Mitt Romney for President My Man Mitt: 8/31/08


	2 Comments: Reporters look silly trying to stump Romney. He makes them look like cats chasing their own tails. For me Romney in 2012 will be like Christmas as a kid. It feels like it will never come. Meanwhile Mccain be Conservative and Romney is coming in 2012! By Anonymous, at September 5, 2008 at 9:22 AM He is absolutely right. His criticism is probably going to help McCain in many respects in the main election. By Anonymous, at September 9, 2008 at 7:12 PM Post a Comment

Mitt Romney’s Oval Office aspirations have not been swept away like discarded convention confetti, a new poll shows.

If John McCain fails to win the presidency Nov. 4, Romney is considered the most likely front-runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

A National Journal poll of GOP political insiders places the former Bay State governor miles ahead of the pack with 55 percent of the vote.

Rising GOP superstar Sarah Palin, who beat out Romney to be McCain’s running mate, trails the entire field with 3 percent of the vote. But Republicans are just getting to know this fiery, 44-year-old mother of five. Link

Eric Fehrnstrom point out though...

the poll is moot - because McCain will be victorious.

“Governor Romney is working hard to elect John McCain and Sarah Palin, and that is his only objective right now,” Fehrnstrom said.


	3 Comments: That is great news !!! It would be great to have the poll to see who was in it, not only a few names... What about Huckabee ? He may be willing to try again next time ! By Anonymous, at September 6, 2008 at 2:59 AM Yeah but will McCain run for reelection even if he wins? Will Mitt run in 2016 if he does? He'll still be younger than McCain. By Anonymous, at September 8, 2008 at 10:00 AM I hope Romney still has a chance in 2012 given the popularity of Sarah Palin. By Anonymous, at September 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM Post a Comment


	1 Comments: I thought the speech was OK from the standpoint of revving up the base, but this type of speech would not fly well if he were a general election candidate. In some respects, this speech was unlike the Mitt that we have come to like so much--a policy wonk, and laying out specific programs and strategies that showcased his incredible grasp of the issues and intelligence. By Unknown, at September 5, 2008 at 3:34 PM Post a Comment

One of my favorite moments at the GOP Convention last night was the crowd chanting "ZERO" in reference to the executive experience that Obama and Biden have.

If honor of that clarion call I thought I'd modify the infamous Obama salute slightly:


	3 Comments: Awesome. I want that on a t-shirt! By Anonymous, at September 4, 2008 at 11:29 AM That's good. By Noelle, at September 5, 2008 at 7:13 AM That is great! I have a small webservices company and we took some ads from Obama and photoshopped them here: http://www.shareddynamics.com/index.cfm/2008/9/3/Yet-Another-Obama-Poster--YAOP By Anonymous, at September 8, 2008 at 8:47 AM Post a Comment

Some more thoughts:

This is pure talent. There's no way around it. You can't learn that.
Her timing is fantastic! She keeps the applause at bay and the lines moving.
She rarely gets interrupted by the crowd mid-sentence and her mid-applause game face is perfect.
The world was expecting a demure inexperienced girl from the Northern Exposure. Not!
The base is turned on and fired up!
The MSM is speechless and dumbfounded

Sarah just set the bar VERY HIGH...

... but, thankfully, the MSM and the Left have lowered it for her to clear again!

Question: How do you reset expectations for Palin after the speech of a lifetime?
Answer: Let the Obama campaign and the media do it for you!

"It was her speechwriter" they all exclaimed. OK. You go on thinking that. Those hurdles get lower and lower every time you chime in.

If your significant other is anything like mine, politics is an indulgence rather than a passion. My wife was still indignant at McCain for the West Virginia/Hucakabee stunt during the primaries against Romney.

There was a moment when Palin was retelling the "pinhole" story of McCain as a POW. My wife commented that Palin got a bit teared up but it came across so sincere and unaffected that she instantly bonded with her and was moved to respect for the hero of the story, McCain.

