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Romney Routs Santorum in GOP Primary in Illinois

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) — Front-runner Mitt Romney sailed to an easy victory in the Illinois primary Tuesday night, trumping Rick Santorum in yet another industrial state showdown and padding his already-formidable delegate lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

“What a night,” Romney told cheering supporters in suburban Chicago. Turning his attention past his GOP rivals, he said he had a simple message for President Barack Obama, the Democrat he hopes to face and defeat in November: “Enough. We’ve had enough.”

Mitt Romney Routs Rick Santorum in GOP Primary in IllinoisRomney triumphed after benefitting from a crushing advantage in the television advertising wars, and as his chief rival struggled to overcome self-imposed political wounds in the marathon race to pick an opponent to Obama.

Returns from 47 percent of the state’s precincts showed Romney gaining 50 percent of the vote compared to 33 percent for Santorum, 9 percent for Ron Paul and 7 percent for a fading Newt Gingrich.

Exit polls showed Romney preferred by primary goers who said the economy was the top issue in the campaign, and overwhelmingly favored by those who said an ability to defeat Obama was the quality they most wanted in a nominee.

The primary capped a week in which the two campaigns seemed to be moving in opposition directions — Romney increasingly focused on the general election battle against Obama while Santorum struggled to escape self-created controversies.

Most recently, he backpedaled after saying on Monday that the economy wasn’t the main issue of the campaign. “Occasionally you say some things where you wish you had a do-over,” he said later.

Over the weekend, he was humbled in the Puerto Rico primary after saying that to qualify for statehood the island commonwealth should adopt English as an official language.

While pre-primary polls taken several days ago in Illinois suggested a close race, Romney and Restore Our future, a super Pac that backs him, unleashed a barrage of campaign ads to erode Santorum’s standing. One ad accused the former Pennsylvania senator of changing his principles while serving in Congress, while two others criticized him for voting to raise the debt limit, raise his own pay as a lawmaker and side with former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to support legislation allowing felons the right to vote.

In all, Romney and Restore Our Future outspent Santorum and a super PAC that backs him by $3.5 million to $500,000, an advantage of 7-1.

Romney’s victory was worth at least 13 delegates.

That gave him 535 in the overall count maintained by The Associated Press, out of 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Santorum has 253 delegates, Gingrich 135 and Paul 50.

In the long and grinding campaign, Santorum looked to rebound in next Saturday’s primary in Louisiana, particularly given Romney’s demonstrated difficulties winning in contests across the Deep South.

A 10-day break follows before Washington, D.C., Maryland and Wisconsin hold primaries on April 3.

Santorum is not on the ballot in the nation’s capital.

Private polling shows Romney with an advantage in Maryland, and Restore Our Future launched a television ad campaign in the state during the day at a cost of more than $450,000.

Wisconsin shapes up as the next big test between Romney and Santorum, an industrial state next door to Illinois, but one where Republican politics have been roiled recently by a controversy involving a recall battle against the governor and some GOP state senators who supported legislation that was bitterly opposed by labor unions.

Already, Restore Our future has put down more than $2 million in television advertising across Wisconsin. Santorum has spent about $50,000 to answer.

Neither Newt Gingrich nor Ron Paul campaigned extensively in Illinois.

Gingrich has faded into near-irrelevance in the race, but he was defiant in a statement issued after Romney sealed his victory.

“To defeat Barack Obama, Republicans can’t nominate a candidate who relies on outspending his opponents 7-1. Instead, we need a nominee who offers powerful solutions that hold the president accountable for his failures,” it said.

Gingrich said his campaign will spend the time leading to the party convention “relentlessly taking the fight to President Obama.”

Illinois fell into Romney’s column far more easily than Michigan or Ohio had.

The night’s vote count was plagued by ballot difficulties. Rupert Borgsmiller, executive director, of the Illinois State Board of Elections, said in late afternoon that 25 counties and the city of Aurora were affected by the ballot problem. He didn’t know how many ballots were affected but said “clearly you can say more than hundreds.”

Romney and Santorum campaigned energetically across the state, and not always in respectful tones.

“Senator Santorum has the same economic lightweight background the president has,” Romney said at one point. “We’re not going to replace an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight.”

Santorum had a tart reply. “If Mitt Romney’s an economic heavyweight, we’re in trouble.”

Anticipating a primary defeat, Santorum’s campaign argued that the race for delegates is closer than it appears.

Santorum contends the Republican National Committee at the convention will force Florida and Arizona to allocate their delegates on a proportional basis instead of winner-take-all as the state GOP decided. Romney won both states.

On Tuesday, about four in 10 voters interviewed as they left their polling places said they were evangelical or born again. That‘s about half the percentage in last week’s primary states of Alabama and Mississippi, where Santorum won narrowly. Despite an unusually lengthy race for the nomination, less than a third of those voting said in the polling-place survey they hoped the primary season would come to a quick end even if that meant their candidate might lose the nomination.

