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Sep 27 2005
http://www.qctimes.net/ar…6e837599408.txt
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He’s on the road again…!
By Ed Tibbetts
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, will make his first Quad-City appearance next month at a Scott County Republican Party fund-raiser in Davenport.
Sep 27 2005
http://www.patrickruffini…raw.php?uid=644
It’s that time again, go to the site and vote for Mitt again 
Thanks Patrick for these regular polls.
Sep 25 2005
http://cbs4boston.com/loc…_268101809.html
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Click the link above for the story!
Sep 25 2005
http://www.boston.com/new…e_on_terrorism/
[Commentary]
I very much agree with Mitt Romney’s opinion on this. He’s not talking about taking civil liberties away, he’s talking about being aggressive when it comes to terrorists. If they are hiding in mosques then we need to be getting search warrants and wire taps of those buildings. They definitely shouldn’t be off limits just because they are mosques. Here’s the article.
By Jeff Jacoby, Globe Columnist | September 25, 2005
MASSACHUSETTS Governor Mitt Romney kicked off a rumpus last week when he observed that homeland security depends not just on protecting assets but on counterterror intelligence — including keeping tabs on people and places when there is reason to believe they may be involved in terrorism or its incitement.
Sep 25 2005
http://www.detnews.com/20…/A24-325991.htm
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Here’s another article regarding Mr. Romney about yesterday’s Mackinac Island Republican Meeting.
By George Weeks / The Detroit News
George WeeksMACKINAC ISLAND — As Michigan Republicans gathered here for their biannual smooch-fest, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was thinking of another romantic interlude.
In the summer of 1965, the 18-year-old son of then-Michigan Gov. George Romney embraced a lass named Ann — now the first lady of Massachusetts — in a boat under the Mackinac Bridge. He recalls he was “almost run over by a freighter.”
Romney is now seeking another kind of embrace: the nation’s. Eager but undeclared, he’s being widely touted as a 2008 contender for the presidency — a job that his late father sought in 1968.
The Bible that George Romney held when he was sworn in as Michigan governor in 1963 was the same that Mitt Romney held in 2003 when he took the oath as Republican governor in a Democratic state (”a red dot in a blue state,” he says.)
It now sits in a bookcase behind his Boston desk. So I asked, before his scheduled keynote Saturday speech at the 26th biannual Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, if that’s the Bible he would use to take another oath if elected to whatever higher office he might or might not be seeking in 2008.
“You are sneaky,” he told me, laughing, still unwilling to own up to any presidential ambitions. “I just don’t know.”
The September issue of Atlantic Monthly calls Romney “the Next Big Thing in the Republican Party,” but also asks: “Might Romney’s Mormonism scare off both red-state fundamentalists and blue-state secularists?”
The answer is no.
It was not a political problem for George Romney, whose campaign collapsed after a famous gaffe during a live television show in Detroit when he said he had been “brainwashed” by military brass during a visit to Vietnam.
As Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., said of a presidential candidate’s religion being a campaign negative: “We’ve moved on. That died with my brother Jack.”
Romney, who took over and rescued the troubled organization of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City said: “I think it’s an issue if you don’t know anything else about me.”
Beyond his good looks (”Matinee Mitt” gushed the National Review) and all the hype about a possible 2008 White House bid, Romney has an important role and message on the nation’s most immediate critical domestic issue: responding to disaster.
He’s in line to be next chairman of the Republican Governors’ Association. He chairs the National Governors’ Association committee on homeland security and is the only governor on President Bush’s homeland security advisory council.
Among the most urgent needs is to fill the gaps in federal to state to local communications.
Last week on CNN, Romney said that in too many places, “The police can’t talk to the fire, the fire can’t talk to EMS (emergency medical services), none of us can speak directly to the National Guard, and of course, the federal authorities, we can’t talk to them either.”
George Weeks is The Detroit News’ political columnist. Contact him at 517 371-3660 or gweeks07@aol.com
Copyright © 2005 The Detroit News.
Sep 24 2005
http://www.freep.com/news…20_20050924.htm
[Commentary]
If Mr. Romney can get a Republican in the Governors office in 2006 with his influence, then I see no reason why he can’t put Michigan in the red column come 2008. He’s a strong candidate, and the more people see him and his credentials he’s definitely going to be THE nominee in 2008. He’ll then easily win the General Election and be sworn in as our next President of the United States on January 20, 2009.
Saturday, September 24, 2005
BY CHRIS CHRISTOFF
FREE PRESS LANSING BUREAU CHIEFMACKINAC ISLAND - Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leveled sharp criticism at Gov. Jennifer Granholm today, saying she’s done little to shore up Michigan’s economy and is beholden to teachers unions at the expense of children.
Romney, a Republican who’s been touted as a possible presidential candidate, took surprisingly pointed jabs at a fellow governor in remarks designed to rev up the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference. The weekend event is viewed as the party’s official kickoff of the 2006 election campaign, particularly the campaign of uncontested gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos.
Romney compared Granholm to a baseball batter who strikes out without swinging the bat.
“You’ve had opportunity after opportunity,” he said, referring to Granholm. “Don’t just form task forces, do something.”
Sep 24 2005
http://www.boston.com/new…y%2FRegion+News
[Commentary]
Romney heads to Mackinac Island for a meeting of Michigan Republicans, it should be a wonderful opportunity for him and his Presidential aspirations.
By Brian C. Mooney, Globe Staff | September 24, 2005
Governor Mitt Romney’s visit to Michigan today will be his fifth out-of-state trip in 12 days. All have connections to a potential presidential bid, but none may be as overt as today’s return to the state he once called home.
Sep 20 2005
http://www.timsaler.com/?p=185
[Commentary]
Well, he’s back. Mitt Romney that is, and he’s just about hit the big time this week in Tim Saler’s Weekly Presidential Rankings. It has been a long drought, but he’s back. Last week Romney was ranked #5, and now he’s #2. With all the public coverage of Romney’s efforts to aid Katrina victims, I’m sure that has helped. Click the link to get the top 5 on the Democratic and Republican sides.
Sep 18 2005
http://www.boston.com/new…y%2FRegion+News
[Commentary]
In the article by Scott Helman of The Boston Globe it discusses Mr. Romney’s September 17th fundraiser at his Wolfsboro NH home. It wasn’t mentioned as a 2008 stepping stone, but was definitely a good opportunity for him to meet with the first state in the nations primary constituents.
Sep 16 2005
http://news.bostonherald….rticleid=102284
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This is an article about Mr. Romney’s recent trip to NY to speak to the Manhattan Institute at the Harvard Club. The Institute President Lawrence Mone says in the article, “He’s got some of the qualities of leadership of someone who should be considered (for president).”
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