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For all of you who rely on John McCain's history of working with Democrats like Feingold, Kennedy, and Kerry to "prove" that he shouldn't be considered a Republican, consider the words of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes: "He serves his party best who serves his country best." McCain is willing to work with Democrats to do what is best for America, and there is nothing wrong with that.

And if you want to keep the GOP in the White House, McCain is the only viable option. Americans are generally angry at Bush and the Republicans, and want a Democrat. John McCain, the moderate, is the only Republican candidate that can attract the support of independents and beat a Democrat. Stop being so adamantly and blindly supportive of Romney. If you truly want to keep the GOP in office, vote for McCain.

It is too bad if we have to loose the candid and best leader like Barak Obama. He proves it that he can stand by himself unlike Hillary Clinton that lean on the popularity for the husband, former president of the U.S, and advised what to do and what to say to win the american voters. It does not matter if it lies, like what Bill Clinton did when he campaign for the president in 1990/1991, promising free health care for all american. after 2 terms of precidency, there is no proof at all. They know what to say to the voters even it lies as long as the voters like to hear that, and give the vote to his wife. Wake Up America. There is no time to fantacies for female president. The country need a strong leader, not a leader that need advise from the husband. The Clinton only work for the ambitions of the wife to be president and enter the white house again. This is all about personal interest of the Clinton. So, why should we bother being their tools by giving our vote to Hillary Clinton. Even Senator Kennedy knows better about politic, strategy and leadership, and concern for the future of this country that is why he endorsed Barak Obama. I do not know why some americans cannot see the fact. If only Nancy Pelosi will run for President, I will vote for her, because she works her ladder of achievement all by herself, promising a true leader, so when you thinking about female president, you can think about it for a person like Nancy Pelosi.

I had forgotten about that! I am so glad he reminded me because I seriously favor McCain over such a narrow-mind!

why do u have Michigan for Clinton. That was not a real contest. Are u guys kidding

what is the problem with CNN telling us that if insane McCain wins, it cements his position in the elections, if Romney wins in FL it leaves this elections for the republicans "wide Open" You morons at CNN want to influence us to beleive that would be the case. You don't give credit to the people of this country to choose the right leader of this country, you are lib lovers and worship Clintons and insane McCain.

You won't give credit where credit is due, you jerkoffs have Ted toilet Turner as you lib boss, and you have to suck up to him, because he was paid off by the libs huh!

Let this country vote who they want to without you feeding into this elections without race, sex or just love the libs like you want us to vote for.

Just shutup a while CNN, ABC News let you you say what you want even take critic very well and leave it on their blogs, good for them.

You get offended if someone doesn't take your crap and think different.

ROMNEY!

Ever notice how McCain supporters can't deal with truth? I'm not talking about the arbritary interpretation of truth as liberals are good at. I'm talking about McCain and his supporters as being incapable of understanding what truth is. McCain deliberately lies for his perceived benefit, period, not for the "good of the country." After this weekend's lying tirade, along with the statement by McCain's henchman, Lindsey Scam, who, when confronted with the truth, responded, "I don't care what he (Mitt Romney) meant [by his words]." I no longer have any respect or regard for McCain. McCain really isn't different than the Clinton's, Kerry, Gore, Feinstein, Kennedy, Pelosi, Reid, and all the other liberals he likes to team up with to create liberal legislation. McCain is truly part of the problem. To Mr. McCain – sir, you disgust me.

McCain is to much of a hot head to hold the highest office, and he supports amnesty for the illegal aliens that are flooding across our border.

Mccain knows nothing about the economy. Romney's experience is in buying trouble companies and seel them for scraps....how does that translate in running a national economy?

Rudy is the only well-round candidate who not only talk of change but have done it, fixed it, changed it.........all with great success. Wake up people, we hire people for the postive experience not for how good they are with soundbites and giving out hot air.

Rudy 2008

How does CNN report that if Mccain wins Florida he cements himself as the national frontrunner, and if Romney wins the GOP is still up for grabs. Last I looked, Romney had the most delegates...and by a good number. I can't help but believe that CNN along with others have their pony and skew the facts using a powerful medium to try and influence undecided voters.

How does CNN report that if Mccain wins Florida he cements himself as the national frontrunner, and if Romney wins the GOP is still up for grabs. Last I looked, Romney had the most delegates...and by a good number. I can't help but believe that CNN along with others have their pony and skew the facts using a powerful medium to try and influence undecided voters.

What Romney needs is some additional inspiration, perhaps some golden plates he could decode! There is always still time to head up to up state NY and start digging! No other politician could bring together peoples as diverse as Jews and Native Americans by stupidly claiming they are of the same origin, or lost tribe of Israel!

Curt writes....

I have a questiion?
Why is it that, according to the Republicans, every idea that a Democrate has is wrong for the nation, and according to the Democrates, every idea that a Republican has is wrong for the nation?
One is conservative, and the other is liberal, and the only thing they agree on is to disagree. They cannot possibly think that they have all the answers, and all of the best ideas for the voting public. <<<<<

I think the point is that many hard-core conservatives and liberals DO think that way and have done so for the past 16-18 years. We haven't seen both sides work together for the good of America since Reagan. People forget that all the "dirty tricks" the Democrats accuse the Republicans of since they took control of Congress, the democrats did themselves when they were the minority. Both Republican and Democrat alike have become FAR more interested in shafting the other side of the aisle than doing what is best for America and the result is that people tend to look at the other side as "evil". I am a moderate. I have voted conservative AND liberal in the past. I interpret Romney, Obama, and Clinton as saying they will not compromise with the other side. Both sides been doing that for 18 years and it's gotten us nowhere. I support McCain this year because of all of them he is the only candidate I see who is willing to say "the other side has a good idea...let's make it happen for the benefit of the United States". To those who say McCain has betrayed the Republicans by being willing to work with Democrats I say..."you are simply advancing the problem". Democrats are not evil nor are Republicans. They simply disagree and disagreement can be healthy when used to advance a common interest. But both sides have forgotten the common interest and are focusing on the disagreement itself. That is not McCain's history and that's why he has my support.

We really want another rich money hungry businessmen as president? You do realize that he got rich because he was money hungry. He may be a good businessman but that doesn't mean he won't steal everyones money the first chance he gets. Romney = money hungry & power hungry

I don't blame him for taking shots at mccain though since he's just a flip flopping liar.
compulsive liar = McCain

Want a religious nut that in the end will try to force his religion on you vote Huckabee.
There is only one real candidate that is really thinking of the people and that's Ron Paul...ronpaul2008.com

Who cares?

Google "the Keating 5″

-Google why McCain ditched his recently disabled wife for his multi-millionaire mistress

-Google Juan Hernandez, McCain’s immigration advisor

-The problem is with the Washington insiders!!!!

-Mitt Romney is not a Washington insider like McLaim, Obama and Hillary

-McLaim, Obama and Hillary they are part of the problem

-You can not fix Washington just by having one of the Senators switch seats!!!!!

-There is very little difference in the voting records of McLaim, Obama and Hillary.

-Vote for Mitt Romney the person with executive experience.

-Vote for Mitt Romney!!!!!!!!!!

Romney has spoken to the point throughout this campaign on strong families, a strong economy, strong national defense, and a strong legal immigration policy with secure boarders. He has presented comprehensive policies and programs in each of these areas and when he did change positions in the past he was man enough to own up to it as he did on the abortion issue.

I hope the voters in Florida will forge through the mudslinging that has been directed at Romney not just one on one, but often by gang piling by his opponents and not go by distortions of his record or his statements. He is a man of integrity and deep personal commitment and has a record that speaks for itself in his personal life, professional life, and public life. The maligners may talk the talk, but Mitt Romney’s life and accomplishments speak for themselves for one who has walked the walk.

Mitt Romney got my vote. GO MITT!!!

let face it, GOP base hates McCain. Good luck to win those states the GOP base is majority. Rommy just wants to sticks that fact to McCain's face every chance he gets.

As a sane person, I cant amagin John MacCain as President. I personally would take Ron Paul to Senator MacCain. A Maverick called some 7 years ago, today he should not even hold the title of senator.
I cant recall anyone throwing out a white flag by anyone, Mr. MacCain must have elusion as a credible candidate as president. He holds the same values as Geoge W. Bush. We have discussed this issue two years ago and the answer was no.
So Senator MacCain do yourself a favor and drop out, you must have lost your mind to be the best candidate for president.

The rest of your votes in the senate speaks for itself, no one distorted the fact more than you, sir. so give me a break

It's clear these two don't like each other. Just like Clinton and Obama. This is an exciting year!!!!

Go '08!!!!

Let's say that McCain does have close Democratic ties. Don't we need a President who can cross party lines? I, for one, am sick of the ideologues and the rampant partisan attitudes of both parties.

McCain's personal attacks are really getting old. Twisting words...pathetic. Especially since John McCain has a former Mexican government cabinet member as John's "Hispanic Outreach Coordinator"...selling out American interests for those special interests of Mexico.

How can a member of a foreign government be part of Presidential campaign? Whom does John McCain represent? America? That is the country that the American president is supposed to represent.

For someone who supposedly has fought to get undue influence out of politics, why does he let a foreign government infiltrate his office?

John McCain is still for amnesty.

Juan Hernandez google him!

The only reason that Romney still stands is his never-ending funding and account. Of course he is going to be "good" at economics, when you have that much money you know how to be the BEST AT DIRTY BUSINESS.

I decided I would not vote for McCain in the primaries long before Romney fired back with this stuff against McCain's dishonest attacks. Everything Romney has said is just old news... however it is all true which can NOT be said about McCain's so-called straight talk express.

BOTTOMLINE,

National polls have told us nothing about who can win. The national polls say McCain and Hillary will win the nominations. Mark my words, Obama will win. The national polls will mean nothing, and people are relying on them instead of who they best a line with politically will have a rude awaking.

Of course, I want my candidate to win HOWEVER I believe people should vote the candidate who's record and experience best a line with the issues they care about most.

Where the heck is Ron Paul when we need Him?

Romney is firing with back ... with the truth which is a lot better than distorting the truth like Hillary and McCain.

I want to see Obama and Romney go head to head.

I'm a believer that John McCain has enough sense not to even consider Romney for the Vice Presidency. If he did, it would be like witchcraft, because he'd turn me into a democrat.

McCain is too old to run this nation. He thinks because he reads the Wall Street Journal on occasion, and knows little to nothing about the economy, that he will be able to turn our economic downturn around. You've got to be kidding me, we need someone with REAL experience. I don't want, and we don't need, a president to get "on the job" economic training. If McCain is so willing to cross lines, then count me out. The last thing we need is a fence sitter in the presidential office. Romney, understands how to run a company, implement needed policies, and make needed changes. Quit with your little "flip-flopping" complaining McCain, and stick to your policies and experience – which unfortunately is minimal.

Conservatives won't have this liberal RINO McAmnesty shoved on us by the liberal media. If you're endorsed by the New York Times, you're not a conservative.

Go Romney in Florida. He's got my early vote.

What Romney needs is some additional inspiration, perhaps some golden plates he could decode! There is always still time to head up to up state NY and start digging! No other politician could bring together peoples as diverse as Jews and Native Americans by stupidly claiming they are of the same origin, or lost tribe of Israel!

Joseph Smith 08!!!!

Oh Come on–did i actually just read a Romney quote saying
something like "McCain i won't be your running mate?"
How arrogant is that? Oh wait–Is this the beginning of a "conversation"
of interest about you being someone else's running mate.
Wait again–didn't you just today falsely accuse McCain of approaching
someone else to be a running mate in the past election.
Romney you are really losing my trust when it comes to anything you say.
Please stop saying anything sensational you can think of to turn this
campaign into mud-slinging. This is a pivotal time no matter what party
anyone belongs to-stop being so petty.
Today-you absolutely lost any hope for my vote. Even against a democrat.

I would like to know why Romney's Mormon faith and its theological attitude against blacks has not been mentioned in the mainstream media. If the Book of Mormon substituted "Jew" or "woman" each time it slammed blacks as "cursed," I'm sure that we would have heard about it. Is Romney a "good Mormon" if he doesn't agree with the catechism of the Mormon Church? How does he feel about blacks being "cursed", the "children of Lucifer", and d"eserving of their disadvantage". P.S., I'm not even black but I'd feel the same concern about any religion that singled out a particular group of people, especially for a President that is supposed to represent "all the people."

Prime time, NBC, AT END OF OUR PFESIDENTS SPEACH. wHO WOULD YOU THINK OF BETTER THAN TO PUT mITT. ON , AN NO REBUTTAL TIME FOR THE OTHERS. i THINK nbc IS TRYING TO CONTROLL ELECTIONS.

WELL THEY JUST CAUSED ME , ONE THING FOR SURE , I WOULD NEVER VOTE FOR . MITT , SOUNDS JUST LIKE OBAMA. I CAN DO THIS OR THAT. NEITHER CAN CLEAN UP THERE OWN MESS IN THERE OWN STATE, THEY SUPPOSE TO BE REP.

SORRY MITT, GET HOME P.D.Q

The government is set up as a business with a CEO(chief executive officer), CFO, Board of directors (congress and the house), and the works. Every time they make a decision money is spent. it is about time that we had a businessman running the largest business in the world and not a life long politician like mccain, HillBilly or Obama.. Romney is the best man for the job! Vote Romney!

Romney's background not only make him the best candidate for a slumping economy but his international business background make him the best person for negotiating and dealing with foreign affairs! Vote Romney!

We need a President who is worried about our economy and ready to make changes. A great example of someone would be Romney. Take a look at what happened with the 2002 Salt lake Olympics!! He knows how to handle money. Looks like our economy is in grave danger!

Romney all the way. The two biggest things I've noticed on Romney tonight would be He is the only candidate looking to take immediate liberal action in immigration laws, Romney looks like he will definitely get involved in taxes/social security and other areas the will highly need improvement.

I'd vote for your dead cat before I'd vote for Mitt Romney. I find it amusing that any candidates version of "morality" is being considered by voters at this point in the juncture. Our Economy, the War, and our positioning in world leadership are what's important–not abortion or any of the "morality" issues. C'mon Florida, vote for McCain....

I am a republican, but if it is McCain vs. Obama, I probably would vote for Obama

Of course everyone remembers Hillary Clinton throwing darts at Barrack Obama, and Obama had to respond. John McCain started the negative campaigning with the lie about Mitt wanting to set a date to pull out the troops. Mitt had to respond to save Florida. Romney countered with truth, and not lies. McCain did work on liberal bills in the senate, and the record is very clear. I used to think McCain was alright, but he is disgusting me as the Florida primaries draw closer.

