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Romney Reaffirms Support of Automatic Increases in Minimum Wage

EAGAN, Minn. (The Blaze/AP) — Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney renewed his support Wednesday for automatic increases in the federal minimum wage to keep pace with inflation, a position sharply at odds with traditional GOP business allies, conservatives and the party’s senior lawmakers.

“I haven’t changed my thoughts on that,” the former Massachusetts governor told reporters aboard his chartered campaign plane, referring to a stand he has held for a decade.

He did not say if he would ask Congress to approve the change if he wins the White House this fall.

Congress first enacted federal minimum wage legislation in 1938 and has raised it sporadically in the years since. The last increase, approved in 2007, took effect in three installments and reached $7.25 an hour for covered workers effective July 24, 2009.

It has never been allowed to rise automatically, as Romney envisions.

Organized labor generally supports increases in the minimum wage, and Romney’s position could give him cross-over appeal among blue-collar Democrats in a general election campaign.

Republicans have generally opposed attempts to raise it, although in 1996, the GOP-controlled Congress passed an election-year increase that included a package of tax cuts for business and a subminimum wage to apply to new, younger employees.

At the time lawmakers were considering the 2007 legislation, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce registered its disapproval.

“Any minimum wage increase will significantly affect the bottom line of the nation’s small business owners,” said Bruce Josten, the executive vice president for government affairs at the organization, which says it represents more than 3 million businesses and organizations across the country.

The National Federation of Independent Business says on its website that it “opposes any increase in the current federal minimum wage. Mandatory wage increases not only hurt small businesses, but their employees as well … It has not been proven to reduce poverty or narrow the income gap and puts a stranglehold on America’s top job creators: small businesses.”

Aides to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Romney’s statement.

As a candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Romney said he supported minimum wage increases in line with inflation.

Five years ago, he said he liked the “idea of getting the political debate out and I like the idea of not having the huge jumps as we do now.”

One of Romney’s rivals in the presidential race, Newt Gingrich, said at a news conference last week that he would be cautious about raising the minimum wage for fear it would contribute to unemployment. He was speaker of the House at the time of the 1996 increase, which was passed under Democratic pressure.

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  • hempstead1944
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:45pm

    Told you so, told you so, told you so……Just another RINO in the mold of McCain and Dole…….

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    • go2gym
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:02pm

      That’s not something you had to tell conservatives. We know.

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    • A Doctors Labor Is Not My Right
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:04pm

      “Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney renewed his support Wednesday for automatic increases in the federal minimum wage to keep pace with inflation, a position sharply at odds with traditional GOP business allies, conservatives and the party’s senior lawmakers.”

      Mitt Romney doesn’t understand that inflation is caused by artificial credit expansion (which is what caused the housing bubble), and that the Minimum Wage creates a barrier to entry into the marketplace for unskilled labor.

      Learn Austrian Economics, Mitt Romney!

      See here.

      Smashing Myths and Restoring Sound Money | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAzExlEsIKk

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    • OHSundevil
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:38pm

      Yep. Romney might be Satan as well…

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    • Twobyfour
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:09pm

      “to keep pace with inflation”

      Atta maroon! Minimum wages create an upward inflationary pressure.

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    • MarsBarsTru7
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 11:58pm

      THANKS FOR VOTING FOR ROMNEY FLORIDA!

      I wake up every day, hoping that there will be a widespread awakening among the voting population of this country, and every single day I wake up to things like this. How much stupidity has to be flung in your faces before you people face the music? You want to vote for this guy? You might as well be down in some park pitching a tent, forgoing all hygiene, and screaming zany epithets about the 99% and the 1%.

      I’m getting so fed up. I’m living in the United Fascist States of America in the last days of the Constitution and the people that are supposed to be like minded with me are voting for – Romney? You people are going to get exactly what you deserve.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:18am

      I do NOT like the government telling me what to pay my employees. I have always contended that the only reason the government wants regulated higher minimum wages is simply to collect more Income Taxes! The progressives will argue it’s to help people live better. Sorry, but that’s NOT why I hire people. I hire people to do a job for me. If they do it well, they get paid very well. If they do lousy, they get replaced.

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:43am

      Ok…now everything makes sense….

