[AlternateEgo]

With Bush's low approval ratings, this is not something you hear very often from the other candidates.

[digger48]

He just won a brownie point from me.

Love him or hate him I’m sick of our side bashing the President

[robomatik]

"Has the president done everything perfectly? Absolutely not," he said. "But is he a person I deeply respect for his conviction and his appreciation for the country and his desire to do what's right for it? I sure do."

i would agree with that statement.

[DoughtyOne]

I’ll grant you that, but Mitt is smart enough to know that he’s going to need every single ‘no matter what’ Bush supporter’s vote before this is over.

My missing vote will be part of the reason why.

[Brilliant]

I thought you meant he was bashing George Washington. You might ask the moderator to add “D.C.” at the end.

[Bigun]

"Has the president done everything perfectly? Absolutely not,". "But is he a person I deeply respect for his conviction and his appreciation for the country and his desire to do what's right for it? I sure do."

AMEN!

The president is, after all, a human being with all the attendant frailties!

Good on ya Mitt!

[Jeff Chandler]

I think it's a good tactic. President Bush has been great in defending us against the IslamoAsshats, and the base knows it. Defending W is smart. McKennedy has been rather ambivalent about it in the past, giving qualified support while currying favor among the Democrats.

Take his "support" of the surge, for instance. He had been trashing Bush for years, demanding a larger conventional military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, when what was needed was a change of tactics accompanied by an influx of specialized (fighting) units. Now he claims credit for supporting the surge after recommending something different as a way to trash Bush.

[antienvironmentalist]

Great move Mitt. Let’s see which republican candidates stand behind GW and which ones throw him to the sharks.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

That doesn’t make sense.

[Blue State Insurgent]

There you go, Mitt. Make nice to Bush and Thompson and I might just give you a second look.

[DrDeb]

I applaud Mitt’s loyalty AND strategery.

Mitt has analyzed his internal polling data; he knows full well that the President is neither unpopular with the base (Gallup’s recent poll put the President’s JA rating among Republicans at 76%, higher than Reagan’s at a similar point in his presidency) nor personally unpopular with the majority of Americans (the BattleGround Poll puts the President’s personal approval rating at approximately 60%).

This ‘unpopular’ montra is MSM/DNC created and perpetuated.

[jveritas]

Very smart from Romney because President Bush is the most popular person among the Republican base, vastly more popular than any of the Republican presidential candidates.

[lonevoice]

Booya, Governor Romney! The funniest part of this is that Reuters thinks they’ve published a hit piece. :-P

[bmwcyle]

You don’t know how to post, do you.

[VRWC For Truth]

Contrast this with McShame who at the sight of a microphone will criticize Bush.

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[Gator113]

“......while he differed with Bush at times he still deeply respects him.”

As well do I.

My respect for Romney continues to grow.

[caveat emptor]

Skip the de rigueur “don’t agree with him on everything”, despite his mistakes, “although he screwed up for years after invading Iraq”, etc. W has done a great job, despite the traitorous Dems and their propaganda arm, the 5th column press.

[Verginius Rufus]

I like Bush, but I still think George Washington was our best President ever (at worst the second best). Same old same old—New Englanders not wanting to give credit to the Virginian Presidents.

[Vigilanteman]

Ann Coulter got it right. The worst we are going to get from Romney is a George Bush redux with better communication skills and without the emphasis on amnesty for illegal aliens. Nothing to write home about, but what we might get from Mitt Romney is still far better than what we know we will get from McCain.

Here are the Senators who voted against the Cornyn amendment , which would have established a permanent bar for gang members, terrorists, and other criminals looking to snag a shamnesty visa. Republicans underlined:

Never forget McCain not only pushed the amnesty bill, he refused to allow exculsions for the worst of the lot.

[Grig]

Romney hold to Reagan’s 11th commandment better than any of the others.