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Romney may announce presidential bid in April
Deseret News ^
| 1/13/11
| Lisa Roche
Posted on 01/13/2011 9:50:48 PM PST by pissant
SALT LAKE CITY There are new hints that former Utah Olympic leader Mitt Romney is gearing up to announce another run for president.
Politico reported Thursday that Romney aides are telling other Republicans that he expects to launch his campaign in April.
The online news source noted Romney has already taken "another methodical step toward his 2012 run" by stepping down from the Marriott hotel chain board of directors again.
The last time Romney left was before he ran successfully for governor of Massachusetts following the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. He rejoined the board in January 2009.
Another online news source, RealClearPolitics, posted later Thursday that Romney has also hired both a pollster and a political director, citing sources connected to his 2008 presidential bid.
Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom had little to say.
"Gov. Romney believes the campaign got started too soon last time, and he's in no hurry to make an announcement of his plans," Fehrnstrom told the Deseret News.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
TOPICS: Politics/Elections
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To: Navy Patriot
Romney-Liberman!
Romney-Bush. A Rove dream.
41
posted on
01/13/2011 11:02:19 PM PST
by
lewislynn
( What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in commom? Misinformation)
To: Lazlo in PA
” We need to swift-boat this shifty bastard early in the primaries to get the money to go to Consevatives with a chance.”
Absolutely. Perhaps a clearing house for information, and some volunteer copy editors? If it were done well enough, it might even get published.
42
posted on
01/13/2011 11:05:47 PM PST
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: pissant
43
posted on
01/13/2011 11:09:17 PM PST
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously..... You won't live through it anyway.)
To: Sonny M
The feeling I get that Romney will win the nomination, gives me that same feeling in my stomach..... I know what you mean -- I had that same feeling back when McCain got the nomination, which surprised the heck out of me.
With sadness and disgust I predict that FOX, widely (and in my opinion erroneously) regarded by Republicans and Democrats as an honest arbiter of conservative sentiment, will spin its coverage such that Palin is a joke and a mere celebrity FOX colleague, and that Romney is the only "serious" candidate. Brit Hume, Krauthhammer, and all the other Certified & Approved "voices of the right" will assume the roles of The Grown-Ups who decide what to report so we'll decide the way they want us to, and that will be that Romney is the "responsible" choice.
The vast herd of Republican sheep will sway in their direction, bleating "Well, at least he's better than Obama" (or whoever the Dem nominee is, which is yet to be seen), vote "safe," and regardless of who wins the presidency, our present malaise will worsen as the government grows ever more burdensome and interfering.
I hope I'm wrong, but I have the sinking feeling I'm not.
44
posted on
01/13/2011 11:20:40 PM PST
by
Finny
("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent)
To: pissant
45
posted on
01/13/2011 11:43:49 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(Please donate to FreeRepublic, sanity in a world gone mad!)
To: pissant
Really, you are joking, I mean who would have ever thought it. Has he fired the illegals working at his estate yet?
To: pissant
Great song!
Between Buffalo Springfield, Crazy Horse, CSN&Y, and NY, I probably had 15 albums back in my
yute, lol.
I figured "
FWIW" must have been one of your fave NY songs, LOL.
(Yeah, I know, Stills wrote it - details!)
47
posted on
01/14/2011 1:22:55 AM PST
by
calcowgirl
("Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life" --Lindzen)
To: pissant
Ohhh crap.
Just what the pubbies do not need, RINO garbage like Romney, Huckabee, Jeb Bush etc.
To: pissant
Romney is like the John Edwards (Silk Pony) of the GOP. Just go away!
49
posted on
01/14/2011 2:30:30 AM PST
by
MrDem
(Founder: Democrats for Cheney/Palin 2012)
To: pissant
50
posted on
01/14/2011 3:01:13 AM PST
by
Carley
(THE MEDIA UNDERSTANDS CREDENTIALS BUT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND PRINCIPLES)
To: Uncle Miltie
What has he done? Did we hear anything from him about Arizona? This man is a loser such as John McCain could never have been. Vote for Romney and you vote back obama!
51
posted on
01/14/2011 3:49:02 AM PST
by
cameraeye
(A happy kufir!)
To: pissant
52
posted on
01/14/2011 3:56:32 AM PST
by
JSDude1
(December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
To: pissant
There’s no way I’d vote for him, even if he ends up the Repub candidate. No way.
53
posted on
01/14/2011 4:07:16 AM PST
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
To: pissant
LAST CHANCE FOR THE GOP
If the GOP picks Romney, everyone on FReeRepublic will work against the GOP.
"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]
54
posted on
01/14/2011 4:21:45 AM PST
by
Diogenesis
(Si vis pacem, para bellum)
To: pissant
GO MITT-BAMA!Far, far away...
55
posted on
01/14/2011 4:26:48 AM PST
by
Caipirabob
( Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
To: Uncle Miltie
Thnaks Uncle for the “perfect” response post ...
To: Uncle Miltie
Where's the public clamor for Romney? Who's out there saying 'we need Romney'? Are the country clubs of America demanding Romney? What's his base? Media buzz? Inevitability? What?
I was at one point, very interested in Romney and thought he'd be a good choice. No more. Never.
57
posted on
01/14/2011 4:38:23 AM PST
by
Jabba the Nutt
(Are they insane, stupid or just evil?)
To: pissant
There are new hints that former Utah Olympic leader Mitt Romney is gearing up to announce another run for president. Isn't Deseret news a mormon owned newspaper? This is their lead in statement? Why not Romney, the master mind behind Obama care throws one if his many hats in the ring?
Heads are gonna explode around here, when (not if) Beck endorses him.
58
posted on
01/14/2011 4:42:33 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Don't tell Obama what comes after a trillion)
To: pissant
April showers bring RINO hopes for power.
To: pissant
Someone with graphics skills needs to put out a symbol showing a pair of mittens covered by the international circle/slash symbol. NO MITTENS!
60
posted on
01/14/2011 6:27:49 AM PST
by
Buckeye Battle Cry
(Conservatives want a CHOICE not an echo - No more RINOs!)
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