been OCCUPIED by the ” whatever” crowd. bottom line : Obama wins. Marxism wins. American values die. And Third World American is birthed. Alert : Condom these Democrat Marxists, please. NOBAMA 2012 NO DEMOCRATS 2012.
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:04pmNot the whole topic, Barber. Come join us, your fellow Americans, way down at the first post.
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resme
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:08pm“Obama wins. Marxism wins.”
Well you can’t really call Obama a Marxist, He believes in Imperialism. Marxism denounces American imperialism. He’s more along the lines of fascism with a hint of socialism.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:20amRES-ME….Obama is a satanic globalist, making sure that the U.S. is ready to accept the loss of sovereignty to the NWO. An ‘objective’ review of his term in office bears this out. The last two dominoes are the dollar and the guns we hold. QE3 takes care of the dollar and all the recent “public” gun crimes will lead to the seizure of our firearms , (deadly force will be used).
When the dollar collapses the “emergency” systems will be put in place and the military and para military will be deployed all over the country. At this point civil rights will be suspended and enforced fascism will be the ‘law of the land”. I’m sure you can extrapolate from there.
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justangry
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:56amMax Jones, Both candidates are globalists that support the NWO. The dumb Bush already signed over sovereignty to the UN in case of a Pandemic. Then signed the Water Compact with Canada. Globalists are in control of both parties, you just want to pretend this isn’t the case, but it is the reality. Anyone running on the idea of preserving our sovereignty will be silenced by the CFR owned media.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 10:43amJust angry….I agree with you …in spades. We are witnessing the culmination of a hundred years of progressive treachery. There is one thing I want to add….This scenario is straight out of bible prophecy, and is following God’s explanation of the end times to a ‘T’. I saw this coming 20 years ago and have watched the ‘progress’ like I watch a football game or a Nascar race. I did not foresee the islamist thing, but It fits just fine, now that I know about them. Israel has been the key all along. I never thought that the muslims would ever unify Islam into the monster it is ,now.
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Cosmos102
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:36pmSince it gets more obvious with every election that the electorate wants someone who is a Conservative, why does the RNC fight us every step of the way when selecting our candidate? If Romney would be doing better in the polls as a Conservative, why could we not select a Conservative as our candidate?
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resme
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:19pm‘Real News’ War Room: Why Does Romney Struggle Presenting His Conservatism?
Because, Just maybe… He never had any?
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:59pmYou guys are voting for him because “he isnt a communist”, not because he is a conservative. This is what you get. After proclaiming for months that Romney is OK because Obama is a communist – now Beck is acting like Romney is a conservative (that is called projecting)
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resme
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:29pm“I make $82h while I’m traveling the world. Last week I worked by my laptop in Rome, Monti Carlo and finally Paris…This week I’m back in the USA. All I do are easy tasks from this one cool site. check it out,..http://Ace16.com”
Are you a ******, honey?
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762x51
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:54pmRomney struggles because he is NOT a conservative, simple.
He is just less of an enemy than the filthy Marxist Obama. Once again conservative Americans must hold their nose and vote for the lesser of two evils.
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DeathRattle
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:24pmAmen and amen, well said brother.
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HKS
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:50pmDitto on that.
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Individualism
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:54pmbecause hes a liberal like his supporters.
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marybethelizabeth
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:23pmMitt “I Built IT” Romney is not a liberal.
The only thing Mitt “I Built IT” Romney has in common with Conservatives is a contempt for the underclass, as if being poor is evidence of severe moral depravity. The poor have only their-selves to blame for their miserable existence. The self cleaning toilet is coming and when it arrives the poor will be totally useless.
Those are not liberal views.
He was at it again today saying he will put foodstamp recipients to work. Because he knows how. He doesn’t realize that most of them already have jobs
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:50pm@ MARY… I agree with you that that Mitt has contempt for certain segments of the underclass…
…& so do i.
There’s more working class people om food stamps, in part, because the eligibility standards for them have gotten broader.
Truth is, for some folks, the shame is gone.