The findings came from preliminary results from the survey of 1,555 Illinois Republican voters, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The exit poll was conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks by Edison Research at 35 randomly selected polling places around the state.

As Illinois Republicans voted on Tuesday, Romney raised more than $1.3 million at a luncheon in Chicago.

Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, has been seeking to make up in broadcast interviews what he has lacked in advertising money.

On Monday, his campaign began before sun-up and ended well after dark, including four appearances at rallies around the state as well as an extraordinary 19 radio and television interviews. He accused Romney anew of putting his signature on a Massachusetts health insurance law that is similar to the one Obama pushed through Congress.

Romney cut short his planned time in Puerto Rico, site of a primary last weekend, to maximize his time in Illinois. He has eked out victories in other big industrial states over the past few weeks, beginning in Michigan on Feb. 28 and Ohio on March 6. Defeat in any would be likely to trigger fresh anxiety within the party about his ability to wrap up the nomination.

Illinois was the 28th state to hold a primary or caucus in the selection of delegates to the nominating convention, about halfway through the calendar of a Republican campaign that has remained competitive longer than most.

A change in party rules to reduce the number of winner-take-all primaries has accounted for the duration of the race. But so has Romney’s difficulty in securing the support of the most conservative of the GOP political base. Santorum and Gingrich have struggled to emerge as the front-runner’s sole challenger from the right.

Whatever the reasons, the race appeared unlikely to end soon, with Santorum and even Gingrich vowing to campaign into the convention.

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  • leftcoastslut
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:43pm

    i heard Mitt did not accept a paycheck while he was governor, his choice. that’s a good point, not crazy about him although. i really don’t think we need to focus on beating obummer, all of these guys can. obummer can only win with “hell’s angles” in front of every voting place, get his financial buddies to count the votes (creative accounting 101), nappy will call out the national guard, holder will finally be able to account for all the assault weapons that have been missing (now in the hands of the all important “Youth for America National Protection Agency” also known as YANPA, as hilarious rides into the Kremlin pulling a trojen horse, filled with VODKA to celebrate, and of course Bill is on top, riding again and we will all go blissfully into the sunset, singing “Someday my love, there will be songs to sing, although the snow covers the hope of Spring”. But then again WE WILL STAND.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:51pm

      I fianally took the challange and went to the teapartyforromney thing and found out a lot of things I didn’t know. I was pretty suprised and pleased with it. I now have no problem at all with Romney, and I’m sure he will help this country in spite of the forces trying to change us into an unrecognizable communitst place.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:07pm

      i’m still stuck on romneycare, his love of the progressive tax code, flip flopping, pandering, as well as teleprompter. is there a cure for that?

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    • LongRange
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:29pm

      Obama will either go the Thug route or start a war in Iran and declare martial law. I agree any of the Republicans will beat him, if we can keep the election honest.

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    • Luke611
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:32pm

      Leftcoastslut
      Hells Angels are conservatives. They wouldn’t stand in front of the ballot boxes to assure Obama the election.

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    • Luke611
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:45pm

      I set here listening to the phone call of Santorum with Greta complaining of Romney’s strong support from his super-pac. He made a notation that people dont donate to his campaign to compete with Romney’s superpac, and these Supacs are running decptive ads of his and Gingrich’s records. Interesting how Santorum and Gingrich each claim the attacks are lies yet never defend their position with the actual facts. what was the lie and where is Santorums actual position?
      Santorum is taking the lesson from Gingrich, if you scream foul long enough eventually a blind ref may blow the whistle. This ref has glasses and he can read and study facts.
      Where are the superpac lies? Would someone please post a link of a Romney superpac lie?

      I’d appreciate it.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:59pm

      we might as well call this another home state for romney – illinois has lots of liberals, democrats, and unions. i hear they treat their politicians real well.

      but i dont think they have cheesy grits in IL. maybe he is now onto cheesy deep dish

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    • TeaPartyForRomney
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:02pm

      If you didn’t see it there was a question answer session put on by Google + today with Mitt Romney: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/mar/google_hangout_romney.html

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    • YoungBloodNews
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:25pm

      Good job GOP, you have decided to select a man just like Obama. Willard won’t even harshly criticize Obama and you expect him to be able to debate the man. On what health care, oh thats right Obama used Mitts version as a model. Maybe on the bankers and corrupt FED? Hardly when you compare both of their top 20 campaign donors. Two empty suits, what a pair they will make on the debate stage. They will both demand a teleprompter, they both will read from the same play book: Pander and sellout on any populist point (even if your past shows you don’t support such positions – hell it worked with Obama on the debt limit, Patriot Act, etc.). You are being used, its time to get rid of BOTH corrupt parties. So funny how Boehner and Pelosi were neck deep into insider trading, errr ‘soft corruption’ as what they did was technically not illegal. Keep paying your taxes peon, and believe in Romney’s Change 2.0!

      Gotta love Romney, a character who many people will support just to beat Obama, and not because they actually like his populist-moderate stance. Drones think this is a game and if you win the election then its over. Sorry but he who is elected is president and has to RUN the country not just claim victory. Romeny has terrible ideas for this country and nothing will change that.

