I guess the weatherman gig fell through.
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.
If you mean that McCain and Romney are both Liberal RINOs, I have to agree.
If McCain wants to have even a chance of getting Conservatives to vote for him, he needs to drop any pretense of asking Romney.
I whole-heartedly agree with everything you wrote. I wish I were good with words as you are. Thanks. Nanny-state taxes and global warming taxes are of great concern to me.
For the first time in weeks, I have even pondered voting for McCain.
If he picks Romney - I won't just not vote - I will campaign for Ralph Nader because I will be so disgusted with Republicans.
I heard Michael Reagan say on his show a couple of weeks ago that John McCain should choose Mitt Romney as his VP to focus on the economy, and he was totally serious. This country needs a person with serious business expertise, especially with the rise of Asia.
no don’t vote for nader...there must be some other 3rd party to send a conservative message
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I meant Romeny and Sanford.
Romney creamed McCain in Michigan, and spite of all the childish rantings he is quite capable of flipping a badly needed northern industrial state like MI from blue to red.
Few, if any other veep choices could bring that, in any state.
Yes, McCain is very weak on economic issues. He even said so. Brilliant move there. /s/
My guess is that IF (that’s a big if) McCain wins, he’d only be a one-termer. Romney 2012.
not much difference between romneycare and ObamaCare except that even Obama doesn’t believe in universal mandates! Obama will crush him.
Still don't get cha. Mark Sanford? Great guy. Was my Congressman when I lived in South Carolina. Good Gov too.
Who are you supporting between the two?
If Romney - take a hike.
thanks for bringing that up. But you are wrong. Romney will trump the dems on the health care issue too.
romney won michigan because dailykos told people to vote for him
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59649
“Poor Mitt Romney, who’s suffered back-to-back losses in the last week, desperately needs to win Michigan in order to keep his campaign afloat,” wrote Kos. “Bottom line, if Romney loses Michigan, he’s out. If he wins, he stays in.
“And we want Romney in, because the more Republican candidates we have fighting it out, trashing each other with negative ads and spending tons of money, the better it is for us. We want Mitt to stay in the race, and to do that, we need him to win in Michigan.”
An image on DailyKos shows a photo of Romney with the words, “Democrats for Mitt: Because the GOP deserves the very worst.”
I may vote for him - but if Romney is on the ticket, count me out.
uh, wrong again.
myself, as well as thousands of evangelicals voted for Romney in Michgan. That’s why he won. Apparently we are the only state where Christians weren’t Hucka-winked... and voila, HEEEERE’S Johnny (McCain).
Great post, and I agree wholeheartedly. (Except mine would be a woman-crush.)
OMG I had forgotten about that!
I think he’d make a very entertaining political commentator. Would’nt be surprised to see him have his own show on FoxNews someday. He really can be funny and right too. But he’ll never be President.
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