Romney savors victory in New Hampshire, vows to beat Obama in November
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minello7
I have shown in previous comments,that I don't like politicians,the media,banks,lawyers or accountants mostly out of a personal experience. But this article shows american politics at its worst.This " jobs lost at firms bought by Romney’s Bain Capital—" is an example. The man doesn't have any ethical morals,he doesn't care that people lose their jobs because of his march to make more money, I thought the idea was to create jobs.He shouldn't even be running as a candidate,egos are a sickness. The Republicans have spent the last four years doing what ? If politicians were held accountable for every (whatever the currency) spent,and every decision made,these people wouldn't even enter politics and politics might get some decent,intelligent applicants applying.
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MaboDofuIsSpicy
Excellent minello7
I wish there were no political parties. Everyone should be an independent, and the electoral college should be trashed.
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Wolfpack
Comments like this are a perfect example of the mindset that is leading to America's decline. Romney and his colleagues invested venture capital in struggling businesses. Some percentage of these businesses ultimately failed - but they surely would have failed anyway had they not been given additional resources and restructuring. Had Romney not invested in any of the struggling companies than a much higher percentage of people would have lost their jobs. Does politics blind people to common sense nowadays?
It used to be common knowledge that people were in business to make money - that's why people take risks and work hard in the first place. Jobs and the increase in revenue to the government in the form of an expanded business tax base are a byproduct. Obama is anti-business and anti-free choice (except for the choice to end a baby's life of course). A nation in which the government uses tax payers money to take risks (Solyndra) and the entrepreneurs are over regulated and constantly threatened by ever growing taxes is a nation that will struggle and ultimately fail. In other words, Obama has America on the path to Greece.
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SushiSake3
Hugely funny. Never thought I'd be happy about the GOP primaries but this is great.
FINALLY conservatives, after eating their own for months, have tossed aside the complete no hoper total loser candidates the likes of Bachman, Newt, Perry and Cain - folk that millions of conservatives (including many on JT) embraced, cherished and praised despite said candidates' appalling lack of general knowledge, outright bigotry and childlike grip on reality.
Huntsman, hated by conservatives because he's actually intelligent, came in third - W.O.W!!
Better still, the higher Paul rises, the bigger the split in the GOP vote will be, and Romney?
In the latest debate, the man flip flopped his opinion after a mere 12 seconds.
Haven't laughed so much since Bachmann quit after clearly stating God told her to run. :-)
Unless Huntsman keeps rising and snares the independent vote, the GOP is going to 1/ simply implode, or 2/ get it's sorry butt kicked into the middle of next century.
Obama 2012. :-)
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Laguna
...except, SushiSake, they haven't yet tossed aside Newt, and Perry didn't run - but he is running in South Carolina. What is interesting is the combined scores of the top three non-Mitt, non-Paul candidates tie with Mitt: Huntsman, Gingrich and Santorum combined for about 37% of the vote.
What's more, conservative true-believers are about to come all-out against whichever non-Mitt they believe has the best chance, and then, wow, things will go seriously negative. Prepare the popcorn.
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SushiSake3
I don't know what's funnier:
A/ that all the dolt candidates that millions of conservatives - amazingly - actually thought had a hope (before they put them all through the revolving minced and tossed them aside) - are gone,
B/ conservatives are now left with Mitt, a frontrunner whose policy positions are about as steady as jelly nailed to a wall, or
C/ the fact that so many 'global liberals' and non-Americans have seen this coming for months while hordes of conservative Americans are actually - surprised - that childlike fools the likes of Bachmann, Cain, and Perry are no longer in the race.
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cactusJack
Mitt has personal holdings of at least US$200 million held in a blind trust. He is mister 1% printed in bold typeface.
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SushiSake3
I sincerely hope Huntsman wins the GOP nomInation, not just because unlike almost all the other GOP/TP candidates and voters he is smart, intelligent and literate and is the only GOP candidate who might actually do something good for America, but also just to see conservative heads exploding across the board. :-)
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Laguna
My guess: Huntsman will drop out. His showing was too moderate even in a moderate state, and he doesn't have pockets deep enough to continue. Perry will continue; he didn't officially contest NH and wants to make SC his Alamo. Gingrich is the real wildcard: he has no chance and has made his point ("I'm can roll in the grass with the big dogs - that justifies future astronomical speaking fees, book signings and TV appearances"), but he "owns" a PAC with millions left from that Las Vegas casino owner, and he despises Romney.
The question is, how can Gingrich use his position against Romney? A good thing (for him) about this type of PAC is that it is technically independent, so even if he drops out, the PAC can continue to campaign against Romney. That is a likely scenario; if he stays in, he'll end up dividing the anti-Mitt vote. At any rate, I don't see him continuing through Florida.
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suzukakid
OBAMA 2012!!! mitt who?
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pointofview
Let's go Ron. Bring some sanity to bankcorrupt America.
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Virtuoso
Ten days from now, I wonder which members of the Republicans' circular firing squad will get blasted.
