Californians: Rally for Romney TONIGHT! Bring Your Family and All Your Friends!
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“CHANGE BEGINS WITH US”
Mitt Romney TOUR STOP
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2008
7:00 PM
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DAUGHERTY SKY HARBOR
2801 EAST SPRING STREET
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
This rally is not a fundraiser — IT IS FREE! Just come ready to scream! (direct quote by Matt Romney)
In the last three hours, I received email messages from David Parker, Jim Davies, and Matt Romney asking for all of us in California to spread the word about this appearance of Governor Romney tonight! Please forward this post to all those you know in California to get as many people as possible to this rally. I looked up the address in MapQuest; the location is immediately adjacent to the Long Beach Airport and next to I-405.
By David Parker:
Mitt Romney is surging in the polls with the coalescing of the conservative base of the Republican Party and is on a 10-state run before Super Tuesday. Amazingly, Mitt will be in California today, Monday February 4th. We are hosting a Rally for Mitt near the Long Beach Airport today at 7pm. Please gather your friends and family and join us. I will be sending out a follow up email with all of the details later this evening or first thing tomorrow.
Recent Polls have Mitt leading in California, Georgia, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Massachusetts and several other Super Tuesday states, and Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll came out today showing Mitt and John McCain tied nationally. Every vote counts and we would encourage you to talk to your friends about voting for Mitt on Tuesday. Contrary to the media’s wanting of John McCain to win the day, Mitt is surging nationally and is well positioned for a strong Tuesday showing. This is going to be a very competitive race and we need to join with other conservative Republicans and Rally to and for Mitt.
Please gather as many as you are able and join us in Long Beach tomorrow evening. The media is watching, but more importantly, Mitt is truly energized and lifted when he feels the strength of those who support him. Speaking to Mitt after the Rally last week in Orange County, he told me how appreciative and strengthened he was because of such a great outpouring. He and Ann can feel the strength and encouragement of so many in this cause. We are bound as one at this critical time.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, but especially thanks in advance for coming out tomorrow evening. It promises to be a great and exciting, even electric event. This is a great time for you and your children to see, hear and meet the next President of the United States.
Please tell all your friends about this rally and take your family. If you have any fence-sitter friends or those who would like to meet Governor Romney, please bring them to this rally. BRING A LOT OF ENTHUSIAMSM.
~ Vic
February 4th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Come to NorCal!
February 4th, 2008 at 5:21 am
Great news! I think worst case, Romney and McCain get an even 80-80 split. I forget where I read but an increase in a certain candidate causes it to weirdly halt the candidates mo and that effect has lost it for many hopefuls. Let’s hope it continues!
February 4th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Great news this morning that Romney is leading in California in the latest zogby poll 40 to 32. California will be a huge win. Even the media will have to acknowledge it. If Mitt also wins Georgia it would also be big, showing that he can win in the south. That plus the wester states he is likely to win will give us a satisfying tuesday night.
I think between talk radio and here in the blogosphere we have truly managed to send out the message that we are not surrendering this Reagan Coalition to John McCain. No way!
February 4th, 2008 at 9:06 am
And yet, listening to my local radio news, they say McCain is pulling away. Media sets the perception…let’s hope there is still time for some reality. By the way, even tho this weekend I heard MSM several times stating McCain campaigning hard in Mass to steal it away from Mitt, Mitt is ahead huge.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:11 am
I get so depressed watching the news I have to come here to feel hopeful again. I hope people will vote against McCain.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Zogby-Reuters just posted Romney UP 40-32 over McCain in California!
February 4th, 2008 at 10:21 am
McCain is going to regret campaigning in Mass. It was precious time he could have spent saving his falling numbers in Ca, Georgia, Miss. and even AZ. His arrogance is going to be his undoing.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Politics is fascinating. But for 5 points in Florida, Mitt would be getting the inevitability mantle–He has actually won more states than McCain. There are lots of people that are accepting McCain like a dose of caster oil. Too bad they can’t think for themselves, but I think they would flow easily into Mitt’s camp if convinced that the tide was with him. Such sheep. Oh well, I can’t wait to see this event in California. GO MITT
February 4th, 2008 at 10:29 am
The MSM is just amzing in their obvious bias. Romney is not competing in NY, neither is Huckabee. McCain is basically unchallenged there, and yet the media keep polling in NY. Why? Why are they spending the resources when they know that McCain is going to win that state with no problems? They are doing it so they can write headlines such as McCain in the lead. McCain’s lead widening. It is only when you read the actually articlethat you realize they are talking just about NY. It is pathetic.
