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Romney Recalls Obama‘s ’One-Term’ Proposition in FL Victory Speech: ‘We’re Here to Collect’

“Three years ago this week, a newly elected President Obama faced the American people and said that if he couldn’t turn the economy around in three years, he’d be looking at a one-term proposition. We’re here to collect.”

That was the central focus of GOP front-runner Mitt Romney’s rousing victory speech. He delivered his remarks after enjoying a sweeping victory in the Florida Primary.

“There are fewer candidates than when the race began, but the three gentlemen left are serious and able competitors,” he added. “And I congratulate them on another hard-fought contest in this campaign. Primary contests are not easy – and they’re not supposed to be.”

“As this primary unfolds, our opponents in the other party have been watching,” Romney said. “They like to comfort themselves with the thought that a competitive campaign will leave us divided and weak. But I’ve got some news for them: A competitive primary does not divide us; it prepares us. And when we gather here in Tampa seven months from now for our convention, ours will be a united party with a winning ticket for America!”

He added that leadership is about “taking responsibility, not making excuses.”

“In another era of American crisis, Thomas Paine is reported to have said, ‘Lead, follow, or get out of the way.’ Mr. President, you were elected to lead, you chose to follow, and now it’s time for you to get out of the way!” Romney exclaimed to resounding cheers.

Watch Romney’s speech below via PBS. A partial transcript follows:

Below is a partial transcript of Romney’s speech:

My leadership helped build businesses from scratch. My leadership helped save the Olympics from scandal and give our athletes the chance to make us all proud. My leadership cut taxes 19 times and cast over 800 vetoes. We balanced every budget, and we kept our schools first among fifty states. My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity!

This campaign is about more than replacing a President. It is about saving the soul of America. President Obama and I have two very different visions of America.

President Obama wants to grow government and continue to amass trillion dollar deficits. I will not just slow the growth of government, I will cut it. I will not just freeze government’s share of the total economy, I will reduce it. And, without raising taxes, I will finally balance the budget.

President Obama’s view of capitalism is to send your money to his friends’ companies. My vision for free enterprise is to return entrepreneurship to the genius and creativity of the American people.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obamacare; I will repeal it.

Like his colleagues in the faculty lounge who think they know better, President Obama demonizes and denigrates almost every sector of our economy. I will make America the most attractive place in the world for entrepreneurs, for innovators, and for job creators. And unlike the other people running for President, I know how to do that.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience; I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

President Obama believes America’s role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. He is intent on shrinking our military capacity at a time when the world faces rising threats. I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

President Obama has adopted a strategy of appeasement and apology. I will stand with our friends and speak out for those seeking freedom.

President Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” America. We want to restore America to the founding principles that made this country great.

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Together, we will build an America where “hope” is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.

The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle-to-grave assurances that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise more benefits, then I’m not your President. You have that President today.

But if you want to make this election about restoring American greatness, then I hope you will join us.

If you believe the disappointments of the last few years are a detour, not our destiny, then I am asking for your vote.

I’m asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an American.

I want you to remember what it was like to be hopeful and excited about the future, not to dread each new headline.

I want you to remember when you spent more time dreaming about where to send your kids to college than wondering how to make it to the next paycheck.

I want you to remember when you weren’t afraid to look at your retirement savings or the price at the pump.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

That America is still out there. We still believe in that America.

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.

This election, let’s fight for the America we love. We believe in America.

Thank you. And God bless America.

Comments (183)

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  • peteto1
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:33pm

    Gingrich is GONE, BABY, GONE!! The voters have figured out that he’s a dishonorable, dishonest, and SHAMELESS man. Gingrich didn’t even win the Conservative voters overall. Newt lost the Tea Party voters to Romney in Florida. It‘s time for Gingrich to face reality and admit that he’s not the most popular Republican running for President. Did he REALLY think that he was going to get to the White House after getting kicked out of his job by his OWN Party and with his SECOND mistress on his arm??…………

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    • spankadonkey
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:43pm

      So you like Mutt buying the win in Florida? How do you think Florida would have turned out if Mutt had spent no more than the other candidates? If Mutt wins the nomination I see a repeat of McCain. OBummer will outspend Mutt by at least 10 to 1.

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:21pm

      Newt is ruining the Tea Party. Newt is a disgusting old man. I don’t see how any one would vote for this guy.

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    • audiemurphy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 2:10am

      @ spankadonkey
      Reality check: it’s called getting your message out!
      it costs money to do that …. ahhhh daaaah!
      if you can’t run an effective game at the state level good luck ever beating Obamas billion dollars at the national level ! When your done drooling on yourself , put the crack pipe down , and post something intelligent . lol

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    • ImMormon
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:55am

      @ Spanky

      SO NEWT WOULD BE OUT SPENT 100 TO 1.