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Ben_Jackinoff
You forgot the 'in'.
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pointofview
Stop the wars, troops home, investigate corrupt federal reserve, bring back freedom and liberty, cut the wasteful spending, no freebees to the banks, remove corrupt and irrelevant agencies, give the country back to it's people etc etc. If that's insanity then you've been duped by the ineffective brainwashing fearmongering establishment.
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lostrune2
Ron Paul a surprising 2nd............... Huntsman surging................ Romney backed by Tea Party favorite SC Gov. Haley.............
What's the world turned upside-down?!
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SushiSake3
Jon Huntsman is thoughtful and articulate.
He's also intelligent, consistent in his views, and believes in science, unlike his GOP/TP competitors.
Therefore, he doesn't stand a chance, poor guy.
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Ben_Jackinoff
His father's pockets are plenty deep enough. He has just to ask.
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unreconstructed
Huntsman supports the Ryan Plan. There are things about the guy I like. But then I see posters here who loathe my country and everything about pulling for the guy and I reconsider.
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Laguna
Seems like Huntsman is hanging tough for the time being. Said it before: the best place to be in this cycle is No. 2; whoever wins will be crushed by Obama, but Huntsman is placing himself well as the only sane Republican left in 2016.
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SushiSake3
Unreconstructed "Huntsman supports the Ryan Plan. There are things about the guy I like. But then I see posters here who loathe my country and everything about pulling for the guy and I reconsider."
Pretty surprising to see how defensive some U.S. conservatives become when non-Americans keep on picking the right horses and consistantly reading the U.S. political landscape better than they do…
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pointofview
I think Americans don
t mind losing their freedom because they are too caught up with all the reality TV and nonsense news. For example they seem more concerned about Kate Middletons attire and a celebritys new house. Wake up America. You are bankrupt, brainwashed about terror, and keep giving your money to huge corporations that receive tax cuts yet dont hire and help rebuild the country. The poopoo still hasnt hit the fan. Please see the light. A serious change wont be easy however the path the country is on can`t continue for ever. Do it for the world. Be a leader once again.-3
DS
Romney will win the nomination, and then the election. On a personal level, there is nothing wrong with President Obama. But... he was woefully unprepared to be president. He was articulate but inexperienced, placed in charge of a multi-trillion dollar economy but had never met a payroll. All potential but no track record. Americans won't make that mistake again.
Also, the constant cries of "hyporcite" and "wishy washy" can be applied to any politician who has been around for more than 15 minutes. I personally prefer someone who can be flexible enough to change in the face of new evidence/information instead of being stubborn.
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SushiSake3
Romney will probably win the nomination and then get his clock cleaned by Obama.
Why? Besides being a Mormon 1% elitist, for most key issues, where he stands this week is not where he stood last week.
And because - let's face it - anger, hype and vitriol isn't a strategy - it's simply bluster and noise that prevents the millions of unpatriotic conservatives who aren't paying attention from realizing that none of the GOP/TP folk have any strategy whatsoever.
Unlike the president who has had job strategy after job strategy blocked by the party that loves saying 'Where are the jobs?' while not doing anything whatsoever to create them.
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SushiSake3
I hope Santorum continues. The longer he does, the more Mitt will have to fight for the right, alienating him even more from the center.
And when are conservatives going to realize that social issues such as abortion, gay marriage, etc. that GOP/TP candidates have all signed ridiculous pledges to uphold or fight - don't actually create jobs?
Bottom line: When are conservatives going to start putting their country first?
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Triumvere
What I don't get is the Republican challengers attacking Romney from this angle... I mean, you are either pro-capitalism or you aren't, and this is capitalism. I don't see how you can call Obama a "socialist" and then turn around and criticize Romney for his time at Bain. Anything that sticks, I guess?
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Triumvere
Huntsman really isn't "moderate" at all - look at his governing record, he's solidly conservative. But his manner is "moderate" - he doesn't breath fire like the other Republican candidates, doesn't spout off all the inane "Obama-is-a-Kenyan-Muslim-socialist-bent-on-destroying-America" red-meat BS that he base loves. Thus he comes off as a reasonable human being, which explains why liberals support him while conservatives, who are way too far into this culture war stuff right now, don't. No one is much paying attention to his actual record or policies.
Honestly, I think Huntsman is currently running for 2016. I like the guy, but I'm not sure he has the killer-instinct necessary in a president.
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Serrano
"the killer instinct necessary in a president"
I never knew Barack Obama had a killer instinct!
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SushiSake3
It's conservatives' failure instinct that makes me laugh.
Nothing beats it except when they eat their own and toss away the bones as they have done with Cain, Bachmann and soon Newt and Perry.
This GOP primary is awesome. Liberals are laughing at conservatives every day. :-)
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The Truth Matters
The win didn't give Romney a boost against President Obama in head-to-head polls. The president is still leading him in the polls and has job approval rate that is trending upward.