As a former Republican and current Democrat (and soon to be independant) I am looking at the field and try to imagine the worst case possible. Clinton for the Democrats vs Romney for the Republicans. Clinton....Romney.....Clinton....Romney. Talk about heads you lose tails you lose.

Mcain is a liberal pretending to be a republican, he should run in democratic party where he belows.

McCain wants us to believe that Romney was for surrender!
This is Clintonesque!

All this warm fuzzy talk about "reaching across party lines" worries me. Why? Because although bipartisanship is crucial at times, the conservative and liberal ideaologies represented by the GOP and Democrats respectively is VASTLY different. Sure, moderate stances on some issues are healthy and good. But the GOP and the Dems have a VASTLY different agenda for America, and I'm worried that people are having a tough time seeing that. Please people, look at the ISSUES before jumping on the moderate-is-cool bandwagon.

Oh I love you people that aren't going to vote for Mitt because they don't like his religion, hair or smile. I think Baraca is very charming and great looking but I don't agree with his politics I think the point Mitt was trying to make is that he is conservative. Even the republican party heads are having trouble with How do you all read into this he will not work across party lines? I think his record already speaks to that issue, Not only was he able to work with a predominately Democratic group as govenor but he showed great skill across all nations in handling the mess the Olympics were in. I think many have forgetten what an entermational mess that was in. He went in and pulled it together to make it one of the best in the Olympic history. Utah's economy is still reaping the benefits.Let's stick to the issues please.

Anyone who thinks McCain is better on the economy is smoking something something very strong and disorienting. Romney is a financial wizard. MSBNC's money man called Romney "the best businessman in North America." We can trust Romney to lead this country back to economic greatness.

Romney is a flip-flopper, but i dont blame him for disliking Kerry. Kerry and Kennedy are loosers.

Hillary Clinton 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Mitt...... how about that windmill project you and your rich friends have been trying to kill for years because it interferes with your summer vacation homes property value? Tens of thousands have higher power bills now...thanks Mitt.

Romney definitely has what this country needs. McCain just looks feeble too me. and while some of his ideas are good ones, I don't think that they're what the country needs. Good Luck Mitt!! I hope Florida has enough sense to see that you're the one!

Did anyone else see the polls released today? Most show Romney on top in Florida.

McCain thinks for the country, while many others think for their party.
We are Americans, aren't we?

I would like to comment, following a discussion yesterday on the brainwashing of America on the illegal immigration problem. McCain & others seem to have lead people to believe that if Mitt Romney is elected & becomes the first person to actually enforce the laws & not reward illegals with visa's, greencards & citizenship, then there will be many service jobs that they are doing, that Americans simply will not do. This type of logic simply is not true for many reasons. Just one of these is that Americans do not understand the LEGAL immigration process. Americans are NOT against people coming here, but they want it done legally so we know who is here. I can tell you that there is a very very long line of people waiting patiently to come here LEGALLY and when there is a person like Romney in the White House, who makes it clear to the world that if you want to come here, after background checks, interviews, going through the legal process, you're likely to be welcomed. For every person who came here illegally who is deported, there is a replacement in line who will want to come here legally to do exactly the same job. It is both the illegal problem & the legal process which Romney will fix, but he will not reward criminals who have come here illegaly. McCains plan is totally flawed & will make the problem even bigger than it is now.
Last point, it is not just Mexicans. There is no malice towards Mexicans who work hard and are good people. Romney's no reward policy is directed towards ANYONE who is here illegally, no matter what country they arrived from. There is a big group of non latino's who have also broken the law & jumped the legal line.
I hope people want to solve the problem Washington refuses to and vote for Mitt Romney who is the only candidate who will fix it.

resign tonight after speech

Romney has proven he can work across party lines. But he does so to promote conservative causes.
What's so impressive about crossing over party lines to implement liberal policies? (i.e. McCain-Feingold). It doesn't take leadership to get pulled to the other side. Democrats will gladly reach out to you when you're fighting for their cause. It does, however, take leadership to pull people from across the aisle and get them to vote for conservative causes. Any examples where McCain was able to get Kennedy or Feingold to vote for a conservative bill? I didn't think so.

M cain NO vision and not clue his amnesty bill cost $2 trilyun and no nothing about economy just war war.. mitt 08

It is so ironic that while Romney and Mccain are attacking each other on who's more liberal........it is some of the biggest liberal media and organizations that are attacking Rudy Giuliani.

Hmmmmm Liberal Media attacking Rudy and leaving Romney and Mccain alone...hmmmm. Now who do you think has got the conservative beef here?

I admit it is Rudy's moderate social views and ultra conservative economic and security stands that attracts me to him. However, it is obvious to me that because he is the only candidate who have implemented core conservative principles and had incredible results for it (referring to NY)...this is why he is such a threat to the liberals. While it should not be a war between red and blue...I do think Rudy is the more successful conservative candidate when it comes to economics, domestic and security issues.

Rudy 2008!!!!

Go Romney! You have my vote. You are the only one with experience, leadership, and morals to lead this country. We support you overseas.
You are the man!

Romney 2008!

Governor Romney had something going for him besides personal wealth and central casting looks. The governor was the founder of Bain Capital, a private equity group. The company specializes in leverage buyouts and made billions of dollars throughout the eighties and nineties. This is the company that made Mitt Romney a wealthy man, with a net worth around $250,000,000. Romney, who stepped down in 1999 when he took over the Salt Lake City Olympics, is still a silent partner in the company and, according to the governor’s financial disclosure, will continue to receive profits from Bain Capital through February 2009. These facts alone might seem innocuous enough, but consider the latest acquisition Bain has its eye on.

Clear Channel Communications is a media giant by any definition of the word. This behemoth owns more than 1,200 radio stations as well as syndication companies and billboard advertising. The company owns Premier Radio Network which has the syndication rights to the Rush Limbaugh show, Glen Beck and a host of others. Premier boasts more than 90 radio shows in its stable and offers services to more than 4,600 affiliates. Clear channel also has a lucrative contract with Sean Hannity, which agrees to air his program on 80 of their stations through 2010. In addition, nearly every talk radio host in America relies on Clear Channel stations for a large portion of their audience. Talkers like Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham and Mike Gallagher would suffer greatly if they were cut out by Clear Channel.

In a deal that has been in the works for some time, Bain Capital is leading a consortium that has offered to buy Clear Channel for the tidy sum of 19.5 BILLION dollars. The FCC recently approved the acquisition and Clear Channel execs expect the transaction to be finalized sometime in the first quarter of 2008. The fact that Romney’s company is purchasing CCC isn’t a problem. The governor’s liberal past and the way it’s being covered up and explained away is another matter.

I am more interested in someone representing the country's ideas instead of representing Republican or Democrat ideas. McCain seems to be far more interested in representing the country's ideas compared to Romney.

So trying to compromise and "work with the enemy"(John Kerry) is wrong in Mitt's opinion? Says alot for his chances in foreign policy-asides which I don't trust 'god-jocks'...

IF JOHN LIBERAL mc cain BE PRESIDENT how about JUST KEEPING BUSH 10 MORE TERMS , THEY BOTH OPEN BORDER AND FREE TRADE LUNATIC WAR MONGER

The Ugly Truth About McCain (see for yourself):

-Google "the Keating 5"

-Google why McCain ditched his recently disabled wife for his multi-millionaire mistress

-Google Juan Hernandez, McCain’s immigration advisor

People are wondering why CNN is filtering out most of their pro-romney comments because many don't realize the media is pro democrat meaning they are also pro-mccaine, since both hillary and obama would SQUASH him.......it's the same reason why you turn on the news and aren't able to find coverage concerning romney at all. Plain and simple. Many don't realize just how powerful the media is on influencing decisions such as these.

I am dissapointed by Kennedy's endorsement of Obama. This is a betrayal of friendship to the Clintons. I am black but deeply convinced that Hillary is a better candidate for this huge job of the presidency at this time.

Kerry will wreck anyone's chances...He's a loser..Now he's trying to cozy up to Obama. What a fake...He's loathsome.

Please don't even put Kerry's name on anything...He makes me sick to my stomach. And he's really ugly...

As much as I'm in favor of Mitt Romney, he won't be allowed to be the GOP nominee. Things will just work out that way. The sad thing is that McCain has no chance of defeating the Democratic nominee, Obama or Clinton. He will get smashed. I do feel that Romney has to skill set that the country badly needs at this point in time and that he is the only candidate that has a chance of defeating the Democrats. It's just to bad that he won't receive the nomination (even though he has more delegates than any other candidate, more than McCain by nearly double).

John McCain is looking pretty unreliable. He looks like he's been in Washington too long. I suspect Hillary might be looking for a good running mate and McCain seems to have the history which would make him a good fit for Hillary's ticket.

The only straight talk I've heard from McCain is when he admitted he knows little about the economy.

Mitt 08

wag is wrong. Mitt is not 110 phoney. 236.4%.

Can anybody point me to info regarding the allegation that McCain cheated on his wife? Is there any evidence supporting this claim? I have been a backer of the straight-talk express but I recently heard about this and I am trying to find out if it is legit or not?

I am not a Republican but will vote for McCain if it is Barack vs. McCain in the general election.

Mitt doesn't seem to have any personal integrity. He just says what he thinks voters want to hear. He could not win the general election.

We need a trustworthy, experienced President in 08.

I thought I was recovering from the flu for the last week and a half. Then I recalled that I had 30 minutes of exposure to Romney last weekend......................This man is a creep.

McCain is trying to label Mitt a "Flip Flopper". If McCain gets the nomination he will get the same attacks from Hillary. We'll probably see him windsurfing. Obviously to intelligent people Romney is not saying that he won't work with democrats, as the McCain people would have you believe. Think if Barack Obama had approached George Bush about being his Veep! He'd be behind John Edwards. You want someone from your party to be your nominee. MCCAIN IS NOT THE MAN!!! I wish Guliani still had a chance, but he doesn't. So the best choice is MITT! He is a conservative leader. If people had the brains to read, instead of listening to McCain's so called truth, they could see this for themselves. McCain should start talking to Hillary about a position in her administration.

Go Mitt!!!

January 28, 2008 3:35 pm ET

McCain NOW says he's for tax cuts. He NOW says he will put border security
first. NOW he says the economy is important….what an amazing act of
FLIP-FLOPPING!

His main opponent isn't Romney…IT'S HIS OWN RECORD!!

Romney has the business experience this country NEEDS. He has turned things around again and again Olimpics, Gov, Business.

We need PROVEN leader, McCain has baggage, we need change not a Mascarade Democrate, in Sheeps clothes!

Lets make it happen, lets vote for change with Mitt in 08!

The New York Times has endorsed McCain.
Enough said.

Elect Mitt.

hey john, exit America....Pakistan has openings for the village idiot.

Why are we discussing the only two people that the media discusses. Look at Ron Paul. Do it for yourself. Much better tthan mitcain. Why is McCain all of the sudden so popular.. Oh CNN likes him.
Ron Paul 08

Both McCain and Romney are good men, though it's most unfortunate to see McCain resort to dishonesty.

Even so, McCain has been a great Senator for the past 20+ years, and we Repubs are grateful for his heroic past and faithful service.

But let's not kid ourselves about McCain's prospects to win the White House folks. Today's polls are not tomorrow's polls - let alone what we will see come November.

Who is going to pull for McCain, huh? Conservatives don't like him (Limbaugh, etc.) You think the New York Times is going to rally Americans to vote for McCain? Not a chance!!!

Romney is energetic, super smart, and has the support of Limbaugh and nearly all other media conservatives. He truly has no other agenda than to help the country succeed, and none of the baggage McCain brings.

I pray/hope FL voters give Romney the edge!!!

McCain thrashing Kerry?!?! Bwah-ha-haha!!!

"Pot. Kettle. I'm sure you've met."

Doesn't Romney get it? The American people are tired of "us versus them." We want cooperation and we want stuff to get done. This guy shoots himself in the foot and before the paramedics can do anything, he reloads! What a buffoon.

"I also believe in bipartisanship let the democrats change and join us then we will be united, I believe we are right."
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Typical oxymoron from a Bush-supporter. It is thinking this way that has brought our country down so much under Bush. Not even Bush's blindest, deafest supporter can believe he told the truth when he said "I'm a uniter not a divider", but if all the record-setting turnouts for people voting for Democrats continues, Bush may have told the thruth.

expect more shenanigans by the McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN PEOPLE just hours before the polls open in Florida

expect more shenanigans by the McCAIN'S CAMPAIGN CAMP

Kerry would never have asked Romney, he was looking for someone that was qualified for the office.

Would it be the worst thing in the world for a canidate to work with people (any people) towards a common goal? All Mit does is play the "My Rupublicanism is bigger than yours!" game. Anyone ever think that they repubs are in a real bad spot after the disaster that is W. Maybe a more reasonable republican would have a prayer in the general election. Mit looks like the slightly less cooked (or more oil...im not sure) version of John Kerry. McCain has shown time and time again that he think for himself. Some call that "ROUGE"...I call that American. I don't want someone that is saying what he thinks fits in the republican mold. I want someone that has republican values at their core, but isnt afraid of considering other options and suggestions...THAT'S WHAT GOOD LEADERS DO!

I hope America has realized that we need to come together at this point. Partisanship is the bane of our future.

God Bless America! Allah Bless American! Buddha Bless America! John Smith Bless America! (Insert Scientology Diety Here) Bless America!

But Most Importantly ....GO AMERICA!

We need a Washington outsider, not some one who has made a living by speaking out then caving in to Washington pressure and purse. (Gullioni, Huckabe or Romney).
McCain has been giving into the Washington pressure whenever there is an issue for which he needs to standup. Remember he blocked conservative minority judges from even getting a confirmation vote. He has been taking favors for trade on support for years. He was one of the Keating Five. Wake up America! ANYONE BUT MCCAIN. He can only be trusted to talk, never to do.
Doing what's best for his Washington buddies has nothing to do with doing what is best for America.

I second that fact that McCain's biggest enemy is his own record. Mitt Romney has only been pointing out that record. McCain has had to resort to flat out lies because he can't find anything in Mitt's record to attack, otherwise he would show his proof instead of coming up with looney wind surfing attacks.

If you were to interview these two men for a job, who would you go with?

Mitt Romney is clearly the better choice. He is very smart, has proven very successful, and has proven his leadership and turnaround ability. He looks and acts that part of a president, whether of a company or of the country. He is just flat out the better candidate for this job.

and what exactly is wrong with Republicans working with Democrats? Maybe the goernment might actually get something accomplished!!

Go McCain!!

I think McCain should play "The Penguin" in the next Bat Man movie.

