ENG: Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American businessman and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination. Romney is the son of George W. Romney (the former Governor of Michigan) and Lenore Romney. He was raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and then served as a Mormon missionary in France. He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and thereafter earned Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration joint degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. Romney entered the management consulting business which led to a position at Bain & Company, eventually serving as its CEO to lead it out of crisis. He was also co-founder and head ...
Mitt Romney kicked off his presidential exploratory committee this week in an enviable position.
Since his defeat in the 2008 GOP presidential primary, a few political friends have given generously to Romney’s political operation, providing him a financial and organizational edge as the 2012 campaign gets underway.
But donors’ generosity is not the only reason Romney’s bottom line is strong.
The former Massachusetts governor has become a master of a controversial but legal fund-raising technique that relies on a network of loosely regulated state political action ...
... the future of the Republican party
A few minutes before Mitt Romney spoke to conservative donors at a dinner hosted by the Young America's Foundation conference in Santa Barbara this month, he made a surprise appearance before a roomful of student attendees who had been squeezed out of the dinner due to lack of space."Hey, everybody!" he said. "Ho! Ho!" The 200 or so young conservatives cheered. "You are a good American!" one young man shouted. For a few minutes, the former Massachusetts governor bantered with the crowd with the ease of a stand-up comedian. He fielded questions about ...
Presidential primary politics is not, as Robert Wright might put it, always a zero sum game. Given the prevailing metaphors of political positioning and space, one candidate often fills an ideological space and displaces others -- think Pat Robertson in the 1988 Iowa caucuses. But just as often, the power of one candidate in a particular state provides an excuse for another candidate to play down the stakes.To put it one way: Mitt Romney needs to have a strong Christian conservative candidate in Iowa. Ex-AR Gov. Huckabee's grassroots supporters have been working Iowa hard, and Romney might ...
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Seize The Energy Opportunity
The discovery and production of massive deposits of gas and oil on American private land, even without a coherent White House energy strategy to develop domestic resources, has created two distinct opportunities for America. First, we have reversed the steady decline in one of America's bedrock industries -- energy.
http://triblive.com/opinion/guestcolumnist/1836280-74/energy-america-oil-gas-for... |
New Romney Ad Features Dem Mayor Corey Booker
The Romney campaign is so delighted with Corey Booker's criticism of the President's Anti-Bain capital ad, they are finishing out the afternoon with a new ad. "Have you had enough of President OBama's attacks on Free Enterprise?" reads the ad. "His own key supporters have."
http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/new-romney... |
Former Venture Capitalist Sen. Warner Defends Bain
This morning on MSNBC, former venture capitalist Sen. Mark Warner R-Va. admitted that Bain Capital was "very successful" and "did what they were supposed to do." When asked about whether attacks on private equity were fair, Warner said that he was "proud" of his previous career in the private sector but noted that public service required a "different skill set."
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Another View: Keystone Decision Is Yet Another Obama Miss
Thousands of jobs are at stake in the Keystone XL pipeline. So, too, at stake is America’s energy future. That’s why I remain shocked by President Obama’s decision not to move forward with this vital project. It is a decision that, even by Washington standards, makes little sense.
http://altoonaherald.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120522/O... |
I'm 57, female. I've been a Republican all my life until now. I just changed my party affiliation to NONE. I'm done with the Rep retoric. SICK OF IT!
