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Former Democrats Turn Out to Support Romney

Gov. Mitt Romney's rally in Land O' Lakes drew some Democrats who have decided to vote Republican this election.

 

Lifelong Republicans were no doubt heavily represented at Saturday’s rally, but there were plenty of stories of former Democrats who now find themselves abandoning their party.

Among those ranks were Henry and Pat Claywell, seniors from Carrollwood.

“His policies, as far as the economy goes, are not good for another four years,” Henry said of President Barack Obama. “Hopefully we will turn this economy around” with Romney.

The couple went rogue, so to speak, during the last election.

“We liked John McCain a lot,” Pat said. “We thought he had a good plan.”

Although they both agree on Romney for 2012, they do not quite see eye-to-eye when asked if they will ever go back to voting for a Dem.

“No, I’ve learned better over the years,” Pat said.

“I wouldn’t say never,” Henry said.

Dora Kingery, who just turned 98 last week, is another lifelong Democrat who is choosing Romney this year.

“Romney has a number of things I admire,” she said. “He looks like a president for one.

“He doesn’t ever seem to be lost for words,” she added.

What doesn’t she like about Obama?

“He isn’t real,” she said.

Related Topics: Barack Obama, Democrats, Mitt Romney, and elections 2012

Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

1:15 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

Hey grandpas and grandmas, stay home on election day. You and your braindead friends have contributed to the destruction of this country. "
Oooooohhh, let's make that CHANGE to the other side, it's worked so well in the past!"

"He looks like a president for one".........prey tell, what type of looks qualify?

God forbid a person takes 5 minutes to actually research people and their actual policies......not the rhetoric you hear on the tv or read in the papers.

It's a damn shame the people are so ignorant in this country. These politicians do not care about you and I. Middle class......pfft.......take another 5 minutes researching many bills passed with overwhelming support from both the R's and D's and any thinking person should realize they do not have our best interests at heart.

Democrats....Republicans......Demopublicans.....give me a break.
Seriously, all I can do is sit here and shake my head wondering what it is like to be so easily duped by what is so clearly evident.

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Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

1:22 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

I've heard many who state, "well if you do not vote, you cannot complain"...............heck, reality says those who do note vote should be complaining the loudest since they didn't go out to give consent to the madness.

That is what you are doing when you vote for either of the parties in this two-party dictatorship...............you are giving consent to the madness.

Do you enjoy the madness you are giving consent to?

When you elect these NeoCON RINOS will you applaud the continued bombing of innocent men, woman and children in other countries?

A vote for Romney is definitely a vote for expanding the wars. His speech and his cabinet prove this.
Do you really want more wars........for the sake of the American Exceptionalism BS??

Hate Obamacare? How about Romneycare, the blueprint for Obamacare?

Hate all that welfare? How about the corporate welfare Mr. Businessman Romney enjoys? He has no clue about the free market or business in general. A real businessman in the election is Gary Johnson............but American enjoys the fakeness.........don't worry, Dora, Romney isn't real either.

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Mark

7:19 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

I can't tell you how many republicans I have talked to that either they just aren't voting or they will vote for Obama! The main reason a Christian republican wont vote for Romney is because of his non belief in The Lord Jesus!

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Conan Dunham

3:56 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

who do you think you are fooling? You sound like all the different senominations thinking and saying if you don't follow their way it's the highway. Also look at the history of every major denomination and there is something abhorrant in their practices way back when....from the Catholics on forward to this day, you name a denomination and I will tell you something in their paths. Remember we are works in progress....But of coarse Koolaid drinkers are not always just the Obamanites....they are sowing discord between the brethren, always quick to choose which are "truly brethren".....hope these "non believers like their new taxes and new socialist, communist type government. They didn't vote, they should never complain, including yourself great puritan!