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:39am

      Looks like we will need a brokered convention in order to get a candidate that can beat Obama. The people I talk politics to have the enthusiasm of a death-row inmate on his last day on earth. Most of them see the inevitability of Romney and hard as they try, they cannot get excited about him.
      If Romney is the presumptive nominee there are now 3 things in life that are guaranteed…
      1. Death.
      2. Taxes.
      3. Four more years of Obama.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:50am

      @ Luke611
      I remember when Gingrich was howling about one of the ads by Romney’s super pac: “It got 4 Pinochios!” Well, one of those Pinochios was for the “false” assertion that the housing collapse was responsible for the Great Recession. Seems to me that the housing bubble was clearly the biggest cause of the Great Recession, but statist news organizations (and Newt Gingrich) don’t like that fact, so they call it a lie.

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  • TrueColours
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:43pm

    Patriots this IL line up tells us what the Obama/NWO Puppet Masters/Shadow Gov’t wants. We simply need to turn it upside down. Newt?, Ron or Rick. However, given the fact that Newt as well as Mittens are members of the CFR, Bildeburg (Shadow Government) and probably other secret elitist organizations our best bet is Ron or Rick. Romney has been endorsed/anointed by Puppet Masters George H.W. and McCain which makes him Obama light. We won’t be fooled again!

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:04pm

      Ron or Rick are my only options – better ron than rick

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    • cous1933
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:00am

      While I’m no fan of Romney or Gingrich, I personally find Santorum to be the phoniest of the three. It may be because he declares himself the most conservative in the GOP race when in fact his voting record is the most liberal (and of course Ron Pauls is by far the most conservative). In addition to the voting record, there are numerous videos of Santorum saying things that no real conservative would ever say. Here’s one I saw for the first time today…..

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WezrKqUBQ&feature=player_embedded

      I also have a personal issue with the pandering “look at me, I’m the most Christian” attitude that Santorum has made his trademark.
      I will only vote for a Christian, but I prefer my Christian candidate to be humble, and to never, ever use his (professed) faith for his own self-glorification and promotion.

      I just find Santorum to be a fake conservative and, while I won’t call him a fake Christian, I will say that his form of Christianity is not very compatible with mine.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:14am

      cous
      did you see santorum’s speech tonight? i saw part of it – it looks like he is taking on the ron paul freedom message. ron paul always says that the candidates move towards him and not the other way around. i know santorum’s version of freedom is not the same but it is a good thing no doubt. more proof that ron paul is more relevant than anyone would like to admit

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    • cous1933
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:14am

      “How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of ‘security.’ We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if ‘the people’ rule, all is well.” – Barry Goldwater

      Santorum doesn’t like Goldwaters form of conservatism. I’d take a Goldwater conservative over a Santorum conservative any day because a Santorum conservative is a neoconservative statist.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:31am

      you dont like santorum and i dont like romney. i dont think either of us are wrong – its just a sloppy seconds arguement. i know alot of ron paul supporters hate santorum and like mitt romney – partly because santorum fights with ron and mitt/ron are somewhat friends. Dont think for a second that mitt believes in any of the stuff ron does. Mitt is just playing nice

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    • cous1933
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:32am

      Soybomb,

      I did not see Santorums speech tonight, but I have to be honest with you, if Santorum seems to be moving towards Ron Paul, that would be the biggest flip-flop any politician ever attempted.

      I personally would not believe him if he said anything of the sort. After all, his voting record has never matched his rhetoric. I’m sure you know that he voted for funding Planned Parenthood, he always voted for foreign aid, he always voted to raise the debt ceiling, he voted for doubling the Dept. of Education, etc. etc. etc.

      I know that people can have their political eyes opened because I used to be a neoconservative and I now realize how incredibly wrong and gullible I was. But even if Santorum said that he has begun to study Bastiat, Hayek, Mises, and Thomas Jefferson and finally sees the wisdom of libertarianism, his history of saying one thing while doing another would make me very leery.

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  • Mateytwo Barreett
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:42pm

    Aw, damn back to the bunker. Great night for Obama Lite. Another nose pincher this fall!
    Now, where the hell did I put that bump trigger????

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    • mathwonk
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:58pm

      has anyone else noticed that rick santorum has the support of the “prepper community”? that’s a great demographic to have on your side, as it’s highly representative of the general american voter. i guess santorum wins the electability argument…

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:25pm

      i am shocked by that. surely you jest – those people should be ron paul supporters from top to bottom

      only ron paul is talking about the problems and solutions that the preppers would care about…

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    • mathwonk
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:36pm

      @soybomb315

      i was kind of poking fun at glenn beck. isn’t he a prepper?

