(CNN) – GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney on Monday dropped a name for a possible running mate should he secure his party's nomination.
"There are probably 15 names of people, including (New Hampshire Sen.) Kelly Ayotte," Romney said in an interview on Fox News. "I mean, there are terrific Republicans in the Senate, in the House, in governors' offices."
Programming note: GOP presidential candidates face off at 8 p.m. ET Tuesday, November 22, in the CNN Republican National Security Debate in Washington, D.C.
Ayotte, who was sitting next to Romney at the time of the interview, threw her support behind Romney this weekend in a highly coveted endorsement.
The first-term senator was elected in 2010 with 60% of the vote and is seen as a strong conservative on issues of finance and defense. A former state attorney general, Ayotte voted against the debt deal hammered out in Congress this summer.
Asked who she thinks Romney should consider for vice president, Ayotte pointed to names already floating around in GOP circles: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
She also pointed to Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico as a strong candidate.
While Romney has been criticized from the right for being too moderate, Ayotte said her main focus was electing a Republican who could oust President Barack Obama from the White House.
"(Romney) is the person who can lead our country, change the direction, bring those conservative principles that we need to the White House and most importantly make sure that Barack Obama is a one-term president," Ayotte said in the interview.
The former Massachusetts governor has remained steady in the top tier of the GOP presidential field, but a new CNN/ORC International Poll this week showed Romney falling slightly behind former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
And while Romney was hesitant to list any more possible VP contenders, the candidate said there's no short list of potential names.
"You've got extraordinary men and women," Romney said. "We have a very deep bench."
– CNN's Rachel Streitfeld contributed to this report.
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Willard's trying to court the women' vote. Too bad he flip flops so much on abortion. No matter who Willard's running mate is, he'll still lose. I guess he's not that good at math or just oblivious to facts. His poll numbers don't move and they won;t move. True TEAvangelicals are not going to vote for Willard.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
E. WARREN 2012 & BEYOND
Wow. I do believe he just reached the Jedi level of primary-season kissassery. What an absolute pandering buffoon.
He will have a "short-list" of 50,,one from each state....Such a Player...
wrong choice, Next....
Mitt Romney 2012!!! Time to put intelligence, competence, and ethics in our White House again!! It is time to make our economy and country number one again!!
America, do you want a Chairman-In-Chief, or do you want a Commander-In-Chief? That is what the general election is going to come down to. Do you want someone who is going to return to ideologically driven policies of the Bush Administration, protecting the wealthy at the expense of the middle class? Or do you want someone who answers directly to the middle class?
Anyone right now would be better then Obama, he has taken this country in the wrong direction and will continue to do so. He has no leader ship skills, he sits passively back and lets this country sink. His Dem-mo-crap buddies are no better. All they are worried about is do not cut this do not cut this, let the goverment run every part of your life. Got a problem? Lets form a new department to address the porblem. Demo-craps and Obama, bad for this country bad for the world,
Vote Rommey 2012
Kelley Ayotte is a great choice.
Don't take this guy lightly. This is a dangerous man who will do more harm to this country than the 2010 elections.
The elitist and the angry lady !
Will anybody at tonights debate ask the CEO of America why none of his five sons volunteered for military service ?
Romney is hatching the Chicks before the eggs are laid...He is no Leader....!
Finally, the Mitt has come back to New Hampshire!!!! He reminds me of a pro wrestler dropping the town where the show is in his trash talk. Plain and simple pandering. Now, he can move on to another state and drop another popular local politician's name.
"What an absolute pandering buffoon."
I agree.
Pickin' runnin' mates, measurin' drapes, what's next, Mittie? He'll flip over himself before the day is over.
Obama/Biden 2012.
There no such thing as a Terrific Republican.
Well at least Mittens did not waste any time rewarding Sen. Ayote for her endorsement, which is another form of "pay to play" I suppose. This should make the good senator even more famous than she was before!
I think he should pick Paul Ryan. It would take the VP job from the ceremonial position it has become under Biden to a position of financial leadership that would serve America so much better.
Speaking of Joe, I hope one of the banks or unions gives him a job when his time is up in 2013. They owe this administration big time and Joe is one of the best sidekicks a CEO could ask for.
Good God, I am from NH, and this would be the equivalent of John McCain picking Sarah Palin. What part of stupid don't these people understand? Are they trying to lose before they even get started?
Romney couldn’t get George Will endorsement but media is talking about his running mate pathetic
Who cares, he wont win the GOP nomination, not even if he had Jesus Christ as his running mate. Mitt the morman and Jesus the Jew wouldn't even get 20% of the Republican vote........and Jesus is the one thing that all Republican worship other than money.
BIG mistake for Willard to try and appease the TP crowd so early in the game. It is way too soon for him to be talking potential vice presidents - not to mention boxing himself into a TeaParty frenzy he won't be able to dig himself out of in the general election. Absolutely a mistake he will undoubtedly regret the day he gives his concession speech ... and every day after, I suspect.
He should have really stirred it up a bit and said 'oh Gingrich would be ok as VP'
This guy can pander and weasel like no candidate I've ever seen before. And with his track record of flip flops why would anyone take seriously any "hints" that he drops on any subject? Give me a break.
Hmmmm...New Hampshire Primary coming up and he selects a New Hampshire Senator as a possible VP! What are the odds???
Why would anyone believe anything that came out of Romney's mouth! He just quoted totally out of context what Obama said in his first campaign ad... and he's constantly shifting his positions to suit the situation. He is the worst of the worst when it comes to lying to the public.
yep I can see the un-employed corporations are people too mitt Romney as POTUS. He will send troops in to attack Iran...of course he may change his mind on that too, and sell off our country like he did the companies he bought back in the 80's and 90's. I think it's great that old Mitt a member of the 1% himself knows how it feels to be middle class and struggling while he's building a new addition to his California beach home. No thanks Mitt I think I'll pass.
Romney is going to make a great president when he is elected in one year. It will be great to have an intelligent, successful, competent, leader/Commander and Chief in the White House. Romney will guarantee that our economy and country take the lead in the world again. Romney will make our great country, great again! MItt Romney for President in 2012!!
it's the next sarah palin lol
I think that as long as mittens is getting so far in front of himself, Pinnoccio would be about the best choice for a VP...
The thoughts of any one of these republican buffoons becoming President is beyond ludicrous. The flip-flopping of Romeny, the hypocrisy of Newt, the phillandering of Cain, the stupidity of Perry, the radicalism of Bachmann, Santorum and Paul all make for quite a menu of the absurd. The only one of them with any real credibility is John Huntsman and he is just being ignored. I will be voting for President Obama because the thoughts of one of these jesters becoming President is too far beyond the pale.
