Romney not on ticket, but still active

I would so loved to have had the security of Mitt Romney as our next president. He has such great leadership qualities. I have not yet decided to vote for McCain. His history is still unclear. Staff people that work with / for him on "The Hill" say he is tempermental and often vulgar and condesending in his speech. That tells me he really doesn't respect people much. The few people that I know that have worked with/around Romney considered it a privledge. Hmmmmm.

I would prefer Romney to McCain also, but I'll take Romney's lead to support a McCain/Palin ticket to protect the nation from an Obama/Biden socialistic platform.

this Maryland mom wanted the experience that Romney could have brought to the Mccain ticket. His choice of Palin shows that Mccain is out of touch with what the country needs and wants. Poll after Poll showed the clear choice from the republicans. we wanted Romney as his running mate. We wanted the experience Romney could bring to the table. Mccain's pick has lost the race. He has himself to blame.

Loved Mitt here in Tallahassee, FL. A lot of us worked very, very hard for him. As you recall, the Florida Primary was too close to call. Our Governor decided to endorse McCain the Saturday before the Primary and it made enough of a difference to give the state to McCain. Up until the last minute Gov. Crist took the
position that he was staying out of the race and not endorsing anyone. Statewide chair for Mitt was Jeb Bush' Lt. Governor, Toni Jennings. Tallahassee chair was Sally Bradshaw, Jeb's COS. Now I wonder what made Gov. Crist flip flop on his position? A lot of theories persist on his motives. Huckabee and Crist ganged up on Mitt in West Virginia and combined their delegates to freeze Mitt out. I wonder why they did that? In spite of all this Mitt continues to support the McCain candidacy and the party. Those Mormons stay true to their comitments don't they?

And well, if he had picked Romney nothing like a unplanned Teen pregnancy would haunt McCain like Palin's daughter...but I guess capturing the evangelical vote is far more important then trying to win an election eh McCain?

Mitt be da man! I think America has lost a great opportunity this time around. I have known Sen McCain and I think he is a good man. I think his VP pick was outstanding. I hate to say it, but I think Gov Palin is a superb pick.

There is no doubt where I will vote....experience, authentic and a real person that can make a decision.

Gov Palin has been the head of numerous organizations....Mayor, Gov, head of State Energy Commission. Sen Obama has run as head of Mr Aires (convicted Terrorist) organization and nothing else....Senator for 4 years, giving speeches doesn't make you a leader. Sen Biden has never run anything...more speeches. Both empty suits with radical agendas.

Wears the beef...there is only one decision to make....pretty clear.

The more I see of Gov Palin and family, I think the word that comes to mind is Authentic and Results oriented.

Go McCain/Palin....

You go Romney and we will pray that this country wakes up by 2012.
We so need you at the helm. Let them say what they will. He is a builder, a rock and he will just keep on serving this nation with all he has.
We need more good men.

There are many of us that are quite disappointed that Mitt Romney was not selected by McCain. I find him to be the most qualified out of all the candidates and their running mates. I am a conservative Republican who will more than likely sit this one out. This saddens me deeply, but, I can't imagine voting for McCain. He's a great American, but not the person I want as President.

We all voted John McCain as our Republican pick, knowing that he can be crude, harsh, short tempered, childish with poor judgment. Does this not surprise you?

While I am really impressed with Gov. Romney, I am thrilled that Sen. McCain did not choose him and instead chose Gov. Palin. It shows Senator McCain's decision making abilities (or lack thereof).

In the meantime, why did Gov. Romney morph into this right wing caricature when he was perfectly agreeable while he was our governor? He should be smart enough to know that the current Republican party does not have a place for him given his religion. He would win hands down if he ran as a fiscally conservative democrat.

