Optimistic Romney’s Realism

Reality check. Since when does the pursuit of private wealth count more than a lifetime of public service?
Which of these presidential giants (I’ll say “giants” rather than “greats” to avoid getting off the point) spent most of his life in the pursuit of riches?
Reagan? Washington? Lincoln? Kennedy? Theodore Roosevelt?
Answer: None. Granted, a few of these were born rich, just like Mitt; unlike Mitt, these men were satisfied with their inherited wealth and devoted their entire adult lives to public service.
Bottom line, I’m voting for a president and commander-in-chief, not a venture-capitalist-in-chief.

Let me get this right: Romney has spent $35,000,000 of his own money to run an unsuccessful campaign? Kind of like Bush has spent billions upon billions of OUR tax dollars to the tune of a BILLION A MONTH to fight an unnecessary war. Romney is a Bush clone. Bush has depleted SS, we’re on the brink of a recession or worse, and Romney is the best they can come up with besides a 71 year old hawk who plans for America to be in Iraq for “100 years.” Look for a Democratic landslide, folks. Live with it. It’s gonna happen. And it’s about **** time.

If you want a real conservative, Ron Paul is your man. If you want to keep the wars, the bloodshed, and the crippling economy, pick any other. I hate how people think the war and the economy are NOT connected.

Romney was born on third base where he was raised in privilege. He has paid and lied his way through his entire campaign. This man hasn’t an honest bone in his self-serving body and if elected he would continue to lie to, and disregard, the American public. In that respect, he is indeed a clone of Bush and likely to continue the policies of fantasy followed by the current administration. America, and even the Republicos, aren’t nearly as gullible as KC when it comes to choosing a candidate.

sounds like a little class envy to me. be honest. why do you and so many others have such a problem with another’s success and wealth? romney is very bright, hard working, a devoted family man, outright squeaky clean and, oh yeah, very wealthy – a handsome portion of which he’s willing to spend on a campaign that he believes strongly in. what seems to be the problem?

Washington is not broke, we are as Americans! Until we put our differences aside, work hard, play fair and treat each other with the respect and dignity that we all deserve then progress will be made fron sea to shining sea. We have so much to learn and teach our children by setting strong examples of leadership. My president did not lay me off again from work on 11/9/2007 now did he? Mitt Romney knows what he’s talking about too and I’m in trouble in Massachusetts which has been a mess finding decent technological work but will not give up my search at any cost.

I just don’t see how anyone who watches John McCain speak can vote for him. Look at both Romney and McCain. You can see it in their eyes! Romney has my vote all the way.

To GO ROMNEY-Juris Doc, MBA, but how stupid! Trashing Amnesty when those that are now citizens, thanks to Reagan`s 86 Amnesty Law, now vote. Hope this dumb loser spends all his ill gotten gains selling his nonsense.

I cannot understand how people can see what our economy is doing, and not vote for Romney. He is the only one that can fix this economy because of his experience. If McCain get in, we will have a war for the next 4-8 years, have illegal immigrants coming to America worse than it is now, and the economy will be much worse than it is now. It will be interesting to watch this country fall apart if we do not get someone that is NOT in Washington in the Whitehouse.

Are you people serious, Can’t you see that McCain is the only republican that has a chance to beat Hillary. This far right bullshit has seen it’s days. It’s time for a president that can reach both sides and get something done.

Does Obama think Romney is a tougher opponent? Why else would he want McCain as the Republican candidate?

if Huckabee wss out the race, Mitt would be spanking McCain.

Bryan R,
Had Thompson not pulled votes away from Huckabee, S. Carolina would have gone to Huckabee. He just barely lost.
How quick you are to characterize the folks in Iowa as religous biggots…kind of bigotted on your part don’t you think?
Bottom-line, I vote for who I really want to win (fair tax was my big issue)… not my # 2 pick (Romney). If Romney supporters want compromise to beat McCain… let them be the ones to compromise and vote for Huckabee.

How could any moderates and liberals backs war monger McCain. McCain wants to bomb Iran and stay in Iraq for 100 years and promised for more wars. McCain says he wants interest rates to be ZERO out of complete ignorance for how interest rates affect the economy. I’d like to see him say that to retirees on a fixed income. McCain want 10 million illegal immigrants to stay permanently and legal immigrants who can vote do not support it. How could this country be secure if he is in power??? If McCain is nominee, as a republican I would rather vote Clinton than McCain. As least we know Clinton has some intelligence and lead the booming economic. McCain will lead this country to a total ruin with his lack of intelligence and no executive experience. Mitt Romney is an expert in economics and finance and is the man we need as president.

Romney is done, would someone please shut off the lights on the way out? Thanks.

God help us if McCain wins. He will pick Huckabee as his running mate “Huckabee has been kissing McCain’s bu… from day one hoping to be V.P. because he knows he cannot will.” This will leave us with a dishonest loss cannon liberal in McCain and a religious bigot in Huckabee. You always know in life who is telling the truth by there actions not there word. An obvious liar is the one who is always TELLING people he is something. Example, John McCain running all his ads claiming to be the TRUE Reagan conservative and Huckabee claiming to be the great religions man. The most dishonest people I have ever met in life are the one who tell you how religious they are. We are a blessed country but I fear God’s reply if we elect one of these two men.

