Posted on 01/19/2008 12:08:13 AM PST by Romneyfor President2008
JAY LENO: On Tuesday my first guest won the Michigan primary in the Republican Presidential race. That makes him a real contender in an election that is pretty much anybody's guess at this point. Please welcome Mitt Romney.
(Applause.)
JAY LENO: Thanks for coming. I appreciate your making the trip.
MITT ROMNEY: Thank you. Good to be here.
JAY LENO: And congratulations on Michigan. That was exciting.
MITT ROMNEY: Very exciting for me.
JAY LENO: You got the gold. You almost took the silver. Got the gold.
MITT ROMNEY: I got Wyoming, too; so two golds, two silvers. That's not bad.
JAY LENO: Good. Good. Good. Now, this seems like it's ‑‑ for me it's getting good, but for you guys it's getting nasty. How are you holding up?
MITT ROMNEY: I do fine. You know, I start off the day with a ‑‑ actually with a bowl of granola. My wife makes granola. Before I go on a trip, she gets out the oats and honey and sesame seeds and chops up the almonds. So I take a bowl and have granola in the morning, and then I jog every other day three miles, and then at the end of the day, just to really relax, I take off a dark suit like this and put on a light one.
(Laughter.)
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Thanks for the post of the transcript. I appreciate it.
Suggestion: When you go over to read things like this, hit the print version and read it all without the wrap around text, all on one long page.
Romney in Heated Exchange with AP Reporter.
http://www.youtube.com/v/15hVj29hH2k&rel=1
Campaign getting a little stressful for you there, Willard? Starting to feel the heat? It’s nice to see this crooked car salesman show his true colours once and a while. If this is the beginning of the end, I can’t wait to see his theatrics as he goes down the flames.
Yes, thanks for posting. Romney handled that very well. He’s a very impressive guy. I’m going to do what I can to help him become our next president.
I didn’t see Romney going off at all. In fact, I thought he carried himself professionally. I guess as we continue to go soft in America that exchange becomes an all out war. Sad isn’t it? You should agree with that at least even though you are not a Romney supporter. Plus hard to go down in flames when you have a three state win and two second place wins after Nevada. He is number one and still does not receive the respect he deserves.
You'd also have to overlook his support for gay rights, shamnesty, the "assault rifle" ban, his big government we'll solve all your problems nanny-statism, and his love affair with Ted Kennedy.
BTW, conservatives should just say no to RomneyCare. It's not the free-market, private enterprise solution he proudly claims it to be. It's unconstitutional government coercion, force, intrusion, socialism, fascism, totalitarianism and abortionism all rolled into one big government nanny-state boondoggle. He singlehandedly won the war for universal healthcare and government subsidized abortion FOR the DEMOCRATS. He's Clinton, Schumer, Kennedy & Co.'s best friend. A useful idiot...."
LOL, you think that was a heated exchange? Perhaps on the part of the reporter. Romney, the consummate professional handled it with dignity and class, never losing his composure and always with that smile.
Must suck to hate Romney and see him do something this well.
Yeah, like McCain is the epitome of tempermental stability.
I can see why you’re a McCainiac....
That’s the biggest load of crap so far this year.
Mitt Romney truly saying that he likes Ted Kennedy and that he’s not at all worried about the rich isn’t helping Mitt with the conservative voters base! Truly lowering the tax burden with everyone from the richest to the poorest helps everyone, and truly lowering the tax burden on the rich also truly helps with the creation of many new jobs all over the U.S.! Mitt also truly needs to be frequently attacked about and frequently questioned about his “RomneyCare Health Care Plan” in Massachusetts which forces many state residences into a government run health care program when most of them probably don’t want to have any part of it in their lives in the first place! (Do the majority of people all over the U.S. truly want similar kinds of “government mandated” health care systems to be created by all fifty states all over the U.S. as well?)
Facts are terrible things
Cool, thanks for the tip!
Spend a day or so researching Granpa Fred. You’d be surprised. And the badge of ‘the only true conservative’ does not automatically make him a viable candidate of the Republican party against the Hildabeast or Hussein Obama.
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Well then I suggest you take it up with the author who also happens to own this site and hates liberalism.
ME, Yes I do know JR owns this site. And I also know he would be the first one to allow a debate within the policy of this site. By the way, he and I bowl on a leauge Tuesday nights.
I hope he drops a ball on your liberal supporting big toe.
It’s likely to come down to Romney or Hillary, or Romney or Obama. Then we’ll see how much he hates liberalism.
Romney did a pretty good job on Leno. Hope South Carolina voters were watching.
I noticed though that Leno cut out virtually all of the exchange with the reporter except the two “angriest” parts.
Just have to wait for Super Tuesday to see how things pan out on both sides. IMO Obama-Romney come November. Seems like Hildabeast’s baggage is catching up with her.
Shhhh...Manic Episode will rat you out to the principal ;- )
You’re going to be in trouble if you think that is a “heated exchange”. You apparently haven’t seen your candidate when a reporter stands in his way.
just because some people transfer disagreements into personal hatred doesn’t mean either that it’s a good trait, or that we expect it from our leaders.
