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Ok folks, we need to get some strategy going here. I have an idea, hear me out and then support or shoot full of holes.
I propose that we (Mitt supporters) vote for Huckabee in all of the elections until he is even with McCain in delegates then start switching back an forth working one side higher, then the other. By the time we get all the way through the primaries, they will both be about even at about 150 delegates short of what they need.
Then at the convention, enters Mitt with his 300 delegates (I suspect he’ll still win Idaho before we get this off the ground). This will place him in a position of strength to via for the VP spot. I suspect that McCain (who’s constituency in Arizona is about 20-25% Mormon, and MUCH less biased then Huckabee) will offer Mitt VP to get those 300 delegates.
The next few primaries might have a chance to get a few more delegates for Mitt, but once the polls are not showing Mitt, we’ll need to go with this strategy I am proposing. We watch polls (McCain/Huckabee) just before a election and vote accordingly. Early on, will be easy, in order to catch Huckabee up with McCain, we all vote Huckabee. We need to email everyone we know in the primary state and explain what we are doing.
Once Huckabee is caught up, we’ll need to be careful and be well organized at that time to pull this through.
I want to show the liberal Media, that they screwed with the wrong people, American citizens. That WE are the ones that are empowered here, NOT them.
At the convention, Mitt will get to make the last move. He can either go with us on this or he can simply give delegates to whom he may. There will be other factors for Mitt to consider. It’s is possible that he will not want to be associated with any administration that in turn could taint his name for a bid 4 years later. Perhaps he, as their VP can help get the presidential candidate elected over the democrat nominee. There many be many other factors way beyond our comprehension. But the choice will be Mitt’s to evaluate and make.
We’ll need a central point to gather/focus around, say this website. Round up volunteers to start emailing folks in all up coming primaries.
Folks, could this work? Is an effort like this even legal? Lawyers advise? Will Mitt have sufficient power with his 300 delegates to make this matter? Add your thoughts? Shoot it down?
Until we get organized, everyone Vote Mitt!

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Hi Everyone,

We are developing a new header for the new comMITTed to Romney site, and we are in need of pictures. I am looking for candid shots, they don’t have to be professional. The only requirement is that they include Romney in some way (it can be just Ann or the 5 brothers or the Grandchildren as well), shape, or form. I’m looking for these types of shots of him campaigning NATIONWIDE. It would be great if we could get a picture from every state. I’m not just looking for shots with the focus just on them though, if you have a shot of you and Romney or your family and Romney those would be absolutely awesome. So, please send them on. The header should be pretty dang awesome

Ann Marie

P.S. Send them to PR@committedtoromney.com

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Knowing that a large number of you reading this post are either first time visitors or relatively new viewers, I have been wanting to provide a little bit of information about this site that I believe will help you maximize its worth as you try to inform those in your circle of family and friends.

As you may know, many blogs have a “perma-link” button or something similar to isolate a blog post to facilitate emailing it to others. This site is slightly different.

1) Let’s say you want to email one blog post that you really like to a friend. It is very simple. First, find the blog post you want to send. Second, just left-click on the title of the post; that will refresh the web page with only that post available to view. Third, go into the browser bar (the long, narrow box at the top of the screen that starts with “http…” or “www”) and high-light the entire URL (webpage address). Fourth, in the body of an email message, paste the URL of the post and send the email. Simple.

2) Most people are unaware that they can browse this site by category. Let’s say you want to know about everything that has been posted in this site about the topic of illegal immigration. All you do is scroll to the very bottom of the page, look for the column heading “Categories” and then click on the category “Illegal Immigration.” It will instantly bring up every post published on that topic in this blog. You can do that for any category listed. What if you are new to this site or new to Governor Romney? Click on the “New to Romney” category and see what is there. What if you want to know more details about what Gov. Romney actually did to rescue the Olympics. Just click on “Olympics” and so on.

3) Also at the bottom of the page, you can search for posts by month under the column “Monthly.”

4) For those bloggers who have taken time to develop a profile, you can find their name under the column “Pages” and click on the name. If there is a profile for that blogger, you will see it there.

I hope this helps you navigate the site easier and more importantly, I hope this helps you to influence others to support and vote for Governor Romney.

~ Vic

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I was in the process of getting caught up on the site, after spending the week in Iowa, when I came across this excellent comment from one of our readers.