      Please Unite! We have to! Anyone is better than Obama… Yes, even Romney. You hate Romney because you’ve done no research on him yourself and have just watched the spliced clips and listened to the liberal media. They are dividing us and we will lose if they succeed. Mitt is actually a conservative. He’s made a few mistakes and has changed positions before, but has stuck to his convictions since he switched. DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AND DON’T LET THE MEDIA OR NEWT OR SANTORUM OR PAUL TELL YOU ABOUT MITT. He’s a conservative! Don’t try to refute me until you VET his entire record in Mass. Please!

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  • bankerpapaw
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:32pm

    I believe in Hope and Change. We can Hope the current administration is Changed in November.

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    • Tired of Code Names
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:45pm

      @bankerpawpaw…except Romney really has said nothing more on how he is going to fix things than Obamma did with his hope and change mantra. Romney has change and hope, but, what else other than his millions has he stated that he will do to fix things? Hope and Change vs. Change and Hope. Is that what this really comes down to? Romney likely to get destroyed by Obamma. MSM media is voting for him big time. Why? Obamma is going to have a field day with painting Romney as the 1%. My teenage son’s could figure that one out. Romney is going to be painted as a flip flopper far more than Gingrich did by the Obamma attack machine. And on Romney care, Romney will have no wiggle room when Obamma points out how exactly similar it is to Obamma care. Obamma is smiling very widely tonight. Michelle is once again proud of our country. Thanks Florida>

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    • kessi7
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:01pm

      If Mitt wins 3
      http://fathersmind.blogspot.co...

      Very insightful

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:13pm

      Too bad the only people who can win the Presidency have to do it with millions and millions of dollars while American economy continues to tank! The system needs a major overhaul – term limits with limited benefits. Politicians need to live like we do and stop passing bills that they do not have to live by!!!

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    • Mark Hartman
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:53pm

      MamaWalker.

      People spending money is what creates jobs and stimulates the economy. Do you think the people that make all these ads do it for free? No! It’s their job. Tell me again how it’s unfortunate for our economy that rich people are actually spending their money instead of just letting it sit? Cause that just doesn’t make sense.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:03am

      Mark Hartman,

      Production creates wealth. Not spending.

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    • TeaPartyForRomney
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:46am

      Romney has made more policy speeches highlighting everything he will be doing than anyone else. He has made these plans available and speeches made on everything from economy, spending cuts, taxes, manufacturing, unions, defense, and many more, no one else has laid out their plan so wide and open for all to see.

      Read these policies, they are all built off of Conservative, Tea Party principles of Cut Cap and Balance and bringing America to what it once was, a great nation, a beacon on the hill. Romney is a tea party candidate and that is why I endorse him. http://www.TeaPartyForRomney.com shows that we have been told false information about Romney’s record, especially coming from Gingrich’s false ads. Romney is a true conservative, way more than Gingrich.

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    • TeaPartyForRomney
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:49am

      Romney is the only one with the experience to turn around economies. Not even Gingrich has the experience in fixing economies that Romney has. For one thing, Gingrich had a majority in the Congress. Romney was rudely outnumbered by a 85% liberal legislature. And while in the Olympics he had half of his board hate the other half and fight them in every turn. Romney has the experience and has shown he can do it. No one else has.

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    • Tired of Code Names
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:06am

      @TeaPartyForRomney…If Romney’s ideas are so far superior to Newt Gingriches, why could he have not used his millions to simply make the distinctions between Gingrich’s positions and his? I see a poitical insider who at all cost’s took the low road starting in Iowa to take no prisoners. And…even more suprising, there are more and more pro Romney articals “suddenly”: appearing on the becksters site. Hmmmm…..

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    • audiemurphy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:29am

      @tiredof code names
      - fact check : super PAC ( which Romney does not control) produced and paid for the ads!
      -advice : newt shouldn’t bring a knife to a gun fight and try to play the victim!
      - conclusion: this is a contest for the president of the united states of America !- whiners , wimps, adulters, and admitted progressives need not apply!
      Now run along with tucked tail like Newt. lol

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 9:47am

      Soros said (in Europe) that he supported Romney. I wonder what Beck has to say about that.

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    • MS-GlenNBC
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 10:56am

      Glenn has become the mainstream media… Ignoring Story after Story to push an agenda.
      Here is Soros on Romney……. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyftC27vNp0

      Glenn doesn’t care about Soros or Obama……. Newt Gingrich is the real Problem.

      LOOK AT THIS…… IS Glenn covering it… NO! I bet Mark Levin brings this up.

      Obama-Georga court case
      OBAMA ELIGIBILITY COURT CASE…BLOW BY BLOW
      By Craig Andresen on January 26, 2012 at 9:25 am

      Given the testimony from today’s court case in Georgia, Obama has a
      lot of explaining to do. His attorney, Jablonski, was a NO SHOW as of
      course, was Obama.

