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.
You must have missed the BIG one on the other thread!
Just IMAGINE the loot if he went for CATTLE FUTURES!!!
I cannot recall ANY folks who butted heads in primaries, later sharing the ticket.
Am I wrong?
The political pundits and talking heads anointed Romney.
Forget the other life long conservatives that hold excellent credentials.
How dare anyone question the political pundits and talking heads judgment. Just do as they say and place Romney on the ticket with McCain because they know what is best for our party and the country./sarc.
Not me.
You can't trust him. Sure, he'll say whatever he thinks you want to hear to get the job, but listen to his supporters when they say that he ran Massachusetts according to conservative principles, despite all those campaign promises to the contrary.
When "he's a liar" comes from a guy's supporters, you know he's trouble.
Plus he's the logical choice -- his lips couldn't be separated from McInsane's butt with a Chain Saw.
Coffee > Nose > Ow.
Not satisfied with a loose cannon moderate mavarick at the top of the GOP ticket, some folks want to add a northeast liberal as McCain’s running mate.
How about JohnnyMac picks a real conservative as his VP choice. And tell Romney to get lost!
“McCain was on TV saying he wants a VP thtat shares his own vision:”
In other words, McCain has no intention of healing any wounds he inflicted on his conservative base, that’s ok, he doesn’t like us anyways, why would he be interested in healing wounds?
Mitt Romney, that obsequious toady? McCain will no more put Gumby on his ticket than draft the mouldering corpse of Augusto Pinochet. National Review just published an ultimatum to McCain that in so many words demanded that he put some Movement flunky on as VP (like Mitt, who won like, four states with his 100 million dollars...). I bet McCain tells National Review where to stick their ultimatum.
Jesus. Conservatives are sure funny sometimes.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Considering that McCain has Mexico's own Reconquistidor, Juan Hernandez, on his staff, it's pretty clear who the Chihuahua lapdog is for the illegal invaders.
Well, that means we can look forward to a McCain-Hillary ticket in '08.
McCain will not pick a running mate who will out stage him. Forget Romney. And forget the idea that he will pick a Conservative. I would not rule out Lieberman.
Sorry:)
Please... Romney is no conservative, he’s a stuffed shirt arrogant leftist who tried to play a right winger when he tried for the presidency.
The WORST thing McCain could do is bring this loser on the ticket.
There are pleanty of competent and capable people who can be solid VPs... NONE of them were also rans for the president this election cycle.
Sorry, but no VP for a guy who basically made BREATHING a taxable offense in MA.. .Get Bent Mr Romney... I hear Hillary is searching for a VP.. maybe you should give her a call.
“I cannot recall ANY folks who butted heads in primaries, later sharing the ticket.”
Try JFK and Lyndon Baines Johnson for starters.
“Conservatives are sure funny sometimes.”
They’re “funny” if they think a Clinton/Obama/Nader are better for the country than a McCain/Romney
I’m not certain from your post just how you perceive my view of Romney.
Here it is.
I think that Mitt Romney would have made a superb President.
Apparently his being a Mormon is too much for conservatives to tolerate. Apparently his fiscal conservatism while Governor here in Massachusetts was meaningless to conservatives around the Country.
The notion of Romney as vice-President to that fraud conservative John McCain is appalling to me. I would lose respect for Mitt big time if he really ever did accept it.
That is about it at this point in time.
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