Could Mitt turn this one around?
In desperation, Republican bloggers are calling on John McCain to announce with great fanfare that Mitt Romney, the man he defeated for the GOP nomination and he passed over for vice presidential running mate, would be his Secretary of the Treasury.Politics 24/7 argues:
He took a corruption strewn, beleaguered Olympics in Salt Lake City that was losing money and turned it around . He made it one of the most secure, smooth running and profitable Olympic spectaculars in history.
Family Security Matters agrees:
To win, Sen. McCain must take a risk. He should hold a press conference as soon as possible and announce the team that will turn the economy around. . . .Sen. McCain should announce that Rudy Giuliani will be nominated as Attorney General and Mitt Romney as Secretary of the Treasury.
This would fundamentally change the race. It wouldn’t be doubling-down; it’d be all-in. This would combine the separate talents of McCain, Romney and Giuliani into one attention-grabbing conglomerate . . . .
The Hill's Pundits calls Mitt the best choice for "minister of finance."
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It would have been a great idea a month ago, about two weeks after McCain chose Sarah Palin as V.P. He was leading then, and it would have given him even more momentum. Now it looks desperate, and Romney and Giuliani know that it looks desperate. BTW, Giuliani should be at State, and Fred Thompson as AG.
Come on, Mitt is a businessman. Of the same fabric as the Wall Street types that caused this whole mess. Where does his knowledge of national and world economics come from? What he is good at is exploiting the middle class, using pension fund money, in classic business deals then cutting and running with the profits.
Naming Mitt Romney Treasury Secretary is not a move to be made out of "desperation". It is a move that should made out necessity. It is a move that is both wise due to Romney's economic prowess and due to the fact that it instills a sense of confidence in the type of people that McCain will bring to government and handle the problems we are concerned about.
It shows a contrast between McCain and Obama that needs to be drawn and raises doubt about Obama's judgment. The type of judgment that has him campaigning for communist despots in Kenya, working with radical domestic terrorists like Bill Ayers in America and sitting in the pews of Rev. Wright’s extremist, American hating, church for twenty years.
Naming Romney now, helps to demonstrate the type of people McCain will work with and raises doubts about the type of people that an Obama administration will work with in our government.
This is not desperation, it is a sound presentation of intentions. Conservatives and Republicans have nothing to fear. If Obama wins, the nation will correct it's mistake in due time. It is a point that I expand on in the following article:
Why Conservatives Do Not Fear An Obama Victory
Mitt Romney would excel at whatever task he accepted to undertake, and always his goal would be what was best for America and her people. Mitt is an exceptional leader and example to others. He has never "exploited the middle class" as per previous comment, but has instead used his talents and advantages for the greater good. John McCain could only increase his chances of success by having Mitt by his side in whatever capacity or role Mitt agreed to involve himself with. If anyone would "choose the right", it would be Mitt.
oops.......The correct link to the above referenced article is.....
Why Conservatives Do Not Fear An Obama Victory
Tribune's Bob Barr Blackout Watch: The Libertarian Party nominated Bob Barr as its presidential candidate on May 25, 2008, and 139 days later The Salt Lake Tribune finally informed its print edition readers of his candidacy.
See "McCain or Obama: Utahns want next leader to heal economy," October 11, 2008.
In the interim, the Tribune's web site administrators disabled the accounts of individuals who noted the omission of Barr's candidacy from the Tribune's national political coverage in the TribTalk forums or comments sections of SLTRIB.COM.
Barr will be on at least 45 state ballots across the United States.
Nationwide polls show Barr receiving support from between 1 to 2 percent of voters (or about 1 in 50 American voters), and up to 11 percent support in some battleground states.
Only a handful of other presidential candidates can claim the same thing.