      The following is a nutshell account of the proceedings.

      Promptly at 9am EST, all attorneys involved in the Obama Georgia
      eligibility case were called to the Judge’s chambers. This was indeed
      a very interesting beginning to this long awaited and important case.

      The case revolved around the Natural Born clause of the Constitution
      and whether or not Obama qualifies under it to serve. More to the
      point, if found ineligible, Obama’s name would not appear on the 2012
      ballot in Georgia.

      With the small courtroom crowded, several in attendance could be seen
      fanning themselves with pamphlets as they waited for the return of the
      attorneys and the appearance of the judge.

      Obama himself, who had been subpoenaed to appear, of course was
      nowhere near Georgia. Instead, Obama was on a campaign swing appearing
      in Las Vegas and in

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 4:54pm

      Romney will be the very first android in history to run for President.

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  • audiemurphy
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:28pm

    I love all the Top experts who know all and have so much experience in elections and running campaigns posting their extensive knowledge !
    Haha
    Romney is the ONLY man qualified in EVERY way to take on and win against Obama! Newt couldn’t even get organized enough to get on the ballot in some states!
    Cmon!!!! He’s not a leader! Nevermind his record both public and personal!
    Romney/ Rubio 2012
    Santorum as attorney general
    West as secretary of state
    Ron Paul treasury secretary
    Newt …… fade away to annuls of history

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:36pm

      …and we are to assume you are the expert? As of now, we all have the right to our opinions and freedom of speech. Let’s just hope we still have those freedoms in the future.

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:42pm

      “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much.”
      ~Newt Gingrich, admitting that he’s an intellectual elite incapable of leading.

      Santorum 2012! Anybody but Newt! Anybody but Obama 2012! Ron Paul U.S. Treasury Secretary 2012! I will vote for Romney the mormon if he is the nominee because i’m not a bigoted evangelical christian like Newt supporters.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:03pm

      Hey MamaWalker — I’ve seen the Walker we refer to up close once about a foot away, and I was so utterly surprised — he’s beautiful. Those soft, soft eyes. But anyway, enough leering. I’m for Gingrich, though I love the stuffing out of Rand Paul, and he is seriously the sublimest politician I have ever seen. I think we have a little intellectual-emotional affinity going on. Tag team!

      There’s nothing to fear. If you saw what happened in Wisconsin, and how it collapsed and all went phlooey — with somebody’s help — somebody’s — you‘d know there’s nothing to fear.

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:19pm

      @moussiagilda I hope Walker can fight off this recall – so sick of the union attacks on him. Yes I love Rand and really think Gingrich is a brilliant man. Unfortunately money wins elections and Romney will be the nominee and so history will repeat itself.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:30pm

      MamaWalker, don’t worry about the recall. At all. Says the hovering transcendent angel of infinite influence, that is, me. Don’t worry.

      Here’s a little glint of beyond-hope. We have superpacs this election season, and whoever really feels like it can give money to them. I think a name came up to you and to others. The Koch brothers.

      Let the Kochs buy this election for Newt!!!

      Here comes some really magnificent heckling. I think we’re scaring the poorbrained sloganeers away, though. That’s not too bad.

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    • audiemurphy
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:36pm

      @MAMAWALKER
      are u thin skinned like Newt and Obama? I didn’t say anything about anyones right to opinion or freedom of speech! Are u seriously that out to lunch? maybe read my post! I was merely pointing out all the expert opinion from all the experts (wink wink) and whining about money buying elections blah blah blah! Hey for all you whiners about money it’s simple : u get your message out And that costs money…. ahhhh daaah. If newt Santorum, or Paul can‘t get their message out that’s too bad so sad! Get real ….. you obviously have been eating Obama Os for cereal for 3 years !
      This is a competion to run as president of the united states of America incase u have forgotten!
      Whimps, whiners, and unorganized candidates need not apply. But of course let‘s blame the winner u don’t like for being gritty organized and condemn his success as something bad because that’s the Obamacan not American spirit of doing things.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:40pm

      AudieMurphy, do you really think you are winning this discussion?

      Tag team.

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    • audiemurphy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:08am

      @ moissiagilda
      “do I think I am winning this discussion”?
      - Do I care? nope
      - are you an idiot? yup

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:17am

      You don‘t care if you’re winning this discussion? Are you winning this discussion? With your ideas?

      WHERE ARE THE INTELLIGENT MITT SUPPORTERS???

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:29am

      ‘Ron Paul as treasury secretary” That would shake up the establishment. Great Idea.

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    • neverending
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:40am

      Sounds good to me.