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:50pm

      hmm, i guess he is. he is a prepper in the mormon fashion, but i dont think he is planning on long-term survival. you know that would require him to eat more healthy and excercise

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  • BastiatsLaw
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:41pm

    I believe Illinois is considered to be a blue state. Considering that, what might that say about the wide margin that Mr. Romney won by? MOTS

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:55pm

      Or also say that Romney will win both red and blue states when Santorum cant get 25 percent of the vote we will have a problem winning with him as the candadate.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:31pm

      check yourself – we are looking at romney 47% and santorum at 35%

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    • mathwonk
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:33pm

      @soybomb315

      rick santorum has no chance at courting the suburban/metro voters which tend to be moderates/independents. he also has no chance of winning the women vote. these are the voters that we lost in 2008 and we will lose them again if sanatorium is the nominee. his stances on social issues are simply too conservative for these voters.

      romney will win the social conservatives regardless. he has the best potential to build a coalition that can beat obama because he can appeal across many demographics. obama is a master campaigner and he will have the MSM on his side. the odds are stacked against us! we will not win the election if it’s just conservatives versus indepedents/liberals!

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:53pm

      i am not a santorum supporter but it is hard to say what he can and cant do. he has had the spotlight for just a couple months and the narrative has been dominated by the media and romney’s superPACs. Its not like santorum has been running for president for 5 years….

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    • mathwonk
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:59pm

      i was being too general so let me clarify. it’s not that his stances on social and national security issues are necessarily too conservative and hawkish, respectively. the problem is public perception. the perception is that his stances on these issues are radical or extremist. it’s entirely his fault too! he goes way over the top when he talks about these things on the stump and in the media.

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  • Carol in MA
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:41pm

    Congrats to Mitt Romney~!! I wonder who Santorum will blame for his lose?? If Santorum & Newt cared more about our country and less about themselves, they would pull out of the race….they know there’s no way either one of them can get the 1,144 delegates needed to get the nomination….but they’re going to drag this thing out to the Republican Convention in August. It’s time to pull together and save our resources to battle “the Obama” machine. We CAN’T lose in November, we need to take back the Senate, keep the Congress Republican, and elect a Republican president. It’s time to take our beautiful country back & stop the insanity~!!!!!

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:02pm

      It’s time to rally around a proven winner and unite against Obama. The sooner we focus on the real enemy, the more resources we will have with which to fight. The Dems want us to be divided; I think it’s pretty clear who the Republicans and Independents are favoring. Mitt WILL defeat Obama!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • neverending
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:03pm

      He will find someone to blame whether it makes sense or not.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:35pm

      the people of illinois go for barack obama and mitt romney. good analysis guys

      yea, lets all quit and go home based on the results of the liberal state that republicans have ZERO chance of winning. I’m suprised romney is only ahead 10-14% – the exit polling showed democrats voted and went for romney

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    • Luke611
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:59pm

      Soybomb you’re full of soyshiite

      Romney received overwhelming support from Independants. …dems had nothing to do with it.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:19pm

      luke
      based on exit polling democrats were 6% of voters. because it is not shown in the number, i am saying what the media reported and it is consistent with the areas romney was strong in.
      http://www.cnn.com/election/2012/primaries/epolls/IL

      why are you so defensive for romney? u gonna unless a superPAC ad against me?

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  • WithoutGuile
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:36pm

    The differences between OBAMA CARE and So called Romney Care are staggering!! Get your common sense on!
    I am voting for him because of Romney Care…not in spite of it. Because if every state had been pro-actively working to solve the very broken health care system and issues in their own states(As the constitution allows and even directs) if they had all been doing this then the FED would have no reason to even get involved. Let me be very clear here… I’m not for a mandate…but I am for the constitution and states rights. When Obama care is repealed… we will still have a very broken and expensive medical system… each state will then need to craft a solution. So far only one has attempted this in an effort to thwart the Fed…and that was under the leadership of Mitt Romney.
    LEAD ON!!

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:46pm

      Nicely put.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:03pm

      Ditto!!!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • neverending
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:04pm

      Lead on indeed.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:38pm

      did you know that if the federal individual mandate is declared unconstitutional – then it would also be unconstitutional for states to do it? So are you rooting for the supreme court to decide obamacare is constitutional???

      healthcare can be fixed a ton of ways. getting the government more involved and taking away freedoms is never a good idea

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    • Luke611
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:08pm

      Soybomb….
      You’re on a roll tonight buddy,
      The Fed mandate has not yet been heard by the Supreme Court,…though it should be declared unconstitutional. However, the state mandate is not privy to debate with the US Supreme Court, only the state court and Mass citizens wanted it by 71 percent majority.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:33pm

      luke
      you are a strange fellow. did you catch the “IF” proviso? or did you read the second sentance?

      anyways, you need to get familiar with the 14th ammendment and the ‘incorporation clause’. The constitution applies to the federal government as well as the states. For example, massechuesetts cannot outlaw free speech because it is protected by the bill of rights. If the supreme court declares the individual mandate unconstitutional – then it is unconstitutional at the state level too. some light must be going off in your head – dont ignore it.

      it doesnt matter how many people in a state want something – if it is unconstittuional then it is not right. i am begining to think you are a democrat in disguise