      Glenn’s best buddy, Huntsman Senior, gave $ 1.9 million to SuperPac

      for Romney!

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:01am

      Conservatism?

      Here we go again…

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:15am

      How about DOING SOMETHING ABOUT INFLATION!!! Like putting an end to the FED and the fiat monetary system.

      RON PAUL 2012 (first time I’ve actually said this)

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:31am

      And people say this guy understands economics and business. Give me a break. One of the stupidest conceits of the left that makes zero economic sense and actually hurts normal workers, and Romney endorses it.

      Here’s your “candidate” folks, hand picked for you over a year ago, and y’all will line up to vote for him while pretending that somehow outside of a hair coif, he’s different than Obeyme.

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:39am

      So much for that pep talk I keep trying to give myself:

      “Romney won’t be so bad. Yes, you can vote for him. It will be OK”

      Something tells me I might need to do some heavy drinking on election day.

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    • Rowgue
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Republican does not equal conservative, so the term RINO is pretty meaningless anyway. Even if the term were accurate though romney would be far worse than a RINO. He’s a full blown socialist in the mold of karl marx.

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    • sweetgold
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:16pm

      This will cost Romney votes and maybe the presidency. Too bad the only alternative so far is Newt (God help us).

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    • Bum thrower
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:45pm

      Bet he is in favor of ‘outlawing’ unemplooyment. folks will just be ‘reassessing opportunities’….

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:49pm

      Don’t worry everyone – Donald Trump just endorsed him. Nothing to see here…..

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    • go4freedom
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 1:46am

      I agree.
      What a stupid idea!
      Business unfriendly, and business Killer!
      Now Romney wants to destroy businesses like president Obama too. It is not anybody’s business to tell how much the employers must pay employees. Where is the free market? Nobody is being forced to work by gunpoint like the Khmer Rough during 1975-1978.
      No wonder everything is made in China.

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    • lillymckim
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 8:14am

      Here we go again…

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    • slvrserfr
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 9:05am

      So you’re against employees being compensated to an average that complements the standard of living? You must be Socialist and in the bag for Obama because you are obviously biased against capitalism or the fact that this country was founded on CENTER RIGHT principles of the political ideology. Santorum, Paul nor Gingrich will win over the support of Independents.

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  • bonziman1
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:45pm

    As a small business owner that is an entery to the work force, he has no IDEA what this will do. I know it will put 8 people out of work and another business bites the dust, Haha I’ll just draw my entitlement and quit.

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:24am

      Romney = Liberal
      Now we can understand why huge businesses and financial houses
      are actively campaigning for this guy,
      and why Huntsman endorsed him.

      But for small businesses….sad.
      No Conservative ideology at Romney’s core.

      Only Saul Alinsky, just like Hillary Clinton and Obama.
      Yup….they all had this same mentor.
      Romney has revealed himself as a Liberal, yet again, twice today!

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:47am

      Oh my gosh!

      Ok…this is real, folks….
      Just what I surmised….
      Huntsman Sr, Glenn’s buddy, gave 1.9 MILLION to Romney’s SuperPac!

      Now it makes sense that Glenn and GBTV are trashing Gingrich

      and they have not yet even discussed
      the ALINSKY – ROMNEY Connection….as in “advisor”….“mentor”…? !

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    • JustMel71
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 5:56am

      @AmeriCat Oh my gosh, so Mittens looks to Alinsky as a mentor? Unfreakingbelievable! And Senior Huntsman gives to Mittens as well? How long before The No Agenda Flickering Flame writers report this? Looks like Glenn will have to beat that progressive drum once again. =)

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on February 3, 2012 at 5:29am

      I said it once I’ll say it a million times:

      If the MSM actually talks positive EVER about a republican canidate, they are NOT conservative. “A Northeast Republican” is what I heard on the radio today an at that moment I winced… this on top of pro-abortion for minors with a judges consent due to parental refusal is a big NO WAY for me.

      There is no way Romney will win he’s painted to liberal and they already have the grand pooba of capitalist vampires in office…

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  • rdjones
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:45pm

    Paul People, you got 7% of the vote in FLORIDA.

    I lived in HOUSTON for 48 years, and we ignored him, he was down south towards Galveston.

