Like it or not, the guy is not going away anytime soon!
Posted on 05/17/2011 7:48:52 AM PDT by PSYCHO-FREEP
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney pulled in an eye-popping $10.3 million during a national fundraising effort Monday that he described as the kick-off to his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. The event was staged at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and the site was no accident: Nevada is key to Romney's early primary state strategy. Nearly 800 participants dialed for dollars all day and hauled in nearly $4 million more than when his campaign staged a similar event four years earlier. Romney has been scarce on the campaign trail in recent months as he's focused heavily on fundraising for his front-running bid. He recently took a 15-city tour of the country, touting his campaign strengths to potential donors, so he was expected to perform well Monday. Leading the money-grabbing charge a second time is Spencer Zwick, a fundraising guru who headed Romney's finance efforts in 2008. Zwick, 32, recently went into business with Romney's eldest son, Tagg, as they launched Solamere Capital in Lexington, Mass., the site of Romney's PAC offices. Zwick headlined a fundraising call to supporters at midday Monday, which Romney joined, but the moment was somewhat overshadowed by Donald Trump's announcement that he wouldn't seek the Republican nomination for president. Later in the day, Romney addressed his backers in a video chat uploaded to Facebook, answering five friendly questions from supporters. Ultimately, the event was designed to show Romney's strength as the favorite for the nomination by demonstrating his organizational prowess. He told supporters that they would be hearing a lot more from him starting now, and that this event would finally "get the ball rolling" for his campaign.
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Like it or not, the guy is not going away anytime soon!
Well...IF he gets the nomination (a BIG friggin’ “if,”) then suffers his inevitable beating at the hands of his political twin, Obummer; maybe the G.O.P. will have learned the lesson finally that it is bold, sharp contrasts that win them elections, NOT trying to be a slightly less socialist version of the Democrat.
I ain’t holding my breathe.
I’m starting to lean toward Bachmann. We simply can’t repeat the mistakes of the past.
If he gets the nomination I will do everything in my power to help a 3rd party get off the ground.
I’m fing done with Bush/McCain/Romney RINOs!
I MEAN DONE!
What’d he do, promise his donors future “only suckers pay” nationalized healthcare waivers?
One huge ego wasting a huge amount of money.
Money does win elections, votes do.
Romney (or Obama) will not lack for money but both will lack for votes.
I will be supporting Herman Cain.
He will likely lack the money and he too may not be able to attract enough votes but I like him as a person and I support his positions.
Money doesN’T win elections, votes do.
A Mormon will never be President. Yeah, yeah they said the same thing about Kennedy being a Catholic, but when the MSM unleashes all of the stuff about the Mormon Church when Mitt is the nominee, he will be DOA.
Romney, Pawlenty, Gingrich, Daniels. not going to vote for any of them. I am not going to put in a position where conservatism gets the blame for progressive policies ever again.
You might not have a choice, Romney or King Obama and I know many of you will want King Obama like some of you did last time by not going for McNut. No doubt some of you really like communism so just don’t pull the switch. Many of you like a dictatorship that we almost have now. Lets hope that the GOP picks someone other than Romney.
you are a troll....you are always pushing fake polls that have been debunked and this thing about Romney means little since he outspent everybody in 2008 and even used his own money and still lost to McPain and Huckaberry
What we get with Rinos IS socialism. It’s just sneaky and slow whereas with Obama in his arrogance he threw his cloak on the ground.
Mitt Romney is one of the most dishonest human beings I’ve ever followed. Back when he ran for US senate in 1994, he was running around talking out of both sides of his mouth and I thought “dammit” this guy lies more then Bill Clinton.(Thought that was impossible) It was then we knew he’d never beat Ted Kennedy and he won’t beat Obama. He’ll be a disaster as our candidate.
If he is the candidate then “TWO BIG FAT LIARS” will be the trademark of election 2012.
Yawn.......
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
Those Mormons stick together! Let it be a lesson hard learned. If Duncan L. Hunter had had that kind of support, we would be flouishing right now rather than croaking.
The American electorate is frustrating to say the least.
And the Conservative base has gone full blown Populist. There seems to be even harder times ahead for everyone.
Me too, I like Cain or Bachmann the most of all the candidates.
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