Meanwhile, you can worry about the Rich. I’m not worried about the rich people. I figure they have the ability to worry about themselves.
An excellent debating technique. “I disagree with you, therefore I hope someone causes you intense physical pain”.
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I don’t like liberals or panderers (or brainwashed cult members) all of which Mitt seems to be, but as much as I hate to admit it I MIGHT be able to plug my nose on election day and drag myself kicking and screaming against my will and go against everything I know and stand for and vote against a Hillary, Obama or whatever if that was the choice, and if I were to do such a thing I would regret it for the rest of my life and smack myself in the face every time I thought about it, and for the rest of my days I would stick my ass out at strangers for them to give me a good swift kick for what I had done.
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Or perhaps that was my way of saying I didn't believe he bowls with JR?
BTW I have seen Fred comes across well and was surprised at the gripes at his performance.
It's quite astonishing that there is such a degree of visceral hatred for Mitt. No response, no tax cut proposal, no success will suffice.....only his destruction.
This reaction certainly sheds light on human nature and extremism, both here and abroad. No amount of reasonable discourse will satisfy someone with hatred in his heart.
Wouldn’t that have been an easier way of saying it?
When a poster makes a claim about another freeper, you can always ping the other freeper to the post if you have some doubt, as I imagine a freeper would want to refute the claim if it weren’t true.
Or you could send a private e-mail.
Given this is a public forum and you’ve already pinged the other freeper into the thread, I believe the poster, because he’d be a fool to lie about it.
If he’s not banned in the next hour, I think that would be convincing evidence that he was not lying.
oh, and not to be the “posting nanny”, but in general, if you simply quote from another freeper, ANY other freeper, it is common courtesy to ping the freeper to YOUR post, so if people respond to your post, the original author can come if they want and answer the questions.
I don’t know if the particuler person you quoted appreciates that or not.
But you would have done the best you could, under the circumstances. No need to beat yourself up for that.
Believe me, Romney is the last man they want to face in the general election. That’s why they’re trying to convince everyone he would be easy to beat.
LOL, it’s actually gotten A LOT better for Romney folks here. Were you here a couple months ago? Everytime someone posted a pro-Romney thread, someone else would put “sixpiecesofsilver” in the keywords. LOL
Unfortunately, one Romney fan did get banned. Must’ve pissed off the wrong Fredhead.
Sure, some people do take politics very seriously and personally. To them, supporting Romney is a direct threat to their personal livelihood and the soul of the nation.
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Seems to me if you're gonna say what JR said is a load of crap that you should be telling him that, not me.
I was here, but lurked more. IMO, most Romney supporters would be happy with Fred as the nominee, but it doesn’t appear that many Fred supporters would tolerate Mitt as the nominee.
Thank you so much for that hint - I have been turning on the magnifier to see it better which is really cumbersome. This really helped!!!!!!
Well Romney is not surrounded by lobbyist like some other candidate got his start up money!
Put that in your lobbyist pipe and smoke Tom Collamore!
Compared to MCCAIN in 2000 and recently I thought Romney really held his cool. These PMSN and other “drivebys” as Rush calls them have one mission when covering Republicans and that is - Embarrass them and if you can’t embarass them get them angry. Then you have a clip that you can play over and over and over.
Had this clip been shown without negative publicity I would have said what a moron that reporter is - and Mitt handled him as a parent would handle a naughty child that acted out in public.
I think that it should be retitled - “Mitt spanks mean reporter.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Heh, heh!
LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!! Touche! I hope he feels better tattle-telling. Childish.
Huh? First of all, the idiot reporter has been following him around pestering him for months now. He recently bashed him for his great grand father’s polgomy. Secondly, the moron “reporter” was rude and wrong. An adviser doesn’t run one’s campaign. Mitt responded to his baseless accusation, stated the facts, and put him in his place. The reporter behaved like a child after his BS was corrected.
I see we have some RDS growing on FR, some people can’t be objective.
Thanx for posting this. Fred is my guy but Romney is a strong number 2. Like him very much.
At the same place? j/k
Do you think there is even a problem with health insurance coverage in America ... that would require any action or 'solution'?
Just curious.
Do you mean like MediCare or MediCaid??
Sarcasm aside, my understanding is that the Massachusetts plan simply negotiated with private health insurance companies to offer low-cost "group" plans for the lowest income people who can't afford insurance .....
Then, if that person or family STILL can't afford health insurance, the state government would subsidize (help pay) that family to buy private health insurance.
The plan requires a person to have a basic 'catastrophic' health plan, which cost about $100 a month, or thereabouts. That, of course, is to protect taxpayers who NOW find themselves picking up the tab for BILLIONS of dollars of emergency hospital care for well off AND low income people who refuse to buy health insurance.
Lastly, the Massachusetts government, unlike MediCaid or MediCare, would NOT be running health care.
Hey newbie, try being a little less obvious in your pro-McCain shilling.
Most people though Romney was a class act in putting that doofus journalist in his place. Keep sharing the video, it helps Romney.
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