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Lennyjoe

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Romney bounces from race
« on: February 07, 2008, 07:37:32 AM »
News forthcoming but Time magazine says he's thrown in the towel.

http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/07/time-magazine-blog-romney-to-quit-today/

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2008, 07:44:23 AM »
Stay in, Huck, stay in!!!

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2008, 07:54:13 AM »
Odd, he has 25 times more delegates that Ron Paul...
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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2008, 08:19:16 AM »
Gah. It just gets worse and worse.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2008, 08:22:17 AM »
Well, he still retains his delegates, so it will be interesting to see how much of a player he still can be.  I'm not optimistic, though...
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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2008, 08:26:07 AM »
One less obstacle in the path to freedom.  Once Huckabee drops then it will be down to that liberal McCain and the only real Republican in the race, Dr. Ron Paul.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2008, 08:35:46 AM »
One less obstacle in the path to freedom.  Once Huckabee drops then it will be down to that liberal McCain and the only real Republican in the race, Dr. Ron Paul.

I just snorted coffee, laughing.

You ARE just joking, right?

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2008, 08:40:36 AM »
One less obstacle in the path to freedom.  Once Huckabee drops then it will be down to that liberal McCain and the only real Republican in the race, Dr. Ron Paul.

I just snorted coffee, laughing.

You ARE just joking, right?
  Nope.  If anyone else gets in office we are screwed. 

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2008, 08:42:57 AM »
Oh, good lord.

PAUL IS NOT EVEN IN THE RACE. He's ten laps behind with the checkered flag coming up! All he is now is comic relief in the debates.

Typical debate now:

Moderator: (question)
Huckbee: (straight answer)
McCain: (equivocating answer)
Paul: (*whinnnne* Gold standard *whinnne* America's fault for wars *whiiiiine*)
Moderator: "Um...Dr. Paul, who are you arguing with?"
Paul: (confused)
*cue audience laughter*

How strong is that kool-aid?

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2008, 08:45:01 AM »
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Frankly, in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror.
Yep, if Romney didn't quit then the terrorists would win.

 rolleyes

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #10 on: February 07, 2008, 08:45:12 AM »
Well, unless someone I like decides to run as independent, I now have no one to vote for. I wasn't in love with Romney, but he was at least better than McCain. I think McCain, Hillary, and Obama are all equally bad.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2008, 09:00:23 AM »
Well, I have a litmus test for politicians.
 
The hair.

Edwards failed. Romney failed.
 
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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #12 on: February 07, 2008, 09:09:01 AM »
I think Romney wants the veep spot

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #13 on: February 07, 2008, 09:24:43 AM »
What?  You mean that stalwart pillar of Conservatism MITT ROMNEY is out of the race?  Crap, that means that the only people left to vote for are Big Government Democrats, Big Government Republicans, and that one guy who wants smaller government and lower taxes but can't win because we're all too smart to vote for him! 
Damn!
He never brought you an unbalanced budget, which is a perennial joke. He never voted himself a wage increase and, to this day, gives back part of his salary every year. He has always voted to preserve the Constitution, cut government spending, lower healthcare costs, end the war on drugs, secure our borders with immigration reform and protect our civil liberties.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #14 on: February 07, 2008, 09:27:00 AM »
What?  You mean that stalwart pillar of Conservatism MITT ROMNEY is out of the race?  Crap, that means that the only people left to vote for are Big Government Democrats, Big Government Republicans, and that one guy who wants smaller government and lower taxes but can't win because we're all too smart to vote for him! 
Damn!

Yes, Mike Huckabee.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2008, 09:31:04 AM »
How strong is that kool-aid?

Reminded me of a cute quote I saw once:

'Just enough to be flammable!'.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #16 on: February 07, 2008, 09:44:27 AM »
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Oh, good lord.

PAUL IS NOT EVEN IN THE RACE. He's ten laps behind with the checkered flag coming up!

He's the only one left with money.
And you should listen to yourself: we can't vote for the one who will take our guns, so we all have to vote for one who will see to it we lose our houses.
I'm tired of that choice.  My money and my vote are sticking with the place where my principles are represented.  If that means four more Clinton years, well, at least the economy will be ok.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #17 on: February 07, 2008, 09:46:14 AM »
If that means four more Clinton years, well, at least the economy will be ok.

Okay. You're beyond kool-aid. What are you smoking? How would we "lose our houses"? People who willingly went into bad mortgages to have more house than they could afford on their salaries have to answer for their bad decisions? Heaven forbid! I didn't buy a house because I knew I couldn't afford one yet!

As for Hillary, she wants to punish the successful to pay the lazy, raise taxes, and you think that will make the economy "okay"?

I despair at the utter ignorance of the voters. Gah!!!


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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #18 on: February 07, 2008, 09:53:41 AM »
Try to keep up:
If she goes with a budget like her husband's, that means less deficit spending than we've had in 8 years.
Despite how much we all despise the Clintons, they kept things reasonably under control.
In the last 8 years the dollar has plummeted, which has already borne itself out in gasoline, housing, and is starting with groceries now.  Foreign countries aren't dealing with dollars anymore because they're not worth it.
The effect was that my 401k, IRAs, mutual funds, and savings have all been decimated, despite the numbers of dollars having increased.  That means my retirement is threatened and my kids may not be going to college.
There's only one guy on the R side who is even discussing this.  Since he's obviously nothing more than a crazy septegenarian howdy-doody, it's not getting any attention.
So again, what choice do I have?  Mortgage my family's future so that we can bring democracy (which we don't even enjoy ourselves anymore) to a place I really don't give a *%$& about, or put up with another 10 years of AWB?
I'm not saying things will be great under Hitlery, I'm saying they won't be my financial ruin.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #19 on: February 07, 2008, 10:02:10 AM »
Funny, I'm doing just fine with finances. Better than I was under Klinton.

Maybe you're doing something wrong?

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2008, 10:10:15 AM »
Yes, Mike Huckabee.

Ahh yes, Mr "We need to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards."

YA THEOCRACY!

For all this I am glad though. I hope that Romney's delegates go to McCain and he gets the 1,191 that he needs to secure the Neo-Con nomination. Then Paul would realize that trying to reason with this twisted group of so called conservatives is pointless and run third party. Which, if he didn't win as a third party, I hope it would split enough of the vote to cause the Clintons to win. Then maybe we would be awake enough to get back to what our Republic was supposed to be, and not this Cluster**** we have now. It's a long shot, but I can hope.
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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2008, 10:14:26 AM »
Yes, Mike Huckabee.

Ahh yes, Mr "We need to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards."

YA THEOCRACY!

Shush.  He's the new Conservative-in-Chief.  Taunting and criticism will not be tolerated.
He never brought you an unbalanced budget, which is a perennial joke. He never voted himself a wage increase and, to this day, gives back part of his salary every year. He has always voted to preserve the Constitution, cut government spending, lower healthcare costs, end the war on drugs, secure our borders with immigration reform and protect our civil liberties.

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Re: Romney bounces from race
« Reply #22 on: February 07, 2008, 10:16:33 AM »
Well, I have a litmus test for politicians.
 
The hair.

Edwards failed. Romney failed.
 


If their hair is too pretty, you don't vote for them?
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Re: Romney bounces from race
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Re: Romney bounces from race
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Beautiful. Because when you can't debate with substance, just resort to petty insults.  rolleyes
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