The CEO of MediaNews (which owns the Tribune), William Dean Singleton, was a significant financial supporter of Republican U.S. President George W. Bush.
www.BobBarr2008.com
Bob Barr is an inadequate and unqualified candidate fore President. His Libertarian candidacy is one based upon tapping into anger and frustration. it is notr one that offers any realistic solutions to the cause of that anger and frustration. After years in office as a congressman, Bob Barr was inefectual, and unproductive. Such a record is evidence of his ability to make any difference and is proof that we need not to elevate the leadership or lack of leadership that he brought to us as a congressman to the office of the President.
Bob Barr is a joke!
• In 1992, the firm acquired American Pad & Paper. By 1999, the year Romney left Bain, two American plants were closed, 385 jobs had been cut and the company was $392 million in debt.
The next year, Ampad was forced into bankruptcy.
• Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs bought Dade International for about $450 million in 1994.
The firm quickly fired or relocated at least 900 workers. Over the next several years, it sunk increasingly into debt and laid off 1,000 workers.
In 2002 — after Romney had left Bain — it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• A 1997 buyout of LIVE Entertainment for $150 million resulted in 40 layoffs, roughly one in four of the company's 166 workers.
The job cuts affected all aspects of the company, from production and acquisition to legal and public relations.
• In 1997, Bain bought a stake in DDI Corp., a maker of electronic circuit boards.
Three years later, Bain took the company public and collected a $36 million payout.
But by August 2003, the company filed for bankruptcy protection, laying off more than 2,100 workers.
Four months after the bankruptcy, unhappy shareholders sued company executives, the initial public offering underwriters and Bain for mismanaging the IPO and failing to disclose company financial information. (Romney was not named in the suit.)
In March, all the defendants settled for $4.4 million.
Nor did the Trib report this very important story. Censorship abounds.
NEW MEXICO GOVERNOR BILL RICHARDSON REJECTS CHAFFETZ IMMIGRATION PROPOSAL AS ‘OFFENSIVE AND INHUMANE’
Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico today issued the following statement regarding Republican Jason Chaffetz’s immigration proposal.
Mr. Chaffetz's immigration proposal is offensive and inhumane and should be rejected out of hand. His statements do nothing more than add more of the same divisive political rhetoric that incites confrontation and does not solve the problem, and is not what the Western Governor's Association supports.
This is another graphic example of why the US needs a comprehensive immigration policy that is tough yet fair. We can have a policy that helps secure our borders while dealing in a responsible and humane way with immigrants who break our laws.
At the same time we must also resolve the status of the 12 million undocumented immigrants already here so they can become legal, productive members of our society if they learn English, follow our laws, pay fines and get in line for a path to citizenship.
Governor Bill Richardson
Chaffetz, the Republican nominee for Congress in Utah’s third district, has been under constant criticism for his proposal which calls for imprisoning undocumented immigrants into tent-cities ringed with barbed wire. Congressman Mike Honda, Chairman of the Asian/Pacific Islander caucus, issued a statement on September 9th calling it ‘an embarrassment to all Americans’.
Governor Richardson was a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for President. He has previously served as a U.S. Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the U.S. Secretary of Energy.
ALL THE "SUITS" RUNNING ARE SO OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE WORKING CLASS
AND REALITY IT ISN'T GOING TO MATTER WHO WINS. my biggest fear is obama will win though
re: Mitt S..
Glen W picked it up.
What he missed was Jason Chaffetz was misquoted, and it is only the misquote that the NM Gov condemned.
Jason has called for a federal detention facility in the west to house federal prisoners.
Only those convicted of a crime would be housed in this facility.
He concurs with the Western Governor’s Association, which passed a resolution calling for the federal government to build a facility to house its own prisoners.
Federal prisoners who are not violent criminals are often released because there is no prison space to hold them.
The detention facility would house those who are convicted of federal crimes – whether or not these people are illegal aliens.
Jason has also suggested that tent facilities similar to those in Arizona are good enough for our soldiers in Iraq and should be good enough for our federal prisoners here at home.
Jason has not said the WGA suggested tents.
Mitt Romney would be able to solve the economy problem faster than our current president, and his successors alone.
McCain would be smart to announce tomorrow that Mitt has agreed to help, as part of his team.
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