'Rock star' Mitt Romney gets big ovation in Utah (HUGE BARF ALERT)

The Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah ^ | 2010-03-13 | Lisa Riley Roche

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SALT LAKE CITY — Mitt Romney brought his book tour Saturday back to the city where he led the 2002 Winter Olympics, telling an enthusiastic audience he could decide by Christmas whether to run again for president.

"That's not a decision we've made at this point," Romney told a 12-year-old boy from Bluffdale who said he was "asking a question that a lot of people are wondering and that's, 'Are you going to run for president?' "

The cheers the question received were among the loudest during Romney's hour-long appearance at the Salt Palace as part of his national tour for his latest book, "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness."

Romney said that, like the last time he made a bid for the GOP nomination for president, he and his family will gather to discuss the pros and cons of another campaign, possibly at Christmas or over New Year's.

He said his 2008 run for the White House was fun, especially because of the people who "give their heart and soul for you even when they know you're going to lose."

"There will be somebody who runs in the Republican Party," Romney told an estimated 4,000 people gathered in the Grand Ballroom. "I can tell you I'll either be that person, or I'll be working my tail off for that person, and I want you to, as well, because we've got to take back America."

[Venturer]

Ask yourself this.

Could Romney give Obama his second term?

[4rcane]

I hope he doesnt win the primary. C’mon gopers, wake up about romney. This guy is just like Bush Senior. A total opportunist who say whatever to win

[Yorlik803]

Amen..And piss on all RINOs.
If the GOP puts this turkey up in 2012, then it proves that they dont care about what the base of the party wants.

[Joe Boucher]

Mitt would tap dance with the devil to become pres.
WHY?
What’s in it for him?

[edpc]

That impresses me as much as the reception Hasselhoff gets in Germany.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Now why would Romney start his book campaign in Utah?

[Jmouse007]

Not unexpected: “The Desert News” is nothing but a pro-Mormon mouth piece.

[Leisler]

The Deseret News is a newspaper published in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is Utah’s oldest continually published daily newspaper. It has the second largest daily circulation in the state behind The Salt Lake Tribune. The Deseret News is owned by Deseret News Publishing Company, a subsidiary of Deseret Management Corporation, which is a for-profit business holdings company owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (colloquially known as the Mormon or LDS Church).

The newspaper is published by Newspaper Agency Corporation, which it co-owns with the Kearns-Tribune LLC, a fully owned subsidiary of Media News Group, under a joint operating agreement. As of 2000, its circulation was roughly half of the Tribune’s.[2] As of 2006, combined circulation of the 2 papers was 151,422.[3]

The Deseret News also publishes a weekly tabloid-sized insert, the Church News, which is included in the newspaper and also distributed as a separate publication outside Utah with the “Mormon Times” section. Church News includes news of the LDS Church and has been published since 1931.[4] Since 1974, the Deseret News has published the Church Almanac, composed of LDS Church facts and statistics edited by Church News staff. The “Mormon Times” is about “the people, faith and culture associated with the church.”[5]

[Diogenesis]

"The American people need a break with conservatives.
Let’s screw them all mercilessly once again."

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
--  President Ronald Reagan

"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[dirtboy]

So Romney in ONE STATE can get the kind of reaction that Sarah Palin gets in all 50...

[Diogenesis]

MITT ROMNEY - THE PROVEN BAD GOVERNOR

"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.]

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“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006

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"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006

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"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005

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Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>

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"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006

[chainsaw]

the media loves Slick Willard and loathes Sarah Palin.

The media knows Romney cannot beat Obama, They also know Obama doesn't have a chance against Palin.

If Romney got 4,000 to attend in Utah it was probably Morman carnival like curiosity.

[Diogenesis]

Willard Mitt RomneyCARE:
“"I can tell you I'll either be that person, or
I shall destroy the GOP
like we did to (Gov.) Palin in the last election.
Now go buy my book, ignore what we have done,
and go back to your bananas.”

"Frum ... (Romney supporter called Gov. Palin’s) nomination a "huge mistake" October 13 (2008)"

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Frum: "I will support (Romney) without qualm."

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"Romney presidential campaign staffers…have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters."

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" 80 percent of Romney's former staff was absorbed by McCain
and these individuals were responsible for what amounts
to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off
….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
... was Nicolle Wallace's husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

[Clyde5445]

Just yesterday Sarah got 5,0000 in Tulsa OK.

I know Beck was there to.

[LibLieSlayer]

obama and romney... both lie about what and who they are... both think that they are the smartest and most wise person in any given room and both are socialist liars who are vastly inferior in mental ability and truth. I would NOT VOTE before I voted for mitt... and would no more vote for him than I would obama... there is... outside of religion (obama being a muslim and all)... no difference between them.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

mitt flipflops more than kerry ever did... he was for it... before he was against it. He was a full blown baby killing pro abortion backer until 2007. He is a liar... he is obama without sharia.

LLS

[Grunthor]

‘Rock star’ Mitt Romney gets big ovation in Utah”

Good. Let him be President of Utah.

[Diogenesis]

Exactly. Obama and Romney (Two peas in a pod).

Mitt RomneyCARE (D, Carpetbagger):
“Shhhhhh. I Was For The Obama Bailout ....
Before I Was Against It”

“Romney praises Obama
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney praised President Obama
at a GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday ..
"I also think it's important for us to nod to the president when he's right," Romney said....
Romney, who spoke at a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
said he's pleased with the president's plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan
-- lines that drew applause from the partisan audience. He also applauded the president
for standing up to the auto industry.
"I hope he continues to be tough ....The former businessman even offered faint praise for
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, saying that after a series of initial missteps,
"I think he's finally getting close to the right answer."

[Gargantua]

WHAT??!! A Mormon getting a big response in Utah?!

I just don't believe it! < sarc/off >

What a bad joke. A Mormon tick could get applause in SLC.

"I know Beck was there to."

Yeah, Sarah drew 5,000 despite Beck also being on the stage with her.
:-)

[Diogenesis]

But for Mitt “I walked with MLK” Romney,
there would be neither gay marriage, nor
RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE/DeathPanels, nor
a fully covered-up BIG-DIG, in America today.