Mitt Romney

By Thomas Schaller His top contenders are said to include Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Less traditional choices mentioned include former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, an abortion-rights supporter, and Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice presiden...

 UK - Former Governor Mitt Romney had praised the 1913 law for its innate ability to protect the state from becoming the “Las Vegas of same-sex marriage. ...

As speculation grows that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney has emerged as a top contender to be John McCain's running mate, a vocal segment of ... Opinion nuggets: Does VP matter? Florida Times-Union Washoe is must-win ground Las Vegas Sun NewsMax.com - Los Angeles Times

By Aron Goldman Another Republican who had sought the party’s nomination, Mitt Romney, became a national figure during the primary campaign and has been an enthusiastic McCain supporter after a bitter contest. But Mr. Giuliani was a national figure long before the race began.

Mitt Romney, the object of this week’s buzz, looks great on paper (and in person). He is well versed in economics and business, which is McCain’s most ... Obama and McCain both need nominee who can deliver votes Scotsman Georgia Crisis Vaults McCain Into Top Media Slot U.S. News & World Repor...

 DC - Aug 13, 2008 Where Republican governors Bill Weld and Mitt Romney turned around dire financial situations by clamping down a Democratic legislature prone to run amuck, ...

 CA - Mitt Romney’s archaic tool in his unsuccessful bid to deny the freedom to marry to same-sex couples,” said National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Executive ...

 NY - Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty continue to top the GOP list and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina cracks the top ten after the buzz surrounding her ... Jindal seems to have lost out in Republican VP race Expressindia.com all 6 news articles

By Jim Newell Here is Mormon candidate Mitt Romney on the Morning Joe program today, being an idiot. He says Obama is “well-spoken” and “attractive” and a hot “internet date” with whom he wants to engage in coitus. But! Not presidential! (Oh and hey, Joe Scarborough, you’re pretty good here, considerin...

 United States - Governor Mitt Romney warned in 2004 that Massachusetts would become the "Las Vegas of same-sex marriage" if the law was repealed. Forty-six states ban gay ...

Boston Globe  United States - Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, but Gov Mitt Romney, a Republican, invoked the 1913 law, saying the state should not become “the Las ... Catholic News Agency - The Associated Press

By smintheus In fact, one of the few times that Fournier dedicated a column to the Republican primary battle was following the Michigan contest, which McCain lost to Mitt Romney. The win presented Romney with his one brief window of opportunity to ...

By Steve Benen “McCain and Romney would be like oil and water,” said evangelical novelist Tim LaHaye, who supported Mr. Huckabee. “We aren’t against Mormonism, but Romney is not a thoroughgoing evangelical and his flip-flopping on issues is understandable in a liberal state like Massachusetts, but o...

By Carpetbagger “McCain and Romney would be like oil and water,” said evangelical novelist Tim LaHaye, who supported Mr. Huckabee. “We aren’t against Mormonism, but Romney is not a thoroughgoing evangelical and his flip-flopping on issues is understandable in a liberal state like Massachusetts, but o...

 NY - After Massachusetts became the first state to allow gay couples to marry in 2004 then Governor Mitt Romney directed town and city clerks to enforce that law ...

 CA - Mitt Romney, a staunch opponent of same-sex marriage, had already ordered some Massachusetts cities to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples who ...

Los Angeles Times  CA - After Massachusetts became the first state to allow same-sex marriages in 2004, then-Gov. Mitt Romney ordered town clerks to enforce the then-little-known ... What's tougher to get than a same-sex marriage? A same-sex divorce Los Angeles Times all 8 news articles

By Steve Andrew Regardless of the opinion set forth by John McCain our adherence to Mitt Romney and conservative principles is firm. John McCain needs you. Not for his cause but for the good of the nation. Would you really rather vote for Obama then McCain? Think about it. Having Willard on the ticket will cert...

PinkNews.co.uk  OH - Former Governor Mitt Romney invoked the nearly forgotten law after gay marriage became legal in Massachusetts in 2004. He warned that Massachusetts could ... Video: Voters to Decide Same-sex Marriage in Calif. AssociatedPress

 IL - However, once Massachusetts legalized same-sex marriage in 2004, then-Gov. Mitt Romney began enforcing the law to prevent gay couples from coming to the ...

By lsn@LifeSiteNews.com Smith BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 11, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Massachusetts State Senate will vote as soon as Tuesday on legislation that would repeal a 1913 law used by former Gov. Mitt Romney to forbid out of state homosexual ...

On the Republican side, Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor and McCain's rival for the nomination, returns to the top, emerging as a heavy ... Video: Obama, Clinton Show Unity Again in New York AssociatedPress New York Times Blogs - Belleville News Democrat

 CA - The top stories on the site Thursday afternoon were Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney dropping out of the race, the Shuttle Atlantis launch, ...

 - REPUBLICANS: Some of Mitt Romney’s top donors say his fundraising efforts have earned him a spot on the ticket. McCain was asked if he and Romney have ... Focus on Flip-Flops: McCain CQPolitics.com all 4 news articles

By manumit Well of this reminded me of Mitt Romney’s go to guy for terrorism expertise Cofer Black (a name right out of a movie). Cofer one of BlackWater’s top guys pushes the concept of private military groups to overthrow governments and help ...

