Then let's just go all the way, shall we?
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.
LOL. If you have to ask what winning means, you are not a winner.
The best thing about it is that when McCain goes down in flames, he’ll take Slick with him. There are a lot of people here saying, “Romney’s our guy in 2012.” Way to aim low!
Several reasons:
1) McCain needs a TRUE conservative, someone who has been solid across the board his ENTIRE career to help shore up the base. Mitt does NOT fit that description.
2) Like it or not there will be a TON of Southern voters who WILL NOT vote for a Mormon. Go look at the primary votes and tell me I am wrong.
3) AND the GREATEST reason: You don't bring in Mitt to highlight that McCain doesn't know squat about the economy. He then makes the guy at the TOP of the ticket look like a dunderhead.
My choice would be Sanford, Pawlenty, or Blackwell.
Here is the deal though. Karl Rove is an outside adviser to McCain and he is ALL over the McCain/Romney ticket. Hopefully McCain will get some better advice. McCain’s biggest weakness at this point is not his lack of knowledge regarding the economy. He can overcome that by coming up with a great plan and selling it on the stump. His biggest problem is energizing and shoring up the base. Mitt does nothing to fix that.
Mitt as Sec. of Treasury but NOT as VP!
At this point, the only way I’d vote for McStain is if Romney is on the ticket as VP.
With Mitt as Veep, I’d be willing to dust off my grassroots political activist/volunteer shoes and actually campaign for McStain. McStain’s campaign would love to have Mitt’s grassroots volunteers - they are hard-working and very loyal. Romney contributors tend to be pretty generous, too (myself included).
And yes, I thought that Alan Colmes looked very pretty tonight. Tonight his makeup looked like it was done by a mortician as opposed to a blind, drunken harlot. For what it’s worth, I think he dyed his hair, too.
Not to mention his sons are rather successful on their own merits.
Here’s the real deal: It doesn’t matter who McCain picks, since he has no chance of winning the WH.
This election is a foregone conclusion for the Dems, I’m sorry to say.
Our focus now should be on trying to win as many House and Senate seats as possible to limit the damage Shrillary or Obama will be able to do.
That’s my pessimistic opinion. You’re free to disagree, of course. But I think we’d be better off focusing our energy where we may actually accomplish something.
Romney IS the new Reagan. You people just don’t see it yet.
NewsWeak Magazine had a cover photo of Romney subtitled “A Mormon Journey!”
WTF is that about? The liberal media framed him specifically as “a Mormon!!”
And many of you here diss Romney so unfairly.
Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face - Romney is the only hope for a McCain ticket (someone dynamic, youthful and a superb debater). Romney could make mincemeat out of either Hillary or Obama. It would be a joy to watch and you people here don’t even see that. You’ve been brainwashed by the media about his mormonism and his so-called flip-flopping that was so exaggerated by the left-wing conspiracy media.
He spent a lot of his money because he was relatively unknown. And he’s not black, or a woman, or a recognized household name like McCain. Obama got all the free press because he’s “the black man running for president.”
Romney is “the good-looking, successful white male, and a Mormon” - so of course he had to advertise himself to overcome the huge media biases against him.
I disagree with many of the remarks above.
Romney would provide the GOP ticket with a very strong expertise in economics and dealing with the economy, as well as strong leadership in a high powered executive office environment. Both of these areas are weaknesses of McCain, and he could be a very valuable asset for governing, assuming that McCain were able to take the advice and get along with Romney. Only those two know that, though.
It would not provide any balance for the ticket in a geographical or ideological sense, however, and though I ended up supporting Romney in my primary, I would not like to see him as McCain’s VP... There are many better choices for that in my opinion.
I would prefer to see Romney as Sec.Treasury, or some such, instead.
Nobody asked him....that’s why I called it “begging.”
Then let's just go all the way, shall we?
Yup - that massive 30% in the primary will just cause a McCain / Romney ticket to sail through in the general election.
I mostly agree.
Our focus now should be on trying to win as many House and Senate seats as possible to limit the damage Shrillary or Obama will be able to do.
The problem with that strategy is that if the base is ticked off at McCain and the ticket in general, they will stay home and not vote for Senators and Congressman. You still have to go into the voting booth even if you are going to vote 3rd party, a write in, or grudgingly vote for McPain.
Since much of the Conservative base is now totally disgusted with McPain - he is going to lose millions of votes, and that will affect Congress.
I hope McQueeg picks Gov. Rick *GoodHair* Perry. They deserve each other. Plus, We here in Texas would lose a RINO.
Yawn....One RINO selling out for another.
HEY!
“Romney IS the new Reagan.”
My gosh...what have you been smokin?
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