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    • audiemurphy
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:56am

      @mosiagilda
      As far as I am concerned anyone supporting anyone but Newt is far more intelligent than a Newt supporter. Look at Sarah Palin …… lol !
      So much for Newt and the tea party …. oh and Sarah I had my moment of fame Palin… now irrelevant ! Are you winning ? Like Newt I think you are on the moon in a different reality:)
      Reality check for ya : Newt lost…. again! couldn’t get his crap together to get on the ballot in what is it seven states? He whines and complains , sounds like someone else …..hmmmm oh yeah Obama!
      Whiners and complainers and admitted progressives need not apply ! This is a contest for the president of the united states of America incase you have forgotten. Now run along little sheeple and take your reality pill. I don’t have anymore time for the moon colonists. lol

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    • unsafe
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:56am

      I’m sick and tired of career politician telling us who is going to be our Pres. They pick Romney now he is being stuck up our butts. Its not over until the fat lady sings, but so many ppl are falling into line and not doing there own thinking they are just following. Thats how we got into this mess, do your home work before you vote..

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:40pm

      I hate to rain on your parade but Rubio is not a “natural born citizen” and that will lose him 10% of the vote. Romney’s two, yet to be infamous quotes are, “I like to fire people” and “I don’t care about the very poor”. Also on video is a clip of George Soros backing Romney. Put $1 billion behind these words to play them on TV and you get a loser.

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  • FreedomFighter88
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:22pm

    I heard newt supporters were being ignorant and tried to fight with Paul Supporters. I would love for Ya’ll to do that to me. Cowards. What wrong?? Did you loose again?? Get lost you fake Tea Party Members.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:26pm

      You know, I don’t think you are all that interested in libertarianism.

      Oh my, this is fun. Heckle back, please.

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:30pm

      I have your back!

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:38pm

      Ubethechange, you have whose back? Oh my, am I dying to have a real conversation with you, beyond smears, slanders, and talking points. And yes, I am determined to ruin this message board tonight, by thoughtfully-if-I-can heckling everybody.

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:50pm

      Newt Supporters are ignorant. You gonna fight some one because you lost? LOL, Ron Paul didn’t defeat you. Romney did. Like I said before, newt supporters think there REAL tough. I‘ve seen Ya’ll. A bunch of old men who think there the toughest men in the world. Guess what??? Things changed.. Nobody cares about you War Mongers. Join the Army.. if you want to fight.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:02am

      Okay, we aren’t scaring away all the poorbrained sloganeers. You’re necessary, though. What is there in what you said besides the atmosphere of a threat? What a liberal, liberal way to speak. With threats instead of ideas. Tell me your ideas.

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:14am

      What>? is a threat to you? By saying if you touch me ill touch you back? I call that defense. I don’t need do say anything else. How could I convince any one? Most of the Country sheeps there way to the TV screen.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:19am

      Newt is a disgusting old man. He is ruining the Tea Party. Tearing it to pieces. And it’s true. Security stomped out a Ron Paul Supporter. Hmm seems to me that the Newt guys are a little angry. I wonder why? I guess because you got out played by Romney. So you found a Ron Paul Supporter to let the anger out since RP Supporters are every where you go. Also, Newt’s wife is soo nasty looking. Fake as ever. No way will these people walk in the white house.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:20am

      You can’t convince any one, because you say people are sheep. Liberals just about always say people are sheep. Why can’t you convince any one?

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:44am

      MOUSSIAGILDA <<proving that Newt supporters have the IQ of my shoe size(8).

      Explain this Einstein…http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_free_images/0519-0906-1809-0032_barack_obama_with_newt_gingrich_and_reverand_al_sharpton_m.jpg

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:58am

      First, I am no liberal. And stop listening to what the media tells you and I will stop saying Sheep. Sheep follow. They don’t lead. Second, I voted for Mccain in 08 and Bush. 3rd, I watched every episode of Glenn Beck and he opened my eyes up. Especially with the FED,Socialism,Soros, etc. But than I get confused why he wants Santorum when he won’t touch the FED. Foreign policy or not, Ron Paul the only man that can fix this problem unless some one starts talking about abolishing the FED. Not fake auditing & appointing your buddy instead of Bernanke.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:02am

      I am a libertarian. Why do we need Government. You got so a used to this welfare society. It’s sad. When is America going to realize we are 15 trillion in debt, maybe more. Obama still spending. Our dollar going to crash and maniacs still worry about foreign aid to other Countries. What are you going to do when the dollar crashes? WAKE UP! Sheep keeping doing the same thing over ans over again.Read the constitution & learn it.

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Romney won’t get elected because his words give the Obamaites too much ammunition. Romney quotes such as “I like to fire people” and “I don’t care about the very poor” will kill him in any $ billion election. RP and Santorum don’t have the numbers to win the primary. Newt will probably lose to Romney. With all the negative establishment Republican (and Beck) lies, everyone will hate everybody. We may as well get ready to go over the cliff.

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  • audiemurphy
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:19pm

    Now that is a presidential victory speech!
    Sore looser newt …. just go away !

