From Deseret News archives:
Despite speculation about 2012, Romney focuses on GOP in '08
McCain chose Palin, Alaska's governor, over Romney and other contenders for the No. 2 spot on the ticket. But the increasing likelihood she won't be elected vice president means the Republican nomination may be up for grabs four years from now.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor claimed by Utahns as a favorite son candidate before he dropped out of this year's presidential race, appears to be positioning himself for another run for the White House.
According to his spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney has done 20 events for the GOP ticket since April including seven since the GOP convention and more than double that for other Republican candidates around the country.
The former leader of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City also has contributed more than $375,000 from his Free and Strong America political action committee to a variety of conservative candidates and causes.
Those causes include California's Proposition 8, which would reverse that state's Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage there earlier this year. Romney donated $10,000 to the National Organization for Marriage, Fehrnstrom said.
"The governor feels strongly that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, and one of the most high-profile fights on this subject is happening in California," Fehrnstrom said.
The contribution from Romney, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is "completely unconnected" to the church's own involvement in the issue, Fehrnstrom said.
He said Romney has also given $5,000 to help defeat the "Sensible Marijuana Policy Initiative" on the Massachusetts ballot this November. That initiative would decriminalize possession of less an ounce of marijuana.
And Romney came up with $50,000 for Michigan's "demoralized" state Republican party to help GOP candidates there after the McCain campaign conceded the state, he said. Michigan was Romney's most important win in the GOP primary.
Fehrnstrom outlined the governor's activities after being asked to respond to an anonymous blog posting on the conservative American Spectator Web site that labeled Romney "anti-Palin."
The posting suggested that unnamed former Romney staffers now working for McCain are spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, including that she is a diva and that Romney was only willing to travel for McCain if the national media were covering him.
Not true, Fehrnstrom said, calling the posting "totally preposterous."
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