Four and The Door wrote:
I think he should pick Paul Ryan.
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Good thought, bad logistics. I think that ticket might be nicknamed the "Herman and Eddie" ticket. Non-starter.
A Romney GOP nomination = 4 more years of Obama... People wake up! It is more of the same old politics. If you vote for Romney, Perry or Gingrich and expect a different result, you are insane (ask the 12 steppers). If you want different, vote Ron Paul.
Right – he really is shameless, isn't he? It will be interesting if he also names other people from primary states as part of his short list for
One good idiot deserves another...and the Republican madness goes on!
I saw the Sean Hannity interview. Romney did not pick a VP candidate, he said 'let me be the nominee first and then I will think about my VP candidate'.
Hmmm...all his potential choices appear to be manufactured as attempts to pander to and win a segment of the voting population..women, hispanics, partial amputees (I made the last one up).
Mitt, I like...however,..pandering to the ultra conservative fringe...bad move. Be proud of being moderate. The country YEARNS for Moderation....Until both sides of the aisle embrace some moderation, these stand-off tactics are keeping us from moving forward with dealing effectively with getting our economy back on track. Meanwhile, the ranks of the poor increase and the wealthy and corporate interests continue to get their way. Sign no pleges...answer to the people...REAL people and you will gather the support and hearts of the true Americans...you want some momentum?...ditch the fascists!
It will be Christie, McDonnell or Daniels.
In the Sean Hannity interview Romney just said 'let me win the nomination first and then I will think about my VP candidate'. Taken-out-of-context discussion here.
A page taken out of the McCain playbook: He's pandering to the women's vote especially, but to all the other voting demographics as well. That worked for McCain for about a month or so, then it fell apart.
I'm sure his handlers thought it an excellent strategic move to float this info in an attempt to win votes by hinting who his VP choice might be. If his campaign peeps think they are being the vanguards in this very calculating move, then they are underestimating the voting public in the most insulting way.
President Obama 2.0, 2012
Obama 2012 we are bterr of
If Romney follows his own history he will change his mind tomorrow, so it doesn’t matter. But of course all the REpubterds deny the existence of history along with fact, science, and reality in general – unless it’s a fictional subject in their favorite “reality TV show”.
He wants New Hampshire THAT BAD! Pretty presumptious to start talking VP since his own party doesn't even want him.
I am sorry the Mid Westerners and the Southerners did not give the Northeast a run for its money and belt the Eastern Establishment out. Most of these people have had a nano seconds worth of experience. Thank you Newt for being in there for us.
"You can expect to hear that phrase often tonight. Once again, one you will not hear will be "middle class.""
No kidding. Funny though, you'll hear "Ronal Reagan" this that and the other thing though. Just watch. Currently, Newtered is in the lead for dropping Saint Reagan's name and I'll bet five 8-year-old janitors that Newtered drops Reagan's name all over the place when talking foreign policy and economics tonight. It's conservative ideologue red meat.
That's a deliberate attempt to influence the vote in NH. Not too cool, Romney.
Hey Obama is a closet Muslim, I can tell by your spelling that you watch fox news and that you are a tea bagger. its never to late to go back and get your GED
Is Romney a Romulan? He has more of a Vulcan disposition – cool and logical. And he is Mormon, so he has that Magic Underpants thing working for him. Cain is a possible running mate – his underpants are reputedly magic as well ... at least that's what HE said ...
Romney kisses way too much ass.
people like "SUE" who posted on here...so delusional!
from NH huh Romney? are you SURE about that? cuz tomorrow you'll have someone else in mind...you blatant flip flopper!
Also, here goes CNN..if this guy farted they'd say his fart was his potential VP running mate! enuf with repubs and enuf with CNN garbage!
If the bench is so deep and there are so many good people to choose from why isn't one of them running for the Republican nomination, instead of all the goof-balls? You'd think for President you'd be pushing the cream of the crop!
Flippin' Mittens picks a TeaCrazy....big surprise! The guy doesn't even know what side of the fence he's standing on from day to day. Who could trust that?
I thought that Romney was smarter than this. Surely he realized that McCain ended his chance at the Presidency when he picked the inexperienced air headed Sarah Palin. If Romney picks another one-termer politician with essentially no experience, then he's even more toast than he already is.
Isn't that convenient, to name a N.H. Senator when you are facing a primary in N.H. Most opportunists know no shame and have little to offer.
You know, for a man that has 3/4s of the GOP vote AGAINST him, it's a bit premature to start with the whole running mates idea. If you ask me, the GOP put Romney up there to occupy the WH into thinking he'll win. This way, Obama slams Mittens, not everybody.
Nothing like teeing off the "base" by picking one of them "northeastern types" to pair up with Flippity flop the MA RomneyCare originator
Romney must be desperate to win N.H. Before South Carolina primary, I'm sure Lindsey Graham will be touted as a great V.P., etc. I think he should choose Mickey Mouse when he's in Florida.
VP hint? Romney, you're a pompass a**. You have no chance against President Obama. No one's going to vote for the party that is only interested in protecting rich people. "Corporations are people, too, my friend" -Mitt Romney
Don't you have to be the nominee to choose a running mate?
Romney is an even bigger tool than "Obama is a closet muslim" and that's saying something.
Kelly Ayotte is one of the biggest @holes in politics on the East Coast!! She is waaay too extreme and ultra conservative.
Read her bio.
Mittens....lol.
How can the V.P. bench be so deep (according to Romney), yet the POTUS choices are abysmal? Rose colored glasses I guess. That's what most Repub's will be wearing on election day.
Mitt... if you brought back Ronald Reagan as your VP you still couldn't beat Obama. Not that Obama is doing such a great job either but the fact that most of the GOP (Tea Partiers) will never support you.
Gee, Mittie. What about asking one of the illegal immigrants you had working on your second mansion to serve as VP?
Or maybe someone who got you those deferments during the Vietnam War, so you could serve your Mormonish church mission to...the French Riviera.
Or maybe the family dog – you know, the one you strapped to the roof of your station wagon on the 12 hour trip to Canada.
Whatever. Be sure and find someone who flip-flops as much as you do. Don't want to upset the match.
