Drumbeat for Romney for VP Grows Louder
Brief article over at HOT AIR touts Mitt Romney for the vice presidential slot.
The article talks about the strength that Romney would bring to the ticket because of his mastery of business and economics. If Mitt is not picked for VP, I think this is what needs to happen.
The McCain campaign needs to send a message to conservatives, IMHO, in two areas of vital importance, or they will not be pleased with the results they get at at the ballot box in November.
1. We need an iron-clad promise to secure our borders and to enforce the existing laws on immigration.
2. We need a comprehensive economic policy that includes making the Bush tax cuts permanent, killing the death tax, balancing the budget and moving to reform the bloated entitlement spending that threatens to bankrupt this country.
Failing to accomplish this, the feckless leadership we have been getting from the Republican Party at the national level, will usher in eight bleak years of Democratic rule.
I know I am repeating myself, but I will say it again. Unless grassroots Republicans rise up and retake this party in order to guide it back toward the conservative principles that made the Party and the country great, we are going to lose this election. If there isn’t two cents worth of difference between the Democrat’s platform and the Republican’s platform, who cares which party wins? Obviously the career politicians do, but I am talking about the voters who have to pay for all of this.
We are not getting our money’s worth!
~~John Cronin~~
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/01/pew-mccain-gaining-at-the-center/
The economy will present a critical test for McCain. He has worked on building economic chops, and his campaign has notable assistance in this area from Steve Forbes and even Mitt Romney. Obama’s stumble on capital-gains tax increases could help narrow this gap, but thus far the McCain campaign hasn’t offered any focus on that gaffe from the April 16th debate.
McCain could use a well-recognized hand on economics as a running mate. I’ve suggested that Romney could fill that role, although Allahpundit has been less enthusiastic. Romney did a great job with fundraising in 2007 and could help fill a critical gap there as well. Now that Jeremiah Wright has managed to splatter himself all over Obama, not too many people would worry about Mormons in the general election. Mormons aren’t known for asking that God damn America or promulgating weird conspiracy theories about HIV and government-sponsored genocides. Wright’s demagoguery has taken the Mormon issue off the table, if Obama wins the nomination.
May 6th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I like this article and couldn’t find it over at HA, so thanks for posting it here. Off topic, but I happened upon another VP voting poll. Mitt’s doing well so far. Go vote everyone LOL
http://innovation.cq.com/vpmadness
May 6th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Tami: Thanks for the heads up, went over and voted. I just wish it could be Gov. Romney!
May 6th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
You’re welcome. He’s up there pretty high so if we can get everyone over there to vote for him then maybe it’ll go higher.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
Tami,
You are welcome.
May 6th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
I think that may be one of the goofiest polls I have seen. It is hard for me to understand the results page. Why do they match them with someone else? Does anyone get it? I know I don’t….
The other thing I don’t know is why do “the Mormons” always have to come into EVERY conversation? It is weird to me that I cannot go on any blog, any comment board or any newspaper article and become inundated with “the Mormon” issue… sometimes quite offensive! But, I did kind of ike this one where it said Mr. Wright has put Mormonism off the concern board… I hope that is true.
That said, I like the article above. I hope the drumbeat becomes deafening! I hope McCain gets the message from us. However, I know other groups are trying to get “their guy” in there too. I don’t have alot of trust in the wisdom of McCain I hate to say…
Where has Rusty been? KKSM
May 6th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
KKSM: It’s a bracket. If you are familiar with sports brackets (particularly basketball brackets) that is how this poll works. Each person is matched up with another person. The winner will then be matched up with a new person, and so forth, until all but two choices are eliminated.
Mitt will probably be up against Mark Sanford in round 2.
May 6th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Hey, where is Rusty??? The Morman issue again. Why can’t they let it go. Even Al
Sharpton, made a trip to Utah to check out the religion!!!!! He came back and reported
lots had changed and he was satisfied with his information. Mr. Wright has said such horrible things, let’s hope Mormonism can get a break. Everything was so nice, the
Morman’s sent representation when the Pope came, just terrific!!!!! I think it terrible!!
Let it go, people! It doesn’t matter, we have freedom of religion, don’t we??????
May 6th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Jenny: Ha ha on me! That shows the obvious! I don’t do sports…. no, incorrect, I was a great softball and volleyball player. I just don’t understand that bracketing thing I guess…. Is it generally associated with betting??? Thanks for setting me straight!
Paulee: Thanks. I agree. WE are supposed to have freedom to worship almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, only very few get that when it is their neighbor… It is great for them, but not for others sometimes… disgusting!
KKSM
May 6th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
KKSM: Lol. That’s right, brackets often show up during tournament season (I’ve always associated it with basketball myself) when sports fans will fill them out with their predictions, usually for betting.
The bracket system is also how the tournament works, though. From two teams one will win and then they face another team, just like in that poll. I’ve never seen such a system used in a poll before. I would have to agree with you that it is “goofy”
May 6th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Jenny: I am glad I made you laugh! I am good at that! I have seen people do this bracket thing, I just never understood it until you explained it to me…. shameful!!!!
