Romney Shoots and Scores!

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[Registered]

The Brody File

David Brody

CBN News Capitol Hill Correspondent

Romney Shoots and Scores!

January 31, 2007 (SUBMITTED AT 9:29am)

Mitt Romney needed this. And he got it. Jim Bopp, is the general counsel for the National Right to Life Committee and he's endorsing Mitt Romney. Read it here. This is a big deal folks. Let me give you an analogy. It's like if you were competing against a half dozen players to become the starting point guard on your college basketball team ( read: President of the United States) and Magic Johnson came out and said "I want this guy as my starting point guard." Well, people would take notice. And when you bring Jim Bopp in as your "Magic Johnson," you've just dunked in the face of your opponents. 
This would be called a "political facial." Since day one, Romney has been pulling all the right levers. If they were going to make a sequel to the Tom Cruise movie, "All the Right Moves," Romney would be the lead. His press team is dynamic and he's out in front in terms of responding to criticism or world events. And now, another key endorsement from a key pro-life figure. Romney needed this because of his past pro-choice position back in 1994. But he' says that now he's "seen the light" and Bopp says he believes Romney is sincere on this issue. 

Ok, so Bopp endorses Romney. You may ask, "how is that going to translate into more votes?" The answer is a little complex but here goes. Bopp works for a powerful organization. That powerful organization works in conjunction wiht other pro-family groups. It's called spreading the word. Many of these groups work so closely together that they tend to listen to one another. Bopp's word goes a long way. Already, two of my sources within these groups are saying this bodes well for Romney. A Bopp endorsement could mean that down the road other major national pro-family groups will come on board for Romney. It's a snowball effect. It translates into these groups mobilizing for Romney and putting the get out the vote operation into high gear. Thus, the votes to possibly, possiblly, put Romney over the top.

[EternalVigilance]

Romney’s dismal record as the Republican leader in Massachusetts

• Romney pledged to build the Massachusetts Republican Party, but in fact he did almost nothing. During his tenure there were two elections for the entire Legislature (2004 and 2006). In each election the Republicans lost seats. Republicans now hold the fewest seats in the Legislature since the Civil War.

• During the four years of Romney’s tenure, the number of registered Republicans in Massachusetts fell by 31,000. During that same period, the Massachusetts Democratic Party gained 30,000.
Boston Globe 11/2/2006

• In the 2006 elections, most offices were not even challenged by Republican candidates. In the November general election for the six statewide Massachusetts constitutional offices there were more Green-Rainbow Party candidates on the ballot than Republicans!

The party’s slide has been so precipitous that Republicans yesterday did not contest 130 of 200 legislative seats, fielded a challenger in only three of 10 congressional districts, and put up fewer candidates for statewide office (three) than the Green-Rainbow Party (four).
Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

• 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," said [Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party].
Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

• “Romney arrived on the scene with great promise, but is leaving the Republican Party here in shambles. Not only are the Republicans yielding the governor’s office for the first time in 16 years, but registered Republicans have fallen by 31,000 since Romney took office, and their legislative presence is at historic lows. But it worked out fine for him: He is now chasing the prize he really covets, the presidency.”
Boston Globe 11/8/2006

• “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 New Hampshire Republican voters warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

[EternalVigilance]

I don't blame Romney for abandoning such a collosal group of losers after that disaster.

Of course you don't. You don't have any problem with any abandonment of principle that Willard Mitt has led.

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

I don't quite comprehend why people bother to respond to EV on the subject of Romney. He's made some of the most inane, ludicrous statements I've ever had the misfortune to read. Like "Romney would be the most liberal president in the history of the United States". That was EV's "articulate, clean, nice looking African American" moment. I.e., the moment when people ought to have stopped taking anything he had to say on the subject seriously.

Hey, no one ever said we take EV seriously! LOL Besides,

He is a loathsome, offensive brute - yet I can't look away.

[EternalVigilance]

What do you think of the fact that Romney appointed more Dems than Republicans to the bench, or that he left the state GOP in complete shambles?

[Ms. AntiFeminazi]

What do you think of the fact that Romney appointed more Dems than Republicans to the bench, or that he left the state GOP in complete shambles?

I think nothing of it.

[EternalVigilance]

Why?

[Vermont Lt]

Empty suit as Governor...in a state that tends to elect republican governors (Weld/Cellucci/Romney). All he did was primp around getting ready to run for President.

I am not saying he wasnt a successful businessman. Just another pretty-boy-empty suit politician though. He was governor for four years and I really cannot think of anything he did that we memorable.

Spending your time trying not offend people is not a good way to run the state.

[Registered]

Registered, please explain to us why we pro-life Republicans should give any credence to a sellout attorney like Bopp?

Sellout? Bwaahahahahha!! Talk about a "Pot meets kettle" moment! If anyone is a sell-out it's you! Everything you ever believed in has been turned into a fundraising scheme! You have been in the center of nearly every conservative scam I can imagine! From that scam of a fence deal all the way to the Schiavo tragedy. You, and the likes of you, are what is giving Conservatism a bad name. It's too bad your eyes have been blinded by the almighty dollar.