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  • WithoutGuile
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:34pm

    Mitt Romney is like Obama? What are you smoking?
    Mitt Romney is admittedly a bit awkward and a bit stiff… precisely because he is not some smooth talking experienced liar… I mean washington insider, lobbyist, historian, ear marker… and he is also NOT the establishment guy. He is however the guy who is using the establishment as a strategy to win the white house…where, if he is true to his past. He will not take a paycheck, he will not have sex with interns or lie, or do 121 fundraiser, or play 100 rounds of golf. BUT HE WILL cut waste, eliminate red tape, create confidence in the business sector… which will help to create jobs… and he will work to win wars…not just be in them. He will also work towards becoming energy independent. Oh and he won’t give himself a raise…or take vacations in separate jets. This man knows how to work 80-120 hours a week…he’s done it his whole life. Which is why he is successful.

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    • SheriS
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:01pm

      Well said! So many people refuse to lood at Mitt did and seem to focus on stupid stuff! When Mitt got the job in Mass. he found that over half the people were without health insurance which is why he instituted the law on healthcare for the state—their medicade bill has been costing them more then they were taking in in taxes. Everyone seems to blame Mitt for Obamacare as did I before I heard the reason for Mittcare!

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  • gbfreak
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:34pm

    obammy lite and McCain lite will not beat the obammy machine. The establishment candidate will only grow the government and switch the power. Mitt will not give the government back to the people. This is bad!

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    • WithoutGuile
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:47pm

      He will not need to give the government back…. he didn’t take it, and doesn’t want it. It’s up to us to take our Government back. It’s people who sit back talking like victims (like you) that are why we lost it in the first place.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:06am

      Obama-lite is such a tired and completely erroneous representation of Mitt.
      How about you get to know him a little more. Find out some facts and you’ll see he is more conservative than you think. You just listen to the BS that keeps getting passed along.

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  • qpwillie
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:24pm

    Well folks, I fear we lost our country tonight. I don’t believe a moderate can beat 0bama. Especially since so many conservatives will simply stay home on election day. I will vote against 0bama but I know for a fact that a lot of people won’t.

    I think a lot of people fell for his campaign strategy to act like a conservative but it never works out that way. If he miraculously got to the white house, he would immediately go right back to being what he has always been.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:40pm

      funny enough the polls dont agree with your logic Romney unlike other so called conservatives actually does quite well against Obama.

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:42pm

      Who is calling who a moderate. The title doesn’t fit, no matter how often you repeat it. Romney care was not liberal or even moderate legislation, it was conservative from its inception, no matter what the dems in Mass have converted it to today, and last I checked turning deficits into surpluses, cutting taxes, and reducing the size of Government are hardly moderate principles.

      Not only should you cast your vote for Romney in the general, you should do it with confidence knowing you made the right choice. If there is any moderate philosophy still lurking about in Mitt’s head, it will be rooted out while in office. He not only has a record for being successful financially, he has a proven record of defining the problem and executing its solution. He has a record of being right. Santorum and Gingrich can hardly toot the same horn. Good riddance.

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:53pm

      @READRIGHTHERE

      First of all, Romney thinks the economy is our biggest problem and he thinks 0bama is just a good America loving guy who is in over his head. ….and I‘ll bet you’re saying “Yeah? So?”. Therein lies the problem.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:59pm

      Fear not. Mitt is a solid conservative businessman who will lead our nation back to prosperity. And he has a proven track record that shows he knows how!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:07pm

      The economy IS our biggest problem. Maybe you think it’s contraception?! If the dollar collapses, there will be no more USA. And we are closer to that than they tell us!!!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:03pm

      @QP
      exactly – THIS IS THE MOST CONSERVATIVE MITT ROMNEY WILL EVER BE. thats just the facts. when the republican primary is over – every single candidate always gets more moderate. that is history and demographics – nobody can refute it

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 2:45am

      QP,

      Romney is hedging his bets, as all intelligent businessmen do. He is not going to call Obama out on anything that we suspect regarding his motives, core beleifs, or ideologies. If he does the argument will bite him back and remove the conversation from the most important issue. Obama is a failure as President, and the Democrat Party is fiscally irresponsible, as they have gone 5 years now with no budget. Getting in the kind of digs that would make you happy would quickly get Romney labeled as a cook, racist, irrational, and border line lunatic (Kind of like what they have done to Santorum.) Romney doesn’t have to call Obama a socialist, but he can say that Obama’s policies are turning us into a pseudo European socialist state, and he has. If Romney is caught on tape, or in print, as having called Obama any of the names you have prepared for him, all the money in the world won‘t outweigh the negative press he’ll encounter. His strength is his reserve. And we only win if people don’t see him as emotional or unstable in his opinions. He is targeting the biggest problem and championing the best solutions. He will take the White House, and let Obama’s record evict the current occupant.

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 2:41pm

      Conservatives won’t stay home. The only people that will be staying home are the brainwashed Ron Paul supporters, who think he is the messiah, and will not vote for anyone unless it’s him.