Linda on 02 Jan 2008 at 2:54 am edit this #6

Boy are you optimistic. I still see Romney getting the nomination, but through a more complicated route. Huck will squeeze past Romney in Iowa, and McCain will take New Hampshire, because both are so full of momentum right now, united against Romney, and getting a free pass from the MSM. Then Romney will take Michigan, his home state, because he will still be strong coming in 2nd in the first two states. Then it will come down to Huck vs. Romney in South Carolina. By this time, Huckabee has been stopped by the conservative press (Will, Limbaugh, Ingraham, Hannity, Coulter, Hewitt, etc.), who have all joined forces, for the sake of the party, to kill a Huckabee nomination. (They would have done it earlier, but they were all on Christmas break) Romney will then squeeze past Huck in South Carolina, due to Huck’s bad press. McCain will have since been out of contention, because he was only viable in NewHampshire anyway. That leaves only Giuliani and Romney to fight it out for Florida. I can’t predict that, but I think it will be a Romney/Giuliani race from then on, with Romney the victor, due to momentum, and the republican establishment on his side.

One of the things I have observed over the last year at this site is the reasoned analysis that goes on here, from both contributors and readers. We don’t have screaming contests with each other, there isn’t any of the sophomoric arguments that go on at other sites and, with the exception of the occasional “wing nut eruption”, our readers post comments that have real value in the ongoing process of selecting the next President. Thats why I posted Linda’s excellent analysis above. Kudos to Linda on a fine job!

~~John Cronin~~

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Welcome to me, the latest addition to the ElectRomneyIn2008.com blogger staff. My name is Paul Johnson and this is my first posting. I have some good tidbits for you live from Urbandale, IA, one of Mitt Romney’s volunteer campaign sites.

First a bit about me: I’m a corporate lawyer by trade, trained at BYU both undergrad (dual major in English and Business) and grad school (JD/MBA). I started my career in the internet boom in Palo Alto, CA in ‘96, transferred with my then-current firm to San Diego in ‘99, and have stayed in San Diego since. I specialize in corporate financings and in mergers and acquisitions.

My intro to Mitt Romney was, like many, through hearing about the debacle that was unfolding at the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics. As someone who spent a lot of time in Utah, I didn’t want the state or our country to be embarrassed by the event. I heard someone named Mitt Romney, a very successful business person with Bain, was being put in charge, and not long after was hearing things were turning around. Of course September 11 intervened and the Olympics staff had to respond to an entirely unforeseen security threat in just a few months’ time. I myself was going to be attending the event with my 3 sons, so security was a concern for me. When I arrived, security was tight and the event unbelievably well-organized.

Next I heard about the Miracle in Massachusetts, how the same Mitt Romney, a republican, had somehow been elected to be governor of a deep blue state. Another good impression. I knew this person must have cross-party appeal. More good news followed as Mitt was able to balance MA’s budget, then actually adopt a healthcare plan tailored for the state. Then I hear about the MA Supreme Court’s decision (described here by CNN). CNN said at the time: “Massachusetts’ governor immediately denounced Tuesday’s decision and said he would work for a constitutional amendment to overturn it,” and I was glad to know we had a resourceful man of integrity at the forefront of this issue.

More good impressions followed. A few years ago Matt Romney, Mitt’s son, moved into my neighborhood (see Matt’s musings at the Five Brothers Blog). Matt and I ended up on some volunteer assignments together. I’d told Matt I was a baseball fan, so he invited me at one point to a game with him, his brother, Tagg and a few other friends. I came to find out as well that another friend, Jim Davies, was Ann Romney’s brother. When it began to be rumored Mitt might run for president, I told Matt if his dad ran, I’d be interested in pitching in. Soon I was attending events in San Diego and contributing to the campaign, a first for me. A couple weeks ago I began responding to some bitter and biased posts about Mitt, his family and his religion, some things I knew a little about first-hand, by some readers of The Politico (a site I otherwise enjoy) and other political websites. Now I find myself in Urbandale doing my first blog post!

I’ll get to where I agree with Mitt on policy issues in future posts, but for now here are some snapshots from one of the command centers.

A visit from Ann Romney

The troops got encouragement from Ann Romney just before lunch. She met with volunteers and gave her pitch for her husband as a man capable of addressing our country’s complex issues.

Here’s the view from the cheap seats!

Here’s Ann with grandson Parker:

Visits from the Press

Yesterday we had a visit from CNN. Today the folks from Salt Lake’s KSL TV and Salt Lake’s CBS affiliate were here, as was RAI from Italy. Jim Davies gave an interview in fluent Italian. It’s been great to be at ground zero at such an influential time in American politics. Channel 24 from Argentina is just going through now. Wish you were here, where we hope to be a part of electing the next president of the U.S. More to come…

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Hello Everyone, I hope that you’re having a relaxing Friday evening.

The reason that I am posting this message is to clarify how to use comments. We at Elect Romney in 2008 welcome any and all comments, and we absolutely appreciate your level of participation on our site (you’ve really kicked it up several notches of late…thank you).

Ok, onto the clarification. Unless there is an open thread, please keep your comments directed to the post that you are commenting about.