I don’t think this is healthy to the human spirit.
Don’t get me wrong- I am all for need- based assistence……
But it rubs people the wrong way when “Omaha Steaks” trucks advertise on the SIDE OF THE TRUCK that they accept EBT cards….
PS… i used to teach in a High School summer program that PAID trouble makers to attend summer school. To be eligible you had to prove you were needy. A fair percentage of the kids were dropped off everyday by parents driving $40,000 leased cars…. spinning rims… blasting HUGE stereo systems…
Reality Bites
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Max jones
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:10pmMarybetsomuch..no-one could express the true conservative POV in this country. We are a nation of indoctrinated, dependent, self absorbed, sexually obsessed, indolent slobs, sucking the teat of a utopian dream made of cotton candy laced with opiates. We won’t be recovering from this addiction. We will lay in our fece smeared boudoir, indulging our desires indiscriminately, and with abandon, until we expire in the throes of fevered chills. To point this out would be political suicide. So we lie about it and make excuses for it and blame it on 1% of the population.
That rich guy over there, he made me perverse and careless, because I was not prepared to be in the 21st century. He did it, He did it. He made me aware that there was more than my liberal progressive schools and social bureaucracies taught me was possible, through “real” education and HARD work. He forced me into bad life choices, because it sure looked like he had “the good life”, and I wanted some too. I just didn’t know how. So I listened to ‘fifty cent’ and jay ‘z’ and Pelosi, and Now I have nothing…nothing but this jones.
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Rayblue
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:52pmIn my own opinion, Mr Romney should take a sledgehammer to a brick wall once a day until the blood from the flying shards no longer scares him. And the blisters no longer need attention. And he gets an arm and shoulder to push back the oval office desk to the place from which it has been moved.
In my own opinion.
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Max jones
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:38pmMitt Romney was not prepared for the incivility and nastiness that has been the hallmark of the left this century….It goes to prove that decency and honest accomplishment are no longer valued in this nation. But you can openly admit to satanism and sexual depravity and sell millions of records….We should have put Kanye West on the ticket with Lady Gaga, and run the campaign with busloads of hookers and crack dealers. That would have been the only way to attract the average obama supporter.
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OlefromMN
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:48pmWhat candidate has not been ripped? Romney may be obtaining one commonality with Reagan in the fact the attacks against him are balanced between the opposition as well as from the “good guys”. Is Romney making the “establishment” nervous? That may not be a bad thing.
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KingDork
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:44pmbecause paulbots and obama cultists are claiming it so they can try to demoralize us and hoping they can get obama in for the second term.
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soybomb315
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:51pmBeck is a paulbot?
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KidCharlemagne
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:59pm“I am someone who is moderate and my views are Progressive.”
Mitt Romney in his own words
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Cybil
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:42pmWhat a damn strange article. It’s either Romney or Obama. Stop the petty squabbling and support our guy. He’s not perfect but 100% better than the alternative. Enough of the anal introspect. Obama is the enemy not Romney!
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soybomb315
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:52pmthey should just stop beating around the bush and tell everyone that Romney is a fraud. Make him drop out. Throw your support behind Gary Johnson and Obama will lose in a landslide
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notanotherinsider
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:20pmI agree. This is a strange article (discussion), and this group of clowns are consistently picking Romney apart with their introspection. He does not need enemies with friends like these clowns.
Like most respectable conservative talk show hosts, I think Romney said exactly what needed to be said. He was 100% correct. He had an appropriate message for the audience that paid tens of thousands of dollars to be there. He was not guarded, and he was not trying to be conservative. He was speaking as we all would in a perceived safe environment with no video cameras.
I prefer a secret video with Mitt Romney telling us the truth over a hot mic with Obama making concessions and promises to Russia…….
Gov Romney is our best option. The media is making a mountain out of a mole hill and this group of clowns are part of the problem.
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resme
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:23pm” He’s not perfect but 100% better than the alternative”
I’d say around 1-2% better, Then he starts talking like John Mccain. So, I’d have to deduct a few %, Which ends up at 0%.
