ComMITTed to Romney!

http://blog.washingtonpos…grich_gore.html

Better late than never on this story…From The Fix’s Chris Cillizza, the top five’s. Here’s Romney’s section from the story.

Mitt Romney: The recent rollout of Romney’s Iowa team was impressive both in the depth and quality of people the Massachusetts governor has recruited to his cause. And we’ve been assured that there are plenty more influential Iowans with Romney who didn’t feel comfortable going public just yet. Like Warner, Romney is hungry and is working at multiple levels to shore up support. With Allen tied up in his reelection race, Romney has solidified his spot as the most likely McCain alternative. We tend to believe the potential negative effect of Romney’s Mormon faith is overblown, but his multiple past positions on abortion are not drawing nearly the focus now that they will in the coming 18 months. Still, we’ve been impressed by Romney’s tacit recognition of his potential flaws and diligence in addressing them.

AMC

http://www.boston.com/new…makers_pension/

The Massachusetts legislature talks about this next piece as Governor Romney’s expediency. I concur with the Governor though, it’s more about Responsibility (of which the Governor and Lt. Governor are also taking part in). Read more at the link in the title.

AMC

http://hotlineblog.nation…_our_endof.html

First off, I’m very sorry I haven’t posted much the past couple of days but I had to take my kids to Vanderbilt yesterday for appointments which tired me out incredibly. Also, I have kind of burned out a bit on the blog working feverishly to get the links on the sidebar now that I discovered the software is actually allowing me to do it now without having to go into the back end (i.e. ask my husband which is always a pain). Anyway, I’m back…I think I’ll take it a little slow through the weekend though (it’s my birthday on Sunday). I hope you all have a wonderful 4th…

…now without further adieu the blockquotes:

– And who had the best six months? Mitt Romney, incredibly, now an “outsider” who has distanced himself from his MA pedigree.

To say that no other WH �08�er had a better 6 months than Romney would assume that there was another politician in America who saw his stock rise as much as the MA gov in the first half of �06.

–A governor (outsider) in a GOP field dominated by Senators (insiders), Romney engineered a bipartisan healthcare solution that won front-page notice from the WSJ, WP and NYT � on the same day. The bill later drew favorable reviews from the likes of Yepsen, Brownstein and Alter � on the same day. Not even McCain got that sort of MSM love this year.

–A New Englander by way of Michigan, Romney came into Memphis for the SRLC and stole the headlines with an unexpected second-place finish in the straw poll, besting two Southerners and the primary�s putative front-runner

–A lame-duck RGA chair with a national fundraising base, Romney has spent more combined time in IA, NH, SC and MI than any other �08�er, planting staff, seeding candidates and earning chits along the way in all four early-nominating states.

To be sure, pitfalls await Romney on his Road to the WH (Mormonism, Yankeeism and Globe�ism, among them), but if his next 6 months are like the last, he goes into �07 at or close to the top of the field.

Not so shabby, eh?

BTW: Thanks to Dave Burris @ http://delawareansformitt.blogspot.com/ for bringing this to my attention.

AMC

http://radioblogger.com/#001724

Gov. Mitt Romney was on the Hugh Hewitt Show program yesterday. This link at Radio Blogger has the transcript of the interview as well as a link to the mp3 file.

They discussed the New York Times recent publishing classified material jeapordizing our national security and the Mass. marriage protection amendment.

You know, I find it inexplicable and inexcusable. You recognize that we are at war, and that publishing the intelligence capabilities and processes and procedures of our intelligence community is something which puts us in a jeopardized position, it puts us in peril, and it’s inexcusable.

. . . ultimately, these papers publish these things to gain circulation. And what’s sad to me is that people would trade off their positive reputation for being able to get a scoop, to be able to expand their circulation, and trade that off against the interests of our country.

Speaking of his recent press conference to call attention to the Mass legislature’s possible move to block a public vote about the definition of marriage Romney said:

. . . it’s interesting to me that my liberal friends are very anxious to protect democracy, unless they think it might go against them.

Classic Romney!

http://www.accessnorthga….ry.asp?ID=77119

This AP article details some of Gov. Romney’s comments at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation’s meeting.

Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo Bay detainees was just another reason why the nation should elect a Republican president again in 2008 — to get more conservative judges on the high court.

The court declared 5-3 that the trials (military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees) for 10 foreign terror suspects violate U.S. law and the Geneva conventions.

“To apply the Geneva accords is very strange in my view,” Romney said during a question-and-answer session . . .

“It’s hard to understand how a party who’s not a nation comes under the Geneva convention,” he said.

Having been a leader in Mass, he has seen first hand the harm that activist judges can do. With this experience (and as a cum laude Harvard Law graduate) Romney may be the GOP candidate mose capable and believable in leading the charge agaist activist judges.

