Mitt Romney in Iowa

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Travels with Mitt: On the Road in Iowa

Iowa Republican Platform

• Mar 22, 2007; Former Iowa Christian Alliance Director Joe Earle Joins Romney For President
• Mar 15, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney Names Senator Stewart Iverson As Adviser To Iowa Campaign
• Mar 14, 2007; Romney for President Names Iowa County Chairs
• Jan 30, 2007; Governor Mitt Romney Names Additions to Iowa Leadership and Staff

Links

1. http://iowansforromney.blogspot.com/

Mitt Romney 2008 Announcement Des Moines Iowa

Governor Mitt Romney was joined by Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) during his visit to western Iowa on Thursday where he met with local activists and caucus goers for a luncheon. They later traveled to Onawa, IA for a coffee break with area Republicans.

On Monday, February 19, Governor Mitt Romney and his wife Ann traveled to Iowa to meet with local area residents and community leaders at the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce. They were later joined by Congressman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) as Governor Romney delivered the keynote speech at the Sioux County Lincoln Day Dinner in Orange City, IA.

Governor Romney traveled to Des Moines, IA, Wednesday where he met with Republican Legislators at the Iowa State Capitol before traveling to Pioneer Hybrids in Johnston, IA, for a tour and meeting with employees. Romney ended the day with the opening of the Iowa campaign headquarters in Urbandale, IA and hosted the second "Ask Mitt Anything" Town Hall Meeting by telephone.









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Best Speech yet?

Well there is a new entry to my list of Romney speeches. Click here to go directly to see the latest CPAC speech . As always (on my site), clicking on the word Education from the text of his speech will bring you to all the Romney "Education" Press Releases and quotes and stuff that I have found so far.

Today I also added something to my criticism of Romney page. The new addition is the accusation that, " Romney raised fees in Massachusetts." Have you guys heard this? You never hear people say what fees he raised. But aren't consumption taxes better than income taxes? Besides was Romney the person who raised fees or did cities raise fees? You never hear specifics...

Besides Romney's record on taxes is the best of the 2008 candidates by far. You need to go no farther than here to see that. Look at his record from 2002 on through today. It is awesome.

Contrast that to Rudy's. NYC debt rose by $16 billion during his tenure in office to a total of $43 billion, and by the end of his term New Yorkers were paying around $6 billion a year in interest alone. His record on debt screams incompetence.

As always, I am looking for additional info! Please help me if I forgot something...

~ Mike

The Media

The Media

This article says the following:

-In his Senate race, he wrote a letter promising a gay Republican group he would be a stronger advocate for gays and their rights than his liberal opponent, Edward M. Kennedy. Now he emphasizes his opposition to gay marriage and civil unions.

Why does the media keep repeating this lie about Romney? When he ran for governor in 2002, Romney declared his opposition to both same-sex marriage and civil unions. Click here for a link to a 2002 article that explains this.

There is no change. Why is it that the media attacks Romney over non existing flip-flops, but does not attack Hillary of her support, and now opposition to the war?

It often seems that journalist would rather cause problems, than fix them . They don't even try to give an accurate portraits of what Romney believes. But this is not new. Journalist tend to over simplify things. Else why do they summarize the president's speech, when you can read the whole thing online. Why do they have to put it into their own words? Ego?

Edward R. Murrow said; "The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one ." I actually disagree with this. I think it is obvious when you have crossed the line into persecution. When you don't follow journalistic standards. When you don't treat all the candidates the same. When you oversimplify someone's position, when you misrepresent someone's position... these are all examples of persecution.

Thomas Jefferson has said; "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle." This is, of course, an exaggeration, but what would motivate TJ to say this? Newspapers are not motivated by finding truth. They are motivated by selling adds. Controversy sells readers. Newspapers promote controversy (just like Eminem). But it is more than just saying, journalist will have more stories to write about if there is more conflict is in the world . Ads are sold by conflict, but they are also sold by reassuring the reader what they already believe. Thus newspapers in liberal areas tend to attack conservatives, and newspapers in Red States tend to attack liberals. But which came first? The chicken or the egg? Did the liberal newspapers cause liberals to become liberal, or does the newspaper follow the liberals?

