Oh man, if Obama hit Romney on his religion, it would have been open season on Reverend Wright, not to mention Republicans might have been able to afford some real advertising against Obama.

Could you imagine if McCain had picked Romney and the September surprise bailout mess? Romney would have been the poster-boy for the “Wall Street insider Boogeyman” that was so popular this election. It would have been a bloodbath.

portlandon on December 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM

I think that, on the contrary, his economic experience would have been to the ticket’s great advantage.

Any of the above are acceptable. Consider the following facts about Mitt Romney.

• Romney cut programs, consolidated programs and balanced the budget in Massachusetts without raising taxes.

• Romney could have carried many of the states that John McCain lost including Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Florida. Not to mention California may very well have been put into play, the Mormons sure did a great job getting out the vote for Prop 8.

• Romney was endorsed by Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Tom Tancredo.

• Romney is a skilled debater and terrific speaker. He is the perfect spokesman to sell capitalism and conservatism to the American people.

Romney is a very smart man. He recognizes that Palin-mania will fade and he will be vidnicated as the proper candidate for 2012.

I just hope he sets up his web site just like Barack so that we can contribute via credit card without address verification.

cannonball on December 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM

He won’t get my dollars if he is the top of the ticket. But, my Schiff-portfolio won’t have a lot of dollars in it anyway. Hah Hah.

I understand that hotair is now officially “Sarah Only” territory but I dont care:

My vote is for Mitt 2012!

hanzblinx on December 8, 2008 at 5:45 PM

Now wait just a minute.

Mitt can ride Sarah’s skirt for a few years and we’ll see how he does. If he is the last to hold on, he gets the honor of being the VP of the Arctic Fox. Lucky guy.

No thanks!

…and once again, get a candidate we don’t really want.

But hey…that will give us four more years to B$$tch and whine……. yay.

Dr. Manhattan on December 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM

I could give a crap about Romney being LDS. I just don’t like people pretending to be a conservative when they’re really not.

A;so, the guy made his fortune by leveraging his inheritance money to buy troubled companies, close plants and layoff workers to temporarily jack up the stock price, and then sell what was left to gullible investors. You think the dems won’t point this out?

kcewa on December 8, 2008 at 3:03 PM

Obama was expecting John McCain to pick Romney as VP. They already had commercials ready to run & the Obamacons had been doing VERY deep digging into Romney’s money,companies,mormonism,his grandparents being poligamists,etc.etc. Could you imagine if McCain had picked Romney and the September surprise bailout mess? Romney would have been the poster-boy for the “Wall Street insider Boogeyman” that was so popular this election. It would have been a bloodbath.

I just hope he sets up his web site just like Barack so that we can contribute via credit card without address verification.

My vote is for Mitt 2012!

Why create some new standard and hold Romney alone accountable? Clearly he is being singled out for scrutiny and ruination.

Lets apply this same standard to every pack and see what their startup costs are and how much of their money has been allocated to others. Anyone care to check, say HuckPAC?

It’s not that I will die to have Mitt as Pres, but you said he did nothing or that it wasn’t a big deal. Believe me I know and I know it was a big deal. So go ahead and criticize him all you want, but be sure you know what you are talking about.
Hi Skinner Vic. It’s been lonely out here.
I hate to see this starting already.
You know after all the work we did in CA you’d think that some would be grateful, and not go after him for “you know what”.

Exit question: If Huck and Palin both jump in, will Mitt lurch to the center on social issues? He can’t compete with them for social cons, so he might as well try to capture the center.

Been there, done that, and the result is President-elect Obama.