Prolife Mitt Romney Watch

The Romneys are picking Presidential running mates and china patterns

He can't wait to get his hands on Washington, he says.

How much longer are the Republicans going to let him be delusional?

Doesn't somebody have the decency to tell them its over?

What a pathetic waste of millions of dollars that could and should go to the hungry and homeless.

Public Relations firm money laundering for Mitt to Evangelicals for Mitt?

An independent website of evangelicals that supports former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been using opposition research provided by the Romney campaign, as well as accepting funds from donors steered to the site by the Romney camp. The site does not accept funds directly from the Romney campaign.

More here - but to cut to the chase, the "Evangelicals for Mitt" is giving out misinformation apparently in exchange for referrals of people with wads of cash in their pockets they give to the Frenches?

Today, the Evangelicals for Mitt operation has spent its time attacking conservative Republican presidential candidates, most recently former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and unannounced candidate, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson.

Thompson, who has made it clear that he does not support Roe v. Wade, and who was certified as pro-life by the National Right to Life Committee back in 1994, has continued to state that he is pro-life. But the Evangelicals for Mitt, using research provided by the Romney campaign, has been putting out information on its blog that Thompson, as well as other Republican Senate candidates, were not.

"That's simply not the case," says a Tennessee state Republican Party official. "Anyone who says that men like Thompson and [Bill] Frist weren't opposed to Roe v. Wade wasn't paying attention or just didn't care."

National Right to Life affirms that the Romney crowd, shockingly, is giving false witness.

Romney down to zero percent?

Leave it to a Gadfly.

USA Today/Gallup Poll shows that Romney may in fact be down to zero percent.

Romney's support drops to within the margin of error of not existing (that's 3% support in a poll where the margin of error is 3%).

Some public defections are posted here - with some fresh news from New Hampshire:

Meanwhile, NewHampshireforRomney.com is desperately seeking bloggers — after the three they had lost interest — and hasn't been updated, apparently, since January 30, 2007.

Good times.

The GOP Dump

Chuck Baldwin asks whether this the year the Conservatives dump the GOP.

The Republican Party’s unwillingness to advance a genuine conservative has left millions of grassroots Republicans on the verge of leaving the GOP. For example, a poll at the recent CPAC meeting found the "overwhelming majority of conservatives displeased with the leadership of the Republican Party, and most conservatives scowl at the thought of having to vote for Rudoph Giuliani, John McCain, or Mitt Romney."

Why question whether it will happen, when it already has?

I don't know any prolifer who is joined at the hip with the GOP.  Those days are gonzo.


Could there be anybody at the GOP who doesn't realize that the religious right isn't getting on the  Rudy McRomney  bus with them?

Romney lies to get elected....

..but don't let that stop you from believing him.

You need someone like me in Washington," he said, according to Allen and two other abortion-rights activists,

Today's Globe has a decent article on the fleecing of Rudy McRomney. 

Leaders of the group have interviewed Huckabee, Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas, US Representative Duncan Hunter of California, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who hasn't entered the race but may later this year. It's not clear which other candidates have been or will be interviewed. The group has not yet questioned Romney, Senator John McCain of Arizona, or former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, according to those campaigns.

There's a political shift in the power of who harpoons the candidate.

"It is our desire that all of us, in a united effort, could marshal our resources to the same end," said one member of the group, who spoke on condition of anonymity, because members agree do not to disclose the discussions publicly.

A fool and his money are soon parted...

Two candidates who could emerge as conservative favorites are Huckabee and Brownback, though neither has a perfect record on every issue important to the right. Some observers, however, question whether either can raise the money it takes to mount a serious campaign, and those close to the Arlington Group say its leaders, if they back a candidate at all, want to back a viable one. The first sense of the candidates' viability will come in the next couple weeks, when the 2008 campaigns release their first- quarter fund- raising figures.

Perkins said it was "reasonable to say you want a candidate that shows they can put together an organization and go the distance and win the race."