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marybethelizabeth
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:27pmIn states where the outcome is already decided the best way to demonstrate your dissatisfaction is by voting for an alternative party.
You don’t get a gold star if you cast a vote for the winner.
How can anyone vote for a Democrat or a Republican? It’s a sign of self hatred.
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Max jones
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:40pmSoybomb that is an idiotic statement, but your probably closer to my thinking than i like.
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 8:49am@SOY.. “make” him drop out…. hmm…
As in coerce or compel? Interesting suggestion coming from a lover of liberty…. ;)
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WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:37pm(Hint)
Because he is not a conservative. Everyone has said it. “He is the worst person to put up against Obama” The ONLY person who ran for president who polled as being able to pull in independents and beat Obama? Ron freaking Paul. The best person to put up against Obama. I know hes not going to be POTUS, im just saying. So once again the establishment has sold us out and all you shills for the establishment went for it.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ron-paul-only-candidate-able-011300652.html
I am so pleased with the idiot neoconservatives. They have done so much for this country.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:03amThe people who installed Obama in the office he now holds, are laughing at us. If they got him in the first time without ANY vetting or eligibility, they can put him in this time too. If they think he’s done as much damage as he can, they will install Romney, and finish the job with him.
All of the “elites” are globalists and support the coming satanic system. They are uniformly, and, willfully, ignorant of the methods and tactics of our adversary, and are playing into his hands. As long as we let them use social issues and class distinction as planks instead of bringing the fight to its real objective, we lose. The NWO is inevitable, and they all know this. QE3 is the last nail in the dollar’s coffin. last one to go, turn out the lights.
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TRILO
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:32pmThis is a real question? Why, because he does not believe in what he says. This is why he has flip flopped on every single issue. It is not that hard to figure out.
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Eternal
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:30pmEmbrace your passions Mitt n screw the 47
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resme
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:27pm“Embrace your passions Mitt n screw the 47″
We should be working to get rid of the Income tax. Not increase the base to 100%. Income tax is unconstitutional. Is paying more taxes patriotic? I don’t get the GOP’s hypocrisy, lol.
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ModerationIsBest
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:29pmTodd Akin
Rick Santorum
Michelle Bachmann
Bob McDonnell
Sarah Palin
Christine O Donnell
John Boehner
are some of the reasons why conservatism is failing
The platform of “I love God and I hate gays” is no longer appealing to a lot of Americans.
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Want our country back
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:36pmYou love gays and hate God???????
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MrButcher
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:44pm“I love god and I hate gays” is not the platform of the American Right. That is a reactionary understanding at best.
If perception is reality and these are your perceptions then you do not understand what is going on and nor does anyone who shares them.
It is about liberty vs tyranny.
Individualism vs collectivism.
In short, the existential survival of the Republic as we have known it for the last 200 some odd years.
Which side are you on?
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:00pmI think the real reason is that most americans dont want the federal government telling them who they can marry, what they can smoke in their house, and what they can do with their bodies
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Shasta
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:01pmMrButcher, very nicely said.
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Salamander
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:12pmI don’t think the platform is “I love God and I hate Gays!” I think the platform is “I love God and I disagree with the Gays’ push to redefine marriage!” The trouble with the Gays is that they have placed themselves squarely in the way of what they purport to want most! There isn’t anything in marriage they couldn’t get for themselves without turning the World upside down for everybody else! Rather, the 1.5 to 2% have decided to redefine marriage for the other 98 to 98.5%! The math doesn’t work! And, what they are seeing is backlash to their ideology, not their lifestyle–who could care less! It is the Gays that have confused their identity with their ideology! Heterophobic? Rather, they are just hopelessly ****-centric! Thanks for the distraction–if you hadn’t noticed, The World is burning down around you–and us!
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Salamander
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:16pmGosh, I cannot believe I got bleeped for h0m0centric! Sheesh!
