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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 10:12 PM Nov 2012

WHOA! - Ron Paul THREATENED by Mitt Romney (Doug Wead)




" Why has the Ron Paul campaign not attacked Mitt Romney? We find out now that Romney threatened to assassinate Ron Paul through a public relations A-bomb."
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WHOA! - Ron Paul THREATENED by Mitt Romney (Doug Wead) (Original Post) Segami Nov 2012 OP
Further evidence of Romney's business model. iemitsu Nov 2012 #1
How can a lying weasel like Romney, who claims he can garner bi-partisan support with Democrats Segami Nov 2012 #4
Mitt thinks that winning, at any cost, makes him a winner. iemitsu Nov 2012 #6
There was a story I heard CthulhusEvilCousin Nov 2012 #2
Very interesting -- thanks for sharing that. pacalo Nov 2012 #3
A Dubya/Nixon on steroids.- For real lunasun Nov 2012 #5
this guy is a nutcase greenman3610 Nov 2012 #7

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
1. Further evidence of Romney's business model.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 10:23 PM
Nov 2012

Lie, cheat, misrepresent your motives, and threaten to utterly destroy your opponent and call that a winning strategy.

 

Segami

(14,923 posts)
4. How can a lying weasel like Romney, who claims he can garner bi-partisan support with Democrats
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 10:45 PM
Nov 2012

if elected, yet, he can't even smooth the party divide with the Ron Paul group without using a 'pr-a-bomb ' threat to keep them in check.

Well Mitt, the roosters are coming home to roost and I'm sure a lot of Paulites haven't forgotten the Republican Convention charade.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
6. Mitt thinks that winning, at any cost, makes him a winner.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 11:47 PM
Nov 2012

He believes that, "he who has the most, wins". He respects others with money and he thinks that he has earned respect because he has some money. "Its his turn". He enjoys firing people. The 47% can never be convinced to contribute to their own welfare. Mitt lies to those he has no respect for (those with less money than he). He disdains those who work to produce the wealth he steals.
He does not care about the truth if it gets in his way.
I find it hard to believe that anyone is so sheltered that their integrity, or lack of integrity, doesn't matter to others around them.
Maybe only the poor care about integrity, since its all we have to trade on.

CthulhusEvilCousin

(209 posts)
2. There was a story I heard
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 10:24 PM
Nov 2012

during the Republican National Convention that was actually more direct and insidious. A little old lady from Texas, apparently a Ron Paul delegate, told the story of how her hotel room had been broken into. There was nothing that was obviously stolen, but she did call the police on the matter. At the airport on her way to the convention, the TSA found bullets hidden in her luggage. Not her bullets, even though she was from Texas and a Ron Paul supporter. Apparently, whoever broke into her hotel stashed bullets into her briefcase. At the airport, it seemed it was going to escalate into something serious, but she did eventually get out of it. Allegedly, she was not the only Ron Paul delegate that had weird stuff happen to them on the way to the convention.

Fast forward to the convention, and the RNC, directed by Romney's people, were pushing new convention rules that would essentially give Romney unlimited powers to change the rules at any time without any kind of voting process. The delegates from VA were one of the chiefest groups pushing to stop these rule changes, and conveniently their bus driver on the day of the vote drove them around in circles. They ended up having to walk to the convention, and at that point they already had missed it. Though it probably didn't matter, as they did a voice vote at one point where the "yeas have it!" was already written on the teleprompter that John Boahner was reading.

I think Romney was seriously afraid of a rebellion from disgruntled Tea Partiers and Ron Paul supporters and was putting a lot of pressure, and possibly even illegal pressure, to stop anything from upsetting his coronation.

pacalo

(24,739 posts)
3. Very interesting -- thanks for sharing that.
Sun Nov 4, 2012, 10:37 PM
Nov 2012

Another my-way-or-the-highway authoritarian who does business the Watergate way. A Dubya/Nixon on steroids.

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