In 'Cereal City,' Romney won't let himself be toast

Go Mitt !!!

I don't want that angry McCain guy getting the GOP nomination, he's not even a real Conservative and he's so old that you would practically be voting for whoever he would pick as his running-mate.

Tired of all candidates all the time. Can't The Swamp cover ANYTHING else but them? How about some press coverage of boy george's rapidly recessing economy?

Go ROMNEY!

Governor Romney is the best qualified to defeat the Democrats and to truly lead this nation - and to get results. He's the only true tax-cutting conservative running.

You know what, both Romney and McCain are right.

If Romney wins the presidency, the jobs have not left Michigan for good because Romney will get them back and help grow the economy.

If McCain wins the presidency, he will do nothing to help the economy, instead focusing on tracking osama to the gates of hell at all costs to our economy.

Michigan gets to decide who to prove right.

For their own good, and mine, I hope they choose Romney.

Looks to me like Repuplican voters are hoping McCain or Romney what Boy George has failed at.

Think back Michigan voters,how was your economy from 92-2000? Thought you could count on a "Conservative" to continue the economy that Dems built.

Big mistake.

Were you better off under Clinton or Bush?????

Mitt is the real deal. Is resume out does everyone else when it comes to what this ty needs right now. Mitt will create great jobs.
Mitt knows the economy. Mitt is the turn around kid who will restore The U.S. Stance in
the world. Go mitt

Mitt Romney may be the most multi-qualified candidate since FDR with his combination of business, organization and government experience. But Michigan cannot be viewed as a definitive test because Democrats and Independents, with no Democratic contest, are reportedly being encouraged to vote in the Republican primary for McCain in order to deny victory to Romney. Quite clearly, the well-financed and well-organized Romney constitutes the greatest threat against a Democratic victory in November and anything they can do to derail him in the primaries will be done.

Mitt fails to recognize there are 49 other states in the USA. Right, Mitt you are not toast perhaps but just the soggy flakes at the bottom of the bowl.

I hope Michigan will stand up for Romney. Romney accomplished good things in Mass. I believe he will try to bring jobs to Michigan.

McCain said jobs are not coming back to Michigan. McCain said "but we will take care of you." What does that mean?

Romney has said he will work to bring jobs to Michigan. He has turned around so many things and I believe he will work hard to turn around Michigan. McCain says he is a straight talker but he doesn't like talking about his liberal record.

McCain is old. The life expectancy of the average male is 75. He is 71 now and could die in his first term as President.

Romney will not save Michigan. No candidate will. He sounds very familiar to Dick DeVos(R) who lost to Jennifer Granholm(D)for the governorship.

On one hand, people in Michigan can see right through candidates who try to buy their vote and on the other, half of us are dumb enough to fall for it. That's why we're such a swing state. It's too bad the Democrats didn't fully understand this when they penalized us for violating primary rules because now the liklihood that the state falls into continued national Republican policy status quo are much greater as the influential dems cross over party lines and vote Republican in November.

Romney has spent millions of dollars trying to buy the Presidency. So far, it has not worked because the people have not any heart, only cold business sense.

Now he is promising Michigan what he cannot deliver rather than telling them what he stands for and what he will do. The country needs a man of integrity as well as governing experience. It needs Mike Huckabee.

There are two reasons why Mitt can bring jobs bake to Michigan and no other president can. 1st he believes in fair trade and he will close the currency gap. Second, he knows how to reform health care, he did it is Massachusetts. Once the big three can compete on a level playing field of currency exchange and health care they will dominate. We have the best engineers and manufacturing processes in the world and we will blow away the competition if we can have a chance to compete fairly.

Romney is the only candidate who has any economic experience to speak of, he was the CEO of a very successful business.

McCain is to damn old and all he's doing is running on that "straight talk" BS of his, the only problem with that is he quit being a "straight talker" about 7 years ago.

If Mitt wins Michigan he will be the clear front runner for our party nomination, he already has the most delegates.

ROMNEY 08!

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Let's Look at the Mitt Alternative.

The Real McCain Record
Obstacles in the way of conservative support.

By Mark R. Levin

There’s a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record. They want to talk about his personal story, his position on the surge, his supposed electability. But whenever the rest of his career comes up, the knee-jerk reply is to characterize the inquiries as attacks.

The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:

McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.

McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.

McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).

And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.

McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.

And then there’s the McCain defense record.

His supporters point to essentially one policy strength, McCain’s early support for a surge and counterinsurgency. It has now evolved into McCain taking credit for forcing the president to adopt General David Petreaus’s strategy. Where’s the evidence to support such a claim?

Moreover, Iraq is an important battle in our war against the Islamo-fascist threat. But the war is a global war, and it most certainly includes the continental United States, which, after all, was struck on 9/11. How does McCain fare in that regard?