Others have observed that the media likes to start fights. H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) has said; "All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else."

So the newspapers will not help us figure out who we need in 2008. They will never sit down and do a thorough analysis of both sides of each issue. They will just miss-quote and misrepresent each side just enough to keep both sides angry. So what are we to do? We should go around them. We should sit down and figure out for ourselves.

Is Mitt Romney a flip-flopper? In the next two years, you will never see the media try to figure this out. You will just hear them use whatever names they can get to stick. So lets figure it out ourselves. Please help me compile all the reasons to agree or disagree that Mitt Romney is a flip-flopper. I will, unlike the media, present both sides.

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/flip-flop

I look forward to your comments, and will add whatever people tell me to add. I won't silence you, by ignoring your logic (like the media). I will silence you buy bringing up good reasons to disagree with you.

~ Mike

Michigan, Iowa, Alabama, and Detroit Photos

Presidential candidate and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney holds a press conference before speaking to Michigan Republicans during the Michigan GOP Convention in Grand Rapids, Mi. on Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007. (AP Photo/Adam Bird)

 

Former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, left, and wife Ann listen to the Pledge of Allegiance before his speech at the Missouri Republican Party's 108th Lincoln Days gathering Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007 in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Bill Boyce)

 

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses members of the Alabama Republican Party, Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listens to Lawrence Johnson, director of the Center for Crops Utilization Research at Iowa State University, after a tour Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007, in Ames, Iowa. (AP Photo/Steve Pope)

Republican Mitt Romney meets with the media after addressing the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. Romney used the first major policy speech of his fledgling presidential campaign to promote permanent tax cuts, portable health insurance and free and open markets. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Governor Mitt Romney Speech Transcripts:

I would like to maintain the most comprehensive list of Romney speech transcripts on the internet. If I missed any, and you know the password, please add them to this page:

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Speeches

Or if I missed any, and you have the info, please e-mail it to me.

2007

• 01-23-07; Excerpts from Governor Mitt Romney's Remarks at the Seventh Annual Herzliya Conference

2006

• 09-05-2006; ROMNEY DENOUNCES KHATAMI VISIT TO HARVARD, Declines to provide escort, or offer state support for trip

2005

• 05-17-2005; Oral Testimony of Governor Mitt Romney House Committee on Education and the Workforce
• 06-03-2005; NH Federation of Republican Women's Lilac Dinner
• 09-07-2005; Homeland Security: Status of Federal, State, and Local Efforts

2004

• 05-04-2004; Lessons Learned from Security at Past Olympic Games
• 05-23-2004; Commencement address to the students of Suffolk University
• 05-24-2004; Grading Progress on Homeland Security: Before and After 9/11
• 09-01-2004; Republican National Convention

2003

• 02-25-2003; Governor Mitt Romney's 2003 State of the Commonwealth Address
• 05-13-2003; Deshpande Center Idea Stream Symposium
• 05-15-2003; Investing in homeland security: Challenges facing state and local government.
• 05-15-2003; Statement of Governor Mitt Romney COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS before the GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE UNITED STATES SENATE
• 06-17-2003; "First Responders: How States, Localities and the Federal Government Can Strengthen Their Partnership to Make America Safer"
• 06-02-2003; Testimony on an Act to Reform, Restructure, and Revitalize Government
• 06-17-2003; First Responders: How States, Localities, and the Federal Government Can Strengthen Their Partnership to Make America Safer.
• 10-23-2003; Grading Progress on Homeland Security: Before and After 911

State of the State Speeches

• 01-18-2006; Governor Romney's State of the Commonwealth Address in 2006 State of the Commonwealth speech
• 01-13-2005 ; Focusing on education, calls for more accountability, help in troubled urban districts in 2005 State of the Commonwealth speech
• 01-15-2004, Romney focuses on Education in 2004 State of the Commonwealth speech
• 02-25-2003; Governor Mitt Romney's 2003 State of the Commonwealth Address

Governor Mitt Romney and President Ronald Reagan

Quotes from Governor Mitt Romney about President Ronald Reagan

2004

• "It is appropriate and fitting to set aside a day to honor the memory of Ronald Reagan, who inspired the nation with his optimism and belief in the greatness of the American people. He led the nation with vision, courage and humor and defended freedom and democracy around the world."
• Governor Mitt Romney, 06-08-2004 Press Release