 FL - But pressure was also on Crist to choose GOP rivals Rudy Giuliani or Mitt Romney in the primary. Though Crist made the final decision, Myrtetus said, ...

ap) What's your point? Ever the tireless suitor-surrogate, Mitt Romney is making the rounds this week touting John McCain's energy program. This morning, he was on Fox News, talking up offshore drilling and -- as you might suspect from...

By email.hidden@example.com (mike) This is actually the only thing that I agree with Obama over Mitt Romney. This puts me outside the norm of the republican party today. I don't think I am hurting Romney by saying that I disagree with him on this one issue. I know that most of you agree with him and not me, but for the point of conversa...

By GAIL COLLINS Come on. Who are Barack Obama and John McCain going to choose for their running mates? I’m praying that McCain selects Mitt Romney so I can repeatedly revisit the time Mitt drove to Canada with the family dog on the station-wagon roof....

 United States - By GAIL COLLINS Who are Barack Obama and John McCain going to choose for their running mates? I’m praying that McCain selects Mitt Romney so I can ...

By Lincoln Mitchell Lastly, Mitt Romney spent a great deal of the primary season reminding voters that McCain himself has said he does not really understand economic issues. Romney was unable to take the nomination from McCain, but this accusation ...

On the Straight Talk Express Thursday, McCain declined to promise a Boston television reporter that he'd add former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney to ... McCain Wins Support as Last Best Hope of Former Republican Foes Bloomberg

 ID - You didn’t see that with Mitt Romney.” Young disagrees with his party’s officials who have either written off the Ron Paul supporters or saddled them with ...

By Erick Schonfeld Seriously, if you are interested in the behind-the-scenes story of how we got Obama, McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich to answer serious questions about technology from a blog, read the article. ...

By Tim Graham One day's photo choice does not mean much, but so many readers mentioned Page 1 photos that my assistant Jean Hwang and I looked at two months' worth of images. Between Dec. 16 and Friday [Feb. 15], Obama was on the front page 16 times; Clinton, 13; McCain, 12; Mitt Romney, 7; Rudolph Giuliani, 4...

By Denny Go McCain/Romney Go!     McCain/Romney Ticket Advocates Now Have New Web Site! A new web site was created to facilitate a McCain/Romney Ticket match-up to unite the Republican Party. The site is called ‘UNITE THE GOP.COM,’ and has “Hopes of a McCain - Romney Ticket” forming to beat the Democ...

As for EFM . . . I don’t know what’s next. I want Mitt to run again, and I do not yet know if I can support John McCain this November. I have grave differences with him on issues of real substance. But I have other, quite pressing things to attend to in my own life. Right now, God has called me to serve my coun...

By Warner Todd Huston From the “a picture says a thousands words” file, take a gander at the New York Times’ campaign graphic. It shows a happy and smiling Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama all of whom are smiling widely, showing teeth and looking quite inviting. Then comes the photo of Mitt Romney. For...

By infolution Former Gov. Mitt Romney convincingly won the Maine Republican caucus tonight with about 52% of the vote. Ron Paul scores 1st in Bergen County straw poll John Holl The Star-Ledger February 3, 2008 Andrew Malcolm LA Times February 3, 2008 Former Gov. Mitt Romney

By Gary Shumway And it’s also true that Thompson and Giuliani didn’t really campaign seriously in Michigan. Or New Hampshire. Or Iowa except for a last-minute Thompson bus tour. Obviously, both Giuliani and Thompson are intentionally laying back, trying to make the rest of the Republican field overconf...

By Matt C Mike Huckabee: Third place in New Hampshire is pretty darn respectable. Apparently it’s on to South Carolina for you, and I’m wondering about the wisdom of that. I’d be interested to see how you played in rural Michigan. Still, it’s probably going to be an all-out slugfest between McCain and...

By Ken Layne Way back in January 2000, John McCain was winning New Hampshire, George W. Bush didn’t matter, and Hillary Clinton was in the White House. So much has changed. Thanks for being part of our fun-filled New Hampshire coverage. We have more reports and video and photos and detritus that we’ll be po...

By hotlineblog(mambinder@nationaljournal.com) The Olympics CEO and future Massachusetts governor talked about his role in the Games as a waiter served a luscious spread that included sea bass, wine and mixed drinks. When it was time to go, Romney suggested that everyone visit the bathroom on the way out, since the outside temperature w...

By kripto To get a better idea of what is going on, we turn to New Hampshire. New Hampshire has a very small number of evangelical Christians, and so we can see how running as evangelical Christians impacts non evangelical Christians. In New Hampshire, Romney has an 18% point lead. As Huckabee has risen...

By Domenico Montanaro In the past, being a minister was your job. Okay, but are you quizzing Rudy Giuliani about being a lawyer? I haven’t been a pastor in sixteen years. I mean, if you want to go back sixteen years and ask Fred Thompson, “What were you doing?” I don’t mind; I just think that there’s—

July 7, 2007 -- Mitt Romney says pornography is illegal for him but not for other adults who want to see it. This ignores an important fact. For 350 years in our...

BOSTON Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney, who rails against the cesspool of pornography, is being criticized by social conservatives who argue that he should have tried to halt hardcore hotel movie offerings during his neardecade on the Marriott board.

By mboyer@ceip.org (Mike Boyer) Former Massachusetts governor and presidential contender Mitt Romney appears to be the last of the prominent staunch Mormon supporters of the war. Just last week, he said the United States should stay in Iraq "as long as there is a reasonable probability" of helping the Iraqis calm the co...