Posted on 12/14/2009 10:54:45 AM PST by Colofornian
(SALT LAKE CITY) – Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney is preparing a more prominent presence on the national scene with a new book coming out in the spring. His new book, “No Apology: The Case for America’s Greatness” comes out March 2 and Romney is kicking off a book tour at the Salt Palace March 13 with a book signing hosted by the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics. Kirk Jowers, a long-time Romney backer, is its director and says the book will offer ideas about turning around a nation some see in a decline. Jowers said he hopes to have 10,000 people at the book signing in March. At an earlier event, Romney was in Salt Lake City and was asked by reporters if he was running for the 2012 election. Tickets go on sale for the book signing this Thursday at 10am on MittRomneyUtah.
Ha! I can see him hiring some sleepy college kids to camp out overnight in line—but I don’t think they’ll fool anyone.
Good point. I bet she signs more than he actually sells at retail though.
Mitt does not have a vision for America.
He is not on the issues daily as Sarah Palin.
Mitt does not draw the crowds and energizes them
as Sarah Palin does.
On Sarah’s book tour, from the photos and video, there were
large numbers of young peope who were excited and this is
what is needed for Conservative Republicans.
Romney is not only a moderate but does not have the draw
to get the people out and to vote Obama out in ‘12
Mitt and his wife live here in San Diego in the La Jolla area
He probably walks on the beach in a suit and tie.
Zions Bank in SLC sponsored a Romney night book signing for "Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games" in the big five star hotel downtown a few years ago. Everybody got a free book including a buffet dinner. Dear wife and I went so we could witness the Marvelous One and his admiring Mormon worshipers. The crab salad, filet mignon and lobster bisque worked just fine. No wine though.
I thought about that too. Funny...
(Easy answer: Romney got 94-96% of the Lds vote among Mormon voters in Utah, Wyoming, Nevada & AZ...Now, name me 4 states where Huckabee got even a majority of the Evangelical vote in the primaries?)
Other titles: Going Rino, Going left, Going, going, gone!
What is remotely barf-worthy about this article? Romney may not be everybody’s favorite Republican, but the depth of hatred of Romney on FreeRepublic is utterly irrational. It’s like the irrational hatred of Sarah Palin by liberals.
Other titles:
"How to Throw Millions After Millions Down the Drain in a Draining Economy"
"How to Provoke the MSM into Making the 2012 Race a Referendum on Racism: Mitt Romney's 'rise' from 30-year-old bar-the-door-from-black-priesthood membership to POTUS candidate!"
Great, we get to look forward to 500 pages of bullmitt...
Mitt Romney, 11, behind the wheel of his father's Rambler. (Family photo)
Would be an interesting book tour if they hit the road in a Rambler Wagon with the family dog in a carrier on the roof. *woof*
Or tie the dog to the bumper like in National Lampoon’s Vacation.
LOL - I remember that one!
Say, what?!
Surely you jest?
Mitt Romney talking about "America's greatness" from a PR political perspective is like Mormon leaders doing a PR spin on historical Mormonism -- you're only going to get 25% truth at best.
Romney may not be everybody’s favorite Republican, but the depth of hatred of Romney on FreeRepublic is utterly irrational. It’s like the irrational hatred of Sarah Palin by liberals.
What's "irrational" about...???
...opposing a politician who changed his position on embryonic stem cells three times --
--the last being Dec. 2007 when he was interviewed by Katie Couric --
--and told her that "parents" (his word concession) who could either give up their embryos for adoption or, as he saw it as a perfect legitimate "choice" -- give them up to "research" for slice-and-dicement.
(I'd say, my dear poster, that you're the irrational one if you think any parents can give up their offspring for...
Choice A - adoption or
Choice B - "research" --
--or defend candidates who hold this kind of "pro-choice" electioneering)
What's "irrational" about opposing a politician who changed his mind three times on making "sexual orientation" as protected class status in the workplace?
First, Romney was for it;
then he was against it;
then around Dec of 2007 he decided it was OK to be for it as long as it was done at the state (& not federal) level. [Hence, now Mormon leaders followed his lead & have embraced "gender identity" perception ordinances & "sexual orientation" ordinances in the war against business-owners & landlords]
Tell us, Unam Sanctam, your "rational" stance of defending a politician who wants to force retailers to hire cross-dressing & gender-bending employees?
What's so "irrational" about opposing a politician who gets paid as a board director for a corporation that's part of the porn industry? (Perhaps you didn't see the protest article against Marriott earlier this year...now you'd think the protest was done by right-wing, anti-porn protestors, right? (Not on your life). Marriott was protested by pro-porn folks who didn't like the fact that the X-rated porn stuff Marriott was making $ off of didn't include condom protection for the paid prostitutes who happen to do their prostituting in front of a camera.
What's so irrational about opposing a politician who changed his mind more than three times about abortion?
First he was for it;
then it came to pass that he told Utah readers in a letter-to-the editor in 2001 that he wasn't "pro-choice";
then it came to pass that in his gubernatorial run in 2002 he was all-out pro-abortion...even directly soliciting to get on a third pro-abortion voters guide cause the Planned Parenthood-NARAL types in the Bay State wasn't enough
then it came to pass that he supposedly had a pro-life "conversion" in late 2004;
then it came to pass in a May 2005 press conference he announced he was protecting the state's "status quo" on abortion (my how "pro-life" of him);
then it came to pass that he ensured that a Planned Parenthood board member became a permanent oversight member of his socialized health care -- a plan that expanded the # of people getting MA taxpayer-funded abortions;
then it came to pass in campaigning in 2007-2008 he told the lie that everything he did as Bay State governor was "pro-life"...
finally it came to pass that he told Chris Wallace in an August 2007 interview that he'd "always been pro-life" and he NEVER FELT like he was "pro-choice."
How can you rationally either support all of the above or at least the candidate behind all of that and be a FREEPER -- other than Mormon identity politics?
He’s not perfect, but at least he moved in a pro-life direction. He’s not an out and out liberal, and is not as bad as some of the RINOs like up in Maine. Have you ever heard of Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment? Yes there are some RINOs that deserve some opprobrium, but Romney is not a RINO.
I think it has to do with the fact that Romney had so many seminar posters on FR that repeatedly pushed the lie that he was a “conservative.”
No, he is a liberal. Be honest about it.
I think the hypocrasy of the fake that is Romney just drives people crazy.
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