McCain-ACLU — the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).

McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.

While McCain proudly and repeatedly points to his battles with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had to rebuild the U.S. military and fight a complex war, where was McCain in the lead-up to the war — when the military was being dangerously downsized by the Clinton administration and McCain’s friend, former Secretary of Defense Bill Cohen? Where was McCain when the CIA was in desperate need of attention? Also, McCain was apparently in the dark about al-Qaeda like most of Washington, despite a decade of warnings.

My fingers are crossed that at the next debate, either Fred Thompson or Mitt Romney will find a way to address McCain’s record. (Mike Huckabee won’t, as he is apparently in the tank for him.)

If Romney is such a son of Michigan, why did he leave?If his business acumen is a large part of his credentials, he may have been able to parlay his family name to do some good in the state of his birth. But no, he left.
Sounds alot like a certain Democrat candidate who packed her carpets and moved to New York.

"McCain said jobs are not coming back to Michigan. McCain said "but we will take care of you." What does that mean?"

Trae,

It means the same thing Reagan meant;
Retrain for the 'service industry'.

McCain was a good soldier, but seriously, what does he know about business and economies? With all of his years in Washington, is it possible McCain is part of the mess we now find ourselves in? Let's give Romney an opportunity to do what he's good at. Unlike everyone in Washington, he seems to know something about budgets, economies, and growth. He might just fix the trade imbalance, which is just killing us.

Mitt has gone out of his way to avoid contention here in Michigan, but I wish there was some way he could logically present McCain's big screw ups without being preceived as too confrontational. I will say it McCain is part of the problem in Washington not the solution.
Regarding Huckabee: I just got a call from the Huckabee campaign. In it they asked who I was going to vote for. I said Romney. Man was I hit with a bunch of bunk. So much for this hypocrite Huckabee and being positive. I guess he finally realized that his showing of the negative ad when he didn't show it was actually real and he could continue being a hypocrite now.

No Romney has won in Michigan since George Romney was a one-term governor there. McCain is way ahead. He's demonstrated to Michigan voters, like New Hampshire voters before them, that he's the only candidate ready to be president from day, deliver victory in Iraq and Afghanistan, and clean up the mess that partisan politics has become in Washington. If he could get the votes for McCain-Feingold then you know he'll be able to work with congressional leaders to end the gridlock that's gripped our government for the last 4 years.

"You know, a lot of people look around and remember the Michigan that I remember when I was growing up. When I lived here, Michigan was the envy of the world and the nation."
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Never happened.

The problem with Michigan isn't mandates by Washington, but that corporate America sided with the wrong party. Lack of health care is costing companies big time.

Change, change, Michigan, change. Blah, blah, blah!!!

Polls the usually poll-happy Swamp won't report, because the polls don't favor their designated Republican (McCain):

"The McClatchy/MSNBC [Michigan] poll puts Romney at 30 percent, McCain at 22 percent, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 17 percent, former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee at 7 percent, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani at 6 percent and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas at 5 percent.

McClatchy Newspapers reported: “Romney led McCain by 2 to 1 among voters who ranked the economy and jobs their top concern. He led Huckabee by a slightly greater margin among those voters. He also led McCain by 2 to 1 among likely voters who called themselves Republicans.”

And the Detroit Free Press poll has Romney up by 5%.

Jeff you're wrong todays Politico has the latest poll Romney 30, McCain 22 that's an 8 point lead.
The driveby media are pushing McCain to ruin GOP chances of winning against Obama and Hillary.McCain is not a Republican he is a remnant of Protestant Republicanism also known as Country Club Republicans.
Romney has got more money than anyone and can beat all the money Obama and Clinton can raise no wonder the drivebys don't like him. Jerry White, Springfied, IL

Willard allowed himself to become toast when he ran to the left of Ted Kennedy for his senate seat.

No conservative would do that nor would they permanently ban a long list of firearms from loyal, law-abiding citizens.

Find out all about this liberal clown here;

Candidate Research - Know Who You're Voting For ( The Easy Way )
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/entry/candidate_research_know_who_youre_voting_for/

Politico, Jerry? Are you really pushing Politico over CNN/Gallup?

Blame the "drive-by" media all you want. I don't vote for a candidate based on his ability to sell his office for campaign cash. Nad LaMont tried to buy a senate seat and that didn't work. Thank God.

McCain does what's right whether it's considered conservative, liberal or moderate. Things like opposing Rumsfeld's "lighter, quicker military" strategy that hamstrung our troops in Iraq. Things like limiting the pervasive influence of money in politics via McCain-Feingold.

I've got other polls, too. Ones in South Carolina and Michigan.