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    • neverending
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:44am

      He is a sore loser and so I wonder how he thinks he can win an election with that and also blasting the establishment – the media and everything else in between.

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  • 30mmgunpilot
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:14pm

    Wow. The hatred generated towards Romney here is really—pathetic. You gotta remember the general election isn’t going to be limited to just conservatives. The MODERATES, as always, will be the ones to decide the election. If the Republican nominee is someone they can’t stomach, they will stay home. Obama wins.

    You get to choose the candidate. Choose wisely. If you’re a Romney-hater, the guy that you might consider to be “YOUR” guy won’t win the election. And yes, I‘ll be blaming you for Obama’s second term.

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:23pm

      So let me see if I understand what you are saying…Americans who vote their heart and for the candidate they believe will fight for their rights, rather than getting behind someone they fundamentally disagree with, will be to blame if Obama is re-elected? Well if that is what you are saying, this American mom and grandmother would rather go down fighting for my children‘s freedom than to sell out to my principles and I really don’t care if you blame me. At least my children and grandchildren will know I fought for principles and their fundamental rights under what was our Constitution.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:35pm

      Hey MamaWalker — I love your last name, by the way, for a political reason. Last name of a hero. Who are you supporting?

      Don’t worry. We’ll out-talk ‘em. Post, post, post.

      Hola has still not engaged me in a literal colloquy.

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:46pm

      @moussiagilda First let me say I love, love, love the Walker you refer to! As to who I am supporting let me say that my son is named after Ronald Reagan as I was a political consultant in my younger days and got to meet him. My dad ran as a Libertarian many moons ago. In fact, he drug me to speeches when we only had 15 people in attendance! My soul is in the Constitution! I have voted Republican for years and I held my nose and voted for Bush and yes McCain. However, I guess it is my age and the realization that my children and grandchildren will never live with the liberty that this nation was founded on. I followed along with the logic that I shouldn’t waste my vote, but not this time! I am voting my conscious and I will not feel one bit sorry or shamed if Obama wins re-election. My dream team is Paul-Paul 2012!

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:55pm

      This election is about ideas, and ideas are what persuade. It is not about being wishy-washy enough so that people who are right in the middle, and just want politicians to get along — they never do, by the way — except when they move to the left — nobody is really inspired by a politician with no convictions. Except the conviction that Romneycare is right for Massachusetts.

      Hardly anybody is really a right-in-the-middle moderate, anyway. Probably most people are against theocracy and against communism and against bribery. They don’t want a moderate, middle-of-the-road amount of theocracy, communism, and bribery.

      You have to convince. As a politician. What are Mitt’s convictions?

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    • kessi7
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:04pm

      If Mitt Romney Wins Pt 3
      Why Not Rick Santorum?

      If Mitt wins 3
      http://fathersmind.blogspot.co...
      Very insightful
      One of the lessons conservatives must learn should Governor Romney win Florida and go on to win the nomination is to start early to plan and to coalesce around a figure or figures that would run. It seems that the conservative movement thought that a leader would rise and find acceptance by all. Most conservatives I know are almost as threatened by the prospects of a Romney presidency as they are by an Obama second term. The Any body but Obama phenomena would loose 50% steam right after the primaries, if Romney wins.

      Politics has a myopic sight problem. It only allows one to see now, not even two years ahead. In 2008, the right wing of the GOP would easily have taken Mitt Romney over John McCain in a heart beat, but this year, Romney is almost a political anathema of Obama proportions to them.

      Only a handful of political leaders laid proper ground work for a presidential run. Of course that is one thing Governor Romney has done right. So if Romney wins, Conservatives will rue their inability or short sighted error of not preparing for what was obvious all along. And this is why in as much as I love and respect Michelle Malkin, Mark Levin, Glen Beck and many others, their point in endorsing Santorum makes moral sense, but is nothing but political naïveté. (How dare I say so of my heroes)

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:07pm

      Yes it is about ideas. What I find incredible is that most people will try to convince others that “their” candidates may not be perfect, but they are the best qualified or has the best chance of beating Obama. Not many people agree with every policy of any candidate but they are willing to “compromise” on certain issues. My thoughts are that “compromise” is what led us down this economic collapse. However, I do not think that is the big issue in this campaign for me. I think it the rapid expansion of government in our lives. Who are you supporting?

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:56pm

      Go ahead blame me. I am not voting for the white Obama.

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  • libh8er
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:09pm

    Hey Romney…. After you have said that line 5 times….time to think of something else.

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    • spankadonkey
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:19pm

      Well Mutt bought his win in Florida and he may buy the nomination but I‘ll stick with real solutions because we all know how Mutt’s buying an election will work out when OBummer has 10 times the money Mutt has. OBummer will do to Mutt just what Mutt has done to the other Republican candidates.

