Posted on 10/28/2009 6:00:15 PM PDT by ellery
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who's eyeing another White House bid in 2012 after an unsuccessful run in 2008, endorsed former Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell for governor on Wednesday.
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Romney was also asked whether he would make an endorsement in the House of Representative race in New York's 23rd district, where Republican nominee in New York's 23rd is Dede Scozzafava, a state assemblywoman, is facing a threat from the right.
"I have chosen not to endorse the Republican candidate in New York's 23rd District, "Romney said, "and that should speak a certain amount of volume. I can't endorse our candidate in that race.
Scozzafava favors both abortion and gay rights, which her supporters say is the kind of Republican who can win a race in a district like New York's 23rd. But conservatives say the traditionally GOP district would be better served by Doug Hoffman, who is running on the Conservative Party ballot
Hoffman's challenge and his growing strength makes it possible that Democrat Bill Owens could steal the seat away from the Republicans. Democrats have begun targeting him in the district rather than focusing on Scozzafava. Polls show Hoffman leading both major party candidates.
Romney's prospective 2012 Republican rival Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty did recently endorse Hoffman over Scozzafava, as did former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint.
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At this point I don’t know which disgusts me more: the Gingrichs of the world who loudly and repeatedly take an immovably wrong position, or the Romneys and Hucks of the world who are so craven that they avoid taking any position, all the while covering their cowardice with a veneer of false courage (expecting that we’re too dumb to see through their cynical, self-serving tripe).
They don’t get it!!! Huck and Romney are more interested in courting the RINO elite than courting the people they claim to represent. NY 23 is a litmus test for conservatives!
Sounds more to me like he doesn’t want to tick off either side. I’m guessing that he thinks he can play peacemaker between the conservative and the country-club wings of the GOP. While that is a noble sentiment, I don’t think it is a all practical or desirable.
Conservatives need to either take the party back, or push the establishment to the point where the leadership purges all conservatives and becomes so left wing that they spit the left wing vote with the DNC and open the way for a new party for conservatives.
Both candidates were too conservative for Romney.
Romney and his ilk need to leave the Republican party PERIOD! If they run these Rino’s during the next election cycle I will vote 3rd party.
Not really, Huck believes in Hoffman but won’t endorse him. Mitt and Huck are ‘for themselves’ - for their political care. If they can’t stand for conservatism - we don’t need them - no matter what they ‘say’ in the 11th hour.
WATTAWUSS !!! (Applies to both Mitten and Huckster)
I suppose Romney is as much a “star” as Paris Hilton. His major achievement is MassCare which is the template for Obamacare. His so called “star” status is due to him spending tens of millions of dollars for one of the most campaigns in US political history based on spending per vote he received.
What star power?
No, mitt, it only means you are voting “present” like a certain occupant in the W.H.
Romney is displaying his tremendous courage by endorsing a candidate that with landslide-level numbers in the polls with less than a week to go! What a president he'd make with sheer courage like that!
I assume that Willard Romney's sons are displaying the same level of courage, still valiantly serving their country by working on his campaign...
That's at least two of us who would stay home that day.
Chicken Shit. We will remember YOU, Romney!
Sarah Palin not afraid to take on liberals.
Mitt takes on... lets see.. sat out part of the Viet nam
war in Paris
His 5 sons have sat out the War in Iraq and Afghanistan
Grig,
I agree. The NY special election should send a very
seismic shock-wave into the heart of the Republican
establishment.
Will they realized just how much they have alienated their
base of Reagan Conservatives? Apparently, not yet.
Will they realize how close they are to pushing all
conservatives toward third party runs across America?
Apparently, not yet.
I suspect they are feeling hope as they view the races
for Governor and thinking they are on the mend. They don’t
realize they have yet to come back to their lost ideals.
For all these reasons, I think their time in the wilderness
will not be short. If they FAIL to move back to the conservative
ideals they abandoned, I think they will open the door
to a third party run that tanks any chance they have for
ousting Obama.
How they can be so incredibly stupid, I don’t know, other
than to observe they have always been this way. They
didn’t like Goldwater or Reagan. They did like winning,
but they were still embarrassed by Reagan and of course,
now Palin.
What they have done very effectively is split the identity
of Conservative from Republican. It is quite sad.
Best to you Grig,
ampu
Whatta guy. He jumps in front of a stampede and pretends to be the leader.
I’m not sure about Romney. He’s extremely competent and would do a great job running the country, but I’m afraid he would do business with the liberal fascists, and you just can’t if you are going to protect the Constitution. Socialized medicine in Massachusetts is a huge strike against him.
But it’s all moot, because Mormonism is one of the last things where you can get away with bigotry, and Huckabee, being a Baptist, will continue to slime Romney.
VA is looking like a landslide. Romney wants to wrap himself around McDonnell and claim credit. The NY-23 and Jersey race look like tossups with the desired outcome uncertain. Why take chances with campaigning for losers?
I respect Pawlenty’s willingness to buck his Beltway masters and endorse the conservative in the NY-23 with a great risk.
I am most annoyed with the Huckster. Newt following his Beltway masters okay. He’s playing the good soldier. Romney voting present on NY-23. That’s typical Romney.
The Huckster had the nerve to be the guest speaker at the NY Conservative Party yesterday, but won’t allow his PAC to aid Hoffman? I find that be cowardice.
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