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Remembrance: One Day of Silence

April 29th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in This Site

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Silence can say more than a thousand words. This day shall unite us all about this unbelievable painful & shocking event and show some respect and love to those who lost their loved ones. On April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor of the victims at Virginia Tech. More then 30 died at the US college massacre. But it´s not only about them. Many bloggers have responded and asked about all the other victims of our world. All the people who die every day. What about them? This day can be a symbol of support to all the victims of our world!

All you have to do is spread the word about it and post the graphic on your blog on 30th April 2007. No words and no comments. Just respect, reflection, and empathy.
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NOTE TO BLOGGERS: I have disabled your ability to post messages today…fear not though, those permissions will return tomorrow.

Ann Marie

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Recap of Mitt Tonight + Jay Leno + 60 Minutes

April 29th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in 2008 Election

Mitt is in California this week! Check out Autumn’s post at the Californians for Romney site.

See Autumn’s update to us on:

– Mitt’s & Ann’s appearance in Newport Beach tonight
– Mike Wallace & 60 Minutes in Mitt’s Home
– Appearance this week on Jay Leno’s The Tonight Show

CALIFORNIANS: Please bookmark this site and refer other Californians to it. You will see many upcoming posts that contain “Mitt News” unique to California. AND THANKS!

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Tagg: “JFK Type” Speech? Mormon Voting Block?

April 29th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Speeches, The Mormon Issue

These two tid-bits I found interesting. Many are wondering if/when Mitt will give the “JFK Speech” to dispel concerns regarding influence his religion migh have in his presidency:

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Taggart Romney said his father is “considering” making a speech akin to John F. Kennedy’s 1960 declaration that, as a Roman Catholic, he would not take orders from Rome were he to be elected President. But Romney said, “At this point I don’t know that he needs to do that.”

Meanwhile, while pundits are fond of grouping people into religious voting blocs — the purported Jewish vote, Catholic vote or evangelical vote — it’s not at all clear that his fellow Mormons automatically will vote for Mitt Romney.

David Bresnahan of Wakefield, a former journalist and public relations expert, who is an LDS member, dismisses the notion of a uniform Mormon voting bloc. “There’s as much of a division between Democrats and Republicans within the Mormons as there are within any group of people,” he said.

“So I think that there is as much of a need for a politician to inform a Mormon as a Catholic or a born-again Christian or anybody else,” he said. “If you want their vote, you’re going to need to get them to vote for you because of what you stand for and the policies you espouse.”

And Bresnahan said, “I don’t think a Mormon is going to vote for a Mormon just because they’re Mormon.”

Taggart Romney noted his father’s faith was an issue early in his campaign for governor, but by the end of his tenure in that job, no one even discussed it anymore. Likewise, he predicted, in the Presidential campaign, “At the end of the day, people won’t decide to vote for him or not vote for him based on his religion.”

In those instances where I have run into members of Romney’s church (and if the subject of Romney comes up), they are almost defensive. Almost always I get an answer like, “I don’t know yet. I am not going to vote for Romney because he is LDS!” Frankly, I suggest that answer might be as close-minded and narrow as I would those who would not vote for Romney due to their religious bigotry, as suggested by Hewitt in his book. Those Mormons I have met who have studied the issues and the other candidates enthusiastically support Mitt Romney, including most Democrats I have met who are Mormon.

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The entire Union Leader (NH) article is good. Click:

A question of faith, politics: Mitt Romney’s values shared by many faiths, son says

By SHAWNE K. WICKHAM, New Hampshire Sunday News Staff
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~ RHR

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Ronald Reagan was an actor and a good president. Fred Thompson is an actor, THEREFORE he would make a good president…

April 29th, 2007 | 6 Comments | Posted in Competitors

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Fox to help pick GOP S.C. debate participants

April 29th, 2007 | 3 Comments | Posted in 2008 Election, Debates, South Carolina

Positive sentiments to the upcoming California debate later on this week, but this debate upcoming in South Carolina seems much more my cup of tea. This will be a solid debate platform where real ideas will flow, and they’ll actually have to express themselves.

Candidates must have at least 1% rating in state or national polls

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Fox News will have a say in deciding which Republican presidential candidates participate in next month’s debate in South Carolina.

State Party chairman Katon Dawson and a spokesman for the news channel said Thursday that they had agreed on a criteria, including polling numbers, for choosing which of the 10 GOP candidates will take part in the May 15 debate.