That little nugget of truth is going to really annoy some people.
Neither did Osama Bin Laden.
It's nice to know that your vote can be so easily swayed, and by a foreigner no less.
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Jannetto
Well said all the way, SushiSake3. Yeah, I an see a rich Mormon in the White House- especially one who's reformed health care, which middle America HATES, in his state. Actually I can't figure out how good old liberal Massachusetts ended up with this guy. Shouldn't he be in Utah?
Also, what I don't get about the primaries is how they all slag off members of the same party, then when one of them gets the nomination, they all love him again. Huh??
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DentShop
How anyone can believe this is beyond me.
An astronomically rich, draft-dodging, lying, know-nothing Mormon winning over middle-America?
Almost too ridiculous to ponder.
Obama has barely opened his re-election warchest and there are a lot of rich banking and insurance scheisters who owe him big time.
The Republican nominee will be fed to the wolves and be forever the GOP's Dukakis. Well, another Goldwater anyway.
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pointofview
Sushisake,
The fed shouldn
t be in the business to create jobs. The private sector does that. The whole liberal/ conservative doesnt make any sense it should be based on the issue. Ron Paul is far more liberal than Obama when it comes to the military industrial complex. But more conservative on spending. I dont think most Americans even know whats going on in politics. They seem to make decisions based on unimportant things. Like "Hey Obama is cool man so Im gonna vote for him." or "I want to have a beer with him so Ill vote for him." Silly things like this.-1
Madverts
Heh, it's always heart-warmng to see someone fight for last place.
Go Mitt!
Oblivion awaits........
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Snuke
Mitt seems to want to increase spending on the already grossly over-sized military that is bleeding this country dry. A vote for Mitt is a vote for implosion.
Ron Paul would rip and tear all the unnecessary pieces of the Federal government off, and reduce it to the much more streamlined organization it should be, including reducing the spending on the military. He would make state's rights a reality again and take us back to our isolationist roots. He would free up a lot of money that could go to the national debt in the process.
I don't like his stance on abortion, but if you wanted one, it would just be a matter of traveling to a liberal state as per Paul's ideas. I also don't like his belief that global warming is a sham. But its not like America is seriously doing anything about global warming anyway.
Paul would have kept us out of occupying Afghanistan and Iraq by going directly after terrorists, including by issuing letters of marque. He will do all he can to avert war with Iran where others would happily bumble in. He wants to vastly curb the powers the president has to draw us into these unofficial wars and make Congress either declare war clearly or the military will stand down. And I very much like and want that clarity. The American people deserve to know exactly what is going on.
He wants the Patriot Act gone. He wants the meddling in the Middle East that fosters terrorism gone. He wants the war on drugs gone. He wants the prohibition of marijuana gone.
Paul is a complicated man, I think that scares some people. But I find myself more and more hoping Paul will get the nomination and beat even Obama. What I have against Obama is that he is mostly just staying the course while American needs to make a U turn such as what Paul advocates. If federal spending is not reduced America is going to collapse, just slowly under Obama and quickly under Mitt. Paul might just turn it around.
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Serrano
"Ron Paul would rip and tear all the unecessary pieces of the Federal government off"
Ha ha, no, he wouldn't, because even if he was elected, the Congress would never go along with it. Unless voters also throw out the current Congress and elect libertarians...
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Serrano
"if federal spending is not reduced America is going to collapse, just slowly under Obama"
The collapse might come sooner than you think.
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JeremiahW
Clinton won two terms. He was the first Democrat able to pull that off since Roosevelt. But Roos was leading us thru the Depression (his policies prolonged it) and thru war. Obama has the template. He is no Clinton. He is certainly no FDR. You just might see 'war' with Iran.They will do whatever it takes.Obama will certainly prolong the current depression.
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DS
I also agree with a lot of what Ron Paul stands for, particularly in regards to limiting the size and scope of government. But, military spending isn't the major issue- entitlements are. I agree that the military budget should be cut, but more important are the future obligations for Medicare and Social Security, if they aren't changed.
Mitt has his faults, but I love watching the looney left fall all over themselves calling him names here. The current course will be a disaster. Federal government spending has DOUBLED in the past 10 years. The blame lies with Bush, yes, but also with Obama. He has done nothing to bring any sense of fiscal responsibility to government.
Not to mention the current president is expanding federal power and presidential power. He has authorized murder of American citizens abroad, illegally participated in overseas military actions (Libya), and ignored Congress to make political appointments. Not a great record of either hope or change.
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Wolfpack
Based on the track record of our current president and the state of the Republican nomination, Romney is the best hope for the country now. That's a sad statement, but it is what it is. President Obama is in way over his head and he is spending the America into oblivion. I don't think any president has ever racked up as much debt as Obama has - and his term isn't even over yet. He doesn't like legislating so he makes law by executive fiat. We all better hope that Romney wins in November. I don't think America can stand another $6 trillion dollars in debt and four more years of socialism. I "hope" for a "change" and soon.
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