Posted on 07/18/2008 8:24:36 PM PDT by Plutarch
It was not so long ago that the idea that Senator John McCain would even entertain tapping Mitt Romney, his bitterest primary rival, as his running mate would have seemed preposterous, rating at least 7.0 on the strange-bedfellows scale.
The McCain-Romney feud was the juiciest of the Republican primary season, featuring two men who generally just did not seem to like each other. Mr. Romney said Mr. McCain would set a “liberal Democrat course as president.” He said that one of Mr. McCain’s proudest accomplishments, his campaign finance bill, took “a whack at the First Amendment,” and told voters grappling with money woes that Mr. McCain “has said time and again that he doesn’t understand the economy.” Mr. McCain, for his part, witheringly cast Mr. Romney as a flip-flopper.
But that was then.
These days Mr. Romney, a telegenic former Massachusetts governor, is serving as a wingman extraordinaire for Mr. McCain on cable television. He has dutifully raised money for Mr. McCain. And Mr. Romney has developed a reputation as a campaign surrogate who can talk fluently about the economy, and who has roots in Michigan, an important swing state.
Now Mr. Romney is attracting perhaps more buzz than anyone else as a potential running mate for the man he once derided... [excerpt]
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Go Mitt!
Lotta termites in that wood.
Cute, all the *omneyspambots out in full farce tonight. Sorry, honey. I’m going to continue to expose your liberal fraud. Deal with it.
And you are the expert on Christians now?
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Perhaps you can show us how Christian you are by removing all those photos form your page, that would be a great start.
We know, we know. You prefer to look at Slick Willard Cheesecake.
MR came out as a strong pro lifer...that should have Freepers tripping all over themselves to slurp the guy.
Has anyone seen a pacifier lying around?
If so, please return it to pansyfieldlickerd-ass. He getting cranky.
I know somebody who speaks with a forked tongue. I see the evil, the hate, and the lies and slander the supporters of this fraud spread. Sounds like a hit a raw nerve exposing your liberal idol.
Getting cranky? His posts are all the same, he needs new material.
HOPE it happens.
We need a conservative with a brain!
Mitt should have been running for President.
McPain is an arse.
I completely agree!
Adding Romney to the ticket would allow me to vote for the ticket with a clear conscience.
“Adding Romney to the ticket would allow me to vote for the ticket with a clear conscience.”
Ditto!
Then the U.S. has a shot of pulling out of the mess we are in. McPain is utterly confused.
Your lies became even crazier and more desparate as we get closer to “Vice President Romney” hehe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2047636/replies?c=219
Spam. Spam. Spam. Do you ever post anything that you haven’t spammed FR with 1,000 times ?
Slick Willard did run. He was rejected for being a sleazy, lying liberal fraud.
You are telling me to give it a rest?
I've posted a legitimate news article, discussing the growing realization that Romney, despite your indefatigable defamatory efforts, is the most likely GOP Veep nominee.
How many umpteen thousands of crass, inane, repetitive, irrelevant anti-Romney posts from you are there going to be before that blessed moment arrives when you finally give it a rest?
Do you ever answer any questions posed to you?
I asked you to name a major Conservative against Mitt Romney.
You can’t.
I asked you to provide some evidence that Tancredo was paid off by Romney.
You can’t.
I asked you to name who your pick was for VP.
You can’t.
Which leads me to believe you probably aren’t a Conservative or Republican at all.
However, his religious affiliation could well be a horse collar around his neck (Kennedy overcame this pariah, mayhap Mitt can, as well).
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