Have been saddened for several months now that my fellow citizens have found fault with a good man (Mitt Romney) and his religion. We still act like children. He would have been one of the top presidents this nation has ever had. He is honest, kind, humble, caring, smart, articulate and non-judgmental about other people's religion. As for his flip-flopping, I only know what I have read. But you reading this comment of mine know in your heart that you have changed your mind several times on issues and principles. We all change. We experience. We grow. Our nation made a huge mistake in judging Mitt Romney the way they did. I am really scared now of what is going to happen to our nation. May God bless us all. We let a good Christian man slip through our fingers.....a man who deserved our greatest respect. We blew it. Why are we so blind to that which is good?

McCain gets a short term gain, long term liability with Palin. He was able to minimize The DNC convention and Obama's speach bump in the polls with lots of buz with his choice of Palin as VP, but in the long this choice will loose him the election because:

1) Palin will not turn out enough of the Hillary voters to make a "Game" change, and the few that she will pull will come from heavy blue states - but will not be enough to turn those states red. Unfotunatly Hillary supporters will see this as pandering to them - but will not change their vote because Palin is pro-life and doesn't have any experience.

2) Palin will not change the vote in key states like Michigan (GOP in Michigan basically said that without Mitt they will not carry this statewin there) Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and I think will end up losing Florida over this choice. I Minnesota is no longer in play without Pawlenty.

3) McCain shot himself in the foot by picking some hardly any experience. McCain has spent the last few months attaching Obama's inexperience for President, yet he himself doesn't choose someone with experience that could potentually be our next president? To me it makes him look like a a stupid hypocrite.

Mitt Romney is another very good choice indeed for John Mccain.Whereever Romney is and whatever he does shows his intelligent and unwavering committment to support the cause he ran for the presidential campaign as a candidate.Sometimes the very best is overlooked or miscalculated by the wrong expectation sustain by political fear.

Yeah, I've decided it's time to pull up the ladder. While McCain-Romney made perfect sense as it combined the two candidates who are tailor-made to take on the two pressing issues facing us now--warfare and economic hardships--as well as the records of both men being those of cutting wasteful spending and turning around failing entities, McCain-Palin is a joke.

She has more experience than the other 3 names on the ticket? For what? Running a town of 8,700 people? Commanding the Alaskan National Guard? By being a governor for half of one term? You gotta be kidding me. Now her daughter has a babdaddy redneck? She's going to be painted as a Right Wing Psycho.

But this isn't even about her. It's about McCain. As you get older and older like he already is, you have to be paramount in who you have coming up behind you. So John McCain is telling us that if he goes down, then instead of Mitt Romney we get Sarah Palin. Hey, I've never voted Democrat and I likely never will, but I gotta be honest, if McCain kicks the bucket or if Obama gets killed, I'm sorry but I'd rather have Joe Biden than Sarah Palin. I mean, forget that McCain's entire core of criticism of Obama being inexperienced is now out the window (and now John, no one's going to buy you trying to supplement "good judgement" for Palin's inexperience as some sort of exception to the rule), the guy's entire campaign and career even is about foreign policy. He's picked the one with the least to be his VP. What's that tell you?

By picking her, McCain is either DESPERATE and feels this Hail Mary from his own 20-yard-line is the only chance he has to win. Or he is just stupid and gambling again. Or he's being that little napoleon-complexed bastard and once again taking this opportunity to thumb the eye of Republicans; showing us who has all the power. He just couldn't do the sensible thing that republicans wanted--pick Mitt for VP. The spiteful little troll just couldn't swallow his pride and do the right thing. So I'm sorry but I don't want a President who is so emotional and so erratic. John McCain's latest act of defiance is his last one for me. He's freed me from voting for him only out of hope he doesn't scurry off to advance Democrat agendas anyway.

I'll entertain writing in Mitt Romney, Reagan (since I was too young to vote for him back in the day, maybe now's a good time to log my Reagan vote), or maybe even if the race here in Florida is close, I'd consider voting for Obama just to be the maverick to John McCain. I think it's what's best to have the Republicans get totally shut out of power for a while; they deserve it. They need serious reform. They've not done what they were elected to do during the Bush terms and here we are with a government bigger than it ever was. The only indication of reform McCain has ever given republicans (aside from his anti-pork crusade, which is his best asset and he deserves praise for that certainly) is that he wants to make us more like democrats. McCain-Kennedy; McCain-Lieberman; McCain-Feingold.