Well, as for the goofiness, it sort of takes away from the credibility of the poll if you ask me. Maybe I am wrong.
I hope to see this drum beat louder and louder and louder! I just pray for what is good for Mitt and the country! KKSM
May 6th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
The bracketing appears to be an excuse to boost Huck into the second round by pairing him against the despised Lindsey Graham. Ok maybe I’m reading too much into this. Ha. I ended up having to vote for people whom I don’t want in the position just because people they were paired against were worse, or not voting for people whom I would like in the position because their opponent was better. I think they should set it up where you pick 50 percent of the available candidates and then next week the least popular half overall are eliminated, rather than A vs. B.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I have a question… I don’t know where else to ask this, so here goes.
I was just looking at the results for the Primaries on the computer. I am wanting to know how come Mike Huckabee’s name still appears on the ballots and Mitt’s does not. Mitt suspended, Huck dropped out. Why does he still get to be on the ballot and Mitt isn’t??? Same question twice I know. Can’t help it. Does it bother anyone that he got so many votes????
KKSM
May 7th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Bothers me, KKSM: I don’t understand that either! Maybe John has an answer.
May 7th, 2008 at 6:45 am
Round 2 has started, Mitt’s behind Mark.!!!!! Please, everyone go vote. Spread the word.
Let’s do it!!!!!!So many candidates!!!! I still am upset, why can’t they leave the Morman issue alone????? My prayers today are giving it to the Lord, he knows the trouble we are seeing, we have to trust, and keep the faith. LOL
May 7th, 2008 at 10:00 am
KKSM, Paulee&Mike,
I assume it’s for two reasons. 1. They are probably write-in votes 2. Ron Paul’s supporters have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Mike Huckabee’s supporters don’t have anything better to do
May 7th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Okay, John, that explains everything! I feel better now. Mitt was on msnbc, fox, and even on the radio. He’s certainly getting around. The big event for the Romney’s
tomorrow. I hope they get some respect and they are honored in the media, as well.
They deserve this wonderful recognition. I’m very happy for them.
Go Vote, Go Vote, Go Vote!!!!! We can’t let Mitt lose!!!!!!!!!!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:01 am
John, in reading your comments above once again, your right on. We need to define
our republican pledges to this party. It’s when you get people trying to change the dynamics of what our party stands for, like no one is watching, because they can’t get jobs done in Congress. Baffles me, this system doesn’t seem to be working. To many
dems, not enough rep. Am I dumb, it will always be a gridlock,unless we have rep.
leadership and rep. congress? Somehow that seems unfair, isn’t there a way to overcome this? Is this system, because of minorities, differences in the parties
beliefs, have we outgrown how things have always been done??? I am really sad that
for seven years, it’s been all bickering, little results. Don’t get me wrong, I respect the
Bush’s, I voted for them, but look at oil, gas, health care, what have we done to be proactive??????? Can anyone calm this storm we have been in? If the only way to get things done is vote dems, they will control, or again it’s gridlock? Am I right?
What fixes this problem? I for one, am getting mighty frustrated!
I’m listening, help?
May 8th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Actually, I think McCain needs to do number 2, but I think that number 1 has been a loser for the GOP, and it’s probably going to bite them for the next two-plus decades. A hard line on immigration has not delivered anything for the GOP in Virginia (in 2005, it didn’t help them win the governor’s mansion, didn’t save a U.S. Senate seat in 2006, and didn’t save the state senate from going Democratic in 2007).
I’ll also note that McCain, DESPITE his support for the approach to immigration set forth by President Bush, won the Republican nomination. If a hard line on immigration is a winner, then why is John McCain going to be the nominee?
I think the Republican primary electorate either supports - or at the very least doesn’t object to - the approach that McCain and President Bush have proposed for a number of years now.
May 10th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Harold C. Hutchison,
Regarding your comment about the “Republican primary electorate”: That was a big part of the problem this primary season. McCain’s views on immigration do not represent the stance of conservative Republicans….his views represent the Democrats and Indies that crossed over to vote for him. It was the open primary system in some states that allowed McCain to win the nomination. Exit polls showed that a hard line on immigration WAS AND IS A WINNER among conservative Republicans.
If a “soft line” on immigration is a winner, why did McCain and Co. get their hands slapped by the electorate in the summer of 2007? Polls showed that a breath taking 78% of Americans were opposed to his amnesty bill. If a soft line is a winner, why did they drop the bill like a hot potato and why did McCain pledge that he “has heard the American people” and will work to secure the border if elected?
May 11th, 2008 at 6:32 am
John. and I remember clearly that John said he learned alot from Gov. Romney on the campaign trail. One fact for sure, Mitt never wavered on immigration. John begrudingly
stated, he had heard the American people. The other committment was, Keep the Bush
tax cuts, again begrudingly stated. Did you all see Google Alert Mitt, Washington Post,
the five picks for VP. No# 1 Pawlenty. They also list the dems.