@Thomas – I have heard this comment ad nauseum. Is military service required in this country? Can you contribute to the country any other way? Did Obama serve in the military? Are his daughters going to? I am not sure what your point is.
putting the horse before the cart, mitt. can't respect an obvious lying flipflopper. the economy and the usa won't get better with mitt, just worse. he'll kiss any and everyone's behind everytime. can you say norquist, boehner, koch brothers, limbaugh, mcconnell, wall street, chamber of commerce, the elite, chris christie, tea partiers, everyone but the middle class, students, women, minorities just to mention a few.
putting the cart before the horse, mitt. can't respect an obvious lying flipflopper. the economy and the usa won't get better with mitt, just worse. he'll kiss any and everyone's behind everytime. can you say norquist, boehner, koch brothers, limbaugh, mcconnell, wall street, chamber of commerce, the elite, chris christie, tea partiers, everyone but the middle class, students, women, minorities just to mention a few.
If you are Kelley Ayotte and you believe this, I have a bridge (needing repair) to sell you.
Romney has few right wing conservative credentials. This headline: "9/15/10 at 2:41 PM Comment ‘Granite Grizzly’ Kelly Ayotte Narrowly Beats Tea Party in New Hampshire" would suggest that Ms. Ayotte is not going to mobilize the right- wing conservative base either.
If he nominates a woman, it will be someone like Nikki Haley. If it is a man, perhaps someone like Haley Barbour, without the soft on racism storyline. Ayotte doesn't have a chance.
He is very desperate. But all of this will catch up to him. He drops her name, the only name, after she endorses him. If America wants low paying jobs for higher skilled people then vote for Mitt.
Romney is the most arrogant and dishonnest politician I ever known. You don't even win the nomination yet but you're acting like you did already while keep criticizing Prez Obama for anything he does, distorting his records, taking his statements out of context, making factually lying statements about him and flip flopping on almost all issues over and over again. Really? Are these conservatism principles? No ethics, honnesty and integrity? What is the GOP become? A party of no new idea with lower taxes for the rich anc corporations as the only solutions for all problems. Thanks but no thanks Romney.
Still the talk about making sure that Obama is a "one-term president". Most of us see that statement for what it really is. Why not just say, "I don't care if our country goes down the tubes, so long as we take back that White House!" Rather telling in its way, no?
Pandering to women didn't work for McCain and won't work for Mittens. We see thru these games now.
Doesn't really matter who he picks, Obama will get his 2nd term – Corporations are NOT people my friend.
I am NOT a fan of this person, and I think she's having real problems, but consider Romney/Bachmann. Laugh if you will, stranger things have happened. Strong evangelical and social conservative to counterbalance the Mormon "question." Midwestern appeal to pull key swing states like IA and MN (and even MO?) Perhaps attractive to some women. Founding member of Congressional Tea Party Caucus to secure that group. I will vote Obama, don't get me wrong. Just saying.
Romney needs to ask Newt who his running mate will be....
He really thinks that he has NH and Mass locked up already just like the nomination. He figures since the first primary is right around the corner and he has not made any huge blunders, he can just coast right through 2012. He figures that Republicans might as well get use to the fact that he will be the nominee. He might be the nominee, but we Republicans should focus on winning the House and Senate and making sure the president either governs as a fiscal conservative or does'nt govern at all. I don't trust Mitt to handle the economy and I definitely would not trust him to lead our military or handle foreign policies. This man has no allegience to any government. If everything went south tomorrow he would pick up his familya and leave the US in a heart beat.
Case closed, Mittens will get CRUSHED.
It really doesn't matter who he says he'll pick. America will correct the massive, economy-destroying mistake of the 2010 elections and the Republicans and conservative Dems will be packing up their offices to make room for sensible people who are able to compromise and do the work that's needed without being beholden to Grover Norquist or any other extreme PACs. We sure won't put a GOTP in the oval office.
I have never read such a field of dreams as the above comments. These Obama supporters can not face realism when it spits in their faces. Anyone thinking Obama is a gift and not a scourge to this nation has to be brain dead. If he gets another four years we are dead in the water. To you Romney I would call upon Gov. Brewer of AZ as my running mate. She at least cares for this country.
and John there is no such thing as an intelligent democrat.
Maybe as his running mate she'd get more respect than our First Lady Michelle Obama who got booed at a recent NASCAR event for no justifiable reason whatsoever. And I may add that this is the first time in our nation's history that a First Lady was booed at a political or non political event. But I'll remember to pray for these people and when they sid down with their love ones this Thanksgiving, I just hope they remember to tell their kids that they're most thankful for booing the First Lady.
He has already stooped to running an ad with video editing that he admits is a lie. If you're so great, why do you have to lie about your opponent? While I never thought he was Presidental material due to his ridiculous adherence to the incredibly failed GOP idea of cut regs and cut taxes for the wealthy and all will be good nonsense, but I did think his character was above this.
I'm sorry, I'm not sure I got what he said. Did he say "running mate" or "second wife"?
Mitt Romney will be our next President elected November 2012. There is a 99.9% chance this will happen
Ms. Ayotte seems to make a good appearance. So did Palin. Until she opened her mouth-and never shut it for fear of slowing the stream of idiocy. Then the ventriloquist used a Michele Bachmann doll.
Well come on, we know I have this all locked up anyway!
Yeah, right. An entire ticket from New England. Now there's a winning plan. Not!
Ayotte has neither the experience or wherewithal for this job. He might as well choose Sarah Palin...
He'll probably pick Ayotte, the GOP needs women voters and they don't trust Romney, so this is nothing but a marketing tool (see McCain picking Palin), so that you won't be destracted from Romney's numerous stances on all topics based on whom he's speaking too. Let's see if the tea party is easily distracted on this one. Based on her Wikipedia page her stances are straight from the GOP running platform playbook that is necessary to captivate the easily riled up:
TARP
Obamacare
bailouts
spending
low taxes
America is a great country
freedom
liberty
tyranny
basically anything said on conservative talk radio.
oops, forgot to mention the great St. Reagan,
Although the rule is, you can't mention Reagan's tax raises, amnesty or providing Iran with weapons, without mentioning that he did all these things because he was fooled by the democrats.......
99.9% not! Or perhaps if the GOP keep trying to devise new tactics for suppressing voter rights and changing the rules of the game, then maybe the'd have a chance. But what would be the end result of another Republican in office? More of the same failed and misguided policies that led to two wars and the worst economic crisis in America since the Great Depression? No, I don't think so! You guys had your chance and you blew it! OBAMA/BIDEN by a landslide in 2012 guaranteed!