Short, beady little eyes, grey teeth, stiff little arms, and that hacking laugh. "My friends.....blah, blah,blah.....I think he's taking a lot for granted. Didn't he run for mayor or something.

Don't you love how, when asked about his position, he starts rattling of names, like they aren't part of the same problem.

Come on people. Remember the lighthouse.

Captain McCain sees a light in the horizon in the darkness of night. "Signalman, ..message the light source to steer 15degrees to the starboard.

Message back to Captain McCain " You need to steer 15 degrees to the right'

Captain McCain gets "mad", "Who does he think he is?"

Captain McCain: "Signalman, tell them that I'm Captain McCain, and to steer 15 degrees starboard"

Light Source: " I am a swabby steer 15% starboard"

Captain McCain: "I'll #@%$ that swabby, who does he think he's talking to"....."Signalman, send this message,...This is Captain McCain........I am the captain of a battleship stear 15% to the starboard."

Light Source Response: "I am a swabby in a lighhouse, I can't move"

Our lighhouses are the principles that we honor. I think that John McCains lack of principle regarding those things conservative upon which the constitution is based are a step in the wrong direction. If you path diverts by just a few degrees, in the short run there is not much of a problem; however, after time as you travel a greater distance, you may not be anywhere close to your desired destination.

Principle, Principle, Principle..........................................................................................

The campaigns were pretty good in Florida, until McCain started his attack ad's.
The very thing that he complained about Romney,so bitterly in Michigan, and NH. The only difference was that Romney was climbing in the polls to overtake him.

It is terrifying to believe that the election will be lost or won by who throughs the last mud.

McCain is a, dare I say lier? I've heard the interview that he has referred to about time tables. If he interprets that needs of the people the same way to morphed the meaning of Romney's words in that interview, then we have a serious problem if he's elected. He'll be able to "Washington" speak us in circles.

By the way, regarding jobs: Romney job creations (Bain): 165,000 increase compared to jobs lost 2,200. Net gain:162,800
People only talk about the losses. Let's not let the tail wag the dog.

McCain = More of the same, if your lucky, or a partnership with huge tax increases
from his across the aisle buddies.
Romney= Principle, Evaluation, Leadership, Management.

Mitt spank the Geezer!

I'm really sick of cnn ignoring people's posts... if only there was somewhere for people to have a real voice at...

Senator McCain says he's for change, and he is getting an early start.
The change he is making this very moment is off the topic which is most important to us, the economy and on to the topic which is most important to him – the war.

I support our troops and their efforts to fight and win, now it is the people turn to fight and win. Win back Washington from those including McCain who promised they would change the economy and they haven't, the taxes and they haven't, they would reform immigration and they haven't. McCain has been there for a long time, and sending him back as president won't change a thing. To those voting in Florida – if it's change you are looking for and not the same old politicians playing the same old gamesand making the same old promises, send a message by voting for someone other than McCain.

Go Mitt Romney – I hope tomorrow bring you a win !!

I tried to look for the number of results in google blogsearch I get when i query the names of these contestants. The results were as following:

McCain 2,014,024
Romney 952,812
Giuliani 951,067
Huckabee 303,178

It doesn't mean that all these blogs are positive only but it definitely means that many more people are talking about McCain than other candidates. Btw Hillary beats them all by 4,232,450 blog entries, whereas Obama has just 784,183. Again, it doesn't mean Hillary will win. In fact my personal take is that the best possible thing which can happen for US now is McCain getting the republican nomination and then chosing Obama as the democrat running mate. That's gonna be ultimate bipartisanship and probably the best thing which could happen here. Also it will provide Obama the training ground he needs to be the president later. Neither extreme left nor extreme right can do the good for most in this country.

We finally don't hear Rudy saying "9/11, 9/11, 9/11" anymore.

Now, just as bad, we have to hear McCain saying "Reagan revolution, Reagan revolution, Reagan revolution" every time he speaks.

If you have to try THAT hard to convince your constiuency that you're a true Republican...

McCain NOW says he's for tax cuts. He NOW says he will put border security
first. NOW he says the economy is important....what an amazing act of
FLIP-FLOPPING!

His main opponent isn't Romney...IT'S HIS OWN RECORD!!

John McCain, American war hero!

Thank you for your sacrifice, thank you for your service to your country!

Mitten Romney, your service??????? Your sacrifice????

Interesting Clinton's comment when he said that a Hillary/McCain debate would be boring if McCain gets the nomination. He's worried McCain won't get it – It's an underhanded dig. He's absolutely right though – because McCain has no chance against Hillary in a one on one. She would rip him but good.

I don't think the Clinton's have friends when it comes to being challenged for the Presidency – who's somebody trying to kid.

Romney is not perfect. However he really is a genius. He also has the energy and dedication to get things done the right way. He will represent the republican ideas without waivering. Not only is he the one to beat the democratic nominee, he will do amazing things for this country, trust me on this one.

GOODNESS............some of you on here need to take your HATE-FILLED words and get a REAL LIFE!!

I'm a conservative Republican and looking for a conservative in office! I am judging Romney on what he DID IN OFFICE and in his service to our country with the Olympics (saving a lot of scandal!), and how he lives his life. McCain has provided a great service to our country in several ways, but my greatest concern is that he REALLY DOES NOT KNOW ENOUGH to strengthen our economy and keep it solid. A SOLID economy is VITAL to deal with the education, terrorism, environmental, etc. concerns our country has. I'm sorry, but McCain has said himself.....altho he said he didn't say, the media says he did!....he needs a refresher course and has tried to get the subject back to his favorite subject...Iraq.

I applaud ALL statesmen who work across the aisles.......but who are NOT involved in the "good 'ole boys" fraternity. We need someone with OUR interests in mind!! Rep OR Dem!

P.S.- If the republicans really want to win the White House, Romney WILL NOT be the nominee.

I also believe in bipartisanship let the democrats change and join us then we will be united, I believe we are right. Why should I except what I believe is wrong so everyone will be happy.

The truth is McCain is a democrat who just happens to be a war monger, its pretty obvious in the other issues he stands for or doesnt stand for , so if you want someone the democrats will love , vote for McCain, MR. OPEN BORDERS. IT WAS NOT ROMNEY WHO FLIP-FLOPPED ON ISSUES, IT WAS MCCAIN. HE SAYS HE TELLS THE TRUTH, I THINK ANYONE WHO IS NOT BRAIN DEAD CAN SEE THROUGH THAT.HE IS CHEATING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS OUT OF JOBS AND BENEFITS BYE STANDING ON HIS AMNESTY POLICY AND IT WOULD NOT SURPRIZE ME IF THEY DIDNT FIGURE OUT A WAY TO ALLOW ILLEGALS TO VOTE FOR HIM-- IF THEY DO THEY ARE TAKING A PAGE OUT OF THE DEMOCRATS HANDBOOK. SOME PEOPLE THINK ITS O.K. TO DO THAT , BELIEVE YOU SHOULD GET VOTES AT ALL COST, I BELIEVE THOSE WHO ARE NOT AGAINST ILLEGALS BEING HERE ARE -FOR BREAKING THE LAW, BECAUSE THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS , WE ARE ALLOWING MANY HARDENED CRIMINALS ACROSS OUR BORDER EVERYDAY AND THAT IS OK WITH MR, OPEN BORDERS MCCAIN.

McCain never speaks about his own details. McCain never discusses anything, but Iraq Go back to HIS record, HIS quotes, HIS responses, HIS sponsored bills! You will find Liberal Democrat painted all over them. He's more of a huckster than Huck-a-Burger! Romney is a true conservative – the only true conservative running at this time! Wake up, America!

Mr. Romney, McCain obviously didn't take any notion of being a running mate to Kerry seriously so why on Earth are you focusing on it now? The issue is of absolutely no importance. Good grief man, are you utterly incapable of talking about actual issues rather than bringing up non-issues from years past? That kind of whining and complaining about the other guy vs. stating who you are and what you really stand for makes you look no better than an over priced Ken doll. And just to educate you a little bit, there is nothing offensive at all about a bipartisan ticket! Abraham Lincoln, one of this contry's greatest men and presidents, took very specific aims to have a bipartisan cabinet so that all points of view were present in his time in office. Sad that that kind of forward and inclusive thinking died when he did.

Why does everyone keep saying that MCCain is an honorable man? Google his wives names and you will be as shocked as I was to find out that he treated his first wife in a despicable way.
Carol McCain, Cindy McCain.... then write back and tell everyone how honorable John Mc Cain is.

Romney said, "Had someone asked me that question, there would not have been a nanosecond of thought about it — It would’ve been an immediate laugh." Do we really want somebody in the white house that does not even think about decisions before making them, whether large or small?

Not only is Mitt Romney a Mormon, but he is also a MORON. McCain is right about Romney... and it is time for Mitt to drop out of the race and lets get on with it. Romney will never win in a general election against anyone.

Romney is honorable, intelligent and he listens and cares about the poeple. He's against big govt. and like Rush Limbaugh says:

If we elect either McCain or Huckabee the Repulican Party is dead. That's pretty strong .. hm... wonder who Rush is voting for. lol

We the People vote for ROMNEY!!

How long has McCain been in Washington? 30-40 years!!!!

How long has McCain been in Washington? 30-40 years!!!!

How long has McCain been in Washington? 30-40 years!!!!

WE NEED THE RIGHT CHANGE - VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY

WE NEED THE RIGHT CHANGE - VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY

WE NEED THE RIGHT CHANGE - VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY

WE NEED THE RIGHT CHANGE - VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY

You are who you write legislation with:
McCain/Kennedy
McCain/Feingold
McCain/ Lieberman

Tha's seals it for me.
Go Mit!!

VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY AND THROW OUT THE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT

VOTE FOR MITT

I think everyone here who is blasting Romney and supporting McCain are Democrats. You are fearful that Romney will beat your candidate so you all are typing as fast as you can to pump-up McCain...nice try.

Mitt Romney will be the next President...get use to it.

Everyone takes shots at Romney, and when he points out his oponent's record he's called the bad guy, the negative campaigner. Mitt has the best attributes and qualifications we need. And, by the way, conservative means conservative on taxes, conservative on big government, conservative on foreign affairs (a strong defense = less offense needed = don't start wars), right to life, etc. Mitt has changed his mind on abortion and admitted it ... can McCain admit to any of his changes? The one thing that McCain wins on – prettier wife. Go Mitt – 2008!!!

If you don't like the oil prices yell at the people who set the price and sell it. The president doesn't. Geez. Adjusted for inflation its no higher than it was when Carter was in office.
Not being in the military or your children, can apply to most of the candidates. Its a non issue with a voluntary military.
Quit bickering about who said what and when. Oh, thats right. I chose chicken for dinner and changed my mind. That made me a flipper. Not a flip flopper. So much for buzz words.
Yes, fees go up. some one has to pay for the gov't workers raises, pensions and
health care. And that includes teachers, firemen, police etc. Why don't some people think things out. I guess they have short attention spans and can't think any further than the next sound bite.
We need a president with brains, strength and stamina. Never know what un-expected horrors are going to hit this country.
Vote Romney

I would like to see one Republican Nominee and one Democrat Nominee be selected as President and Vice. The one who gathers the most votes gets to be the President and the runner up is VP.
That way you get a true check and balance from the top down. Everyone in Congress has to work together to get things done and ideally good ideas are always heard.

I think Romney is telling the truth and he could go alot further and say that since McCain is always talking about securing our country from Radical Islamic Extremists--MAYBE HE COULD START WITH SECURING HIS OWN BORDER IN ARIZONA, THEN IF HE EVER GETS AROUND TO THAT HE MIGHT CONSIDER SECURING ALLTHE BORDERS- IT WOULD BE ALOT EASIER TO KEEP RADICAL ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS OUT RATHER THAN CHASE THEM AROUND THE GLOBE AND KILL ALOT OF OUR YOUNG SONS IN THE PROCESS. WE OWE CHINA BILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND WE CANNOT AFFORD TO GO TO PAKISTAN AND FIGHT ANOTHER WAR AND KILL MORE OF OUR YOUNG MEN, WHICH YOU KNOW MCCAIN WOULD RATHER DO THAN SECURE OUR BORDERS, HE GETS BORED TALKING ABOUT THAT.

Romney will loose period! No Mormon will ever get elected in this country at this time. The right wing will continue their racial, financial, and religious persecutions and devour their own. More people in this country will vote for a women or a black than a mormon numbers don't lie. I hope Romney gets the republican nomination. Barrack Obama will be our next president for sure. It is time for the war mongering right wing to sit down and let the real politicians govern.

Well, if everyone is happy with the state of our country, vote in another Republican because they all have the same basic idea of trickle down economics injected by Ronald Reagan. It doesn't work anymore because the corporations getting the breaks are trickling down into their own pockets since the workers are in another country. China, India, Taiwan and Mexico are the largest beneficiaries. Republicans for big business, Democrats for the working man. That's the way it is so when they campaign on cutting taxes, it's not for you!

I like both McCain and Romney for different reasons: McCain for his desire to do what he thinks is right regardless of party politics; Romney for his experience leading in many facets (I have never believed that congress involves leadership. It is a compromise job.) I am glad that we seem to have lost Huckabee–I was worried that he didn't see the difference between Church and State. I agree with another blogger, I don't know if Romney says he wouldn't consider partnering with a democrat because he is campaigning, but I would like to see government positions filled based on skill. Neither dems or GOP has a corner of "right". Both can have good ideas and good people. A mixed cabinet might be good for the country. Might be the "change" we are looking for.

Romney's grasping at straws. The Super Tuesday states' results will end his campaign.

Work with em my a.s . Mcamnesty is one of them... this man is not, never has been and never will be a bonified true conservative. He's an opportunist at best. Says to hell with the local constituents, I'm gonna vote whats best for me. the man
has no integrity what so ever. The mexican congress is pulling for you john so they can flood florida with millions more illegals under the guise of your so-called Amnesty.

hey MisFit Mitt, its not too late to run as an Independant....its a safe bet that when the theme of "Change" is brought up at every campaign stop, it really does mean, lets put an end to Republican Idiotship....

Did anyone give him a breathalizer? Talk about a posterchild for term limits!. The change we all want involves lumps like Teddy being sent home.

I hope people do not forget that McCain supported and still supports Amnesty for all illegals. Soon we will all be speaking Spanish in this country.

Gone are the glory days of America, it is going to be turned into 3rd world country like Mexico by all these illegals who are supported by welfare tax dollars.

Why vote for any of them. Only Ron Paul speaks the truth. If you haven't heard Ron Paul message, Please search for him on Google to hear the truth.

THANK YOU MITT... for explaining so clearlyl why you shouldn't be president of the US. There are opening is South America, however...

Why is everyone picking on Mitt Romney?

