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Posted on 05/21/2007 8:29:14 PM PDT by Quicksilver
... Then we talked about terrorism and of all the candidates, Rudy Guiliani included, Romney communicated on Tuesday in the debate a better understanding of Islamic fundamentalism and who hates who and why than any candidate on the Republican side, or at least he can express it in terms that a lay person can understand. Rudy Guiliani, of course understands the on the ground results and how to respond to terrorism and understands the threat but in the debates as well as in interviews has needed to spend a great deal of time clarifying his positions on social issues.
Romney, in the debate and in my sit down with him put it this way, “There is a global jihadist effort. Violent, radical jihadists want to replace all the governments of the moderate Islamic states, replace them with a caliphate. And to do that, they also want to bring down the West, in particular us…And they've come together as Shi'a and Sunni and Hezbollah and Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda with that intent. We have to recognize that what we're doing in Iraq has enormous impact on what's going to happen in this global struggle, and that's why it's important for us to understand that if we were to just walk out precipitously, we could conceivably see the border with Turkey be destabilized by virtue of the Kurdish effort, we could have the Iranians take over the Shi'a south, and perhaps most frightening, you could have al Qaeda play a dominant role among the Sunnis and then have a setting where you'd have something far worse than Afghanistan on their hands.” ...
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"Here's some advice for Mitt Romney in Iowa, New Hampshire and the rest of the country. Keep to the War on Terror message that you espoused on Tuesday night in Columbia, South Carolina. Shout from the roof tops about your views on illegal immigration, demonstrate how you will make government smaller and make sure every Republican voter in America knows your business background and you could win the nomination."
Indeed. I hope someone in the Romney camp will take note of that.
I don't know why this would be a surprise, let alone a big surprise.
We tend to support people who and sound like us. Thompson is a fine, plain-spoken southern gentleman with rock-solid social conservative values. That is bound to resonate with other southern social conservatives.
Northeasterner Mitt has a long uphill slog to win the support of southern conservatives. But if he is to have any chance at the presidency, he has got to succeed with them.
I don't know why this would be a surprise, let alone a big surprise.
We tend to support people who look and sound like us. Thompson is a fine, plain-spoken southern gentleman with rock-solid social conservative values. That is bound to resonate with other southern social conservatives.
Northeasterner Mitt has a long uphill slog to win the support of southern conservatives. But if he is to have any chance at the presidency, he has got to succeed with them.
Sorry Mitt. Too slick for me.
“Northeasterner Mitt has a long uphill slog to win the support of southern conservatives. But if he is to have any chance at the presidency, he has got to succeed with them.”
Very true. I often wish that people looked at the big picture rather than just looking at someone who’s just like them, but we’re all creatures of habit, I guess. Fortunately, the more people get to know Romney, the more they seem to like him. Something’s obviously working, given his steady rise on the state polls.
I never understood how Rudy! got this reputation as a “foreign policy expert.” Everything that comes out of his mouth is merely superficial or a repeat of his 9/11 speech.
But, Precious, just don’t tell the voters how you cut and run from your state and handed it over to Marxist DeVal Patrick, all because you had one electoral setback. Wouldn’t want the truth to get out, might look bad. ;-)
I don't know why this would be a surprise, let alone a big surprise.I agree, Georgia being a very red state it's no real surprise.
Northeasterner Mitt has a long uphill slog to win the support of southern conservatives.Myself included, I note several southerners on the Mitt ping list. Maybe it won't be as uphill as it might seem to be.
But if he is to have any chance at the presidency, he has got to succeed with them.Absolutely. I hear that Hillary has been practicing her southern draw, hence her coughing and wheezing. :)
How many con men do you know who have remained perfectly faithful to one wife for almost 40 years, reared five well-mannered and highly accomplished children, donated their time and efforts free of charge to rescue something as challenging as a winter Olympics and pull it free from scandal, and made almost a half a billion dollars putting some of the most successful businesses in America into high profitability?
Ted Kennedy sent his goon squad to dig up dirt on Mitt in 1992. Know what they discovered? Nothing. It was a total bust.
Too slick? Not slick at all. All that Romney has accomplished has come by hard work and honest and unremitting effort. You might not like him, but at least give him credit for that.
He just happened to be at the right place at the right time. Just when you thought his personal life and medical problems had ended his political carreer, he gets lots of international exposure during the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
He also had the help of the Murdoch Media, as did Koch back in the 1980s. It was the NY Post and Fox News that declared him as “America’s Mayor.”
I think a ticket with Romney and Thompson would be formidable.
JC, your first paragraph shows what he did UP until 2002. He screwed the pooch AFTER he held office. I have no doubt if the going got tough in SLC, he’d have dumped the problem on the first schlub to come along. In the case of Boston, he left his job to a Marxist.
I would think Fred would choose a running mate who doesn’t cut and run from his responsibilities and flipflop on the issues. ;-)
“I think a ticket with Romney and Thompson would be formidable.”
Yep, I’ve been promoting it for a few days now as my dream ticket. It’s too bad that Thompson is not interested in the VP slot because with Romney’s proven executive leadership and skill of turning around major messes and Thompson’s Washington political capital, I think they would kick some major booty in D.C.
Why should Fred play second banana to a gutless wonder who cut and run from his job ? Precious Willard CREATED a mess in abandoning his state and party, putting his personal ambitions ahead of everything else. That's the character of a rodent, not a Conservative.
Okay, I think I get it now...you don’t like Romney! It took me awhile after reading post after post from you on every Romney thread claiming he abandoned the Massachusetts GOP, but I finally figured it out! Thank you! It’s funny, though. You seem to be the only one making this claim. Why haven’t we heard all of the lurking Massachusetts Republicans here on FR jumping on that abandonment bandwagon with you?
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