comMITTed to Romney!

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Presumptive Democratic Nominee Barack Obama

Mr. Obama has talked about how Mr. McCain would be going after him for his “Funny” name, well, since he finds his name so funny (hehe)…I figured why not call it so, and why not add Mr. Kwame Kilpatrick to the mix too…because guess what? Mr. Kilpatrick of “spent a day in jail time” for violation of his probation is coming too. Isn’t this just so dang exciting all? I can’t wait to see the pictures. I wonder if Mr. Obama has the guts to actually chastise his fellow Democratic leader? We shall see I guess.

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While the MSM enjoys it’s coffee break, Jenny writes to us from the site of the latest breaking news in Michigan. Pictures to follow!

~~John Cronin~~

Jenny on 14 Jul 2008 at 7:35 pm edit this17

Hello, everyone! I have just returned from the event. There was a good sized, enthusiastic crowd there. Unfortunately, Mitt was in a hurry to leave, so I didn’t get to talk with him/get a picture with him, but I do have some pictures to share! I will be posting pictures as well as a little rundown on what happened.

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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080711/NEWS15/80711039/1215

~~John Cronin~~

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will be in Michigan on Monday to help celebrate the opening of Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign office in Farmington Hills.

Romney is often mentioned as a possible running mate for McCain. Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Romney is the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, and he came back to win the state’s Jan. 15 presidential primary. Political observers have said that Romney could help attract votes in the state, which has become a key battleground in the upcoming election.

The campaign office is located at 31440 Northwestern Hwy., Suite 100 in Farmington Hills. The celebration with Romney begins at 5 p.m. Monday.

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Governor Romney couldn’t make the event on time because his plane was weather delayed and he still managed to raise a cool $2,000,000.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/05/mccain_raises_2m_in_michigan.php

McCain Raises $2m In Michigan

07 May 2008 08:04 am

The tally from last night’s fundraiser at the Oakland, Co., Michigan mansion of Compuwere CEO Peter Karmanos: $2 million. Much of it will be sent to the RNC and to state parties.

400 people attended, including McCain advisers Charlie Black and Tom Loeffler and eBay’s Meg Whitman and Mitt Romney’s national finance chair, John Rakolta.

Romney was there, too. Scott, not Mitt.

Mitt was supposed to be there, but his plane from Boston was delayed because of weather.

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Interesting article at the DETROIT NEWS. We are not the only ones touting Mitt for office. Michiganders involved in state politics are trying to draft Romney to run for Governor of Michigan in 2010.

Although it’s a very nice compliment, I hope MR keeps his eyes on the prize, the White House in 2012!

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/POLITICS01/805060354

Gordon Trowbridge / Detroit News Washington Bureau

Michigan native Mitt Romney helps host an Oakland County fundraiser today for Sen. John McCain, and said Monday he expects to campaign for McCain in Michigan and elsewhere.
But don’t expect Romney’s future to include a run for office here. Despite the hopes of some Michigan Republicans, the former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate said he has no plans to return to the state.

“There is no prospect that I will be running for statewide office in Michigan — or any other state for that matter,” Romney said. “I’ve made Massachusetts my home these last 35 years or so, and I don’t have plans to change the place where I run for office.”

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Read the whole thing. Here are some choice quotes:

In 2000, running against George W. Bush and the entire Carroll Campbell machine in South Carolina, John McCain got 42% of the vote, and 240,000 votes out of 573,000 or so cast.

Tonight, he got 33% of the vote in a field where his top challengers—Romney and Giuliani—aren’t even running, and 135,000 actual votes. If just the same people who voted for McCain in 2000 had voted for him today, he would have won 50+% of the South Carolina vote. That would have been truly impressive.

Instead, John McCain LOST the support of 100,000 people—and he’s the winner?

McCain had the same “success” in New Hampshire (McCain, 2000: 48%, 116,000 votes; McCain 2008: 37%, 89,000 votes) and Michigan (2000: 50%, 600,000 votes; 2008: 30%, 257,000 votes).