    Paul has some good ideas, but he WAS mostly a JOKE.

    If You are spending millions to get a speech at the convention, spend away.

    If you want Ron Paul to get a position on NEWTs’ team as FED director or sec Treasurer.
    ASK NEWT NOW, you can get it !!!!!!

    Stop bugging me, and shut your pie hole on FORIEGN affairs, except to close some bases not needed any more ….IE GERMANY

    If you can get all those Women and girls and children out of Afganistan soon, I will support pulling out of Afganistan, that place is turing in to a killing field and I am not going to be happy if those women and CHILDREN are slaughtered because Ron Paul is a nut and does not understand.

    Just because you can B-I-T_C+H the loudest, does not mean you can speack for all America.
    Paul has become a KNAT on the back ,and he needs to get his movement to get results, not win a few delegates, he NEEDS TO WIN ….NOW !!!!! or shut up !!!!!

    Was he not suppose to win IOWA, and he ran negative ads against NEWT and RICK ?
    And spent a ton of money?

    He is not even REPUBLICAN, what is up with that?????

    He is not a true libertarian…..

    He want FED dismanteled, so do I, so lets do this and start there. Stop ticking people off with your 7% and acting like your a big deal !!!!

    NEWT will do it !

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:48pm

      I vote for people of INTEGRITY. I don’t give a crap about numbers. The whole world can go jump off a cliff if they want. I will NOT FOLLOW THEIR STUPID LEAD. Capish ?

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:54pm

      THE FIX IS IN….THE ELITE ESTABILISHMENT WANTED ROMNEY
      AND ROMNEY IS WHO THEY WILL GET….BY HOOK OR CROOK!

      Last night- they wanted ROMNEY to put SO MUCH DISTANCE between he and
      Newt…they kept playing with the Percentages….FINALLY settling on 47%.
      They wanted that TO DISCOURAGE NEWT FROM EVEN GETTING OUT OF BED
      THIS MORNING.
      But, Newt came out and said he was GOING FORWARD…which they hate…but
      ULTIMATELY…THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE UP….
      Ron Paul is being “entertained” to keep him from going 3rd party.
      They DON‘T want to Tee’ him off…so they let him alone.
      They DON‘T even QUESTION why he’s staying in… and you WON’T hear them
      suggest that he GET OUT….for fear of upsetting what THEY have put in place.

      WE’RE BEING JIPPED- AGAIN!

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    • resme
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:10pm

      go join the army, Chickenhawk.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:02am

      Sounds like you want Ron Paul silenced. Presumably because you are afraid of his ideas and arguements. That is a tactic we usually see by the left

      How many people saw the housing crash coming and stood up and warned people? 4 years ago, he stood up to the party and told them the wars were not properly started and were a mistake (most americans agree with that). How many REPUBLICANS were against the bailouts and expansion of government under bush?

      ONLY RON PAUL

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  • bastone
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:45pm

    life cant get any better. we have a democrate running aginest a democrate. poer to the people

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:44pm

    Guess who Peter Schiff supports for President?
    Guess what he believes about minimum wage?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IMuxMXd3E

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:37pm

    Can’t have that without destroying the currency.

    Progressive Bozo!!

    Silversmih

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  • joejoegolfn
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:35pm

    Wake up people! Santorum is the only true conservative. How about a Santorum president and Ron Paul Treasurer. Romney cannot cover up his moderate/liberal tendances. The comment about the poor will be taken out of context and he’ll be beat to death with it. Real conservatives don’t even think like that. He should have said I want to help EVERYONE rise up. Please, We have to save this country from ruin.

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    • JR1984
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:40pm

      This is the last staw for me. I have never liked him but I am beginning to think the “Better the enemy I know, (Obama) than the one I do not.

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:56pm

      Santorum is a warmonger. I don’t want him anywhere near the button.

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:33pm

      what‘s little ricky’s opion of the minimum wage? he is for a progressive tax code. Prog till proven otherwise.

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:28am

      Completely agree.
      Romney is Liberal and Progressive to his core.

      Look how proud he is to state his Liberal ideologies….
      He doesn’t even know he is revealing exactly who he is,
      Romney can’t help himself…just like WH to Joe the Plumber!

