But he is a good underwear model.
Posted on 03/11/2008 3:48:22 PM PDT by varina davis
March 11, 2008 Read More: Romney
Romney says he'd take Veep, calls McCain "Big Dog"
Mitt Romney said in his first interview since departing the GOP race that he would accept the number two position on the ticket and that there is no lingering bitterness between him and John McCain.
“I think any Republican leader in this country would be honored to be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee, myself included," Romney told FOX's Sean Hannity in a broadcast set to air tonight. "Of course this is a nation which needs strong leadership. And if the nominee of our party asked you to serve with him, anybody would be honored to receive that call … and to accept it, of course.”
According to two separate reports, Romney is being talked up as a running mate by members of the Bush inner circle. But McCain and his closest advisers have little regard for their former rival thanks to the bitter, year-long race waged between the two Republicans.
Romney says, however, that he thinks the wounds have healed.
“There are really no hard feelings, I don't think, on either side of this," he said in the interview. "There were no pacts and so forth that make people feel like that we will never come together. Instead these campaigns are all coming together. We are supporting our nominee enthusiastically, aggressively."
Romney said his top fundraisers have already met with McCain's campaign.
"We are laying out ways we can support his campaign.”
Romney also belittled the Democrats, saying that he thought Barack Obama would eventually emerge as their nominee and that such an outcome would play to the GOP's favor.
"I think he is the better match-up for Senator McCain because the public recognizes just how inexperienced he is," Romney said. "With Senator Clinton there is some confusion in perception that somehow being there while her husband was president made her a foreign policy-national security experienced person. She is not. She doesn't have any more experience, really, of a significant nature than Barack Obama does. But in Barack Obama's case, people recognize this guy was a state senator and before that he was a community activist. He has been a United States senator for a short, short period of time. He is in no significant way qualified to lead the country at a time of war, to lead the country out of an economic challenge. This is not a person who can stand up to Senator McCain.”
To make his case, Romney employed a canine metaphor.
Listening to Obama and Clinton discuss their national security credentials, Romney said, is akin to "listening to two chihuahuas argue about which is the biggest dog."
"When it comes to national security, John McCain is the big dog, and they are the chihuahuas," he said.
McCain will be on Romney's turf tomorrow night for a fundraiser in Boston, but aides to the Arizonan's campaign were uncertain if their former rival would be in attendance. The two last appeared together when Romney endorsed McCain last month in the former governor's Hub headquarters.
Me, too...but, since that’s not to be, I’ll take VP. ;^)
Nope. No need to. Its easy to point out his lies though. They were pervasive.
I was just thinking that.
But he is a good underwear model.
Well, there was a reason FR initially opposed Rudy McRomney, yet we got stuck with one of them.
Well now, if Romney is calling McCain a dog, isn't he in essence calling him a SOB? A "Big SOB"....LOL
“We can only hope.”
Romney as VP is about the only way I’d vote for McCain.
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well rudy and romney were the bottom 2 choices on abortion, guns and gays. remember when rudy was inevitable? Our situation would be much worse.
I think you know my position on McCain as well. I don’t need to rehash it again.
"But it's his ship now. He's The Big Dog...The Big Man...Numero Uno Honcho...The Head Cheese. I just hope he has the right stuff. Up scope."
He looks more nerdy than Romney.
yeah but you know my position. I would have supported him.
but if he picks a liberal like romney or rudy, I will not only not vote for him...I will vote against him.
And his clothes don’t fit.
you go for looks...I go for conservatives
Amen.
If we’re honest, I bet those two mens’ views are just about identical. :-)
http://www.petitiononline.com/msan2008/petition.html
In the face of soaring deficits and skyrocketing federal spending, America needs a leader who can say “NO!” to Washington tax-and-spenders.
During his six years in Congress, Mark Sanford earned straight “A” ratings from the National Taxpayers Union. When he was elected Governor of South Carolina, he cut taxes by a third and convinced the legislature to pay off 90% of the state’s debt.
He even vetoed parts of his own party’s budget, saying there was simply too much unnecessary spending. When the legislature overrode 105 of his 106 line-item vetoes, he protested by entering the capital building with two squeeling piglets under his arms, demanding to know why there was enough money for pork-barrel spending but not enough to pay the remainder of the state’s debt.
Meanwhile, George W. Bush, as of July 2004, has not used his veto power even once. He has rubber-stamped every pork-laden bill sent to him by his Republican Congress. He has increased federal discretionary spending by 24% and has increased the federal deficit by about 900% since he took office. Compare this to Governor Sanford, who successfully controlled state government growth to 1% and who slashed deficits by 90%.
Sanford holds true to Republican principles on other issues, as well. While President Bush was echoing John Kerry and Al Gore’s position on background checks at gun shows, Sanford was fighting them vigorously in Congress. While President Bush was parroting Kerry’s desire to see the assault weapons ban renewed, Sanford was helping lead the fight against unconstitutional gun bans. While Bush promised to sign most gun bills that land on his desk, Sanford was signing a repeal of his state’s one-gun-a-month law, making South Carolina a much friendlier place to gun owners and collectors. His time in Congress earned him an “A” rating from both the National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America. He was endorsed by the “We Vote Pro-Life” Political Action Committee and won praises from the American Conservative Union as the “Most Conservative Governor in America.”
For those who believe that Pawlenty isn’t conservative enough to be McCain’s runningmate, please keep in mind that Pawlenty is as solidly conservative on right-to-life, RKBA and immigration as they come, and that he was able to be reelected in Minnesota despite the state’s Democrat lean and the horrible political environment for Republicans in 2006. Pawlenty broke his pledge not to raise taxes when he agreed to a higher “health-assessment fee” on cigarettes (which was a tax, regardless of what they called it), and has unfortunately fallen for the global warming hype, but other than that is a pretty solid conservative.
I believe that John McCain will be able to carry Minnesota (48% for President Bush in 2004) and Wisconsin (49% for Bush) with Tim Pawlenty on the ticket, and that Pawlenty’s blue-collar background will help McCain carry Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania to ensure a large Electoral College majority.
That being said, I’d rather have Mark Sanford as McCain’s runningmate if we’re running against Obama.
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