Posted on 08/31/2008 1:29:53 AM PDT by rodeo-mamma
Romney to meet with Utah GOP delegates By Lisa Riley Roche Deseret News Published: Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008 12:45 a.m. MDT 0 comments RELATED CONTENT | E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + - McCain's choice alters campaign Utah delegates praise Palin ST. PAUL, Minn. — Mitt Romney may not be on the GOP ticket, but Utah delegates to the Republican National Convention will no doubt give him a hero's welcome when he visits them at their Monday morning breakfast meeting. "Next to John McCain and Sarah Palin, right now there is not a hotter name at this convention than Mitt Romney," Utah Republican Party Chairman Stan Lockhart told the Deseret News. "The fact we're getting him is pretty spectacular, given the fact he already knows where we stand."
Romney is focusing his attention during the four-day convention that begins Monday in St. Paul on swing states like Michigan and Ohio. But after repeated requests, he's making his first stop in Minnesota the Sofitel Hotel in nearby Bloomington to greet the Utah delegation.
After all, Utah gave him an overwhelming 90 percent of the vote in the state's Feb. 5 GOP presidential primary — and at least $6 million in contributions to his campaign. Romney, the leader of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, like the majority of Utahns, dropped out of the presidential race in late February.
Story continues below He was seen as a top candidate to join McCain on the November ballot as the Arizona senator's running mate. But McCain stunned the political world on Friday by naming Palin, 44, Alaska's youngest ever and first female governor. Romney is set to campaign Sunday with McCain and Palin at a "Road to the Convention Rally" at a baseball stadium outside St. Louis.
On Tuesday, Romney is scheduled to address the convention. His speaking slot has not yet been announced. But as a likely presidential candidate in 2012 if the Republicans fail to keep the White House, Romney is expected to speak in prime time.
While in Minnesota, Romney will also hold fundraisers for congressional candidates, serve a meal in a Salvation Army soup kitchen, speak to the conservative Christian International Democratic Union on "The Future of the Republican Party," and address a meeting of the Republican Governors Association.
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Fooled? No, simply a matter of overkill. Why have two?
LOL!!!
busting a gut here in honduras! lol!!!
Romney’s approval ratings in MA were very low. But deval patrick has performed so poorly that they may think they’d be much better off with Romney again.
I expect to see Romney in a McCain cabinet.
He’d be a natural as Secretary of Treasury
The cult worship continues?
Romney for he job he had and quit?
Romney for Michigan Governor?
Rolfl
he really should run for governor of MA or MI given that Patrick and Granholm are total disasters.
Yeah. It would really be neat if the Republicans could form a turnaround team for state governments. If we could get Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush move to a couple of struggling states with Democrat governors . . .From what I've heard Ohio might even be a good target . . .
hmm so he will probably just quit politics for good.
gov of Mass, wasn’t he?
But Utah is excited.
That means Mass citizens hate him,
but his co-religionists support him. Says it all.
Sen. McCain’s choice has saved the GOP.
Romney used the MA governorship as a stepping stone. He doesn’t want that job.
Michigan? They’re are people (really) from there for that.
If McCain loses I fully expect Romney to spend more of his fortune running for President again. That’s what he wants.
A place for Huckabee? With the democrats, that’s HIS place.
I would’ve backed him to take out Pryor even though I loathe him, but he was too good to run for the Senate to help his party. He’ll probably get rich running his mouth.
The personas of these men may be attractive. We are not Obamos though we must examine the RECORD. Neither of them led their state or state party well.
Huck is big government liberal and Romney just wants to be President, he’ll say whatever he thinks people want to hear. Who knows what he really believes.
My first reaction to him was “he’s taking good positions now but what about that Romney care thing and he just quit as Governor..eh maybe he’s ok”. I was surprised to find he was HATED here back in early pre-primary season. I thought damn that Fieldmarshaldj sure is a buzzkill.
The media (including the conservative media) basically ignored Thompson, dooming his chances, Ron Paul looked like a deer caught in the headlights and sounded like a DUer talking about the Middle East and as I expected remained an also-ran. Then McCain surged and Huck came along and of the trio Mitt started to look good to me. I was disappointed he lost.
