Ron Paul Defends Romney, Lashes Out at His Critics. Jan 10, 2012 3:18pm In an exclusive interview outside a Manchester polling place, Ron Paul lashed out at fellow Republicans for making unfair and ignorant attacks on Mitt Romney’s business record. “I think they’re wrong. I think they’re totally misunderstanding the way the market works,” Paul told me. “They are either just demagoguing or they don’t have the vaguest idea how the market works.” Paul also came to Romney’s defense for saying “I like to be able to fire people.” “I think they’re unfairly attacking him on that issue because he never really literally said that,” Paul said.
In Paul’s view, Romney is right to say that he created jobs by restructuring companies. “I think they’re way overboard on saying that he wants to fire people, he doesn’t care,” Paul said. Read more about voting in New Hampshire on primary day. SHOWS: This Week World News. Obama Jumps on Romney | Jamie Dupree Washington Insider. Nancy Pelosi: GOP knows Mitt Romney can’t win - Seung Min Kim. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday launched political grenades at Mitt Romney, arguing that Republicans haven’t coalesced behind the GOP frontrunner because they don’t believe he can beat President Barack Obama in November. The House’s top Democrat repeatedly jabbed at the former Massachusetts governor during an hour-long interview hosted by POLITICO and taunted the GOP for a slate of presidential contenders that she said was “not exactly what you would call the first string of the Republican Party.” Continue Reading “If the far right thought that Romney could win, they might be more enthusiastic about him,” Pelosi told POLITICO’s Mike Allen during Tuesday’s Playbook Breakfast.
“But they question what he stands for and they don’t think he’s going to win. So what’s the sell? “I don’t know who knows him,” she added of Romney. “He’s not going to be president,” Pelosi said. “This is a Congress that has done such a disservice to our country,” Pelosi said. Focusing on Romney, Obama campaign plans Bain attack. Mitt Romney | John McCain | Opposition Research. If you think you’ve already heard everything there is to know about Mitt Romney, think again. A 200-page document that appears to be Sen. John McCain’s entire 2008 election-year opposition research file on the former Massachusetts governor hit the Internet with a vengeance Tuesday evening. And it’s an eye-opener. The file explores everything from the assessed value of Romney’s house (“$3.162 million”) to his views on the Boy Scouts’ ban of homosexuals (“publicly opposed … in 1994 and 2002 campaigns”). The document, given the name “The Romney Book,” was viewed less than 100 times on the page where it was originally uploaded by its anonymous leaker on November 11.
Neither McCain nor his former presidential campaign staffers have authenticated the untitled document, and McCain’s recent endorsement of Romney makes that highly unlikely. After a four-page introduction and timeline of Romney’s personal and professional life, the file’s next six pages cover what the authors called “top hits.” The Mitt Romney Myth, He's not electable, Ron Paul is. ElectionOracle / US Presidential Election 2012Jan 17, 2012 - 02:38 AM GMT By: LewRockwell Mark R. Crovelli writes: Republicans sure have short memories. It was just four years ago that they went to the polls in the primaries and elected the most "moderate" and "electable" candidate they could find in the hope that they had a man who was palatable to the general population.
Their reward for their unprincipled pragmatism was an ass-kicking in the general election that few Americans will ever forget. John McCain and Sarah Palin certainly won’t forget it. Four years later, having learned absolutely nothing from the election of 2008, Republican voters are once again lining up behind the most moderate and supposedly "electable" candidate that they can find in the pragmatic hope that they can beat Obama in the general election. In one respect, moreover, the selection of this particular "moderate" is even more ridiculous than the selection of the kooky moderate four years ago. Mark R. Thompson: Mitt campaign has 'Drudge in their back pocket'
Former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) on Sunday attacked Mitt Romney for "unseemliness and overkill" in his aggressive campaign against Newt Gingrich, the candidate Thompson has endorsed. Romney's "modus operandi, basically, is to play Mr. Nice Guy until somebody gets close to him," Thompson said on NBC's "Meet the Press. " "And then he unleashes his attack machine. Thompson said that a story in Sunday's New York Times depicts "Romney's staff ... patting themselves on the back, talking about how mean and down they are. For months, Drudge has been running a steady stream of pro-Romney and anti-Gingrich stories on his website, Drudge Report. Mitt Romney in striking distance of Iowa win - Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns.
