What Do You Think Mitt’s Doing Tonight?
Romney campaigns throughout the night
By GLEN JOHNSON
Associated Press Writer
Don’t say Mitt Romney won’t go the extra mile for a vote.
The Republican presidential contender was logging more than 5,000 of them as he undertook a 37-hour, coast-to-coast-to-coast dash while trying to better rival John McCain in the 21 Super Tuesday nominating contests.
“…I think it communicates to people in California that the entire nation is watching California and what they’re going to do,” he said in Tennessee after setting off on his journey at 7 a.m. EST Monday. “If I win California, that means you’re going to have a conservative in the White House.”
The former Massachusetts governor, who tries to keep his body clock on East Coast time wherever he travels in the country, planned to sleep on the return flight, aided by a pillow, pink fleece blanket and inflatable mattress his campaign staff brought aboard in Oklahoma.
“I want to sleep on the floor as long as the flight attendants say it’s OK, because they need to go up and down the aisle,” Romney said. “My feet will hang out into the aisle, but I’d rather sleep on the floor.”
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He said he and his wife, Ann, had talked Sunday night about the prospect of walking into the voting booth and seeing his name listed as a candidate for president.
“It’s something I would have never imagined,”…I mean, it’s an honor, obviously, it’s an enormous honor to even be considered as a candidate for president and to know that there will be hundreds of thousands and hopefully millions who will say, ‘You’re the guy we’d like as our next president.’ It’s a very humbling honor,” he added.
…”I feel excited,” he said as he flew west, “very eager for the day to come and to start counting results. It’s going to be hard to go to sleep tomorrow night, because we won’t hear from California probably until very, very late.”
Go California! We’re counting on you guys!
February 5th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Breaking: Dobson Slams McCain on Ingraham
Released as a Statement Ingraham read over the air.
I am deeply disappointed the Republican Party seems poised to select a nominee who did not support a Constitutional amendment to protect the institution of marriage, voted for embryonic stem cell research to kill nascent human beings, opposed tax cuts that ended the marriage penalty, has little regard for freedom of speech, organized the Gang of 14 to preserve filibusters in judicial hearings, and has a legendary temper and often uses foul and obscene language.
I am convinced Sen. McCain is not a conservative, and in fact, has gone out of his way to stick his thumb in the eyes of those who are. He has sounded at times more like a member of the other party. McCain actually considered leaving the GOP caucus in 2001, and approached John Kerry about being Kerry’s running mate in 2004. McCain also said publicly that Hillary Clinton would make a good president. Given these and many other concerns, a spoonful of sugar does NOT make the medicine go down. I cannot, and will not, vote for Sen. John McCain, as a matter of conscience.
But what a sad and melancholy decision this is for me and many other conservatives. Should Sen. McCain capture the nomination as many assume, I believe this general election will offer the worst choices for president in my lifetime. I certainly can’t vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama based on their virulently anti-family policy positions. If these are the nominees in November, I simply will not cast a ballot for president for the first time in my life. These decisions are my personal views and do not represent the organization with which I am affiliated. They do reflect my deeply held convictions about the institution of the family, about moral and spiritual beliefs, and about the welfare of our country.