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According to the MSM……If Romney doesn’t win Iowa, he’s toast………If Romney doesn’t win Wyoming, he’s toast……..If Romney doesn’t win New Hampshire, he’s toast……..If Romney doesn’t win Michigan, he’s toast………If Romney doesn’t win Nevada, he’s toast……If Romney doesn’t win,…… oh, never mind, but you just wait until he has to face the Democrats in the Fall.

Sure.

Updated delegate count:

Romney——72

And now it’s on to Florida and let’s win there!

~~John Cronin~~

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http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1704390,00.html

By: Michael Duffy and Karen Tumulty

Whenever I am tempted to cool my anti-MSM rhetoric, along comes a screed like this one from our friends over at TIME/CNN. They describe Gov. Romney as a “strange, inauthentic collection of market research, body parts and DNA……assembled in a lab by the party’s mad scientists.”

I am sure they would spin this as a spoof of MR, or as political satire that they wouldn’t expect those of us who live in fly over country to fully appreciate, but I view it as some of the last gasps of the “Dinosaur Media” as it slinks into oblivion. What does this kind of writing say to the voters of Wyoming and Michigan who just propelled “the Frankenstein monster of the 2008 Republican sweepstakes” to sweeping victories in their primaries? No wonder the main use of their publications now is to wrap fish and to line the bottoms of birdcages.

Until he pulled into his home state of Michigan, Willard Mitt Romney was the Frankenstein monster of the 2008 Republican sweepstakes. The former Massachusetts governor at times seemed less like a real person than a strange, inauthentic collection of market research, body parts and DNA that had been borrowed from past GOP campaigns and assembled in a lab by the party’s mad scientists. Romney had the overpowering optimism of Ronald Reagan, the family values of Dan Quayle, the hair and handsome looks of Jack Kemp and the manners of George H.W. Bush. On paper, each piece of the Romney contraption was designed to appeal to a different part of the scattered GOP coalition. But the overall formula wasn’t working as expected. Romney placed second in Iowa and New Hampshire, despite pouring millions of his own fortune into the race. His rivals among the other candidates neither liked nor respected him, and that dynamic was beginning to show up in televised debates. Michigan would be where he regained his footing — or just got buried.

~~John Cronin~~

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I regularly recieve e-mails from the conservative paper “Human Events.” I have been put off by them a little of late because they had jumped on the “Romney, Get Out of the Race” bandwagon just before announcing their endorsement of Fred Thompson. Imagine my surprise then, to recieve an introduction to an article by Ann Coulter describing why Republicans should vote for Mitt Romney.

The Elephant in the Room by Ann Coulter

She begins by saying that she had been critical of him only because she thought he had the nomination locked up. Now that she isn’t so sure, she questions the intelligence of those who would be seduced by the claims of other candidates and the MSM. She wisely advises, “Never take advice from your political enemy.”

Also, today’s page at www.RushLimbaugh.com is dedicated to Mitt. Front and center is a large picture of his acceptance speech in Michigan. Next is a graphic featuring women holding campaign signs for Mitt. Apparently several women called in to defend Romney’s character and praise his qualifications for president. They did so with vigor and passion causing Rush to “question” the MSM’s assumption that women will fall over themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton, A.K.A. The First Woman President.

Lots of good information and endorsements, or, um, not-endorsements of Romney.