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:59am

      @ Joejoegolfn
      Yup, Santorum is the conservative who can win. Glad that Shaon Angle has endorsed him — the Tea Party in Nevada is strong.

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:34pm

    I know my words are being removed as fast as I can type them..
    But, WHERE’S THE FULL PAGE SPREAD ON THE BLAZE OF ROMNEY
    SAYING HE WASN’T WORRIED ABOUT THE POOR OR THE RICH?

    Hahahaha
    WITHIN HOURS the Flip-Flopper has FLIPPED, AGAIN!

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  • eyestoseeearstohear
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:31pm

    WHERE’S THE NEWS ARTICLE ON THE BLAZE ABOUT ROMNEY ALREADY
    FLIP-FLOPPING ABOUT NOT BEING WORRIED ABOUT THE “POOR OR RICH”?

    The ENTIRE SCREEN would be FILLED with LIVE CLIPS OF NEWT SAYING THAT.

    Within HOURS of Romney’s “HUGE WIN”, as it has been called,
    HE’S FLIP-FLOPPING ALREADY.

    Just HOURS AGO Willard was practically saying Newt was senile -
    and that HE felt bad for the “Disgrace” of Newt – (he was spearing it on thick)
    NOW THAT WILLARD FLUB-BUBS….NOT ONE ARTICLE REPORTING IT ON HERE.

    Well, Florida WANTED FLIPPER – and NOW they’ve got him!

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:33pm

      The rich do not need help,the poor have plenty of welfare. The middle class pays most of the tax that supports the poor.They also provide footholds for the poor to move up through providing employment and business opportunities. A strong middle class is the vehicle for helping the poor. Liberal polocies have basicly destroyed the poor and made them weak and greedy. Having said that I think that politically both Newt and Mitt are middle of the road liberals. Possibly Santorum too. Newt has a trail of wrecked lives in his wake. Romney,Paul and Santorum have similar family values. Where does that leave us? Ron Paul is a true libertarian that does not flip flop,but that could hurt him if he refuses to change his stance on radical Islam. Anyone that gains new insight must be strong enough to change their opinion based on new understanding.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:31pm

    At what wage will not having a college education stop the increases? There has to be a cut-off, otherwise what is the point in getting a college education when someone who received a high school education makes the same as a person with an Associates or Bachelors. Paying 7.25 is already nearing that threshold between HS and an AS. As Associate degree holder I made 8.75 per hour. When I received my bachelors, I made 13.00. Now at a Master’s I make around 23.00+ in the corporate world, and paid $41 per semester hour as an adjunct instructor. However, before you have a conniption fit on the rate. Times that value by 45 semester hours and that is what I make in almost 4 months. In other words, it is $123 per week. Then add the time I do school work outside of class, I might make $6.00 per hour.

    If people want to make more money, then get a college education or go to a trade school. This is what I did. This minimum wage crap has to stop period. I don‘t care if you aren’t smart enough to go to college or you don’t have the money. Where there is a will, there is a way. I have a student who is on food stamps, with a learning disability in my Computer Literacy class and he wants to do well. I am going to do everything in my power to help him pass my class. He is planning to get a tutor to help him. If he can take college classes, then why can’t others?

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:37pm

      what we need is not a minimum hourly wage but a minimun yearly salary about 1 MILLION bama dollars

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  • PJL
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:27pm

    Pretty hard to come out of poverty when everything is going up $$$, but your wages. I don’t see them automatically going from $7.25 to $10 and hour anytime soon, so chill out you Ronewts.

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    • COFemale
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:40pm

      San Francisco is already talking about raising the minimum wage to $10.00. Why not reduce taxes and spending so poorer people can keep more in their pockets. Apparently, you Liberals don’t know about or ignore the trickle down theory. Government raises taxes on businesses, businesses raise rates on consumers. Government raises the minimum wage on businesses, businesses raise rates on consumers. Government changes regulations that businesses have to comply, businesses will raise rates on consumers. What part of this cycle do you idiots not understand? If you think businesses are going to lose money, then you are living in an unrealistic fantasy world.

