Mmmmmm...Crab Cakes....
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.
You’d better look at this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039672/posts
Anyway, I’m off. You kids have a nice day now. ;-)
Extreme nonsense is all you have to offer, but you keep at it — you do seem to enjoy the attention.
How old was he, 18?
Do you know how judges are appointed in MA? Oooh, my bad, given your comments here apparently not.
I’m so confused though because you spent so much time in MA and know Romney so well.....
Burying the MA GOP?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You are a treasure aren’t you?
Burying the MA GOP?
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You are a treasure aren’t you?
It really has nothing to do with seeing the light, and more to do with MA politics. Reagan sure as sh%t understood that in sunny CA, however that seems to have gone right over your head.
I am so confused about that too as you spent so much time in MA and know Romney so well.....
LONG time?
So confused........
Tsk, tsk, so bitter. But who am I to question that, you lived in MA for so long and know him so well.
Seriously? What a freakin crybaby. Did you ping the owner to the thread to tell on him too?
Just picture in the mind's-eye who Obama will bring to Washington with him.....appointments to the Supreme Court, to the Joint Chief-of-Staff, to the Cabinet, to national security agencies, to ambassadorships throughout the entire world.
With Obama plus a leftist Democrat majority in the House and Senate these high-level positions will be filled by creatures of unimaginable danger to our country. Washington D.C. itself will be crawling with frightening people.
Calypso Louie for Ambassador to the Court of St. James. The Reverend Wright for Senate Chaplain. Maxine Waters for press secretary. Weasely Clark for Secretary of Defense.....
(......just joking, but in reality, not too far off the realm of the possible with the marxist, fascist Obama as President of these 57 states of the union.)
Leni
No problem
http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Mitt_Romney.php
Really don’t have time to google every campaign event he attended for MA GOP candidates.
Deval Patrick won because he picked Tim Murray as his Lt Gov which ensured he would carry central MA which, while thick with registered Democrats, are mostly moderates who will vote Republican.
You of course spending so much time in MA would already know that right?
True, and they have similar health plans...
Oh you were 20? I am sure you and Mitt were quite close then.
Yawn already.
“So I take it you like pro abortion, liberal, pro gay, shape shifting Republicans?”
I think you’ve just described politicans of both parties. Think national defense and the pain will be a little less.
I was correct, that is all he has.
Next.
That he didn’t mention.
Give up, Mitt love is blind and there are several bad cases on FR...
Facts and reality mean nothing when you are in love...
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