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• Gov. Romney continues to lead the Republican field in total number of votes (by 81,471) and in total delegates (by at least six, according to the AP).
• Gov. Romney has won more votes so far in the nomination process than Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, and Ron Paul combined.
• McCain won 393,284 fewer votes in Michigan this year than he did in 2000.
• Michigan marks the second consecutive state where McCain underperformed compared to 2000—he won New Hampshire by 19 points in 2000 and by just 5 points this year; he won Michigan by 8 points in 2000 and lost it by 9 points this year.
• McCain failed to win Michigan Republicans in 2000 and was ultimately unsuccessful in winning the nomination—a candidacy based on support from independents alone will be unsuccessful at winning the GOP nomination.
• This year, Gov. Romney won Republicans by 14 points in Michigan, 40%-26%. Gov. Romney will benefit when the race moves to major states like Florida and California where it is limited to registered Republicans.
• Gov. Romney carried every major element of the Reagan coalition in Michigan—he won conservatives by 18 points (41%-23%), pro-life voters by 14 points (39%-25%), and even carried white evangelical Protestants by 6 points (36%-30%).
• No candidate who finished lower than second place in the Michigan primary has ever gone on to win the Republican nomination.

• Winning an open Michigan primary shows competitive strength statewide. Every Michigan Republican primary since 1992 has been 25% independent. This year’s primary was 32% independent and Democratic.
• Republican candidates have consistently targeted Michigan in general elections—yet no Republican has won Michigan in the general election since 1988.
• No Democrat since Jimmy Carter has won the White House without winning Michigan—showing how difficult it is for a Democrat to get to 270 electoral votes without 17 from Michigan.
• The last time a Republican won a competitive Michigan GOP primary and then carried the state in the general election was Gerald Ford in 1976 – another native Michigander.

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This Post from a local Michigan blogger describes how he met Ann Romney during a couple campaign appearances before the Michigan Primary. It’s nicely written, and definitely give you a good feel about just how humble and personable they both are. Check it out!

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Update: I was able to verify the delegate counts for Michigan. It required adding 10 for Romney, reducing McCains by 4, and adding 1 to Huckabee. The new totals are reflected in the tables below.

Noteworthy: Romney has received more than half of all delegates awarded at this time.

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~Nate Gunderson

The information above was taken from Wikipedia (schedule) and CNN.com (results). There are several different tallies out there on what the current delegate count is. I used CNN.com’s tally not because it showed Romney with the largest lead, but that it had the most detailed info including ALL delegates that have been awarded so far, and I was able to verify most of the info from the individual state GOP websites.

Question: In tabulating Delegates, what does the ‘Other’ category mean under GOP primary results?

Answer: (From commenter SGS) Not all delegates are allocated to the candidates based on the states’ primaries. There are about 400 delegates (out of about 2000s) that are reserved to the Republican “insiders”, like state and national RNC leaders. They normally do not declare who they are in favor of until the party convention. But they can do so at any time.

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Here are a few encouraging details from tonight’s contest, from the CBS News website:

According to CBS News exit polls, self-described Republicans made up 68 percent of the vote - and they supported Romney by a wide margin. Independents made up just 25 percent of the GOP primary vote today while just 7 percent were Democrats. In 2000, independents made up 35 percent of the vote while another 17 percent were Democrats.

The economy overwhelmingly topped the concerns of voters, with 55 percent of primary voters citing it as their top concern. The Iraq war ranked second, but lagged far behind. Just 17 percent said that was their top concern. Discussion of the economy dominated the Michigan contest in its closing days, as Romney sought to strike an optimistic tone about the future of a state which has seen some 76,000 jobs lost in the past year alone.

… Romney also won among late-deciding voters, indicating that his arguments may have won some supporters.

Takeaways? The GOP is supporting Mitt, and “it’s the economy, _______.”

Additional takeaways? Mitt sticking to his message seems very productive. Mitt gained a head of steam and connected with people, which he’ll need continue. Meanwhile McCain lost momentum as he had to defend his truth-distorting, sack of fibs mailer. In addition, earned media seems much better at conveying and building momentum than paid media.

And lest we forget, the big difference maker in Michigan was Mitt’s “no job left behind” theme, giving hope where the Washington insider offered only pessimism and job retraining. Now that Mitt’s found his stride I expect the good vibe and the connection he’s making with voters to continue.