Thank you Mr Romney, you have reminded me one more time why I support Sen. McCain The war between parties is the major cause of our distress around the world and at home. Kudos to someone who is willing to get past labels. of all the politicians, Sen Mc Cain repreents our best chance to right the ship

Now we know. Romney won't ever talk to Democrats without laughing, so he says. Is that what's going to bring this country together? A narcissistic, meglo-maniac, arrogant olympic events coordinator?

Mitt doesn't get it and won't. We want to be unified, not divided. If you are a Democrat or Independent, Romney plans to laugh at you.

Better vote for someone else...

go McCain, the only repub who deserves to be commander in chief, too many men and their sons dont want any part of the military, they just want to stay over here where it is safe and enjoy life, and spend their money, that the majority of americans dont have any more.

You know… Romney is flat out just a nicer person hands down.

Rush compared McCain to Clinton with his accusations about Romney. Rush and others say that for a man who says he’s honorable.. he is not acting honorably. Also, Rush is not impressed with how McCain runs on a Republican ticket and yet is obviously rubbing elbows with the liberals. I personally want someone who will not sell us out.

I noticed too that even though Romney does not agree totally with Bush – he always shows his support to him as President of the United States. I admire that. Romney has proven he is honorable and loyal – he has never betrayed his family and he won’t betray our country.

I’ve made up my mind. The more the candidates ‘talk’ the more convinced I am that Romney is the right person to lead our country.

I’ll be voting for Romney – For the People

You still don't get it. This country was not established by a Republican or a Democrat. The Republican and the Democratic parties have lost their ways. They fight and bicker over control of this country. We finally have a candidate who unites both parties and actually comes together and gets things accomplished. And you simple minded fools put party loyalty before the safety of this country. May the gods help us all.

John, Gilbert Az you have nothing but negative things to say about any conservative, your hero insane McCain is an old fart that loves illegal aliens and wants to raise taxes. Check his record you moron.

I want Mitt to be president more than insane McCain, he has better knowledge of turning this country around. No senator since Truman has been worth 2 cents to be a leader of this country, Romney would do good, you lib loving fool!

Romney 08!

It is laughable that Romney, who said he would be a bigger supporter of gay rights than TED KENNEDY, would try to paint John McCain as a liberal. Also, it is ironic that one of the three pieces of legislation that Romney calls "not Republican, and not conservative", immigration reform, was backed by GEORGE W BUSH. So I suppose that Romney is also attacking Bush as not Republican and not conservative?

Go Mitt !! (or Go McCain !! or Go Giuliani !!). It doesn't matter.

It's time to end this Republican utter incompetent nonsense in Washington.

John McCain is an honorable man, but it is important to note, he is not ready for the presidency. It appears he is limited to military issues which is commendable, but he is not a economic stategist. You would certainly expect one to be strong in this area because it is the operational connection to running all branches of our government. McCain was my first choice for the candidacy, but he should stay in the Senate. It is clear that his wife probably handles the budgeting in the house and just gives him an allowance so he doesn't have to worry about that part of the household business.

Huck doesn’t behave like a preacher… much less someone to represent the United States of America. You know… someone told me once that hurtful things said, masked with humor, is nothing but verbal abuse. I think he has been showing his true colors – and a lot of people are getting tired of it.

I want to vote for a man who lives his faith and has high standards.

Vote for Romney! Someone who we can be proud of as President of the United States!

Romney, has worked across party lines his entire political career! (Which was only on term as governor, a good thing in my opinion) He is the only nominee who had to work with democrats to get things done, and he did it while maintaining conservative principles. If anyone is getting desperate it's McCain. He's been making below the below lies about Romney's record for nearly a month now, and apparantly is about to explode because it hasn't worked. Wasn't it McCain who just yesterday attempted to completely distort Romney's position on timetables for troops in Iraq. Every commentator out there saw that as a straight up lie!

I also keep hearing people criticising Romney for changing position on issues. At least he has the brains to try and do what the people want. McCain thinks so much about himself that he'd be willing to lead the country right off a cliff just so he could say that he didn't change his mind. And then you'd find out that he did change his mind and nobody ever heard about it because the liberal media was in bed with him.

You know… Romney is flat out just a nicer person hands down.

Rush compared McCain to Clinton with his accusations about Romney. Rush and others say that for a man who says he’s honorable.. he is not acting honorably. Also, Rush is not impressed with how McCain runs on a Republican ticket and yet is obviously rubbing elbows with the liberals. I personally want someone who will not sell us out.

I noticed too that even though Romney does not agree totally with Bush – he always shows his support to him as President of the United States. I admire that. Romney has proven he is honorable and loyal – he has never betrayed his family and he won’t betray our country.

I’ve made up my mind. The more the candidates ‘talk’ the more convinced I am that Romney is the right person to lead our country.

I’ll be voting for Romney – For the People

Is crossing party lines such a bad thing if you believe its the right thing to do. I'm no McCain supporter but this was a very stupid point by Romney.

the only "Statesman" that I have seen from either party since Dwight Eisenhower is Colin Powell. too bad he didn't run for President in 1996.

2008 will once again be a choice of "the lesser of two weasels"

Mitt,
Don't stoop to McCain's level. For John McCain - the I'll run an honest campaign my friends - to distort that statement by Mr. Romney is an all out lie. He knows it.
Senator Lieberman and your campaigners also know it. Hey John , Do you remember that speech you gave on the senate floor back in 93 or 94 stating that the president should get our troops out as soon as possible; no nation building; that our integrity as the world's superpower would not be diminished (if I recall you used the word baloney) if we left now but it would be diminished if we stayed longer resulting in more american casualties?

I think a conservative and liberal on a single ballot will create balance. And for someone who is open to new ideas and has jumped on the band wagon of change, I don't think the above argument is smart, genius.

Craig is absolutely right. President Lincoln chose a cabinet full of people from a wide-ranging political spectrum. He didn't want to be surrounded by "yes" men and he wanted fresh, innovative ideas and people who challenged the way he thought. Amazing to think that a President would actually think that having a cabinet and advisors made up of representative views of ALL Americans would be a good way to go. How we miss you Abe!

Mitt would do or say anything to win a vote - one has only to look at what he said when pandering to Michigan voters to get their votes - "I feel your pain and I will be bringing back your high-paying jobs if you vote for me." Let's fact it, Mitt won't mention or think about Michigan again ever (unless he needs to court them for the general election) and could care less about "their pain." He is as phony as they come.

Romney is really a clone of Dick Cheney – it's Darth all over again.

Has anyone checked if he hunts?

Bill January 28, 2008 11:26 am ET

Thank you Mitt Romney for making my decision a LOT easier. According to Romney:

- McCain is willing to work across party lines
- Romney will maintain Washington's divisiveness
- McCain is willing to make thoughtful decisions for the best of the country
- Romney is prone to make snap decisions without any thought to get elected

Put me down for John McCain. I was undecided, but after this past week I can't understand why ANYONE would support Mitt!

Bill, I see you are a man with intellect. Thank god there are others!!!!!

Would it really be that bad if, god forbid, we moved toward a unified party system? It's sad to continually see people on both sides of the line so worried about intermingling with the other party. Just because people are in one party doesn't mean they are unable to have their own views.

Also I do agree with "Jake HATES Romney".

Guys & Gals its not working accross party lines thats a problem it is the WHAT he (McCain) worked across party lines to do !!!! Look at the bills that he has his name on, limiting speech, amnestly, etc...

Look outside of the Television for a while gang!

Hop on your computer, you obviously know how to use one or you would not be reading this, and check out what the candidates really stand for & by. Do not let the media tell you how to vote.... figure it out for yourself.

Hey I as a VET do appreciate what he did in standing up for the "Surge" & his prior service. Hey there are a lot of defence positions I would love to see John Chair or run but a lot of his other stances including the Economy are lacking.

So if you really care about who gets the office and you want your vote to count get involved, Check the candidates out, and make an informed decision before you hit the voting booth for your states primary.

Thanks!

Furthermore...McCain will not unite our country...the Republican base hates him and moderate Rupublicans tolerate him.

There's unity for ya~!! Good job McCain. Even your mom says we hate you...(the first thing she has been right about, by the way).

Romey likes buying votes. McCain wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years. There both crazy!!

I encourage florida voters to vote for Mike Huckabee. If he can't win, but should place ahead of Guliani, perhaps we can have a 3 way race on super tuesday with a champion for each ideological section of the party.

Amen to Greg in NY & Bill's statements!

It's time we started being just Americans - I don't recall taking an oath of loyalty to a particular party during the pledge of allegiance. World history is full of dictatorships who required such a thing. As a matter of fact, we fought against a number of them in WWII.

just an American

Romney...you used car salesman!! Stop talking, cause most things that come out of your mouth are incoherent. You are like Rick Santorum, only older and with more money.

Mitt Romney is why I hate politics!

Can you feel the wrath of the McCain lovers and liberals? That little political gem Romney dropped about the 2004 Kerry-McCain ticket hit the McCainites where it hurts...

The guilty take the truth to be hard.

McCain isn't bipartisan...he wants to elminate pluralism!!There is a big difference.

A vote for McCain is a vote for a more liberal society.

Any fool that would vote Romney would like to see our country burnt to the ground. Romney is an arrogant selfish idiot with ambitions. Yes he is a better manager, so was President Bush, hint the comment! If you want a President who will treat America as a business and continue to make as much money as he can, then make the same mistake as before, but if you want a leader, some one who can unite a nation then McCain is your guy. McCain is a born leader who has served his country and continues to do just that. Every thing he stands for is in the honor and hope of the next generation of Americans. Romney is it this race not to better America but to better himself. Romney is the candidate of "change". The man changes his view and stances on issues as much as women change shoes. This statement is coming from one who would be happy to die for this country's protection and advancement. Is Romney that character? I believe he would piss his pants when it comes to the real danger this country is in. He is not a leader, he is a manager. Senator McCain is in fact a leader, a servant of this country and in the eyes of a young American, he is a hero. Romney is an idiot, plain and simple.

Gag me. This partisan nonsense is what Americans are sick of. And that's why the Republicans are going to lose in November. Instead of debating the issues, they're debating their "conservativeness". The Dems aren't much better, but it's the media that has blown their bickering way out of proportion, and misrepresenting what they say, then misrepresenting their explanations of what they said.

Chad, you are misguided just like Romney. He is worthless.

Mitt – you gotta produce the transcripts!
You can't just go around "recalling" stuff against an opponent in an effort to plant the seed. What complete scum Mitt Romney is – a lowlife pandering blue-blood who'd rather run down our nations heroes than build up its people.
I think Mitt and the Clintons probably get along famously – they seem to have the same mindset when it comes to politics: Win at any cost, screw the country.
They all should be ashamed.

Everyone was up in arms against the Democrats because of their argueing and
bickering. It was only a mater of time. It too will get bad on the Republicians side.
Come on guys start duking it out. Ha ha ha

After going back and reading a bunch of the comments here I have to note how sad it is for us as a nation when we would actually consider such weak candidates as Romney, McCain, and my god Hucklebee and Guiliani. Has the Republican Party really fallen that far? Has the standard been so diminished by Bush to think these guys are qualified?It is truly unfortunate for us as a nation.

May be Mr. McCain is really a statesman, Mr Romney. Someone who gets something done instead of proudly wearing a tag as this or that. Statesmen–we need more of them in DC and less, much less partisanship.

From the comments it looks like America may finally be ready for a candidate who places country over party.

Romney is a wolf in wolf's clothing. He will be crushed by the Clinton machine. Pro-war, corporate turnaround. The republican hopes for the whitehouse are dim enough without this guy slinging ridiculous barbs. He's a former moderate governor of MA. See how many times MA has voted republican in the presidential races in the last 40 years, and I think you might be enlightened...

If a soulless, morally bankrupt knee jerk conservative like Mitt Romney wins this election, our country is utterly doomed. The downhill slide initiated by Bush's ultra right wing handlers will continue unabated until the US as a democracy is nothing more than a memory.

When did open-mindedness, compromise and a willingness to look outside a narrow dogmatic point of view and work with a wide variety of people become undesirable qualities? All of these things are required for WISDOM in leadership and in life.

When did puritanical hypocracy and stubborn unwillingness to consider anything outside a narrow dogmatic point of view become desirable qualities for any leader of a "free nation?" These qualities are what makes for a good Ayatollah, perhaps, but not a good President of the United States.

It's always interesting to see how quick people will condemn someone for using his own money to run for office, pledging to donate his salary to a charity, and for honestly bringing up issues of concern relating to his opposition, yet turn and elevate the man who accepts endorsements from some of the most liberal institutions in the U.S. while claiming to be a conservative, supports amnesty, and constantly labels his opponent as a flip-flopper while he himself votes against a tax cut which he now so strongly supports.

McCain claims Romney is not capable of being a leader, but his own lack of leadership in the economy is just to blatent to ignore. He didn't have the vision to support taxes cuts which stimutated the economy, and only now that he sees the results does he change his mind (sounds like a flip-flopper to me).

It's nice to see McCain atleast pick things up in highnsight...to bad for him we don't have the time to wait!

Vote Romney...the clear leader!

Mitt is only trying to explain McCain's liberal stances, not that he'll work with only the Repubs! YA dummies. I bet your all Democrats who are posting on this board!

An OBVIOUS attempt by CNN to paint Romney in a bad light. Look at these comments in context. Please

Why is there no reports here of McCain's attacks?

Romney seems to only care about gaining power and perpetuating divisiveness.

God help us if he is ever elected.

I'll take someone who can see the value of both sides of the aisle rather than someone who was once a liberal governor now trying to preen as some mouth-frothing staunch conservative.

We've had that for 8 years. I'll take McCain or Obama, myself. End this bickering.

Most of you people here have bought into the main-stream media, hook, line and sinker. If you vote for McCain you will get what you deserve: higher taxes, soft border enforcement, enlarged government and an irrational, impulsive anger-monger with his finger on the nuclear trigger. Good luck folks!

His name is Flipper, Flipper....

who knows who the eventual candidates will be in November. If it is Romney I will consider voting for him as we need a clear headed young business type as president, not another old man or hero rep. the GOP who has been in Washington for many years .

Wait a while, you'll see Romney flip-flop on this one, too.

The problem (or benefit... however you choose to look at it) with Romney is he will make himself whatever you want him to be. In MA he was a liberal because MA is liberal. Now he's running under the republicans nationally and he's taking on the national republican persona. If he wasn't so stupid about it he could make it into a good thing... "I am what you want me to be!" What better representation do you want? Well... maybe a consistent one... he's not very good at it.

