Romney Lands Bradshaw

Sally Bradshaw, Jeb Bush's longtime political adviser and one of the bigger political brains in politics anywhere, has signed on to help prospective presidential candidate Mitt Romney. For the immediate future Bradshaw will be advising Romney's Commonwealth PAC on key Republican races across the country.

"He's a problem solver, a new kind of leader who's not from Washington,'' Bradshaw said of the Mass. governor. "He trusts real people. He's working hard to help the GOP win in November. He's incredibly bright and articulate, and he's got a great sense of humor.''

So can we finally put aside the speculation about Jeb in '08?

Comments

To paraphrase Bob Dole: 'We've never had a President named Mitt before'

Why didnt she join Mike "Mail it in!" Murf on the McCain Express???

A clear signal to all Jeb Bush fans. sign on early to Romney/Bush '08

Why on earth would Jeb accept a VP slot, wait 8 years, and hope that folks would give the republicans another 8 years. 16 is too much. Jeb goes for Prez or nothing. Count on it. Romney has an uphill fight. McCain is the man.

big yawn!

Inter-esting.

McCain won't win the nomination. He's pissed off too many southern Republicans. He's too moderate and he's too old.

Mitt Romney will make an excellent candidate. Successful businessman, Republican governor of a liberal state, and he saved the Utah Olympics.

For those of you ready to bash him for his religion, John Kennedy faced the same type opposition in 1960 and we know what happened in that election.

Go Mitt Go!

3:58 - You are right to a certain extent about the religion issue, but where your thinking is flawed is in the fact that being a mormon is nothing like being a Catholic. number one, there are more Catholics in the US than any other Christian denomination, Mormons are a very small religion. Secondly, having been raised a Southern Baptist, I know that the Baptists view the Mormon religion as a cult. Do you honestly think Southern Baptists are going to come out and vote for someone who is a Mormon? NO, they won't, which means the Democrat, if Romney is indeed the Republican, will sweep the south.

Sally is one hardcore ball buster. But I'm not sure she is ready for a national campaign. She has always suffered from tunnel vision which keeps her from seeing the big picture that is so sorely needed on a national campaign.

Jeb for V.P. or Charlie?
If Charlie ever gets the 30 million dollars he's trying to raise, people will really start to look at him in a national point of view.

4:04 -- it wouldn't be the first time the Southern Baptists are wrong. I suspect there will be Pro-Mitt 527's that education about the Mormons. They are certainly not a cult. And they certainly aren't small either. They are the 4th largest domination in the United States with over 14 million members.

[David Carlsen]

Think all Southern Baptists will vote against Mitt? Think again. See the following site for some *very* interesting reading:

http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/

[neelyohara]

Go Mitt go!!!

[Omega83]

I hope Mitt's LG wins up in Mass, but it looks like she's having a tough fight from the D's.

Though as far as that race up there goes, I give the award for Best Political Ad ever to independent Christy Mihos: www.christy2006.com

Gee, as I Catholic I always saw Southern Baptists as a cult. Guess that puts them in the same boat as nutty Mormans.

Mitt is awesome and has much better morals than "Catholics" Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.

I am Catholic and I say who cares about his Mormonism? He is not running to be a priest.

By their fruits you shall know them. Mitt is tough and I like him.

[Omega83]

Gee, as an Episcopalian, I always saw Catholics as Mary worshippers with pedophile preists , Mormons as wacky Utahians with 15 wives, and Baptists as angry bigots...

who really cares though????

At least Henry VIII let our priests marry and divorce

I'm a Southern Baptist and I would vote for Romney.

Gee, I hope you guys are right about Mitt winning the Republican nomination...that'll make it easy for any Democrat to take the White House in 2008.

[Frank]

3:58, you say McCain is too moderate and won't win the nomination, but you think Romney is a conservative? You think he won in MA by being conservative. No way buddy, go back and check his stances when he was running very very moderate. His opponents in the primary will be sure to point this out BTW, he says he has seen the light and flip flopped on most issues now that he's running for president.

anything would be better than another member of the nasty bush clan.

www.evangelicalsformitt.org is registered to the below. Anyone know who he is?