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When McCain won New Hampshire by 5% (37% for him vs 32% for Mitt) the AP headline read: “McCain wins in New Hampshire, where he bet it all” (incidentally, if you look at the top bar of your Internet browser it reads “McCain Triumphs Where He Bet It All.”

The contrast . . . When Romney won Michigan by nearly 10% and nearly 100,000 votes the AP headline reads: “Romney Edges McCain to Win Michigan”
And if that’s not bad enough, check out the lead paragraphs to those AP articles . . .

McCain:

John McCain rode the Straight Talk Express straight into first place in New Hampshire, and back into the thick of the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

”I hate to use to the word kid, but I think we showed the people of this country what a real comeback looks like,” the Arizona senator told The Associated Press in an interview Tuesday, savoring victory . . .

Another AP article about McCain’s NH win leads with:

CONDORD, N.H. (AP) — Arizona Sen. John McCain won the New Hampshire Republican primary Tuesday night, completing a remarkable comeback and climbing back into contention for the presidential nomination.

“We showed the people of this country what a real comeback looks like,” McCain told The Associated Press in an interview as he savored his triumph. “We’re going to move on to Michigan and South Carolina and win the nomination.”

The Arizona senator rode a wave of support from independent voters to defeat former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, a showing that reprised his victory in the traditional first-in-the-nation primary in 2000.

It was a bitter blow for Romney, who spent millions of dollars of his own money in hopes of winning the kickoff Iowa caucuses and the first primary — and finished second in both.

Now the contrast to the AP article linked to above about Romney’s Michigan victory:

DETROIT (AP) - Mitt Romney scored his first major primary victory Tuesday in his native Michigan, a win he desperately needed to give his weakened candidacy new life and set the stage for a wide-open Republican showdown in South Carolina in just four days.

Romney was the third Republican victor in the first four states to vote in the 2008 primary season, further roiling a volatile nomination fight that lacks a clear favorite.

No agenda there, eh?

Then they have the audacity to give McCain the last word in the AP article about Romney’s win!

McCain said he had called Romney to congratulate him “that Michigan welcomed their native son with their support.”

“Starting tomorrow, we’re going to win South Carolina, and we’re going to go on and win the nomination,” McCain declared, also in an AP interview.

Yes folks, McCain got more quoted words/sentences in the AP article about Romney’s MI win than Romney himself did. Shameless.

I’ve blogged before that McCain’s resurgence in NH and nationally has been a completely media created, directed, and propagated affair. I repeat my questions here:

Which do you think will have a better chance in the general election . . . the one who’s a front-runner DESPITE the MSM coverage or the one(s) that’s a challenger BECAUSE of the MSM coverage? I think the answer to that is clear. I’d want the guy who’s truly battle-tested.

Lest there be any doubt, that guy is Mitt Romney!

Jeff Fuller

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Congratulations to Governor Romney and his campaign team on a great win in Michigan tonight! As they say down South, he gave the competition a “thumpin’.”

It will be fascinating to analyze the exit polls to see just what the dynamics of the voting indicates. One thing that jumped out of the stats I saw was that among Catholics who go to church weekly, 41% voted for Gov. Romney. So much for Pastor Mike’s attempt to divide and conquer.

Here is the updated delegate count. MSM pundits, pay very close attention to these numbers. Try to keep them in mind as you sit down at your desk and place your fingers on your computer’s keyboard.

These numbers should be the reason why you should exercise a healthy discipline with yourself if you are tempted to write another column or blog calling on Gov. Romney to withdraw from the race.

The reason that Gov. Romney has not taken your advise is because HE IS WINNING!!

Romney…………42

Hunter……………1

~~John Cronin~~

“For of those to whom much is given, much is required. And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, we will be measured by the answer to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage…..Second, were we truly men of judgment…..Third, were we truly men of integrity…..Finally, were we truly men of dedication?

We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change.”

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961

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