Too bad he couldnt find someone who is half-Iowan and half-New-Hampshirian (?)... Then he could take pandering to a whole new level.
My official prediction: After the folks in NH do the obligatory Romney-love-in, and vote for him because he mentioned their senator – he'll move on and frop another giant hint about picking (fill-in-some-previously-unheard-of-politician-from-Iowa-here) as a running-mate instead. Then after the Iowa priamry, you wont hear another word about him or her either.
C'mon, Mitt. You're better than this – are you being honest with your fellow man?
John McCain tried pandering for the woman vote and that did not work out so well. But of course he chosed Palin instead of Ayotte. Maybe she is more sane then Palin.
Combine this with the sleazy, out-of-context ad that his campaign put out there yesterday (accusing Obama of calling Americans lazy, when in fact, he said quite the opposite), with the outright lie-in-your-face ad that they put out previously (Quoting Obama as saying that 'we need to stop talking about the economy', when Obama already was quoting what John McCain had said previously, and pointing out what a bad thing that would be...), and you start to see why you cant trust Romney. He's lying more and more every day. We used to think of it as flip-flopping. But now we see that it's not just inconsistencies, but deliberately misleading people.
Romney changed his mind. He is now running for president of New Hampshire.
Hey, $250m flip flopper, just like mcnasty didn't listen. It's not just any woman it's the RIGHT woman!
"I have ever read such a field of dreams as the above comments. These Obama supporters can not face realism when it spits in their faces. Anyone thinking Obama is a gift and not a scourge to this nation has to be brain dead. If he gets another four years we are dead in the water. To you Romney I would call upon Gov. Brewer of AZ as my running mate. She at least cares for this country." – this person is delusionally twisted!
And he thinks the wacko dragon-lady gov from Space Planet Ariz cares?! Sure she cares – about ignorance, bigotry, hate and fear.
Please not another Sarah Palin these republicans clowns is getting on everybody nerves especially Newt.
Penguin: If what you say is true and he really did strap his dog to the roof of his station wagon then he should be in jail for animal abuse. What a disgusting pig. How people treat animals is the strongest indicator of how they treat others and a glimpse into their psyche. If true, then it just shows that he has developed a similar disregard for people. Get out of here Mitt–maybe someone will drive you out of town strapped to the roof of their car.
Martinez is a gun toting fascist
Thank god, non of these GOP candidates have a chance in 2012.
How many fool women will vote for this Loser just because he makes them wet and he's choosing a woman to be his lapdog.
Obama is a closet Muslim, please: the GOP Curia wants to run every aspect of your private life because they feel they have a vision from God telling them so. Between Romney and Ayotte, you have a total of 21 months of experience in dealing with DC: what sort of mandate do you really think Mittens and his handmaiden will really get in this election? The GOP will lose the House and the WH, and might pick up the Senate ONLY through an act of God, and Mittnes does not have the Almighty on speed dial. Defend the Wealthy? Ask the GOP: they always know what's best for us, since we clearly are too stupid to pick it up for ourselves.
Anyone who lays their cards on the table early in this race is not running an effective campaign.
We all know–or at least should know–that the Vice President is supposed to be the person you're throwing out into the spotlight as your possible successor. Republicans better get with the picture: As it so happens, the only kids on the block for 2016 are Chris Christie and Marco Rubio, and possibly even John Huntsman. That's it. They are the only hope for the Republican Party's survival.
Now, lets not be naive...There is no hope for the Republican Party.
Eight years of damaging policies and three years of Tea Baggers has defamed the Republicans and the effects will last for a loooong time. Democrats will control the White House at least until 2024. Our future will wind down to whether Americans can sacrifice their ideologies–put their country before their ideologies–and vote Democrat. Unless we have Democrats holding majority in the House and Senate for the next twelve years after next year's election, no problems will be resolved.
FIELD1stSGT= Nutty NAZI from AZ
in GOP speak "realism" is in English the equivalent of "Liar"
All the GOP has is lies ... lies, lies. and more lies, which is why the only adds Mitt are putting out are just simply
Tea Party bloggers, brought and paid for by the top 1%.
If you are not in the top 1% and still vote Republican, you are a foll and an idiot.
"Finally, the Mitt has come back to New Hampshire!!!! He reminds me of a pro wrestler dropping the town where the show is in his trash talk."
And just like that pro wrestler Mitt is going to drop the Peoples' Elbow on all you left-wing candy asses!
She looks much too intelligent to be a republican. Then again, under his skin Romney is a democrat. The smart people
in the GOP have figured that out a long time ago. That is why they hate him. All his flips before the flops were democrat.
That is also why he will never win a general election. A management consultant will never be President.
Back to Bain.
Natalie
Flippin' Mittens picks a TeaCrazy....big surprise! The guy doesn't even know what side of the fence he's standing on from day to day. Who could trust that?
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I suppose Natalie that your idea of dedication to values is Obama? Ironic. On the same day the Supercommittee bailed out because they could not get the $1 trillion tax increase he begged for he signed a bill to give tax breaks to businesses for hiring veterans. These are tax breaks for the same filthy rich business owners he complains get too many tax breaks. He has a tough time staying on-message, doesn't he? Or maybe he has no message...
MItt needs to worry about why run of the mill republicans are constantly polling ahead of him every week.
Hey XYZ, hate to remind you, but the last time there was a president from the northeast a southerner assassinated him. Everyone since has either been from the south or from California.
" and most importantly, making sure Obama is a one term president "...and that my friends amongst the list of traits that are listed in this Article shows what the priority is in our GOP field of contenders. Leadership, balancing the budget and conservative values have all taken a back seat. Right out of the horses mouth.
Look very closely at Bob McDonnell before buying the hype. Things are getting very bad in VA and much of that has been brought on by the policies, tricks and actions of this governor. The state is falling apart and the retirement fund was raided to make it look like there was a surplus. All to set the stage for his national debut. Far right wing in moderate clothing.
Noise. The article should have been about the endorsement.
Four and The Door wrote:
On the same day the Supercommittee bailed out because they could not get the $1 trillion tax increase he begged for he signed a bill to give tax breaks to businesses for hiring veterans. These are tax breaks for the same filthy rich business owners he complains get too many tax breaks.
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I believe that only actual small businesses are eligible for the tax credit. There is a ceiling that defines gross sales.
Democratic Presidents sign tax credits for business for hiring unemployed vets out of work for extended periods.
