Early newspaper endorsment for Romney

He picked up the New Smyrna Beach Observer's backing: "So why now? Why not wait until the primaries? "The answer is simple. We've seen and heard enough from the debates to know that McCain is yesterday's news and outside of his 9/11 heroics, Giuliani doesn't have a national platform. Romney has a strong campaign base. The fact that Romney won the governorship in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the most liberal of all the states, speaks volumes about his broad appeal – his Reaganesque appeal, something this country vitally needs."

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ugh...ok

[Chris]

"his Reaganesque appeal"

Mr Flip Flopper couldn't hold a candle to Ronald Reagan.

[Liberty or Death]

If he supports keeping taxes low, reigning in spending and fighting Islamic fascism, then he is someone i can support.

Couldn't care less about his past, current or future views on abortion and i couldn't care less what his religious views are.

Mitt is an impressive guy. He has the resume, the personality, and the look. He is the best logical choice.

Embrace the flip-flopper. Republican hypocrisy is alive and well. One thing you can always depend on.

I really like McCain and that is who I had intended on voting for... but now that it looks like McCain will not make it until the FL Primary, I am leaning Romney.

if he flp flops on one issue, can we be certain that he will not flip flop on other issues?

Those critical of flip flopping - who are you supporting? All the candidates running have changed positions. They all live in glass houses.

Yeah, the minute that guy gets elected prez is when I hightail it the hell out of the U.S. Anyone that straps an Irish Setter in a crate to the top of their car for a 6 hour drive is a nutcase. If America elects Clark W. Griswold then it's over.

dear romney staffer (954)

just because a person has the "look" doesn't mean he should be president! and personality??? are you for real...the last two presidents have had "great personalities"! need I say more?

And then you bundled the whole comment up with anen more silly quote- "he is the best logical choice"??? are you kidding me? you use two subjective points and conclude an objective declaration? Sound logic there I tell ya..

10:05

and that glass house would be the same one you lived in last presidential cycle, and those stones you tossed were at kerry.

9:31 and 10:05

Reagan "flipped" on many of the same issues Romney has. How short the GOP memory is...much like I imagine they will "forget" that Pruitt told them to give back any money from the Builders or any related PAC.

Romney wins the early states, rides it to the nomination, and then loses the presidency.

in the words of Sen. Benson-

I have met Reagan, and you (romney) are not Reagan!

[Carl Domino]

Rudy won in that Reuplican stronghold of NYC?

I heard the Alabama Incest Gazette endorsed Oedipus Rudy over the dude named after a baseball glove!

Mitt doesn't have a chance. No matter how much Mormon money he throws into this race, he will NOT be President. He is a flip-flopper who is so cintemptuous of the electorate, he doesn't even bother to make a coherent argument for his fli-flops:

He was pro-choice, but talk of cloning made him pro-life. What would cloning have to do with abortion? In what mind does that make sense?

I see red when somebody insults my intelligence.

Romney is another well-heeled piece of trash who enthusiastically supports the Bush/Cheney calamity in Iraq. Of course, like so many Republican posters on this blog, it is so easy to support that invasion when one has absolutely no family investment in it.
Name one of Romney's extended family serving in Iraq. Name one of Anne Voss' family serving in Iraq. You can't, because these people keep their sons and daughters out of harm's way while they make sure that our over-stretched military is forcibly pushed into third, fourth and fifth tours of duty in Iraq.

Republicans should travel some, find out what people all over the world are saying about Bush and the Americans.
And we wonder why tourists from overseas are not coming here in the numbers that they were...

hahahahahahaha...romney tried his best to screw up massachusetts. now he's taking his act on the road.

you needed to travel around the world before bush- they hated us then too. Something about us making every other country like america

where can i buy some fancy mormon underpanties?

11:33 NEWSFLASH: The world did not start when Bush was elected President. The underdeveloped world has hated (envied?) us for generations.

In the developed countries, only the French bear such enmity. That's so they can avoid being grateful for our saving their A__ twice in the 20th. century andbthen scraping them off the economic floor with the Marshall Plan.

[Roaring 20's]

Has anyone ever read this paper? It's not even a daily. It's circulation is less than my email list that I use for forwards. And it also happens to be nut-case-right-wing. As a Republican, that is a term I generally hate, but in this case it is true. For all the whining we as GOP voters do about liberal media, this paper is more to the right than ANY liberal newspaper is to the left.

I'm only surprised they didn't hold out for Ron Paul or Tom Tancredo.

A VOTE FOR ROMNE IS A VOTE FOR
- abortion / or banning abortion 9depends on time, audience);
- gay rights / pink triangles all around (again, depending on audience, time);
- women as secong class citizens (after all the Book of Mormon sees them as subordinate to their husbands).