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:23pm

    I wish Southern Illinois could defect as their own state. I hate knowing there are so many brain washed masses around Chicago, that think supporting any party other than “Democrat” is a sin…

    Rest assured, there were Democrats that voted for Romney to give Obama a better chance. Otherwise, they stayed home and I’m betting the polls show as much. It’s up to those on the right and Libertarians to prove their asses wrong.

    I hate saying this, but, Santorum is done now. It’s certainly not mathematically possible to win out. With Texas left, should Romney wins out, and it’s possible he will, They should stop this damn process and start focusing on the real enemy, Obama.

    And while they’re at it, put a boot to the person that thought this process was a great idea.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:26pm

      I feel the same way about Southern California there are more republicans concintrated in southern california then anywhere in the country.

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  • kaygee
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:21pm

    just rick santorum enough is enough.join the gbtv and get out of race.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:28pm

      It is time indeed we need to focus on Obama instead of fighting eachother.

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:36pm

      @N8
      you call it fighting – we want to be picking the right person. romney is the one spending all the money so why dont you look in the mirror?

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  • rlewispitt
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:08pm

    Great, If Romney gets the nomination, we have a choice between Obama, and Obama in the next election….how wonderful….It remids me of that old guy on the bike in that old horror flick…you’re all doooooomed, you’re all dooooomed….

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:14pm

      Romney is definitely not the best, but he is no where near the equivalent of Obama. You are at no help at all getting Obama out of office by shouting that.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:17pm

      how is Romney Obama he is going to cut taxes will elect conservative judges, he will be backed by a conservative house and senate most likely because if he wins most likely we will take the senate and house. It will be the congress doing all the right things I know Romney will not veto anything conservative out of the house and senate so what do you have to be worried about.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:26pm

      Only a monkey would copy cat a failure. Obama saw the failure that Romney’s plan was and implemented it. Somehow, that makes Libs so warm and fuzzy. And you would rather see Obama stay put in the name of….?

      We’re going to drag his high narrow backside out of there whether they like it or not.

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    • WithoutGuile
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:56pm

      Are you kidding me? The contrast is as wide at the Grand Canyon! Get a clue…one loves Solinski and another loves Freedom… one communism the other capitalism. Grow up and be honest.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:10pm

      You ARE doomed if you vote for Obama!!! As for me and my family – we are voting for
      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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  • Goldi
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:07pm

    THXll38
    You are an absolute dolt! Romney is an American who loves this country! He has donated more money and more time to charities and his Church than any of the other candidates including the one in the White House, even if we take it as a percentage. There is a world of difference between the two. You make me sick! Stick to your vote, even if Paul asks you to vote for Romney!

    Since you really are a dem go back to your hole in the basement!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKzJtG3ecnc&feature=youtu.be

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    • THXll38
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:14pm

      LOL. What a neocon fool you are. Are you Mark Levin in disguise? I am no democrat — I am a constitutionalist. Put that in your pipe and smoke it shepple.

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:22pm

      THXLL

      No, you are a communist. Not voting against Obama, is voting for communism.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:24pm

      we will be destroyed as a country if people like you thxl88 choose to not vote or write in there beloved Ron Paul and there are unfortunately alot of idiots like yourself claiming to be a constitutionalist but willling to have the country destroyed by Obama who is ripping the constitution to shreds.

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    • THXll38
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:29pm

      Nope. Just a Constitutionalist. I vote with my heart and mind. I don’t vote for candidates that do not support the Constitution, or the ones that talk radio host they tell me to, nor do I follow the “anyone but Obama” mantra.

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    • THXll38
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:37pm

      Romney, Bush, Santorum, Gingrich, Obama etc. They all rip the Constitution up in their own special way. If you really think one of your warmongering social con candidates will save this country, you are the idiot. It would take Ron Paul 2 terms, and then his son Rand 2 terms, then others if their ideology to get this country back on track — not the republican establishment.

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:38pm

      NO!! You idiots that have tried to vote a self proclaimed progressive, who has been pro abortion, pro gun laws, pro NDAA, pro patriot act, pro unconstitutional war, pro Romneycare, pro taxes, and puts a budget that cuts nothing but future increases in as our nominee are the ones that lost this election.

      Do not blame the people who are sick of this crap and either dont vote for the ones who vote for the right man Ron Paul!!!!

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:14pm

      THXLL38 is smoking some of that marijuana that he is hoping Ron Paul will legalize. You just go right ahead there, inhale some more, nod off……. The rest of us have work to do defeating Obama.

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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  • jespasinthru
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:07pm

    Unfortunately, Obama still has millions of uninformed useful idiots, personality-cult lemmings, and hard-core America-hating socialists who are all eager to reelect him. Some of them have deep pockets and foreign connections, and some of them vote early and often. He also has millions of public sector Union employees. His disastrous policies have allowed these government parasites to feed on the American taxpayers more than at any other time in history, and they’re not willing to give that up. It is in their best interests to keep him in the White House. So don’t be complacent in thinking that his defeat in November is inevitable. Especially when the Republicans are going against him with the weakest and least electable candidate.