Republican Presidents sign tax breaks for businesses that let them deduct foreign taxes off of their US obligations.
it is so funny to see the almost virulent and irrtional hatred towards mittens, which just shows some people just cannt get any love. People are attacking Mitt for just giving out all possible names of VP he'd consider, hahahhahahaha. and he was sitting right next to her, so he was doing the polite thing and called her name out too. take a chill pill people.
Four/Door: "These are tax breaks for the same filthy rich business owners he complains get too many tax breaks."
The tax breaks the President and the majority of Americans are the ones that reward American companies that ship American jobs overseas. Providing incentives to American companies to hire American vets is completely in keeping with the President's commitment to better our country.
BTW, over 61% of millionaires and billionaires in this country WANT to pay more in taxes, because not only do they know they've been enjoying the lowest tax rates in 50 years, but that paying their fair share would greatly help our country.
But do the "will of the people" Repubs listen? Heck no, because they are serving a select 400 few (including the Koch brothers) who are putting party and their own interests ahead of our nation's well-being.
Mitt.......WAIT.........I hear Palin is still available..........
Now we know why she endorsed him ...
"I suppose Natalie that your idea of dedication to values is Obama? Ironic. On the same day the Supercommittee bailed out because they could not get the $1 trillion tax increase he begged for he signed a bill to give tax breaks to businesses for hiring veterans. These are tax breaks for the same filthy rich business owners he complains get too many tax breaks. He has a tough time staying on-message, doesn't he?"
NOBODY asked for an immediate $1T tax increase. Rather, short-term spending measures and tax relief followed by long-term revenue and tax increases is what has been called for. Of course, give that you have an overly simple mind, I am not suprised to find your oversimplifying it in a very poor attempt at selling the perception of hypocrisy.
"The Family Leader" An influential social conservative group in Iowa has crossed off Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Herman from consideration for its presidential endorsement.
@ Four and the door: maybe it's called INCENTIVE you know, so our veterans who are having such a hard time to get a job after defending the good US of A. Common knowledge is not hard to come by.
"he signed a bill to give tax breaks to businesses for hiring veterans. These are tax breaks for the same filthy rich business owners he complains get too many tax breaks. He has a tough time staying on-message, doesn't he? Or maybe he has no message..."
The better statement would have been to question WHY businesses needed the extra "tax break" boost to be coaxed into considering hiring of our veterans in the first place.
and i thought Sarah is showing age, yikes
Romney should of had this nom wraped up a long time ago-Does he not understand the country doesn't want a mormon. How about he picks his false prophet joe smith as his running mate–That should seal it up–no pun intended...Obama 2012 talking point,"i know i screwed up but hey atleast im not a nutcase mormon"
"No kidding. Funny though, you'll hear "Ronald Reagan" this that and the other thing though."
What's REALLY funny is Ronald Reagan wouldn't be allowed in the Repub party today, what with his tax raising (11 times during his presidency), negotiating with terrorists (the Ayatollah Kohmeni, to be exact), cutting and running after the Beirut barracks bombing, not wearing his faith on his sleeve and trying to "out-Christian" everyone else, the growth in federal jobs during his terms (over 60,000; contrast that to government payrolls shrinking by 373,000 during Clinton’s presidency), and the pesky little FACT that the national debt went from $700 billion to $3 trillion, and the U.S. transformed from the world’s largest international creditor to its largest debtor.
And don't forget Reagan while governor expanded Medi-Cal (California's Medicaid). He also established the Air Resources Board to intervene in the market and fight smog (so much for deregulation and letting the market "correct itself").
Speaking of the environment, Reagan, that tree-hugger, signed more wilderness-protections laws than any president before or since.
All you gun nuts: Reagan was a staunch backer of the Brady Bill, urging Congress in 1991 to pass it "without delay."
Last but not least, all you teabaggers, Reagan passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, which eventually granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal immigrants. The kicker: he continued to speak out for immigration rights after leaving office.
Reagan wouldn't pass the Repubs "purity" tests – but that won't stop all these GOP yahoo candidates from invoking St. Reagan's name. Guess they just all figure their base are a bunch of idiots.
Sue
Mitt Romney 2012!!! Time to put intelligence, competence, and ethics in our White House again!! It is time to make our economy and country number one again!!
November 22, 2011 01:32 pm at 1:32 pm |
Sue first you list a moron then you turn it into an oxymoron. That's funny stuff, thanks for the laugh!
I really hope people wake up to why the media is blacking out Ron Paul. If you looked at
his 30 year record you would find a man who has NEVER swayed from his political
positions, he's NEVER taken donations from banks, corporations or lobbyists, he's fought
for our soldiers when they wanted to revoke benefits from them. He's fought for
transparancy of the Federal Reserve, which is just a group of bankers who print money out
of thin air that creates inflation, create interest rates that radically screw with the
market. He's the only canidate that has actually served the military and that's why he's
the most supported by our miltary men and woman!!! He's not bought like the rest of them.
if romney is pick for republican, i have a feeling that he will get christie as his vp.
A deep bench maybe, but certainly no starters.
Everything Mitt Romney does is aimed towards winning and not fixing the country. Meanwhile everything Ron Paul does is aimed at fixing the country. Can everyone please wake up already!
WOW-sure wish you lefties would apply the same scrutiny to your own as you do the Republicans. One thing I'll tell you, though, sure wish the current flunkie in chief had been vetted 1/1000th of the level that the Republicans are being vetted now. We wouldn't be having this conversation now.
Willard better concentrate on winning the nomination before he starts selecting his VP running mate.
tact
@ Four and the door: maybe it's called INCENTIVE you know, so our veterans who are having such a hard time to get a job after defending the good US of A. Common knowledge is not hard to come by.
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Tact, I agree with you 100% that it is an incentive and I am not saying I disagree with the legislation. But his rallying cry about businesses and billionaires not paying enough taxes are because of all of the government incentives in our tax code. If he wants to scream about it then either he should reform it ( for which he blew his best chance with the supercommittee offers on the table ) or he should not add more mess to the tax code. He looks confused this way.
Lynda/Minnesota
...The better statement would have been to question WHY businesses needed the extra "tax break" boost to be coaxed into considering hiring of our veterans in the first place.
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Lynda, for once I agree with you. I don't think this bill will convince anyone one way or the other. But for the businesses who understand it is good to hire veterans they get a big tax break. Is this really helpful? Maybe politically it gets his picture with a pen on a few newspapers looking like he's helping veterans. I doubt he really is. And the debt goes up.
Nail on the Head Award goes to Lynda/Minnesota who stated:
"The better statement would have been to question WHY businesses needed the extra "tax break" boost to be coaxed into considering hiring of our veterans in the first place."
