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City Lights

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Mon Jan 2, 2012, 10:37 AM Jan 2012

TPM2012: What They’re Scared Of: Mitt’s Existential Rhetoric Resonates With Iowans

Evan McMorris-Santoro January 2, 2012, 6:00 AM

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA — As he’s pivoted back to a campaign focused almost entirely on President Obama, Mitt Romney has raised the alarm: 2012, he says, is about nothing less than the very “soul of America.”

Iowans I talked to at two of Romney’s campaign stops Sunday were in full agreement. So I asked them what scares them about a second Obama term. I got answers ranging from the creep of socialism to concerns that Obama’s best-known vice will encourage kids to take up smoking.

Romney’s emphasis is on the former. Lost in most of the reporting on Romney’s push toward the finish line in Iowa — which has mostly focused on the way his allies have used millions in negative advertising to vanquish his GOP enemies — is what a Romney stump speech sounds like. And as he has for weeks now, Romney is telling Iowans to be wary of what he says is Obama’s plan to turn the “merit-based” America into an America of “entitlements,” where the government doles out the rewards regardless of effort.

His rhetoric casts the contest with Obama as nothing less than an existential struggle for America’s future.

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TPM2012: What They’re Scared Of: Mitt’s Existential Rhetoric Resonates With Iowans (Original Post) City Lights Jan 2012 OP
"EXeeeeStuntuLism? Ain't that some weird foriegn pointy-head socialized shit?" - RepubliBaggers (R) SpiralHawk Jan 2012 #1
 

SpiralHawk

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1. "EXeeeeStuntuLism? Ain't that some weird foriegn pointy-head socialized shit?" - RepubliBaggers (R)
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 10:57 AM
Jan 2012

"We don't want no steenking weird foreign pointy-head socialized ExeeeStuntulism or any of that shit."

- RepubliBaggers (R)

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