Don’t look now, but Mitt Romney suddenly seems like the Iowa front-runner. The former Massachusetts governor has carefully tempered expectations in Iowa all year, visiting only a handful of times and saving the bulk of his television spending for the final weeks of the race. But as a crowd of conservative opponents keep the anti-Romney vote divided, his odds of a victory in the state that humbled him four years ago have never been better. Continue Reading Romney’s final push before Iowa Even as he tried to keep talk about his prospects in check Tuesday, a slew of public and private polling and anecdotal evidence on the ground suggests that Romney is within striking distance of a first-place finish in Iowa — especially as Ron Paul’s momentum spurt appears to have run into the reality of front-runners’ scrutiny. Romney’s team is moving to make the most of it. Among Romney’s Iowa backers, there was a marked rise in confidence Tuesday.
George H.W. Bush: 'Romney Is the Best Choice' - Conor Friedersdorf - Politics. The former president expressed his support for the Massachusetts governor but claimed, strangely, that it wasn't 'an endorsement.' In an interview with the Houston Chronicle, former president George H.W. Bush threw his support behind Mitt Romney in the GOP primaries. "I think Romney is the best choice for us," he said. "I like Perry, but he doesn't seem to be going anywhere; he's not surging forward... stability, experience, principles. He's a fine person...
I just think he's mature and reasonable -- not a bomb-thrower. " Bush explained that he doesn't much care for Newt Gingrich due to a decades old personal slight: "I'm not his biggest advocate," he said. " Is it just me, or is that an absurdly frivolous reason for determining whether or not to support Gingrich's presidential campaign? If it hadn't been for the campaign against Bush for raising taxes in an environment when it arguably made sense to do so, Bush might have had a better chance of winning a second term.
Image credit: Reuters. » Meet the White Obama Alex Jones. Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com January 11, 2012 Mitt Romney, the establishment declared GOP front-runner, is the white Obama. He earns this title because on crucial issues he mirrors Barack Obama. Consider: Climate agenda and carbon taxes: He has stated that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is real.
In 2005, as governor of Massachusetts, Romney imposed strict state limitations on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. In a memo issued by Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Hale, the Romney administration bragged that it was “the first and only state to set CO 2 emissions limits on power plants.” In short, Romney did what Obama’s EPA wants to do now. In his book, No Apology, Romney advocates carbon taxes through a “tax-swap plan” and declares that resultant “higher energy prices would encourage energy efficiency.” Obama also wants to push a carbon tax on the American people and declared his intention to do so before he took office. Romneycare: Abortion: Illegal immigration: Is Obama Trying to Out-Romney Romney--Already? Whatever the real reason for the timing, it's interesting that President Obama decided that this week was the moment--when consensus is gelling that Mitt Romney is the all-but-inevitable GOP nominee--to announce a very Romney-esque cost-cutting plan.
At a White House event complete with business CEOs as props and a slide presentation (the kind Bain Capital once perfected), the president urged Congress to give him the power to merge a plethora of trade and commerce functions that are now dispersed among the Commerce Department, the Small Business Administration, the U.S. Trade Representative, the Export-Import Bank; the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Trade and Development Agency. The consolidation would save some $3 billion and 1,000 to 2,000 jobs over ten years, the White House said. 4Rzxs.jpg (JPEG Image, 1443 × 2100 pixels) Obama or More of the Same. Mitt Romney Wins in NH By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com Mitt Romney, who finished first in New Hampshire last night, got a raw deal from the mainstream media (MSM) and his Republican opponents about a comment that was totally taken out of context. It was reported that Mitt Romney said, “I like to fire people.”
That would make you think he was some sort of cold hearted person who doesn’t care about people. What Romney actually said was in the context of health care providers and being able to fire companies who give you bad service. Yesterday, FOX News came to Romney’s defense and rightly so. CBS should fire Crawford, the network’s “Chief Political Correspondent,” for two reasons. I don’t think either party wants Paul to be the GOP candidate. I think Romney will end up the GOP nominee, but I have serious doubts he can defeat Obama and his nearly $1billion war chest.
At a Romney Event Yesterday, I Was Removed and Arrested. I Still Don't Know Why. I’d been in New Hampshire for the past several days to follow the campaign and see some of the candidates in-person. Yesterday morning, I was chatting up a Romney campaign staffer before an event at the Gilchrist Manufacturing Company in Hudson, NH, when a police officer approached. Sir, we have to ask you to leave the premises.
