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Mitt Romney's opening moves this fall
Politico ^ | Sept 2 209 | JONATHAN MARTIN

Posted on 09/02/2009 10:17:28 PM PDT by byteback

While he remains publicly coy about the possibility of another White House bid, Mitt Romney has a calendar that tells a very different story.

From returning to a key early primary state to delivering an address before a social conservative conference and reuniting with members of his campaign-in-waiting, Romney is scheduled to spend a good deal of his September in a fashion befitting a man very much interested in running for president.

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On Saturday, Sept. 19, Romney will speak at the Values Voters Summit, an annual conference in the capital, put on by the Family Research Council, that frequently draws GOP presidential hopefuls.

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First, on Thursday night, Romney is holding a $1,000-per-person fundraiser at a trendy Washington restaurant. Co-hosts include a number of Romney stalwarts such as former campaign counsel Ben Ginsberg and high-powered lobbyists Ron Kaufman, Drew Maloney, Al Cardenas and Jack Gerard.

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Later that night, Romney is scheduled to rejoin scores of his former campaign aides for a low-dollar Sundaes With Mitt event, at which he’s expected to dish out ice cream alongside some “special guest scoopers.”

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Great timing after Obama's terrible August. This fall is time for facetime for any serious candidate.
1 posted on 09/02/2009 10:17:29 PM PDT by byteback
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To: byteback
Just
go
away

2 posted on 09/02/2009 10:19:24 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: ari-freedom

Mitt, don’t waste your time or my time. It ain’t gonna happen for ya.


3 posted on 09/02/2009 10:22:44 PM PDT by chris37
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To: byteback

I wish he, and all of the others who were liberals until just recently, would just leave! People like him, McCain, and Bushes have ruined our party and are responsible for the president we have now.


4 posted on 09/02/2009 10:23:00 PM PDT by Engineer_Soldier (Returned home from Iraq and found our republic a mess! Just joined the Libertarian Party.)
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To: byteback

/puke


5 posted on 09/02/2009 10:23:14 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: byteback
On Saturday, Sept. 19, Romney will speak at the Values Voters Summit, an annual conference in the capital, put on by the Family Research Council, that frequently draws GOP presidential hopefuls.

Further proof, as if any was needed, that neither the word "values" or the organization known as "Family Research Council" stand for anything whatsoever.

6 posted on 09/02/2009 10:23:29 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (You can have freedom. You can have socialism. But you can't have both! www.AIPNEWS.com)
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To: byteback

If Romney wants to be considered as a VP candidate, for Sarah, then Romney needs to help Republicans take back Congress -—

If he is a player, in that regard, I will listen to him, maybe.


7 posted on 09/02/2009 10:23:37 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: byteback

NO!


8 posted on 09/02/2009 10:23:49 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism is SO yesterday. Fascism, it*s the new black.)
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To: byteback
Why vote for Willard he is a rat.
9 posted on 09/02/2009 10:25:35 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
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To: byteback
I voted for Mitt in last year's primary. He quit the next day.

Personally, I don't think Americans are going to be in the mood for a "moderate" this time around. We've had our fill of "moderates". The next president is going to have one hell of a rebuilding project ahead of him/her. A "moderate" won't cut it.

10 posted on 09/02/2009 10:26:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my country?)
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To: byteback

NEVER.


11 posted on 09/02/2009 10:29:10 PM PDT by Tempest (Placing Americans people before foreign corporate interest)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The math was that McCain was going to win. Basically the Huckster voters in West Virginia did him in. I think he would have been a stronger candidate than McCain but obviously a lot of posters here feel McCain is stronger and want Mitt to go away.


12 posted on 09/02/2009 10:30:47 PM PDT by byteback
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To: FlingWingFlyer

he posed as a conservative and fooled a lot of people. That’s what’s scary. Those that voted for rudy or mccain knew what they were getting into.


13 posted on 09/02/2009 10:30:59 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: byteback
To be clear to all you Mitt fans. There are roughly 60 votes in my conservative circle and family and not a single one has any passion for Mitt. He is the Republican version of Bill Clinton in that he will morf into anything for a vote. He gives different speech's to each group based on what he thinks they want to hear.

He makes my skin crawl “Exactly like Clinton”.

14 posted on 09/02/2009 10:31:13 PM PDT by liberty or death
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To: chris37
Yet another reason to join Sarah's campaign to help her kick Obama and Romney square in the nads come the November 2012 election. And if Obama's been forced to resign by then, reserve line-up players Biden, Byrd or Hillary will also meet with a well-placed scrotum kick with Sarah's size 7 snow boots.


15 posted on 09/02/2009 10:32:35 PM PDT by BP2 (I think, therefore I'm a conservative)
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To: byteback

Ha, ha. And Sarah will be addressing investors in China in a high-power conference. Meanwhile he’ll be scooping ice-cream.


16 posted on 09/02/2009 10:34:15 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative (A Blue Dog Democrat is an oxyMoron!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

We need a ruthless SOB, I will settle for nothing less.


17 posted on 09/02/2009 10:34:24 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Kennedy dared us to call his bluff, when we didn't, he made all of us complicit in what he had done.)
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To: byteback

i think Huckabee would’ve been stronger than mccain or romney. McCain really blew it when he played games with the debate only to come back saying he was for the bailout after all. Huck would have opposed the bailout and delivered a grand slam. doesn’t mean he would win but at least the gop would be on record for opposing the unpopular bailouts.


18 posted on 09/02/2009 10:34:37 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Fiscal conservatism without social conservatism is dead.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
"I'm not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses."

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19 posted on 09/02/2009 10:35:07 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: byteback

We can beat Obama, but not with this guy. When Obamacare is crippling his Presidency, why the heck would we run the architect of a health care plan that isn’t all that different?

If Romney had come out and admitted that Romneycare, as it turned out, has been a failure and that America needs something different, then he might have had a chance. Instead, despite many of his Freeper apologists’ pleas that it was “messed up by the Democrats”, Romney has taken ownership of Massachusetts health care by defending it and giving it an ‘A’.

Now, of all times, is when Republicans need to distinguish themselves from Democrats. Romney simply isn’t the man for the job.


20 posted on 09/02/2009 10:35:38 PM PDT by The Pack Knight (Duty, Honor, Country)
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