If you have something that you’d just like to throw out for all to see that doesn’t fit within any threads going at any particular time that’s where our wonderful application The Live Shoutbox comes in. It’s in the sidebar to the right and you can put anything there. So, if you have a link that you’d like for us to see that hasn’t been mentioned, go ahead and put it there. If you want to publicize a blog post from your own blog, or somewhere else go ahead and put it there. If you have something that you think immediately needs to be put on the blog as it’s own post, then email Ann Marie, or Vic. But, please keep in mind that we check the site very often, so The Live Shoutbox should work in terms of communicating things of this sort. Feel free to use the Live Shoutbox for just about any purpose, just please of course keep it clean.

We thank you for your understanding in this matter!

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We welcome you here. The reason that this thread has been created is because so many of you are new to us. So, what better way for you to get to know us, than by starting a dialog. This is for open communication. If you have any questions about Governor Romney, his positions, his ideas, his family, etc. Whatever you have a question about, we’ll answer it, and if by some reason we can’t we’ll get it for you. We thank you for coming, and we welcome you to return time and time again. We know that you might not get all the information you want to know in one visit, so know that we’re here and not going anywhere.

Once again, Welcome! Feel free to use the comments section to ask your questions!

The Elect Romney in 2008 Team!

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P.S. Please regular visitors to this site leave the comments section for real “New to Romney” comments. Thank You!
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I wanted to thank all of you who have given to Governor Romney via my fundraiser ID. Today, December 1st, 2007 you put me over the bar of $20,000. While I know I’m not the fundraiser powerhouse like those at My Man Mitt, it’s not too bad for a rural small town girl from Kentucky. I have to thank all of you who have given, it means so much to me and it’s definitely helping Governor Romney. So, thank you so much! Now if you’d like to give more, click here —–>Contribute Now!. Thanks again everyone, words can not express how thankful I am!

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I only have a few moments, as I’m having one heck of a special Thanksgiving with my family. But, I had to post a little something.

I am Thankful to all of you visitors to this site. I know some of you have been here since day one. What a long road it’s been, and it’s almost unbelievable that the Iowa caucuses are just within our midst now. Because of each and every one of you, this site has a Google ranking that I couldn’t have ever dreamed was possible. You have come back time and time again, you’ve been here through the ups and the downs, and just look where our guy is today. Thank You so much for being so loyal. I can’t tell you how much it means.

Lastly, I have to thank all the bloggers. Without all of you this site would be nothing, I may have started it, but you gave it the meat and the life to breathe. You all have taken your time, efforts, and intellect to keep this going strong, and for that I’ll never forget you

I especially have to thank Jeff. Jeff you were the first person to offer me relief. You were the first one that I could trust with this site without a fear of anything. It means so much to me that you were willing to do so much to keep the site going when I was going through major stress and trials in my life. You deserve so many accolades for that, and appreciation. I’ll never forget coming to Iowa and staying with your hospitable family and getting that first opportunity to meet the man whom will be our next President. I’m indebted to you for making that a reality. Thanks again!

Nate I thank you for helping with technical aspects of the site. I thank you for taking initiatives to change things up, and offer bigger and better solutions on how to make the site a better one. You’re a great guy, and one that I’m so glad to call a friend.

Mike, wow, it’s hard to even say all that you’ve done. You’ve been the most archived blogger of all of Governor Romney’s accomplishments. I’m so grateful that you also took up the mantle of keeping this site active during the slow times. Thanks again for all that you do, and continue to do.

Last but not least, I have to thank Vic. I never thought that a campaign would foster such close friendships, but this one sure has. Vic, you’ve been my rock. You’ve been the person that I’ve been the most able to bounce stuff off of and get the most honest feedback. You are a one in a million friend. We’ve spent many an hour on the phone talking about politics forever. I’m so grateful that I was able to meet you in Boston in June, and put a face to that warm voice. I hope you never forget how grateful I am for your friendship.

A little P.S. I have to thank the person for whom this site wouldn’t be necessary the man himself Mitt Romney. You’ve given me hope for this country, I can listen to you speak and know that everything will be alright in the world. You’re the “real deal”. You’re a leader, a businessman, a husband, and father, a grandfather, but to all of us you’re our friend. We can count on you to keep your word, we can rest assured that when you’re elected president that the country will be in able and capable hands. You care about our country, our economy, our families, our health, you’re the entire package. I look so forward to January 20, 2009 when you’re sworn in as our next President of the United States.

With Love to All on this Lovely Thanksgiving Day 2007,

Ann Marie Curling
Founder - Elect Romney in 2008

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Last night my wife and I attended a great birthday party of a friend. While there, another good friend (Alan) approached me and said it is very easy to mistake this blog as an official site of the Romney campaign. Since it is not, he suggested we state the fact that we are not affiliated in any way with Governor Romney or his campaign. We are in fact completely independent of Governor Romney’s organization. As Ann Marie (owner) and other contributors have mentioned before, some of us even disagree with Governor Romney from time to time as does his wife Ann Romney.