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:46pm

      The reason prices are rising is precisely because wages go up. It’s a collectivist chase your tail argument. If the government had their hands OUT of your pocket, with the resulting inefficiencies, your dollar would GO FURTHER than it does. Circular money arguments lead nowhere but to a richer more spendy government and poorer less spendy serfs.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_IMuxMXd3E

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:42am

      You need to take an economics class. When the price to produce and deliver something goes up, the price goes up.

      When you roll up to McD’s and your burger is $17.00, just remember that you thought this was a good idea.

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  • GramSam
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:25pm

    This is just another reason this man can not be our President. He‘s never been a middle class individual and has no idea what he’s talking about.

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:30am

      This was a…………….JOE THE PLUMBER MOMENT!

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:33pm

      Of course he was a middle class citizen. Read up on George Romney (his father) and get a look at his family. I remember him. I am not a Romney supporter (Republican) but a conservative for Santorum. Still it is not right to use Romney’s wealth against him. You think Newt doesn’t have a passel somewhere? Of course not the same—he has been in the Beltway his entire life-virtually.

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  • Abraham Young
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:22pm

    See what did I say? He’s a Keynesian. He has no economic brain of his own. And this article shows up the DAY after the Blaze ran a piece about how well grounded Romney was in economics. ROFL.

    he’s nothing but a political chameleon saying what he thinks you want to hear. He has no inner anchor, like , for example, Constitutional principles. This is what set Ron Paul ABOVE the pack. He KNOWS his stuff. Romney knows smooth talk and good looks, but inside? Inside? He’s clueless.

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  • trickball
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:16pm

    Wow! Is this a joke? He is really saying this? I think he is a mental case! No one says this kind of stuff who is a conservative republican.

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  • I.Gaspar
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:15pm

    The day after he wins Florida and he’s already showing his real colors.
    He showed ZERO evidence of any conservative blood during the primary campaign; the only thing you can truly say is he fights like a democrat.
    We are screwed…(and NO, Ron Paul cannot win).

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    • TEXASGRANNY73
      Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:10pm

      You know I keep reading page after page of negative comments that Romney is not a conservative and what I am not “getting” is no one wanted Michele Bachmann (or she would have received $$$ and support) and she a true consertive and tax attorney, also on intelligence committee but Noooooooo to her, a mere woman and about her husband stupid innuendo on social values.. And now we still have Santorum in the race and a willingness to cover our backs and still it is on and on. Romney is a Republican and has been the entire time. Period.Gingrich is beyond Republican (Teddy Roosevelt style progressive and strictly a politician who said he would play the game fairly but screamed at the press for asking him a question he didn’t want or like. (Want to bet that is the way the ex wives saw him when he dropped the I‘m at other woman’s house? Not a nice man. Ethics were about that. Look it up) we still have Santorum and yet it is gripe gripe gripe Stinkin Thinkin. Glenn told us over and over. “Spit yourself out” and ya’ll refused to do it. And still do.

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  • NC
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:11pm

    By the time the North Carolina primary arrives, May 8. I ‘m concerned the Romney will have a lock on the GOP nomination.

    A third party candidate will just make matters worse, even if it is Trump.

    Time to go and buy more groceries and gunpowder.

    NC (typing curse words with invisible letters)

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:23pm

      The Democrats and Republicans are the 2nd and Third party, respectively. Vote your conscience and you will be ok. Know your constitution, and vote accordingly. Hint: It’s RON PAUL .

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    • Tired of Code Names
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:29pm

      NC..Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:11pm…Funny, Romney castizes Newt for “pandering” to the state he is currently running in or addressing, yet, does the same thing in Minnesota. I have most of my family from that state. Lot’s of angst within the family between the liberal side and the conservatie side. But, the point here is, Romney is supposedly a “real” christian. He has a very distorted idea the two parts of the eight commandment. As I understand the eighth commandment, an outright lie is obviously wrong. However, white lies, half truths etc. are still lies. Additionally, purposefully distorting the truth to take someone down is equally a lie. Also is against the fifth, ninth and tenth commandment. Romney it seems will say anything to get that office. Romney Care vs. Obamma care. Any difference? Obamma will have a field day with that. Rich elite? Obamma is going to have fun with that too. Romney GAVE Obamma a great gift today with the “I’m not worried about the poor, they have a safetey net” comment. In the end establishment moderate left leaning republican vs. the democratic machine. Obamma….Hope and Change….Romney….Change and Hope. I’m not a betting man, but, I see Obamma giddy in the whitehouse today.