Actually when I think about it, McCain's really like the epitome of the status quo: He's like Bush on the war and foreign policy, and being one of the 10% approved Senate, he's like them on everytying else. So to conclude, it's kind of funny to realize that someone's vice presidential pick can clarify why the top of the ticket is actually not qualified or deserving to be where he is.

Horrible pick. Nothing wrong with Palin per se, but McCain just elevated cultural appeal above picking the person best suited to be President in his place in the blink of an eye. Hell, Romney should've been the top of the ticket out of all the 2008 candidates as well as the 2004, 2000, and 1996 candidates.

Anyway I'm on the sidelines this time around. Voting for McCain is something I never wanted to do, and now that he stiffed Mitt Romney, I don't have to and won't. If Obama wins the Presidency and the Republicans lose even more ground in Congress like is projected, then we've hit rock bottom and meaningful reconstruction can begin. And I can think of no one else better to lead our rebuilding than Romney. He'd be the perfect foil to Obama on TV, but even more than that, before Barry's honeymoon is over (and Lord only knows how long the media would try to make that one last and last), and more importantly really, Mitt would be an ace architect at reassembling the badly broken Republican brand.

So I vote for 4 years of Obama, reform of republicans, a return to our principles, rather than awarding John McCain the Presidency since that guy has been anti-Republican and hasn't truly done much to benefit the conservative movement in the first place.

Mccains move is proving to be a mistake. He is not getting the responce that he was hoping. When it comes down to it, I think human nature took a better part of Mccain's decision. Mitt would always outshine him regardless, this decision will cost him the election. I personally think it was a very bad gamble. I have heard discribed on radio as a "Hail Mary" move. You only pull one of those when you are going to lose the game.

McCain has one chance to make a course correction. He should drop Palin and put Romney on the ticket by week's end. He can use the excuse that the Democratic hypocritical machine and liberal media has torpedoed yet another woman's chance to run for the highest political office. That can be used relentlessly against them for the next 60+ days with mega returns. He puts Romney on the ticket and while maintaining the angry women's vote he reinforces the experience factor of his ticket. Check and Check Mate!!

This strategy is called a Two-Fer. He gets two points for making one shot.

HA! Thinkaboutit, please don't be a dreamer. We all know Senator McClaim could never swallow his pride to pick Romney in the first place, much less reverse course now and do so. This is the same guy who lied to everyone about Romney secretely supporting secret timetables for Iraq withdrawal, and clung to the lie even when all the papers and pundits and people recognized it as a smear, a slander, a huge bold faced lie. In other words, he's perfectly happy to trudge along continuing the lie as if no one notices when in fact we all do. Just look at his S-eating grin. Typical politician.

We need to take our medicine and safeguard against the weaknesses in our own party. McCain only got the nomination because the conservatives were split between Romney, Huckabee, and Thompson. Fred's obviously not going to run again, and we all know Huckabee will keep coming back like cancer just to ruin Romney because the Huck specializes in religious bigotry. Our inward task over the next four years is to pacify the religious fervor of the evangelical bigots. Now it's not as bleak as it seems since Romney did get more evangelical votes than even the unchristian Baptist minister Huckabee did, and I doubt we see a field as large and fractured as we did this time around in the post-GWB era of Republican politics. Mitt's the ideal guy to lead the GOP back by conceptualizing, proposing, articulating and advancing pragmatic solutions to the ills of the day as the seasoned, accomplished leader of the out of power Republican party.

I agree. What a huge mistake to not put Mitt Romney on the ticket. I lost faith in McCain's judgement with this one. Sarah Palin over Mitt Romney? Give me a break. I only hope Mitt runs in 2012.