And when did making friends become a bad thing? Even if he doesn't ask Kennedy, or Clinton, or another Dem to serve under him, what's wrong with having a broad network of strong political figures who can help and advise you that not only you trust but who trust you. Perfect!

And is there anything wrong with a republican that democrats like too? Isn't that kind of a good thing?

Also, someone mentioned that since the FL primary is republican only that it's a roadblock for McCain. I'm gonna have to disagree. If Dems like McCain and they know their vote isn't going to count towards the nomination then, just as in Iowa, Dems will switch over to the Republicans just for the primary and cast votes for the candidates that they could actually stomach seeing in the white house should a democrat lose. So that sounds like a win for McCain...

If the worst thing you can say about McCain is that he's willing to reach across the aisle then you're really reaching.

This confirms what I've always thought about Romney.
He's totally Full Of Mitt.

Romney is a lying nut. He was a no-show governor here in MA and has lied, flip-flopped and BS'd he way into this. What a piece of garbage of a human being. Vote anyone BUT him!

The Kerry connection will hurt anyone...Obama will soon realize that, no one wants his endorsement.

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Mitt Romney is a joke. The guy has a reputation for being a Republican in Name Only, yet to buck that reputation, he has tried to show that

-He supports 'Our Preisdent' George Bush through thick and thin, even through legitimate criticism that he is recieving from ALL QUARTERS
-He is obviously against working with Democrats, being bi-partisan, or showing any new interest
-He is ready and willing to pump people full of the garbage they want to hear to get himself in the Oval Office (see his promises to Michigan voters to get their manufacturing jobs to return)

and all this he does with the grease palmed look of a grade A car salesman sleezeball. How people dont see through this jerk astounds me. Neconservatives will control him like the brainless Ken-doll that he is.

Obama and McCain = real willingness to change Washington
Hillary and Romney = politics of the past

If Mitt hates McCain so much he can buddy up with Huckleberry Hound and go down worse than Geroge McGovern in November

DESPERATION!!!

Dear Jerry,

We don't have the draft anymore in this country. Mitt's sons are not required to serve in the military. If they were they would do it.

Lot's of folks in this country have sons that have chosen not to be "Military" that doesn't mean that they are weak men, they have other interests and talents that they are developing such as becoming Doctors, teachers, waste disposal managers......

so you need to reevaluate the way in which you state things.... your statements are just wild accusatory inflammatory statements that have no backing....

Jerry , I think you just got owned.

McCain doesn't seem trustworthty. The only conservitive side of him is the military issue. He would make an OK secretary of defence. but not our president. he agrees with pelosi and reid too often. that has to scare everyone. If Sen.Obama get the nomination it woudn't surprise me of there would be an McCain/clinton ticket. they think just alike. wonder where billy would fit in ? ? By the way does anyone think that two spoiled, power driven, angry, liberal women, that loathe out military , hillary and pelosi could possibly run our country ? They would be fighting over who gets the most camera time. those two really don't share their spotlight. I don't believe pelosi would allow that. Bet she backs Obama .

This is a great tactic used by GW himself during both his smear campaigns. Use the fact the other guy is willing to talk with and bring both sides together. That's can't be good that would make this the United States. The Repugnagains don't want that! They are them and we are U.S.

Amazing how the media loves Mitt the rich kid from Mormon town but when Ross Perot ran the media was all over the fact he was rich and used his own money. Perhaps we should vote in this country to use only media money for elections! The media might have a different idea then about attacking people for using their own money!

I guess Governor Romney has cleared the air on this one – if you want a 100% partisan politician for president, elect him! He certainly leaves no doubt that he will not attempt to build any type of governing coalition but will continue the practice of the Bush admnistration of keeping the nation divided into partisan camps.

So how many democrats would feel all warm and fuzzy if their candidate crossed party lines and chose a Republican running mate? My guess would be none.
Mitt is being honest about McCain's liberalism.

SHUT UP MITT! Excuse John McCain for being one of the only politicians in our country that will actually UNITE our country. Bi-partisanship is NEEDED so badly. FORGET party lines, I admire McCain for the fact that he crosses them. Romney is the WRONG choice. I hope Florida will see this, and give McCain the victory he deserves. I really cannot stand that lame, flip-flopping, one-term governor. AHH!
Go McCain!

Mitt doesn't think. There's a good headline. Hasn't the last seven years of not thinking been enough?

Dear Gregory from NYC,

You must not be married or you don't know about how John McCain treated his first wife.

I have been married now for 23 years... My husband has stuck with me through the good and the bad....

google Carol McCain and Cindy McCain, and then write back and explain why you think McCain is trustworthy and full of integrity.

go on do it... you will be shocked, I was

Mitt is the best guy you will ever meet!!!! i've been waiting for a president like him all my life

Guys .. you Republicans cannot complain as much as we Democrats with the Billary Clinton travesty ! If we nominate Billary Clinton it really does not matter who you pick in terms of winning. That would actually trump the mental obsucrity of electing King George II twice. The White House would remain Republican and nothing will change for another for years or longer because the Congress would be deadlock this way or the other.

With all due respect : OBAMA'08 and we can talk and start fresh !

I can't believe how easily people forget the past. Has anyone been listening to what McCain has been saying? Contrary to popular belief, McCain has been the one flinging mud! In the past week, I've seen desperate old McCain trying to take one stab after another to discredit Romney...it's because of false attacks of McCain and others that the public thinks that Romney is a flip-flopper.

Yes, Mitt has changed his views on a few items...but the difference is, that he is willing to explain why he has changed his mind. He doesn't lie about his past. Now contrast this to McCains view of things: McCain will look straight into the camera and deny words that came out of his own mouth. He swears that he never said he didn't know much about the economy...but HE SAID IT HIMSELF. I see McCain flip-flopping more than Romney! He used to be against the Bush tax cuts, now he wants to make them permanent! (just because now he sees that just being a vet isn't going to get him elected...the economy must be important now). Romney has been saying this the whole time.

For those of you that don't think Mitt will talk about any of his own plans...have you listened to any debates? Have you done ANY research? Just because the media tries to make a story about a small little comment that Romney made (that was true) doesn't mean that he just spreads mud! He talks about the issues more than any other candidate!

Yes, Mitt did participate in selling businesses and making money off of them...of course he did, he was in the private business sector! He was hired to do what was best for the business he did his job...and very well. I don't understand why people are trying to paint him as a selfish man! Throughout his business life he has seen companies go under (that's the free-enterprise system folks), but why don't people look at the number of jobs that Mitt has created as a result of his work...how many companies has he helped start...how many jobs has he created? But no...no one wants to look at that.

And yes, Mitt is spending his own money! Why does that concern anyone else other than him...he can spend it how he wants. Obviously he's not running for president for his own personal gain. While he was governor of MA, he didn't receive any money! He's not running for the money, he's running because he thinks he can change America for the better! Let him spend his money if he wants to. And for those of you that think he's just buying his way to the white house, why isn't Ron Paul doing well? Doesn't he have an enormous amount of money too? It's because there's more to Mitt...and the country is starting to see that.

Mitt started running because his family encouraged him to, he's running to make America better. Mitt makes promises AND HE KEEPS THEM!

The more I learn about Mitt, the more I like him. I hope people will just be able to see through the smoke that the media creates.

Mitt '08

I can't help but feel that the media is bias against Hillary.
It appears to me that you all refer to Sen. Clinton as the Clintons.
The fact that a man supports his wife should not be an issue.
the fact is Mr. Obama if white would not be considered to have the experience
to be President of our Country.
Yet you all fail to point out that Mr. Obama claimed he press the wrong button when voting in the Ill. Senate... What if he did this in the White House???

Ask Romney, apparently he thinks that the conservative agenda is set in stone and any deviation from the mindset is cause for villification.

Remember the war hero Bob Dole, Purple Heart WWII vet back in 1996?
The Dems and the media loved Dole in congress just like the dems like McCain in congress. However being liked by Kennedy and Feingold in congress and a war vet will not win against the Clintons or Obama/Oprah.

I am a democrat but I love Mccain.

Mccain in a republican trapped in a democrates body

obama 08 or hillary 08.

SHRILL BILL KILLS THE "HILL" THRILL!!

WHAT SAD THING.

RMILLER

Never trust those dirtbags all they do is to benefit themselves.

Mitt boy. They were Fellow Naval Officers something you don't understand because you never served, civilian!

What Romney said was ridiculous. It is exactly what is wrong with this country. Only a close minded, typical politician would laugh at the thought of a republican and a democrat running for President and Vice President together. All this talk of narrowing the gap and coming together as Americans and our potential leaders find it outlandish to even consider the idea of two people from different political parties running together. Would it also be outlandish for him to ask a Catholic to run with him? Or an African American? Must he not only be Republican but a white Mormon as well? Ridiculous.

Gene:

the media is leaving out ron paul because he CANNOT WIN! i dont know why you dont get that.. the republican party and its voters support the iraq war and the on going war on terror.. for an anti-war candidate to think he can win the republican nomination is absurd.. maybe he could win a general election, but there is NO WAY he could win the nomination..

I love these comment boards. They always show the full range of thoughts and emotions regarding our candidates. I see things all the time like "Mitt is GWB all over again" "Mitt is the best candidate out therel" and even "Mitt is liberal scum". It is amusing that each politician can be labeled in so many different ways. Where is the truth?

President Lincoln was a republican who choose a Demcrat (Andrew Johnson) as his running mate during his run for a second term. If you look it up Lincoln surrounded himself with people from all parties. And things word out pretty well for him. Maybe the country needs to bring back the idea of a shared office in order to get things done.

I feel like if you blindly choose someone from your party over someone who's better quailifed then you don't have what's best for the country in mind.

What's wrong with bipartisan politics?

Romney has flip-flopped on so many issues...abortion, gay rights, gun control, taxes (or fees), setting a date to leave Iraq, hillary-healthcare. The guy will say anything to get some votes. When he was running against Ted Kennedy, he boasted of being "pro-choice".

Yeah, Mitt, you should stop slamming McCain so you have a better chance of winnning ... because IF you get the GOP nomination you will most certainly lose. Yippee!!!

Look at the price of gas behind you Willard, that's the real problem. But, I was worth as much as you, I wouldn't give a farkle either.

The problem is with the Washington insiders!!!!

Mitt Romney is not a Washington insider like McLaim, Obama and Hillary

McLaim, Obama and Hillary they are part of the problem

You can not fix Washington just by having one of the Senators switch seats!!!!!

There is very little difference in the voting records of McLaim, Obama and Hillary.

Vote for Mitt Romney the person with executive experience.

Vote for Mitt Romney!!!!!!!!!!

Shawn,

Sorry, your comment "Remember Romney's Big Dig collapsing and killing a dozen people? is so untrue and ridiculous it's not even worth responding to.

Now, were where you Romney bashers when McCain suggested that Romney once supported a timetable for troop withdrawal? This statement was taken so out of context that even McCain knows it, but yet he has used the statement to manipulate voters. Looks to me McCain is becoming so desperate that he would say anything and everything to become a nominee. The fact is McCain is having a lot of difficulties of winning the heats of true conservative Republicans, thus, he cannot be the Republican nominee.

We'll have to wait and see what Florida brings to us tomorrow.

Careful Willard, don't jack with the veterans!

How does anybody take anything Herman Munster, er, I mean Mitt Romney says seriously. Before he entered the republican race for president, some of his positions were more liberal than Ted Kennedy (that's not an exageration, Mitt Romney said that himself when he was governor). I doubt he has any actual beliefs of his own, he just wants power for the sake of power, heck, if he loses this time, he'll probably switch parties and run as a democrat in 2012.

Just what we need......another 8 years of Bush disguised as McCain! We need a new direction, not a Senator that trades on being a war hero and essentially has done nothing of note. Rhetoric isn't cutting it McCain.

McCain is for:

Higher taxes.

Open borders and amnesty.

Eliminating free speech

What a guy!

Americans hate liars and fakes.

No matter whether you agree with McCain's views or not, he is simply more believable that Romney. It's the same thing with Obama – people feel they can trust him at his word. We already know how truthful the Clinton's are.

Would YOU trust Romney, given his history or policy changes. He's corrupted by his lust for power, just like Bill/Hill.

It appears that "straight talk" includes lying. Doesn't everyone get it. McCain is militaristic (in the besgt sense), but he's no Republican conservative.

McCain does steps into bipartisanship because he has no clear direction. He may be somewhat of a leader, but I for sure don't feel comfortable under his lead. It's ironic that he calls Romney a flip-flopper when he is actually a bigger one himself. He has swayed on the Bush tax-cuts, abortion, immigration, among other issues without any clear reason. He has a shallow understanding of the economy; he has even said so himself. He IS Washington. He's been there practically his entire adult life. To top it all off, he has a really bad temper. THIS IS WHY THE LEFT LOVE HIM! THEY CAN BEAT HIM!

Here's yet another reason to reject the republicans. They're so partisan and arrogant. They're not the least bit interested in working together for what's best for America. I hope as many of them as possible get thrown out of office this November which would be the best thing that could possibly happen to this country. THEN they'll suddenly be wanting to "work together" but by then it'll be too late!

Romney, you're just a LIAR and hyprocrite!! You should reread that book of Mormon!

LIAR!!!!!! It will be a pleasure to see you eat crow when you have to concede the nomination to John McCain, LIAR!!!!

As a Democrat, I hope Romney gets the nomination.
He will be incredibly easy to defeat!!!!

The "real conservatives" don't like McCain because he supports "amnesty for illega ls".

Of course, you folks have yet to suggest how we're going to deport the 20+ million people who are already here. Maybe Mitt can summon whatever sinister mormon spook he worships and make them all go away?

Wow, a pretend bomber snuck a bomb onto an airport. McCain is friends with Kerry.

I'm beginning to think about voting for Mitt in Florida....

Romney actually thinks he can be President? How cute.

McCain is more of a flip flopper than anyone running in either party...

"I voted against the Bush tax cuts.... oh, wait a minute, I'm for the tax cuts and they should be made permant.

Illegal immigrants should not be deported, should be given preferential treatment over immigrants trying to come into this country legally, and illegal immigrants should be given social security, medacaid, food stamps, and other US government entitlements... oh, wait a minute, illegal immigrants should be deported, made to get in line like the other immigrants trying to get into our country legally, and illegal immigrants should not get any US government entitlements...

I don't know anything about the economy... oh, wait a minute, I'm a foremost expert on the economy... DARN IT, Why did Ron Paul ask me a question during the last debate about the economy, doesn't he know that I don't know anything about the economy and I am going to look like a dishonest fool?"

Stop censoring my comments

I think Romney would do better running as the next president of the lds church. He is a bored millionaire looking for a place to do useful work. Politics isn't his bag. He should take advantage of the opening there exists now as head of the lds church

Romney reminds me of a Scientologist.