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  • tmplarnite
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:04pm

    What a total Ted kennedy Clone……. IDIOT!

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  • DaveOregon
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:04pm

    RHINO-RHINO-RHINO!!!!!! Way to go Florida – hope all you old folks who are afraid you’d lose your SSI/medicare are happy.

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:38pm

      No doubt, a bunch of “Blue Hairs” voted for Romney.
      “He looks so nice and clean…I‘m votin’ for him.
      ~~~~
      Boy….are WE in for a hell of a ride!
      Romney dug his boot spur into Newt – and was deliberately mean-spirited about it.
      ALL he needed to do was RUN ON HIS OWN POSITIONS AND AGAINST OBAMA.

      So, TURN AROUND ON ROMNEY WAS KIND OF QUICK, HUH?
      What you Sow today, sometimes you REAP it SOONER THAN EXPECTED.

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  • TriforcePlayer2
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:03pm

    Forget this maniac

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  • ReaganBaby
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:02pm

    If he lowers corporate taxes like he says businesses will pay their employees more don’t raise the minimum wage though.

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  • rdjones
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:01pm

    liberal …………..LIBERAL,
    liberal …………..LIBERAL,
    liberal …………..LIBERAL,
    liberal …………..LIBERAL,

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  • ReaganBaby
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:00pm

    Mitt what are thinking???, if you are going to do anything about the minimum wage get rid of it so the free market can truly work. That said i don’t like the sporadic jumps in minimum wage either, but raising it in a time where business are not hiring just seems like bad business. In all reality this probably wont affect too many people/ businesses since several states minimum wage is greater than the federal wage.

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:25pm

      What right does the Federal Government have, in the Constitution, to dictate the terms of private employment contracts? For that matter, what right have they to tax our income? It was ruled unconstitutional in 1895 for good reason. And there is no rule or law, written anywhere, telling us we have a duty to pay it. This has been a shadow government communist plan for ever. Minimum wage and income taxes are COMMUNIST in nature, COMMUNIST in implementation, and COMMUNIST in enforcement. We are a free people. WE DECIDE – not them.

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    • Komponist-ZAH
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:39pm

      Abraham—

      “What right does the Federal Government have, in the Constitution, to dictate the terms of private employment contracts?”

      None. Glad someone else recognizes this.

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  • rdjones
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:59pm

    Liberal,liberal,liberal,liberal,liberal,
    liberal,liberal,liberal,liberal,liberal,
    liberal,liberal,liberal,liberal,liberal,

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  • skimmer57
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:57pm

    Please Mitt don’t say that! The job creators should pay the lowest wage possible. So that the vastly rich can pay less taxes and make enormous profits and open up Swiss bank accounts.A true Patriot should already know that.

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    • Abraham Young
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:26pm

      Oh, really? And are you or are you not free to choose whether to accept a low paying job, or go and create your own? BUG OFF COMMUNIST>

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  • mamawalker
    Posted on February 1, 2012 at 6:51pm

    With all his comments over the past few days, I am beginning to think he works for Obama.

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    • GramSam
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 7:31pm

      According to George Soro’s there is no difference. Romney just tries too hard to get along with everyone. No reason to get mad!!!!! Rick Santorum is the only true conservative, Paul is a constitutionalist but I don’t think he really wants to win, just a final shot at getting his message about the Fed out. And I wish the other candidates would speak more about this.

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    • eyestoseeearstohear
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 8:08pm

      We know Romney IS MR. MONEY BAGS….and more power to him – BUT
      I have to wonder, with ALL of those Costly Negative Ads against Newt, which
      he hid behind saying they were put together by his PAC…I would not be
      surprised IF he didn’t get a few “secret donors” to donate to his campaign- to
      kill 2 Birds with 1 Stone.
      #1- the Ads would knock Newt out – and
      #2 – it boost Romney up in the polls for a WIN- and
      #3 – Romney is WHO they REALLY want to go against Obama, NOT NEWT
      #4- Romney becomes the likely Nominee and Obama WINS.

      This is just MY opinion – but I don’t put ANYTHING against Romney OR Obama.

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