Posted on 11/05/2007 7:18:29 PM PST by JRochelle
Mitt Romney keeps his South Carolina headquarters in a single-story building at one end of Gervais Street, which is Columbia’s version of Washington’s K Street, lined with the offices of local lobbyists, P.R. consultants, and other fixers and power brokers. The main room of Romney HQ is decorated with hand-painted red-and-blue signs, mementos from previous campaign events: mitt is my hero! mitt’s the man! mitt’s my pick! I visited on a steamy Monday night in late July, a time of year when few South Carolinians are interested in politics and fewer still want their evening interrupted by pitches for a presidential primary six months away. But eleven volunteers, mostly college students, were hunched in cubicles spread around the office, diligently placing cold calls to area residents. Boxes of pepperoni pizza from Domino’s (a company Romney backed when he ran the investment firm Bain Capital) were piled on a table against a wall. “Well, I understand, ma’am, there’s a long way to go before the election,” the volunteer replied. “I just hope you’ll keep us in mind.”
-snip- In seeking to woo conservatives, Romney has also used his personal PAC—the Commonwealth Political Action Committee—to contribute lavishly to several national pro-life groups, the Federalist Society, the National Review, and the Heritage Foundation, among others.
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Well if Romney didn’t buy off the National Review and the Heritage Foundation with donations, I’m sure they will say so!
Facts don’t change depending on who publishes them.
Waaaah. Cry me a river. You Mittwitt short-bus riders are so... lame. ;-)
No one else in the history of politics has donated to anything I suppose.
“This article provides a big clue as to why Weyrich endorsed Romney.”
Here is more on that from the NYTs March 2007, the Mormon church has also heavily funded Dobson’s umbrella group.
“The first of Mr. Romney’s recent wave of donations to conservative groups was $25,000 to the Heritage Foundation at the end of 2005. The foundation analysts worked with him on a health care plan and later praised it, as did some other conservative groups.
John Von Kannon, vice president of development for the Heritage Foundation, said the donation had no influence.
Mr. Romney followed a $25,000 contribution to the Federalist Society in 2005 with an additional $10,000 last year, the group’s officials said. Although the Federalist Society does not endorse candidates or policies, some of its top officials are highly influential voices among conservatives on the subject of judicial nominations.
Eugene B. Meyer, president of the society, said a supporter of the organization had sought a donation from Mr. Romney as part of a general Boston fund-raising drive. The group’s annual budget is over $7 million.
Mr. Romney gave $5,000 to help sponsor the anniversary dinner celebrating National Review’s Web site last October at a Washington steakhouse. Another group called Evangelicals for Mitt also gave $5,000. (David French, founder of Evangelicals for Mitt, said the dual donations were a coincidence.)”
I probably would have agreed with you earlier this year, but after seeing certain MittWitts troll every single Thompson thread regurgitating leftist talking points, lies, and smears against Thompson and sickening, depraved innuendos about his wife ad nauseam, I changed my mind and stopped wasting keystrokes defending your Precious Willard.
I met Mitt today. I am not inclined to vote for anyone a year out but I will say he seems accomplished and has abilities the others do not.
I don’t spend time on Fred threads.
Romney must be the first politican in history to donate money!
Where the heck did you get that idea??!
Have you been nipping from the whiskey bottle again? :p
It is bad enough this article is in Harpers, but the writer is even worse, contributing to the moonbat Mother Jones and the hard left The Nation. Why the heck should we take advise from this guy?
I am not worried about how he has lived his life.
I am worried about how he will set policy.
In that area I am less than convinced...
“”I met Mitt today. I am not inclined to vote for anyone a year out but I will say he seems accomplished and has abilities the others do not.””
Was he as sincere and convincing as the candidate in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
What DID I say a long time ago..”It’s all bought and paid-for”..”Mitt Romney’s campaign is a fake, and it won’t play down here”.\ I dont fault him for changing his mind, or even making mistakes in policy in the past (we have all done that to some degree..), yet there’s one think you can’t buy and that is a true sense of trust, and not just one tricking one into believeing you (Romney or anyone) are the right candidate; He lacks soul~
I didn’t say you did. I was referring to certain other people.
Advise?
What advise are they giving?
Was Reagan “unelectable”? I suppose Guliani, Romney are not though..huh?!
(Globalist elitists now run the Party..)! Just so you know!
It’s what they call phoneyness in most parts of the country including the heartland where I have lived all my life: including the states of IN, VA, NC, SC, CO!
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