The only thing I can think of is that they enjoyed screwing the taxpayer again. BOHICA!
Posted on 10/29/2008 6:34:55 AM PDT by Reaganesque
It’s been the most frequently asked question I’ve gotten from National Review Online readers and conservatives over e-mail and in person since the market chaos and subsequent bailout circus began.
My answer these last few months has always been: Turn on MSNBC. Turn on FOX. Google a conservative candidate for Congress. Romney is liable to turn up.
And yet, a ridiculous item on the Internet yesterday suggested that he’s been in hiding, keeping a “low profile nationally” and unwilling to help out Republicans who aren’t a sure thing.
There are problems with that contention: Why do I keep seeing the man on television? Is any Republican a shoe-in this year? Someone get Norm Coleman on the phone with the good news! Because Romney is scheduled to campaign with the Minnesota senator, who is fighting for his political life against the not-so-funny prospect of Senator Al Franken. The images on his website blog do not suggest someone who’s decided to sit out the election — they suggest someone still engaged in the election year. Nor does his travelog, as he’s been doing McCain surrogate events everywhere from Pennylvania and Colorado to Nevada and Texas (among other places including Oregon, Georgia, Nashville ... ). Nor do his post-debate spin-room appearances or his interview on The Laura Ingraham Show this morning suggest that Mitt is standing down on election 2008.
Romney’s been in Virginia helping Keith Fimian in that newly blue-leaning state. He’s campaigned for Michele Bachman, now a favorite of MSNBC. He’s raised money for John Sununu in New Hampshire and Oregon senator Gordon Smith — both of whose reelection prospects are far from guaranteed. The list goes on.
Since Romney suspended his campaign and subsequently formed the Free and Strong America political action committee in April, he has donated approximately $202,000 to 75 GOP candidates, according to numbers made available to NRO from the PAC. Romney has also made an additional $173,000 in donations through flexible spending accounts to five affiliated state PACS, including $10,000 to the National Organization for Marriage, which is working to pass Proposition 8 in California, and $5,000 to stop a ballot initiative in Massachusetts to decriminalize marijuana.
And when the McCain campaign famously withdrew from Michigan, Romney contributed $50,000 to the demoralized GOP there. According to his PAC, “The total amount of financial support to GOP candidates and conservative causes through Romney-controlled state and federal PACs is $375,000.”
The web piece further blamed former Romney aides for being the source of the Sarah-Palin-is-a-diva complaints coming out of the McCain camp, presumably meant to damage her post-election prospects should the Republican ticket lose next week. The problem with that is: Most of Romney’s inner circle is still his inner circle — some having come from the business world, others being Massachusetts people now running his PAC. Others returned to Washington, and are doing McCain surrogate work, but are far from campaign insiders. Whomever is shooting at Palin from the McCain camp is not doing Romney’s bidding.
The good news for Mitt Romney is folks care what he’s doing. And someone out there sees him as enough of a threat to their ambitions to try to wound him. That rarely happens to irrelevant also-rans.
When longtime Romney spokesman Eric Fernstrom was asked about the former Massachusetts governor’s future on Monday, the longtime aide suggested Romney’s 2008 presidential ambitions weren’t running his life: “Gov. Romney had his shot at the White House, and he lost fair and square.” After a hostile primary season that highlighted some shameful instincts hostile to religious liberty both in the mainstream media and on the Right, you might not blame Romney if he went into retreat. But he never did. Romney got on the campaign trail for John McCain, defending the free-market policies that this successful businessman could no doubt run with, if he were in the driver’s seat.
Romney’s been a team player. Is it because he wants a Cabinet seat? Ask him — but I doubt it. There are easier jobs that taking over a massive bureacracy with limited freedom. Is it because he wants to be president? Ask him, but I don’t think that’s it either — and only time will tell, anyway, who will be Right prospects in a few years.
Watching him these past few months, he acts like a man who found a home on the Right, who both personally and philosophically appreciates those who were open to what he brought to the campaign trail, and continues to want to serve his country in whatever capacity she needs him. Right now, that’s by fundraising, contributing, and campaigning for conservative candidates and causes like the Susan B. Anthony List and Proposition 8 in California.
In his final primary-campaign speech in February, Mitt Romney said:
I entered this race because I love America, and because I love America, I feel I must now stand aside, for our party and for our country.
I will continue to stand for conservative principles. I will fight alongside you for all the things we believe in. And one of those things is that we cannot allow the next President of the United States to retreat in the face of evil extremism.
And so he campaigns for candidates who share his general vision of the world. Romney was with McCain in Ohio on Monday. He’ll be in New Hampshire on Wednesday campaigning for congressional candidates Jeb Bradley and Jennifer Horn. And then he’ll take off for get-out-the-vote rallies.
If you’re wondering where Mitt is — and you can suspend some of your cynicism — the answer might just be: Where he can be of use. If you take him at his word and his schedule, that’s what it reads like anyway.
— Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review Online.
You're really a KOS troll, arent’ you?
