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Romney has no interest in a McCain Cabinet position

Okay I officially do not want to ever see a comment from someone making fun of the adoration people have for Obama, or sarcastically calling him a messiah, or his supporters starstruck, or anything like that, until the DNEWS STOPS printing dozens of ROMNEY articles every day. This idolotry of Mitt Romney is getting disgusting

mccain should be ashamed of himself...not a better man suited to lead the country if needed, and that possibility is very real, as well romney has strengths in all of mccains weak areas. Mccain is just to stubborn and affraid of having someone smarter than himself...im voting blue come election time.

...but I wouldn't vote for him. He changed drastically through the campaign from a centrist Republican to the best imitation he could come up with of an extreme right-wing nut. The whole issue of hunting and loving guns and all of that was just sad. Instead of standing for something, he just came off as a politician: ready to abandon one's own beliefs to appeal to whatever the largest block of voters believes.

McCain won because he stuck with his beliefs for the most part, even though he has also started to appear less and less maverick.

Additionally, after seeing how close Romney is with the Bushes, I can't really support him in any way anymore. Please Utah, stop supporting President Bush. He's not a good man just because he goes to Church. The troops curse his name.

McCain could have done a lot worse than choosing Romney to be his running mate, say by choosing the women he did pick? Why do I hear chants of "(Obama) was right and McCain was wrong?" The VP choice was the best Obama could have hoped for. I don't care how close the polls are now, there is no way McCain will take the White House now. We needed somebody like Mitt Romney to help McCain out on the economic issues he has no clue about.

"The troops curse his name?" No we don't!!

I am puzzled with Romney's claim that he is not interested in a cabinet position or in running again for President. On one hand, you have someone extremely ambitious who ran for Senator of Massachussets against Teddy Kennedy (almost made it), then Governor of the same State, then President of the U.S., then goes out of his way to support his former political opponent...and he would do all this only out of an altruistic desire to support the GOP? Don't tell me that after all this is over, he will just move to Florida to play golf in one of these retirement places for millionaires!

You didn't donate to Romneys campaign. Your post is so filled with dem talking points it's sick. Clearly you only read headlines for your politcal info.

Here's a quote from someone who his hiding is true self.
Surely we can support the second amendment but not let criminals have AK 47's". Duh, really Obama, wow landmark thought.

I think that Mr. Romney is a class act and I am grateful to him and his family for making that great sacrifice and running for public office.


I am disappointed that Mccain is the candidate.

I hope Mitt crawls back under his rock. Mitt, return to sending American jobs overseas!

Unfortunately, Mitt Romney will say anything depending on the time and place. It's a bad habit that cost him the nomination.

Please reprint this article as a reminder if McCain becomes prez and Romney is miraculously transformed into Secretary of the Treasury or something like that.

I would like to commend Govenor Mitt Romney for the
excellent way he conducted himself during the Primaries. My husband and I were proud that he was so forthright and presented himself so well. We regret that he was not chosen for V.P. but that certainly does not diminish him in our eyes. We think he would be an excellent leader regardless of where he served. He is a very talented man. And he would have had our vote, for sure! Thanks Mitt!...

It is easy for Romney not to be interested in a position in a cabinet that probably will not happen.

This year the voters should vote for what they need, not for what the politicians tell us we need.

Of course Mitt has no interest in a McCain Cabinet position. There isn't going to be a McCain presidency.

If Romney had stuck with his moderate beliefs, had not chased the conservative right, had focused on his management skills and successes and his ability to work across the aisle, and had taken the high road as Obama has done most the time (which is why he is so popular), and if he had serious, courageous, ambitious plans for solving our major problems, he would now be the Republican candidate, and soon our president. And he would have been a great president.

As for the cabinet, if he's a true leader, he should go where he can best serve, whether he would enjoy it or not. With his skills, he could be a great cabinet member.

I think we found out McCains true colors. Too libral for Rebublican conservatives. Everyone said Mitt was a flipflooper. I think McCain has flip his brain on this one! Too good of friends with the same kind of person (Lieberman). You can't be one party one time and another another time. Spratling the fence is not a good thing in polictics. People have to know where you stand. What you believe in.
I thought McCain wanted to be a real American. Someone who really wanted to help us with the issues of our country. He lied! This campaign is only about social poitics. We want the first black man. We want the first woman. Mitt was the only one that wanted to get our country back on its feet economically. I don't know who I will vote for now that this has happened, but whoever it will be, will have to be for the one that whats the glory the most! It sure isn't about helping our country! It was a real honor for me to vote, but this year is a big joke! I'm glad Mitt isn't taking second class from McCain in a cabinet position.

He wasn't picked so now he isn't going to play.

So long Mitt. Don't let the CONSERVATIVE door of Sarah Palin hit you on the way out.

Why send a liberal govenor from Massachussets to the White House when you can send a conservative from Alaska.

As the beneficiary of his father's experience, no wonder he's not interested in a cabinet position. I agree he might have won ahd he not affected the neo-con position and stayed moderate. I don't see how he could back out of that and reassue the moderate mantle at this point.

I like Mitt -- love the guy actually -- but can we please let go of the past, embrace the present, and get some coverage of the Republican National Convention as it formalizes the selection of the candidates who are actually going on to represent the Republican party this year?

Elsewhere you read about anti-war protesters throwing bottles, slashing tires and shattering windows -- including those of a police car, and injuring an 80 year old woman delegate, and that there have been 56 arrests so far...

But here all you can find are stories like this patting on the back former candidates who didn't win the nomination, nor were selected as a vice presidential nominee.

Between Gustav and left leaning media coverage, the RNC isn't going to get 50% of the buzz the DNC did.

Let this be a lesson to all of my fellow members of the LDS church that the Republican Party completely takes us for granted. Mormons were dismissed as a cult by the evangelical community in the primaries, Mike Huckabee, McCain's mother, and obviously by McCain himself. McCain could have sent a huge message by selecting the most qualified person for VP - Mitt Romney.

All Mormons should vote for Obama - to send a message to the GOP that they can't continue to step on us while expecting our time, energy, money, and votes. If we don't stand up and say "no more" they will continue to disrespect us. Utah should go blue. Obama 2008!!