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Posted on 03/11/2008 3:48:22 PM PDT by varina davis
March 11, 2008 Read More: Romney
Romney says he'd take Veep, calls McCain "Big Dog"
Mitt Romney said in his first interview since departing the GOP race that he would accept the number two position on the ticket and that there is no lingering bitterness between him and John McCain.
“I think any Republican leader in this country would be honored to be asked to serve as the vice presidential nominee, myself included," Romney told FOX's Sean Hannity in a broadcast set to air tonight. "Of course this is a nation which needs strong leadership. And if the nominee of our party asked you to serve with him, anybody would be honored to receive that call … and to accept it, of course.”
According to two separate reports, Romney is being talked up as a running mate by members of the Bush inner circle. But McCain and his closest advisers have little regard for their former rival thanks to the bitter, year-long race waged between the two Republicans.
Romney says, however, that he thinks the wounds have healed.
“There are really no hard feelings, I don't think, on either side of this," he said in the interview. "There were no pacts and so forth that make people feel like that we will never come together. Instead these campaigns are all coming together. We are supporting our nominee enthusiastically, aggressively."
Romney said his top fundraisers have already met with McCain's campaign.
"We are laying out ways we can support his campaign.”
Romney also belittled the Democrats, saying that he thought Barack Obama would eventually emerge as their nominee and that such an outcome would play to the GOP's favor.
"I think he is the better match-up for Senator McCain because the public recognizes just how inexperienced he is," Romney said. "With Senator Clinton there is some confusion in perception that somehow being there while her husband was president made her a foreign policy-national security experienced person. She is not. She doesn't have any more experience, really, of a significant nature than Barack Obama does. But in Barack Obama's case, people recognize this guy was a state senator and before that he was a community activist. He has been a United States senator for a short, short period of time. He is in no significant way qualified to lead the country at a time of war, to lead the country out of an economic challenge. This is not a person who can stand up to Senator McCain.”
To make his case, Romney employed a canine metaphor.
Listening to Obama and Clinton discuss their national security credentials, Romney said, is akin to "listening to two chihuahuas argue about which is the biggest dog."
"When it comes to national security, John McCain is the big dog, and they are the chihuahuas," he said.
McCain will be on Romney's turf tomorrow night for a fundraiser in Boston, but aides to the Arizonan's campaign were uncertain if their former rival would be in attendance. The two last appeared together when Romney endorsed McCain last month in the former governor's Hub headquarters.
Founding member, at your service.
Romney doesn’t add too much to this ticket for me. His big plus is youth (if you call 61 youth....). However, he isn’t all that conservative (for those crying about RINO McCain) and can’t deliver much in an election, Utah will swing for the GOP anyways, the Dems will still have Taxachusetts.
Romney’s negatives hurt McCain more than his youth will help. Mormon question (which shouldn’t be a question) and does have much support from the base.
I do like the idea of picking someone younger, I’d take Sanborn as my VP and know it will help solidify the South and give the GOP some youth for the future.
varina, you and I seem to be the only ones who HOPE for this ticket.
Personally, I would be thrilled. I would rather he chose Fred, but Romney would be great.
There is so much hatred for McCain on Free Republic right now, it’s impossible to have a rational discussion about anything.
The problem is, what do you do to spur the economy once the last manufacturing job has been shipped to China? Romney’s approach is pro-global economy and anti-America, and I don’t see us needing more paper-pushers/number crunching. I see us needing more science/engineering and labor. Not more perception (i.e. attract investors) but more substance and real work. There is a REASON China is kicking our butt.
“No “we” here. Speak for yourself. McCain/Romney would be a double nightmare.”
My thought as well.
You are absolutely correct. And Mr. Romney has mentioned repeatedly about China, Asia and India, but as usual, many were not listening.
“Romney says, however, that he thinks the wounds have healed.”
As much as I am a Romney fan, I would have to tell him to give it up, the A-Hole isn’t about to forget anytime soon, though I wish he would, it would help his likeability factor go way up, but it’s not about to happen. No, McCain is more likely to pick Governor Crist, just to make sure that the former Romney supporters get the idea that it is being stuck to them one more time. That’s the kind of guy McCain is. It’s too bad, McCain is much more interested in sucking up to the liberals and independents then he is in healing any wounds he might have inflicted during his dirty campaign. He knows that the conservative base will be forced to the polls to vote for him while we all throw up as we pull the lever for him.
I live in northeast Ohio. You probably saw that the dems bad-talked NAFTA. The unemployment rate in Ohio is 6% (not far above full employment), and many more jobs were created than were lost. Ohio exports are up.
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DU? Kos?
My main concern with someone with a primarily financial background is tunnel-vision: taking the concept of free trade so far that they fail to see national security implications, such as the manufacture of Song-class submarines designed to sink our aircraft carriers. Fair trade is the answer, with the Reagan balance between open trade and protecting the American industrial base - neither free trade nor protectionism, but a balance.
That’s encouraging. I went out of my way late last year to buy something worth a few hundred dollars - and ended up buying from a Cleveland-based manufacturer. The product was extremely well-made and heavy, probably a cut above its Chinese equivalent. We need to keep hammering home American quality.
It would be nice if he would select a VP who would be a viable Presidential candidate (conservative but unlikely from McCain) after his term, unlike the current President who gave us an old man with medical problems who never intended to run anyway.
Romney = class, faithfilled actions. McCain not so much. Romney has the capacity to look to a higher purpose other then his petty ego. McCain never. Nata. No way. Romney is way too good to be McCain’s Veep. But it might make me cast a vote for McCain otherwise. No.
This is better than McCain’s choice, he wanted John Kerry as his VP.
Maybe he’ll offer it to Hillary if she can’t get seated on the Democrat ticket.
You know, strive for “balance” and “reaching across the aisle”?
Adding a liberal who had a pragmatic conversion to
the McCain ticket would not balance it.
May it never be.
Good news and bad news.
The anti-McCain crowd are called conservatives. Conservatives are the hosts of this forum.
Bad news. If Republicans don't want to wear out their welcome, the juvenile, vitriolic references to the forum's host best be avoided.
"1.21 gigawatts of pure RINO."
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