But another member of the Arlington Group said he hopes conservatives belonging to the group settle on a candidate who reflects their values, because fund-raising power would follow.

"If we do our job," the member said, "money is going to be a secondary factor."

Stick a fork in him - Romney's done

Endorsing the lefties because sometimes friendships mean more than politics, according to the Romney camp

Don't we know it!

Mr. Romney endorsed Anderson's election that year, and Romney's spokesman explained to a newspaper reporter that sometimes, personal friendship trumped political parties. The two became friends during the '02 Olympics.

Meanwhile this from Redstate..." Quinnipiac's latest poll from Ohio shows that Fred Thompson who has toyed with the idea of running for about five minutes is tied with the hard-running, big-spending Mitt Romney. The two men, candidate and not-yet candidate, are running at 6%"

Romney Deceptions: Volume 376

I keep saying that the Romney campaign couldn't possible get any creepier - but I'm always proven wrong -

According to this source - - the reason why they pulled down every video of the Castro Concundrum is that the hard copies of the speech they gave out were deliberately changed to make it look like the journalist mischaracterized what Romney said.

Ms. Reinhard from the Herald returned my email and said that the text of the speech on Romney’s web site was not what he said at the gathering. I replied asking if she had audio of the speech and if so it it could be posted. She replied “no” which I’m not sure if it means no, she doesn’t have audio or no, they aren’t going to post it.

Herald Watch then called the Romney campaign to inquire about the speech. One of the publicists from the campaign returned my call and essentially verified the Herald’s version of the story, that Romney misspoke when addressing a group of South Floridians, that the text on the Romney web site is what he should have said.

Fred Thompson and the big sucking sound at My Man Mitt's

Enjoyable article on Romney and Thompson

here

Mr. Romney is "trying to become that mainstream conservative," according to Mr. Brown, but he is failing. While Mr. Romney has low name recognition, it's clear from his favorable-unfavorable numbers that "the people who know him aren't that excited about him." To take just one recent poll, a Gallup survey released yesterday showed Mr. Romney's favorable-unfavorable rating among Republicans to be 32%-12%, with 56% not knowing enough to answer. That's a relatively high unfavorable rating for such an unknown candidate.

Dun-dun.

Republicans, it seems, are dissatisfied with the current field of candidates. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll found that 57% of Republicans nationwide want "more choices" for president. And given that Mr. Romney has failed to catch on, dogged as he is by an image as a flip-flopper, social conservatives are the primary Republican constituency casting about for a fresh face.

"There is this yearning for somebody else," other than Messrs. Giuliani, McCain, and Romney, a former presidential candidate, Gary Bauer, now president of the nonprofit American Values, told me yesterday.

"With the current field, there is, as of now, some difficulty in getting economic, foreign policy, and social conservatives all on the same page," Mr. Bauer said. "So, in view of that, I would like to see Thompson throw his hat in. … I think he'd have a reasonable chance of getting support from all three of the legs of the stool President Reagan put together."

Hitler, Schmitler says the Mittsters

Is somebody suggesting that the Romney campaign would employ sleazeball smear rackateers?

So Mitt Romney hired a guy, who contributed to a group, who selected a guy to make an ad against Michigan Gov. Granholm, who chose to use a Hitler comparison. Think this is important? No? Oh, then I’m not the only one who thinks the AP has finally gone too far.

Preposterous, says the swiftboat smear leader who has joined Romney's campaign

Where would anybody get such a crazy idea, he said.

Mutiny on Romney Bounty Has Begun

Richard Blankenship, a top yahoo GOP fundraiser from the Jacksonville & former ambassador to the Bahamas said Farewell Maties to the Turnaround Artist.

From the Buzz

In a letter to the Romney campaign, he called Mitt and Ann Romney "wonderful people," but said he had become "uncomfortable" supporting the campaign and that Republicans needed a candidate with broad appeal across America.

As one commenter notes - this is just the beginning of the Toodle-oos.  I know for a fact that several others are setting up the golden parachutes.