Arrogant in his perceived superiority of "knowing" what the truth is.

This guy is a condescending jerk. The humor I derive out of this is how quickly he's changed his views but then tries to portray himself as a man of integrity. I doubt highly he was an ethical businessman.

The only thing he has proven to me is that he is comfortable playing in the mud. He is the epitome of what is wrong with this country. He's as opportunistic as Hillary.

Let me get this straight: McCain is inconsistent for being appealing to a wide range of people (very popular with independents, most Democrats like him even if they would not vote for him) but Romney isn't for, well, changing his positions on social issues? The man ran for Senate on the platform that he'd be better at providing gay rights than Ted Kennedy (read that again if you're voting Romney for his "conservative values") then decided he would try to align himself with President Bush (a peculiar strategy to say the least). After Barack Obama won Iowa, Romney became "the candidate of change" (he does change his positions quite a bit, in all fairness). Now that McCain, for better or worse the antithesis of change in this election, is running well, Romney wants to epitomize old Washington again.

If John Kerry could lose an election merely by being called a flip-flopper, Romney would be annihilated by having a long and glorious history of flip-flopping.

Look at everyone bashing Mitt Romney.

I guess they all have decided that Obamas best shot is against fossilized liberal John Mc Cain. And they are right. Thus, beat down romney. Except this is an OMABA – I mean democratic- news source. So it is irrelivant what they say against Romney.

Go Mitt!

John McCain is a national hero. But I don't trust the guy anymore than I can throw him at this point. And any notion of him wanting to join in with commie Kerry rubs me the wrong way.

McCain should be debating Hillary and Obama in the primaries. He's a RINO... Republican In Name Only. He was against the Bush tax cuts. Worked to keep conservative judges off the bench. Was in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens. Was a member of the Keating five. He's no conservative. Doesn't understand economics. Plus he's old, mean and very bitter. Just say no to McCain.

I find it funny that you "real conservatives oppose McCain because he supports finishing the job that we started in Iraq. First you imbeciles supported sending your own sons and daughters (or in the case of the millionaires amongst you - other peoples' sons and daughters) to Iraq to fight and die under OBVIOUSLY false pretenses. And now that you've finished making a mess of not only our country - but theirs as well - you want us to leave.

You claimed that the goal was to take a "breeding ground for international terrorists" and stabilize it. Instead, as it turns out, what's happening is that you're taking a country that has now been proven to be a stable country during the pre-invasion years, and leave it a breeding ground for international terrorists.

Perhaps Bush's plan all along was to help his boyfriend Osama Bin Laden, and his band of wahabi psychopaths in the Saudi royal family, by unseating their swarn enemy Saddam Hussein.

Somebody needs to ask Mitt just one question, what does a loaf of bread cost or a gallon of gas.

Mr. Economy won't be able to answer, he is so far out of the mainstream he isn't the correct choice.

He probably still thinks his dad marched with Dr. King and that people really did like the Pcer and Gremlin...

I laugh when people state that Romney is a hawk who cannot work across the aisle.

He actively worked across the aisle, when he was the Republican Governor of an overwhelmingly democratic state (MA), in pushing through legislation that drew them away from their prior spend-and-tax background to a more fiscally disciplined situation. A completely messed up state was turned around, by the time he left MA.

A Republican and Democrat, working TOGETHER for the benefit of the whole country rather than one party? The horror! The horror!

McCain want to bomb Iran and stay in Iraq for 100 years. McCain want to get interest rate to zero. McCain want all the illeagal immigrants to stay in this country and leagal immigrants who can vote do not support it. How secure could our country be with him in power???

Isn't it funny how Mitt Romney can make a simple statement and have the media blow it all out of proportion and call it mudslinging. If you read the quote Mitt Romney said, he was just stating fact.

In the last debate, McCain said he is a true conservative. Wrong.

Mitt isn't flip flopping on this one! I admire someone who will admit he was wrong in a decision and change his mind for the better good. If that's what flip flopping is, then more of us should try it. The world would be a better place!

Ron Paul is the only worthwhile and honest candidate on the Republican ticket.

Let Mitt Romney and John McCain quarrel over their pomous views and methods to misdirect this nation. If you want integrity and principle, vote Ron Paul.

If we elect a liberal statist like Mccain or Huckabee our party will never be the same. At least Romney says he's on our side, the others don't even bother.

Interesting that Mitt thinks bipartisanship in dealing with the country's problems is laughable.

Mitt Romney is a Mitt-wit. He panders to every potential voter .

I am a military officer voting for Romney because I think the biggest issues facing this nation are economic. I do have to admit that this comment is dumb however...reaching across party lines is the only way we will become an economic power again.

Wow. If taking dirty money out of politics and looking for ways to conserve energy is "unrepublican", i'm afraid to hear what being Republican is.

If you want this Independents vote going elsewhere, nominate Romney as the Republican candidate for President.

Mitt is buying the GOP nomination. But hey, I always say I do not make enough money to be a republican. It will be McCain for the GOP, because as the Huckabee's and others leave the race they will support McCain. No body on the trail like Mitt because he has been throwing mud at all of them and they hate him for his dirty adds. But, hey, he is only following the GOP playbook written by Nixon and K-K-K-Karl Rove!!!

I have to chuckle at those that hold McCain in hight regard for "crossing party lines" for the good of the country. PLEASE! the amnesty bill was for the good of this country. go stick your heads back in the sand.

even if you don't agree with mccain on his positions (war, immigration, etc.) he seems more honest than romney... i don't know how much that matters to people anymore though

If Romney thinks that teaming up with a Democrat to do some good for the country is a bad thing, then clearly he is NOT the kind of leader this country needs. Governor Romney, Democrats are not the enemy.

sorry McCain, but you would be a walking disaster as POTUS. your past clearly shows that. not that mitt is much better. we need more people to look closer at Dr. Paul if this country wants to still exist.

Is this any worse than McCain lieing about Romneys view on a time table???I should say not.and did you see McCains straight talk yesterday stating that there would be "more wars"as if he is chomping at the bit to go to war with Iran.McCain scares the heck out of me.The next president has to have the experience of conservative principals to get the books back in order and to protect us from the democratic congress who can't wait to tax us to our eyeballs.Our next president will also have to be a level headed person who can keep a cool head in a time of crisis.John Mccain is not that man.

I am getting concerned over McCain's infatuation with war combined with his headstrong anger. SCARY! I keep hearing him repeat WAR WAR WAR!
To me this is much more serious than his lack of understanding of the economy and not being a fiscal conservative.

You are who you write legislation with:
McCain/Kennedy
McCain/Feingold
McCain/ Lieberman

Tha's seals it for me.
Go Mit!!

The reason for leaving out Ron Paul is he is not Black or a Female. Does not have millions in the bank, and has not run for office in the past. His views are opposite of a Democrate. Ron Paul is the liberals worst enemy. You know that. If McCain were to win that would be fine with the media and bleeding heart liberals. All you will hear is the first women in office or our first black president. The media will love the public for the next 4 years.

MCCAIN IS A NATIONAL TRAITOR TO OUR PARTY AND TO OUR COUNTRY.
HE WAS A SQUEALER IN VIETNAM.

HE SHOULD BE ARRESTED AND TRIED NOT ELECTED.

ROSS PEROT SAID NO SELF-RESPECTING SERVICEMAN WOULD EVEN SIT AT A TABLE WITH HIM, LET ALONE ELECT HIM, AND THAT HE WILL BE VOTING FOR MITT ROMNEY WHEN THE VOTE COMES TO TEXAS.

VOTE AGAINST MCCAIN.

ROMNEY IS OUR ONLY SHOT TO BEAT HIM IN FLORIDA

Liberals and RINOs like John McCain talks about uniting American people. However, their definition of unity is an unity under the radical religion of liberalism where all the compromises has to come from conservatives.

One of the greatest impact a President has it to nominate judges to the supreme court. McCain cannot be trusted with his Maverick style. Who knows who he will nominate.

Mitt scares me with his desire for power. He will say anything, change any previous position, because of his desire for power. That should be a red flag for people. Same goes for Hillary on the other side. Plus, what happens if its a democratic Congress? Nothing would get done, because Mitt would be unwilling to negotiate, at least until flip flops again.

Now, I don't like Mitt Romney at all. I think that if anyone votes for him they are not only stupid but in no way a true conservative. I think that if he gets the nomination, it doesn't say much about those who voted for him because he just wants to be Bush 4.0. That said, I actually want him to get the nomination because I truly believe he stands about as big a chance against Barack Obama as the Miami Dolphins did against the Patriots. The message he is sending by this press release is that he will not even try working with Democrats across the aisle. Not only will this be destructive for the country, the man will get absolutely nothing done (see Jimmy Carter). Barack Obama would debate circles around Romney with a message of uniting the country while the Mormon candidate preaches to divide it even more.

I could actually live with a Romney presidency however here he is grasping straw. This arguement will be precieved as weak and negative! Did MCCain become Kerry's running mate? No! Case closed!

It's unfortunate to hear the candidates dismiss the idea that Republicans and Democrates can work together on making the country a better place. Candidates clearly believe it's more important to stay 100% comitted to their own party rather than working with all parties involved as a united group. This is the United States of America, right? It's not the Republican States of America, or The Democratic States of America. Why can't these candidates be bold enough to encourage togetherness amongst parties? This country will continue to be a division.

Only one man can bring true unity, and is not afraid to be open and honest.

Barack Obama.

Romney. Ugh. He's upbraiding McCain for being an UNPREDICTABLE conservative because he once considered signing on to John Kerry's presidential ticket??? What does that even mean? So, I take it's desirable to be a predictable conservative, is that right? Sheesh, I never understood all this conservative nonsense anyway, seems like a big race to the bottom of the gene pool to me.

So, John-John and John-Boy have been caught with their hands in the same cookie jar. Way to go Mitt. We want to learn more about the two Johns.

Ted Kennedy and John Kerry: Talk about Washington to the core and liberals and lobbyists best friends. If Obama wants to surround himself with people like this how can he call himself a moderate that can appeal to all types of people and an outsider? Give me a break.

John McCain is a self-engrossed nerfherder. The guy says Romney is a flip-flopper but all he has ever done himself is try and look important and some comittee.

I am sick of his constant exploitation of the military for his political advantage. I am as conservative as they come and I will vote for Obama before John McCain. If its Hillary vs. McCain, then I'll be writing in my vote.

Curious that the Clinton News Network home page has absolutely NOTHING at this time (11:45 am) concerning the biggest break in the political season so far – Kennedy's endorsement of Obama. Hmmm...

GO FIGURE!

Well I'm from the North – but I'd think Dick Cheney's Daughter supporting Romney
should give Americans all the information on Romney they need. Ahhhh Bush Clone comes to my mind. And I really can't see anyone closely connected to the Bush Administration would be a good thing for America.

Using Rovian political strategies is more proof Romney is Bush-warmed-over.

Good for McCain in going across the aisle attempting to get things done that are important to the American people and not worrying about how that may look. I am a democrat who will vote for McCain. Romney is an idiot for suggesting that McCain is not a true republican.

I think a Kerry/McCain ticket would have been great. So much better than what we have today.

I have more respect for the two guys who served their country instead of another "chicken hawk." Kerry and McCain would have been a better ticket than what we ended up with. Romney sounds desperate to me.

Romney has been playing fair politics in Florida. Then John McCain comes around and tries to change the subject by attacking Romney's stance on Iraq. Romney has been defending himself. Romney has been focused on the issues. McCain and Huckabee continue to shoot out personal attacks. McCain is desperate and can't stand losing the GOP nomination again.

I am not a fan of republicans for this reason exactly. Romney is actually attacking McCain because he is open minded? Yes he has leberal friends, because GUESS WHAT? you need people from both sides of the aisle to get anything done. It is not a negative.

Does any of this even matter? The Democrats are going to take the White House anyway.

Romney , talks about the truth all the time. Why don't he tell us the truth one time,

So far ,he has spent a lot of $$$ to try an buy the white House. Now he may pick E KENNEDY. The two would make A great ticket , Then Obama for a suprem Court Justice.

Lets stop the Bull. Time for a change, an some one that supports our troops. An has been out there in the field.

Just say a good word once , Mc Cain , Hucklebee would do everyone proper.

An I am an independant. Tell you right now , No Obama, or Romney.

This stuff is too, too funny............ Romney vs. McCain: an ongoing duel of wits between unarmed opponents! This sort of comedy is what makes the Republicans unthinkable as contenders.

Why are all of the media leaving out Ron Paul?

Romney was pointing out something reported in the news last spring about McCain considering becoming a democrat and the 2 running together. McCain denied, but HIS OWN strategist confirmed there was some discussion but then he dropped it.

I am QUITE sure Romney has not gotten where he has WITHOUT LISTENING to the ideas of others. He doesn't want "yes" men around him....he likes to figure out what's wrong and get it fixed. Unfortunately, there are TOO many politicians in WA who are of the "good 'ole boy" and "you scratch mine and I'll scratch your back" fraternities!! I appreciate that McCain has tried to not be mainstream, but he's still waaaaaaaay to liberal for me and MANY Americans. But MOST IMPORTANTLY he is IGNORING the economy right now in favor of Iraq. I want SOMEONE who can get/keep our economy strong/solid SO THAT WE can get PREPARED militarily and financially for any future terrorist attacks that McCain insists are inevitable!

Mitts a mess. He has never served and has 5 able bodied sons who have never served and he thinks he can motivate the country's youth to give back to their country? McCain is wrong on the mistake of a war in Iraq but Mitt and his 5 sons apparently lack the right equipment down below to be considered men.

Negative politics is wonderful because is shows how little these guys care about the big picture (jobs, schools, health care, national defense) and continue to focus on the childish details (he said, she said) that matter to absolutely no one. If this was the only article I had to read about Romney, my opinion would be that he is a cry baby, and is not presidential material. How about using every opportunity to tell Americans how you will improve the US.

Good grief -

McCain is for:

Higher taxes.

Open borders and amnesty.

War without end.

What a guy!

Yes, because thinking about not supporting a president who has caused needless death and who has committed treasonable offenses against the Constitution is a bad thing.

Thank you Mitt Romney for making my decision a LOT easier. According to Romney:

- McCain is willing to work across party lines
- Romney will maintain Washington's divisiveness
- McCain is willing to make thoughtful decisions for the best of the country
- Romney is prone to make snap decisions without any thought to get elected

Put me down for John McCain. I was undecided, but after this past week I can't understand why ANYONE would support Mitt!

What a slimeball... hurry up and let this guy lose so I never have to hear of him again.