You would think he would learn from Cains nighmare....By the way is Palin returning all the campaign donations she swindeld out of her fans since she KNEW LAST SUMMER SHE WASN'T RUNNING according to blabbermouth Brystol. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm funny how Palins they fell out of the spotlight. Lawyer anyone????
FIELD1stSGT, what makes you think that Mittens is the One? Put aside your blatant hatred of the President, and ask yourself if a one-term failure as a governor of the state that ranked 46th in the country in job creation is qualified to run the country when its fighting its way out of a recession that was created by the very policies you support? By the way, what army did you serve in? The wanna-bees, or the Waffen SS?
I hope he dosn't pick another Sarah Palin.
Mitt's campaign will likely implode, just like his father's in 1968. George was the front runner too.
AHH!!! Don't they make a cute couple?!!! What a joke!!!!
Well now that stupid story about how much her "endorsement" means makes more sense. Why do I feel that voting Republican this term is a losing battle?
Excellent post Think Again, and quite true!
Sniffit
"I suppose Natalie that your idea of dedication to values is Obama? Ironic. On the same day the Supercommittee bailed out because they could not get the $1 trillion tax increase he begged for he signed a bill to give tax breaks to businesses for hiring veterans. These are tax breaks for the same filthy rich business owners he complains get too many tax breaks. He has a tough time staying on-message, doesn't he?"
NOBODY asked for an immediate $1T tax increase. Rather, short-term spending measures and tax relief followed by long-term revenue and tax increases is what has been called for. Of course, give that you have an overly simple mind, I am not suprised to find your oversimplifying it in a very poor attempt at selling the perception of hypocrisy.
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S-L-A-M!!!!!!!!!!
The hinges just fell off of Four's door Sniffit!!
There are probably 15 names of people, including (New Hampshire Sen.) Kelly Ayotte," Romney said in an interview on Fox News. "I mean, there are terrific Republicans in the Senate, in the House, in governors' offices."
So the repugnants could pick one of those, but they are so smart they got stuck with those clowns now.
If you have to rely on a small state Senator next to the state where you served as governor, then your campaign is in trouble.
The entire purpose to slipping that line in was because his campaign thought that it'd generate extra publicity for her endorsement of him, provided that journalists weren't quick-witted enough to realize how cynically he's playing them.
Way to do your part, CNN.
Would love to sit in on Romney's VP strategy meeting. "let's see who we can pick that qualifies as cheaply transparent tokenism". Kind of like McCain, but I'll bet it will be even dumber. The shallow picking the shallower.
Anyone who thinks Paul Ryan would be a good choice belongs in the nut house, not the White House.
This has the makings of the upcoming sequel of McCain/Palin ".........ok everybody, quiet on the set: lights, camera, IN-ACTION"
One advice to Romney. Do not start counting chickens before they hatch. Especially when 7 other people around him are hungry for omlette
it's kinda like Lady Gaga – how she changes the lyrics of her song just slightly for each state......
So all she is worried about is getting Obama out of office? She's not interested in helping people in this country and figuring out how to get jobs back in the country for the average working family? Great, just what we need.
You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. What a pair of losers!
Ha Ha Ha this guy is the classic candidate. Tall, handsome family man, smiles a lot and now hints that he might select a woman for VP. Perfect example of modern image creation. He will probably win the Republican nomination even though nobody seems to know exactly where he stands on anything. I really think he is going to make it, good for him.
Sniffit
NOBODY asked for an immediate $1T tax increase. Rather, short-term spending measures and tax relief followed by long-term revenue and tax increases is what has been called for.
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Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., ...said Republicans offered their colleagues a revenue compromise that Democrats demanded, but he said in a statement that Democrats refused to agree to any meaningful deficit reduction without “$1 trillion in job-crushing tax increases.” This is why the Supercommittee failed.
in referring to VP options romney claims.".we have a very deep bench"...pity none of them are running for president because the current crop is dismal, fools, liars and out for themselves, not america
Hey Mitt, I just watched your ad that attacks Obama, and you left out the fact that Obama was talking about John McCain. If you will play the old "bait and switch" with an old video clip that happened during the 2008 Campaign, how can you possibly think that other Republicans will believe what you say to them? Talk about being a sleaze-bag. My vote now goes to Newt Gingrich.
"We have a very deep bench"......he must think he's Aaron Rodgers.
Forget about Susana Martinez from New Mexico as a VP candidate. As a resident of the state, I can truly say she is way over her head as gov.
Mr. Romney is bit about to pick a vice presidential candidate so why even talk about it. Just politics. I wonder how his Lt. Gov. form MA feels about that? She got left holding the bag when she ran for governor. Probably did not work out the way she wanted either.
I like Kelly Ayotte (in fact I recommended her for VP to Herman Cain), but even she can't make me overlook Romney's flip-flopping liberalism and the con job that he calls his "religion."
If Gingrich beats Romney in New Hampshire, Romney is done.
The same Marco Rubio? That Talks Big but Fails to Deliver?
Before the March 2000 session, Rubio was hardly the scorching conservative who would later woo Tea Partiers nationwide. He said he'd focus on supporting early education and community policing. And he wasn't particularly passionate about cutting spending. In his first three years, he supported adding a $4 surcharge to cruise tickets to fund a Marlins stadium and a $1.2 million earmark to build new bike paths in his district
Marco Rubio Really Admires Dead Racist Jesse Helms
So, Marco Rubio is going around calling America "weakened." He blames it on Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.
spent thousands with GOP credit card
Records show Rubio sent payments to American Express totaling $13,900 for his personal expenses during his tenure as House speaker. But those payments were not made monthly. He made no contributions to the bill during a six-month stretch in 2007, records show.
Who cares? Romney is an arrogant elitist who has no clue what is going on in our nation or what the PEOPLE are facing – nor does he care. Remember, he is the one who thinks no helo shold be given to homeowners who were defraused by the banks and are about to lose their homes; Republicans are going to LOSE in a LANDSLIIDE in 2012
Gov Bob McDonnell of Virginia would be a great choice.
He is a strong conservative, a Catholic, and a proven winner. His selection will cement Virginia into the GOP fold.
Great idea, pick an inexperienced female conservative wingnut from a backwater state as your running mate. Let me guess, Romney thinks Kelly Ayotte willl make up for his lack of foreign policy experience because she can see Canada from her house. Despite having four years advanced warning, I'll bet Ayotte won't be able to name a single news magazine when she's interviewed by Katie Couric next fall.