If that paper is so small and so right-wing, why DID they go with Romney? Did they let loose with some more Mormon money?

11:52, NEWSFLASH - numbers don't lie.
Take a trip outside the u.s. sometime.
I realize that you are a partisan republican, but you still may have a chance to learn something useful.

It doesn't matter who the repiglicans pick as their nominee. Hillary will beat him like a rented mule in the debates and then ride it all the way to the White House.

Hillary/Obama '08

It doesn't matter who the repiglicans pick as their nominee. Hillary will beat him like a rented mule in the debates and then ride it all the way to the White House.

Hillary/Obama '08

Untrue. Americans will reject communism in '08

Hillary and Obama the two most unqualified people to ever run for president. Also the most overhyped.

11:52 I realize coherence is not part of the Dempcrat playbook, but to what numbers are you referring?

Third world nations hate us and always have. Those who have traveled, who read or who know some history know that. I have and I do. The phrase "Yankee Go Home" did not originate during the Civil War.

Hillary is already going at the "politics of personal destruction" against Obama.

But she has to take it easy, or her own will call her a racist.

"Untrue. Americans will reject communism in '08"

And the evangelicals will reject Mitt the Mormon, Rudy, who married his cousin for crying out loud, and McCain, who's old and tired. I guess that leaves you all with Fred Thompson, the laziest man in the Senate.

12:47 I didn't realize how Anti-religion, anti-gay and ageist Democrats really are. Thanks for showing us all.

H stands for hypocrisy. She can't open her mouth that she doesn't come off as a total phony. She won't be President, but she may be the biggest spoiler in history.

What, when rumors about Hillary's alleged lesbian tendencies and Barack's alleged ties to terrorism have been bandied about by you repigs for months now? It doesn't make any difference to me what your sexual preferences or religious preferences are. Or how old you are for that matter. I just think it's hilarious the way your party's politicians are playing you all for fools, that's all. In the words of the great communicator, here we go again.

And yet, 12:47; 12:59 it is YOU who "dissed" raligion, sexual preference and age.

Hey, at 12:59, I bet some of your best friends are gay old ministers... -)

Typical Democrat: when the pejudices come out and somebody calls you on it, you run and hide.

[Bruce Cotton]

I'm just amazed that my home town..."paper" endorsed a Republican. New Smyrna isn't known for electing republicans to any elected office, so this is a huge shift in political dynamics.

Dems beware, if this little democratic hotbed tourist town is going pub, you should start worrying now...LOL

laziest that is all you can come up with for Fred Thompson. Hillary wants a communist state look at her "shared Properity"

Fred Thompson is irrelevant. He has no real name. He will need money to distinguish himself from the other Thompson who's been running. He doesn't have any money, and he is still not officially "in". And the primary is 6 months out.

Bruce, I'd be doing the worrying if I were you. Haven't you wondered WHY a little-known paper would endorse a less-well known candidate who doesn't register beyong the single digits in Florida?

What did Mitt/who do for them?

New Smyrna Beach may be full of Democrats, but many of those Ds are also staunch bible-Thumpers. Romney may have bamboozled them.

[Bruce Cotton]

You guys don't know New Smyrna very well..LOL..The D's there are a lot of things, bible thumpers they are not for the most part.

If that were the case they would have elected quite a few pubs who have run to the right over the years. Instead they tend to go for mainstream D's.

But as long as they vote R I'll takem em..LOL

hey, 11:54 a.m.-
from my New Testament:

Ephesians 5:24
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Ron Paul Tops McCain in Cash on Hand
Share July 06, 2007 1:14 PM

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Though often regarded as a longshot candidate for president, Republican Ron Paul tells ABC News that he has an impressive $2.4 million in cash on hand after raising an equal amount during the second quarter, putting him ahead of one-time Republican frontrunner John McCain, who reported this week he has only $2 million in the bank.

In an exclusive interview taped Friday and airing Sunday on "This Week," Paul said his campaign is on a better trajectory than McCain's.

"I think some of the candidates are on the down-slope, and we're on the up-slope," said Paul.

Paul's cash on hand puts him in third place in the Republican field in that important metric, although he is well behind leader Rudy Giuliani, who has $18 million in the bank, and Mitt Romney, with $12 million.

Paul, who polls show with support in the low single digits, said his surprisingly strong fundraising is the best measure of his support.

"I think people have underestimated the number of people in this country who are interested in a freedom message," says the Republican congressman from Texas, who has strong libertarian leanings.

Romney could probably win mayor of New Smyrna Beach, but thats about as far as his candidacy will go in Florida.

Thank God Giuliani is running. Hopefully the right wing kooks won't run him off. He's our only hope against another Clinton administration.

2:33...I don't think that's even a lock...LOL