Mitt Romney, the picture perfect Republican candidate… only if you ignore reality and have him stand in front of adoring fans all the time like Bush does.

Mr. Romney is a superficial candidate that will only lose his luster as history catches up with him.

Telling it like I see it,
Wynter

Romney is intelligent but way too 'practiced'. His life style is way, way too wealthy for the average American to relate with. Everything about his has to do with 'image'. He and Hilliary believe that they are so 'connected' to the backroom 'power brokers' of America that mostly all they have to do is 'look good'. But when push comes to shove, it is hard to fool the 'sheep' of America. Mike Huckabee has neither the wealth nor the 'power broker' connections that the 'heavy hitter' front runners do. In either party. What Huckabee does have is 'sincerity and concern for Ameria in ALL of it's Red, White, and Blue' running through all the pores in his body. With the exception of the misguided Ron Paul, all of the other candidates dance to someone else' drummer other than their own. American needs and deserves a 'free' thinker. One that is NOT tied to the 'power brokering wealthy elite' whether they are corporations or private citizens. If the 'power brokers' were truly concerned for the great American middle class, they would indeed jump on Mr. Huckabee's band wagon.

it says alot that Mitt is leading in Iowa and New Hampshire. That means people have gotten to know him and liked him. They have seen that his stand on republicn issues is strong. I'm voting for Mitt 2008!

Romney is the RICHEST of all the candidates: just what America needs, a money grubbing gazzilionaire who cannot POSSIBLY relate to John Q Public and their needs. yes, all the candidates are wealthy (sad isnt it…only the rich can run!) but Romeny tops them all. He even LOOKS like he uses 100$ bills for toilet paper…

As history has taught us,there will be a candidate who emerges strong from the early state primaries and builds national consensus in the party. Romney will be this candidate in '08. While Giuliani enjoys support from the fringe of the party and has been helped by his national recognition after 911, conservative voters will begin to coalesce behind one candidate (Romney) in order to defeat Giuliani in sort of the same way they will show up to defeat Hillary. While polling is often of "probably voters", the past has shown that social conservatives are the ones who make the greatest showing at the polls and this will obviously hurt Giuliani. The only thing Romney lacks is national recognition, which will come with wins in Iowa, New Hampsire and Michigan, as well as a possible win in South Carolina. Also, the Romney campaign has wisely earned the support of the very popular senators in New Hampsire and South Carolina.

The guy thinks he can trick us after spending over 50 million dollars, and about a third of that was his own money.

He should stick with business or keep running the olympics.

And that IS how the race is won in this country, state by state. Not national polls.

The most recent wave of early polls from ARG has Romney leading in Iowa, New Hampshire AND South Carolina! Link.

Ironic, considering he only shows up to selective events because he would rather attend fund-raisers. It's no surprise he is so high in the polls right now. Television is a powerful way to shape people's opinions. And considering the amount of money he has spent on an insane number of TV commercials, most peoples' eyes and minds have been bombarded by images of Romney. Too bad that money plays such a huge roll in getting elected.

Nobody is gonna move towards his campaign. He is a lame duck. He is unelectable, if for no other reason than that he is pro-war.

It's always interesting to find someone like jt who thinks you can simply buy your way to a nomination, or buy/advertise your way to greater product sales. Am I the only here old enough to remember New Coke, and the "stunning" success it had because of all the advertising $$ that the Coca-Cola company spent on it?

Let's start the Chrismas season on December 26, and the presidential campaign season on January 21. Why not?
http://www.newsprism.com

I know Mitt stated his boys have been doing their service to their country by trying to get him elected. If he doesn't get the nomination, I wonder if they'll join the military since their Dad really believes in patriotism.

Gov. Romney seems to be the only person on the Republican Ticket that in my view has a chance to win the national Election, like him or hate him he has seen multiple points of view in his past, I don't know how much pandering he is making now in order to win the election, but he does not remind me of Bush during his speeches (which were scary at the time) I'm not voting for him, but watch out people, he is not out of this race yet…

Watch for Hillary to get off of her attacking Bush (the moron isn't running) and not answering anyones questions long enough to start going after Romney.

Can he say she is only going after him because he is a mormon, or is she the only one who can play a "card"?

Are you not a mormon? Would we all have to worry about our little girls being taken as brides by older men in the congregation?

Experience, leadership, and great vision for change as well as his platform: strong economy, strong military, and strong family, make Romney the only candidate capable of leading our nation into the future.

Romney 08!

Is it me or do Mitt's words hit others like those of a salesman who has lost his way? A salesman who has become so enamored with himself and so pleased with his strategy of how he is going to sell us he can not help himself and tells us how he will sell us while he does it? Buy the early states outright with overwhelming and slickly produced tv and print campaigns, tell us to our face he is really not doing that, and then have the resulting free national publicity push him into living rooms around the country. Now the flip-flopping on the major issues to suit the election he is in makes sense - it's really not about the issues, it's about the sale.

Toward his campaign, or toward Ronald Regan's campaign.

I am sick and tired of peoples anti mormon remarks which have no truth.
I hope the FCC fines you and your monitors hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Church in Salt Lake City have not practiced polygomy for well over 100 years. They excommunicate these people. I have heard a lot of bigots
promoting anti Mormon litature throughout my life and get what. Most of it that I have seen came from Southern Baptists.