“We understand there’s not room for everybody on a nationwide political stage for a Republican debate,” Dawson said.

Criteria threatens seven of ten candidates
Marty Ryan, executive producer of political programming for Fox News Channel, said the polling criteria would ensure “that serious candidates were taking part in our debate.”

The party sent a letter to the candidates saying they must have filed papers establishing an exploratory committee or full-blown candidacy and paid the fees associated with the state primary.

They also must have “garnered at least 1 percent in recent state and national polls leading up to the registration deadline, as determined by Fox News Channel and the South Carolina Republican Party,” according to Rob Godfrey, the state party’s communications director.

In a variety of national and state polls, seven of the 10 candidates hover around 1 percent or less. Only Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney easily meet the criteria based on polling.

The standard has the potential to bar several candidates from the debate and anger the lesser-known GOP hopefuls.

Dawson said the criteria was jointly developed so “we wouldn’t have people who were just willing to pay a filing fee and think that they could show up and be on the stage. There are a lot of people who would like to be able to vent their special interests on a presidential stage.”

“If you’re not in the poll number and you haven’t met the criteria, no, you won’t be able to get on the stage,” he said.

State parties run the presidential primary balloting in early voting South Carolina. Presidential hopefuls must file with the state GOP and pay their primary entry fee by May 1 to qualify to participate in the May 15 debate in Columbia. Giuliani was the first to do so last week. McCain did so on Thursday.

All 10 Republican candidates will be participating in the first Republican debate next Thursday at the Reagan Library in California.

Ann Marie

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John Kass….

April 29th, 2007 | 10 Comments | Posted in Hillary Clinton

In, “Putting a whole new accent on politics” John Kass wrote:

‘I think America is ready for a multilingual president,” said Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-Bill) last week, responding to pesky critics who don’t like the fact she uses various Southern accents, including Daisy Duke. And now they’re pecking at her, mercilessly, the way chickens peck on a hen with a head sore.

I happen to think she’s correct. America is ready for a president of multiple accents. President Bush talks cowboy when he wants. So why can’t Hillary channel multiple Southern women if she so desires?

What makes John Kass think that these critics are “pesky”? Are critics of Bush also “pesky”? John Kass, “happen[s] to think she’s correct”! How is Hillary “correct” that America wants a multilingual president, and that a fake southern accent qualifies as a separate language? This is MSM-think. I do many impersonations. Do each of these qualify as a separate language? Am I now multi-lingual in Hillary Clinton and John Kass’’ world?

John Kass is a true idiot. How do these people get paid for witting this?

“A while ago, while trying to evolve from Eastern liberal Republican to rabid conservative presidential candidate, he put on a big show about being a hunter to endear himself to gun owners. Sadly, he didn’t have much of a record in applying for hunting licenses.”

“Rather than be accused of embellishing like Al Gore, Romney explained that he didn’t need a hunting license to hunt “varmints.” But being from Massachusetts, Romney’s “varmints” sounded more like “vah-mits,” which sounds sickening.”

This is just not true. Mitt Romney does not have a Boston Accent. Mitt Romney is from Michigan. He went to Stanford, BYU, and then Harvard, and then lived the rest of his life in Boston, but he never got a Boston accent. And these people in the news just call names. They don’t inform us. How can they even call it a “news-paper” any more? How exactly is Romney transforming. They give no evidence. They make no argument. He is not a rapid conservative presidential candidate, any more than McCain, Rudy, or Barak and Hillary are rabid liberal candidates. Is he saying that Romney lied? He didn’t need a hunting license. People say, “Romney you have never been hunting, because you never had a hunting license.” Romney says, “That is not true. You don’t need a hunting license to hunt varmints.” And instead of admitting that they were wrong, when calling him a liar (that just because he had never had a hunting license he therefore must have never used a gun) they make fun of his use of the word varmints.

“The “vah-mits” bit his behind so hard that his campaign became infected. Soon Republicans will take Romney out behind the barn and call on Fred Thompson to play a conservative, just like he does on TV.”

Is John Kass some sort of expert? What evidence does he give that Republicans are getting ready to take him behind the shed? If you go hear, you will see that more congressmen have endorsed Mitt Romney than Former Sen. John Edwards, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Sen. Chris Dodd, Sen. Joe Biden, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Former Sen. Mike Gravel, Rep. Tom Tancredo, Former Wis. Gov. Tommy Thompson, Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and Sen. Sam Brownback all put together! In fact Mitt Romney has more congresmen and women endorsing him than Hillary Clinton, Barak, Obama, John McCain, or Rudy. It does not seam to me that “conservatives” are taking Romney behind the shed. In fact it is the Chicago Tribune that should take YOU behind the shed. I live in Chicago, and I would love to help in that process.