Untrue. It has been Mr. Romney-the-RINO, who has
been the shapeshifting backstabber of Gov. Palin.
???
Right. Like the press corps has so vigorously vetted Obama?
(Who IS this pantload, "Madden"? Not the Monday Night Football guy...?)
Ms. is perfectly acceptable...don’t sweat it...magritte
Yeah, but he lost to Tim McCain. ;-)
How do you get elected in MA? By running a little to the left.
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REEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLYYYYYYYY ?????????
And yet Romney ran a whole lot to the left when he ran for the US Senate in 1994...
In fact he ran way past Teddy Kennedy to the left ...
And that’s hard to do...
BTW Romney did not win the Senate...
He ran so far left when he ran for Gov in MASS in 2002, that even the far left Dems were amazed...
And they couldnt keep up...
What’s he going to do when he runs for Gov in CA ????
I don’t want to take anything away from Palin. I really like her. She must be very smart and talented, or she wouldn’t have gotten as far as she has. She appeals to people. She has all the right instincts, and all the right love for America. She doesn’t have an Ivy League education, but Obama wouldn’t, either, if it weren’t for the color of his skin. Nobody was chasing Sarah Palin around offering her admission to prestigious schools because of the color of her skin. She made it on her own wits, and loves America for giving her the opportunity.
I came to be a Mitt supporter late in the game, because of his previous positions on abortion. I finally gave him money just before he pulled out.
But, when Mitt pulled out, nobody imagined what was going to happen to the economy. He is the only person from either party who would be able to speak credibly on the economy. Imagine what the debates would have been like had Romney been participating.
On the other hand, the MSM (aided and abetted by the Mormon haters on the right) were waiting to tar Romney, and to try to make him look like a drag on the ticket, just like they have done to Palin. So, who knows where we would be today had Romney been on the ticket, in either spot.
Ms. is perfectly acceptable
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Only to the liberal NOW gang...
Conservative women hate the term MS..
And all that it means...
The MSM and the libs are attempting to exploit a perceived rift in the campaign in order to divide and conquer the GOP. There have been countless newbies posting stories on this issue or dropping these false rumors on various threads in an attempt to help them along. The sad part is how many Mitt haters are carrying the MSM/Obama water and playing right into their hands.
The sad part is how many of Mr. Romney's "Harpies of Hate"
have attacked Gov. Palin for Obama and the MSM.
Fortunately, they have been exposed.
The Glover Park Group is a Democrat group. Who is there?
Carter Eskew from Gore 2000; Michael Feldman from the Clinton White House; Gigi Gorges who worked with Hillary; Joel Johnson from Team Daschle; Joe Lockhart from the Clinton White House; Jonathan Sallet from the Clinton White House; Chip Smith from Gore 2000; and Howard Wolfson most recently of the Hillary Campaign....and of course Kevin Madden.
EXACTLY! There IS no evidence that any former Romney people working for the McCain campaign are involved in any of this. There IS evidence of a rift between Sarah Palin and the handlers who were in charge of her "roll-out" though.
The gal involved in the rift with Palin is not a Romney person. Nicolle Wallace is a former Bush WH aide and a former CBS employee, and colleague of Katie Couric.
Wallace, who set up the Couric interview for Palin, has a special place in her heart for Katie it seems:
Asked to name her role models, Ms. Wallace listed former Clinton White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry, former Bush White House Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes, Counsel to the President Dan Bartlett, all around fun guy Karl Rove, George W. Bush 2004 re-election campaign manager Ken Mehlman, and, finally, her old boss Katie Couric, saying "talk about grace under fire."
http://www.observer.com/2008/media/cbs-analyst-turned-mccain-palin-advisor-admires-karl-rove-katie-couric
I am not a troll. I have been with FR since 2000. Along with cajungirl, we were the ones screaming to get Eric Holder out of the Bush Justice Dept in early 2001. I had to re-register with Jim Robinson recently due to relocation. So ask him about my conservative bona fides.
Yes, I will proudly vote for McCain-Palin next week, but the obsessional hatred for Mitt Romney is beyond belief and certainly not additive to a united effort.
I wish the Mitt haters would focus their ire on BO. Personally, I favor Bobby Jindal in 2012 if McCain is not elected.
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Other than those candidates...yeah, he's done nothing.
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As true as your observation may be (and I would agree with it), it is still possible to dislike Romney while being neutral or even supportive of Mormonism. I have a couple of Mormon friends who dislike Romney (one of them intensely). They obviously don't dislike him because of his Mormonism.
But Mitt is also everything that McCain is not.
If Mitt Romney conveys in attitude what you just wrote, it is no wonder he is disliked for being arrogant. Class envy has two ugly components: the "have nots" being jeolous of the "haves" and the "haves" being contemptuous of the "have nots." Given the widely reported dislike of all the Republican candidates towards Romney, it is very possible that the second component is the reality rather than the first.
What about Ted Hayes...
Republican candidate against Maxine Waters..in Romney’s new adopted state, California ???
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