“Sir, is this about my backpack? I’d be happy to show you – there’s nothing dangerous in there.” “No, sir – we’ll explain it to you outside.” I gathered my things and walked past a group of citizens and press, humiliated and confused. Outside, the officer said, “Sir, the campaign has identified you as someone who was at a protest at Romney’s office in Manchester.” Now I was really confused. I explained to the officer – his name was Lamarche, and his partner’s was Ducie – that there must have been some misunderstanding. I thought about Romney’s campaign staff inside.
I asked again to speak to someone from the campaign or the company who owned the plant. Romney looks past Iowa to Obama. Saying President Obama is risking “the soul of America,” Mitt Romney kicked off his stretch run to Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses with his eyes squarely on the general election, even as the rest of the Republican presidential field took aim at one another. Newt Gingrich, who said he couldn’t vote for fellow candidate Rep. Ron Paul for president, challenged Mr.
Romney to a one-on-one debate and said the former Massachusetts governor doesn’t have the conservative credentials necessary to lead the party. Meanwhile, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said only that he has established a conservative campaign record while running statewide in a blue state. Less than a week before the contest, the field is as unsettled as any in recent memory, with Mr.
That shake-up has left Mr. “This is an election not only to replace a president. “He promised to bring people together. Mr. Seeking to regain his footing, Mr. “Face-to-face,” Mr. “I don’t want to be invidious about Gov. Mr. Mrs. Gallup: Mitt Romney has widest lead to date in GOP race. By Michael A. Memoli January 12, 2012, 11:47 a.m. If history is any guide, Mitt Romney is a sure thing to win his party's nomination for president.
Romney has opened up the widest advantage to date over his Republican rivals in a nationwide Gallup survey, and for the first time has the support of more than a third of GOP voters. Romney leads Rick Santorum 34-15%, with Newt Gingrich at 14% and Ron Paul at 13% in the survey, conducted from Jan. 7-11 among a nationwide sample of 1,188 Republican registered voters. Since 1976, the Republican candidate who leads the field nationally after the New Hampshire primary has gone on to win the nomination. In 2008, Rudy Giuliani was the national Republican leader before the Iowa caucuses. Gallup says the 2012 race has been the most volatile Republican race in history, with four candidates leading or tied for the lead at one point nationally. Since 1980, no Republican has won his party's nomination without winning in South Carolina.
Jon Huntsman drops out, endorses Mitt Romney - Juana Summers. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Jon Huntsman ended his presidential campaign Monday and immediately endorsed Mitt Romney. “I believe it is now time for our party to unite around the candidate best equipped to defeat Barack Obama. Despite our differences and the space between us on some issues, I believe that candidate is Gov. Mitt Romney,” Huntsman told supporters at the convention center here Monday.
Continue Reading Huntsman drops out of race Huntsman also called on the other candidates to end negative campaigning ahead of Saturday’s primary. “This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy of this critical time,” Huntsman said. Speaking of the need to fix the economy and achieve energy independence, Huntsman also criticized Obama for what he called “class warfare for political gain” and said he was exiting the race to help elect Romney — a candidate whose core Huntsman called into question just last week. Romney unscathed from debate attacks. Romney: Gingrich Like 'Lucille Ball at Chocolate Factory' - Sarah B. Boxer. PORTSMOUTH, N.H. -- As he sought to consolidate his strong support in New Hampshire before heading to Iowa, Mitt Romney opted on Tuesday for mockery over menace in criticizing Newt Gingrich, even as his GOP presidential rival denounced Romney's attack ads and record as Massachusetts' governor.
From National Journal: Most Inspiring Stories of 2011 Top Political Quotes of 2011 Best Fake Campaign Ads Appearing in Portsmouth, Romney noted a statement that Gingrich’s campaign director compared the former House speaker’s recent inability to qualify for the Virginia ballot as a setback comparable to Pearl Harbor from which the campaign would recover.
“I think he compared that to Pearl Harbor? In another appearance in Londonderry, Romney also took a subtle swipe at Gingrich for a 2008 speech in which he praised Romney’s health care plan and the individual health insurance mandate at its heart. Romney was more circumspect in criticizing Rep. Naureen Khan contributed. How the GOP would expand the deficit. Gingrich: 'So-Called Conservatives' Are Attacking Me Because I Want an Accounting of Wall Street Bailouts.