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  • Bush Hating Conervatives make me sick
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:00pm

    Romney/Rubio! Santorum is still crying!!

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:16pm

      The really funny thing is, Santorum still thinks he will be president. Maybe when he sees Mitt being sworn in, it will dawn on him that he lost. Maybe not.

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • neverending
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:47pm

      That is what he does best adn it is really getting old. He will be complaining again about being outspent – get over it rick.

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  • Racemosa7
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:59pm

    As Christians we are told that those that rule must rule in the fear of God. This man, Romney, has a false God, and even believes that Satan is the brother of Jesus Christ. Don’t believe it, go to http://www.soulwinner.com

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:09pm

      Bigotry not cool and neither are lies and distortions of someones faith well guess they are the same thing.

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    • Jenny Lind
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:57pm

      I am so sick of that garbage I could just puke. You do not know what you are talking about, just spewing whatever crap you have heard.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:19pm

      RACEM0SA7, if you had a brain, you might be dangerous. You just go back in your hole and whisper that nonsense to yourself. We don’t need it here.

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • Inkmage
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:31pm

      I hope you know that Jesus kept out of political dealings, as he was not put on earth to uplift or promote institutions of man. I don’t care what denomination Romney believes in- so long as he serves in ways that respects the individual’s freedoms, and rights; and does his job to protect and uplift the country… I’m not looking for a president to be my bloody priest.

      I’m all well and good with a president who encourages houses of worship to get more involved with their communities, or is shown praying, or whatever… I’m not ok with a president putting forth policy- that delves into my personal life- due to his religious convictions.

      Right-wing religious social Conservatives are really no different from big government left-wing wankers… Both are all well and good with government telling them how to live, so long as the rules of life please them.

      I want a leader/businessman for the country. I don’t want a priest- so my vote’s going to Romney, not Santorum… He needs to drop out and go run for pope lol

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  • TerryDo
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:58pm

    Brava!!! Felicitations Mitt Romney, November 6th is just around the corner.. Thank you Illinois!

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:20pm

      Ditto sobra talaga!!!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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  • 408 CheyTac
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:58pm

    I will 100% go vote for obama before I go vote for another of these jacka$ses the GOP keeps throwing in front of me. Couldn’t vote for mccain, won’t vote for a progressive in disguise. At least with obummer I don‘t have to deal with a lying knob trying to convince me he’s a conservative. More of the GOP trying to pis$ on my head, and telling me it’s raining.

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:01pm

      Vote Ron Paul. I am.

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:06pm

      The most idiotic comment to be posted on The Blaze yet.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:10pm

      your a moron

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:11pm

      Do that, and your Cheytac will be busy for the next 20 years….This country is headed for a civil war like no other.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:37pm

      How about a lying knob telling you he’s american?

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    • 408 CheyTac
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:02am

      On almost every thing I base my vote on, there is little, to no difference between bumster, and mittens. Better the devil I know, than the devil I don’t.

      Unite behind whatever the GOP plops in front of you, bend over and kiss mittens… er… ya, not happening. A protest vote for the other side and I still have my honor, I sell out to someone I can’t support, only because that is who the GOP decided I should vote for, and I loose my honor. I am not that cheap, maybe you are. Further, I find the average GOP voter to be just as offensive as any OWS park-hippie. Neither of them will engage in a debate about their core issues without resorting to the same old party lines. There isn’t a unique individual thought in the whole lot of the. Frightening. They are going to line up and vote for whomever the party picks, reguardless of just how poorly that candidate reflects their beliefs (providing they actually have any true core beliefs)

      The GOP wants to win, they need to pick a candidate that is different from the DNC. I don’t see any way mitties is going to change what appears to be the invertible direction of the country, it’s going to end up the same place with either of them. Going to be 2nd term of the bummer, and the GOP has only themselves to blame for it.

      GOA gives mitties a d+, He has been anti-privacy, anti-private property, grow gov’t, and romneycare – What idiot votes for that guy?

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:50pm

    Hey, even Dead People Like Romney, I guess he has BRAINS!

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  • n8isgrate
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:50pm

    It is time we unite behind the candadate that will win the nomination quit our petty divide. You tell me how this divide in this election is a good thing all I see it as people who will be so petty and not vote or write in if Romney wins which is a vote for Obama we need to get everyone behind Romney one guy is not going to save our country but at least he will be the one to save us from Obama destroying our country. We will do our part and elect a conservative senate and congress that will keep Romney in line if your worried he is a moderate which I dont believe he is I think he is the most fiscally conservative but thats just me and also the strongest when it comes to defending our country militarily and also social issues he vetoed any legislation that had to do with gay marriage and abortion. So you tell me why not get behind someone who will win the nomination and who is a very strong candadate to beat Obama. He is the only one who consistantly has polled well against Obama.

