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.
COULTER: No. Actually, I don’t really like any of our front-runners.
O’REILLY: Really?
COULTER: I think it’s going to be somebody else.
O’REILLY: I think it’s going to be Mitt Romney.
COULTER: Actually, of the ones they talk about...
O’REILLY: I think Mitt Romney is the...
COULTER: ... he’s my favorite. It’s somebody out of the blue.
O’REILLY: ... is the guy on the inside track that very few people know about.
COULTER: And as he’s pointed out, although his...
http://newsbusters.org/node/8076
October 2006, Coulter picked Romney as her favorite. We all know how much of a liberal Coulter is.
Of course there was a reason he failed, the race was saturated with candidates. Huckabee took the nomination away from Romney by splitting party base delegates with him in key states.
SSDD...
You guys call the presentation of facts bashing, as usual...
Funny, I never saw any attempt at actually addressing concerns about the man, just obfuscation and fawning.
Cute and entertaining, but little else...
BTW repeating what I said, adorable.
Weak, but adorable...
Let’s see, in your last post to me you questioned if I ever read a post from a Mitt supporter (I did, everyone of them)
I don’t think I am the one not reading the posts, or you would have saved yourself the trouble...
Massachusetts - Firearms Reform Bill Sent to the Governor`s Desk
Tuesday, June 29, 2004
On June 24, 2004 at approximately 11:20 AM , the Senate took the last legislative vote on S.2367 and sent it to Governor Romney`s desk for his consideration. Representing the greatest set of firearm law reforms since the passage of the Commonwealth`s worst in the nation gun laws, S.2367 is a breath of fresh air for law abiding gun owners. Governor Romney is expected to sign the bill into law later this week.
While not perfect by any means, this bill represents a step forward for gun owners in Massachusetts. The bill was passed in the Senate by a vote of 36 - 1 in favor and the House passed it with no amendments or debate on a “voice” vote. This represented by far the broadest support a reform bill has ever seen in the Massachusetts State House. Only one legislator in the entire building voiced opposition to the bill.
S.2367 does the following:
Instructs the Executive Director of the Criminal History Systems Board to make the Firearms Identification Card and the License To Carry a Firearm the same size as a driver`s license;
Changes the term of a Firearms Identification Card and a License to Carry to six years;
Creates a grace period of 90 days, if the Firearms Identification Card or License to Carry holder applies for renewal before the expiration date, and if the application for renewal is not denied;
Creates a Firearms Licensing Review Board. Applicants disqualified by a misdemeanor record, from obtaining a License To Carry or Firearms Identification Card, may file a petition for review of eligibility with the board, five years after conviction, adjudication, commitment, probation or parole;
and in the case where an officer is confiscating the guns of a person with an expired license, requires the officer to provide a written inventory and receipt for all guns.
Despite the efforts of some (including The Boston Globe) to spin this bill as an extension of or creation of a new “Assault Weapons” ban, the bill makes no net changes to the Commonwealth`s laws regarding those types of firearms. The three sections referencing them merely dealt with re-affirming the definitions of what an “Assault Weapon” could be.
Here are just some of the points that the media (including The Boston Globe) got wrong.
Myth: Some headlines claimed that the legislature voted to expand the ban on the sale of the same 19 guns that the federal government has banned.
Fact: The guns are already banned in Massachusetts . The legislature only voted to clarify the definition of so-called “assault weapons,” but made no changes to the number of guns included.
Myth: The gun ban was extended.
FACT: OUR STATE’S GUN BAN WAS NOT DUE TO DISAPPEAR, NOR WILL IT BECOME INVALID IF THE FEDERAL BAN SUNSETS IN SEPTEMBER.
Myth: The legislature somehow “won over” gun-rights supporters by including reforms.
Fact: NRA and Gun owners` Action League (GOAL) had made it very clear to the legislature that we would not give up any ground. NRA AND GOAL SUPPORTED THIS BILL BECAUSE IT DID NOT BAN ANY GUNS, AND BECAUSE IT MADE MUCH-NEEDED REFORMS.
Myth: Those legislators that wanted to expand the semi-auto gun ban claimed that they “spearheaded” S.2367.
Fact: Credit should be given to Senator Stephen Brewer (D- Barre) and Senator Richard T. Moore (D - Uxbridge) for the reform language.
Myth: The Massachusetts House approved a new version of the ban that would decouple the state definitions from the federal ones.