Then his cult started up for the VP hunt and the lame rationalizations and outright lies in his defense came. The bizarre cheeleaderism of it all, *imp*ng him as the ideal running mate. Who could like this guy that much? It was either “Mitt is great” or “Mitt’s not that great but we MUST have him as VP, there is no one else. He’s a STRONG candidate”. (so strong that McCain beat him and southerners preferred Duckapee?). That made me wonder if something was in the water.
Then I wiped the crud out of my eyes, he *ucks. I always knew in the back of my mind he was just some rich jerk trying to buy the White House, I was right in the beginning not to trust him. The deranged Freepers backfired in their mission.
And I'm sure the Democrats feel good knowing that Hillary Clinton is helping Obama. The question in both cases is how enthusiastic that help will be.
He was governor of Massachusetts. Why would he go back and do it again?
I doubt you’ll see him in a McCain cabinet.
I have been very vocal during the primary and VP selection processes against Romney, often vilified for it. I still feel I have sized his record up correctly and that he would have been a disaster in either role. But, I believe he has great potential to serve the nation in the role of Secretary of Commerce or Secretary of Treasury, and I hope he is selected for one of those.
He really needs to prove over the next 4 to 8+ years that he truly is a conservative and that his troubling record is way in his past, since it is his record, not his words, that caused the strong opposition to his candidacy.
We need strong conservative candidates, so I wish him great success in proving those of us who opposed him wrong.
Just as I expected, even though we have a VO pick which is a much better than Romney, you are still trashing Romney.
You have now turned this into a leftist style personal enmity with Romney similar to the Bush Derangement Syndrome. Romney has acted in a classy manner after he withdrew from the race and we can certainly use his help to win some critical western states and perhaps MI.
Wonder what you will do with your life now that Romney has essentially faded from public life for a while, are you going to scan FR for the word ROMNEY and proceed to trash him.
Maybe he will run for Governor of California...
Conservatism is logically and by experience all over the world, the best way to go.
Where ever there is small government, and the people are left alone to be free and self solve their own problems, the people's state is one of constant improvement and wealth.
That being so, and the US having the fortune of the experience and success of Reagan, and the growth and wealth of southern states that are more conservative, as contrasted with the northern states that are more liberal, then why did Mitt only become a conservative the last few years?
He's not uneducated. Stanford, BYU, Harvard Law and a Harvard MBA.
He familiar with finance, and must of been aware of industry flight from Massachusetts to libertarian, old Yankee(ish) Republican New Hampsire and flight to the south.
Obviously Mitt was aware of Reagan, Bush. Even he said in his run against Teddy, that he wasn't a Reagan/Bush man.
Now he is. Fine. I don't believe it, but I'll accept it.
But here is the question.
Why was he so late to the Reagan Revolution.? Even in communist Poland and the Baltics and China, they knew and followed Reagan. But not Mitt.
Why? It's not education. It's not ignorance or for lack of practical experience.
I'll answer it. I feel it was character. Mitt has a fatal flaw. Fatal. He has wanted to be President so much, for so long, he'll do and say what he feels, wrongly, that he has to say.
If someone else has a better explanation for a highly educated person, with great finance and business experience, having seen the world wide success of conservatism for the betterment of people all over the world, and to have only embraced it in the last few years, I'd love to hear it.
2. Mitt has anything but ‘faded into private life’ his press people try to get him in the MSM every single day.
3. I feel that Mitt is, as he did in his last two years as an absent Governor, setting himself up for another Presidential run. Fine. But commenting on it isn't ‘trashing’ the man.
Mitt, more or less, has admitted that most of his life has been, say, not conservative.
Now he says he is.
There is nothing wrong in not trusting a politician. Matter of fact it is a very good thing. Last time I checked, Mitt was a politician with a record of saying things that were far from the truth. Not so much a lie, but a slippery, lawyerly stretch.
I'd love for Mitt to be a conservative. But more than that I'd like to see him in elected office making enemies and taking the conservative fight, come hell or high water. He's not done that. And him doing great legwork, and picking up GOP I.O.U.’s, from GOP hacks, flunkies, and those that can be bought, doesn't impress me.
But short of running and getting an elected office again, and thus having to show and prove he is conservative, this tactic of Mitt's avoids the illuminating proof. How convient.
If Roney is truly interested in serving his country in high-level politics, then he should go back to Massachusetts, run for Senator, and unseat Kerry.
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