Comments about ‘Romney adds to delegate lead with Maine victory’

Game on! Go Mitt Romney! I would love to see someone who actually believes in being fiscally conservative. In other words, he knows how to run a company that makes more than it spends. I have to balance my budget every year, why shouldn't the federal government?

"Webster said any caucus results that come in after Saturday wouldn't be counted no matter how close the vote turned out to be."

I have to sort of wonder if they would be singing the same tune if the situation were reversed and Romney had been less than 200 votes behind. They've found a way to count votes after the fact, especially in caucuses like Nevada and Iowa.

On a side note, I like the picture of Dr. Paul kicking the balloons. A couple of the pundits on TV remarked that they thought he was the only candidate having fun, and I think that's true. The cards are stacked against him, from national media to party bosses, but he seems to be having the time of his life. When you tell the truth as you see it, never deviating from your core principles, and the principles you've held for decades, it must be a very liberating thing, and very satisfying to see a movement grow, even if you haven't won a state yet.

"I would love to see someone who actually believes in being fiscally conservative"

How can Governor Romney deliver on this promise if he wants to actually make the military bigger and seems more than ready to fight a war with Iran? Aside from the terrible human cost of war, it is very expensive. Although Mitt Romney may have good intentions and plans for a balanced budget amendment, he has not shown the actual numbers that would give us the revenue increases or the spending cuts necessary to balance the budget.

Romney may have won more votes - but Paul got the delegates. You see, Maine is a caucus state. After the voting, all of Romney's people went home. Ron Paul's people stayed - and they became delegates to the county or state convention. They're not bound by the caucus results. There, they will vote for Ron Paul. The same thing happened in NV, MN, IA, and all the other caucus states. Romney got FL, Paul's getting everything else. The reason why Paul is having fun is because he's creaming Romney. See, I'm for Paul. Santorum won our precinct. But, me and my fellow RP supporters are the delegates - and we're supporting Paul. Now, not sure Paul will get the nomination, but we're going to throw a wrinkle in Romney's plans.

@ David King

I think Ron Paul is great. I was comparing Mitt Romney being "fiscally conservative" to the current administration.

I think Mitt Romney will be Mitt the Ripper when he first gets into office and cut all sorts of federally funded programs (already mentioned a few including Planned Parenthood and PBS). People will scream and cry but at first but America won't end up like Greece.

They give Mitt such a hard time for being heartless and willing to fire people but have you seen the 10,000s of government jobs getting the axe in the European country debt deals right now? It is severe! America is headed there. BO new budget only has us over 1Trillion $$ in the hole this year. Chump change.

@AT

Yours is probably one of the strangest posts I have ever read in my life. Your bio city says KY but you claim you are a delegate for Maine that is voting for Ron Paul with your buddies at the convention. ;P Right.

AT
Romney knows how to save good business firms - Bain. Obama knows how to chose and then close crony businesses - Solyndra, etc. Rep. Paul has not demonstrated that he knows either or the difference between them. Yes, vote against Romney we certainly wouldn't want an intelligent, data-driven president would we?

People always criticize Mitt because he has no (detectable) core values. My question is .. is this necessarily a bad thing? If you believe in true democracy perhaps not. Having a president such as Mitt who rules by having his finger in the wind may be the closest thing short of actual democracy, ... to actual democracy.

@cjb
"My question is .. is this necessarily a bad thing?"

Yes. I want leader to be willing to compromise, but I don't want a leader who I have no real clue what they would attempt to get.

Mitt Romney, please keep on standing for values and character. Please keep on showing your Integrity and what you know is right from your Religious teachings from the Bible that our country's Founding Fathers have preached while they were living and since they were dead through the Declaration of Independence and United States of America's Constitution. Please constinue to show that in your spirit of conviction. Our nation was founded on principles that have been eroding that the Constitution's principles are from God. We have let the Supreme Court and the Congress and President to erode God from our lives. Those bodies with their votes and enacting have allowed people like Jeremiah Wright through our President push his negative principles to affect our country with social issues instead of the Ten Commandments and Golden Rule. The President doesn't know what real religion is. He has listened for 20 years to a person that doesn't have the Love of God in his heart and soul. Social issues sell votes. Integrity is what Romney has and knows what God wants. If people want non-God countries, go to the places that people that want it came from.