Charles Mitchell
Registrant Street1:1618 Latimer St
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Philadelphia
Registrant State/Province:Pennsylvania
Registrant Postal Code:19103
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.14844679395

Gilchrist, Edmund B.; Zeckwer, Mrs. R.
1618 LATIMER ST
Philadelphia, PA

[murphy]

Hey Frank,

Back up your statement that Mitt has "flip flopped" on "most issues".

All I count is two flips in the right direction on pro-life issues...abortion and stem-cell research. He is firmly against both.

And for the record, there are zero "flip flops" in there.

Mitt won MA because voters knew the state was over a barrel and only the Mittster could balance the books!

looks like we'll all be learning a lot about the mormon church if this go stays in.

joseph smith, restorationism, polygamy, etc

[murphy]

For the folks wearing tin foil religion hats, you might be surprised to hear that evangelical leaders are falling over themselves to say nice things about Mitt.

http://www.evangelicalsformitt.org/quotes.php

[murphy]

5:54,

Not learning about the mormon church from Romney, that's for sure. He's keeping his religion out of it and focussing on values.

The only people bringing up crusty 160 year old mormon doctrine are a few vocal bigots who haven't realized that Mitt's not running for Theologian-in-Chief.

I'm a Southern Baptist, and I would vote for Mitt. Furthermore, the LA Times reported on Oct 10th:
Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention said..."But if given a choice between [former New York Mayor Rudolph W.] Giuliani and Romney, I think a lot of evangelicals would vote for Romney. We are not electing a theologian-in-chief. We are electing a commander-in-chief."

[murphy]

5:49,

Charles Mitchell, Editor of www.evangelicalsformitt.org

Charles works for a non-profit in Washington, D.C. His work experience includes the Heritage Foundation, Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. He is also a contributing editor to Family Security Matters, one of (according to Human Events) the nation's top ten young conservative activists, and a 2005 winner of the Claremont Institute's Publius Fellowship. Charles has appeared on C-SPAN, PBS, NPR, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel and written in the Washington Times, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Townhall.com , Front Page Magazine, and other publications. He graduated summa cum laude from Bucknell University, where he was profiled in the New York Times Magazine and, more importantly, where he was converted to Christianity.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=313558

Omega Henry the 8th was a swine.

And by the way the Episcopalians have royally messed up in the US by putting an impramatur on ordaining active homosexuals, and they ordain fruity women wanabe men too.

People are fleeing that denomination. The Archbishop over in England has been a liberal for years as well.

Catholics do NOT worship Mary; gong.

Go Mitt and who cares?

[Kevin]

Run Mitt, Run!

Omega83 - You must not know much about your Episcopalian protestant sect. Not too much difference with catholics, except Episcopalians don't recognize the authority of Rome. Mary is held in pretty high regard with Episcopalians as well as catholics. Your anger toward the mother of God is troubling as is your church's ordaining of homosexuals and women.

5:54, a number of domination believe they are the restored church so it's not unique to the LDS (Mormon) church. Joseph Smith was just the messenger and was murdered for delivering that message. As a member of the LDS church, I cringe will people say we worship Joseph Smith. Nothing can be farther from the truth. It's God and Jesus, just like every other Christian church.

As for polygamy, it's been banned from the LDS church for 110 years. When you hear someone out West who practices it, rest assured they are not a member of the church.

I'll be more than happy to clear up any other misconceptions about Mormons.

[Seth]

I grew up as a Mormon and my best friends were Baptist. I found that the Baptist had the closest value and moral set as I did. They helped me out a lot. I heard rumors that their parents would show them anti-Mormon stuff but when it came down to real life, they still were my best friends. I think as the Baptist get to know Mitt's stand on issues they we realize that they are much like their own.