Grace

8:04 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

In my neighborhood my unofficial poll has shown that more of my neighbors are voting Obama than for Romney. As Christians they can't bring themselves to voting for a man who they say belongs to a cult. The one man who is voting for Romney is a veteran (but to be honest, he's quite a racist so am sure that's his reason) the woman voting for Romney happens to be a bit of a nutcase and is paranoid about muslims. And Mark, the main reason some Christian republicans will vote for Romney is because they don't like Obama, are mislead or stupid! In the event that Romney does win, if Congress is majority Dem then the damage will be minimal. If Romney gets in and with a majority, then seniors, women and minorities will get screwed. We'll think that 8 years of Bush was a cakewalk in comparison. Romney has totally avoided talking about his faith. What his Church believes, because if he did, people would probably vote for a Scientologist over him. Personally I want a President who pays taxes, keeps his money in American banks and doesn't send American jobs overseas while filling his pockets! I want a man who will tell me WHAT he will do and how my life in 4 years will be better than today! Although not all of Obama's actions have made me super happy, he did get OBL, has kept us safe and kept the economy from imploding. And after Bush, there's no way I can be a Republican anymore.

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Conan Dunham

3:58 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Don't complain next year if the present president has been reelected. Pay your enormous taxes, give up your rights but sure as heck...Don't complain. You helped re-elect him.

Bill Cahil

10:13 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

Wow Grace your comments are very typical of a liberal call Romney voters rascist, and uneducated..I guess your side of town is doing pretty well because the economic turmoil in Holiday has never been worse! As for churches go....well I am willing to bet that you have heard of Reverend Wright, the man who married Obama and his wife..the man who led Obamas church for how many years spewing racially motivated hatred at whites? Unemployment and foodstamps and gas must be at all time lows where you are...please tell me...my car takes 93 octane.... your home value s must be up as well...because mine is down from 180 grand to 75 in 3 years!! And I am so glad Obama got OBL because If he didn't use the bush techniques of interrogation that he preached against during his first election then he would not ever have captured him....or did he...most of the seals from team 6 were mysteriosly killed in one shot werent they? ...oh as for avoiding talk about his religion....well if Obama is a christian then I am god himself!! Funny I dont hear you talking about Benghazi and Obamas total bullcrap stories about spontenaity and anti-islam videos... before u continue name calling and making assmption about people you dont know you need to telk me what good Obama has done thats not going to or already has cost me or my children ...your the race baiting name calling immature uneducated blind liberal.... piss poor commentary led by msnbc and thier verbal vomit....

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Bill Cahil

10:13 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

I find it amusing that if you made 200 million one year strictly on investments and government said you had to pay 14 percent on your taxes that you are such a good woman you would actually pay 50 percent...bullcrap....take a look at just how much charity he has given in his life! As for his bussiness ventures Bain Capitol you obviously have no knowledge of the jobs he has saved...do tell me how many people work for these companies.. AMC Entertainment, Aspen Education Group, Brookstone, Burger King, Burlington Coat Factory, Clear Channel Communications, Domino's Pizza, DoubleClick, Dunkin' Donuts, D&M Holdings, Guitar Center, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Sealy, The Sports Authority, Staples, Toys "R" Us, Warner Music Group and The Weather Channel....do your homework ya nitwit....if more people opened thier liberal eyes just a bit more they would see that Obama is a socialist...an anti-colonialist...an anti-capitolist...anti-christian... pro muslim self proclaimed marxist!!

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Michael Harrison

11:13 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

You can say whatever you want about President Obama or Democrats but the Repubs are the ones who caused the whole country to go in recession and that is a fact not one of the lies Romney constantly talks about. No matter how slow and whatever the cost of the recovery at least we are recovering. Electing Repubs will only make us go backwards . The only people who will benefit are the rich this is also a fact even with President Obama the rich will never be poor. The middle class cannot afford to lose any more they are hurting more than anyone all because of Republicans.

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Conan Dunham

3:59 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

You oviously either can't read anything except what the koolaid drinkers published

Michael Harrison

11:25 am on Sunday, October 28, 2012

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Bill ,
Its strange that not one of the companies that you mention
manufacture anything they cannot be outsourced to other countries. He (as Bain) shipped manufacturing jobs abroad and closed factories.