“But back to Hillary. Ponder Hillary using her Chicago accent, then her New York accent, then going hillbilly and Black Female Preacher, rounding her vowels, then twanging them hard, all within the span of few minutes.”

“Just ponder that one, if you will.”

“It might help if you had a whittling stick, and a rocking chair and a blue-tick hound sleeping at your feet, perhaps with flies on his behind, maybe a jug. But I didn’t have those, neither.”

“So I just had to think on it a piece without these pondering aides, and ciphered it out.”

“What really burns her critics’ britches is that Hillary uses Southern accents and gets away with it and they can’t.”

Hillary gets away with it? Is that why Hillary’s numbers are dropping? Hay, John Kass, how many young professional African Americans have you spoken to? Obviously you haven’t spoken to any of them. You, like Hillary, keep thinking you can everyone for granted, no matter how transparent your lack of reason, no matter how unprincipled, how stupid, how base, how over simplistic, how much you pander to people. We, your readers, don’t like being spoken down to. We don’t like being treated like we are children. Like we are incapable of reason. Like we don’t know when you are trying to mislead us. And we don’t like Hillary’s transparent attempts either.

“And they’re worried what she’s capable of, if elected president, traveling overseas on Air Force One, visiting the various world capitals. She’s so good with accents that she’s liable to speak English with a French accent, or hillbilly with a German accent, and trick all those foreigners into loving us again.”

John Kass gets paid for this? Hillary said, “I think America is ready for a multilingual president.” Mitt Romney is the only multi-lingual presidential candidate. John Kass blathers on about how Hillary’s crappy southern accent is somehow evidence that; “She’s so good with accents that she’s liable to speak English with a French accent” when Romney can skip the whole trying to give the French a fake French accent, and speak actual French to the frogs eaters!

John Kass asserts that Hillary will speak “hillbilly with a German accent, and trick all those foreigners into loving us again.”

Click here for more evidence that John Kass is a Jock Ars.

~ Mike

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“The Mormons” - PBS

April 29th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in Religion

This two part presentation will appear on PBS tomorrow and Tuesday.
I believe we should be mindful of this, as stated below they will have [A "Join the Discussion" area for viewers;]. I don’t see how Romney will be left off of these discussions. We need to go and monitor these discussions to make sure that the Romney record, and Romney himself are not misrepresented.

Thanks a lot,

Ann Marie

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The “Speech”

April 29th, 2007 | 9 Comments | Posted in 2008 Election, Speeches

With all the talk in the discussion topics about the famous “Speech” that some believe Romney has to give, while others do not got me thinking.

For a while now I’ve believed that this weeks commencement address at Regent University would be that “speech”. What better way of doing it. He’ll have the debate this week, he’ll have a little more name recognition, and he’s going to have an Evangelical Christian audience to speak to. If he’s going to give this famous speech, why not now and why not at this place?

I welcome others viewpoints on the subject.

Ann Marie

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Big Chance to Shine

April 29th, 2007 | 10 Comments | Posted in Debates

Now that the Democrats have completed their first presidential debate, it will be the Republicans’ turn next Thursday when they convene at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., for their own nationally televised encounter.

And no candidate is looking forward more to the event than former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. For many weeks, Romney’s advisers have been predicting that he will score well in the debate–by proving that he is “presidential,” is a “true conservative,” and has a mastery of the issues as deep and broad as that of anyone in the race. Romney definitely needs a breakthrough. He has been unable to rise above about 10 percent support in polls of Republican voters even though he has raised more money than any other GOP candidate.

“He needs to move the campaign forward,” says a Romney strategist, who admits that the candidate has developed a reputation as an opportunist for reversing himself on issues such as abortion and gay rights and for exaggerating his background as a hunter–all supposedly to appeal to the conservative base.

“Once these impressions set in, it’s hard to unwind them,” says the strategist.

–Kenneth T. Walsh

I can’t wait for to next Thursday, and not just because it’s my day off. Gov. Romney has a chance to really stake a claim to the conservative mantle by blowing away the pretenders at these debates. Many Americans will be seeing Romney for the first time. His biggest obstacle being the number of political corpses littering the field (10 debaters!).