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justangry
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:27pmNah Butcher that’s crap and you know it. Romney doesn’t represent freedom in any way whatsoever, and at least on this site, it’s obvious most care more about gay marriage than the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. That and killing Muslims. Obama is tolerant of homosexuality and not killing as many Muslims as preferred by the average Blazer, therefore he’s a commie and Romney not. Despite them agreeing on practically every other issue.
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:31pmMrButcher and Salamander are DEAD-ON! Very well said, you two.
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ModerationIsBest
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:33pm@MRBUTCHER
I hear all of you people say the Government is bad, but you sure do love government endorsements of your religion don’t you?
In God We Trust became our official motto in the 1950s
Under God wasn’t added to the pledge until the 1950s
People now use these things to say that we’re a Christian nation.
You say you want religious freedom, but have no problem using the government to force others to conform their lives around your book.
If a politician doesn’t mention God, there is an uproar
Please stop with this “liberty vs tyranny” nonsense you people spew.
You are all for tyranny, just your form of tyranny.
To the person who said “redefinition of marriage”
Marriage was never official defined, which is why you have State’s now passing Constitutional amendments defining that.
Regardless, marriage doesn’t come from the Bible and if you think it is, you have a horrible understanding history. The Bible wasn’t the first book written, and whatever came from the Bible, came from previous societies.
Genesis isn’t a factual account of the beginning of the world, it’s not an eye witness account. It is merely a crazy person looking at the world and making stuff up as they went along as to how they got to current day.
Regardless, we live in a Constitutional republic which means the majority can’t force something on the minority if it’s deemed Unconstitutional.
One day, it will be deemed unconstitutional to deny homosexua
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:28am@JUST…. You’re naked.. what happened to your avatar?
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:45amMODERATIONISELLOUT…..YO, It does not matter….. all of the elites are globalist shills. The loss of U.S. sovereignty is inevitable, and I know this from my bible study. We have mere months to watch it come down. If any doubt this, then they are not seeing the indicators. You had a short list of your faves to hate, make a list of your faves to love and compare them. who do you trust? I would say, if you are honest, there would be none.
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ModerationIsBest
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:43am@MAX JONES
I don’t look up to politicians
I don’t look up to celebrities
I don’t look up to athletes
I don’t try to emulate anyone. I am my own person.
Now just because I don’t look up to those people, doesn’t mean I don’t hope for the best and try to genuinely work with them to make a better society.
Religious people who constantly tell me, “well I hope you don’t put your faith in mankind because you will be let down.”
First off, I don’t use faith in any aspect of my life.
Secondly, just because someone may let me down, doesn’t mean I shouldn’t try to work with them and hope they have good intentions. If I eventually find that they don’t have good intentions, I can move on and try the next person.
Being let down is a part of life. There is nothing about this world that says we shouldn’t be let down.
And just because I do get let down, doesn’t mean I have to accept the impossible and follow superstitious teachings that there is some invisible being that will never let me down. That always has every right answer. That is just flat out nonsense.
All I see Christians on here talk about is how gleeful they are for the world to come to an end so everyone can die and they can meet their supposed savior.
Feel free to have such a grim outlook on this world and on humanity, I choose to think that one day things will get better.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 11:13amModerationis best…You make the best arguments, and get my blood flowing, and I like that. I’m getting to know you. The coming global empire needs people like you. People who will obey and do what is needed to “progress”. You have no moral standard but humanism. People who will have no moral prohibitions People who think they know good from evil instinctively.
You may believe that you don’t have a place for faith in your life, but in reality you can’t function without it. You have faith. Maybe more than I do. You are sure enough of your own paradigm, that you have denied any greater intelligence. Any moral imperitive, beyond your own contrived value system. Yep, you are gonna fit in, perfectly.(OK sermon over..now encouragement):
Personally, I think you are due for a catharsis, and a change of heart….You are way too good of a fellow to remain in the dangerous and precarious status you currently occupy.
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MrButcher
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:24pmRomney has a media that wants to crucify him for farting…
for breathing
for talking
for daring to run against Obama.
It’s a rigged game and he knows it.
He should just lower his shoulder and plow through them.
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Salamander
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:14pmHe could fart on camera–like Hillary did! It sure would break the ice!