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    • 30mmgunpilot
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:23pm

      “President Obama believes America’s role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. He is intent on shrinking our military capacity at a time when the world faces rising threats. I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.”

      Personally, I want to hear that line 500 more times. Nay, 5000.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:25pm

      Absolutely right. Mitt has $19 million now. Against a billion dollars? And there‘s no way to push down Romney’s numbers with negative ads?

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  • PoliticiansRCrooks
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:08pm

    So let me get this right. Romney spends over 18 million on ads in Florida. Gets media help all week and only gets 46 percent of the Republican vote? And he is calling Obama a one term President? AHAHHAAHAHHAHAH Boy oh boy.. Politics are a joke.

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:24pm

      He is buying the election. But he will soon realize all that money went to waste.

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  • ImMormon
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:04pm

    I’m excited that Mitt did so well in Florida. You can honestly say that Gingrich, Santorum, or Paul, could do any better again Obama. It‘s so sad to see all of you jump on Romney’s back to tear him down. I think I can safely assume that most all of you have recieved all of your information about Mitt, his life, his policies, and his record from the liberal media. Have any of you done the research yourselves? Or do you just go to opinion sites to hear little bits of truth that are so sickly and strategically twisted? Mitt is a conservative, you’ll see that when you do your own research. I know you will all slam me for saying that because you are sucked into the “Hate Mitt” train. I’m in the tea party and our local group has vetted him every week for the last 8 months. He has been grossly mis-represented in the media and by the general tea-party establishment. It’s dividing our party, and we must unite to beat Obama! Please research and UNITE!

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:14pm

      Cuz he can’t beat Obama. It’s never gonna happen. You need some one to take Liberal /Democrat vote. That is Ron Paul. If this continues on… Glenn Beck is right.. Obama getting a second term.

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:14pm

      The issue that will bring him down against Obama is Romneycare – if we let that happen then we deserve another 4 years of Obama!

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    • circleDwagons
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:28pm

      @ immormon. I listened to romney in 07/08 and decided then that he was a prog. he has till Nov. to change my mind. he won’t do it by attacking other republicans or that slimy smile of his.

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    • neverending
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:49am

      No slamming from me as I totally agree with you.

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  • moussiagilda
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:03pm

    Do most of you feel like you have just had your head sawed off, thanks to our party’s insistence on electability, likability, and good old stupid disgusting family values? I’m still infinitely happy, because my egotism is personally justified, but, we have to support this unprincipled uncaring fake?

    Someone on NRO made a brilliant point. Saying Romneycare is all right, because it’s only a state matter instead of a federal matter, is like saying the Jim Crow laws are all right, because they are only state laws. Why is socialism okay for a state? Who is he, Howard Dean?

    And Massachusetts has the highest premiums in the country — and that’s all right? If you have no conscience. If you don’t care. If you don’t care.

    And tell me he isn’t amoral.

    Draft Daniels. Newt was a great candidate. So was Cain. They were destroyed by smears. Who did the smearing? Someone with an awful record, and no personal recognition of morality.

    If Newt can quick get a good $20 million in superpac money, there’ll be no more need for my surface halfhearted despair, and your less egotistical agonized despair. There’s nothing good about a smearing candidate with a terrible record. Don’t elect a prettier Nixon. Draft Daniels.

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    • Holaamerica
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:10pm

      Pull your head out of your butt and face the facts!

      Romney/ Rubio 2012

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:15pm

      Hello, Hola. Would you like to have an intellectual discussion, or would you like to talk about my butt? We can.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:16pm

      lol Rubio? He going Neutral. He won’t back Romney. I can see Romney/Christie and us seeing Obama as the victor. Good Luck Republicans. I won’t vote for Romney or Newt. Its either Paul or Rick. That;s it or none at all.

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    • Kool_Aid_For_Romney
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:42pm

      RO-Bots seem to reply like Liberals.

      Well stated.

      Santorum kicked Mitts Di__ into a Vagin_ in the last debate. Mitt had a new coach and came out swinging at Newt…… But, there was someone else in the race, and Mitt did not study for a Santorum Slam and questions on Romney Care.

      I hope to see a day when Santorum and Gingrich can debate for the Republican Nomination.

      Note: Santorum and Gingrich were the only two to agree to Trumps Debate, the Only two to go on Mark Levins Show, the only Two to go on Glenn Becks show) in fact they are the only two that have tried to tell Romney to stop acting like a Democrat.

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  • Todd P
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:00pm

    My wife and I was there tonight with Mitt in Tampa! It’s very exciting to support a real winner!!! In NOV he will defeat Obama and become the next POTUS, to begin the business of restoring our country!

    ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:04pm

      Romney / rubio 2012

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:11pm

      You are dreaming. I believe Romney is a good man but he will not beat Obama because he will never get the true conservatives behind him…it just won’t happen.

