The Mitt Romney Thread

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Romney will be on Meet the Press tomorrow. First run on NBC from 9-10am eastern time. Will post video if it becomes available....Setting my DVR so I don't miss it!!!!

Meet the Press guest list for December 13, 2009

DR. CHRISTINA ROMER

Chair, President's Council of Economic Advisers

ALAN GREENSPAN

Fmr. Chairman, Federal Reserve

GOV. JENNIFER GRANHOLM (D-MI)

FMR. GOV. MITT ROMNEY (R-MA)

2008 Republican Presidential Candidate

Founder, Bain Capital

JIM CRAMER

Host, CNBC's "Mad Money"

As the president maintains that the economy is recovering, the unemployment rate remains the highest in a generation. So, is the United States in a jobless recovery? Plus, the president's new jobs package is drawing fire from the left and right. Is this plan the answer that American workers need? We'll hear exclusively from Dr. CHRISTINA ROMER who chairs the President's Council of Economic Advisers.

Then, a special discussion to tackle the questions: where are the jobs and what are the political and economic obstacles to a full and timely recovery? With us exclusively: Former Fed Chairman, ALAN GREENSPAN; Governor JENNIFER GRANHOLM (D-Michigan); 2008 Republican Presidential Candidate and former Massachusetts Governor, MITT ROMNEY; and the Host of CNBC's "Mad Money," JIM CRAMER.

David Gregory is the moderator of "Meet the Press.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3898804/ns/meet_the_press

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Romney will hit key primary states on book tour

‘No Apology’ looks at nation’s standing in world

While campaigning in Iowa, Mitt Romney met the Red Hat Divas of Hampton. He will return to Iowa, where he was second in the presidential caucus, to promote his second book.

(Kevin Sanders for The Boston Globe/ File 2007)

By Sasha Issenberg

Globe Correspondent / January 3, 2010

WASHINGTON - Later this winter, Mitt Romney will strike out on a national book tour, but unlike his party’s most successful recent author he does not expect to make headlines with bits of fresh gossip from the 2008 campaign, see his fans camp overnight outside bookstores, or chat with Oprah Winfrey about his family.

“Inevitably there are going to be comparisons with the Sarah Palin book,’’ said Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman. “We’re not going to match her crowd size or sales. These are two different people with different ways of expressing themselves.’’

The March 2 release of “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness,’’ will kick off a monthlong tour taking the former Massachusetts governor to at least 18 states, including Iowa, where Romney’s presidential campaign collapsed nearly two years ago after a second-place caucus finish.

But Romney, considered by many in the party to be the default Republican front-runner for the 2012 nomination, is approaching the book tour with the patient, workmanlike mien that has distinguished him from other probable contenders who seem far more eager for attention.

“Romney is playing things very methodically and deliberatively,’’ said Mark McKinnon, a former media adviser to President George W. Bush and 2008 Republican nominee John McCain. “I think he understands the physics of this game very well now and is carefully calibrating his approach to 2012.’’

“No Apology’’ will be Romney’s second book. The first, “Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games,’’ a narrative account of Romney’s stewardship of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, was published in 2004, while he was governor. At the time, Romney held a book party at the Boston Public Library, signings in Massachusetts and Utah, and conducted a series of radio interviews.

This time Romney has assembled a far more ambitious itinerary, organized by his publisher, St. Martin’s Press, and the Macmillan Speakers Bureau, which represents Romney in speeches before nonpolitical groups. In Iowa, Romney will visit Des Moines and Ames, where he will speak at Iowa State University. (Romney has yet to confirm appearances in New Hampshire and South Carolina, two other early primary states.)

St. Martin’s will print 200,000 copies of Romney’s book, far less than HarperCollins’s 1.5 million-copy first printing of Palin’s “Going Rogue,’’ which reportedly sold 1 million copies within its first two weeks. Romney has not disclosed the amount of his advance, but a spokesman says he will contribute his earnings to a charity he has yet to name.

St. Martin’s has no plans to purchase print ads promoting Romney’s book, but will rely on promotional e-mail messages to a supporter list maintained by Romney’s political action committee and online advertising targeted at his backers, including more than 118,000 registered fans on Facebook.

“A lot of the outreach we’re going to be doing is based on his channels,’’ said Jeanne-Marie Hudson, associate director of marketing for St. Martin’s. “He has a very strong and organized base of supporters that are going to get his word out just as they did in the campaign.’’

