Posted on 01/10/2008 10:06:11 AM PST by Checkers
Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan endorsed Mitt Romney today. As one of Michigan's highest profile business successes this would be news in itself, but it is far more important than just another keen observer of the economy recognizing Romney's qualifications to serve as president.
Monaghan is a Catholic's Catholic, the founder of Ave Maria University and Law School, and one of the forces behind Legatus, an organization of senior Catholic business leaders. He is an ardent pro-lifer, and a man deeply concerned with rescuing the culture.
Monaghan's decision to announce today is a clear signal to social conservatives that it is time to chose and get in the game, first in Michigan and then South Carolina, Nevada and Florida in an effort to save the GOP from capture by the anti-conservative John McCain and the neopopulist Mike Huckabee.
Many leaders of the value voters have stayed on the sidelines, buffeted by conflicting pressures and a sometimes noisy anti-Mormon fringe. They may stay there, but if they do and the presidency is lost and with it the Surpreme Court, their inactivity in January 2008 will be a heavy burden to bear. Monaghan apparently knows this and is leading the way that social conservatives should follow.
There is no way Romney should retire from this race before Super Tuesday no matter how many Beltway-Manhattan pundits want him out. The conservatives are not going to surrender their party, and they want a chance to say so at the ballot box. As the upheaval on the Democratic side showed yesterday, there are many surprises in store for pollsters and pundits in the new media age of politics. By February 5, a thoroughly disgusted core of Republican activists from the center-right will be mobilized across the country to keep their party on the path established
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Insert pizza jokes here.
When our Penn State Pro-life group had events, Dominos Pizza was always there to supply the food. What ever was needed. And they always gave way more than enough. I am so glad to see Monaghan supporting Romney. : )
Thanks, Tom, but I’ll stick with Fred.
speaking of MI business men, anyone know who devos is endorsing?
You’re dedication is admirable, but will there come a point where you will go with a second choice?
How can all of these good, decent and conservative people be so wrong about Romney? LOL.
Ping!
I’m waiting for the Freeper Domino’s boycott thread....(chuckle)
:-)
LOL! They are delusional, compartmentalizing (that’s a new one I read today), compromising, betraying idiots! /sarcasm : )
LOL! They are delusional, compartmentalizing (that’s a new one I read today), compromising, betraying idiots! /sarcasm : )
Mr. Romney just keeps on getting conservative endorsement after endorsement after endorsement...
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DQA/is_1998_Oct_8/ai_53138528
Domino’s Pizza honcho seeks new pastures - Investment fund Bain Capital to buy Domino’s Pizza for about $1 billion
Eurofood, Oct 8, 1998
Thomas Monaghan, founding father of US fast-food group Domino’s Pizza, has decided to sell the business to Boston-based investment fund Bain Capital. The purchase price has not been confirmed, but is expected to be in the region of US$1bn (ECU862m) and includes around 90% of the group’s capital.
I think many will move to Romney if Fred withdraws. What other serious option do we have? Rudy? Huck? McCain? Third party?- handing Hillary the win?
Not happy about the choice but Romney...sigh..might just be the one. Not because of his positives as much as other candidates negatives.
So?
Monagan originally endorsed Sam Brownback despite the fact that Mitt Romney had made him a very rich man.
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