Sunday, May 22, 2011

Mitt Romney visits South Carolina.

H/T Jayde Wyatt at MRC

He started off with a visit with local business leaders gathered at Meetze Plumbing where he was accompanied by Nathan Ballentine a South Carolina Representative from the Irmo/Chapin Area.
Mitt Romney spoke to a button-downed group of small business owners Saturday in the early primary state of South Carolina, but with frequent nods to the Constitution and states' rights, he sounded like he might have been at ease addressing a Tea Party rally instead.
Romney, who donned jeans and rolled-up shirtsleeves for his first visit to South Carolina as a potential Republican presidential candidate, questioned President Barack Obama’s understanding of the role of government and basic economic matters.
“I believe in the Constitution,” Romney said. “I believe in what the Constitution said, that the government that would deal primarily with citizens at the local level would be local and state government, not the federal government. I don’t think the president respects states like I do.”
“I respect the rights of states to come up with their owns answers and their own solutions to compete with one another,” he added.
The full story is HERE.

Romney treated the guests at his gathering with BBQ and all the fixings from Farm Boys Restaurant that he and his staff had purchased earlier:



Recent polls (1, 2) suggest that in the absence of Mike Huckabee as a candidate in 2012, Mitt Romney has an excellent chance of winning that states GOP Presidential Primary.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Reports out of South Carolina say 40 people showed up to his rally.

Mitt the Flip Flopper can really draw a crowd!!! Ha Ha!

Anonymous said...

Ha Ha. Huntsman just called Romney a phony! I couldn't agree more!

Visiting a gun shop here, Jon Huntsman took a shot at Mitt Romney.

Huntsman stopped by Riley's Gun Shop, a familiar stop on the first-in-the-nation primary campaign trail, to talk to employees and check out the merchandise. After inspecting rifles on the wall, Huntsman said he was a hunter, and explained that though he had not hunted recently, he had been around guns "my entire life."

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Asked by POLITICO what he hunted, Huntsman took only a second to reply.

"Oh... large varmints," Huntsman said with a smile.

It was a veiled swipe at Romney, who in 2008 struggled to explain his own relationship with hunting and guns — eventually acknowledging that his hunting was limited to "varmints."

"Small" varmints, specifically.

"I'm not a big-game hunter. I've made that very clear," Romney said in April 2007. "I've always been a rodent and rabbit hunter. Small varmints, if you will."

He was trying to explain a comment he had made in New Hampshire, when he called himself a "lifelong hunter."



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55417.html#ixzz1N5ypDgkr

Anonymous said...

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

BOSMAN said...

Anon,

"Reports out of South Carolina say 40 people showed up to his rally."

It doesn't matter how many attended this particular gathering.

You see, It's QUALITY not quantity.
Mitt's on a fundraising tour. Last week he spent the day in Texas. Had a small gathering there as well.

LEFT WITH $600,000!

Sometimes, "GOOD THINGS come in small packages.

BOSMAN said...

Poor anon.....have a favorite do you that is to chicken to get in?.....AWE....that's to bad.

YAH know, if ya gonna cut & paste, dress it up a bit. That's the same drabby bull shit that's pasted around every time Romney wins another poll, or someone on major TV talks about his organization and all BIG MONEY he's bringing in.

It's always good to put your best face forward. Even if it does resemble a horse's ass.

Noelle said...

Every appearance I've seen by Romney he has impressed me. I'm glad that I get to see these clips and videos of his campaign appearances. Thanks, Bosman, for posting this.

Romney 2012

Anonymous said...

John McCain is my senator. Talk about underhanded tactics! I don't think I would accuse Romney of things that John McCain has become a master of. McCain certainly was not Romney's victim; it might even have been the other way around!

AZ

Anonymous said...

Sorry, I forgot to mention John McCain, Charlie Crist, and Florida in 2008. Underhanded tactics, indeed!

AZ

Anonymous said...

This guy is awesome. He's gonna focus a whole month on a particular weighty issue to make sure his message and his specific plan reaches as many people as possible. He is serious about turning America around, hearing him discuss more specifics is exciting to me, and I love how he's running his campaign so far
MikeZ.

Revolution 2012 said...

I agree Mike. Mitt is pacing himself and will present specifics on major issues in a timely fashion.

He realizes that the economy is his big strength, so Mitt will chip away at misconceptions of him in other areas.

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