Posted on 11/08/2007 2:51:18 PM PST by Spiff
By John King
ANDERSON, South Carolina (CNN) -- He is the methodical tortoise of the Republican field, and well aware conservative South Carolina could prove the defining test.
Mitt Romney has worked hard to overcome skeptics in South Carolina.
So a few moments into his remarks at the Main Street Deli in tiny Anderson, South Carolina, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney draws a distinction.
"Of the four major Republican candidates for president, there is only one in favor of the federal amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman," Romney tells the gathering. "And that is me."
[SNIP]
Seventeen visits and 32 days of campaigning in South Carolina have helped move Romney from nowhere into contention. [SNIP]
That Romney is competitive here impresses people like Spartanburg County Republican Chairman Rick Beltram, who credits Romney with patiently and methodically answering his skeptics and addressing his vulnerabilities.
Progress has not come cheaply.
Romney has kept the busiest travel schedule of the major Republican candidates, and dipped into his personal savings to help pay for an aggressive early state advertising effort; in South Carolina alone he is approaching $1.3 million in TV ad spending.
The results: He leads in the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire, is ahead or in a dead heat with Giuliani in Michigan (Romney' birth state), and is betting early wins would give him the momentum for what could be a decisive victory once the calendar shifts south to South Carolina.
"So let the national polls be based on name recognition and general reputation and let me win the primaries and I will be happy," Romney said Wednesday after a morning event in Columbia.
Romney methodically winning over South Carolina conservatives
CNN Washington bureau
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It may be because of all the ads he’s buying here. Mitt and Rudy. The only ads I ever hear.
Folks might be tired of them by election day.
“Of the four major Republican candidates for president, there is only one in favor of the federal amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman,” Romney tells the gathering. “And that is me.”
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well rudy did say he would be for it if a significant number of states went for gay marriage
Mitt is campaigning smart.
"Listen to my flip-flops and IGNORE the illegal alien invasion, fake 'troopers' and 'badges',
nutcake judges, eloquent rapists, and socialized medicine (HillaryCARE)
which I left in Massachusetts."
I support Mitt because he is successful in both business AND family life.
I think Fred is too passive and his crusade for conservative principles will be impotent. He simply will not go and fight against liberals on the offensive. He plays into the liberals hand. Talk and lot but won’t do anything. That’s why liberals will see Fred as the safe Republican.
Wake up. Romney not only installed HillaryCARE (which she was unable to do)
but he also installed gay marriage when Mass law would have prevented it. He is the ULTIMATE RINO.
Fixed the headline for you, babe. ;-)
I believe when Fred starts spending his money here the polls will change dramatically.
CommonWealth care is nowhere close to HillaryCARE. It was, in fact, supported by and held up as a model of a good, conservative health care solution by the premiere, conservative Heritage Foundation. I'm sorry if you can't tell the obvious differences between a liberal and a conservative solution.
but he also installed gay marriage when Mass law would have prevented it.
Not true. In fact, he fought against gay marriage in Massachusetts, used a little-used law to keep it from being used to marry anyone from out of state, filed suit with the MA Supreme Court to block implementation of their gay marriage ruling, was a key supporter of the MA constitutional amendment to define traditional marriage as between a man and a woman, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment, and is the only one of the leading GOP candidates who supports the Federal Marriage Amendment.
I could see myself strongly supporting Romney, but I figure I may as well vote for Hunter or Thompson in the primary. Who knows? They just may win.
Both of your replies are wrong.
Such RomneyMYTH(TM) was corrected previously.
Keep on trying to fool everyone.
Romney would disappear with a running of the adds with the clips of him dissing Reagan, pro-abortion, pro-gun control, etc.
It would take a week and he’d never recover.
Yeah, right.
More pablum dribble.
"Nancy, who is this liberal feller that keeps standing in front of me?"
No worries. Couple more months of the Suit and he’ll fall to the wayside like the rest. If only that he won’t be able to afford it.
Hey - RP has another Money Bomb on Dec 15th & 16th, Bill of Rights day and Boston Tea Party.
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