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.
(Excerpt) Read more at harpers.org ...
“That didn’t seem phony to me! Sincere? Ya, “
This is sincerity, watch this and then go back and watch the Romney tape a second time.
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/11/05/video-fred-rips-huckabee/
He would not have the support of today's purists and evangelicals were he to run under another identity.
“ah...this is a liberal author pushing a liberal candidate, right?”
No, a leftie rag taking down another Republican candidate.
These kinds of hit pieces are a win/win for the left. If it hits home, an electable, attractive and good candidate is ruined. If not, well, use it in the general.
Here’s why the leftwing Harpers would fear Romney.
Ideology aside, Mitt Romney is the most capable person running for President on either party:
The only candidate with significant private sector experience and accomplishment that relates to leading and executive decision-making.
He got his Harvard MBA and JD at the same time.
He started and ran Bain Capital
He turned around Bain Consulting
He then led the turnaround on the SLC Olympics.
He is still married to his high-school sweetheart has 5 kids and 10 grandkids.
The real Mitt Romney is a family-values moderately conservative energetic superb businessman who likes solving problems. I’ve said for some time that Mitt Romney as president will be a smarter, more articulate and slightly more conservative on fiscal issues and immigration version of George W. Bush.
Romney is only member of the field who’s been a truly successful businessman. He’s 62 but looks 10 years younger. Maybe it’s his daily jogging.
“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.”
-— Michigan’s primary is in January!
I am guessing he met you because he wants your vote in 2 months, not a year from now.
“Why the heck do you need to delve into the writings of a friggin’ Communist to find stuff to use against Romney? “
The question answers itself. Anything to make the point.
Dictator RINO-Romney signing RomneyCARE=HillaryCARE.
Sen. John Kerry to Don Imus: "I like this health care bill".
Sen. Hillary Clinton: "To come up with a bipartisan plan in this polarized environment is commendable."
James Carville: "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."
The big difference between Hillarycare and Romneycare is that Romneycare became law. —Slick Willard
Still on Mitt’s payroll?
Agreed, true conservatives are being marginalized, slandered or ignored entirely.
There's going to be a major breech in the party if a RINO gets nominated.
The outcome is too horrible to conceive. It all seems orchestrated, and if so, Hillary is playing this brilliantly, albeit with the help of other traitors.
Harpers is the one that had a fake article on the RNC convention.
Nice to see conservatives turning to a left wing magazine to attack another conservative. Shows what politics do to people. This must be another Clinton approved thread.
You are exactly right. Romney has indeed lived the life
of a true conservative. Married to his school sweetheart for
40 years. No divorce, no abortions in his family. He has made his fortune the American way, by working hard & using his God given abilities as a brilliant executive.
What a contrast with others running with affairs, divorces,
and who knows what. Now that Thomson has declared he will not interfere with Rowe Vs Wade, who are the anti-abortion people going to go for? May be Ron Paul!
The Clinton machine rather face Fred than Romney. All the liberals, Hollywood, California and MSM want Fred to win. The liberals rather face Fred because they are fully prepared to tear him apart.
But against Romney, Clinton and her husband will be bogged down in issues like traditional family values, faith, morality, etc. Dems don’t want to fight in that arena because they lose everytime. It’s much easier for them to fight Fred. What is Fred gonna do to them? Unleash Cheney’s daughter? Spencer Abraham?
I think he would be a good President. I just question whether he can beat Hillary. In fact, I question whether any of them can beat Hillary.
Exactly
I’ve been shouting the same thing for months... Reagan appealed to indies and moderate dems... Even if by some miracle, Hunter gets the nod- which he won’t, may not even get 2pc- how is he going to appeal to others? Answer- he won’t... He can’t... He’d get beaten like a drum, and worse...some folks here are just plain delusional and looney
Ken Silverstein is the Washington Editor for Harper's Magazine and writes Washington Babylon for Harper's online.
A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Silverstein has covered such topics as intelligence collaboration between the CIA and controversial foreign governments in Sudan and Libya, political corruption in Washington, and links between American oil companies and repressive foreign governments. His 2004 series “The Politics of Petroleum,” co-written with T. Christian Miller, won an Overseas Press Club Award. His stories on ties between the government of Equatorial Guinea and major U.S. companies—including Riggs Bank, ExxonMobil and Marathon Oil—led to the convening of a federal grand jury, and to investigations by the Senate and the Securities and Exchange Commission. His report, co-written with Chuck Neubauer, on a lobbying business opened by Karen Weldon, daughter of Rep. Curt Weldon of Pennsylvania, led to the opening of an investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
Silverstein has been an outspoken gadfly in the newspaper business. In December of 2005, a memo he wrote to his editors at the Los Angeles Times expressing his dismay over their insistence on false “balance” was discussed in an article by Michael Massing in The New York Review of Books. While reporting on potential voter fraud in St. Louis in 2004, Silverstein was angered to learn that his findings were to be woven into a larger “balanced” piece on accusations being made nationwide, when it was clear that Republican charges of irregularities in St. Louis were insubstantial. “I am completely exasperated by this approach to the news,” Silverstein wrote. “The idea seems to be that we go out to report but when it comes time to write we turn off our brains and repeat the spin from both sides.”
Silverstein had been a contributing editor to Harper's before joining the Times. One of his pieces for the magazine, The Radioactive Boy Scout, became a highly acclaimed book of the same title published by Random House in 2004. He has also written for Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, The Nation, Slate, and Salon. From 1989 to 1993 he was a correspondent for the Associated Press in Brazil.
At least Reagan has the record (reputation), prior to running for President in ‘80. Support for Goldwater, Challenged Ford in ‘76! Can’t say the same about Mr. Romney, nor Mayor Guilani, can we..?
SO INSTEAD OF ATTACKING THE POINTS; YOU ATTACK THE AUTHOR; HOW TYPICAL OF THE MITT Romney Campaign!
Reagan appealed to “moderates” (really conservative democrats-the average “joe” if you will, by being..shock, jaw-drop: ‘Conservative’), by being himself, and ‘proving’ that will work. He did not pander to the ~mushy middle~, nor take it as a political game to do so. Reagan stood on principles, like some of the other so called “lesser-tier” candidates!..
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