Romney may be a fiscal conservative, but a social conservative??? Ha – give me a break. He says what he thinks people want to hear. Huckabee is CONSISTENT in his ideals and morals. He is also a great family man (see Romney note above) and has MORE executive level government experience that ANY OTHER candidate. I watched the democratic debate last night and even though I am a social & fiscal conservative I think if our party doesn’t get it together soon and give Huckabee the chance he deserves, the donkeys will have it come November.

If anyone can rescue the economy at this point, it would have to be Mitt. The US is $53 trillion in debt, that is $400K per household. The dollar is becoming useless and the Euro is now becoming the credible currency. If we don’t have a good economy you can forget foreign policy, fighting wars, or healthcare, funding for top education. The economy needs to be front and center, not religion, steriotypes and other trivial things.

Huckabee has gotten votes from non-Evangelicals; and even if he didn’t his record of success with that group would help him mightily against McCain in both Texas and Ohio; the two most important States that vote after Super Tuesday.
Anyway, Huckabee has done very well in the only two States (Iowa and South Carolina) where he spent significant amounts of time and money in the run up to the vote.
If Romney doesn’t do overly good on Super Tuesday and decides to drop out, Huckabee is in the catbird seat so long as Conservative Hardliners are intelligent enough to see how small their differences with Huckabee are compared to their differences with McCain, who clearly desires to continue from the White House his well established policy of undercutting the Republican Party from within.
I’m not sure at this point if Romney has the political skills to beat McCain when McCain has, and I think we all know why, such a HUGE media head-wind (it’s all well and good to like CEOs better than politicians, but guess which usually wins Elections?). Whereas Huckabee, who has wisely made some noise lately about McCain-Feingold, almost certainly does have the required skills given how much he’s been able to do this election with so little resources and primarily relying on his personal appeal and political savvy.
Maybe Romney will surprise me though (we’ll find out soon enough on Tuesday).

I can’t wait to see McCain at the end of his 2nd term at 80 years old. Raising his fist, going on and on about never leaving Iraq.

Mitt Romney would make a terrible President. What he fails to understand is that people do not want another George W. Bush. And that’s exactly what this election is about.

“people do not want another George W. Bush. And that’s exactly what this election is about.”
Exactly why we don’t need a McCain in office. Just the same old thing. As Mitt Romney said. “You can’t keep sending the same people back to Washington and sit them in different chairs.”

Super Bowl vs. Super Tuesday
There are two New England Patriots fighting for victory; The New England Patriots in the Super Bowl and Gov. Mitt Romney in Super Tuesday. Romney is a brilliant bold innovative visionary and a patriot. Romney has put his passion and his personal fortune into his dream for a stronger safer and more prosperous America. True Grit Mitt is America’s hope for a better future. I’m rootin’ for Romney!

John Martin,
Huckabee had $1.9 Million in debt free cash on hand coming into this year and in January alone he pulled down more than $4.5 Million.
Once that wouldn’t have been much but now we have a situation where Romney’s only going to spend $3 Million between Florida and Super Tuesday and McCain only pulled down $7 Million in all of January in spite of his victories in NH and SC.
Partly due to his frugality, especially in terms of not throwing mountains of money at high cost Florida affiliates like Romney and to a lesser extent McCain did, Huckabee doesn’t have anything resembling the money disadvantage at this point that you’d think based on the (for whatever reason) highly biased reporting of the Media.
I’ll repeat, if Romney decides to drop out after Super Tuesday, Huckabee will have a substantial shot at getting the nomination over McCain.

It’s clear that Huck wants to be Napolean’s VP. That’s why he’s still in this thing. Too bad Romney has been backed into a corner by the Liberal Media. It’s obvious that the uneducated, like many who are posting here, lack the common sense to look beyond Pravda polls and headlines to examine the issues and where these candidates stand. I can see it now, angry, old John McCain taking on the fresh-faced Obama in November. Can you say “Bob Dole”. The Dems will feast on this matchup. I can feel my taxes rising already!

Isn`t Mitt the guy that supports waterboarding, torture?

Hey Obama has Obama Girl. It may be a big mistake not to let the Hooters Girls plug for Romney. Romney is ready to serve the nation and so are the Hooter Girls. Get real people! McCain has a plan for a sustained war in the Mid-East and no fiscal plan for the nation. McCain has has-beens for supporters that try to tout their past fantasy lives. McCain rides on his past military service that no longer fits the challenges of this era. He knows how to get things done the old way but hasn’t a clue or cognitive ability to manage a world economy or the diplomacy for brokering peace. He supports the surge in Iraq that delays or holds off its collapse because of his failed foreign policy ideology that led to the war in the first place. But he has not changed that ideology. We need a nominee that listens and can adjust the game plan to achieve long term goals for this nation. Call that flip flopping if you must. But having blinders on and having a determination to stick with bad foreign policy and bad economics will bring great harm to our nation.