It is my hope that by this restatement of independence, new visitors to this site will quickly develop a level of respect and credibility that we hope always to earn. We will continue to represent our candidate fairly and do our utmost to be factual in dealing with his competitors.

~ Vic

“Every man, at the bottom of his heart, wants to do right. But only he can do right who knows right; only he knows right who thinks right; only he thinks right who believes right.”

— Tiorio

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I’ve been unable to see the site for the past twenty-four hours plus due to the fact that we migrated to our new server after our nightmare situation with the transfer of our old server to another.

We should not have any more server difficulties for the foreseeable future, and in the process we’re contributing to the welfare of Michigan’s economy (as our server is now located there).

I can’t wait to catch up on all that I’ve missed. I’m happy to see that everyone was able to keep us afloat while I was gone.

Best,

Ann Marie

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After a nightmarish server transfer that saw us down for almost forty-eight hours we are now officially up.

I can’t promise 100% uptime at least for now, but it looks like the worst of it is over.

We look forward to getting this show on the road again, and we thank you for your patience and understanding through it all.

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This site is so huge, as is our database of posts and comments that it’s very easy to overlook older posts that mean something even today.

I’ve dug out three of those such posts, and am giving them a second look.

Lessons of the Father - This one’s a great post, goes over Romney’s life time line and discusses the influence his father has had and continues to have on him.
Romney pledges salary to charity if elected president - I’m not sure how many of you are aware of this, but as the post says Governor Romney will be donating his entire salary as President to charity.
EXCERPTS FROM GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY’S REMARKS AT THE SEVENTH ANNUAL HERZLIYA CONFERENCE - An excellent speech given in Israel.

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Today we start a new feature here at Elect Romney in 2008 (aka comMITTed to Romney). We’re going to begin spotlighting a Pro-Romney blog or website every week. This week we are starting with Ryan Bell’s ROMNEYEXPERIENCE. Every Monday we will post their writeup for the world to see, but obviously it won’t stay around long since other blog posts will be posted pretty quickly afterwards. That’s where our “In-Focus” tab at the top of the screen comes in. For their week, the website will appear on that front page. After their week is up, it will then be archived at the bottom of the page. So, if you’d like to spend some time perusing the list after we’ve had have few you’re more than welcome to check them out. Now onto this week’s “In-Focus” ROMNEYEXPERIENCE.

ROMNEYEXPERIENCE - http://www.romneyexperience.com

Ryan Bell
In the Spring of this year, Ryan Bell started seeing a trend in the coverage of Mitt Romney. Despite the excellent qualifications Romney brought to the campaign, a huge proportion of media coverage focused not on Romney’s resume, positions, or character, but on his religion. Worse still, much of that coverage showed real ignorance about Mormonism, often perpetuating stereotypes and half-truths about Mormonism, to the detriment of the Romney candidacy. What Ryan realized in reading these stories was that there was no one responding to them. Mitt Romney had taken the high road, choosing not to comment on the low grade attacks on his faith. The LDS Church, well-positioned to rebut charges against it, remained mostly silent, fearing to enter the political arena due to its policy of neutrality as to candidates, and lacking credibility with some journalists because of its vested interest in the debate. In other words, scores of people were attacking Romney’s faith, but no one was fighting back.

RomneyExperience was born to fill that role, and has been fighting back ever since. As a practicing Mormon and former blogger on religious topics, Ryan felt well-suited to discuss specific concerns being raised about Mormon doctrine, practice, and history. And as a committed Romney supporter, Ryan has always used his site to offer explanations that would help clarify the candidate’s religious background, with posts like “Would the LDS Church Control a Mormon President?” and “What Mitt’s Mormonism Does Mean.”

It proved to be an effective, and surprisingly provocative blogging niche. Just as Ryan began posting to his new blog, he began receiving media inquiries, and soon found his site featured on the front page of Politico.com. Since then, Ryan has made appearances on CNN and Fox News, spoken on several radio programs, and received links from numerous high-profile political websites. While you can never say for sure what impact you’re having, this exposure is one indication that RomneyExperience is helping to mold the public debate regarding Romney’s religion. Hopefully, that impact can continue to increase until Romney reaches the White House. Visit Ryan at www.romneyexperience.com, and feel free to pass his site on to everyone who is interested in questions of Religion and Politics.

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If you haven’t already noticed it. There is now a live Shoutbox in the sidebar, it’s not very far down. I have put four comments there, but no one has bitten yet. The only requirement is that you must be a registered user of this site to be able to comment.

Now get busy and make some comments people

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