Jeff,

I thought $$ = free speech?

I would have thought it meant paid speech.

There you go again Jeff. Obviously you are not from Michigan. You as usual distort and can't get any of your facts straight.
Governor Romney served 3 terms. He was the most popular Governor ever in Michigan based on polling. He was the only Governor to leave with a surplus of any Governor in Michigan history. He was well respected for his stance on Civil Rights. You can distort history, but you should look at the real facts before spouting your usual garbage.

I am sooo sick of all of the headlines talking about when Romney's MUST wins and asking when he going to hang it up! He has the MOST delegates!

I am also from Iowa and see that religious bigotry is alive and well in America. Huckabee ran on being a previous minister and a Christian. Even following things here, I NEVER heard about his record as Governor (good or bad) much until after the Caucuses and into NH. Romney's ads tried to get people to look at Huckabee's record. It wouldn't have mattered how much $ he spent here, he couldn't break through the BLIND followers who would rather vote for Huck just because he was a pastor than someone with brains and ability to face all the country’s big problems. If you take away all the non-evangelicals that caucused, Romney beat Huckabee more than 2-1!! If you vote FOR Huckabee or NOT for Romney based on religion you are a bigot-- go look up the definition. Being intolerant of someone who is different, as in religion or race.

Iowa was early, unfortunately some people in following states are voting for Huckabee just because he won Iowa but as more people research him, they’ll see him for what he is. Can you really see him meeting with Foreign Leaders and being respectable?? He never answers questions straight up, doesn’t defend his record, just whines about other people ‘being dishonest about it’. HE has been dishonest about his record. He says all the taxes he raised were after “80% of the people voted for them”– NOT TRUE. Do you HUCK supporters stay open enough to scrutinize his record. Does it matter to you that he is being dishonest about his record in order to get elected? Won’t he be dishonest on the job if he is dishonest while he’s pursuing the job?

Read http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/huckabees_fiscal_record.html.

Huckabee brags about how his democratic state kept re-electing him as evidence of his doing something right– all it signifies is that he ran the state the way a Democrat would. He is NOT a fiscal conservative!! Oh, and Huckabee doesn't have the corner on the market for defending Christian values-- Romney wants God to stay in our schools and on our $, exemplifies the santity of marriage and family-- but he doesn’t force it on you like Huckabee does. Ironically, Mormons are definitely in the minority in this country, but Romney would more fairly represent ALL Americans because he doesn't USE his religion to garner support. He is running a political campaign. The leaders of the LDS church striclty discourage anything political coming over the pulpit, which is reserved for teaching about docrtine and Christ. You would NEVER go to an LDS meeting and hear someone endorsing a candidate. Its leaders encourage its members to be involved in civic matters and to think for themselves, as well as be prayerful. All you out there who think the LDS church would somehow run Romney if he were President are just ignorant. How well does Huckabee adhere to the law of keeping church and state separate??

Somebody answer me specifically how Romney is NOT a conservative?

Abortion is the one thing people are criticizing Romney for. It is important, but not as immediate an issue as Iraq, terrorism, illegal immigration, health care costs and the imminent recession that everyone is talking about. Also, if you really watch and listen to Romney explain his change it is very reasonable. He has always been opposed to abortion morally, personally. When it was theoretical, he believed government’s role in what people should do was more in line with choice. When he actually had authority as governor, he had to personally face making something into legislation, he had to go with his personal conviction. I think that’s what we expect our leaders to do. He wants Roe vs. Wade overturned, would love there to be no abortion in the country, but is not going to force that view on the whole nation. He would be President over a lot of people with differing views on it. Huckabee’s ad that he put out/didn’t put out MISLEADS people to believe that Romney is responsible for or in support of the MA healthplan allowing $50 toward abortions. Romney opposed it, it was a state court ordered mandate that he had to obey. Like Mike Huckabee touts that he ‘obeyed the law in Arkansas’ by raising taxes for education then makes some sarcastic remark about ‘I don’t know if you have to obey the law in MA…’

Which leads into the fact that Huckabee (and McCain) have both been more negative on this campaign than Romney– despite what the media keeps trying to perpetuate, even with Chris Wallace’s question on the last debate. Ridiculous. Romney has pointed out differences on their records. The ‘meanest’ thing Romney has done to Huckabee was to press him to answer his question about taxes on the debate. Huckabee has attacked Romney’s character by calling his campaign dishonest, his comments are riddled with snide, personal cracks, his early comments about the Mormon faith were very specific ideology differences that riled up evangelicals against Romney. Huckabee jabs, then takes this ‘good guy, I didn’t mean to’ stance, knowing the damage has already been done and he comes out LOOKing like the more moral man. What a bunch of crap he has been pulling. I am floored that Huckabee got anything from NH voters!

