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Posted on 11/06/2007 1:20:46 PM PST by Canticle_of_Deborah
GREENVILLE, S.C. — Mitt Romney stumped Tuesday on the importance of adoption, traditional marriage and faith, aiming to coax South Carolina Republican voters to his side in a state where the support of Christian values voters once seemed out of reach for the only Mormon presidential candidate.
Romney has surged in the polls over the past two months in this early voting state, which is set to hold the first-in-the-South Republican primary on Jan. 19. Recent polls in South Carolina show Romney's popularity rising from about 7 percent in early September to nearly 20 percent, putting him in a three-way tie with Republican frontrunner Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson.
He has shored up his dossier with recent endorsements from high-profile social conservatives, and on Tuesday visited an adoption agency directly across the street from Bob Jones University, a conservative Christian college whose president, Bob Jones III, recently endorsed the former Massachusetts governor.
"The people in South Carolina, like across America, are not going to select their candidate based on what church they go to, but they are going to care very deeply about what values they have," Romney said in Greenville, when asked how he's managed to overcome skeptics' predictions that he wouldn't play in South Carolina.
Romney pitched an extensive policy Tuesday emphasizing adoption over abortion. The plan would require family planning clinics to accept government funding to provide adoption information to mothers facing unplanned pregnancies. The plan would also make permanent a tax credit for families that adopt and reform the foster care system.
"We celebrate adoption as an important part of a family agenda," Romney said.
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Another endorsement for Mitt Romney (SC State Senator Kevin Bryant)
http://mydryfly.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/another-endorsement-for-mitt-romney/
Write this down: It will be Fred Thompson versus John Edwards in the general election.
dems will go for John Edwards? he’s a white guy and not gay enough (amazing but true)
Even the dems know the country isn’t ready for a woman, black or Hispanic (Hillary, Obama, Richardson). Who does that leave in the top tier (unless fat Albert gets in)?
Hope is a virtue.
Just don’t use pen.
This weekend, my lady and I will be driving through South Carolina, it will be interesting to see how many bumper stickers there are for the various candidates. I’ve been trying to persuade her to let me put a Thompson sticker on her new Accura MDX (Ok, it’s used, but it’s new to her) since we’re taking that down on our trip to Florida.
you’re assuming dems are rational. heck even republicans are likely to go for Rudy even though he’d be wiped out in the general election
We could do much worse than electing an articulate, charismatic, energetic, conservative leader capable of effectively communicating a positive and hopeful message of conservatism and persuading others to join the conservative cause.
Mitt with Sen. Jim DeMint in South Carolina
How come nobody ever mentions DeMint's nice hair?
With the exception of Ron Paul,Ron Paul,Ron Paul Paul (the Libertarian’s version of Ross Perot(the Libs want him 3rd party REAL bad)has a name that sounds like a tuba solo)I am fairly sanguine of the GOP presidential field as a whole.Any of them,sans oom paw of course,could be a fine president,or at least one incapable of instilling the sheer horror of a Clinton/Obama/Edwards thugocracy.
As a native and resident of South Carolina—born in the holy city of Charelston and now residing in the farmer’s tan (redneck) town of Prosperity-I’m as socially and fiscally conservative as they come—as are most of my fellow state Republicans and for the past several elections we have picked the GOP presidential nominees.In fact,if not for Ross Perot’s deranged hatred for the elder Bush in particular and the GOP in general the Palmetto State would have successfully chosen every president since JFK (yes we went for Jimmuh—sorry about that).As goes Carolina (the REAL once not that Yankee wannabe just North of us) so goes the South AND the election.Even if Florida,the state most South but the Southern state least Southern,holds their primary before us next year,this political absolute will not change.
My U.S. House representative is John Spratt.He is a Blue Dog Democrat dependent on the welfare vote—which means he is as usefull as teats on a boarhog.I vote against him evry two years because of his cowardice in his convictions,but as a real estate owning taxpayer in a gerrymandered district with a majority of federal and state entitlement parasitic lampreys—who are unfortunatly allowed to vote-I am breaking wind in a hurricane.
So my only influence in DC is our US Senators Graham and DeMint.Lindsey is a forked tongued scalawag McCain sychophant who insulted those in favor of illegal alien control so I regret my vote there and vow to support any GOP opponent of his in a primary.
That leaves our truly conservative DeMint and,I hope,next Vice President and supremely conservative (some call him Libertarian) Gov.Mark Sanford (he vetoes Republican pork as easilly as the Dems)as the two jewels of our state.
Jim DeMint is endorsing Mitt and I am loath to dismiss his judgement as are a majority of SC GOP members who are seeing DeMint as a beacon of traditional values in an out of control liberal leaning US Senate.
Emotionally,I like Rudy or Fred—they have the panache.But emotional reactions are liberal political paradigms and unworthy of serious men when choosing our nation’s leaders.
FWIW, we just got back from a trip Oho-Iowa-Minnesota-Michigan-Ohio. We saw lots of Ron Paul bumper stickers, but none for any other candidate. Lots of Ron Paul signs, too. It'll be interesting to hear what you find.
Maybe both are VP contenders.
I think Fred has a better chance than Edwards...
I love the adoption ideas. Stick it to the planning agencies to promote adoption. That’s a fantastic idea.
Bye bye Fred.
Fred Thompson’s blunder
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/opinion/columnists/guests/s_536872.html
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