Posted on 03/14/2010 1:19:22 AM PST by rabscuttle385
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
You missed the word “IF”.
.......Romney just wants to be a god on planet Kolob and to be closer, someday, to that great profit Joe Smith. When that happens, you've reached the top, baby!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/120857/Conservatives-Single-Largest-Ideological-Group.aspx
You invited it, so yes I'll call you a RINO. When you play to tie, you ususlly end up losing.
unless they rig it for romney, the way they did in ny 23 with the computer virus uploaded into the voting machines.
is that you medved? if it is, your radio show sucks.
No, I didn't, I just shot it down and you are too addled to realize it.
Rock star? Romney? LOL...he can play the skin flute for all I care. Piss on Romney.
LOL, too funny, he only got 4,000 people in Utah?
This is another example of there being more evidence of Mormons voting FOR Romney just because he is LDS, than non-Mormons voting AGAINST Romney just because he is LDS.
Those who oppose him, oppose him on political grounds.
What’s in it for him?
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Fulfillment of a prophecy by Joseph Smith, which was really about Smith’s run for POTUS in 1844.
Now why would Romney start his book campaign in Utah?
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Guaranteed sales.
Even the LDS bookstores are carrying the book.
Romney is the $h!t stain on the magic underwear of life.
Even the GOP isn't stupid enough to call Slick Willard a "rock star".
There was a CLEAR misreading of Clyde5445’s post. This is NO romneybot. Quite the opposite. Post #42 suggests that mitty may have been the “father” of the death panels in obamacare.
LOL. Pretty much.
For several decades, it has been an article of faith among politicians and political analysts that no candidate can win a U.S. presidential election unless he can dominate the broad center of the spectrum, that all candidates on the edges of the left or right are doomed. Barry Goldwater's "extremism . . . is no vice" campaign of 1964 provides the classic evidence, reinforced by George McGovern's 1972 defeat in 49 out of 50 states. And since G.O.P. Front Runner Sarah Palin relies upon a base of support that is on the far right wing of the Republican Party, some experts have long declared that if she wins the nomination, the G.O.P. would simply be repeating the suicidal Goldwater campaign.
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National opinion polls continue to show Obama leading Palin by an apparently comfortable margin of about 25%. They also show that more moderate Republicans like Romney would run better against the President. This suggests that Palin is not the strongest G.O.P. choice for the 2012 election and that she clearly faces an uphill battle.
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If popular unhappiness with domestic and world problems finally comes to rest at Obama's doorstep, voters may begin to see all sorts of previously invisible virtues in Sarah Palin.
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Palin cannot hope to win, however, unless she moves beyond the hard-line conservative base that has sustained her since she first appeared on the national political scene as a spokesman for McCain himself. She has no experience in Washington politics or foreign affairs. Both Congress and the federal bureaucracy are as unfathomable to her as they were to Obama. Indeed one of Palin's major supporters in the Senate notes that the Alaskan is uncomfortable even visiting Washington.
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Worse perhaps than the verbal gaffe is Palin's relentlessly simple-minded discussion of complex problems.
Full disclosure:
Post by newfreep: I may have changed a few names here and there. It's not actually Gov. Palin this Time Magazine article's talking about here, but Ronald Reagan. Yes, the Gipper was really running 25 points behind Carter as late as March 1980 - a mere eight months before the election. Simple statements, no experience in DC politics or foreign affairs, supported only by the rightwing fringe - completely unelectable, that Reagan fellow, wasn't he?
To their detriment....cause they damn sure will not be gaining my vote or the votes of anyone in my family.
That’s not a decision we’ve made at this point,” Romney told a 12-year-old boy
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THat young boy should have said “YOU LIE”
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