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.
LOL! Very good!
Who got more votes than Romney, other than McCain?
yes Romney should be commerce secretary and then VP Sanford would abolish that dept.
He is still 2nd...I didnt say you have to like it.
Run your own numbers... He got snuffed.
No, they just wanted to get away from all the old “Ross Perot/oops Bill Clinton” supporters here.
*Snuffed* by McCain alone. LOL
“Yes, George Allen would be a really smart choice for VP, since it is only a myth that he lost his senate seat to that arrogant Jim Webb.”
After seeing names of the likes of Romney and Crist still being discussed and watching the democrat primary, I think that Allen is a pretty good choice, even with the loss of that election.
He and McCain would look pretty good together.
George Allen was one of my favorites, and still is. Not his time though. Have you ever won anything?
What does Romney bring electorally?
Mccain needs someone who can deliver votes and in my view that means someone very conservative that can hold their own with the media.
We can only hope that McCain that does further alienate social conservatives by selecting a VP candidate with a history of supporting the homosexual agenda, abortion on demand, and gun control. Who even after all his flip-flops, still endorses state “gay rights” laws and opposes the Boy Scouts’ national ban on homosexual Scouts and Scoutmasters.
Mitt Romney, that is.
Its one of the few things that would make me not vote for McCain. My vote will cancel out yours.
You got that right. Romney don’t play in the South. He needs someone from a swing state.
....that McCain dies before election day?
Have I ever won anything? What does that mean?
I think Romney’s strength in the economic area would be a big plus for McCain. I like the idea.
Let me repost that in intelligible English this time...
We can only hope that McCain does not further alienate social conservatives by selecting a VP candidate with a history of supporting the homosexual agenda, abortion on demand, and gun control. Who even after all his flip-flops, still endorses state “gay rights” laws and opposes the Boy Scouts’ national ban on homosexual Scouts and Scoutmasters.
Mitt Romney, that is.
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