Posted on 07/01/2008 4:56:30 PM PDT by Plutarch
Sen. John McCain will choose businessman and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as Vice President, in his bid for the White House this November, a source closely connected with the McCain campaign, who asked to remain anonymous, told us earlier this afternoon.
Though others were close in the running, the choice ultimately came down to the money–not the man. According to our source, the campaign narrowed their Vice Presidential options to Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, the two most successful opponents of McCain in the bid for the Republican nomination. But despite Huckabee’s sway with far Right conservatives and evangelical voters, Romney packs the deepest fund-raising pockets.
As a successful businessman and prominent member of the staggeringly wealthy Mormon community, Romney brings with him the potential to raise “upwards of $60 million in 30 to 60 days, whereas Huckabee could only raise $10 to $15 million,” says our source.
McCain needs those types of numbers to be competitive with the money-sponge that is the Obama campaign, which has 1.7 million individual donors–as well as the Hollywood machine–and is ringing-out advertising dollars across the country, saturating voters in his ‘50 State Strategy‘ to win the White House.
“How the hell did the publisher of the ‘Top 20 Side-Boobs of All Time‘ get this scoop,” you must be asking yourself, right now. (We were asking ourselves the same question.) And here’s the answer: It’s all part of the McCain campaign’s plan to directly target college-age voters, in an attempt to sway them away from Sen. Obama, says our source.
Additionally, the campaign wants to solidify their ticket far in advance of the Obama campaign making their VP choice, in order to get a “head start” on the surge in fund-raising they expect to receive with the announcement of Romney as the Republican VP pick.
So next time two dudes in suits knock on your door, they might want more than to proselytize about the Book of Mormon…
UPDATE: We understand better than anyone how crazy it seems that we got this story first, so a healthy level of skepticism is expected. But we stand by the accuracy of our reporting on this, and will give you as many new details as possible in the coming days–including the name of our source, if we can.
It's a logical pick for McCain. He needs someone with executive experience to balance the ticket. I would like for him to choose Mike Rounds of SD or Mark Sanford of SC. Both are young, solid conservative Republicans and two-term Governors. I don't like Romney but he's much better than Huckster.
If *omney was fat, bald and ugly, would his liberal record then matter to you ? You “ladies” are no better than the Clinton defenders. Shameful.
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ROMNEY VP PING!
If you pay taxes then McCain/Romney is your dream team.... This year at least
On Romney:
Whatever pal. He ran and governed as a big government abortionist liberal. I don’t give a squat about his religion.
If you don’t like the way I run FR, why don’t you just take a freaking hike.
603 posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 5:12:07 PM by Jim Robinson
Please feel free to tell Mr. Robinson that you disagree with him that *omney is a Conservative. :-)
That’s the biggest reason for hating Romney the way some of these scum here hate him... Bigotry, plain and simple.
Keep posting more of your pablum liberal talking points and crapola, sugar, and I’ll keep knocking it out of the park. You have a Democrat ticket to go vote for, the GOP is for Conservatives, not liberals. Get lost.
Don’t get me started on Commie Rommie. You won’t like it...at all.
Don’t worry, there won’t be a United States left after 20 years of those liberals in charge. Won’t be a Republican party left in 2010. Then the Democrats will annoint their *omney hero as their standard bearer for having finally killed the GOP.
He’s a flat out liar and he’s bad at it.
You know the score!
Unleash Mitt on Obama and that fraud will be reduced to blubbering in short order. Mitt can throw Obama off his game
But McCain has to select and insist on Mitt Romney today! Not wait until the convention
Mitt is tireless and will crisscross America this summer savaging Obama and he should start tomorrow
*omney is worse than Huckster (Huckster is 2nd worst).
Mitt Romney is without a doubt the best conservative we have on the national scene. He was the governor of my state and did a tremendous job here despite the fact that he was surrounded by moonbats, socialists, marxists and other scum.
This is a war for the heart and soul of America as Pat Buchanan (who also supported Mitt) likes to say. We defeat Liberalism by roundly defeating enemy number one, the Democrats. After that the rest will follow. Anyone who believes ruining their own FIRST and giving power to the Democrats, is somehow going to defeat Liberalism, is an idiot. And "my friend" that's you.
He would be able to run for re-election two more times, in his own right, after he finishes a hypothetical McCain term.
Wow, what an overwhelming rebuttal. Just don’t like your liberal agenda being exposed, do you, honey ? ;-)
Well I hope it happens. His Veep choice will make a BIG difference to me. To say the least.
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