But tomorrow, all conservatives are going to send a message to the MSM, that they will not choose the nominee of our party for us.
February 4th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Take a look at this liberal
http://youtube.com/watch?v=LkcVXIhssCI
February 4th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Here is another clip worth noting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVQEaUZDjiU&NR=1
February 4th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Barbara Comstock just did a great job on CNN this morning outlining Mitt’s conservative credentials and the CNN talking head was just incredulous. They just keep reporting their same old faulty polls and refuse to even acknowledge Romney is still in the race. Hopefully, the same thing that happened in Maine will sweep many of these other states. The egocentric nature of the New York Press is just unbelievable. They really think the world revolves around them and if they say it, it must be true. It is up to American voters now! Come on California! Get the Mitt vote out! Come on Georgia! Make your conservative vote count for something! Come on Missouri- ‘Show me’ what a real conservative state can do. Let’s make sure that the American people choose the Republican nominee- not the biased liberal media!!!!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Great news, gang!
McCain fatigue is starting to set in and the polls are moving are way!
The John “Tax on gas” McCain moniker is starting to stick—Mitt kept on message with it yesterday in interviews—people get repulsed about this 50 cent/gallon tax on gasoline and 20% surcharge on electricity.
It’s starting to crack for John “Tax on gas” McCain–lets hope there’s enough time to push us over the top in a few of the close states.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Romney is ahead in the CA Zogby poll, and yet MSNBC First Read reports it as the opposite with McCain at 40. I emailed them, but haven’t seen a correction yet. Maybe a few more of you should email so they’ll pay attention.
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/04/635273.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
February 4th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Great Youtube references, Paul!
Along with the other issues that McCain has flipped, then flopped on, McCain’s interest in becoming John Kerry’s Vice Presidential candidate is SUPREME PROOF that McCain is a LIBERAL WOLF in CONSERVATIVE SHEEP’S clothing.
Let’s roll up our sleeves and do the hard work TODAY to ensure that duplicitous McCain loses BIG tomorrow night. Victory for Mitt!
Vic, this is a great website!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am
Karen,
Did you also notice that in addition to reporting false California numbers, the list of polls left out every state where Romney leads–every one of them.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:54 am
K Berg,
you are right, she did a great job! That is some good adv for MITT on a channel a lot of people are getting their news as they are preparing for work, it gives them something to chew on as they go out the door. We need to see more of Mitt’s endorsers, tying up the airwaves with those messages.ESP today! The NPR reporter MichelleNorris was on today on NBC, and she added”a wrinkle in McCain’s plan are the talk from the conservative talk show hosts going for Romney, that going out on the web too” (something close to that). Another subconscious plug for Mitt!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Thanks Kathleen,
Your comment prompted me to send MSNBC an additional email…
February 4th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
The good part of this is that the people that would vote for McCain may think it’s in the bag and just stay home!
February 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Did it occur to anybody that there may be some kind of a evil plot to get McCain in there? How can he go from being completely without money in September after crashing his campaign into the ground, to being on top of the polls in January. What kind of help has he been getting, and who are his prominent backers? I feel that republicans are being played big-time right now, and they seem to be just going with the pack — no independent thinking going on here. I can’t believe that it is just coincidental that Huck came along at such an opportune time, and just took off. This one-two punch of Romney in Iowa and NewHampshire must have been coordinated, but I don’t think it was just their campaigns. Obviously the media played a huge role, but were they the instigators of the Romney bust, or just blind followers doing what they were told to do? Romney truly is a Washington outsider, and the Huck/McCain supporters are just blind sheep going with the pack. I will say one honest reporter has come out of all of this, someone I have trusted since the whole OJ thing, and that is Jeffrey Toobin of CNN. But I don’t trust any of the others.
February 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I am a foreign born US citizen living in Utah. I strongly support Mitt Romney for his stance in illegal imigration issue, family values, and other conservative causes. Mitt is very articulate and he understands how economy works. We desperately need someone who understands economy in order to revive our economy. In Utah, his support among Republicans are over 80% according to a latest local poll. That’s amazing. I hope he will get a lot of votes in other states as well this Tuesday.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
“How can he go from being completely without money in September after crashing his campaign into the ground, to being on top of the polls in January? What kind of help has he been getting, and who are his prominent backers?”
Leslie,
I believe that there was a conspiracy between Giuliani and McCain before NH primary. Giuliani spent 4 millions in 2007 in NH only, and he suddenly disappeared on 1/8/08, the date of NH primary. Giuliani’s campaign team told the media that he wanted to focus in FL where many votes were New Yorkers. This explanation didn’t convince me at all. After the FL ’s primary was over, I heard from Fox/Big Story that John Edward disclosed that his campaign staff told him that JM offered RG an Attorney General if he wins.
