Mitt's Missing, or, Where's Willard?

We'll see if any of the other candidates (4.00 / 3)

will capitalize on this disappearing act. We'll see if any of them are smart enough to call him on this insult to NH voters. He's sitting on his lead here because he can and because S. Carolina is the last chance anyone else has to spoil his parade.

Every day I see a haughtier and more arrogant Mitt Romney. I can barely stand to watch him stride like a peacock (although it's not really a stride... more like a bedroom-slipper-shuffle). He's got that same passive-aggressive smirk that many politicians wear. It wreaks of arrogance, superiority and contempt. While his policies might be less draconian than the whack-0 right, as a man, I find him truly repulsive!

(thanks... I needed to get that off my chest!)


 "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,"  unattributed aphorism

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by: susaninrindge @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 14:29:09 PM UTC

You are welcome (4.00 / 1)

Anything I can do to help! :)
But I know how you feel, on the one hand I like not having to risk bumping into the man Al Sharpton calls Willard on Elm Street the next few days, but on the other he really is doing the NH primary a disservice with his disappearing act.

But if you want something to really get your goat, according to a Josh Rogers tweet, Kelly Ayotte said today she and her husband support Romney because "they love America." How dare she impugn the patrtiotism of every person who doesn't support the man who destroyed healthy companies and the financial security of hundreds of American workers for personal profit.




"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 15:12:37 PM UTC

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Ayotte, Romney, Gregg (0.00 / 0)

Ayotte's comment is typical of her sense of being superiority complex, much like her hero Mitt Romney's.  The arrogance and condescension of people like these two losers makes me sick.  They are despicable.  I heard Judd Gregg on TV yesterday morning and he's cut from that same aristocratic cloth, or at least he thinks he is.  They talk about elitists...WTF are they?

Ayotte must be a One Term Senator.

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by: mevansnh @ Fri Jan 06, 2012 at 11:10:30 AM UTC

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a pretty good story (0.00 / 0)

on Mittens Manchester appearance comes (oddly) from politico .

The town hall format doesn't seem to have worked all that well for Willard, who is clearly unused to dealing with serious (sometimes hostile)  NH voter questions.

This is why the first in the nation primary rocks.  We may be a small, mostly white population, but we aren't afraid to ask tough questions of these candidates.  

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by: susanthe @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 15:45:12 PM UTC

He knows he can (0.00 / 0)

Everything you said is absolutely correct.

He knows he pretty much has New Hampshire in the bag, barring a sudden surge from Paul or Gingrich.  Santorum just doesn't/won't play well here and Perry has already moved South.

Mitt is the ONLY candidate running a "national campaign" and it's working for him.  No one thought he would win in Iowa (8 votes is all it took) and a solid win here in NH, and even a strong second in SC and the nomination is easily his.

Perry has to go south because he can't win NH.  I'm not at all surprised to see Santorum back in the state, especially now with that Iowa strong second.  I expect Paul will be here as he actually has invested heavily in NH, but I'm not sure what his game is in SC.

The person I would think that might see some gain would be Huntsman.

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet

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by: cblodg @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 16:29:03 PM UTC

MSNBC (0.00 / 0)

Kelly Ayotte was just on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC show chatting up the Mittster.
I think we are going to see more surrogates as opposed to seeing Mr. Romney himself.

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by: Icicle @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 18:16:25 PM UTC

Did Kelly claim a greater love of America? n/t (0.00 / 0)

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 18:43:24 PM UTC

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yikes (4.00 / 2)

better keep her away from Newt Gingrich.  

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by: susanthe @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 21:26:17 PM UTC

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She was all about (0.00 / 0)

"the enthusiastic crowds Willard Mitt got and how this enthusiasm will carry him to a large victory." Rah Rah Rah

 "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,"  unattributed aphorism

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by: susaninrindge @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 20:06:13 PM UTC

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Mitt Also MIA on Northern Pass (0.00 / 0)

Gingrich today came out against Northern Pass, the PSNH/Northeast Utilities plan to turn NH into a transmission tower highway for corporate profit. Romeny, on the other hand, is (a) not here to answer questions and (b) when he was here in June and asked about it, gave a blah blah blah answer.  Of course, one of his fundraising supporters WORKS for Northern Pass.

http://www.concordmonitor.com/...



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Thu Jan 05, 2012 at 18:54:42 PM UTC

That's surprising. (0.00 / 0)

I'm surprised that Newt would offer opposition to NP, since republicans are always in favor of opportunities to make money.  He wants to be the "Pay Check President."  I guess he hasn't figure out that it was because of his and Reagan's and Bush's policies that we have no jobs in America today.  

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by: mevansnh @ Fri Jan 06, 2012 at 11:14:11 AM UTC

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Et tu, Rickus (4.00 / 1)

I heard on the news this morning that Santorum is making a "brief" visit to SC after the Sunday morning debate. If he is taking that same prop plane he took from Iowa, he won't be back until Wednesday....



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."  Franklin D. Roosevelt    

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by: Kathy Sullivan 2 @ Fri Jan 06, 2012 at 13:24:44 PM UTC

Favorite Son (4.00 / 1)

I think this time around NH is fading in primary prominence because Willard is essentially a favorite son candidate. He's going to win by such a large margin that anyone trying to catch him will look flat-footed; especially Santorum who plays here to a less sympathetic electorate than S.C. or IA.  

I don't think we should take it too hard that no one wants to shake hands with our NHGOP-ers 5/6 times before casting a vote. The best that we can hope for is that Willard's much-touted ground game falls asleep at the switch and all the wanna-be's exceed expectations.  But the wanna-be's are a feckless group of rank amateurs who are being out-maneuvered at every turn by a truly professional, corporate-quality campaign.  So I say look for a huge blow-out for Willard who will, once again, be cast as THE WINNER!!!

 "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,"  unattributed aphorism

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by: susaninrindge @ Fri Jan 06, 2012 at 15:12:18 PM UTC

Rev. Al (0.00 / 0)

you gotta Love Al Sharpton's commitment and refusal to ever utter Romney's name...Willard the Rat, will outsource your ass and make you his pool boy......

note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other

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by: JonnyBBad @ Fri Jan 06, 2012 at 20:16:52 PM UTC

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R (4.00 / 2)

All that's left, when you take the 'MONEY' out of Romney.

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by: elwood @ Sat Jan 07, 2012 at 16:11:50 PM UTC