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Major RW Blogger Dumps Mitt

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In Erick’s own words:

I think I’m done with the campaign of Willard Mitt Romney. I’m tired of it. His campaign and the potential for his nomination has jumped the shark. No Republican candidate for President has ever more deserved the title “Multiple Choice Mitt.”

I’m tired of the explanations and I’m tired of the dodges.

First there was abortion. He was for it, then really for it, then really, really for it, then indifferent to it, and now against it. Some of his supporters and people on his campaign have called Sam Brownback pro-choice. At least Sam has never been multiple choice. And when Sam became pro-life, he actually fought the pro-life fight. I’m not aware of Mitt Romney ever passionately fighting the fight for life. He has, at best, been luke warm — playing it safe, but not actually advocating. And he’s played it so safe, that on stem cell research, he’s been willing to split the baby with parental consent.

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  1. ABC News reports that Mitt was for Paul Tsongas before he was against him:

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    That year, Romney, then a registered independent, voted for former Sen. Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary.  He told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, in an interview that will air Sunday on “This Week,” that his vote was meant as a tactical maneuver aimed at finding the weakest opponent for incumbent President George H.W. Bush….”Romney confirmed he voted for former U.S. Sen. Paul Tsongas in the state’s 1992 Democratic presidential primary, saying he did so both because Tsongas was from Massachusetts and because he favored his ideas over those of Bill Clinton,” the Boston Globe’s Scot Lehigh and Frank Phillips wrote on Feb. 3, 1994. “He added he had been sure the G.O.P. would renominate George Bush, for whom he voted in the fall election.”

      • And will it be more properly priced than the Mitt monograph?

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        Subtittled “10 Things Every American Should Know about Mitt Romney”, the book is listed at $27.95!?!?!?, I mean, is anyone that curious about MC Mitt that they want to shell out almost 30 bucks to find out 10 things about him? That is almost $2.80 per “thing”.  And how do I know that these “things” are things that I want to know about MC Mitt? Can I preview each thing and then decide a la carte which things I would want to know and pay accordingly? Damn.

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        If Mitt were such a business genius, he would take marketing cues from his Church and give his Gospel away for free.

          • …the LDS Church did not write the KJV of the Bible.

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            I mean, Mitt could always purchase a bunch of copies and redistribute them. Did Hugh Hewitt really write the Romney book under his own motives, or was he encouraged or inspired pro-Romney type people?

            • …but you could visit HughHewitt.com.

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              There are posts there going back over a year about Romney, and while we don’t get it east of the Rockies, I know Mitt’s been on Hewitt’s radio show a couple of times.  I remember Hewitt writing about Romney back in 2005, after he’d been on the show, and Hewitt seemed impressed then.

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              So, yeah, I think he wrote the book.  He’s written several others – including ‘Blog’, which I think is a better book than the better known ‘Army of Davids’ by Glenn Reynolds.

          • If it were 110 things, it certainly would be a better value, at least in the per unit sense.

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            On the other hand, for some one who is not a Mitt junkie, I think 10 things is all I would care to know abut Mitt.

  5. …did RedNeckState.com take over being the pre-eminent right-wing (a/k/a Republican) blog from Powderline.com?

      • …and I never stated where Redstate fit on the pecking order, but it is certainly is among the top 10.  And Erick is the big cheese there. 

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        So how exactly did I magnify its importance?  Argue all you want about the significance of Redstate…conservatives have the habit to denying the obvious.
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        • Redstate is a well read blog, but not as influential as Instapundit, Hewitt or Little Green Footballs.  And, I am content to wait, as I have a better chance of getting the nomination than Brownback does – and at that time, I think Erick’s support will revert to Mitt.

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          Forgive me for alluding to you in a response to Raj Mahal, a monument in his own mind.

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