Mitt is just a poker player and America is not for sale.

I am not understandiny how Romney thinks he could “spank” McCain if Huckabee stepped aside. Huckabee is leading in several southern states and tied for first in others. Romney is not anywhere close in those races. I am from the south and know the sentiment here. We would vote for McCain before we would vote for Romney. He has shown himself to be untrustworthy and is not electible. He could never win the South, and we all know that without the South, the democrats will win in November.
Huckabee is the best man for the job!
Also, how dare the Romney camp tell Huckabee supporters that they are “wasting their vote.” We take our votes very seriously. Many Americans have shed their precious blood to give us the right to vote. If you don’t vote your conscious then you are doing a dishonor to our veterans and soldiers!!!!!!

No one thinks Mike Huckabee is the best choice for President of the United States because of his religious faith! We KNOW he is the best choice because he has the most extensive gubernatorial experience (Time Magazine named him one of the Five Best Governors for a reason!), his brilliant eloquence (he may well be the best orator to come along since Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton), his VERY sound ideas to improve the US economy, his excellent plan to FINALLY address the illegal immigrant problem in this country, and yes, his knowledge and expertise on foreign affairs. We know him to be a man of integrity. We know him to support the US Constitution, and that he will effect streamlined federal government and improve states’ rights. We know that this country needs to discard an outmoded, hopelessly complicated tax system that is punishing us all, most of all the poor- and that the FairTax will make US goods much more competitive in the marketplace, bring back trillions of dollars from offshore hiding places and into the US economy, force those who earn their livings illegally to pay tax (and discourage illegal immigration in the process!), and incentivize productivity and economic investment. Take your own advice and do some research before making such statements!

Huckabee should have dropped out of the GOP race after South Carolina. If he couldn’t win there or at least in Florida with all the evangelicals in these states, what are his chances of winning a mainstream campaign? His campaign is broke and he hasn’t a prayer of running on to the end without a lot of money. So why is he around?

John McCain will win if and only if Mike Huckabee stays in the race to take votes away from Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney has shown he can win when the independents are left out of the picture. NH would have been in his win column if the independents could not swing the race there for McCain. Mike Huckabee cannot win with such a poor showing in SC and FL so why does he continue? It looks like he’s after the VP job to me. Arkansas does not want him back!!

I’m from Texas and there is NO WAY I’d ever vote for Ron Paul. This guy has been sucking on the goverment’s toe FOREVER and he’s done nothing signifant in the Congress in decades. He is a huge part of the problem and has no real solutions other than those fed to him by the Democrats. It’s time for him to go FOR GOOD.

After watching all of the debates, I’m convinced that Mitt Romney is the only Republican who can beat Hillary or Obama in November. He looks and acts more presidential than any other. More importantly, he clearly demonstrates the economic and gubernatorial savvy that McCain, Obama, or Clinton cannot because they lack that kind of experience. Huckabee and Paul should get out now unless they they really like Obama who seems to be coming on very strong at this point.

FACT: A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE FOR McCAIN. Chuck Huck and get on the Romney Bus. Stop wasting your votes on the HUCK!!

Why should Huckabee drop out? He and Romney are neck-and-neck and he’s spent a tiny fraction of what Romney has! Let Huckabee and McCain fight it out.
The South was crucial to Republican victory in 2000 and 2004, as was the Evangelical and practicing Roman Catholic vote and now we are being slapped in the face and told, “Shut up and vote as you’re told.”

Mitt will clean up against the Dems when going head to head. I would not trust McCain to argue with them, the way he handled himself in the last debate. He was like an ornery old man that gets something in his head and can’t shake it.
I guarantee that the donkeys will know their stuff when it comes to economics. They won’t listen to the P.O.W. response, and think that will make him a great economically sound President!

Allowing a corporate elitist to buy his way into the White House is un-American, anti-democratic and would surely be the death knell for the absolute majority of Americans economically. It will be an absolute pleasure to watch Mitt go down in flames this Super Tuesday! Good riddance Mitt!!!

Romney is toast. John McCain is the real deal and is, by far, the Republican Party’s strongest candidate to field against the Democrats in the Fall. While I may not agree with Senator McCain, I can count on him to always tell me what I need to hear even if it isn’t what I’d like to hear. Furthermore, I can always count on him to put the interests of the entire country ahead of allegiance to party or ideology. That’s what most voters are looking for in their next president, not some hide-bound ideologue from the extreme right, as much as blowhards like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter might wish otherwise.
Mitt Romney is an empty plastic suit, a shamelessly pandering BS-peddler with no sunstance whatsoever. The guy is gonna tell you whatever he needs to tell you to get your vote. He changes his positions more often than many people change their shoes. He is a complete phony. Only an idiot would vote for him.

Electing McCain or Huckabee would kill our economy and the Republican’s chance of winning elections for years to come!
Romney is the only candidate with the experience, education, wisdom, integrity and vision necessary to fix our economy.
Republicans would do well to sacrifice the election to the Democrats in November if either McCain or Huckabee(ha,ha) were to win the Republican nomination.