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 moneynot 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 Huckabees 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 donorsas well as the Hollywood machineand 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 heres the answer: Its all part of the McCain campaigns 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 daysincluding the name of our source, if we can.
EEE, you’re a better man than that. Ignoring his record in MA is not going to change who or what he is. His “reaching out” was no different than what he has always done... lie his ass off to get votes. He hasn’t the character, the experience, or the accomplishments to be President. He was a crap Governor who got bored and cut and run from his responsibilities, he was a liberal on big government and social policies (and on appointing judges — remember the Maucks). If McCain is stupid enough to put him on the ticket, this party will deserve to go the way of the Whigs. I won’t aide or abet that abomination.
Being drunk, stupid and liberal is no way to go through life, hun.
For example, LBJ could have run (for a second term, and (if he had won) served slightly less than 10 total years as president because he took over the presidency with less than 2 years to go (Late November 1963).
Hope that answers your question.
Yeah, I know. I’ve been fighting these shills and trolls for a long time now. It’s amazing with all that money he used to bribe the weak-willed that he still couldn’t buy the GOP nomination. Of course, this current hubbub is the back-door way to get him to the White House. This fraud has GOT to be stopped.
Posting that propagandic bilge brings that seriously into question.
It's exactly the same. *omney inspires a cult of personality worship. Most of us around here revere Reagan, but we never worshipped him as if he could do no wrong. He'd have been deeply disturbed if people had.
"Romney is good looking and articulate.Is that the only qualification to be Vice President?"
He's "clean". ;-) Too many old hags and metrosexuals on FR that want to live out some creepy fantasies seeing him on tv every day. They need to grow up and get a life.
Paid goons and the weak-minded.
“Vote for Mitt and all of your wildest dreams will come true”
Kid, I ate your lunch a long time ago. You just keep embarrassing yourself with your insults against your Conservative betters.
Hehehe... Keep ‘em coming. ;-D
What are his pro-life credentials ?
(*Hint: Paying off people to say he is doesn’t count)
:-)
How is being hateful, self-righteous and offensive working out for you? You remind me of an ugly seven year old girl hitting the cute boy to get attention at recess.
Way to represent the conservative movement. Have you ever heard of the 11th commandment?
McCain really doesn’t look healthy at all. I believe you can be elected twice, if Mitt went from VP to prez, he could be elected two more times if he wanted. I would just love for him to be president. It’s too bad the primary played out like it did, it would be so good to have Mitt at the top of the ticket.
No way he will get it.
Thanks for the ping.
I am still skeptical, would be great, but until I see Romney on TV accepting it, I do not believe it.
I don’t like him because he baptizes our relatives after they are dead .A few of Mormon’s on Free Republic told me that they all do this .Could curse.They told me if I didn’t like it ,it didn’t matter and baptized me or something because I was upset .Well I am upset and many other’s are and some of the Mormon’s on Free Republic said we will not stop.I would never vote for Mitt because of this.
Mini-Mitt ! Teehehehe. Sometimes the trolls get so ornery that they openly start insulting JimRob or the AMs... that’s when they earn their one-way ticket to Zotland.
Didn’t you originally support Rudy?
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