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    • Kool_Aid_For_Romney
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:22pm

      He Reads a Teleprompter beter than Obama….

      Not much more substance though……. The Olympics….. Oh My God the Olympics

      Private sector olympics blah blah blah Obama Lite

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:24pm

      Where do you get Rubio from? He isn’t backing any one.

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    • neverending
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:52am

      Romney/Rubio also for my entire family.

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  • MCDAVE
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:52pm

    More promises …

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  • Holaamerica
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:51pm

    To all the Newt Supporters with there heads still shoved solidly up there rear ends,

    Newt Gingrich has an affair and divorces his first wife dying of cancer.

    Cost: No body knows. (Everyone makes at least one big mistake in there life right?)

    Newt Gingrich has an affair and divorces his second wife after she is diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis

    Cost: At least some off the 1.6 million from Freddie Mac and all the other money he made influence peddling in DC.

    Chances that when Newts sorry campaign comes to an end he will pull an Edwards and has not only another affair but a love child. (Which is highly likely given the record so far)

    Cost: TBA but he still has his millions from the lobbyist to cover it.

    LOL bet you were expecting a priceless line up there…. see below.

    The fact that Mitt Romney married his high school sweet heart and has not only never cheated on her but stuck by her side despite her diagnosis with Multiple Sclerosis ( cough… Newts second wife cough cough ).

    Now that is PRICELESS!!!!!

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:06pm

      When the enemy Nancy Pelosi says “I know something about Newt” I take her at her word. I listen to my enemies and take them at their word. Like when the radical islamists say they want to kill us infidels. I believe Newt is toxically tainted and unscrupulous. Newt is a think tank progressive, his masters are the Rockefeller ran CFR. Newt wants to replace the EPA with the “Environmental Solutions Agency” Huh? Replace one bureaucracy for another? How progressive of you Newt!

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:09pm

      She wasn’t dying of cancer. She didn’t die. She is alive. …and she had already asked him for a divorce a few months before he showed up in the hospital. Now, I am not saying there was no affair. Just correcting the cancer part.
      And I am not a Newt supporter.

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:11pm

      Sure, baby. Compare the records. What do politicians do? They govern. Their governing records matter. There are politicians who are faithful husbands who in other ways are amoral. There are politicians who will do anything they please outside of their marriages. There are politicians who are only out for power and the game, who are faithful to their high school sweethearts.

      And you know that. To speak CSPAN language, may I engage you in a colloquy?

       
    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:23pm

      Sugarlamb, I don’t really feel like you are in the mood to have a debate about political philosophy, but I’ll do my best anyway, and ruin this message board tonight if possible with my alienating fancy-words snarlingness. What do you approve of in Romney, besides his willingness to enthusiastically smear his opponent, and his marital fidelity? And his electability, because we all think he’s the ideal politician?

      I’m ruining my reputation tonight, if I ever had one. I’m heckling.

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    • Kool_Aid_For_Romney
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:36pm

      @UBETHECHANGE

      You believe anything Nancy Pelosi has to say? F___ing Troll..

      Take your Tigerbeat, with Mitt on the cover, turn on the water, close the door, you have about 12 minutes untill your Mom knocks on the door.

      Troll

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  • Lordchamp
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:50pm

    If obamney is the nominee no vote from ME GOP!! I’m tired of having him shoved down my throat by you and the media. A LOT more feel the same way I do so keep pushing him and you are pushing Omaba right back into office. We’re tired of playing your stupid games. Come with us or LOSE!

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    • Lordchamp
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:57pm

      What has true conservative cause has Obamney EVER been staunchly for in his entire life? NOTHING in his entire political career OR his entire life.

      Does anyone remember that we didn‘t pay attention to Obama’s background and his history and look where that got us.

      Obamney‘s history is almost as bad as Obama’s so where‘s the real difference EXCEPT that he’s now trying to court the conservative vote by using the same tactics that Obama did. RHETORIC!!!

      OMG is America really this BLIND???

      Tea Party WHERE ARE YOU????

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    • moussiagilda
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:13pm

      I’m Tea Party, and I’m speaking to everyone I can. Listen, morons aren’t that impressive. They can’t win any arguments. Don’t worry about who can dominate the debate.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:49pm

    The party is not over…………………

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  • DividedWeFail
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:49pm

    I hope Mitt Romney fails.

    I won’t vote for him.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:57pm

      I think even Callista would say you’re being silly. Step up to the plate for Callista and support the nominee, no matter who it is. Do it for Callista.

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    • PoliticiansRCrooks
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:20pm

      Mrs Big Nose? Mrs. I got a million face lifts? Mrs. Gold digger? Mrs. I am married to a fat piece of crap? That one??

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:47pm

    I hope Glenn is tickled, I’m not. Feel like we are being lead to the slaughter by the propagandists.

