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.
Romney has bigger hair than McCain; he is going to have to use many metaphors to overcome the hair differential.
Me, too, SW
instead you fell for the Romney ConMe
J.C. Watts has quite a bit of personal baggage.
Are you saying McCain is interested in Kerry for VP at this time or was at one time?
That’s the truth, altura. Frankly, the “gotta have a REAL conservative” folks need to get over it for the time being, ‘cause it’s not going to happen in ‘08.
Many of us want a Reagan/Goldwater/Thompson type, but it’s not in the cards this year. We need to just make sure there are no Hillary/Obama/Gore/Kerry types messing up the people’s house in Washington City.
I hope they do it.
It’ll be like a hundred tons of ballast dumped on the deck of the Titantic.
*glug glug glug glug...*
Come on, McPain...THIS could be a reason I would enjoy voting for you.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2006/12/romneys_thought.html
On why the gay community should support Romney over Kennedy, given Kennedy’s record of supporting both civil rights and the gay community:
“Well, I think you’re partially right in characterizing Ted Kennedy as supportive of the gay community, and I respect the work and efforts he’s made on behalf of the gay community and for civil rights more generally, and I would continue that fight.
“There’s something to be said for having a Republican who supports civil rights in this broader context, including sexual orientation. When Ted Kennedy speaks on gay rights, he’s seen as an extremist. When Mitt Romney speaks on gay rights he’s seen as a centrist and a moderate. It’s a little like if Eugene McCarthy was arguing in favor of recognizing China, people would have called him a nut. But when Richard Nixon does it, it becomes reasonable. When Ted says it, it’s extreme; when I say it, it’s mainstream.
“I think the gay community needs more support from the Republican Party and I would be a voice in the Republican Party to foster anti-discrimination efforts.
That's about the ONLY way he'll ever get close to being President.
These words are for all the Republican partisans publishing on this conservative ground.
Dear partisan. You turn this country over to liberals like Clinton, McCain, Obama and Schwarzenegger when you vote for liberals like Clinton, McCain, Obama or Schwarzenegger.
He actually did quite well .....
And I like Mitt Romney better than McCain
If McCain wants to win he needs to find a place for all of them. I disagree with Romney for VP though. Tap Huckabee. Make Duncan Hunter SoD. Find a place for Tancredo, Mitt, Thompson and Ron Paul. That would untify a lot of us IMO. I would feel a lot safer , anyway.
Not sure what is more stupid, inane, childish, and not based on fact is your post or someone who listens to what KOS tells them to do.
Do a little homework and discover something for yourself. Do you know anything about the Romney history in the state? Anything?
I mean anything? It's OK not to support Romney for whatever reason one wants, but to suggest that he won because stoooopid republicans who hang out at KOS and act out at the primary polls is beyond imbecilic. The crossover vote was insignificant at best.
I agree about the big dog though. A pit pull.
BTTT
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