Posted on 03/20/2009 6:02:20 AM PDT by careyb
He “sounds” presidential, but he signed that disastrous healthcare plan. No more words. Actions only will make the next GOP candidate for me. I don’t care if the guy looks like John Merrick.
Actions speak louder than words. And so does his record as governor of Mass. No thanks.
His hair looks presidential.
All three were also recipents of AIG money as well.
Do you think he’d be ready to “rule from day one”, like President Weathervane was?
He should have been our President. I don’t care what he did in MA. Look what we have now.
Placemark
A man does not deserve to be president because he has great teeth and good posture. It is his record that counts and MR records stinks i.e. liberal.
I don’t pick my President by looks. Do you think I’m a bimbo. I’m just saying that look what we have now.
‘His hair looks presidential.’
A Hollywood kind of presidential. No,thanks!
So all that really maters to you is whether the candidate has an R or D in front of the name but it is okay if they have pretty much the same policies?
Okay for you, but that will never be okay by me.
As long as the Republican party keeps running liberals, I will keep voting for independent or third party conservatives.
Unlike you, I don’t object to teleprompter boy because he is a Democrat. I object because he is a liberal. It follows therefor that a different liberal would not be an improvement.
Amen! A classic case of letting a demand for perfection defeating what is simply better. It’s a mistake to defeat better by chasing the perfect. Sad.
He might not have been my first choice among the guys in the ring, but he was better than what we fielded and a damn sight better than what we ended up with.
Romney graduated from the Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan in 1965.[6] After attending Stanford University for two quarters, Romney served in France for 30 months as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Subsequently, Romney attended Brigham Young University, where he graduated as valedictorian, earning his Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in English in 1971.
In 1975, Romney graduated from a joint Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration program coordinated between Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He graduated cum laude from the law school and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five percent of his business school class.
From 1978 to 1984, Romney was a vice president of Bain & Company, Inc., another management consulting firm based in Boston. In 1984, Romney left Bain & Company to co-found a spin-off private equity investment firm, Bain Capital. During the 14 years he headed the company, Bain Capital's average annual internal rate of return on realized investments was 113 percent, making money primarily through leveraged buyouts. He invested in or bought many well-known companies such as Staples, Brookstone, Domino's, Sealy Corporation and Sports Authority.
In 1990, Romney was asked to return to Bain & Company, which was facing financial collapse. As CEO, Romney managed an effort to restructure the firm's employee stock-ownership plan, real-estate deals and bank loans, while increasing fiscal transparency. Within a year, he had led Bain & Company through a highly successful turnaround and returned the firm to profitability without layoffs or partner defections.
Romney left Bain Capital in 1998 to head the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee. He and his wife have a net worth of between 250 and 500 million USD, not including Romney's blind trust in the name of their children, which is valued at about $100 million.
Romney served as president and CEO of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games held in Salt Lake City. In 1999, before Romney was hired, the event was running $379 million short of its revenue benchmarks. Plans were being made to scale back the games in order to compensate for the fiscal crisis. The Games were also damaged by allegations of bribery involving top officials, including then Salt Lake Olympic Committee (SLOC) President and CEO Frank Joklik. Joklik and SLOC vice president Dave Johnson were forced to resign.
On February 11, 1999, Romney was hired as the new president and CEO of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. Romney revamped the organization's leadership and policies, reduced budgets, and boosted fund raising. He also worked to ensure the safety of the Games following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 by coordinating a $300 million security budget. Despite the initial fiscal shortfall, the Games ended up clearing a profit of $100 million, not counting the $224.5 million in security costs contributed by outside sources.
Romney contributed $1 million to the Olympics, and donated the $825,000 salary he earned as President and CEO to charity. He wrote a book about his experience titled Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games.
Romney was sworn in as the 70th governor of Massachusetts on January 2, 2003. Upon entering office, Romney faced a projected $3 billion deficit, but a previously enacted $1.3 billion capital gains tax increase and $500 million in unanticipated federal grants decreased the deficit to $1.2 billion.[46] Through a combination of spending cuts, increased fees, and removal of corporate tax loopholes, by 2006 the state had a $700 million surplus and was able to cut taxes.
The combined state and local tax burden in Massachusetts increased during Romney's governorship. According to the Tax Foundation, that per capita burden was 9.8% in 2002 (below the national average of 10.3%), and 10.5% in 2006 (below the national average of 10.8%).
Along with Fred Thompson, Romney had the best policy on immigration.
I sure as hell would have preferred Romney managing our economy during this crisis rather than Obama or McCain. Romney is a real executive with success in both the public and private sectors. His personal life is impeccable with five boys and a supportive wife. Unfortunately, Romney is being pillored unfairly because of his religon.
Of course you don't care. How Pennsylvanian is that? How Romney is that?
President now because of TeamRomney and their attacks on Gov. Palin.
"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"
"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"
"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"
"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"
"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"
Similar to Romney's other scortched earth tactics:
Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"
Romney could not even successfully support amateur radio.
Unlike Gov. Palin (who is not a flip flopping chameleon carpetbagger, either).
Lots of other liberals are financially successful.
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