Posted on 02/09/2008 7:50:56 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Romney offers Democrats McCain playbook
By GLEN JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer 22 minutes ago
It always sounded innocuous enough, tucked into the adjectives Mitt Romney would rattle off when he described the qualities for the next president.
Wisdom, optimism and the right temperament, said the former Republican presidential candidate.
There was no doubt whom Romney was referring to — rival and likely GOP nominee John McCain, whose short-fuse temper is widely known, especially among his Senate colleagues.
The dig that McCain lacks the comportment to be commander in chief was part of the playbook that Romney used in his unsuccessful bid to secure the Republican nomination. Now it provides a piece of the playbook for either Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton or Sen. Barack Obama in a general election campaign against the four-term Arizona senator.
Among the weaknesses that Romney criticized:
_McCain's admission that he was better versed in foreign affairs and military matters than economic issues.
_McCain's flip-flops both philosophically and on specific issues.
_McCain's alignment with Democrats on taxes, illegal immigration, campaign finance and environmental issues.
Romney stopped short of labeling McCain a liberal, but he said McCain's history of agreements with Democrats would leave voters little more than intangibles with which to distinguish between the Democratic and Republican nominees.
While he never defined those intangibles, Romney suggested McCain would be a liability in a race in which the 71-year-old would be trying to become the oldest person ever elected president, while Clinton was trying to become the first female president and Obama, the first black.
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The best thing Romney could do is help defeat McCain. (Not a Mitt fan by the way.)
The best thing Romney could do is get on board as VEEP and let nature take care of the rest!
Have you seen McCain’s mom? Evil people live a LONG time.
I’m still voting for Romney if he is on my state’s ballot in May. If he continues to get delegates, maybe he can have greater influence at the convention. It’s not too late for something to happen that could change the whole dynamics of the race.
LOL. while he’s at it, he could also help conservatives win election$ at local, state, and federal levels.
The best thing Romney could do is watch from the sidelines and wait for 2012.
McCain will advance an agenda that the GOP and Conservatives will have to reluctantly support.
This same agenda, if advanced by Hillary, would be openly opposed by Conservatives and GOP.
johns melanomas will take him out. Not a death wish, I just can’t see how he has that much damage to his face and there is no spread of disease.
This is funny, the reporter that Mitt had the thing with. I guess he will run hit pieces on Mitt as long as he lives.
The Dems co-wrote McCain’s playbook with him. Romney is merely adding emphasis to McCain’s true nature as a liberal.
Who knows...maybe we'll get lucky and Cheney will finally throw his hat in the ring and marginalize McCain clean off the national platform.
I would agree ... especially when Romney challenges him in 2012.
LEST WE FORGET THE CLINTON STAND ON AMNESTY From 2000, Elections.
Clinton Wants Amnesty
For 4 Million Illegals - End Of
Sovereign America?
Special to World Tribune.com
MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE
11-1-00
UPDATE Congress Adjourns - No Amnesty Deal
From Glenn Spencer glenn@americanpatrol.com 11-1-00
LAME DUCK CONGRESS TO DECIDE AMNESTY
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott just announced that the Senate would be adjourning until November 14.
The amnesty issue will be decided by a lame duck congress and a lame duck president.
If Democrats win, amnesty will pass and we will lose our country.
This election will be a national referendum on amnesty and national sovereignty!
Glenn Spencer
Yesterday, October 31, Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott told a press conference that up to four million illegal aliens may be given amnesty if the Republicans cave in to Bill Clinton. If that happens, it will mean the end of the United States of America as a sovereign nation.
We must do everything we can to stop this.
You must act now or you will lose your nation.
For emails and addresses for your representatives, go to the following Web site and enter your zip code.
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For more information on the amnesty issue and/or to send a fax to Congress, go to Roy Becks page
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REMEMBER, THE LIBERAL MEDIA ARE COVERING UP THIS STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA!
YOU MUST ACT NOW!
Glenn Spencer
American Patrol
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Hey, his Mom can’t be all bad! She’s the one who said that he was in no way conservative and that we should hold our noses and vote for him!
Speaking up about McCain's glaring faults won't hurt Romney with conservatives in 2012. Most conservatives have no use for McCain to begin with and most conservatives are just as vocal in saying the same things about him right now.
Have you seen his Dad? He is dead. Completely dead. And he died younger than McCain is now. And he never spent 5 years in the Hanoi Hilton.
Regards
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