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:20pmThis is the easiest essay question i’ve ever gotten…
answer: Because he doesn’t really give a crap about the social issues.. but he knows he has to pretend to get the “base” behind him.
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Want our country back
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:29pmYou ♥ obama……………..
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:29pmEastInfection, I give your comment 8 out of 10 points for accuracy. I believe your assessment is closer to the truth than John McCormack’s. I think Romney probably gives slightly more than “a crap” about the social issues, but they definitely are NOT on his list of priorities. And, considering our fiscal dire straits at present, I believe that we are all willing to concede some ground on social issues to get a leader who is strong on fiscal ones.
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soybomb315
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:49pmRomney cares about the social issues, just not in the same way a conservative does. Remember, Romney is a progressive
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/romneys-2002-flashback-my-views-are-progressive/
So Romney goes from being a progressive to an anti-entitlement crusader??? BS. He is a political flip flopper, saying and doing whatever it takes to get to the next step. The man has no core outside of private business
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:55pm@WOOL… With you there. I’m voting for Romney because he’s a businessman and the current CEO sux at running this business. All truth be told- i don’t give a crap about the social issues myself.
@WANTOURCOUNTRY… How did you make that cool heart graphic?
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:10pm@SOY… hey bro. …I think Romney suffers from the same problem allot of Americans ail from:
This whole concept that you’re either “conservative” or “liberal”. I think THAT’S b.s….
Why do people have to be pro-life and pro capital punishment to be “conservative”?
Why do people have to be pro-choice & anti- capital punishment to be “liberal”?
These things make no sense to me.
I can run down the list of issues & i’m invariably on “our side” on some issues & “their side” on others… yet i feel like i’m consistent in my ideals & beliefs.
I’m tired of others trying to make me chose (a) or (b) when the entire alphabet should be available.
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:44pm♦♥♦♥♦♥♦ EastInfection, use your Character Map.
If you’re running Windows, it can be found under Start Menu -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools
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Eastinfection
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:23am@WOOL..
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lol.. computers r fun! :D
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Verceofreason
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 2:09amRomney like Bush, just wants the title.
He seems quite dim and clueless.
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Want our country back
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 9:10amEastinfection, try Alt 3
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Want our country back
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:19pmI sent this to Glenn after watching Real News…. and then I came across this article at the right scoop.
http://www.therightscoop.com/mark-levin-calls-out-bill-kristol-and-others-for-trash-mouthing-of-romney/
After watching Real News and listening to SE rip Romney’s WORDS, I was appalled at the arrogance of her, along with the rest of the panel, except for Buck, to waste a segment of the show telling us that he sucks as a communicator. Personally, I don’t like her breathy segments and her style … He’s 65, he’s successful and for SE to explain how he could have expressed himself better (in her opinion) was nauseating. Buck said it best, Obama supporters want him to win and they will circle the wagons to make him look good. Conservatives are circling Mitt Romney’s wagon and are shooting at him, not enough to kill him but to do enough damage to prove their point that they are smarter. I do not appreciate ‘our side’ Noonan, Krystal and now Real News telling us that this guy is a buffoon and we’re stuck with a dope. I like Mitt Romney. I like the way he talks. He looks great on camera. I think he’ll be a GREAT president, if we don’t destroy him first.
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:48pmAbsolutely! I agree 100% that the left-wing media are criticizing Romney PLENTY without the right’s help. I honestly think that many of these “right-wing” folks are actually playing populist to what they perceive is a liberal majority. Most of them think the massive landslide of Conservative victories in 2010 was some kind of fluke. Won’t they be shocked in November when America’s silent majority speak out louder than ever!
They are guilty of the same shortsightedness that the dems have shown, i.e. they have bought into the lie perpetrated and propagated by the leftist media. The lie in question is that a majority of Americans are now liberal and that the brainwashing campaign from Hollywood, Madison Ave., and 30 Rock (among others) has succeeded.
