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Old 01-11-2012, 07:45 AM
 
Location: Downtown Detroit
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With that statement, you deserve the cousin Edddie award....."are you serious Clark.".
Please inform me on which issues they differ.

  1. How about on healthcare? Romney practically wrote the book on Obamacare when he instituted such a regime in Massachusetts, although he now denies it.
  2. Romney is pro-choice, just like Obama, or isn't he? Nobody knows.
  3. Romney would would continue the endless occupation of the Middle East and have the US policing the world, just as Obama has and Bush did before him.
  4. Romney is as in bed with Wall Street and big government, crony capitalists as Obama could ever hope to be.
  5. Romney is no different than the other neocon Republicans/Democrats that will continue to grow government, increase the debt, and eviscerate our rights.
  6. Romney supports a powerful presidency, just as Obama does and will continue to pass laws that override the Constitutional limitations on that office.
  7. Lastly, Romney and Obama may spend money on different government programs and feed different cronies, but I believe neither will change US monetary policy for better, shore up the value of our dollar, or end quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve.

On all of the important issues, Romney and Obama get us the same, rotten results.
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Old 01-11-2012, 09:05 AM
 
Location: PA
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I saw that today, which is odd to me. Ron Paul and Hunstsman are more conservative, yet are less acceptable to conservatives. That doesn't make sense to me.
TO many "conservatives" are drinking the neocon war compaign from hannity, levin and Rush.
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Old 01-11-2012, 12:04 PM
 
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Mitt Romney is the only candidate a majority of both conservative and centrist Republican voters see as "acceptable," welcome news for the Republican front-runner headed into Tuesday's pivotal New Hampshire primary.
Romney was deemed acceptable by nearly six in 10 of both conservative and "moderate/liberal" Republicans, according to a new poll released by Gallup, the only candidate to poll that high in either group. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum both cleared the 50 percent threshold among conservative voters, but only garnered 36 percent and 35 percent of centrist Republicans, respectively.
Ron Paul earned a similar number among centrists, but only 25 percent of conservative Republicans thought of the Texas congressman as acceptable — lower than any candidate aside from Jon Huntsman. Huntsman, perhaps surprisingly, considering his direct appeals to centrist voters, also polled lowest among more liberal Republicans, with only a quarter finding him acceptable.






Those numbers represent a 5 percent gain in "acceptability" for Romney among GOP voters and a more dramatic 18 percentage point leap for Santorum since the last time the poll was released, at the beginning of last month. Each of the remaining Republican candidates saw his numbers fall, with Gingrich's 16-point drop ranking as the worst in the field.

Romney's cross-spectrum appeal should help him as he hopes to quickly sew up the GOP nomination and focus efforts on the general election. But the numbers also betray a dissatisfaction with the GOP field. In a CBS survey also released Tuesday, nearly six in 10 Republicans say they wish they had more options in the 2012 race.



Poll: Romney only 'acceptable' candidate to majority of conservative, centrist Republicans - The Hill's Ballot Box

Ummmmmm, no
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Old 01-11-2012, 01:35 PM
 
Location: In Transition
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I saw that today, which is odd to me. Ron Paul and Hunstsman are more conservative, yet are less acceptable to conservatives. That doesn't make sense to me.
Heck I'm still trying to figure out how so-called conservative Republicans can support continuing the Department of Education, for example. I mean if you think it should be continued, fine, there's a party for you, its called the Democrat party.

The Republican party is rapidly becoming a party which does not seem to have a message. Or their message is "hey we're somewhat kind of not like the Democrats".
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Old 01-11-2012, 01:39 PM
 
Location: North Dakota
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Mitt Romney is the only candidate a majority of both conservative and centrist Republican voters see as "acceptable," welcome news for the Republican front-runner headed into Tuesday's pivotal New Hampshire primary.
Romney was deemed acceptable by nearly six in 10 of both conservative and "moderate/liberal" Republicans, according to a new poll released by Gallup, the only candidate to poll that high in either group. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum both cleared the 50 percent threshold among conservative voters, but only garnered 36 percent and 35 percent of centrist Republicans, respectively.
Ron Paul earned a similar number among centrists, but only 25 percent of conservative Republicans thought of the Texas congressman as acceptable — lower than any candidate aside from Jon Huntsman. Huntsman, perhaps surprisingly, considering his direct appeals to centrist voters, also polled lowest among more liberal Republicans, with only a quarter finding him acceptable.





Those numbers represent a 5 percent gain in "acceptability" for Romney among GOP voters and a more dramatic 18 percentage point leap for Santorum since the last time the poll was released, at the beginning of last month. Each of the remaining Republican candidates saw his numbers fall, with Gingrich's 16-point drop ranking as the worst in the field.

Romney's cross-spectrum appeal should help him as he hopes to quickly sew up the GOP nomination and focus efforts on the general election. But the numbers also betray a dissatisfaction with the GOP field. In a CBS survey also released Tuesday, nearly six in 10 Republicans say they wish they had more options in the 2012 race.



Poll: Romney only 'acceptable' candidate to majority of conservative, centrist Republicans - The Hill's Ballot Box
You are in love with Romney, aren't ya? I am going to tell his wife!
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Old 01-11-2012, 01:42 PM
 
Location: In Transition
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Please inform me on which issues they differ.

  1. How about on healthcare? Romney practically wrote the book on Obamacare when he instituted such a regime in Massachusetts, although he now denies it.
  2. Romney is pro-choice, just like Obama, or isn't he? Nobody knows.
  3. Romney would would continue the endless occupation of the Middle East and have the US policing the world, just as Obama has and Bush did before him.
  4. Romney is as in bed with Wall Street and big government, crony capitalists as Obama could ever hope to be.
  5. Romney is no different than the other neocon Republicans/Democrats that will continue to grow government, increase the debt, and eviscerate our rights.
  6. Romney supports a powerful presidency, just as Obama does and will continue to pass laws that override the Constitutional limitations on that office.
  7. Lastly, Romney and Obama may spend money on different government programs and feed different cronies, but I believe neither will change US monetary policy for better, shore up the value of our dollar, or end quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve.

On all of the important issues, Romney and Obama get us the same, rotten results.
Agreed. Furthermore, IMHO it's what a candidate DOES that counts, not what lip service everyone wants to hear at a given moment. As one example, he gives lots of lip service on immigration control, but didn't do squat about it when he was governor. I want a candidate which not just says he/she will do it, I want one which provably has voted what he said he'll do.
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Old 01-11-2012, 05:29 PM
 
Location: #
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Just goes to show that a majority of self identified conservatives, don't know what the term means.
Seeing that many of them believe Obama is a socialist, is this really a suprise?
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Old 01-11-2012, 05:45 PM
 
Location: Texas
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You are in love with Romney, aren't ya? I am going to tell his wife!
I think she's a lot less in love with Romney than many of the Ron Paul supporters on here are in love with him.
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Old 01-11-2012, 07:10 PM
 
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I agree with you Dixie.

I think Romney will be able to capture support from a large base. I think he appeals to independent voters and hopefully those democrats that are smart enough to know they cannot support the losing policies of Obama. With that said, Romney is also a conservative and has solid business experience in the private sector. We need someone with positive business experience to turn this economy around. At this time, we do not need another politician with only political experience.


Thanks, it's good to have a few people here with common sense.
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Old 01-11-2012, 07:12 PM
 
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You are in love with Romney, aren't ya? I am going to tell his wife!


I didn't know third graders were allowed on this site.
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