Ann Romney: Mitt Has Always Been Pro-Life Ronald Kessler Wednesday, May 23, 2007
When he picked up Ann Davies for their first date, Mitt Romney left nothing to chance. He arrived in a red Marlin, a new fastback model made by his father's American Motors Co. Mitt had cleaned and polished the car until it gleamed. He brought along a bottle of sparkling Catawba grape juice and two chilled glasses.
Mitt took Ann, then 15, to see "The Sound of Music."
More than four decades later, the Romney's five sons call Ann Romney "the great Mitt stabilizer."
"She helps ground him, helps provide him perspective," says Taggart Romney, the couple's oldest son.
Beth Myers, Romney's presidential campaign manager and former chief of staff when he was governor of Massachusetts, has watched the two interact since she began working for him in 2003.
Mitt's Most Trusted Adviser
"Ann is Mitt's life partner and is probably his closest and most trusted adviser," Myers says. "They talk about everything all the time, and her counsel is the counsel that he values most.".
......Along the way, Mitt founded Bain Capital, a venture capital firm that now has assets of $40 billion. In evaluating whether to invest in a company, Romney would play devil's advocate to flush out facts.
"If someone comes in the door and says, ‘Mitt, black is white,' he'll say, ‘Oh, no, black is black or black is red,'" Ann says. "He never takes anything at face value; he can argue any side of a question. And sometimes you think he's like really believing his argument, but he's not. He just flushes the whole thing out and figures out the whole picture."
At the same time, Romney expects those around him to do their homework.
The Iowa caucuses "do not pick winners as much as they eliminate losers. And the Iowa caucuses Tuesday are likely to eliminate from serious contention the only two men who might have blocked Romney's path to victory: Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry." (Politico, ROGER SIMON 1/2/12)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Thank goodness for Roger Simon...I would have voted for Paul if I didn't have the Politico's oracle Roger Simon's insight.
These are the same people 2 months ago that said Ron Paul never had a shot of winning Iowa. But, hey, I'll listen to them now. These pundits have been discredited time and time again. People are not listening to them anymore. Their opinions and analysis are not objective; these pundits are paid to slant their analysis to favor the candidate chosen by their corporate boss' that pay their salaries.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I'll admit, and I tried to guess it before I looked at the results of the polls. i still didn't now it after looking at it, and wouldn't have guess it right out of the given choices. (PARTIAL SPOILER COMING UP IF YOU HAVEN'T GUESSED YET YOURSELF) Interesting that over 90% of people didn't know, while only about 45% actually admitted it.
-- Mitt Romney, quoted by the Des Moines Register, setting the expectations for the Iowa caucuses.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I call him a MIT-idiot!!!! The biggest political puppet of them all!!!!!!
No different than the present sitting pres!!
Different side......same coin!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
"The Republican primary is like a box of chocolates, a "white man's sampler."
There's the Michele Bachmann chocolate: "too many nuts."
Rick Perry's in there, but filled with disgusting almond nougat.
Eventually voters will end up with the "plain chocolate," That chocolate goes by the name of Mitt Romney.
But there was one final piece to try. That candy with the weird, semi-liquid cherry filling: Rick Santorum.
"You tried all of them all of them except this one, This is the one you haven't tried because you know it sucks.
So that"s it. You end up with Romney, "the least bad chocolate." (Jon Stewart, The Daily Show)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
A Rasmussen poll on Jan 5, of Likely Republican Primary Voters: Romney 29% Santorum 21% Gingrich 16% Paul 12% Perry and Huntsman 4%
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
A new Rasmussen survey in South Carolina finds: Mitt Romney 27% Rick Santorum 24%, Newt Gingrich at 18%, Ron Paul at 11%, Rick Perry at 5% Jon Huntsman at 2%.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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