Posted on 02/26/2007 12:26:29 PM PST by RWR8189
(Editor's note: I sat down with Governor Romney at this headquarters in Boston on Friday. I asked to record the interview and Governor Romney agreed without hesitation, and as I turn the recorder on Romney is in the middle of commenting on the fact that his every utterance these days is captured on tape in one way or another.)
ROMNEY: You've got to be really careful about what you say and do anywhere you are. I actually had a dream about being in parking garage and having somebody in front of me taking too long to get their change and honking the horn and then yelling back, and getting out and yelling at each other and then seeing it on YouTube the next day. So I said 'OK', I've got to really be careful, you know, in my personal life.
RCP: So how's the campaign going for you so far? Is it what you expected?
ROMNEY: It's gotten going a lot faster than I would have expected. I saw George Stephanopoulos last week, he said he was hired on as the first Clinton campaign employee in what would be the equivalent of October of this year. And we have many tens of employees at this point. And even this early the response in states that really are early in the process: Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, the response is really quite surprising. Large numbers of people, lots of questions, enthusiastic reaction.
RCP: What's the question you get asked most?
ROMNEY: From Republican crowds most often the question relates to immigration, then education and healthcare. Interestingly, very rarely is
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"Mormonism is cult"
"Romney flip-floped on abortion!"
"Romney care is exactly the same as Hillarycare!"
OK, now that I've gotten the usual anti-Romneybot idiocy out of the way, can this thread talk about interesting things?
Good man. Interesting that GOP crowds aren't interested in how he would handle Iran/Iraq? Is a war fatigue setting in? I hope not.
Mitt is figuring, correctly, I might add, that he's got more to gain from fans of McCain and Brownback then he does from Rudy. Rudy is a brand name that people aren't likely to shift from. Fans of other folks are more likely attracted to them for other reasons (i.e. McCain because he's pro-life unlike Giuliani, Brownback because he's seen as more religious, etc.)
Attacking Giuliani gets him nowhere. He's running to be the anti-Giuliani candidate, and hope those that don't like Giuliani rally around him, and outnumber the pro-Giuliani crowd.
Ping
I don't think so, but I have no proof of my assertions, any more than you do to yours. Romney is playing to the conservative base right now, not the moderates, to which Guiliani is king. The moderate fight happens later.
Well, aren't you a demanding little thing!
---"Well, aren't you a demanding little thing!"---
I'm not demanding, I just expect people to do what I say, the exact moment I say it.
;-)
In good humor.......
Romney writes his position papers in pencil, not ink. ;-)
From a more modern standpoint, you've gotta love Ronald Reagan. I respected him for his optimism, his humor, the glint in his eye throughout his career. But I find that as I get older and older, he gets smarter and smarter as well.
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