Fact: The bill merely takes the existing state references to federal law, and fixes the language to a point in time in 1994. Because that is the federal language is currently in effect, THE NET EFFECT ON MASSACHUSETTS GUN OWNERS IS ZERO. NO NEW GUN BANS ARE BANNED. KEEP IN MIND THAT THE STATE LANGUAGE IN EFFECT BEFORE THIS BILL WAS NEVER SET TO EXPIRE.
With that in mind, NRA members should be very pleased in knowing that their efforts to educate and work with their local representatives and senators resulted in a successful reform action.
Thanks to you and the Gun Owners` Action League, lawful gun owners can now take advantage of this first set of real reforms in over five years.
http://www.nraila.org//Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=1149
Prolife — yeah, you nailed him. The guy is just itching to be president to make abortions.....what is it again? legal? my bad, they already are. Give me a break already.
Health care? It was so much better in MA when the taxpayer was just writing blank checks for freecare. Brings a tear to the eye just remembering it. One would never guess that the insurance program you are referring to is incredibly popular here in MA. Pay no attention to that at all. What the hell do I know anyway, I only live here. The state should have no business deciding how state money is spent. Freecare is the way to go...
The politics which went into the decision by both Reagan and Romney is the valid comparison. You be disgusted though as facts can do that to some people, especially the politically naive.
It was never Huckabee out of it and McCain and Mitt only. Mitt would be the nomination if that were the case.
Romney actually effected real gun reform (to the delight of the NRA - gasp!) in liberal Massachusetts and you whine about his claiming to be a hunter.
Yeah, I will pass on your “facts.” Thanks just the same.
I agree that Mitt Romney would be great choice for VP and I hope McCain picks him and learns from him!
You’re the sucker jacka$$... FOlks like you gave us McCain in the first place. TROLL
Sure am glad they passed that 19th amendment, just imagine what this country would be like without bright people like yourself going to the polls on election day and voting for all of those fine candidates.
Ah, Rome. Unlike me, NYC Republican is not a female.
He used the same “women voting” garbage on me, too. Well, we see what Rome2000 thinks of FR women. Let’s see if he apologizes to you, me, and the FR women.
“See my detailed and updated chronology here”
You forgot to provide the link to your cut and paste.
“In Massachusetts, legislators last year voted, over Governor Mitt Romney’s veto, to allow consumers of any age to get Plan B without a doctor’s prescription, instead allowing pharmacists with special training to write the prescriptions. The training, which can be completed online in an hour, describes how Plan B works and what kinds of screening questions pharmacists should ask customers — such as whether they recently had unprotected sex.”
Romney had initially supported that interpretation, but he said yesterday that he had changed direction after his legal counsel, Mark D. Nielsen, concluded Wednesday that the new law supersedes a preexisting statute that says private hospitals cannot be forced to provide abortions or contraception.
‘’And on that basis, I have instructed the Department of Public Health to follow the conclusion of my own legal counsel and to adopt that sounder view,” Romney said at the State House after signing a bill on capital gains taxes.
Let’s see, Romney vetoes the bill, which legislature overrides. DPH — which Romney oversees, interprets the law as private hospitals are exempt, which is not what the law says, so Romney has to correct that. Somehow this entire incident is rewritten as Romney forces mandate on Catholic Hospitals. The mandate was written by the state legislature — WHICH ROMNEY VETOED. Nice deflection.
As for the seeking a “FEDERAL waiver to expand the number of Massachusetts citizens eligible for family planning services, including the “morning after” pill.”
One of those tag ons — the morning after pill being pushed through over Romney’s veto, and now everything that has to do with coverage of health care, which would include of course the mandated morning after pill is rewritten as Romney mandating everyone in the commonwealth getting it.
ARE.YOU.KIDDING.ME.RIGHT.NOW.
I’m a guy, numbnut
LOL. I’m not flat broke, but I have enough for my needs. :)
Hey, Utah Girl! Nice to see you. I hope all is well. I’m going to be in Zion in two weeks! Yeah! :-)
I knew they shouldn’t have given men the right to vote. What were our Founding Fathers thinking of? LOL.
An honest comment from you.
Yup. Buried. Of course, you could list all those Republicans *omney helped elect to statewide and federal office or anywhere else in MA (and all those he left behind, most importantly). Y'know, since you claim he was such a success story. It's interesting that none of you sycophants could ever answer that question. Naah, not that you can't answer it, because you refuse to.
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