• "And if you think that during the great national policy debate of the 1980's, Ronald Reagan was wrong and Ted Kennedy was right, then by all means send in John Kerry."
• Governor Mitt Romney, 09-01-2004 2002 Republican Convention

2005

• "I believe people who are in a position of visibility and leadership affect the character of young people and individuals who look to them as leaders. And in some respects just as important as their policies and positions is there character and their substance. What for me makes people like Teddy Roosevelt and Franklin Roosevelt and John Adams and George Washington and Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan such extraordinary leaders is that they had integrity through and through. What they were on the inside and what they said on the outside was harmonious. There a lot of people like that. I think that if people try to live a very different personal life not consistent with the role they've assumed as a governor or senator or president, we lose something as a nation."
• Governor Mitt Romney, The Atlantic (September 2005)

• Ronald Reagan is one of my heroes," Romney said as he praised Reagan's strategy for winning the Cold War: We win; they lose."
• Governor Mitt Romney, Source

• "Ronald Reagan is also my hero and a friend of all of ours…I believe that our party's ascendancy began with Ronald Reagan's brand of visionary and courageous leadership."
• Governor Mitt Romney, Speech in South Carolina (February 2005)

• "And for all those people, for all those people like myself who yearn for world peace, don't forget that a strong America is peace's best ally. As Ronald Reagan said, he said, I saw four wars start in my lifetime and not one of them was started because America was too strong. We have a president who is committed to defending this land and to spreading liberty throughout the world and we are firmly behind him. We just had a--we recently just had a visit from Shimon Peres of Israel. He said America is unique in the world and plays a unique role. In the history of the world, he said, when wars are fought, they're fought over land and the victor takes land. But when America has been drawn into war and when millions of its sons and daughters' lives have been taken, it asks for nothing in return. No land did we take from Germany, no land did we take from Japan. In fact we invested in their countries to preserve their liberty, because we recognize their liberty and their freedom provides freedom for us and the entire world. This is a nation which is unusual in the history of the world, it is unique, and this is a nation which helps preserve the peace of the entire planet. And I'm proud and privileged to know that we have such great militrary and such great leadership carrying out and fulfilling that promise."
• Governor Mitt Romney, 06-03-2005, NH Federation of Republican Women's Lilac Dinner

2006

• "Well, I think people in this country want a person of faith to lead them as their governor, as their senator, as their president. I don't think most people care what brand of faith they have. And I don't believe that that's been an issue for me in my race for governor. It wasn't an issue, I believe, serious, for John Kennedy when he ran for president. People said oh, gosh, Ronald Reagan, he's been an actor who's been divorced, you can't elect him. Those things, I think, get swept away as people get to know the individual, understand their character, their vision, their values, and I think that's true regardless of a person's faith if they are a faithful person."
• Governor Mitt Romney, 02-27-2006 Interview with CHRIS WALLACE on FNS

• "When I was running for office for the first time in 1994, I was trying to define who I was, not who I wasn't. I was trying to define that I was an individual who had his own views and perspectives and I wasn't a carbon copy of someone else. I've said since, and continue to reiterate, that one of my heroes is Ronald Reagan. I've been asked time and again in interviews, who are your heroes? And I mention Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower among others as some of my favorite heroes, and I feel that deeply. But I am a different person than any other person and my interest is, of course, looking forward to defining who I am. Of course, now there's no need for me to try to define myself in reference to others. I've got a record. And people can look at my record and see, for instance, that when people were clamoring to raise taxes in Massachusetts, I said "no" and we held the line on taxes, and held the line and borrowing, and we balanced our budget. They can see that I vetoed literally hundreds of line items in budgets because I thought there was too much spending. They can see that I fought for better schools. They can see that I fought for a better environment. And they can recognize that a lot what Ronald Reagan was doing I'm also doing. So I'm pretty proud to follow in his legacy, if you will, recognizing, of course, that there's some differences. He's just a lot better than anyone else I know."
• Governor Mitt Romney, Human Events, Robert B. Bluey, 12-28-2006, http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18683