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Conan Dunham

4:01 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

I hope you enjoy the new year if obama wins....and i hope you don't like to hunt nor to defend your own house...If you have a real job yourself, you must enjoy the $100 every month which has been taken out of your check for the last 9 months....and which will continue to be taken out even if you have insurance.....Do you really have a real job?

Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

1:41 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012

Michael Harrison, please tell me who how they voted for the Gramm-Leach-Bliley act.......which basically repealed the Glass-Steagall Act. Who was it? Was it those bad R's or was it the for the po'folks Democrats?

Hmmm......it was all of them. The repeal of Glass-Steagall led to the so-called financial crisis. It was Republicrats...........the Demopublicans...........both groups voted to allow the banks to run wild......and it was done under Clinton, a democratic president.

The R's and the D's both suck, but the country has a case of Stockholm Syndrome. Wake up. Quit defending people who do not care about you and always vote against your best interest.

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Conan Dunham

4:06 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Well put, the subprime loans which actually started with Carter, giving home loans to those who couldn't afford the payments in the first place....land this president was a neighborhood activist right in the middle of it before even taking any office....or can't they really read, no, excuse me...they don't read anything that doesn't agree with their logic....to my liberal friends: Your tolerance of others goes only as far as their total agreement with anything you say or believe"

Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

1:43 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012

By the way, there's reports the DNC attempted to have the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall added to the party platform......and guess what??? It was stopped by the powers-that-be.............both the R's and the D's are controlled by Wall Street and special interests.

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Mike Chubre

3:04 pm on Sunday, October 28, 2012

The republicans watched Iraqi trucks haul what could of been wmd for 4 months to Syria . Bush knew this and it was reported on Fox so called News . So the republicans sent in our troops after watching this and the reps acted like it was an emergency for our troops to go in . They sent our troops in without the equipment they needed , one example is the steel sheilds on Humvees and jeeps and so forth. Some of our troops had to go to local scrap yards to get metal to weld onto their trucks to protect them from machine gun fire. This is fact ask some who went and look it up . . How many troops got killed going into Iraq for daddy Bush , not to liberate the people but to take out Sadamm for daddy Bush . And when we got into Iraq guess what ??? DUHHHHHHHHH no WMD . Afetr watching the tractor trailers hauling back and forth to Syria ? Fox even mentioned they might have wmd on them ! People forget its the republicans that get us into all the wars we have had. American oil companies are now pumping oil in Iraq , the reason we went in for . And now the reps are doing all they can to discredit Obama over Libya . Your not fooling anyone you republican war mongers

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Mike Chubre

4:14 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

I dont care if Romney walks on water . The republicans are refusing to enforce a prescription drug database allowing the drug dealers on the streets to peddle their crap The reps are more interested in their wallets than the welfare of our kids . The reps are protecting BIG Pharma and the doctors . Ever wonder why gov scott of Florida and romney will not be seen together ?? They both would fight over which one is the bigger crook . They would have to answer questions that both would not do them justice . The reps are ashamed of gov scott , but his money bought him the job. Like a true republican. Its all about money and their wallets

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Mike Chubre

4:24 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Reps do nothing for middleclass Americans . Why would anyone with the facts vote for a republican? Americans are too smart to vote Romney in . We have seen enough of the reps in years past . Banks charging HIGH INTEREST RATES on home loans . No control over the prescription drugs on the streets . Gov Scott involved with the biggest health care fraud in history and yet the republicans supported him ?? Sen Rubio supports a 50 million dollar courthouse called the taj mahal loaded with corruption that forced a judge Hawkes to resign before the surpreme court locked them all up . Rubio walks away without an explaining himself on this? How many republican contractors made BIG money on this deal? The republicans are not unified anymore , each one out does the other and its hard to cover for each one when most are corrupt

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Mike Chubre

4:36 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Now the reps do NOT want to postpone election day ? They dont care how they win ! They stole the election from Gore , now they have another chance at it. Why on Gods earth would we not extend the vote time ? The reps might need some Kleenex on this one as Obama may make this happen , as he should. If one person cannot vote due to this storm , then its a crime not to change the day .