The only piece of advice I have for him is to be bold.

~~~Thomas

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Will Somebody Please get John a Tissue?

April 29th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Competitors, John McCain

This just about says it all about Mr. McCain:

Sen. McCain, complains to friends that he is getting much rougher treatment from the news media than his competitors for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
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Referring to GMR and RG, JM feels privately expresses the view that they have gotten off easy.

I have been looking for the world’s smallest violin for John and I can’t find it!
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When does McCain just go away? Well, this article speaks to his Q2/2007 fund-raising hopes. Click here: Robert D. Nokak
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~ RHR

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McCain’s Weak & Feeble Attack on Mitt Romney

April 28th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Competitors, John McCain

Lame. That is the word to describe both McCain and the writer of this article.

Mr. McCain never ceases to amaze me. This little exchange as reported by Politico is a great example of how McCain appears foolish, while at the same time, attempting to seem the expert. But Jonathan Martin’s bias-leaning toward McCain is so obvious, even in the title of the article, Romney shot down by McCain that he thinks McCain is right.

In this exchange, Romney in effect says that Bin Laden would be an important catch, but not worth huge treasure and lives; the larger effort to defeat Radical Islam is critical. Romney never said bin Laden is “not an element” in the struggle. McCain almost appears irrelevant in his quotes, in effect stating that it is worth our spending billions of dollars to get him. Romney never once said Bin Laden is not important.

McCain’s lashing out here at Governor Romney is much more revealing of McCain’s overall insecurity and envy than it is of anything related to Governor Romney. McCain should try to mask his insecurity better in the future (and Martin should work on the inability to hide his bias):

Hosting a conference call with bloggers while on his announcement tour in Iowa, McCain was asked by Race 4 2008 writer Jennifer Rubin about Romney’s remark in an AP interview Wednesday that “it’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.”
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“[I]t takes a degree of naivete to think he’s [bin Laden] not an element in the struggle against radical Islam,” McCain said.
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Romney spokesman Madden: “If other candidates believe that only one person should be our sole focus, instead of recognizing the larger threat of regional and global terrorist networks built by al-Qaeda and others and destroying them, then I think it has much less to do with naivete and instead is merely a disagreement,” Madden said. “We would disagree with a candidate who thinks our military and [intelligence] efforts in the war on terror should only focus on one terrorist leader.”

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Bill Gardner Has An Eye On The Primary

April 28th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in 2008 Election, New Hampshire

Short article on NHPOLS.COM by Beth LaMontagne…

“Sec’y of State Bill Gardner holds the fate of the first-in-the-nation primary in his hands. According to New Hampshire law, the Sec’y of State can decide when to schedule the state’s primary, as long as it is at least seven days before any similar contest.

Now that the Democratic Party has scheduled the Nevada caucus between Iowa and the New Hampshire primary, and there is a large number of states creeping closer and closer to the Granite State’s tentative Jan. 22 date, all eyes are on Gardner , wondering if he will thumb his nose at the national party leaders and schedule the election whenever he deems necessary.”

It’s interesting to see how the states are jockeying for position in the all-important early primaries. In my view, I would like to see the primaries spread out more, especially the mega states like California and New York, so that the second and third tier candidates would have a better chance of catching fire if one or more of the first tier candidates didn’t fare well in N.H. However, from a strictly partisan standpoint, if MR has it all sewed up early on, you won’t hear any complaints from me.

~~John Cronin~~

“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”

**Winston Churchill**

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This Is Indeed “Interesting”

Take a second and read “Interesting” over at Evangelical for Mitt.

It is in reference to “McCain Blogger Conference Call Recap”.

~Nate Gunderson

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“Turnaround” Book Review Update

Yesterday I wrote a post “The Mitt Romney Turnaround” which highlighted an excellent book review on Romney’s book “Turnaround” written by Stanford student Grant Everett Starrett.

In an e-mail he sent, Garrett said that version of the book review was truncated for publication. He attached the full version which may be of interest to some of you. Read the whole review (below) just for the additional humorous parts if not for the whole content.

~Nate Gunderson

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On the Road, Monday 1PM ET

Fox News will have a piece on Romney on Monday at 1PM ET. Setup your TIVO’s!

Nathan W.

PS. When setting my TIVO, it looked like it was on the “Live Desk” show. Let me know if you see a different show at that time slot.

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