Posted on 01/21/2010 7:38:32 PM PST by GOP_Lady
Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts has most Republicans hopeful about midterm elections. It has Mitt Romney hopeful about 2012.
In many ways, the former Bay State governor never ended his 2008 presidential campaign. From a perch atop his Free and Strong America PAC, Mr. Romney has been raising money, nurturing his team, keeping himself in the national spotlight. With the Massachusetts Senate race, he sensed an unexpected opportunity to step to the front of the GOP presidential ranks.
He played it nicely. Aware that many voters have mixed views of his governorship, Mr. Romney stayed in the shadows, leaving other notables to stump with Mr. Brown. Behind the scenes was a different story.
Mr. Romney headlined fundraisers for the little-known state senator and used his own national mailing list to help raise dollars. He called on supporters to make calls on Mr. Brown's behalf, and he harnessed his media operations to bolster the candidate.
His closest aides flooded to Mr. Brown, bringing with them the savvy of a national operation. Beth Lindstrom, a cabinet official in the Romney administration, served as Mr. Brown's campaign manager. Also in Brown HQ were Beth Myers, Mr. Romney's presidential campaign manager, and Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom, who worked on the now-famous TV spots showing a tax-cutting John F. Kennedy morphing into Mr. Brown.
Mr. Romney got his due on election night. He was the first political figure Mr. Brown thanked for helping "show us the way to victory." Romney allies had already been busy touting his role. "There's no one who has done more behind the scenes and in front of the scenes than Mitt," Republican National Committee member Ron Kaufman told Politico—two days before the election.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
From day one, I supported Mitt Romney, because I felt that we needed a successful business person to help with the economy.
Looks like Jim will have a busy weekend.
I’ve had the RNC court me all last week and this week on Brown. They are out of touch. The people select the candidate and the goons follow. The internet forums will be the factor. The old committees will always be behind the curve.
There’s no need for you to report a fellow to the Mitt Police like you did yesterday.
I didn’t think it was appropriate.
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This was the political coup of my lifetime..I am stunned..Did you notice they have already interviewed Brown’s neighbors, mechanic, co -workers, high school teachers etc....where is the “flesh” from our president’s past..similarly a state senator..Obama seems to have a background like one of those aliens from “3rd Rock from the Sun”...thank for posting the article...adds a bit of balance to the site...
Please do not run Romney..... I don’t dislike the guy, but absolutely do NOT consider him “presidential material”
EPIC FAIL.
If I had a buck for every time you reposted that horse manure, I could arrest the national debt.
Yes, one must give Mr. Mittens his DUE respect.
I would love to see him defeat “Jon Carry”. Though the switch right would be small, it’s baby steps, folks. That’s how we got INTO this mess, it’s the only way out barring armed insurrection, and THAT is a very poor choice, since it opens the whole continent up to invasion by unfriendliER forces than are already here!
How about Romney as Palin’s Sec. Treas and Schiff as Economic Advisor?
Amen
Romney never showed up to help in Massachusetts.
As usual, Romney has tried to take credit even as
he is hiding in California.
Romney’s scum-bag mentality thinks everyone will
forget his Team’s attacks on Gov.Palin on the
eve of Election2008, but they will not.
Do facts matter?
The problem is, when tested, Romney was a bad governor.
How bad? Romney got a "C" rating from CATO. And that was BEFORE
Romney's Socialized medicine and coverup of the BIGdig kicked in.
Note also that Romney betrayed President Bush, even while claiming to be a 'conservative'
(predicting what TeamROMNEY would do later in Election2008 to Gov. Palin).
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
We have no shortage of buisness and economic sucesss, in way more innovative areans than Mitt’s.
We have not economic problems, but political problems requiring many people with free market political education.
Mitt, with his long history, and family history of liberalism, centralization, delivering citizens liberties into the maw of government, last seen in his signature socialistic/fascist Romneycare is a poor choice.
In short, Mitt either doesn’t know, politically, what he is doing, save basic electoral mechanics.
Mitt is typical of GOP mercantilist, rent seeking, favor seekers. He’d be a better fit for the socialist party in France. They love close private/public partnerships.
Those people all work for any Massachusetts Republican. All five.
And, how has the GOP in Mass fared since Mitt was Governor? About as well as jap infantry on a beach where Marines are landing.
Mitt Police?
ROTFLOL. Those are FAKE BADGES, GOP_Lady.
[Fake = the trademark of Mitt].
Romney aide’s bogus badges: Sources detail ‘illegal’ security tactic
" Boston Herald - Friday, July 20, 2007
In an apparent violation of the law, a controverisal aide to ex-Gov. Mitt Romney
created phony law enforcement badges that he and other staffers used on the campaign trail
to strong-arm reporters, avoid paying tolls and trick security guards
into giving them immediate access to campaign venues, sources told the Herald.
“They (the aides) knew the badges were fake and probably illegal,”
said a presidential campaign source who asked for anonymity
because the story could damage the individual’s career.
Two additional sources confirmed that the badges - described as bright silver plates with a state seal attached -
were first created and used by Garrity while Romney was still governor."
FAKE TROOPER (and Chief of Operations)
Bull. Brown raise like Howard Dean did, a million a day via the Internet.
Dean did it six years ago. It’s just that politicians, especially Republicans, are slow on the technological pickup.
By the way, Brown could be out in the next two years. He faced a dreadful canidate, who ran a terrible campaign. The citizens, the largest block is independent, dislike both parties. Right now I’d say loath both parties. If both parites continue as they have, and I belive they will, the loathing will turn to hate.
The public dislike of the British Crown started seventy years before the Revolution. Something along those lines is happening here, and everywhere.
Wait until another ten years of stagflation, and all the payments of local, state, Federal debt and all the gov worker pensions obligations roll in.
It going to be lovely.
Mitt made all his money in the financial industries. He’s has been totally silent on the bailouts of his industries. He would be right along with Paulson, Bush, Obama.
He will see to it that these debts, via increased taxes, fines, fees, permits, licenses are paid.
Taxes under Mitt, Obama, who ever will go up.
It is us vs them, and them is going to win.
He played it nicely. Aware that many voters have mixed views of his governorship, Mr. Romney stayed in the shadows, leaving other notables to stump with Mr. Brown. Behind the scenes was a different story.
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