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Mike Chubre

4:43 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

When Chris Christie gets done with Obama , Chris Christie will vote for the man that really has your back , President Obama . Meanwhile Romney is collecting cans the red cross does not want while being filmed for tv. .

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Mike Chubre

4:52 pm on Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Ms Kingery Your voting for Romney because he looks like a president? Iam sure he could sell you a good used car also !!!! lol This type of voter irks me to no end !!!! I dont understand how any woman that heard Romney not agree to pay woman equal pay , can vote for this man ????? I assume they are house wives baking cookies for their husbands and dont understand the real world. and how it works. Every middleclass American needs to make a list of what the dems and reps have done for you , not just in the last 4 yrs , but in your lifetime. Please vote for Obama , he has your back. Romney will TAKE your back

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Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

1:34 am on Friday, November 2, 2012

Here's one thing the R's and especially the D's gave me and my family..........

My wife and 4 kids had their insurance DOUBLED......and now we were just informed it is increasing again...........due to the "Affordable Care Act." Don't believe me, I will gladly meet you to show you the pamphlet from her employer, Baycare. Baycare employs quite a few people at their 11 area hospitals. That's 11 hospitals.............with many employees........having their insurance raised due to an act called "Affordable"......always love the Orwellian terms. Said it before, say it again......want to know what the Bills/Legislation will do if implemented, simply look at the title and envision the opposite. Affordable my butt!

Oh, in addition to the increased payments to my families current insurance, people in DC believe I must now be "responsible" by purchasing a product I do not want and will not use. I haven't been to a MD for nearly 15 years. I do not subscribe to their methods, yet I must pay for their services or be taxed?? Yep, that's some good stuff right there for this middle class family.

Man, I love this freedom.

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Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

1:44 am on Friday, November 2, 2012

By the way, Mike, there were 40,000 new laws passed last year......whom do you think voted for their passage?

Who needs the list you keep speaking of........take a look around, look at what the bipartisan insanity has give us all. It's been a back and forth.....back and forth.......process for decades and we are supposed to believe it's all the fault of one side. It's actually YOUR FAULT and my fault and every other person with the ability to do something...........it's the fault of us all to have allowed this madness to occur for so long.

You really need to awaken. It's a system......not a single party or a certain man. You keep bashing Romney, have you taken any time to see how he attempted to govern in MA? If he had a D beside his name you would be loving him.........geeesh, the freaking model for Obamacare was Romneycare.

Remove the blinders...........you are being duped by people who do not care about you at all.....practically every official in Govt is corrupt..........why are you defending one of the gangs?

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Mike Chubre

2:11 am on Friday, November 2, 2012

Samuel Clemens I read your comments about Romney speaking to others. Are you confused?? Are you defending him ? or bashing him? You are starting to seem like Romney to me , talking out both sides of your mouth ?

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Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

2:48 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

?????? I do not bash nor defend men, but rather the truth.....ideas....and beliefs.

I am not confused about anything. It's quite evident where I stand regarding the political theatre the masses enjoy......and it's quite evident you do not have all the facts you claim to possess because if you did, you wouldn't be so hellbent on bashing Romney as you defend his carbon copy Obama.

Please show me where I have spoken out of both sides of my mouth............and while you are at it, please take out a piece of paper and write down all the things Obama lied about to get elected.

Mike Chubre

2:23 am on Friday, November 2, 2012

Grace The only verbal vomit I hear is on Fox News.. Hannity is the biggest blowhard of them all . He makes a good living running his mouth about things he knows nothing about

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Mike Chubre

2:28 am on Friday, November 2, 2012

Samuel Clemens So they both suck according to you ? So whats your plan ? You do best with what you got OR ?????? I agree somewhat and it sounds like you saw it all . I will pick Obama , the better of the two

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Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

2:57 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

It's not just according to me.....it's according to reality. It doesn't take much time on the internet to realize these two people are more of the same. Freaking Romney is now using "Real Change" as his motto......what will the next Presidential election say......"No......REALLY, Real Change"

How about some Freedom? How about the Feds get out of our lives. Remember the 40,000 laws I referenced?? That's 40,000 new Liberty destroying mechanisms........and that's not counting what the Govt Bureaucracies churn out.

