ROMNEY DOES IT BEST

Why Mitt Romney Does It Best ...(Excerpts).
By Mark DeMoss
Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Ed Rollins was once Ronald Reagan's political director and now serves as Mike Huckabee's campaign chairman. Last weekend he told a reporter, "The breakup of what was the Reagan coalition – social conservatives, defense conservatives, and anti-tax conservatives – it doesn't mean a whole lot to people anymore." He declared, "it's gone."

Well, I can assure you he's wrong... I can tell you, we still care about uniting these various conservatives into a strong coalition...

...A year and a half ago, I concluded Governor Mitt Romney was the most qualified person to run for president from either party in my lifetime and decided to support and help him as a volunteer. Mitt Romney has had three undeniably successful careers, heading one of the most successful venture capital and investment management firms in the world, presiding over a profitable and safe Winter Olympic Games just months after the attacks of 9/11, and governing the state of Massachusetts and turning a nearly $3 billion deficit into a nearly $1 billion surplus without raising taxes.

While there have been presidential candidates who may have more business experience, few had ever governed anything. We have also had candidates with more government experience, but none of them has had any business experience. And no other candidate has presided over an Olympic Games, a role that required handling hundreds of millions of dollars, assembling some 23,000 volunteers and mobilizing one of the largest security operations.

As an evangelical Southern Baptist and a social conservative, I like the leadership Governor Romney provided our movement in defending traditional marriage between a man and a woman and in opposing embryonic stem cell research. I believe his values are consistent with mine in every way, whether or not his theology is.

In a heavily Democratic and liberal state, Governor Romney staked out unpopular positions against cloning (having vetoed a bill sent to him by his 85% Democratic legislature) and gay marriage. It was Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby who wrote, "Few mainstream politicians have stepped up to make a principled case in support of that timeless definition [of marriage], and so far, none has done so as cogently as Romney."

We concur! ... And it looks like the people of Michigan got the message!  (Ed.)
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