Mitt Romney visits Jacksonville

A huge crowd is gathered outside a local business to see Mitt Romney. (Ashley Coleman, 2012)
A huge crowd is gathered outside a local business to see Mitt Romney. (Ashley Coleman, 2012)
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Updated: 10/31/2012 11:51 pm

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.-- With less than a week to go before the election, Mitt Romney spent Wednesday vying for votes in Northeast Florida.

Mitt Romney wrapped up a day of campaigning right here in Jacksonville. He laid out his vision for the future. "My plan creates 12 million jobs, and adds more take home pay which is badly needed. You know what its been like," said Romney.

Romney drew hundreds of supporters, carrying flags and signs. The crowd was mixed from veterans to young trick or treaters. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush introduced Romney, but not before poking fun at President Obama's re-election campaign. "President Obama was dealt a tough hand. We hear that everyday and it was my brothers fault," said Jeb Bush.

But probably what drew the most cheers was Romney saying he'll get people back to work. "Food prices are up electricity is up. These are tough times for the people of America," said Romney.

Tough times many people right here in the River City are feeling. No matter who is elected president next week, both sides seem to have the same goal. "I've got to be able to reach across the aisle and get good democrats and republicans to work together," said Romney.

Romney heads to Virginia to campaign next.

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nativejax - 11/1/2012 12:10 PM
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You better hope Romney wins, wavetore..for every true hard working American out there, for the sake of the OBamanites and the Romneyites and everyone in between. If you think the past presidents etc. have 'ruined' this Country, it's NOTHING to what could come.

Realchange - 11/1/2012 10:54 AM
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Does not matter which candiate we vote for both endorse bad things like they are good. Obama things it good policy to let unborn children be murdered. Romney thinks only the Rich should enjoy America. Obama thinks that women should have equal rights but men who dont want shower in miltary with gay men beside them are racists. Funny you can be kicked out the miltary for trying to spy on women showering in their sections but should be man enough to let a gay guy shower with you in the military. Real issues thats not being addressed or talked about. As far as being Bush fault when we got attacked by a terrorist network he went first for Iraq not after the terrorists that killed our people. Instead fabricating lies and starting a war that killed thousands of good men and women. No country in the world can fight endless long wars without taking in resources of the conqueored countries. It ruined many an empire in the past yet America thinks it can. Folly pure and simple.

wavettore - 11/1/2012 1:34 AM
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Once again, the next US presidential election will be fixed. Mitt Romney will be elected even though Barack Obama would have received more votes in the 2012 election. The political assassination will be perpetrated by Bush hiding behind Crossroads GPS, the most influential group of Neocons. The Neocons will have Mitt Romney elected to first use him and then let him fall easy prey. All blames and responsibilities will fall on the new Mormon president for the events already planned Mitt Romney will be the spokesman for George Bush and his job inauguration is on January 21 2013. The next Israeli election instead will be on January 22 2013. These two dates are overlapped in preparation for War. The new World War of Religion is already a done deal behind the backs of all people to bring chaos and poverty and to favor in the end one New World Order. It will be just from chaos that one voice will rise with the promise to fix all and everyone. That will be the forked tongue of the New World Order. One Solution once it happens. http://www.wavevolution.org/en/humanwaves.html

kimberper - 11/1/2012 12:40 AM
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I hope the people of Florida have longer memories than Romney thinks you do.

Jim ONeill - 11/1/2012 12:21 AM
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Jeb Bush, I do blame your brother for many of our ills. At the end of the Clinton administration, the federal government had a surplus and was paying down the national debt. Bush, with his tax cuts, ended that. Then he began two war and one of them was optional. He never requested tax increases to pay for those wars. We then had a deficit. I do not blame Bush for the 2007 economic meltdown but when it happened, he had no clue what to do. The guy is just plain dumb. Obama inherited a mess. An economy going over a cliff and two wars with fewer taxes that needed to pay for them. We are better off today than we were four years ago. We are out of Iraq and getting out of Afghanistan. Our economy has been growing slowly since the middle of 2009. Our nation now has a plan for national health care and there is a lot of good in Obamacare. It may not be perfect but it is a lot better than nothing. I would hate for Mitt Romney to axe it. Mitt Romney also said he would put a hit out for Big Bird but also FEMA. Florida gets hit by hurricanes more than any other state and to think about the federal government withdrawing help is beyond belief to me but that is what Mitt Romney said he would do. Smaller government is not always better government and when a hurricane hits, that is one of those time. To think, Mitt Romney even suggested making FEMA a "for profit" company. How in the world would any "For Profit" company make money doing what FEMA does? I will vote for president Obama.

LosMortales - 11/1/2012 12:03 AM
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Mitt Romney’s theme has been consistent and simple: States’ Rights. He has defined the election as a battle between States Rights and Big Federal Government. That plays well for him in the individual States. As a Mormon, Romney idolizes States’ Rights. To gain an existential understanding of the cult that produced Mitt Romney, and to get your socks scared off, read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew, available in paperback and e-book on Amazon http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=The+Assassination+of+Spiro+Agnew Its unwilling, part-Mexican Mormon assassin dramatizes the Mormon superiority complex, manifesting it as racism, sexism, jingoism and an anti-federal government temperament. His research in the new library reveals ominous similarities between Islam and Mormonism. The spiritual power behind the cult, which is not the Holy Ghost, acts out. “With a clarity of language and vision unsurpassed in contemporary American prose, Steven Janiszewski’s Assassination of Spiro Agnew takes us into a U.S. mazed with madness and Mormonism and all things Utah, a U.S. that was then and still is. Readers, welcome to a masterpiece.” Tom Whalen http://www.tomwhalen.com Read The Assassination of Spiro Agnew.
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