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To: stockman_scott who wrote (179198)	1/12/2012 11:39:03 PM
From: Mark Mandel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

What's seems strange as well is that McCain is now defending Romney, yet in 2008 he was doing the same as Palin, Perry, and Newt are doing now. Asking questions about Bain. MSNBC folks are flabbergasted that the Republican party is questioning Bain's take on capitalism, yet McCain was doing this back in 2008. Deja Vu?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (179198)	1/13/2012 7:02:24 AM
From: T L Comiskey	Respond to of 541851

When Mitt tied his dog to the roof of his car..for a 12 hour drive to Canakistan.. he created a few jobs for the highway cleaners... just the facts Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney offered no defense Wednesday when asked about a dog he had made ride on the roof of his station wagon during a family vacation. According to a 2007 Boston Globe profile of the candidate, Romney’s oldest son, Tagg, yelled, “Gross!” as he noticed a brown liquid flowing down the back window from the Irish Setter Seamus, who had been riding on car’s roof for hours. “As the rest of the boys joined in the howls of disgust, Romney coolly pulled off the highway and into a service station,” the Globe noted. “There, he borrowed a hose, washed down Seamus and the car, then hopped back onto the highway. It was a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.”

To: stockman_scott who wrote (179198)	1/13/2012 9:43:18 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 541851

Run, Sara run! I have to sardonically note that she didn't quite fully internalize the latest Frank Luntz line on capitalism, though. Sarah: "I don't agree with the attacks on free market capitalism at all," Luntz: Don't say 'capitalism.' "I'm trying to get that word removed and we're replacing it with either 'economic freedom' or 'free market,' Romney better internalized the memo from Luntz: "We've understood for a long time that the Obama people would come after free enterprise," Romney told reporters aboard his campaign plane yesterday during a flight to South Carolina, site of the next primary. "Little surprised to see Newt Gingrich as the first witness for the prosecution." Pretty cool. Not only did Romney internalize the memo better, he apparently now considers himself the very personification of "free enterprise". Personally, I think it'd be pretty funny to see "free enterprise" tied to the way private equity firms work, then Luntz would have to put out a memo on that phrase too.