For instance, do the masses enjoy not being able to flush a single piece of toilet paper down the new low flow toilets? I remember using the new low flow toilets 15 years ago and being perplexed by a single piece of toilet paper not flushing. I then find out it's due to the busy-bodies at the EPA............and we have a Statesman who calls them out for it and the people on the Left rail against him for being a lunatic.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAn1FWInBi0

Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

3:07 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

The EPA restrictions are a perfect example of how good intentions have the exact opposite ramifications once implemented. The low flow was to save water, but you do have to flush them multiple times, thus using more water.
GET OUT OF OUR LIVES......that's what I want.
Quit believing you know more than me.

Dr. Ron Paul has spoken of conversations with so-called "representatives" on Capital Hill where they have actually said "the people are to stupid to take care of themselves." That is what these people think..........but the more I see, it seems it's what the people want. The masses seem to believe they need 1 person or 535 people in DC making decisions for the rest of us 330 million. Oh how people have lost the independent spirit of America.

I want really real changes! Let's speak of the monetary policy. Let's deal with the fractional reserve banking system ripping off the world. Let's deal with entitlements..........the very nature of Govt. Deal with ALL welfare, both to the rich and to the poor. Let's actually have a confrontation with the military industrial complex and while we are at it, let's truly take on the medical industrial complex.

Let's discontinue the looting of you and I to subsidize everything in this country. We continue to have money stolen from us by both gangs....both the R's and the D's believe they have the right to take the fruits of our labor to give to those who have paid for them. We must change the conversation.

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Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

3:16 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

I want to eliminate ALL foreign aid. It's simply stealing money from poor people in rich countries to give to rich people in poor countries. The criminals in DC steal money from you and I to give to dictators in other lands. The freaking presstitutes want you to focus on Syria right now, meanwhile true brutalities are taking place in Bahrain and they silence those who attempt to report it since the American taxpayer is funding the Bahrain madness.

Doesn't that bother anybody? American forces, under that flag you salute..........are patrolling lands in foreign lands......occupying neighborhoods.....killing innocent men, woman and children.............all for the interest of corporations. It has NOTHING to do with "fighting for our freedoms." If they were fighting for my freedom, they would be in America fighting the domestic enemies.

Seriously, I'm tired of having money stolen from me to give to others.......and especially am tired of having to pay the interest on the federal debt via the income tax.........because the Federal Reserve bails out the Congress with their funny money. Quit stealing the fruits of our labor. Stop the Foreign "Aid"

and especially stop this insanity.
www.coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=b7b23f66-2d60-4d5a-8bc5-8522c7e1a40e

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Who is WILLIAM BINNEY?

3:29 pm on Saturday, November 3, 2012

By the way, can we have some arrests, trials and convictions of some of the various criminals running amok in DC?

2.3 trillions conveniently admitted "missing" from Pentagon by Rumsfeld 9/10/01.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU
Anybody speak with Dov Zakheim?

How about "Govt failure day?" Where are the arrests, trials and convictions for what occurred on 9/11. Regardless if you believe the official lie or not, the very fact is the Federal Govt failed on their one true duty and not a single person was place into handcuffs. Have a few fires set to some trash cans and a few computers stolen from your work because you left the back door unlocked..........and see what happens.

How about the "financial crisis?" Where were the arrests? These people committed fraud........they helped murder they economy around the world and no arrests.

How about this fraud?
www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/02/us-glaxo-settlement-idUSBRE8610S720120702

Where are the prosecutions? Where are the local sheriffs arresting the local MD's who committed fraud against the young and old?

How about the MFGlobal heist? Corzine helped steal 1.6 billion$$$$ from customer accounts and guess what......no arrests.....but hey, that's because he hangs out and is backed by guys like Romney:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3VMrKqJSA
This guy^^^^^^^^ steals 1.6 billion$$$$ and he is an economic adviser???

I'm tired of being ripped off by the two gangs in DC and so should you.

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