While there is certainly a very significant number of American people who HAVE succ-u-mbed to the incessant propaganda, there are still more of us who quietly recognize the brainwashing for what it is and therefore do not fall prey to it.
The dems have been drunk with power since 2006. They have fallen prey to their own propaganda and, thinking they had finally won for all time, have proceeded to strut about, exposing their true face – as God-haters, liars, cheaters, and anti-capitalists – to an America they thought were completely in the tank. Well, November should sober them up, and thanks to their own arrogant display, the hangover may last for a decade or more (I hope).
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soybomb315_II
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 9:57pmits just a shame we have a nominee who is incapable of convincing the minds of so many. is it because he knows he is terribly flawed?
“My job is not to worry about those people. I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:01pmBy the way, I have a lot of confidence in Romney’s ability to right the sinking ship of our precious Republic. I believe, based on his strength of character and his proven record of success in affecting huge about-faces in horribly failing institutions, that America may very well fall in love with Mitt by the time he is up for re-election in 2016, much as we did with Reagan between 1980 and 1984.
I will be praying for his success, because OUR success – in fact, our very survival as a Constitutional Republic – depends greatly on HIS success as a leader.
GO ROMNEY/RYAN! America is pulling for you, and we’re praying for you and our nation!
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Wool-Free Vision
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:08pmAs further proof of my assessment of the liberal lie, this was just posted over on Drudge:
DRUDGE REPORT: 1 BILLION PAGE VIEWS IN PAST 31 DAYS! FIRST TIME IN SITE’S 17 YEAR HISTORY… DRAMA, DANGER, LIFE AND LOVE, IT’S ALL HAPPENING NOW…
America is more awake than we have been in 30 years. This is too promising for a few lukewarm commentators like Kristol & Cupp to continue to deny.
You populist jerks better get with the program, because we can see your true nature as pessimistic elitist snobs. Your lukewarmness in the cause for Liberty gives off a familiar stench. Smells like OWS and DNC.
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CatB
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 10:56pmS.E. went over to the dark side joining MSNBC .. I really don’t know why she is still on The Blaze .. she apparently would love to live under Dictator Obama.
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leonardo44
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:28pmI agree with you completely. i am so sick of S E Cupp’s arrogance and Will Cain pretending to be a conservative and never saying anything of substance. Buck is the only one who speaks from the heart as a true conservative. And he’s always interrupted by Cupp and Cain, and it’s Buck’s that says the most interesting things by far. Cupp and Cain are too concerned with appeasing liberals and keeping with their jobs at msnbc and cnn.
Romney is a good man who can put this country back on track. Let’s get behind him and stop destroying the guy.
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BV FROM TX
Posted on September 19, 2012 at 11:28pmI agree and I sent them an email and copied Glenn and Scott Baker. Buck is the only adult in the room. Hindsight is 20/20 and it was ridiculous for S. E. to try to talk for Romney after-the-fact.
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coizinho
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:56amI agreed with you 100%, this people help the evil media repeat everything again. The same with Sara Palin, was the Republicans fault that we lost the election in 2008 and end up with Obama.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 1:23amToday, in this country, one cannot speak the truth and get anywhere. This is a symptom of a grave disease. A terminal disease. There is no cure, but soon there will come a day when promises are made and deals are cut. Beware, for there will be no man who has anything on his mind but his own ass.
Big bad wolf coming, and nobody will rescue or even sympathize. HA HA….Secular humanism is not humane, it is murderous…. there is one way out of this and the qualifications are beyond most.Gold is pretty, as are firearms, but they aren’t gonna help. Only way to last is to become a dedicated satanist and worship the antichrist,cause he’s a comin’. That is unless you love the Lord, and trust the Word deeply enough to risk martyrdom. But in the end NOBODY gets out.
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Max jones
Posted on September 20, 2012 at 12:39pmWOOLFREE…..Our whole future rests in one of two systems…a system of servility and degradation, that will last all of 3 1/2 years, or a system of government in direct, iron fisted control of Jesus
Christ, that has 1000 years.
Could you make it under Christ’s government? I think you would do fine. You trust in Him, right?
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