Posted on 08/26/2008 6:43:42 PM PDT by Reagan Man
So, I picked one of the names at random from the august group of signees, and added Mormon to the name in Google.
I had the unfortunate experience of hearing Senator John McCain speak just after he secured enough delegates to force Governor Mike Huckabee to withdraw from the race. It was just pathetic. He spoke for about 10 minutes at a lunch I was attending and then allowed questions... When asked about his faith he gave the testimony of another man instead of his own, and this left everyone in the room scratching their heads.
As for his vice presidential selection ideas, he started off his speech by telling us what a great guy Mitt Romney is, with a “bright” future in the Republican Party. Meanwhile Karl Rove is pushing what he calls an “M & M ticket” for McCain and Mitt. I can think of few choices that would be more of a disaster. If John McCain wants to insult the hundreds of thousands of people who voted for Mike Huckabee, the best way to do it would be to pick Mitt Romney for Vice President. A marginal Christian with a Mormon sidekick is not going to excite social conservatives, particularly evangelicals.
William J. Murray, Chairman Government Is Not God - PAC
Have you ever met Romney in person?
Don Carcieri... or even Gen. Petraeus as an outside-the-box choice.
McCain-Romney — a winning ticket! Cram your photo.
Romney supports minimum wage laws
* In as a candidate for Governor 2002, Romney proposed indexing the Massachusetts minimum wage with inflation, telling the Boston Globe "I do not believe that indexing the minimum wage will cost us jobs. I believe it will help us retain jobs." - - Boston Globe, 7/25/2002 * "The minimum wage is important to our economy and Mitt Romney supports minimum wage increase, at least in line with inflation."
- Romney 2002 campaign website
Romney Balances Budget with $500 Million in New Fees
* "His first budget, presented under a cloud of a $2 billion deficit, balanced the budget with some spending cuts, but a $500 million increase in various fees was the largest component of the budget fix." Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004. Romney was rated a "C" overall by Cato.
See Presentation at the Cato website>
During the debates in 2007, he even dared to try and use Dem style class warfare to make himself appear more 'moderate' and like an 'everyman'.
If they think he won't throw conservatives under the bus like he did with Rush Limbaugh and Harry Reid's phony soldier nonsense. Don't forget about how he courted the Log Cabin Republicans only to throw them under a bus when he decided to run for president. Heck, he even threw his own wife under a bus.
Gullible 'conservatives' better watch out for wayward MittMobiles...
Collectively, all these ineffectual nobodies
are even more comical
than any one of them would be singly.
They just CANNOT STAND
a man of the highest accomplishment
who then entered the dirty den of politics
in the tawdriest polity in the land
and lost his virginity there.
Yet they have no trouble at all, it would seem,
with the fatally flawed standard-bearer himself
... whom many of us will pull the lever for
only because behind his 72-year-old ego
is perhaps the one person in public life
halfway equipped to become president!
Well, they can always cite DEAD people again. I just love the smell of desperation on the part of the mindless Slick Willard bots... it smells like victory. ;-D
I don’t know, “Lash LaRue, Esq.”sounds somehow famous?
...for Obama ! Down with Slick Willard ! Just say no to lying liberals !
Oh, my yes...I haven’t been keeping up on all of that.
/me runs off to research that...
Proof ? Evidence ? Links ?
Meh, he chucked it to support the Huckster.
BWA-HAA-HAAAA!
Oh, wait, you were series?
I’m just enjoying these threads and not engaging the haters.
It’s going to be a party when Mitt gets it!
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I'm not going that far. As bad as McCain has been on immigration issues, he has a solidly pro-life record, and has been usually reliable on taxation issues.
For me it comes down to the VP. The VP selection is effectively the 2012 Republican primary. If it's a RINO, I stay home. A real conservative (Fred, Coburn, Tancredo, Hunter, or someone similar) would win my vote for McCain.
After Fred Thompson dropped out, Romney was the only one left not enthusiastically pis*ing on the base by pushing global warming, open borders and substituting feelings for the rule of law by such travesties as (a)pardoning gallows birds who "found" Jesus or (b)McCain-Feingold. Well, him and Ron Paul. But I ruled out ever supporting Ron Paul the night he made the idiotic statement that Islamofacists wouldn't be over here plotting the next terrorist attack if we weren't over there.
Moronic term, well then considering who they are!!! ROFLOL!
However, I'm sure there is an opening somewhere, managing illegal maintenance workers, that mitt could apply for.
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