“President Romney immediately approves the Keystone pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that Obama blocked.”
“President Romney introduces tax cuts and reforms that will reward job creators, not punish them.”
“President Romney issues order to begin replacing Obamacare with commonsense health care reform.”
Romney might even consider offloading his entire opposition research and instant response operation to the Republican National Committee. Let the RNC and the super-PACs put out the statements denigrating the Democratic candidate. Romney should treat his opponent with respect not contempt, sobriety not snark, and good humor not sarcasm. Romney should run for president rather than run against Obama. Others can take care of making the anti-Obama case, focused on the past. He needs to make the case for his future presidency.
Part of making that case is winning over some citizens who voted for Obama in 2008. People don’t like being told they are, or were, stupid. If some previous Obama supporters are now disappointed—and they are—Romney should empathize with them, not condescend to them. In 2004 John Kerry unfailingly gave the impression that he thought if you had voted for Bush, or approved of anything he’d done, or found him in certain ways likable or admirable, then you were an idiot. That’s no way to beat an incumbent. His former supporters need to be won over rather than bludgeoned into submission. Reagan provided a strong contrast on the issues to Jimmy Carter in 1980. But his tone wasn’t snide or contemptuous. Romney—and especially his campaign, which has had a taste for the snide and the contemptuous—might profitably study Reagan’s 1980 effort.
Doug Wead boldly predicts in his Op-Ed for Conservative Actions Alerts, that Mitt Romney will choose Mike Huckabee for his Vice President:
Romney, if he has any chance of winning at all, will pick former Arkansas governor, Mike Huckabee, as his running mate. Because Huckabee is a born again Christian who is vetted. Two very big factors. Now if Huckabee were only a woman and an African American there wouldn’t be any doubt about it. But the Romney campaign has been pretty stunning in its missteps. So there is no guarantee that it will pick Huckabee. People do stupid things. Especially Romney. And then, gas prices may climb to $8 a gallon and then he can pick whomever he wants.
Consider, 48% of the nation claims to be born again Christians. If even a fraction of them sit at home, the South, bulging with African American voters for Obama, will tilt to the Democrats. Huckabee can help Romney carry the South. And all of the other VP candidates will have surprises in the closet that will come out. Huckabee too had some of those surprises but they are old news. And they are manageable.
The first rule of choosing a VP is do yourself no harm.
In 2008, Rick Santorum said that if you wanted a conservative as the nominee of the Republican Party, “you must vote for Mitt Romney.” Now that Santorum is a competitor of Romneys for the 2012 nomination, he has flip flopped on Romney’s conservatism despite Romney being only more conservative than in 08.
Previously, Buzzfeed released 7 minutes of Santorum talking to Laura Ingraham about how conservative Mitt Romney is.
UPDATE: 2 days after this post, the Drudge report headlines with the link to the video above!
UPDATE: Rick Santorum not only supported liberal Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Spector (who later left the Republican party to become a Democrat and cast the deciding vote for Obamacare) for reelection to the United States senate when he faced a primary challenge from the conservative republican who currently holds Spectors former senate seat – but he also supported Arlen Spector for President in 1996.
“I was his colleague in the United States Senate. He asked me to stand with him. That certainly wasn’t one of my prouder moments I look back on. But look, you know, you work together as a team for the state of Pennsylvania,” said Santorum. “I certainly knew that Arlen Specter was going nowhere. I certainly disagreed with a lot of things that he said.”
Santorum, who is fiercely against abortion, appeared on stage with Specter in 1995, who was vocally pro-choice at the time.
“I want to take abortion out of politics … and leave moral issues such as abortion to the conscience of the individual. That is a matter to be decided by women, not by big government,” Specter said in 1995.
Santorum said his support for Specter hinged partially on Specter’s support for him when he was running for office in 1994.
Supporting Specter “was something I look back on and wish I hadn’t done,” Santorum said.
SomethingAwful.com writer Zack Parsons said on his website [SIC] that Mitt Romney should shut up about how he “saved the 2002 Olympics” because “no one cares”, using Romneys own website as an example:
Whenever I hear Mitt Romney touting his credentials as a candidate for President, I can be sure that at some point he’s going to mention that he “saved the Olympics.” He literally mentions it in every major speech. On his Why Romney website “Saving the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics” is the title of the second section. He thinks “Saving the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City” is only slightly less important than “Business” when it comes to impressing people with his experience.
The problem: The link goes to a Mitt Romney fan site that is not affiliated with the Romney campaign.
We at CandidatesBlog happen to know one of the Authors of WhyRomney.com, the site that echoes Romneys involvement in the Olympic turnaround and got a statement. From WhyRomney.com spokesperson:
“WhyRomney is not an official Romney site and Romney is not responsible in any way for our content.”
This information can also be found on the sites “About Us” page which is linked to on every page of the website.
The following clip is from the Michael Medved radio show:
Todd Palin has endorsed Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin had said she would have voted for Newt in South Carolina, Florida and Nevada but has come short of officially endorsing him.
MyWay.com chose an…interesting photo of Mitt Romney to post in this story by the AP. The photo (also by the AP) show’s the candidate stepping off a platform, getting a little help from the front and back.
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