Ayotte was sitting next to Romney when this statement was made in response to a question he had been given. He didn't say she was his VP pick. He was kindly and politely trying to let her and her constituents know that he held her in high regard. It is called people skills. Alternatively, he could have done as many on this board seem to have think he should have done... "Nope, haven't picked my VP candidate... Ayotte thanks for the endorsement... nice knowing you." That would have gone over really well.
I think Mitt would make a fine president. He continues to show himself to be a gentleman.
Wow, just heard her on CNN. That woman is more inarticulate than Perry.
@Pastafaria ROTFLMFAO!!! Well done!
Mitt should pick a VP from a non-southern states as these goof balls in the south will vote for any candidate that has a capital R after their name.
the middle class should just lay down and die if a republican wins,and the rich will be drinking wine
@Joe I wouldn't worry too much about it. Someone could probably get booed off the stage at a NASCAR event just for breathing through their nose.
He is going the McCain route. We all know how that turned out.
Christie, Christie, Christie. I dont like either of them, but that is your ticket. Romney-Christie. And may God have mercy on all our souls.
I just have THREE words: Vice President Joe Biden!!! End of discussion!!!!!
Two silver spoons, clueless on the needs and desires of the working poor of our once great nation.
I have to admit that some of the right that come here and defend Romney and the GOP while bashing Obama are HAILARIOUS. When I see such statements it just lets me know how the once proud GOP is in the sad shape it is today with such rhetoric and ideology. Pander to non-facts, half truths and innuendoes. FoxNews has ruined a once decent party.
@Four and The Door
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., ...said Republicans offered their colleagues a revenue compromise that Democrats demanded, but he said in a statement that Democrats refused to agree to any meaningful deficit reduction without “$1 trillion in job-crushing tax increases.” This is why the Supercommittee failed.
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Read the details of Toomey's "compromise". It was closing of what he called loopholes but in reality, it didn't close loopholes for the high-rollers. Democrats wanted to close real loopholes AND lose the Bush tax cuts for the rich. He didn't offer a single cent in increase in tax rates for the wealthy although they enjoy the lowest rates in 30 years – at a time when both entitlement cuts AND tax increases are required to reduce the deficit. Please... no more trickle-down economics crap. That is the Republican mantra but isn't supported by history. They had the Bush cuts when the economy went down the toilet. They had low rates when Ronald Reagan's spending drove us downhill – and caused George Sr. to call for a tax increase. Your "job creators" simply shipped the jobs offshore and spent their mega-millions on toys.
"I mean, there are terrific Republicans in the Senate, in the House, in governors' offices." Come on Mittens, no one in their right mind would ever think, let alone say something like that silly. Oh, but I nearly forgot, you believe you are a member of the middle class too... just like the rest of us with $200,000,000 in the bank!
I heard Sarah Palin is available
Joe the Plumer a good choice for fliping Mitt........
Larry L
...Read the details of Toomey's "compromise". It was closing of what he called loopholes but in reality, it didn't close loopholes for the high-rollers. Democrats wanted to close real loopholes AND lose the Bush tax cuts for the rich. He didn't offer a single cent in increase in tax rates for the wealthy although they enjoy the lowest rates in 30 years – at a time when both entitlement cuts AND tax increases are required to reduce the deficit.
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Tax increases are the last thing the federal government and our economy need right now. If taxes increased $500 billion I guarantee you the Democrats would increase spending $500 billion, probably $600 billion because of the increased confidence that they could get more tax hikes.
It has to stop. Look where we are. $15 trillion in debt. The economy is in the dump with corporate tax rates where they are now, which are the highest in the world. Game over. November 2012. It's time to start managing our federal government.
Four Door: “$1 trillion in job-crushing tax increases.”
If tax breaks resulted in job creation, then why haven't the last 10 YEARS of tax breaks resulted in jobs HERE IN THE U.S.?
And if taxing corporations kills jobs, then how do you explain the 40-year economic expansion 1940-1980, when corporate taxes were much higher than they are now?
You really need to wake up and admit that the American corporations that keep yammering on about needing more tax cuts have been using their extra cash to ship American jobs overseas and have no intention of creating jobs here.
She is the beast from hell. Judging by her little reign of terror in the New Hampshire as attorney general she is one unethical and dishonest piece of work.. Wasting millions of taxpayers money pushing for the death penalty in a state that has not put anyone to death in about 70 years. Destroying her email two days before leaving office then trying to put it off limits under some inane memorundum placing deleted emails off limits and no longer subject to disclosure. I can't think of many things more frightening than a Mormon and a Catholic ideologue in the White House.
Once the public gets a good look at Romney's record of cannabiizing companies, laying off workers and pocketing the profits to increase his fortune, they'll not want to vote for him. The man is a soulless corporation in a suit with all the warmth of a Macy's mannequin. He'd be a horrible President.
What a maroon. Picking Ayotte, or even hinting at picking her, is about as bad as McCain picking no-name Palin (who turned out to be an idiot, by the way). Ayotte herself named other folks who are way more qualified than she is for the position of vice-president. Mitt has enough issues as it is without picking a no name.
I retract all former statements of suppport for Mitt Romney.
Ms. Ayotte has acted in crimes.
Time for Mitt to leave the scene, no Christian Republican will vote for him. If he was a true leader then he would not be second every time you look at the polls.
Kelly Ayotte acted in violent crimes against persons of Jewish ancestry in NH.
She ordered her state troopers to harass, intimidate civilians in NH.
Do not put her into a vice presidency.
She is deadly.
*** "You've got extraordinary men and women," Romney said. "We have a very deep bench." ***
Yeah, the question is why the starting lineup is so pathetic.
You right-wingers are so delusional, it would be funny if it just wasn't so pathetic.
A deep bench, right. The GOP junior varsity lineup can't compare with Obama this election cycle. Evangelicals won't come out in droves for Romney because of the Mormonism xenophobia they have. They also won't come out in support of Newt because surprisingly he has a more tattered personal life than Clinton. Which leaves them to support the least knowledgeable of the "deep bench" Bachmann, Perry, or Cain. Paul is the best one pursuing the nomination but he'll be torpedoed by the establishment.
Donkey Party
You right-wingers are so delusional, it would be funny if it just wasn't so pathetic.
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The only pathetic thing we are all watching right now is the Kabuki Dance Obama and his Democratic die-hards are trying to play out pretending that his 15 minutes aren't over yet. He lost it long ago. It's over. Just enjoy the last 13 months on your way out. We can recover from this mess. But getting this ineffective administration out of Washington is the first step.