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:46pm

    Unleash the Newtbots in 1…2…3…4…

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:44pm

    Gosh it’s really hard to tell who the trolls are, eh? ROTFLMAO

    Ah it was a good speech. Not over yet. Just building up the party as did OBOZO.

    Now who voted for Obama, and why? I thought he was going to take care of business…you know get in office and FIX thangs…but I didn’t vote for the man…too sketchy of a man. Never vetted by the liberal media…
    ‘
    It is the Media that will decide, along with the leftist shenanigans. It very well maybe the worst year in our lives.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:47pm

      Or if we don’t act like spoiled aholes, and vote for odufus by not voting or voting 6th party.

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  • bestartist
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:44pm

    I saw Mitt give that speech on Fox. I like Mitt and plan on voting for him… what..who I REALLY like is Ann Romney.
    Compared to Michelle, compared to the wives of anyone else running…Ann is a star. She is personable, warm, vivacious, smart…..I’d be happyhappyhappy to have Ann as First Lady!!!!

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:48pm

      I agree with your whole assessment. Anybody but Newt 2012! Anybody But Obama 2012! Ron Paul Treasury Secretary 2012!

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    • Todd P
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:06pm

      My wife and I was there tonight with Mitt in Tampa! It’s very exciting to support a real winner!!! In NOV he will defeat Obama and become the next POTUS, to begin the business of restoring our country!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • mikee99
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:08pm

      Bestartist, very nice. She is quite a woman. I have no doubt her main purpose will not be shopping and taking vacations like our current moochelle.

      ubethechange I agree that Ron Paul would be an awesome person to be in a strong cabinet position, financial leader or even a good VP. His ideas on domestic change are great and he would be a great influence in the next administration.

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  • disenlightened
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:43pm

    Copy . . . Paste

    I spent the whole Gingrich speech staring intently into Callista’s Sacred Golden Helmet and became almost hypnotized. But, in it, I began to see visions of the future. You see, it’s not just hair, it’s a communication device, like a crystal ball, and Newt uses it to guide his campaign. Callista is mute, and cannot speak, but on her shoulders is a magical miracle. I realized though, staring into it without her knowing, that to destroy it’s abilities one only has to mess it up. It would be hard to do, and will require tools of metal, but it can be done. If Deacon Rick can find a way to get to it, Gingrich would be finished and Rick could pick up the conservative mantle, bore us to death and start a gay civil war.

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:51pm

      Lol! Look into my golden crystal helmet if you dare! ABN 2012! ABO 2012! Santorum 2012! Ron Paul U.S Treasury Secretary 2012!

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:34pm

      This is hilarious! Thanks for the laugh. One was needed this week. I agree, she is mute…but she does move her head once in a while.
      It is interesting how the spouse or the families can make a difference in how we view the candidate. Ann Romney is good. Callisita, dear me, I cannot see her in the White House.

      I would still like someone else to enter the race if it were at all possible. Doubtful.

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  • bulletsinthegun
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:35pm

    mitt= ********

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:54pm

      try putting spaces or dashes between the letters and then maybe we will know how you really feel. I do not like the auto censor….just me

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  • TulsaYeeHaw
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:34pm

    Am I supposed to be happy or angry? Or indifferent? I miss football……

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  • UBETHECHANGE
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:32pm

    I voted for Santorum today in Florida. He has a more consistent conservative record than CFR think tank progressive Newt and Obama ultralite Romney. But if Romney is the nominee I will hold my nose and vote for him. I wrote in Ron Paul in 2008 dumbdee dumb dumb. McCain would have been better than Maobama. Anybody but Newt 2012! Anybody but Obama 2012! Ron Paul U.S Treasury Secretary 2012!

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 10:24pm

      Yeah, thanks! I am shocked that so many voted for Romney. But I am more shocked how many people didn’t vote at all.

      I have to say that Santorum hasn’t dazzled me. But he is the most conservative and would love to see his family in the White House.

      Really thought America was waking up, but after the FL vote I am not so sure. Didn’t people see that he just had the money to buy all the ads?

      If an Republican wins, what will our current President do in Nov, Dec?????? I shudder to think. Well, he has it all planned out anyway and is just waiting to further implement his master’s plan.

      It has been the intent of this Admin to divide and it has. We all need to stick together but from all the comments I don’t see it happening. The vote will be split among the candidates and in the general election all the write-ins.
      Ron Paul shd take over for Geithner and that could help turn things around.

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    • FreedomFighter88
      Posted on January 31, 2012 at 11:57pm

      idk. Mccain is the one that pushed the NDAA. Mccain might have spent less but who knows who would have been worse.

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    • UBETHECHANGE
      Posted on February 1, 2012 at 12:47am

      GOP progressive lite vs Totalitarianism

      Ron Paul Treasury Secretary 2012!

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  • Olael
    Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:32pm

    The audio in that video is quiet to the point of absurdity.

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