Romney has been working on the book for much of the last year, convening groups of friends and advisers to discuss the material in it. Fehrnstrom describes it as “an ideas book,’’ with a focus on US standing in the world and away from the social issues that dominated Romney’s 2008 campaign. The title refers to what Romney describes as President Obama’s pattern of apologizing for American behavior in speeches abroad.

“The book is more than a critique of the Obama presidency,’’ said Fehrnstrom. “The book itself is primarily forward-looking.’’

Romney’s efforts to cut a statesman-like profile have included a new focus on foreign policy. He is working to schedule a January trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan with his former lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, and Mitchell Reiss, a retired diplomat who was a foreign policy adviser to Romney’s campaign. The trip, organized by the International Republican Institute, will be Romney’s second visit to Afghanistan and first to Pakistan.

At the same time, Romney is largely stepping away from Washington’s daily partisan political fights and ideological clashes within the right. He has expressed little interest in getting involved in competitive primaries, many of which have become contentious clashes over the GOP’s direction. Romney is unlikely to pick a side in Senate primaries in Florida or California, or for governor of Texas, according to his spokesman.

“Generally speaking, we shy away from primaries unless there’s a compelling reason to get involved,’’ said Fehrnstrom. “One of the criteria we use to determine if we should get involved in the primary is whether a particular candidate has been helpful to Mitt - because we’re loyal and return favors.’’

In 2009, Romney appeared on behalf of 29 candidates at rallies and fund-raisers, but the campaign most watched by party leaders was one that never made Romney’s schedule. Other potential 2012 presidential candidates rushed to upstate New York before a November special congressional election to support third-party conservative candidate Doug Hoffman against a moderate Republican, but Romney stayed home. Hoffman helped push the Republican from the race, but eventually lost to the Democratic nominee.

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Mitt Romney made an appearance on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America‘ to give his response to George Stephanopoulos regarding Obama's ‘State of the Union’ speech.

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I love how scared you libs are of Sarah.

Well, she is pretty scary. Scary ignorant.

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Gallup: Romney Leads Republican Field

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are most frequently mentioned, by 14% and 11%, respectively. Seven percent mention Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 nominee. Newly elected Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, former Arkansas Gov. and 2008 candidate Mike Huckabee, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich are each mentioned by at least 3% of Republicans.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125777/Voters-D...idate-2012.aspx

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Looking forward to the 2012 election. It will be a close one!

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Looking forward to the 2012 election. It will be a close one!

Romney, IMO, is one of the more moderate Republicans and would be appealing to more voters, but he'll have a hard time getting past the tea baggers who find him less than pure.

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45th President, closing comments at CPAC, 2010

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2010 CPAC Straw Poll Results

Ron Paul 31%

Mitt Romney 22%

Sarah Palin 7%

Tim Pawlenty 6%

I don't think 'ol Mitt has a good enough grasp of the republican base to win the republican primary. Nor is he a charismatic person who can capture an audience. He has done a lot of good preparation work for the 2012 primary season in locking up precinct captains and campaign staff, but in the end, he's an empty suit who the teabaggers don't like.

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Governor Romney appeared on the Today Show on Tuesday.....

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Governor Romney appeared on the Today Show on Tuesday.....

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Governor Romney on Letterman

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Has it gone unnoticed by the Romney fan club here on VJ how eerily similar the Senate HCR bill is to Romneycare ?

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Gallup: Romney Leads Republican Field

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are most frequently mentioned, by 14% and 11%, respectively. Seven percent mention Arizona Sen. John McCain, the 2008 nominee. Newly elected Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, former Arkansas Gov. and 2008 candidate Mike Huckabee, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich are each mentioned by at least 3% of Republicans.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/125777/Voters-D...idate-2012.aspx

I like Bobby Jindal. He's like a conservative Republican Indian Obama. He is friendly, has a warm smile, understands the issues, has Executive experience as Governor of LA (which Obama did not have). I like him so much I think we should start a birther movement to spread vicious rumors that he's not born in Baton Rouge LA but actually was born in India. Where's his bloody birth certificate, after all? :angry:

Seriously, it's a real shame to see him trailing the pack, down with Fred Thompson and below Ron Paul.

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Jindal is a fundamentalist evangelical type. Fuсk him.