Posted on 03/08/2002 4:13:21 PM PST by GraniteStateConservative
Olympic Chief Mulling Mass. Gov. Spot
Thu Mar 7,11:47 PM ET
By JOHN McELHENNY, Associated Press Writer
BOSTON (AP) - Salt Lake City Olympic chief Mitt Romney thanked Republican supporters in Massachusetts for pushing him as a potential gubernatorial candidate and said he would decide by late next week whether to run.
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"The letter was proof that he's one or two or maybe three steps closer to getting into this," said Jon Spampinato, a Romney backer who received the e-mail Thursday.
A Romney spokeswoman did not return a call Thursday night.
In the e-mail, Romney cited the challenge of running against an incumbent Republican, Jane Swift, while mustering support of delegates over just a few weeks.
"That is why the draft effort and commitments of support are so significant to my decision," he wrote.
Swift has said she would defeat Romney in a primary if he chose to run. Her spokesman refused to comment Thursday.
Romney in 1994 unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Edward M. Kennedy for his Senate seat. A recent Boston Herald poll showed him ahead of Swift and all five Democratic candidates.
Spampinato said 300 convention delegates have pledged their support, more than half the number needed to place Romney's name on the ballot for the Sept. 17 primary.
Romney's e-mail said he would decide whether to run by March 16, when the Paralympic Winter Games end in Salt Lake City.
Isn't Mitt's father George Romney, former Michigan governor? George did great things for the state during his time in office. And between anything and Jane "Swift Injustice" (as the WSJ should have labeled her Clintonesque finger-in-the-air approach to matters of judgement), I'd vote in a flash for "anything." She is, or ought to be, an embarrassment to Republicans.
Barry Goldwater, in the 1964 Presidential race, thought of himself as a political kamikaze for going into those liberal bastions on the Northeast. He certainly disturbed their glacial thinking, even as he was losing big. In a false positioning of values, there are two political parties there, way-out wacko Greenie leftists, and the RINO wanabees, between whom most of the political positions are indistinguishable. After all, the power brokers all went to the same learning institutions, and are part of the same "old school", none of this public education crap for them or theirs.
Here's Mitt's site-- sort of.
I'd say you got that right. My wife and I decided to stay home.
If Romney gets the nominatin we will vote for him.
He was vetted in the run against Kennedy where they didn't seem to be able to find any scandal so they attacked his religion and went after him because he made some business decisions they didn't like. - Tom
What you say is partially true, but Mass has plenty of conservitives but they have no voice. All it would take is someone with a little imagination to bring them out of the closet.
I don't Not Vote and I don't vote for Rats. So it kind of limits my options.
But I am certain that Mitt is going to run. As soon as he announced he was going to take a poll, I knew he was in the race. I have yet to see a politician take a feasiblity poll and then announce to the public that, "well, nobody seems to like me so I guess I'll stay out." Mitt KNOWS that support for his candidacy is overwhelming. Otherwise he would never have spoken about the poll publicly.
I predict that Mitt Romney will steamroller Jane in the September primary and that James Rappaport will cream that nobody from Melrose in the Lt. Governor race.
Romney/Rappaport, I like the sound of that!
If Romney wins the governorship in November, as I believe he will, look for him to be a national player by 2008. He might even make Bush's shortlist in 2004 if Dick Cheney decides to forgo a second term as VP.
Massachusetts would do well to elect Mitt Romney. I would rather have him in the Senate but Ted seems immortal. He will have to deal with the Mass Congress and that is... futile.
People might hate Finneran but I am glad we have a DINO as Speaker. However, things are so left up here it is difficult to stay sane.
I have a few GOP Mass pols as customers and let me tell you all of the good ones have joined the Bush Administration. Such as Andrew Card and Mr. Natsios.
Little Bill is one of the good ones, I did not think there were people in Mass like him.
The RNC has deserted Mass(I dont blame them.), but we have left millions of Mass Republicans in the lurch and let me tell you, you might think we are a lost cause but some of us(Millions) NEED the support.
God, I am frustrated. Mitt Romney will make me real happy if he runs for the gubernatorial spot because he WILL win and maybe HE can rebuild the ashes of the GOP in Mass.
The libertarians are a kind of a shoestring operation and they play the issues that some conservitives are very interested in quite well, and not a bad group of people in general but not very well organized.
Teddy, just because you failed to be unseated in the last election, does not mean that they won't be coming for you next.
We all wish.
In 1964 Goldwater was going to bring out many millions of conservatives who normally did not vote. It didn't happen....the zillions of conservatives just waiting for the conservative candidate to run is, unfortunately, a myth.
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