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    • THXll38
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:56pm

      Not going to happen. Paul is getting my vote. Romney/Obama — they are woven from the same cloth. If Obama wins, it is really no big loss. The republican establishment will continue the status quo.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:00pm

      The biggest enemies to America Ron Paul people and Obama people both okay with the destruction of the country.

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    • Racemosa7
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:01pm

      You are correct. Why is it others do not see that your opinion is simply based on facts and history. Good post.

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    • THXll38
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:08pm

      That’s funny I thought classical liberals supported the Constitution unlike you social neocons. Conservatives are nothing more than liberals — just on different sides of the spectrum. Vote for the social warmongering con and the country will get what it deserves — 4 more years of Obama, Romney, Santorum. Hell, it does not matter who gets in — nothing will change because Americans are spoiled little punks that want their social nets.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:36pm

      Actually he vetoed legislation against Abortion which turned him pro life also vetoed legislation on gay marriage cut taxes in a liberal state. Romneycare is not a put insurance companies out of business plan like Obamacare. The mandate you need to get your mind off of that it is the smallest issue of Obama care the biggest issues are the fact all insurance companies will be out of business because it will be too expensive for them to cover people so you will be forced into Obama care. The mandate is unconstitutional federally but that is not the main issue nor should be the main issue on Obamacare. Romney care was not about universal healthcare it was about closing a gap of people free loading and suing doctors when they didnt have there own coverage. It was actually praised by conservatives when it was inacted until the liberals took it over when Romney left.

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  • JESSEBEGATDAVID
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:48pm

    Bob Dole… John McCain

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  • JESSEBEGATDAVID
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:45pm

    Bob Dole….. John McCain

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  • Y59559
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:43pm

    only 7% of the vote is in how can they call it this early?

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:54pm

      he has 55 thouasand to 24 thousand thats pretty decisive and it goes by also exit polls. They called santorums win in Kansas with only like 3 percent of the vote in.

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  • martinez012577
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:40pm

    Great, one step closer to Obama’s reelection!!!!!

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:49pm

      NAW…. Obama couldn’t get elected to be dog-catcher after what he’s tried to foist on the US of A.
      Low-life, low-class Commie Pig. NEVER EVER again should we, the People, ever vote for anyone who did NOT grow up in AMERICA. This Manchurian Candidate did more harm to the US of A than all the wars, the cold war included and all the time AMERICA has been in existence. YOU GOT NOTHING. YOU GOT NO CANDIDATE, YOU GOT NO RECORD…all you have is a lot of GRIEF.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:56pm

      Yah I agree I dont see how he can get elected but remember there are still half of america who rely on his welfare benifits he keeps promising more of and the media is in the tank for Obama so its not going to be as easy as it should be.

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:04pm

      @patty

      Your crazy if you think Obama can even lose. Everyone keeps saying anyone could beat him. The GOP will get crushed this year because they backed a loser.

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    • bpodlesnik
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:10pm

      He won’t loose because people like you and 408 will sooner vote for Obama, than Romney or Santorum.

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    • n8isgrate
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:13pm

      Martinez the only one who consistantly does well against Obama in polls is Romney Santorum has only a couple times where he was close Romney overall has always done well against Obama. Gingrich is someone who has been behind 15 percent or more and Ron Paul the only way he would win is to take democrats because not very many republicans would vote for him he is more of a libertarian democrat then a conservative republican.

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    • martinez012577
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:54pm

      @bpo

      I will never vote for Obama or a clone of him(Romney, Santorum, or Gingrich)

      @n8

      I cannot help that most of the GOP are sheep and are being told who to vote for. Yes those two poll well, but are they good candidates? No.

      If the talking heads (Glenn, Bill, Sean, Rush, and Mark to name a few) all supported lets say Gingrich tommorrow. The Sheep would flock to Gingrich again.

      Unlike the rest of the GOP candidates Ron Paul is the only one with appeal to the anti war, pro freedom, fiscal discipline. The GOP is pro taking freedoms (patriot act and Ndaa), pro war, and pro spending. They are no different from Obama. This is a lost cause, Obama wins in a land slide, again.

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    • Todd P
      Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:26pm

      What do Ron Paul, Ross Perot, and Ralph Nader all have in common?

      Still thinking? (Yeah, I can smell the wood burning….)

      They were all LOSERS who had a small but vocal following right up to the day they LOST and disappeared. Wake up and smell the coffee!!!

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

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    • soybomb315
      Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:10am

      @todd
      WRONG. They all ran for president and prevented one of the parties from winning. That will be the result because of foolish people like you who go around and talk trash to folks you have no business bashing.

      If the republican party denigrates ron paul or dismisses his ideas – he will find an audience that accepts them. That means 3rd party run – not my ideal goal but because of people like you, i wont shed a tear for your fearless candidate. You wrap yourself in the romney flag but you will soon realize that he stands on quicksand and doesnt have core principles that american people want

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  • Common.Cents
    Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:38pm

    Surprise Surprise.

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