We are not ready to kiss and make up yet, after what Bush did to Democrats and the US, a lot of appologies are in order.

...and Republicans just don't seem to know how to appologize, so when the Democrats take all three Houses, and hopefully those pro corporate, anti-American justices Scalia and Thomas retire from the supreme court we can put this country in the path it should have stayed. Maybe then we will forgive the Republicans for the sins they have commited.

Right now we just have to stop the Republicans from digging a bigger hole.

McCain is a laim duck, and Romney will not get elected president of the US in a 1000 years.

Please Florida, don't put a liberal McCain on your ballots. He's not the conservative image we need for the Republican party. It's time to mend the party, not further splinter it. McCain as the GOP nominee will make a disaster of the Republican party. When you consider the likelihood that Huckabee COULD be the VP if McCain get the nomination, the Republican party will not look like the party this country needs.

A president able to reach across the political divide and get things done in Washington DC? No, no, no, nothing but that!!!

Why attack Mitt when he is pointing out non-republican stances of McCain? This is a republican nominee process, correct? John McCain is so out of touch with the American reality that someone does need to point this out. It was McCain recently that said the economy is strong, does that sound like reality to anyone? It was McCain that said our troops should stay for decades in Iraq. Does that sound like the interest of America is being represented? Face it, Mitt is the strongest and best candidate for the Republican party. At least Mitt talks of reality and recognizes that the economy is in trouble and has a plan to counter the recession looming overhead. At least Mitt knows that our troops need to stay in Iraq until it is strong enough to survive on its own and then bring our troops home. That is a plan that will win over the terrorist that have declared war on us.

Ain't it telling that Mitt Romney is despised by the one and only electorate he has ever served?

Our country needs leaders who can effectively practice bipartisan leadership. Had John McCain joined John Kerry on the ticket in 2004 I would have voted for that ticket. To suggest that you are not willing to work with leaders from other parties is not the type of leadership we need in my view. Too bad Mitt.

McCain and Romney are both accurate- both ARE liberal democrats. A brief examination of the records is indicative of this. Republicans need to wake up and think for themselves instead of following the biased media. Gov. Huckabee is the only Republican candidate who can motivate the voters to a victory in November. The media is brainwashing the voters toward candidates that will be defeated. Shame!

Want four more years of Bush-Cheany-Rove and Rumsfeld – vote for Romney

Romney seems to be more and more similar to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Fast on the draw but very loose with the truth. You would almost think they were kin. Like most mormons, he can't stoop too low to get what he wants and anyone in his way can be wasted.

Too bad he doesn't remember the important lesson of "Not all the voters are as stupid as the politicians give them credit for."

I cannot put into words how much I dislike the Clintons, however, I would GLADLY vote for her before voting for this schmuck (Romney).

There is a good reason that all of his fellow candidates loathe EVERYTHING about him. Most in the press share the same disdain.

It is not because he is Mormon, only the fringe element (social conservatives) have problems with that. The problem with Romney is his absolute lack of character. The fact that he COMPLETELY changed his views right before the campaign to appeal to conservatives is laughable until one watches how he shamelessly tries to explain it. This guy has no shame and only those completely in the dark (or those Christian conservative voters who are so desperate to find someone who will fight against abortion and gay marriage, even if he did just take on the views to get their votes) would be duped by this sham.

If he were to somehow defeat McCain it would ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE a win for the Democratic party in the November elections. There is NO question on that front.

Romney is a total sellout. He truly would say anything to get elected. And he'd make Bush seem like a great president he's so incompetent.

Remember Romney's Big Dig collapsing and killing a dozen people?

Why aren't Mitt Romney's sons serving in Iraq?

Sure theres a connection, they are both purple heart recipients and Mitt?
I don't agree with Mccain on Iraq, i think we should work to get out of there before al-queda succeeds in bleeding this country dry, BUT these yuppie warriors with no DD-214 to show, are the ones that got us into this mess to begin with.
Mccain just states the obvious.

Yes, right Nick. It's far better to be a "real Republican" that appoints judges that hate unions, ship millions of jobs overseas and put nurses and truckdrivers in higher taxbrackets than Warren Buffet and Paris Hilton.

I would have taken John Kerry of the ruinious "real Republican" Bush in a heartbeat and so would anyone who isn't a billionaire and isn't insane.

January 28, 2008 10:53 am ET

Lieberman
Kerry
Feingold
Kennedy
Clinton

Friends of McCain !

Fact !

Romney and McCain = Dumb and Dumber.

Now here's a guy who will say anything and stoop to any low in order to get elected.

Both of these candidates are panderers, flip-floppers, and have political skeletons in the closet just like the leading Democratic candidates. At the end of the day we need to pick the candidate we think will do the better job. When I hear McCain speak, I hear more war and a bad economy. When I hear Romney speak, I hear talk of a stronger economy, and a strong military. I'm not crazy about any of the candidates, but I think Romney is the best choice.

Is this really how CONSERVATIVES & REPUBLICANS think?

They make it sound as if collaborating with a Democrat is some sort of high treason!

What the hell?!!

It's funny how often Romney flip-flops!...I hope that the media is able to keep a tally on how often he changes his message.

When Barack won Iowa, Mitt Romney was the one that got on the "change" bandwagon and vowed to create a new majority–reaching across party lines to fix what he calls our "broken government"....

His comments about a speculated Kerry/McCain ticket show how POLARIZING this guy really is!!

He has NO interest in working with Democrats!

What an idiot!

I'm voting for Obama, but if I had to vote Republican, it would definitely be McCain!!...

So Mitt would draw a line in the sand and say since I'm a conservative I will not tolerate any other ideas.
This is not the kind of President America needs..
America needs a president that will heal the rift created by the last 7 years of that kind of thinking.

By the way, Mitt don't forget John McCain accepts the endorsement of Joe Leiberman who we all know is a Democrat who calls himself an Independent. Pretty outrageous that people work together. Isn't it?

Romney digging on McCain for being toi close to Kerr y is sort of ironic, considering that Mr. Romney is the blueblooded former governer of MA who has adopted Kerr y's former penchant for looking like a lifesize Ken doll, giving boring inspiratio nless speeches, and flipflopping on every issue imaginable.

"Anyone (meaning McCain) who could be considered a running mate for John Kerry, isn't a Republican. Isn't even close"

This is the kind of thinking that is at the root of the governments inability to get anything done. John McCain and Barack Obama are the only candidates that even have a chance of getting people to work together.

Hey Mitt – you are the best for the job – McCain is running a desperate campaign!

I think that Romney is the best bet in the presidental elections. If you want someone that is for once going to do what they say then Romney is the person to do it. I feel that Romney is not in it for the power but to make the difference for the nation. When it comes to politics you need to be on one side or the other because when there is mixed lines things get shadey and tha tis the last thing that the United States need>

Romney you have our whole family on your side!!

If Mitt Romney were any phonier, is picture would be on Monopoly money! I can't believe so many people are actually fooled by this pandering liar! I'd sooner stay home on election day than vote for a fraud like Romney!

Have to love that picture of Romney and the Texaco sign. Award-winning.

Hey it would be a good thing for this country to have a Democrat/Republican on a joint ticket. I am so sick of the bickering and bipartisan "DO NOTHING" people in the White House and Congress.

What's up with the picture of him standing at a gas station? That says to me that Romney loves big oil.

Also, his criticism of McCain for Democratic ties shows just how partisian Romney's campaign is. We as a nation have had enough bickering! Bipartisan, or no partisan!

ABC and ABRM (Anybody but Clinton and Anybody but Romney or McCain)

Mitt should stay in the private sector. He is a rich elitist who wouldn't pee on any of you if you were on fire. He would not be a horrible president, but I think he and Hillary sink themselves with talk of fighting the other party. At least Obama and McCain show that they are willing to cross party lines.

I am sure Mitt is great at turning around failing businesses and all that (just lay everyone off til you get in the black, right?) but as president, he is out of touch with most of us. He strikes me as a "stay the course" GOP snob.

Imagine a candidate thinking of himself as an American first. Imagine an America where Red and Blue are just colors on the flag. If more of our "leaders" would consider working together as Americans rather than against each other as conservatives and liberals imagine what our country could do.

Please Florida...send Mitt Romney back to whatever dark and divisive world he came from select a Republican who can unite our once United States of America.

OK Mitt, enough of the Dem's style of candidiate bashing. We are better than that. If you don't feel like your winning, bashing other candidates is not the way to make yourself look better. Stick to the facts of what your going to do with regards to the issues our country faces.

It's forward thinkers like Mitt that has this country in the economic shape it's in today .

Well if we have learned something about the McCain in his polititcal life is that if you beat him enpugh he becomes your lap dog, Bush proved that, now if Ronmney can only do that.

Either way they will get trounced by Democrats in the national election.

What a good comment from Anonymous. I could not agree with you more!

Too bad Romney never served in uniform, as a Vietnam vet, I understand that you could be either a conservative or liberal and still share the same concerns for the future of this country. At least McCain and Kerry share some common ground which is more than any of the current crop of canidates can say.

Bipartisanship is good I agree, but with Kerry? He is an extremist (communist)!

Did anyone in FL watch the debates last week and can now say they do not know Mitt Romney very well and still think it is really bad that MItt is willing to invest his own money?
Mitt said in the last debate that he does not owe anyone (lobbyist) any favors for giving him money which is true. Mitt is a Washington outsider unlike McCain so think about who really wants McCain to go against the Clintons. The answer is the dems, the media and the lobbyist. Why McCain, because you are a democrat? Let's be honest the people on this board for McCain are either dems or lobbyist that want a washington insider.
The Florida primary is Republican-only. That's a roadblock for McCain. McCain won in NH and SC because of liberal independents. Romney is winning the Republican base.

Mitt Romney has no problem working with democrats on policies that will better the future of America. If you are asking if Mitt Romney will get in bed with the Democrats on liberal issues that will continue to destroy America...9like McCain has done on many issues) I think the answer is no. if you are looking for true Conservative change then Mitt Romney is the only true conservative on the ballot.

Don't forget that McCain has continued to this day to support Amnesty (even though he doesn't call it Amnesty, that is exactly what it is). McCain has continued to say that the American people were wrong. McCain wants to become President to push HIS views when in office, not the consensus of the American people. Watch out for his deceivings.

Please vote for honesty, truth, integrity, economic prosperity, security in our great Nation...vote for Romney.

I am a staunch Democrat. So please vote for Romney. Although McCain is about as dry as toast and puts me to sleep whenever he speaks, I do know that he is a man of integrity and means what he says. Romney and Clinton on the other hand will flip flop faster than house slippers and hang their mouths where ever the soup is hottest. Obama and McCain should be the two nominees. At least that way no matter who wins America will get a leader of principle and vision. I for one am pulling really hard for Obama, but if McCain wins I won't leave for Canada (so long as Lieberman is not on the ticket with him).

So basically Mitt's point is that he won't listen to the liberals. Worked for W, don't see why it won't for the Mittster. This guy looks too much like a politician to actually be one.

I am so tired of Romney working so hard to give misleading information on his fellow Republican candidates. He has spent more time talking negatively about others and less time talking about himself. I can't vote for someone like him. He is more concerned with taking stabs at others than showing a positive outlook for his own campaign. He is obviously not feeling secure about his chances if he has to keep running negative attacks against other people.

Well, in his defense, it would be a foolish decision to have the other party as your running mate for 2 reasons. 1) He takes over if you don't finish your terms and 2) He decides tie votes in the Senate. So you're giving the opposing party quite a bit of power and potentially the next presidency (if that's how the nation goes). However, I definitely agree that it is not something to condemn McCain for doing because opposing views in the white house is very important (and what's missing from this administration). And why would a Republican think that having a Republican in the white house (even as VP) is a bad thing? He's in the white house!!! He's reasonable in that he wouldn't want a dem. as his running mate but just stupid comment in general... weak attack... pathetic

The Republican party is a Grand Ol' JOKE right now! Romney is probably the ONLY real candidate. The others are just props and straw-men – especially John McCain!! Seems like he ALWAYS pops up just to shake things up and then he fades into the background like he was never there! Mit Romeny is the only Republican (besides Ron Paul) who would stand a chance in Hell against Hill or Obama.
BTW, Ron Paul continues to blow the rest of the candidates away -DESPITE Amerika's corporate facist media attempts to blacklist him.
The REAL American presidential race is taking place on the streets of the REAL America. The Revolution will definitely NOT be televised!

Hey Mitt,any of your old war buddies talk to you about trying to heal a country that's been torn apart almost as bad as in the 60's ? I guess you'd rather go for the 50.0001 % political victory & play to peoples differances a la Karl Rove.

I don't think you can run for office these days without mudslinging. The guy (or girl, God forbid) who sits back and plays nice will get destroyed in any election or office. I hate it but it is a fact. I keep trying to only look at the issues and those point me to Romney. As far as Hillary, she lost me the day she decided to stand by her cheating husband. She sold out and that sends a message that women can't survive and thrive on their own accord. Show me a woman who is strong and genuine and I will consider her. At least Romney seems to have integrity.

Yeah, more partisanship! That's really changing Washington, right Mitt-the-flip-flopper?

Romney is ridiculously incompetant. To push mandated universal health care in his state and then to call someone else, "Not Republican" is the most laughable thing I have heard in a while. I happen to think he and McCain are not Republicans in the traditional sense, but how can he say something that is extremely stupid and expect people to vote him President...or wait, George W. Bush is giving the State of the Union address tonight.

I commend McCain for considering getting on the ticket with Kerry. I still would not have voted for Kerry, but what a way to say, "I'm a uniter, not a divider."

This comment coming from a man that has made his MILLIONS of dollars from PEOPLE LOOSING their jobs! Sure Mitt is a great business man, but asking the THOUSANDS of people that lost jobs while Mitt made millions from the Leverage Buy Outs he did!

Mitt will SAY and DO ANYTHING to get elected people! Come one look at the facts over the years.

Romney..........Please don't go there. It's NOT worth it. McCain is a Maverick who cannot be predicted, plus he believes in Amnesty. The country realizes this. Stay away from such petty controversy! Besides, you are above it. You'll win anyway.

How can you call someone who wastes millions of their own money for a loss in Iowa and New Hampshire fiscally conservative? It does seem odd that a business man would spend that kind of money without hoping to get it back somehow. Presidency doesn't pay that well, legally anyway.

As McCain pointed out, Romney is one of the worst governors this state has ever seen. I hope to God he will never be president.

Does Romney wear his "flip flops" to bed?

This article Just made me consider voting for McCain.

John McCain wasn't "reaching across party lines” people, he was trying to position himself. Remember, McCain was the one that initiated this move!!! This is what a lifetime in Washington will do for you. A career politician isn't what we need. I'm voting for Mitt.

