[nathanbedford]

Today is Wednesday, the 23rd of August 2006, and I predict on this day the nominee of the Republican Party for President of the United States in 2008 will be Mitt Romney.

I come to this conclusion by virtue of the candidate' s telegenic personality and by the utter absence of charisma among the rest of the pack. It's all about television and Romney has it. No one on these boards can claim purer conservative credentials than I have been espousing for years on these threads. I am not unaware of Romney's deficiencies. I know that he is a Mormon, I know that he is the governor of the most liberal state in the nation, I know that he is not pure on the murder of babies. Nevertheless, he will march to the right and he will get the nomination.

30 posted on 08/23/2006 6:38:04 AM EDT by nathanbedford

Full disclosure requires that I have weaseled: If Fred Thompson enters the race, he will be nominated. I would like to see a Thompson /Romney ticket.

[Kryptonite]

And full disclosure requires that I have never weaseled on my prediction that Romney will be nominated, regardless of whether Fred enters the race.

:)

[Rameumptom]

I saw another poster say "I endorsed Mitt before it was considered the cool thing to do."

I started supporting Romney last fall. I was initially skeptical of his conservative conversion. As my posts before October 06 show. The more I researched though the more I realized he is the one I want to win. His understanding of the pro-life issue actually mirrors my own conversion. I was raised Democrat and became Republican in college (then conspiracy theorist constitutionalist - but that's another story)

My favorite Mitt moment so far is his smackdown of the liberal media.

You Tube - Mitt Romney Calls Out Media Bias

Of course I also wrote this. "Am I the only one who think Republicans will gain seats?" 78 posted on 10/30/2006 1:55:53 PM PST by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)

[tabsternager]

I think you were right the first time — only because Fred Thompson doesn’t have the telegenic personality that Romney has.