Also, the fact that his comments were just within hours of the ruling show that this is not a leader who will wait to see what “focus groups” and “polling” say about an issue before he will comment. He seems to be a straight shooter!

http://www.contracostatim…cs/14932390.htm

An interesting article from a South Carolina newspaper details some of the early difficulties McCain is having with southern social conservatives. Strangely, the article ends with a mention of Romney that doesn’t really seem to fit in with the rest of the article, but may tie in with McCain’s voting against the federal Marriage Protection Ammendment (though, in all fairness, McCain does support state measures to define marriage and has supported his own states’ efforts in this matter . . . just wish he realized, like Romney does, that marriage is an institution that results in families, both of which are entities which cross state borders . . . thereby necessitating a Federal definiton of Marriage via an Ammendment to the Constitution!)

SCforMarriage.org, a group pushing voters to support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on the South Carolina ballot in November, said it picked up a $5,000 donation and sponsorship from Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s Commonwealth PAC.

“We cannot afford to shrink from the timeless, priceless principles of human experience,” Romney said in a prepared statement. He said he applauds the South Carolina effort and those like it in other states.

http://www.thebostonchann…397/detail.html

It’s been brought to my attention that this story has not been mentioned on this blog, and upon further searching it has not. It’s an old story, but as the viewer stated it deserves to be mentioned. So, here it is. The story details an incident when Governor Romney and two of his five sons saved six people who’s boat had sunk in the lake near their New Hampshire home.

Craft Starting Taking On Water Saturday

POSTED: 7:15 a.m. EDT July 7, 2003
UPDATED: 7:48 p.m. EDT July 7, 2003

WOLFEBORO, N.H. — Gov. Mitt Romney, vacationing on Lake Winnipesauke in Wolfeboro, unexpectedly made headlines Saturday night. With the help of two of his sons, Josh and Craig, the Bay State’s chief executive saved a family of six and their dog when their boat sank.

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Janet Wu Reports On Romney’s Rescue
Newscenter 5’s Janet Wu reported that it was dusk in on Saturday night when, while picking up children’s toys on the beach, the Romneys heard screams and Craig, 22, saw bobbing heads about 400 yards off the coastline.

“Rescuers, including the Romney family, assisted in helping the stranded family get back to shore safely. There were no injuries,” N.H. Marine Patrol Sgt. Crystal McLain said.

“We jumped on the jet-ski and went out there. My dad was on one and me and Craig were on the other. We found six people, three women and three men, floating in the water. Their boat had just sunk,” Josh Romney said.

The 19-foot boat was recovered from the bottom of the lake on Monday. The rescued family refused all comments.

The Romney boys said their father was the man of action.

“My dad pulled two of them onto his boat and ferried them back and forth to shore while Craig and I waited with the others in the water. Boats kept coming by so it was kind of dangerous, we worried that they might have been hit by a boat, unable to be seen,” Josh Romney said.

“At that time, they gathered their things and we gave them some towels. We put them on our regular boat and took them to their home. They have a boathouse and a house on the lake. At that point, I introduced myself to them and they said, ‘Yeah, we know who you are,’” Mitt Romney said.

This was not the first time Romney made a rescue on the lake. Several years ago, he rescued kayakers who got caught in the currents in their attempt to get back to shore.

Romney insists he is not a hero, but his neighbors disagree.

“You could say he was a hero. He was doing what anybody would do,” neighbor Helene Pierce said.

Romney never met the family before Saturday and knows little about them.

“I don’t know their party affiliation. I didn’t ask. We rescue all parties here,” Mitt Romney said.

The family rescued, the Morrisseys, are from New Jersey and, like the Romneys, have a summer home on the lake. They are publicity shy and have been adamant in not talking to the press.

The Romney family will spend another week at their home in Wolfeboro — a week they hope will be a bit quieter.

Emphasis above that of Ann Marie Curling

I highlighted two portions of the article above to point out that this was not an isolated incident and that he had rescued people before, and to show just how humorous the Governor is.

http://www.washingtonpost…6062801670.html

Governor Renews Support Of Gay Marriage Ballot Question

Governor Romney again took a strong stand, along with new Cardinal O’Malley (Boston Archdiocese), in defense of traditional marriage defined between one man and one woman. Romney further spoke of the importance of

“We have a Constitution. We can look in there and say, ‘Does it say here you can vote on matters unless someone can define them as civil rights?’ No,” said the Republican governor, a graduate of Harvard Law School who is mulling a presidential run. “It says you vote on all matters in this country and we’ll decide what is a civil right and what’s not. So, fundamentally, we come back to the principle that the people speak.”

He added: “Is there anything more fundamental to the commonwealth and this country than the principle that the power is reserved for the people, that government is the servant, not the master?“

Here is a man who will always realize the true role of government and how it should be “by the people, of the people, and for the people.

The Governor’s Office Press Release on the issue has more information (including a video of the press conference).

JJF (Cross posted at “Iowans for Romney“)

http://www.cbn.com/vod/index.aspx?s=/vod/DBR7

If you didn’t get a chance to see Governor Romney do the CBN Interview, click the link in the title and it’ll take you to where you can.

Enjoy!

http://edworkforce.house….1705/romney.htm

Thanks to Jeff (who emailed this link to me today), we have more information regarding Governor Romney and Education. This comes from U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce hearing on
“High School Reform: Examining State and Local Efforts” which was held on May 17, 2005. It details just what Massachusetts has done in regard to education. It is way too long to post directly here, but if you click the link you can read it all.