Ahh.. .the Yacht salesman speaks again. He who accuses Hillary Clinton of being out of step with Americans. But, of course, Mitt is right in step with them (NOT!)

What a pathetic joke this guy is. But given his Richie Rich status, we have to continue to listen to his incessant drivel, self-serving comments, and plain outright lies.

I think the point is that McCain does not represent Republican ideals when he votes for issues that are liberal in nature. By definition a Republican does not support Democrat party ideals. There is supposed to be a distinction between the two. I think McCain is a good man. I also think Guliani is a good man. I think they should both run for the independent nomination, because neither of them supports Republican platform issues. My guess is that those that are writing as if they support the fact that McCain is not following conservative ideologies are in fact liberals that would love to see him drag the Republican party down. I also do not believe there is anything wrong with pointing out an opponents voting history. If this is mud slinging, let them sling mud.

Romney is 110% phoney

Romney is becoming less and less trustworthy. Why does he not talk about himself? He seems to be desperate now. Bush has an MBA and some business background. What good is that anyway? It is better to have a guy who reach across party lines rather than a flip flopper like Romney.

Are we getting tired of this yet? Is this the kind of childish sniping that we want from those who want the most important job in the world?

Where is all the media attention for John McCain's attacks? One month ago, John McCain sayed he would never attack the other candidates for President. He lied. While Romney has discussed differences in issues. John McCain has attacked Romney's personality, made up stories such as Romney supporting a troop withdrawl from Iraq, and McCain has fed the media with attacks on Romneys values. In my estimation, John McCain is pulling the same unethical trickery that the Democrats have been using in their campaigns. To me John McCain is moderate Democrat disguised as a Republican. Don't be fooled by his lies. MCain – Kennedy, McCain-Feingold, The Gang of 14, etc., etc.

The only true man of conviction and honesty here is Mitt Romney. The only true conservative in this race is Mitt Romney. The only person to get my vote...Mitt Romney.

It seems like CNN has ran a story like this already once before. Just like last time, comments were taken out of context to make Romney look like a dweeb.

While I support neither of these candidates, let's read between the lines of what is really being said here. John McCain is willing to work with people of both parties, while Mitt is not.

Romney's arrogance and unwillingness to compromise makes him the embodiment of everything wrong with politics today.

His comments in this article are distasteful, and frankly, nauseating.

Mitt is just creepy. Did you see the video on You Tube? "Who let the dogs out?"
Mitt is so out of touch! Is it November yet? Maybe someday the moderators will ask the candidates to fully answer questions. None of the GOP candidates responded to the lives lost in Iraq. They only said the surge is working and we would be safer. We should send their kids over there asap.

ANYONE/ELSE 2008

I wonder if candidates like Romney realize that the young people of America aren't hung up on labels such as conservative or liberal? In many ways these overly advertised labels represent the many of the problems with government and the lack of compromise and true statesmanship. I'm may not vote McCain but I do admire how he does what he can to break the gridlock and step outside the labels to get things done.

GOP get a clue!!!! We are giving a golden ticket to Hilary or Obama by selecting McCain as our candidate! They will tear him apart. Not only does he look aged and tired but so do his policies and ideas.

Why do you think all the liberal news outlets are selecting McCain as their pick? Because they know he doesn't stand a chance against the democrats.

I agree we need a change but why pick insiders (Hilary, McCain)? When I pick a candidate I want a smart, business-savvy, well spoken, and all around good person. I'll take Romney or Obama over the alternative any day.

Lieberman
Kerry
Feingold
Kennedy
Clinton

Friends of McCain !

Fact !

Sounds like Romney doesn't want to be President of the United States, just of the Republicans.

Those are exactly the things I like about McCain, the fact that he can work with Democrats! We do NOT need another ultra-conservative closed-minded Republican like Romney! We need someone who can work with the idiotic two party sytem and maybe get something done. I'm a Republican, have been most of my life, but I can't stand how the two parties maintain their biases. Give us someone like McCain or even McCain/Huckabee in a pinch...thought I think McCain/Obama would be pretty dang cool. Dump the two party system and get some people in the top office who can THINK!

Romney is getting desperate. He is nervocus that the $40 million plus of his own money to buy this election is going up in smoke. Wait til Jan. 31st when he has to report how much he has spent.....I hope the press has a field day on him right before Super Tuesday.

This sort of attack shows how arrogant Romney really is!

Crossing lines is one thing, but being a VP to one of the most liberal politicians is something else. People need to know who McCain is. He's not conservative and my guess is most people suggesting that it would helpful for McCain and Kerry to run together are not conservative either.

Kerry said it was actually McCain's surrogates who floated the notion.

"His people…approached me to engage in a discussion about his potentially being on the ticket as vice president," Kerry said. "So his people were active — let's put it that way."

Mamma mia !

McCaine is a democrat !

The Mittster is getting desperate. Stories like this show that he's really just an empty suit with nothing to offer this country but four more years of misery – a blow-hard with no new ideas who will say and/or do whatever he needs to in order to pander for votes.

Mitt Romney should not even be elected dog catcher. Because he'd tie all the dogs to the roof of his dog catcher wagon.....

Romney may take it all

If Hillary gets the Nomination

Hillary voted for war with Iraq
Hillary voted for war with Iran 2007 (She did not learn from Experience)
Hillary Economic Stimulus was off the mark, then changed it???

Obama's Stimulus plan was on the mark with Congress.

Hillary is now pimping the LAtino Vote as she was the Affrican Americans'. Now, South Carolina White and African Americans and some latinos have rejected her old status quo race baiting style of politics.

Besides her anti Democratic votes mentioned above, do we as a country want a divider or a uniter?

Who has the most to gain in either position?

Obama 08, the ((United)) States Candidate.

Look where we are now being divided in many ways.

Want more of?

Obama 08

McCain is a snake. How can anyone forget how after being beaten down with lies and smeers in SC in 2000... there was McCain, siding right with Bush. McCain got in line... now it's too little, too late. Vote Democrat.

funny that a man who doesn't possess a single convinction he wouldn't surrender for political expediency (and, more importantly, his personal ambition) should criticize someone like john mccain. after excoriating john kerry for being a "flip flopper" in 2004, i cannot conceive of how the republican party could run someone like mitt romney without losing all credibility.

Please people stop this nasty Mitt Romney!!! He is the guy who tells you things only to get vote. He is the guy who "acts" like the conservative but in the end he is not.

We don't need another George W Bush!!!

So the Democrats are arguing about who the better uniter is, and the Republicans are arguing about who the better Republican is? Apparently the Republican definition of non-partisan is "everyone agrees that the conservatives were right all along". Although with the way Bush has handled the last 2 years of Congress, this should really come as no surprise to anyone.

Just to add another note about McCain's supposed integrity. His hispanic outreach coordinater in Juan Hernandez. He was a top government official for the Mexican presidential cabinet. He prides himself as being a highbrid from two nations and is for amnesty as well as open borders. All this information can be verified on his webb at juanhernandez.com. Way to go McCain!!! You sold us out yet again. By the way I should know I'm from Arizona and I watch his brand of politics up close.

I think john mcain is a good candidate for general election but for him to win the republican nom which the neo cons are not ready to see him have.now florida is his biggest test. If he win florida he will be unstopable. But,if obama gets the normination he will win him in general election.

What a bunch of lies designed to distract feeble minds from the real issues (an old Clinton tactic).

How about Mr. Mitt Romney's growing ties to Bush and his supporters? Follow the money. Bob Perry, the neocon's trusty Houston banker who brought you the Swiftboat lies, is funding political action committees (PACs act on behalf of a candidate's campaign, but have no 'official' ties to a campaign) that are now busy attacking Huckabee and all of the other GOP candidates in the field except for the big business candidate, Mr. Slicky Hair Empty-Head Mitt Romney. Ask Mitt who he plans to put on his foreign policy team if elected. Bet that there's more than a few neocons. Oh, but he can deny any ties to the neocons since none directly supports Mitt. By the way, Perry and Karl Rove are great friends.

It's interesting that Dick Cheney's daughter, Liz, has 'come out' for Mitt last weekend with her endorsement. It's interesting that McCain's truth-telling mom complained recently that her son gets no support from the Republican establishment. Well mom, that's because they are throwing their time and money to a candidate they can control - Mr. Mitt Romney, the machine's candidate who will do what he's told because he doesn't have the brains or the guts to be his own man and lead the country. In that regard, he may remind you of the current president, who has never had an idea of his own during the last eight years of his Presidency.

So, do you want four more years of Bush? Just vote for Romney.

It would not suprise me if he did consider being a running mate to John Kerry. MaCain will do and say whatever he can to get power even if it means switching parties.

I have a questiion?
Why is it that, according to the Republicans, every idea that a Democrate has is wrong for the nation, and according to the Democrates, every idea that a Republican has is wrong for the nation?
One is conservative, and the other is liberal, and the only thing they agree on is to disagree. They cannot possibly think that they have all the answers, and all of the best ideas for the voting public. It's too bad there is not a law that demands truth in politics, the same as truth in lending. All of this,'DIRTY POLITICS', is frustrating to athe people that go to the poles. If they lie about their oponent, why should we believe that they will not lie to the public, after they are in office, if it is to their best interest.

I sense momentum for Romney. McCain is shouting anything that comes to his slow mind, and it isn't accurate.

Mitt Romney is the very last person who should be casting stones at another candidate's past record.

This is the same flip flopper who ran against Ted Kennedy on a pro-gay equal rights platform in 1994 and handed out pink fliers at the Boston gay pride parade wishing everyone a great pride weekend in 2002. Now all of a sudden he is an anti-gay conservative? Please.

This is also the same flip flopper who keeps saying McCain is an advocate of amnesty for illegal immigrants but in an interview with the Boston Globe Mitt said McCain's proposal was not amnesty and was reasonable. So which is it Mitt?

In an interview on Meet The Press in 2007 Mitt made this statement,

"My own view is consistent with what you saw in the Lowell Sun, that those people who had come here illegally and are in this country–the 12 million or so that are here illegally–should be able to stay sign up for permanent residency or citizenship, but they should not be given a special pathway to citizenship..."

How exactly is that different from McCain's view on illegal immigration?

Mitt Romney is about as conservative as Hillary Clinton.

Why does anyone like Romney? That smile he always has is just a little creepy. Does he smile becuase people are actually buying into the BS he's spitting out? It also makes his speeches look very rehearsed, give a line, smile, give another one, smile and wait for applause, say something funny and grin.

for the last 3 elections it has been a choice of whom would do the least ammount of damage .. and again it is shaping up to a choice of who will be our leading village idiot ..

Kerry says McCain's surrogates floated the idea of a McCain vice-presidency in 2004. McCain blows the Idea off that year. Romney stated that McCain CONSIDERED running on the Kerry ticket. I'didn't know taffy stretched that far.

John McCain has earned my trust.

Odd that he says he would've rejected Kerry without thinking. Why would there be virtue in making a decision without considering the consequences and possibilities? Makes you wonder what other choices he'd make without thinking.

Anyone (meaning McCain) who could be considered a running mate for John Kerry, isn't a Republican. Isn't even close.

How dare John McCain work with the other side in order to do what he believes is best for America. How dare he!!!!!!!

Why is crossing party lines such a horrible thing? Perhaps if both parties cooperated more, people wouldn't be so disgusted with politics. It's all right though, as soon as Mitt finds out that people might like that, he'll change his mind. Again.

Does this guy ever talk about himself? I would like to know what he stands for, but he spends all of his time throwing mud on the other candidates. All he ever says is that the other candidates are bad and he is going to change Washington. I have never heard him say how he is going to change Washington. In addition, for someone who is for change, he certainly praises the current administration a lot.

This is one undecided Republican who is crossing Romney off of his list.

Leave it to Romney to condemn McCain for reaching across party lines. McCain is the kind of unifier this country needs, he is his own person and is not a slave to the agenda of any party.

That is something to be commended not condemned.

yeah, heaven forbid that we actually try something bipartisan and different in hopes of actually getting things done in washington. what kind of crazy person could imagine that trying to find commonalities with the other side might actually help us move forward....and how awful of McCain to have even thought to have supported a fellow Vietnam vet.

Romney is sinking lower in my moral esteem.

Question? Why cant Hillary Clinton Plainly see that Bill Clinton is in the way? It looks as if they will share the presidency in my book. Bill Please back off, you had your time in office. And as I felt then your personal problems then showed that your interest in the American people did not matter much . And I feel that, Hillary is a big girl she can hold her own. Barack please come to Florida and lets show them that we the Blacks ,Whites,Latinos,Asians want you for President! To All Candidates lets stick to the issues Not the color of the candidate or his or her religion. And lets face in my book all the republican candidates remind me more of President Bush.

I am thinking of voting for Romney, but his comments do bother me a little. I would like to see the gridlock in Washington end, and I wonder if he is saying that he will not work across party lines to accomplish that if he should win the Presidency. This may work in Florida, but I think most people want the gridlock to change, so he needs to drop this attitude.

What does 'conservative' even mean anymore? If it is the desire to NOT change in order to retain wealth and power in the hands of the past mover's and shakers- then it is a recipe for disaster. The world's balance of power has changed, the world's economies are changing, the world's climate is changing. If conservatives don't embrace change because they are afraid to leave some of thier wealthy brothers behind, then they will collectively loss even more of what they have hoarded over the past 30 years.

It is time for the Republican party to reinvent itself in a way that allows it to represent the majority of voters. You can't keep selling supply side economics when the Corporations take the handouts and then put our tax dollars to work by creating jobs overseas. Yet, we will continue to hear from the GOP that this is the solution because Reagan did it. ACCEPT CHANGE!

'Recall', 'was thinking about', 'running mate for a dem', come on MItt, can't you do better than that. Pathetic.

FLORIDIANS:
Here is your chance to essentially create the Republican nominee. Please consider the candidate that will take America in the right economic direction, and will be an excellent influence in a nation whose morality is crumbling. As a Republican, I mourn the transformation of our party into an institution set up purely to maintain power. Power is important, but only when accompanied by an elevated vision for America. Governor Romney has the skill set and the humility to bring sound leadership principles front-and-center in the American political landscape. Governor Romney has the elevated vision we need as we forge ahead into a very challenging future.

Well Governor, maybe McCain was thinking about the good of America and not himself or his party. A bipartisan ticket would be a healing gesture, in my opinion anyway.

Romney is by far a better leader and manager than McCain. He has executive experience and is a great communicator. He is strong in each of the economic, defense and values areas. The fact that NY Times endorsed McCain should tell us something!

Romney, suck it up. You TOO flip-flop.