Now Mitt's is getting a little ahead of himself. He should announce the Luck Charms leprauchan as his running mate. He could pull a fake bible out of his hat like Joseph Smith Jr.
Mitt Romney is such a phony, his political positions have been all over the place. Nobody from either can trust anything he says because he constantly changes like the wind. I remember even at one debate back in the 90's with Kennedy how Romney threw Ronald Reagan under the bus and now he claims how great he was. Which is it? One minute Romney is pro-choice then he's pro-life, now he's a so called moderate, again which is it? Romney will say whatever he thinks people want to hear to the time as he only cares about votes and power. Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann made Mitt Romney look like a fool. Romney takes first prize for the biggest loser in the race 2nd is Rick Perry. Many Independents like myself flat out reject Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. I think Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann both won this debate. Newt Gingrich lost me with his amnesty approach to immigrantion and his support for the Dream Act which the American people especially us Independents also flat out reject and the fact that Newt wants to put Social Security on the stock market. I think that the Democratic Party should convince President Obama to step down and convince Hillary Clinton to run in his place for President in 2012. I know that if President Obama is running in 2012 he will probably lose because he lost Independents like me.
It would be so cool for Mitt to win!!!
I KNOW he will resurrect American Motors and bring back the Rambler in honor of his dad. Imagine driving a Rambler……..when you turn the car on it automatically plays Christian music ONLY!!!!!!!!!
Newt can be Secretary of Defense……………ahhhhhhhhhhh…I can see it now………..there's a Nuclear Winter in our future……….oh praise Jesus………!
LOL
Sorry Chalk White,.. You'll get now where near the throne.
Dude, lets do a reality check.
You are second place among the GOP candidates Mr Romney.
Calm down your ticker tape parade. You haven't won anything yet.
A big chunk of your party seems to be looking for any candidate who isn't you. And right now, the not-you is Newt Gingrich.
You sir, need to figure out how to win them over, before you start celebrating.
I do not care for Mitt Romney once again, and this is just another John McCain and Sarah Palin moment, read the article and you will see why, The woman even looks like Sarah Palin a little, Were in trouble if Romney wins the nomination, You can all just know that obama will win reelection if Romney wins the GOP nomination.
No comment! because this is aint news! its just the Utah circus clown doing the usual political gymnastics "Backward flip! and shout where is Sarah!, followed by forward flip twice and land on Kelly Ayottes back, twist right towards teabaggers once! followed by double right twist towards establishment clapping for Rove. Finally slide slowly forward towards fox news entrance and make more flip, fllops jerking your jaws!!
Romney is the best chance to beat Obama in 2012. I vote for any other Republican in the primary is a vote for Obama in the general.
Big mistake
I would never vote for a non Christian like the wearer of Magic Underwear Romney.
Once again the GOP admits that getting Obama out of office is the most important thing to them. Not fixing the economy, not jobs, not foreign policy, not the welfare of our country. Their personal vendetta against Obama is ALL they care about and they have no problem saying it.
"Evangelicals won't come out in droves for Romney because of the Mormonism xenophobia they have."
"no Christian Republican will vote for him."
Those little bits of junk food for the mind are what will allow Romney to win if too many of you smug liberals get complacent (remember 2010?). You forget that Karl Rove, a dedicated neocon deathcult member who will do anything to win, is pushing Romney. For many years Rove has successfully played the evangelicals and social conservatives for chumps. Yet now some of you seem to thing these same low information, reality-free voters will somehow wise up and refuse to support Romney after supporting virtually every other political hack the right throws their way. Get real and get to work. Rove knows how to manipulate voters and these people have not provided any viable reason for anyone to believe they are any less gullible then they have been for years.
Perry will pick Coulter (both being evil incarnate (sp)), Cain with pick Bachmann (a tea party sweetheart), Gingrich will pick Palin (another tea party sweetheart). It looks like it won't matter who Ron Paul or the other remaining candidates choose. I would really like to see another, ANY other really, Democrat to campaign against the President. If only to force him to re-connect with the democratic party. To hear what democrats outside the beltway feel about his current policies.
I think she's a bit above Palin in intelligence, but still a bull crap talker.
Mitt's solution to the economy is to inherit millions, then raid corporations to eliminate jobs.
Romney / Huntsman 2012
"I mean, there are terrific Republicans in the Senate, in the House, in governors' offices." – if that's what Romney thinks about the current state of the Republican party, I guess we already know what types of policies he'll endorse.
I am sure he has a dozen people on his short list – all in exchange for an endorsement.
Pandering to the women who don't agree with him politically, and can actually look past his good looks to the emptiness that lies beneath. I'm beginning to wonder what this guy won't do to try to become president.
@The Greedy Old Pigs ... True, but those voters are going to pull for the R no matter what. Look how many votes McCain got with Palin on the ticket. Unbelievable.
Yawn.
Obama 2012. Seriously America.
Expecting the social conservative right, which makes up the majority of the early primary voters for the republican field, to accept Mitt Romney is an exercise of the highest stupidity.
As a political philosophy, conservatism has all but kicked the chair out from under itself, after tying the noose around it's neck. It's much to fractured to come up with a coherent message, it's far too radical to find any acceptance among middle America, and it's far too wrong to be taken seriously by anyone with more than a high school degree.
I gleefully await the next GOP presidential concession speech. Nothing sweetens my day more than a snifter of Neo-Con tears.
Pulling the old McCain trick, eh?
It won't work, Romney.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Romney is going to win the nomination…and he will lose to President Obama, unfortunately by a close margin. Take a drive through Red State America, as we saw during the 2008 campaign, where parents teach their children that they need to wear gloves ‘to touch the President’, and you will see why this margin will be so close. I will never understand why these same Poor Uneducated Whites will blindly vote Republican when it is ‘Socialist’ Democrats who make sure their food stamps and welfare checks are in their mailboxes on time.
Huntsman and Paul are the only Republicans on that stage that I can respect. Cheers to Paul’s approach regarding if/when Israel declares war on Iran.
Expat American
Romney is going to win the nomination…and he will lose to President Obama, unfortunately by a close margin.
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Expat, If you were still here among us getting your information from Main Street instead of online or from the news media, you would understand how completely gone the Obama administration will be when Americans get to vote him out. His economic strategies have failed miserably one after the other, he has avoided any form of leadership at every chance and he relies on political games for every decision he makes. It's not a combination Americans want.