This morning my wife said: "I was ready to vote for Palin on the ticket but last night Palin made me want to vote for McCain as well."

Meanwhile, you go girl!

I was hoping to sum up my experience here on MyManMitt, looking for a gentle denouement to a rapid fire campaign that is coming to a close for the candidacy of Mitt Romney... but I'm not ready to close shop yet!

What an amazing speech by Governor Palin last night. The reports coming in have left the MSM stunned and speechless. I can't say enough about it... more on her speech and Mitt's soon.

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	3 Comments: Thanks for the link. I wish Romney were the candidate, GREAT SPEECH. By Unknown, at September 3, 2008 at 8:18 PM Sarah's speech was outstanding, but I wish you had Mitt's so I could have seen it. I taped foxnews, but they talked through the whole thing. By Anonymous, at September 4, 2008 at 9:35 AM I agree Anon. It was outrageous. They not only talked through his whole speech, they didn't have anything of any substance to say. Anyway, he did a great job. By Anonymous, at September 4, 2008 at 10:34 PM Post a Comment

Fred Thompson is on a roll. He's started a PAC, Fred PAC.

Visit it here.

OK, the guy is not the nominee, he's not VP and he is refusing to even take a cabinet position (good for him!) should McCain win, but the MSM assisnation squads are still working overtime to drag him down. The latest:

Boston Globe still trying to find any window in it's use of the flip flopper label:

"Mitt Romney, responding to reporters' questions about sex education policy in the aftermath of the news that Sarah Palin's teenage daughter is pregnant, told reporters he had always thought abstinence should be part of a comprehensive sex education curriculum.

...But in 2006, as then-Governor Romney prepared to enter the Republican presidential primary, he announced with great fanfare that he would redirect money from a federal abstinence education grant -- money that had the state had been using to promote abstinence within comprehensive sex education programs and in PSA's -- into school programs that taught abstinence alone.

What's really amazing about this is that Boston.com leaves Eric Fehnstrom's clarifying quote for an update, happy to let an untrue article stand:

Eric Fehrnstrom says Romney's position on sex education has never changed and that all of the schools in Massachusetts with abstinence-only programs, he said, also had comprehensive sex ed programs.

Shoot first, ask questions later, eh?

The exact time will be available soon.

Stay tuned...

...literally. From the PolitickerMA:

A lot of people talked about Mitt Romney filling out the Republican ticket this year, but, according to a former campaign adviser, Romney was actually betting against himself.

Ron Kaufman, a close friend of Romney's who worked on his aborted presidential campaign, said there was a bet between the two of them over Romney's chances of getting tapped as John McCain's vice presidential nominee.

Kaufman bet the former governor would be on the ticket. Romney said he wouldn't make it.

With Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska prepared to accept the nomination here this week, Kaufman said he is donating his stake to two charity events Romney is attending during the Republican National Convention.

The beneficiaries of the wager will be U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Erik Paulsen, who is running in Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District.


	2 Comments: I posted a blog post recently on my political blog basically saying my thoughts on Romney- I would absolutely love it to have him as the #2, as it would firmly plant him in the #1 spot in 2012 (assuming McCain only runs for one term). But I think there is a strong enough anti-Mormon bias in the South that it might actually mean losing some of the critical Southern states, and that would result in a loss overall for McCain. Yea, you might put Michigan in play, and you might even put Nevada in the running, but you avoid the critical rule of a VP pick- first, do no harm. It's too bad that the GOP is held ransom by a fringe religious fanatic sect, embodied in the forked-tongue Huckabee. But such is life. MITT FOR 2012! And Palin-McCain for 2008. By Steve-O, at September 2, 2008 at 3:01 PM I think Mitt would have been picked if McCain hadn't screwed up on the houses thing. By Anonymous, at September 2, 2008 at 5:16 PM Post a Comment

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Romney's Speech

"ZERO"

You go girl!

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