Posted on 02/21/2009 9:26:16 PM PST by Steelfish
Romney playing role in Calif. governor race His support of Whitman could aid ambitions
A victory by Meg Whitman in the race for California governor could deliver Mitt Romney a foothold in a Democratic state. (Noah Berger/Associated Press)
By Sasha Issenberg February 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - From a Lexington office complex, Mitt Romney's political action committee has ensured the former presidential candidate's omnipresence on cable news shows, Republican rally stages, and antistimulus T-shirts, the last available with a $50 contribution to his Free and Strong America PAC.
But for the next year and a half, the center of Romney's political universe will shift west to Sacramento, where key parts of his operation have reassembled on behalf of Meg Whitman, a longtime friend and former business colleague who this month entered next year's Republican primary to become the governor of California.
The former eBay CEO is still readying her headquarters, but it has already become something of a campaign-in-exile for Romney's ambitions, which could include another presidential run in 2012.
His leading fund-raisers and top aides, including one known as the former Massachusetts governor's "sixth son," have already signed on with Whitman. Today Romney will appear with Whitman at the state Republican convention, where he is expected to endorse her.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
A few ?
"If you are looking for a creepy Romney obsession, look for those with thousands of repetitive spam posts about Romney, largely unhinged from the thread topic."
Tell me about it. All these nutters (mostly women and metrosexuals) with sex fantasies that he's gonna come and sweep them away to Never-Neverland to participate in a reenactment of some bodice-ripping romance novel. You'd think two years worth of umpteen daily worship threads would be enough, but yet they just keep on a-comin'...
“Can a Republican win in a state which is so third-world?”
We don’t know, we think we have everything figured out and in it’s place and then someone comes along and wins an election that they can’t have won, and then we have to rebuild our wisdom library.
“Not only opposed Reaganism, he opposed Reagan the man. And proudly so.”
just as his father ‘proudly’ opposed the entire military.
same folks that gave us Arnold.
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Oh, boy! GOP RINO with goofy hair running for president again in 2012!
SEE! SEE! won't you people ever recognize how perfectly consistent Mitt Romney is? Here he is mentioning his personal relationship with the military.
You sick bastards only keep posting this stuff because it is his own words.
Maybe Romney should run for governor of California under the “Who am I Today” Party!
Now THERE is a candidate I’d trust! NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Clearly, it depends on how you define "conservatism." In my book, it is limited government principle BECAUSE it is solely the path to social and fiscal conservatism. Expanded government decays social and fiscal morality. Expanded government perverts morality when it forces taxpayers to fund abortions and prohibits them from rejecting open homosexuality in their daily lives, whether it's their workplace or their kids' schools or an online dating service ala eharmony.
Expanded government exploits taxpayers, squanders their labor, frustrates prosperity, shackles innovation, and raises real costs of everything.
Inconsistency results from lack of the grasp of the principle of self-dependence and self-government, the goal of limited government. "Social conservative" versus "fiscal conservative" is futility itself. I once had a successful East Coast businessman tell me with a straight face that he was a social liberal but a fiscal conservative.
Arnold, Mayor Bloomberg, Senator Specter may be Conservative to you but that’s not what I’m talking about. Arnold ran like one but it was all talk. The legislature and gubmint unions are a bear for sure but Arnold caved when we needed him to fight. This is why he is now the girly man of CA.
What is a “business conservative”?
Is there another guy? Who be dat?
He can't. His home state is Utah, Michigan, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Kalifornia.
You were held in an internment center?
WW2?
is meg whitman married? children? family person?
More a Libertarian. Focus on the economy first and let the people decide social issues. Each state can be different.
It's not government's job to fix or control the economy! That is NOT conservative.
Dang Keynians!
BTW, that is NOT Libertarian.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.