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Romney revs up Motown voters

Conservative Mormom told us he is going to vote for Huckleberry because of his conservatism. He must not have watched the Fox News Republican debate from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on Sunday night. Fred Thompson ate Huck's lunch pointing out right to his face the many, many areas in which Huck is a liberal parading in conservative clothing. Huck was speechless. The focus group named Fred Thompson the winner of the debate for revealing Huck's dual personality in such colorful terms.

Go Mitt!!

I can't believe any conservative anywhere would not vote for Mitt. He LIVES a conservative lifestyle whereas the others mainly talk about it. Who would you trust to reform Washington, negotiate with foreign leaders or set policy?

McCain's role is as an influencer but he is not a credible policy setter or executive. Huckabee has nowhere near the organizational skills or intellect of Mitt. We've never had the chance to elect a Republican president who understands business or has the intellectual strength and who also lives conservative values.

I hope he can be more articulate and passionate about his plans because he is clearly the most qualified.

Mitt Romney is the only candidate that is real... competent. I don't get all of these comments about being 'plastic'. Well plastic is the greatest invention in this past century, and Mitt Romney is the greatest product of our political, business, and educational process to run for president in the last several decades. He is obviously the most competent. Everybody admits that. Nobody can find real issues to critize him about, so we say his hair is too perfect and he is too 'plastic'. Hello! Let's wake up and support him while we still can.

The liberal media is trying to thrash him with comments like 'plastic'. I don't get it.

Mitt has the expertise to handle the economy like no one else we've ever had as president. I think we are fortunate that someone with this much business and leadership experience is willing to take on this extremely difficult and largely thankless job.

TV's Jim Kramer says in a great YouTube video that Romney is the best businessman in America. If anyone can keep the economy humming, it's Mitt.

I like everything about Romney. He is head and shoulders above the rest of the bunch. McCain and Huckabee are liberal and unappealing. Paul is a nutjob. Thompson and Guiliani both have qualities to recommend them, but no one stands out like Romney. I think he is wise and level-headed, calm under pressure, a good man with a great family. We could not do better.

Go, Mitt!

No mention of Mitt Romney's first place position with the most delegates. I'd think this newspaper would tell the whole truth. He has won one state and come in second in two. He can easily win Michigan with an economic plan. Union demands have killed the auto industry ann all that support it in so many ways. Mitt Romney has a winning record in repeated turning around failing things. Only the media, including the Deseret News, is pusing him to drop out. Union bosses might loose their big cars and fancy houses if Mitt Romney wins the presidency. Remember how Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers and dissolved the PATCO union? He did and all went smoothly including the lowering of air fares.

And just how is Romney going to rev up Detroit?
Pass laws to lower prices of cars? Talk auto workers into taking pay cuts to reduce the price of cars?
Give me a break.

So Mitt is going to resurrect Michigan's automobile industry? McCain told Michigan the truth the other day; some of the jobs are never coming back. That is the truth. But Mitt is politically appealing to yesterday. Is that an agent of change?

Mitt should ask McCain a simple question: "Since you have said that waterboarding is torture and thus illegal, if elected President will you prosecute those Americans who have been waterboarding suspects?" Inquiring minds want to know. Mitt is wishy-washy on the issue because... well... because he has never seen combat and war and service to his country?

The more I watch Mitt I realize that he is wishy-washy. The more I watch McCain, the older he looks. Gee, he is ancient. Nothing wrong with that but at age 71? he is supposed to be fully energized to run this great country? Please.

He will probably sleep through the meetings like Ronnie did. Oh well... it is still going to be a democrat year. Notice how the President is stepping in there to help out his republican buddies? Well, he would if they could just say his name just once during a speech. They don't.

Democrats-independents will win.

Huckleberry says America wants the guy who works next to 'em to be the next President, not the guy who lays 'em off. Since when do we want the "average joe" to run this country? Could politics be "dumbed down" any more by this guy?

I don't know about you, but I would prefer the "best of the best" to stand at the helm of this ship. To try to set America's sights lower in order to get votes is really pathetic. Let's set our sights higher and work to get Mitt Romney into the White House!

If Romney wins the Michigan primary, they will have good reason to call Detroit, "Motown".

I think Mitt is a good person but not necessarily the best candidate. By the way, you don't have to be a Republican or a pro-Mitt person in order to be a good Church member. This paper tends to push that agenda, and it is annoying. There are also committed LDS people in the other party.

It will be a sad day, and a lost opportunity for
America if Mitt Romney is not elected our leader.

He is a rare man. Thanks for running, Mitt,
and GOOD LUCK!

will someone help these DN writers get the story correct. Who really cares about Mr Romney - his campaign is almost over, and his religion has nothing to do with his politics!

Even Fox News is showing a negative attitude on Mitt. Their caption while talking about his campaign in Michigan mentions his poor showing in Iowa and New Hampshire. Since when is second a poor showing? Nobody says Huckabee had a poor showing in NH when he got less than half the votes Mitt got. Nobody says McCain had a poor showing in Iowa and he didn't even get half of Mitt's total there. In the primaries and caucuses held so far more people have voted for Mitt than any other candidate and he has more delegates, yet the media has practically written him off. I think they're in for a surprise.

I am a lifelong conservative and registered Republican with strong leanings toward Constitutionalism.

After a careful, near year-long review of candidates for the Republican nomination I would like to propose for the readership the potential ticket of:

Romney/Thompson '08

Romney is the clear choice, and if I were hiring him to work for me his resume is head and shoulders above the rest. This man should get the job of President of the United States.

Thompson pushes an otherwise moderate/right candidate, Mitt Romney, decidedly conservative. Remember that the V.P. is also president of the Senate and settles tie breaks. With the close majority in the senate, we want somebody like Thompson running the Senate.

Both men are of high moral character from all I can discern.

Neither have engaged in so called "attacks" against each other; unlike the back alley coalition of McCain and Huckabee vs. Romney. Thus ensuring the future possibility of such a ticket.

I could go on, but the format of this forum only allows this brief explanation.

Romney/Thompson '08

Mitt is a mud-slinging duplicitous flip-flopper.

Other than that, he's a great guy.

Dear "lifer"

...speaking of "mud-slinging"...

J, I base that upon the negative adds he directed at Huckabee in Iowa, and those he aimed at McCain in NH.

It is also based upon his inability to state his own message (aside from meaningless platitudes like he's going to get back "every" job lost in Michigan -- yeah, right) choosing instead to attack others during recent debates.

I agree with very little of what McCain and Huckabee stand for, or Paul for that matter. But they strike me as sincere and trustworthy.

In Mitt's favor, he should make one heck of a weatherman when all this is over. He bases his every stand upon which way the polls tell him the wind is blowing.

Have you really followed any of the campaign? If so, you can't possibly think that Huckabee is trustworthy. He's completely ingeniuine in the way that he made his undertoned negative remarks towards the LDS church, his sneaky "pulling the ad" press conference that every media member saw through, his 'cross' christmas commerical, and his obvious involvement in the fake postcard controversy.

Then, just look at the way he's spun his track record. He increased taxes by half a billion in Arkansas during his tenure as governor, he pardoned hundreds of convicts, and crime increased under his watch. At least Mitt Romney has a track record whose success nobody has been able to question.

You've lost any credibility by saying that Huckabee 'strikes' you as trustworthy.

I am so tired of this political blah blah blah. Why don't we do it like the Britians? They campaign for 6 weeks and all have the same amount of money to do it. What a waste of time, money, and national attention. I believe Americans are smart enough to choose a presidential canidate with only six weeks of campaigning. I can't stand another 9 plus months of this! I'll bet I'm not alone either.