Posted on 11/09/2008 11:54:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Guess who is conveniently leaving tomorrow on a Caribbean cruise with influential conservative leaders now that the election is over and Republicans are pondering their future?
Yep, Mitt Romney, widely believed to be planning another run for president in 2012.
Mr. Romney, who sought the Republican nomination in 2008, is one of the headliners for the National Review’s post-election cruise, which departs tomorrow for six days of sun and conversation about restoring the Republican brand in fabulous ports of call in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Turks and Caicos.
It is the same annual confab that fortuitously visited Alaska last year, stopping off to meet Gov. Sarah Palin, and, thereby, helping to send her on a trajectory, according to a recent New Yorker article, to be plucked from relative obscurity to become Senator John McCain’s running mate.
Conservative elites from that cruise, along with one organized by the Weekly Standard that also visited Alaska, came away enamored by Ms. Palin, who worked hard to court them, the article said.
Ms. Palin, of course, is back in Alaska and does not have a ticket to this year’s get-together. Mr. Romney will share the stage with Fred D. Thompson and other guest speakers.
For a taste of the goings-on aboard ship, here is a description from the Web site: “This is not your typical cruise. Guests of National Review will enjoy informative seminars and extensive interaction with our guest speakers; numerous social events; dining with fellow conservatives as well as guest speakers; and a wonderful sense of sharing and camaraderie.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
It is clear that Mittens is running for President. He has press releases all of the time now
Yeah, I got a comment. Keep that backstabbing, scum-sucking Socialist pig away from MY party.
Danger, Will Robinson, danger !
Not a fan of Mitt...but it was our party’s nominee...NOT MITT, who’s staff backstabbed a good conservative. The McCain camp tried to pass it over on Mitt, but it wasn’t him...
That being said: Screaw Mitt, Jindal or Palin 2012!
The only way I’d vote for Mitt is if he was Sarah Palin’s VP pick. Period.
Real Conservatives are not elitists!
She’d never pick him. He’s the one who ordered his paid thugs to badmouth her all over the media and on websites such as this (it behooved him to see the False Messiah coronated).
...how many more RINOs are we going to have to suffer through?
The choice is only Democrat and Democrat Light :(
Comments ? Yes. That’s MY President.
That’s the most I could live with regarding Willard M. Romney.
You’re half-right. Some of McCain’s people did, but that was later on. However, Slick Willard put the hit out on her well before that, indeed, the very day her selection was announced. She’s in his way.
I respectfully disagree with that scenario, but I will say that whatever the cause of the Palin attacks, McCain’s camp was horrible in managing her as a candidate
“Conservative elites”
NRO and Weekly Standard - two mags I will never be subscribing to again...
These are the people whose thinking has lost the last two elections...Neocons and country-clubbers....
Good riddance...I supported Fred in the primaries, but Fred is no conservative, he was the most right-leaning moderate on the stage.
I’d prefer Palin or Jindal, preferably both, to Mitt.
Well, you can disagree, but I’ve known Slick Willard 14 years and I know his M.O. Absolutely no morals or principles. He has no use for the Republican party except as a vehicle to power, for which he discards at the drop of a hat. He also has no use for principled individuals, or indeed anyone or anything that gets in his way. That’s why as bad as McCain was, there was somebody far worse that we could’ve nominated. I wouldn’t have voted for Slick Willard for President at gunpoint.
You’re right about the McCain camp in managing Palin... fact is, she shouldn’t have been managed. She needed to be unleashed. They kept her tied up during a critical period when she could’ve been out connecting with the people. There hasn’t been a candidate like her that drew crowds just to exclusively see her and her family since President Reagan (perhaps even more than him).
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