• Now of course there's some big differences between Massachusetts and New Hampshire as well. There is this affection that some people in Massachusetts have for toll booths. I don't understand it. This Memorial Day weekend my wife and I waited in the toll booth line at the Hampton tolls for just about half an hour. And I have a message for your Democratic governor. Tear down that wall.
• Governor Mitt Romney

• "I believe people will see that as governor, when I had to examine and grapple with this difficult issue, I came down on the side of life. I know in the four years I have served as governor I have learned and grown from the exposure to the thousands of good-hearted people who are working to change the culture in our country. I'm committed to promoting the culture of life. Like Ronald Reagan, and Henry Hyde, and others who became pro-life, I had this issue wrong in the past."
• Governor Mitt Romney, NRO Interview 12-14-2006

• "Not really. Not at this stage. You know its possible that there will come some point were there is a question that galvanizes interest and there is an occasion to say something that cuts through the confusion that may develop but at this stage it is kind of hard to predict what will happen. I mean I remember in the race with Ronald Reagan, it was in his debate that he said, "I'm not going to let your youth and inexperience become an issue in this campaign". That sort of put aside his age issue. And there may well be something of that nature. I just don't think Americans will do something the constitution forbids. The constitution says that no religious test shall ever be required for qualification for office in these United States, and I don't think my party or the American people would ever do that."
• Governor Mitt Romney, discussing his religion on the Charlie Rose Show. Was asked, "John Kennedy, we remember, looked for and found a venue where he could talk about his catholic faith. The Houston ministry is a very famous speech that he gave. Would you look for and are you looking for a place were you can make a statement like this and are you looking for the right place and time?"

Press Releases from Governor Mitt Romney about President Ronald Reagan

06-08-2004, ROMNEY DECLARES JUNE 11th DAY OF HONOR FOR PRESIDENT REAGAN

Comparisons Between Governor Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan

"Romney had a genuine conversion on the abortion issue," French acknowledged. "In that he is no different than Ronald Reagan." He might have added George H.W. Bush, who was embraced by pro-lifers in 1988 despite a pro-choice past. Source: http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10274

Mitt does not appear to have any skeletons in his closet. He is likely to remind many people of Ronald Reagan with his easy-going attitude. Sourece: http://thetemplarpundit.blogspot.com/2005/06/2008-profile-mitt-romney.html

Mr. Romney could be an attractive presidential candidate. His sunny disposition puts one in mind of Ronald Reagan--he laughs easily and smiles almost continuously. He is a governor, as four of the past five presidents were; but he can claim more international experience than most state executives. In addition to his work on the Olympics, he has served on the federal Homeland Security Advisory Council, chairing its working group on intelligence and information sharing. Source: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007755

See Also:

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Ronald-Reagan

from Iowa: "For me and others, interest in Romney ended when we discovered he's one of those weird underwear-wearing Mormons"

http://state29.blogspot.com/2006/05/robotic-looking-special-underwear.html

Re: "I don't get why some Republicans like Mitt Romney, the Governor of Taxachewshits. For me and others, interest in Romney ended when we discovered he's one of those weird underwear-wearing Mormons."

Here is an example of one person, in his own words, explain why he would not vote for a Mormon. Apparently no one from the Mormon religion is good, and everyone from the Mormon religion is bad.  

Re: "Look at the dude. Lantern-jawed, excellent physical shape, jet black hair with graying temples, crisp suit, and too long in the tanning booth. He's a caricature of your slick and soulless politician."

So we can judge people by there looks now? Should we only vote fore people that are out of shape? That don't have gray hair? That don't tuck their shirts in? If you want to hate someone, you can say they don't have a soul. You can say they are no longer people. That makes it easy to hate them.  However, everyone on this planet has a soul no matter how hard you try to demonize them.

re: "Anyway, according to the Boston Glob, Romney was in Iowa this past weekend giving a commencement speech at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. You remember Coe College , right? It's the place that hosted a huge anti-Semitic conference last year. Freaks!"

Allright, so you start off your post with some of the most hateful bigoted stuff I have ever heard, and then you get mad at anti-Semitics, and try to somehow say that Mitt is Anti-Semitic because of a protest that was there last year? It is very ironic that none of the anti-mitt sites allow people to post comments.

What an idiot.

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)



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