Posted on 08/28/2008 12:19:59 PM PDT by Terrence DoGood
The Republican Women's Club of Duval, in a straw poll, chose Mitt Romney as the most qualified candidate for vice president for the Republican Party.
In the Florida primary, Northeast Florida voted for Romney by a 3-1 margin over John McCain. Immediately after the poll, President Betsy Young called on me to present a resolution urging McCain to select Romney as his running mate.
Romney possesses a proven fiscal record at Bain Capitol where he made household names of corporate giants - Staples, Domino's and Office Depot. In 2002, at Salt Lake City, Romney rescued the U.S. Olympics from a $379 million deficit and turned a $100 million profit.
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Romney is the best choice. Pawlenty is a governor from a small midwestern state, and is not presidential material. I hope McCain recognizes this.
So, if we have no choice, we can do nothing to get influence in on his V.P. Pick?
You really are an introverted sheep.
No, with McCain, we don’t have a choice. He’s going to pick who he wants, he’ll spit on the conservative base again if that’s what he decides. McCain doesn’t care about us, or our values. And he’d rather lose than listen, just listen to us.
So, just shut up and take it?
Nope. Not me.
>>There is no perfect VP choice this year, but when you look at plus and minus, Romney is the best choice.>>
If I were a pragmatist, I would vote between Hussein and McCain, the two democrats running this year. But Christ is not a pragmatist, so I’m not either. Ron Paul is the only guy running who will preserve freedoms for believers, not to mention the constitution. Really people, would you buy a car from either Hussein or McCain?
“Every major political movement starts not in Washington but it starts with the grassroots.”
Duncan Lee Hunter, 2007.
Ron Paul will be on the ballot? Is he running Independent?
Of course not. But after saddleback so many folks, including me, thought he’d turned the page. But until he chooses a pro-life candidate as his veep I’m not sold on him. What we say donesn’t matter to him, I’m sure of that. So if he actually picks, in my dreams Santorum, then I know what truly in his mind. My guess is he’ll pick Liberman and make what should be a landslide victory for him into a loss. Or the end of the gop. If he were to win with Liberman and all of hillary’s supporters, then conservatives had better leave the gop and start a new party.
>>>Of course not. But after saddleback so many folks, including me, thought he’d turned the page. But until he chooses a pro-life candidate as his veep I’m not sold on him. What we say donesn’t matter to him, I’m sure of that.<<<
Contradictive statement.
Now we have FRs talking about Ron Paul. Hello?
Anybody out there?
McCain won the nomination. He’s running against a guy named Barack Hussein Obama. Ron Paul dropped out some time ago...
Well there’s pandering, and there’s listening. I didn’t hear him at gopac say anything that made me feel confident about him. I saw parts of saddleback, and I didn’t hear him say he’d pick a pro-life veep. In McCain’s mind he’s pro-life but it doesn’t matter if, say Liberman isn’t. Because it may not be an issue that’s high on his list of priorities.
>>>Ron Paul dropped out some time ago...
That is what I thought. He rolled his campaign donations over to Campaign for Liberty PAC.
Certainly, that -- minus the warm feelings -- is how Massachusetts pols thought of him. Their idea was that he was just passing through, and they'd go on controlling things while he was around and after he left, which they did. But there are a limited number of candidates available and none is ideal.
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