To question that Governor Romney would tamper with ballot boxes is below integrity. His supporters would not jeopardize his whole life by doing something like that. I have lived in countries where the Army or police with weapons ask you how you voted. That is not what we want in our God given country. As Moses found out, it is the people within that can damage to us and not just from outside. The President of the United States has a very fine line in the next 9 months to use his campaign to divide us as Republicans. He has done that very well with our country in 3-4 years and now he will work on the Party. If we want another 4 years of a Nobel Peace Prize President that has proven he has not brought peace to our country, instead making holes in the Constitution through his Czars and signing his executive orders. He has subverted our way of life. Non-citizens are becoming pawns in his hands. That is the way Rome fell and today we have despots taking their country and people's right away. We need to stand for values of the Constitution and not play into the media's ways of social issues ripping people from their families, religions, and schools and even government's ability to do the right.

According to other publications reporting on Romney today, Mitt is furiously fund raising til the end of February. What has happened to the uber $$ Super Pac funded by the Koch brothers and like corporations?
Could this be that Mr. Romney feels one can never have too much money?

@AT

I like Ron Paul too. But he suffers from the "90/10" problem: 90% of what he says is right on the money, but the other 10% makes him look nutty as a fruitcake. How do you square yourself with him when he says that the new U.S. currency (designed to make bills harder to counterfeit) is part of the New World Order to take away our individual liberties?

The 90% is not the problem - it's the other 10% of what he says that makes him unelectable. I can't vote for him because I think he seriously has a screw loose.

When you think of the trillions of dollars our country has gone into debt in the past 3 years due to the Nobel Peace winner, we need to spend some money to not let him take us deeper into debt. He is doing this without appropriating money for the real budget. Budgets have to be approved and he keeps on using his ability to extend money. He is taking us down economically and spiritually by demoralizing everyone in our country. He pounds his chest when he went to a myriad of countries on their territory telling the world how bad we were. He and his wife's saying that "It is the first time I am proud of my country". Mitt Romney knows that our country is in deep trouble. He knows because he went through that process with companies that were failing. Some came out of it but others did not. Money doesn't grow on trees or waving a magic wand saysing, "here it is everyone, come and get it." Our military strength has been taken away by a President who doesn't believe in it, except like President Clinton, for their own purposes. They politicize our military and now do that with our REAL VALUES with social values that may bring votes. We need to be cautious in 10 months and for a President that has over $1 B in his coffers plus using our government aircraft and forces that are not scrutinized very much, is a scarey thing.

This was an extremely unimpressive win. I mean he just narrowly beat a guy who he crushed by about 30 points in Maine's 2008 race, and Ron Paul is polling in 4th nationally. Romney has got to be one of the weakest frontrunners ever.

He does okay in liberal states.

"Some caucuses decided not to participate in this poll and will caucus after this announcement," Webster said. "Their results will not be factored in. The absent votes will not be factored into this announcement after the fact."

Voter Fraud. Your county doesn't matter.

Interesting that the GOP cancelled the Caucus for the counties that were most supportive of Ron Paul. We must be aware of the fact that our system has some flaws that need to be fixed. Democracy being manipulated is one of the most abhorrent and treasonous acts.

Mr. Romney, the voters would so appreciate hearing the facts of your policy on earmarks during your years as Governor of Massachusetts. There seems to be some discrepancy on the reality of what actually occurred, and your current campaign discussion on this issue.

@deep in thought: I relocated from KY to MN. Haven't yet updated my profile here. Good catch.
I was referring to my experience in MN, but the same thing is happening in Maine. RP is getting his supporters to the conventions and he'll be getting the delegates.

@Hemlock. I think Romney's a bright guy. What concerns me is that his biggest donors are the banksters and that he has no regard for the Constitution. When the banksters come asking for more money, do you think he'll turn them down? (Actually, I have many other concerns with Romney - we'll just go with that one for now)

@Brave Sir Robin. Spend some time learning about Austrian economics and "sound money." A good place to start is the Ludwig von Mises institute. You'll learn about why RP isn't a fan of the FRN and why he thinks the current US monetary policy is taking away individual liberties (this by Jefferson should get you thinking: "If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banksâ¦will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conqueredâ¦. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.")

It looks like Romney is still not exciting the Republicans. I am still betting he will not excite the voters in November either. Obama should do very well this fall.

How is cutting taxes farther _by half_ for the most wealthy, and growing our huge military, and egging on another war construed as 'fiscally conservative'? Why is it OK to throw (even more) money at the rich and at the Pentagon, but somehow morally wrong to try to ensure that all our citizens have access to affordable healthcare? Or higher education?

Can someone explain this to me?