comMITTed to Romney!

Hat Tips to NY FOR MITT and to DOUG & DARLENE for the heads up on this article.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/romney-poses-bigger-threa_b_
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Excerpts taken from an Opinion piece by Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The burning question is who close-to-presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama will pick as his running mate. The question is better asked of his GOP foe John McCain. His vice presidential pick is far more crucial than who Obama picks.

He has no choice but to implore Mitt Romney to sign on to the ticket.

The reasons for Romney go beyond McCain’s image problem and party doubts. Romney was the first GOP presidential candidate to publicly warn back in January that Obama would be the likely GOP opponent, and then say that he could beat him. This was not mere political braggadocio. He like Obama sold himself as the change guy who can go to Washington cut the cronyism, bureaucratic and congressional inertia, and restore public confidence. McCain is the walking embodiment of the much loathed Washington insider establishment.

Romney is a social conservative, but he’s also one that social conservatives like, have confidence in, and have gotten behind with passion. McCain isn’t.

In nearly all polls, affordable health care worries ranks close behind the economy as a major concern of millions. Obama will tell what he will do if elected to provide affordable care for millions. Romney can tell what he actually did to provide it.

McCain will have to spend time and money building name identification for any VP pick other than Romney. Romney has that name identification, and more importantly, name identification that is not saddled with a trunk load of negatives.

Romney is a decade younger than McCain. Age, as race with Obama is a great X Factor, for McCain. He will be the oldest president ever on inauguration day. This, and health questions, is a big concern of many voters.

The most successful presidents have been governors (with one very current exception). They bring the administrative and management skills crucial to the office. Romney would put the minds of many voters at ease that if McCain succumbed to health problems, he could immediately step in and ably run the affairs of state.

He’s a team player. When he shut down his campaign in February he immediately met with and smoothed over the ruffled feathers with McCain, and urged his delegates to support him. He then went to a couple of states to pitch him. One of them was Michigan which is very much in play for the GOP given the large number of social conservatives there and his strong roots there during his father, George Romney’s, years as governor.

McCain bets the political bank that his strengths on national security, the war against terrorism, and strangely, even winning the war in Iraq on his terms, will resonate with millions of voters. He’ll need more than that to offset voter and party doubts, divisions, and the X Factor of age and health. Romney gives him added insurance to help offset these potentially deal breaking liabilities for him. Romney poses a bigger threat to Obama than McCain.

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Not saying I agree with everything she said, but wow!

From The Huffington Post

Emphasis below is mine, just for the sake of pointing out the most shocking stuff..

Ann Coulter wasn’t officially invited to speak at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference — many on the right were still upset at the bad publicity she brought last year after calling John Edwards a “faggot.” But to no one’s surprise, she showed up anyway, commandeering the spotlight.

Speaking before the Young America’s Foundation, who invited her over CPAC’s objections, the conservative author spent most of her time viciously attacking her party’s new presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain.

No topic was out of bounds, including the five years McCain spent as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“I know that [he was a POW],” Coulter declared, “because he mentions it more often than Kerry mentions he was in Vietnam. There were hundreds of POWs and we are not going to make all of them president. Can’t we find a POW who doesn’t want to shut down Guantanamo.”

That was mild. Take Coulter’s rationale for supporting Sen. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy over McCain’s:

“A serious case could be made to support Hillary Clinton,” she declared, offering the analogy of Winston Churchill backing Stalin in the fight against Hitler in WWII. “I’m not equating Hillary Clinton to Stalin, and if I did I apologize to Stalin’s decedents… I’m not comparing McCain to Hitler. Hitler had a coherent tax policy.” Later, she added, “The only way I can promise that I won’t vote for Hillary Clinton is if John McCain appoints her as his vice president.”

Remarkably, Coulter’s comments reflected what conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh predicted would be the reception McCain would receive from the antagonistic mainstream media.

“Once [McCain]’s got this sewn up you’re going to see the Drive-By Media start doing stories on his age, and they’re not going to be mean, they are not going to be vicious, they’re going to be almost sorrowful,” said Limbaugh. “I am telling you, if that doesn’t work, they’re going to go after this age business, and they’ll do it almost regretfully.”

And indeed, Coulter speech contained repeated subtle and not so subtle digs at McCain’s age.

“He has been in the Senate for about 100 years,” she said (he’s actually 71), long enough “to vote on the Spanish-American War.” She even declared, playing off the mutual admiration between McCain and the media, that “[he] is working for the New York Times obituary.”

Coulter ripped him over policy issues as well, taking on his signature legislation McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform, as well as his vote against President Bush’s tax cuts, and his stance on climate change. In the process, she contrasted the Arizona Republican with the GOP candidates that he bested for the presidential nomination.

“McCain and [Mitt] Romney are mirror opposites of one another,” said Coulter. “Romney is a conservative who had to win votes from liberals in Massachusetts. McCain is a liberal who had to win votes from conservatives in Arizona.”

As for former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani: He “enthusiastically supported torturing terrorists,” she said to great applause. “McCain hysterically opposes dripping water down the terrorist’s noses.”

And what if the unthinkable happens, and President McCain is inaugurated? I’ve led an impeachment movement before, Coulter said, and “I can lead another one.”

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