Poll
What will Mitt Romney's record be next week after Iowa and New Hampshire?
2-0-- 39%
0-2-- 11%
1-1-- 50%
Posted on 12/29/2007 9:13:43 PM PST by raccoonradio
Howie Carr thread for week of Dec 30, 2007. Howie's Sunday Herald column to follow.
GMTA
It still bugs me how too many of the “conservative media” from the northeastern states are for either Mitt Romney or for Rudy Giuliani for POTUS, and this includes Howie Carr’s continued support for Mitt Romney over either Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson. “Republican support” at every level in the northeast states all the way down to Maryland and Pennsylvania continues to be much more “leftist” compared to “Republican support” in most of the remainder of the U.S.
I can live with Fred,but I’m not going to switch before the primary.
Bay is also a Mormon, and I’m sure that this also has something to do with her present support of Mitt Romney. She can truly deny this all she wants. She should seriously support Fred Thompson instead, who is closer politically to Bay than Romney IMHO. I also can’t believe that Bay isn’t attacking Romney for his “RomneyCare Health Care Plan” in Massachusetts. All of the future possible problems with “RomneyCare” alone are more than enough to eventually sink Romney’s chances for victory in the Presidential race.
Really? I knew about the Osmonds, Reid, Romney, and I think Glenn Beck.
She's pulling an "Oprah", then?
Really? I knew about the Osmonds, Reid, Romney, and I think Glenn Beck.
You think she's pulling an "Oprah", then?
Both Bay and Tom Tancredo are endorsing Mitt Romney, who is to the left of both of them politically.
Yes—and maybe he figures a) Mitt has a better chance,
and b) he can get a job in a Pres. Romney administration :)
Thu ping. Again a reminder that Howie is back on WCRN
AM 830 in Worcester, though only for the 5 pm and 6 pm
hours.
Afternoon everybody!!!!
0-2-- 11%
1-1-- 50%
On a business trip to Salt Lake City, we went out to a restaurant. We asked the waiter about what was in effect, a former house. "...owned by a bigamist, and was later a brothel..."
Howie column ping
Romney ego trips and falls flat in Iowa
By Howie Carr | Friday, January 4, 2008 | http://www.bostonherald.com
For Mitt Romney, it may be one and done. Last night he looked like an overrated second seed out of the Big Ten who gets upset in the first round by Campbell College.
As for Hillary, as my listener Ron from Norwood put it, she’ll be the one taking hostages at her headquarters in New Hampshire today.
Mitt not only got his teeth knocked out by Mike Huckabee, but the Huckster and his new plug, ugly Ed Rollins, mussed up his hair pretty good, too. Unless something happens this weekend - and debates have not been Mitt’s strong suit this year - he could be going down in the record books as the John Connolly, the Phil Gramm, the Steve Forbes of the 2008 race.
The guy who blew millions on an ego trip off a political cliff.
See you in New Hampshire, Mitt said last night. Yeah, at Lake Winnipesaukee, on Fourth of July weekend. Is it safe to say, Mitt, that Huckabee brainwashed the GOP voters of Iowa?
Maybe Mitt should have run for re-election as governor after all.
Instead, he had a press availability scheduled in New Hampshire this morning at 2 a.m. That must have been some wakeup call, not to mention a wake. Mitt can spin it all he likes that the Huckster had a natural base in Iowa, but that’s what money is supposed to overcome. That’s why they call it the mother’s milk of politics.
It must grate on Mitt that already the McCainiac rumpswabs of the press corps are promoting the Republican fight as McCain-Huckabee. But the fact is, Mitt’s been fading in New Hampshire faster than he did in Iowa. Like sharks, the voters smell blood in the water.
If there is the slightest glimmer of hope for Willard, it’s that Hillary’s wounded, too, and her flailing makes the Democratic ballot that much more attractive to the independents in New Hampshire in four days. For months now, the Barack Obama rallies have had the same feel as Deval Patrick’s last year - thousands of overweight Baby Boomer moonbats on prescription medication, the men in gray ponytails, the women knitting in their tent dresses, all of them in full swoon. How did Joe Biden describe Obama as a “clean” black man? The Boomers vote Obama, they feel good about themselves, their lives haven’t been a total selfish waste.
McCain’s Strait Jacket Express can’t match that karma, or star power. The Republican primary will have to be won among Republicans. And you can bet that Mitt is ready to hit the grumpy old man with everything but, as that folksy Huckster put it, the kitchen sink. Here is the Romney campaign’s weekend theme:
McCain = Ted Kennedy.
Money will be no object. When you’re already down for $20 million, what’s another five? Whichever Republican finally gets Huckabee one-on-one wins. It’s the longest of long shots now for Mitt, but what’s he got to lose except Tagg’s inheritance?
But in the end, Mitt’s ad barrage won’t work. Because Mitt has the same problem Hillary does. They just don’t like him, or her. They don’t connect. Hillary is just so 20th century. Her husband was the ultimate Teflon politician, nothing stuck to him. She’s Velcro, unable to put across a single lie with the panache of her husband.
She’s got more money than God, and how is her campaign spending it? They’re buying ads on my radio show, and Rush Limbaugh’s. Michael Savage must have been sold out.
If she goes down in flames, how long do you suppose she and Bill will remain married? About as long as Rudy and Judy most likely. And how about Giuliani - you had to know that something was wrong in that campaign when they put Paul Cellucci and Joe Malone on the same bus in New Hampshire and thought the boys could bury the hatchet once and for all.
As for Fred Thompson, he didn’t do that poorly in Iowa, but what’s up with the 1:30 arrival this afternoon in New Hampshire? He’s ceding two news cycles in New Hampshire to his new worst enemy, John McCain, whose minions tried to sandbag him yesterday with the rumor that he was dropping out of the fight. We all thought Fred was a politician, it turns out he only played one on TV. And you know very well that Arthur, his character on “Law and Order,” would have been up at dawn this morning, thanking voters at a subway stop somewhere.
This campaign is off to a great start. This morning it looks like it comes down to Obama vs. McCain in the finals, but tomorrow, who knows?
Anyone for a brokered convention, or two?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1064532
Of course Howie had to get in a dig on Fred Thompson. I guess, then, it’s a waste of time for Fred to be on Howie’s show today...
And Howie did say it was a waste of time for Duncan Hunter to be on his show, chance-wise that is, damning him with "...but I like him...".
The last time Howie was really untoward a presidential hopeful was with Steve Forbes, two or maybe three cycles ago.
Well, ever since Dennis the Menace & posse squatted in Howie's studio and Howie got blamed for it, Kucinich might be the exception.
Howie Carr show ping. From NH today—I guess Duncan
Hunter on at 3?
There was a print column in today’s Herald where Howie
talks about Deval & friends pushing to defeat the
income tax abolishment question but I can’t find it
on the Herald site (...yet).
FRIDAY JANUARY 4
It is time again for the New Hampshire Primary and we are here live. Friday January 4th we will be at The Merrimack Restaurant on Elm Street in Manchester, NH and on Monday January 7th and Tuesday January 8th we will be at Talkers Row in the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, NH. Guests will include Pat Buchanan, Sen. John Sununu (R-NH), Bay Buchanan and various presidential candidates including Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Ron Paul and whoever else we may happen across...
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Me too Cheapskate. Hunter’s my man!
Thanks to Howie Carr for giving him airtime!
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