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Posted on 03/11/2008 3:48:22 PM PDT by varina davis
Founding member, at your service.
Romney doesn’t add too much to this ticket for me. His big plus is youth (if you call 61 youth....). However, he isn’t all that conservative (for those crying about RINO McCain) and can’t deliver much in an election, Utah will swing for the GOP anyways, the Dems will still have Taxachusetts.
Romney’s negatives hurt McCain more than his youth will help. Mormon question (which shouldn’t be a question) and does have much support from the base.
I do like the idea of picking someone younger, I’d take Sanborn as my VP and know it will help solidify the South and give the GOP some youth for the future.
varina, you and I seem to be the only ones who HOPE for this ticket.
Personally, I would be thrilled. I would rather he chose Fred, but Romney would be great.
There is so much hatred for McCain on Free Republic right now, it’s impossible to have a rational discussion about anything.
The problem is, what do you do to spur the economy once the last manufacturing job has been shipped to China? Romney’s approach is pro-global economy and anti-America, and I don’t see us needing more paper-pushers/number crunching. I see us needing more science/engineering and labor. Not more perception (i.e. attract investors) but more substance and real work. There is a REASON China is kicking our butt.
“No “we” here. Speak for yourself. McCain/Romney would be a double nightmare.”
My thought as well.
You are absolutely correct. And Mr. Romney has mentioned repeatedly about China, Asia and India, but as usual, many were not listening.
“Romney says, however, that he thinks the wounds have healed.”
As much as I am a Romney fan, I would have to tell him to give it up, the A-Hole isn’t about to forget anytime soon, though I wish he would, it would help his likeability factor go way up, but it’s not about to happen. No, McCain is more likely to pick Governor Crist, just to make sure that the former Romney supporters get the idea that it is being stuck to them one more time. That’s the kind of guy McCain is. It’s too bad, McCain is much more interested in sucking up to the liberals and independents then he is in healing any wounds he might have inflicted during his dirty campaign. He knows that the conservative base will be forced to the polls to vote for him while we all throw up as we pull the lever for him.
I live in northeast Ohio. You probably saw that the dems bad-talked NAFTA. The unemployment rate in Ohio is 6% (not far above full employment), and many more jobs were created than were lost. Ohio exports are up.
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DU? Kos?
My main concern with someone with a primarily financial background is tunnel-vision: taking the concept of free trade so far that they fail to see national security implications, such as the manufacture of Song-class submarines designed to sink our aircraft carriers. Fair trade is the answer, with the Reagan balance between open trade and protecting the American industrial base - neither free trade nor protectionism, but a balance.
That’s encouraging. I went out of my way late last year to buy something worth a few hundred dollars - and ended up buying from a Cleveland-based manufacturer. The product was extremely well-made and heavy, probably a cut above its Chinese equivalent. We need to keep hammering home American quality.
It would be nice if he would select a VP who would be a viable Presidential candidate (conservative but unlikely from McCain) after his term, unlike the current President who gave us an old man with medical problems who never intended to run anyway.
Romney = class, faithfilled actions. McCain not so much. Romney has the capacity to look to a higher purpose other then his petty ego. McCain never. Nata. No way. Romney is way too good to be McCain’s Veep. But it might make me cast a vote for McCain otherwise. No.
This is better than McCain’s choice, he wanted John Kerry as his VP.
Maybe he’ll offer it to Hillary if she can’t get seated on the Democrat ticket.
You know, strive for “balance” and “reaching across the aisle”?
Adding a liberal who had a pragmatic conversion to
the McCain ticket would not balance it.
May it never be.
Good news and bad news.
The anti-McCain crowd are called conservatives. Conservatives are the hosts of this forum.
Bad news. If Republicans don't want to wear out their welcome, the juvenile, vitriolic references to the forum's host best be avoided.
"1.21 gigawatts of pure RINO."
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