It had been a difficulty time for Giuliani after the corruption scandal of the former head of NYPD revealed last December, and Giuliani also recommended this guy to the President Bush as the candidate of Secretary of Home Land Security. This guy was Giuliani’s buddy in NYC. As Giuliani watching his poll dropped from the top to the bottom by the end of last year, he knew that he needed to make some deal to secure his future benefit, and the only one he could make a deal with was McCain, because they shared the same pool of voters.
Giuliani is a dirty guy same as McCain, because he has been on the Government payroll for too long, and he knows all the dirty tricks that Romney doesn’t know, since Romney is a successful business man with a great compassion to serve the people and country.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Idaho is not a Super Tuesday state for us.
February 4th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
ATTENTION Will several of the Cal rally attendees please report back about your experience. I love to here about the energy and support of Mitt Romney.
February 4th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Helen,
Thanks for the tip about Giuliani. That makes total sense. He just dropped out of NH, I remember. I figured that he was sick or something. His Florida strategy really was hokey, and they were competing for the same moderate voters. Interesting insight.
What I really hate is when the media says, “Everybody hates Romney” but they never explain why. It’s funny that if Romney does drop out, it would have taken the combined efforts of Rudy, John, Huckabee and Fred to get rid of him. That’s pretty impressive.
And there will be a backlash if Romney loses. His supporters aren’t just going to vote for McCain. Romney voters are a little smarter than the average voter. We’ll sit home and wait 4 - 8 years until a real conservative comes along, rather than water down the party with McCain.
February 4th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
I know this is true about Romney voters, that we are more intense than the average voter. If you read the Politico blogs, we are referred to as “Rombots”, and there are complaints that we tend to be very determined about Romney’s superiority, and unwilling to compromise. McCain will have a hell of a time winning us over.
February 7th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
It would seem clear that McCain’s last minute surge with the California electorate was the result of Mitt Romney’s “internship” comment in his add.
The grassroots Republican electorate, especially the ladies, are not going to support these kinds of remarks from Republican candidates. Every wife of a Republican leader in politics or business could be accused of holding her position of social leadership as a result of an “internship” with her husband.
Mitt Romney should recognize that the use of this term was inappropriate by issuing a similar statement with a better choice of words. It might also be wise for Mitt Romney to recognize that if Condi Rice had decided to seek the Republican nomination for the Presidency, she would have had the overwhelming support of the Republican electorate.
Mitt Romney has also not taken on John McCain’s claim on military expertise. McCain is extremely vulnerable on this — the primary issue of his credibility.
I would suggest that in Romney’s next debate with McCain, Mitt advances the following arguments:
I. “Senator McCain flaunts his opposition to Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld, but McCain claims that he fully supports the recent “surge” and for General Petraeus.
Senator McCain must realize that the “surge” in Iraq has been so successful because of the extensive military planning and preparation that preceded the beginning of the “surge”. This success was also dependent on the full support of the White House and the our Department of State. As we saw in Baquba, the Iraqi people on the grass roots level also had to be prepared to immediately cooperate with the local Iraqi police stations that were promptly established when our and the Iraqi troops went in to initially secure an area. The soldiers participating in the surge also had to fully understand the strategy and how to implement it.
How can Senator McCain imagine that all this extensive planning and preparation did not occur under the leadership of Don Rumsfeld before he retired?”
II. “Senator McCain has also criticized President Bush for saying that he looked into the eyes of Vladimir Putin and judged him trustworthy. McCain states that, when he looks at Putin, he sees only three letters “K G B”.
Does Senator McCain believe that President Bush was not aware of all the CIA, military, and State Department analysies on Putin before he met with him? Does Senator McCain believe that President Bush did not expect Putin to do his best to build the Russian economy?
I wonder if Senator McCain believes that Putin had anything to do with the radioactive poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko when it is clear that it was Putin’s openly declared enemies and supposed friends of Litvinenko who killed him?”
III. When Senator McCain criticizes Russia sending peaceful grade fuels to Iran, Romney should respond:
“The entire international strategy against the proliferation of nuclear fuel refinement technology is based on the developing world importing those fuels from the established nuclear powers rather than those developing countries developing their own nuclear fuel refinement capabilities. The White House has specifically stated that it does not object to the Russian strategy in this regard.”
Mitt Romney might also note that no country would want to make its entire energy infrastructure dependent on the arbitrary performance of exporting countries, and that there will have to be some appropriate international system for guaranteeing the deliveries on importation contracts for peaceful grade nuclear fuels.