[John Skroski]

I was raised Catholic in Western , MA and converted to LDS at 19. I have found the moral compass of the Catholic Faith and LDS faith to be very similiar when it comes to key political issues. Mitt Romney will take the nomination and go one clean up in the south unless Billy Graham is the Democratic Nominee.

John Skroski

Phippsburg, Maine

Wait til Mitt hears that the Mormon Church will have to put Paul on retainer as part of the package deal

[Carl Loeber]

Did any Baptist Braves fans give a hoot that Bruce Murphy was a Mormon?

Romney is the best choice of war-time commander-in-chief. Intelligence, experience, character, and charisma . . all top of the classs. Romney's personal brand of religion makes no more difference for the job than Eisenhower's did in WWII.

In a government where in-fighting among intelligence services allowed 9/11 to occur, installing a consumate manager like Romney for POTUS becomes a life or death choice. The thing about Romney is he is not just a good politician, he is a highly skilled manager, with rock-solid character. The need for charisma in our current war may turn out to be as important as it was in WWII. Can you imagine Britain in 1940 without Churchill?

There is only one good reason the professional religionists like James Dobson might want to nay-say Romney. They are in competition with his brand of faith for converts, and the positive light shed on the LDS faith by a Romney presidency is far more than these ministers can stomach.

In a strange way his faith, still odd to many American's, may equip him to appear as a impartial third party in the culture war between Christian right and liberal left, and allow him to unite the country for the long struggle ahead.

[Irish Whiskey]

The LDS church is about as rock-solid on family values as you can get.

I don’t know much about Mitt Romney but I would have a much easier time supporting him than some of the Bible-thumping, James Dobson-endorsed fakes who lately have tried to get our votes.

12:19 am on putting Paul on retainer – that’s a good one.

Or, he could be the Antichrist.

8:56 -- that's uncalled for.

[andrew olsen]

Bruce's brother Dale Murphy was a pretty good player for the braves also : )

Speaking only for myself--an evangelical Christian (PCA)--I'm not sure I could vote for a Mormon any more than I could vote for a Muslim.

10:41 -- and why is that? I would encourage you to do your own research instead of taking the word of churches that have an interest in trashing the LDS church because they keep losing membership to them.

[Irish Whiskey]

10:41 wrote: "Speaking only for myself--an evangelical Christian (PCA)--I'm not sure I could vote for a Mormon any more than I could vote for a Muslim."

Please explain why. I am sincerely curious, not bashing. This is an aspect of fundamentalism that I don't understand. And what does PCA mean?

I grew up in the Southern Baptist church ages ago and we were taught: "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world. Red and yellow black and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." Obviously not PC with today's standards, but the meaning was clear to me then and now.

[jaguar]

But back to the post:
The move by Sally Bradshaw to help Mitt Romney doesn't signal ANYTHING about who Jeb will support. How many Jeb staffers/politicos went out help Toni Jennings or Tom Gallagheror Charlie Crist? And where did Jeb go? Nowhere -- he stayed out of the primary fight to support the eventual nominee.
For the record, I think highly of Gov. Romney, and think he will fare pretty well among the GOP primary voters, but will fade under the battle between McCain and Giuliani. And between them, I think Giuliani wins it all. Go Rudy!

Rudy wins? Are you totally crazy? Let's see: pro-gay rights, anti-gun. Those are two issues that will kill him in southern primaries. Rudy can't win the nomination.

Sally B? Overrated and locked out of the Fl GOP for the next 8 years. Nice move Mitt. We knew you you where a little off.. Go Rudy or John!!

Guiliani has the personality hands down; but but Mitt has the voice of conservatism, the looks and will be aggressive in getting his message out. He will blow McCain out of the water once this gets crankin'.

I think Senator Allen would make a great VP, but can't win the nomination. I think Mitt could beat Guiliani if he stays on message.

You are going to need more than being the mayor during 9/11 to win. Especailly with the out of mainstream postions Rudy has on the social issues.

Head to head, Rudy would clobber McCain.

[John Skroski]

Romney has the wit, the charm, and the self deprocating humor. He is the total package that Rudy and the dems are afraid of!

John S.