Mitt Romney brings the most breadth of knowledge, best solution oriented approach to what is facing America. He brings people from all sides to the table, gets the best information and makes successful, critical decisions. Watch Greta’s conversation with him on the Mitt Mobile to learn more about his Foreign Policy approach. Watch all 3 parts to the video. It’s a GREAT look at him. He shares his stance on terrorism and I think it would have helped a lot of people in NH who voted for McCain just because of his military/foreign policy experience. It’s curious that these clips weren’t more visible on the website during the Iowa and NH voting. Fox?? Romney is a dignified leader who can work with the international community. His experience in the Olympics may even help other world leaders respect him.

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?0308/010308_greta_rom1&On_the_Record&Mitt%20Romney&acc&On%20the%20Record&-1&Shows&494&&&new

McCain is NOT the only one who can handle the situation in Iraq. McCain has some good character, although he seemed to relish a little too much in jabbing Romney on the debates. He can be bull-headed like Bush though. He’ll stand up to people or go against the grain, but that’s only good if he’s fighting for your exact point of view. I don’t think he would be any more effective in working with the international community than Bush has been.

In debates McCain avoids talking about what he plans to do about all the illegals already here. He focuses on a fence and securing the border only. That’s because he wants us to forget that his immigration bill really does offer a type of amnesty that won’t deter more illegals from coming. It doesn’t punish people who have broken OUR federal laws. This is just one summary of his bill:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/GovernmentReform/em975.cfm

It’s scary to see American’s voting for pastors, candidates they admire because of war experience, or because they ‘like his smile’ and ‘think he would be a comforting president’ (Obama). Do you realize that we need a strong leader?! This next President is CRUCIAL to our future. I agree that a vote for any other Republican OTHER THAN Romney is helping the Democrats. A Democrat will get America on it’s way to socialism. Europe is seeing the effects of socialism and they are starting to turn away from it and voting in conservatives.

Canadians have a different society and yet are close enough to be knowledgable spectators of our country. LISTEN to them! Don’t listen to the media or their biased commentators (know who these people work for before you listen to their stance!). Listen to individual, respectable sources.

I can see people being leary of Romney that he has had his eyes on the White House for some time. So what? Realize that every one running or who has ever run for presidnet has had his/her eyes on the White House. It is usually because they want to be in a position to make things better. Does being rich and white really mean he will not be an excellent President? I’d rather have my brilliant employer run the country than my hick co-worker who steals condiments from the break-room. (Yes, Huckabee really did steal furniture from the Governor’s mansion). Romney is wealthy, but don’t forget that he didn’t take pay for his governorship or the Olympics and he tithes 10% of his income! Does income really have any bearing on the characteristics we need as a leader– yes, he has been successful in his endeavors…

I can see Romney has a tendency to exaggerate, but it’s out of enthusiasm more than it is calculated deception. When he is called on it, he admits fault. What more can you ask for? On the other hand, Huckabee has said “oh, I don’t know anything about the Mormon faith?”, when he was a main speaker at a Baptist seminar in SLC which was designed to refute Mormon doctrine and convert Mormons. Don’t you think you need to know their doctrine if you are going to try to discuss it and refute it with them? Isn’t that kind of false statement a little more alarming and telling than Romney’s slip about seeing ‘more change in the next ten years than we’ve seen in the past century’ or whatever?

The other arguments about Romney being too perfect etc. are just absurd. I like what another writer wrote about the fact that Romney’s got all 5 sons strongly supporting him and they are a close-knit family. Watch them. That says alot about the way he has lived his life.

http://www.mittromney.com

Polls show that people BELIEVE Romney will get the nomination, but it won’t happen in a vacuum. You have to get out there and VOTE for him!! Come on Michigan! I can’t do any more from Iowa (yet!)

The Michigan constitution adopted in 1963 changed the governor's term to four years, starting in 1967. Romney took office on January 1, 1963 and did serve, as you say "three terms" but it was widely recognized that his reelection in 1965 was a formality (he ran unopposed) and he didn't even finish his third term when he got reelected in 1967 so he could run for president.

Jen, if you consider offering illegal immigrants a path to citizenship after a $1,500 fine is paid and 7 years of a clean record "a form of amnesty" then what, I ask, do you want the government to do? Rounding up and deporting all the illegals is just impossible because border enforcement has been so lax for so long.

Many of these people have families that are legal citizens here. Kennedy-McCain was the best chance to get a bill, any bill, to address the problem passed. Sadly it didn't provide the enforcement that many voters wanted and I think McCain understands that, now. That's why he talks about the fence, and other enforcement measures.

Either way the problem is only going to get worse now as we won't see another immigration bill until after this election cycle is over.