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“O’REILLY: Would you build a wall between Mexico and the United States and would you put the National Guard on the border?

ROMNEY: Absolutely. We’d put the National Guard there because we don’t have the wall yet. You have to have a wall or a fence or electronic surveillance. And you have to have a tamper-proof document to make sure that people who are here are aliens are identified and registered, and people can not hire them unless they’re here legally.”

Copied from BILLOReilly.com.
“Immigration has been an important part of our nation’s success. The current system, however, puts up a concrete wall to the best and brightest, yet those without skill or education are able to walk across the border. We must reform the current immigration laws so we can secure our borders, implement a mandatory biometrically enabled, tamper proof documentation and employment verification system, and increase legal immigration into America.”

Copied from Mitt Romney’s Commonwealth PAC.

He said the federal government should issue a biometric employment card to every noncitizen in the country, deport criminals who are illegal residents, and give welfare and Medicaid timetables for noncitizens to get off those programs or face deportation. And for those law-abiding, tax-paying illegal immigrants who have been here for years, he wants to see them go to the back of the line to apply for legal status.

“We have to secure our borders and have a policy we can control,” he said.

Copied from The Business Journal.

Kevin Davis Jr.

Technorati Tags: Mitt Romney, 2008, Presidential Election, Illegal Immigration.

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http://phoenix.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2006/11/13/daily9.html?page=1 From The Business Journal:

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney met with Valley business and Republican leaders Monday, part of an effort to build a “network of people” in states with primary elections early in 2008.

Romney, who declined to run for gubernatorial re-election, is seen as a potential GOP presidential candidate and a more hard-line conservative than likely frontrunners Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and former New York City Mayor Rudy Guliani.

“I’m keeping the option open,” Romney said Monday to a small group of reporters inside Vestar offices at the Camelback Esplanade.

Romney has visited the Grand Canyon State four times in the last 18 months and said he will make an announcement on whether he’ll run for the GOP nomination after the holidays.

During the 30-minute interview, the Massachusetts governor talked about his views on Iraq, the federal debt, immigration and other domestic and national issues, while pointing some policy differences between him and McCain.

Romney supported the Bush tax cut, while McCain did not. He also isn’t in favor of the McCain-Feingold finance reform bill, saying now “there’s more money in politics, not less.”

Romney also said he doesn’t support same-sex marriages or civil unions and would only extend rights or benefits pertaining to hospital visitations.

He said last week’s elections sent a message to the Republican Party that it strayed from its hallmarks of fiscal conservatism, strong national defense and small government, and maintained that “Republicans shouldn’t go liberal.”

Romney applauded President Bush’s motion to assemble a team to analyze, debate and recommend changes to the Iraq war policy, but fell short of saying that should have happened years ago.

“I’m glad it’s happening now,” Romney, 59, said. “We need definitive measurements to see if we’re making progress.”

Romney said he was against a military draft, but admitted, “our military is stretched thin,” specifically pointing out the National Guard.

He said the federal government should issue a biometric employment card to every noncitizen in the country, deport criminals who are illegal residents, and give welfare and Medicaid timetables for noncitizens to get off those programs or face deportation. And for those law-abiding, tax-paying illegal immigrants who have been here for years, he wants to see them go to the back of the line to apply for legal status.

“We have to secure our borders and have a policy we can control,” he said.

He said the four biggest challenges facing the country are jihadists, Asia’s emergence as a competitor, reliance on oil and the federal debt.

“The financial crisis is not far from our doorstep,” he said.

Romney, an outspoken member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, serves as the chairman of the Republican Governors Association and is honorary chairman of the Commonwealth Political Action Committee. Before becoming governor of Massachusetts, Romney rose to prominence in an unsuccessful 1994 campaign against Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass. and as chief executive and organizer of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Romney’s term as governor ends Jan. 4.

Impressive! Is January 5th the day that Mitt Romney announces that he is running for president?

Kevin Davis Jr.

Technorati Tags: Mitt Romney, 2008, Presidential Election, Illegal Immigration, Iraq, Federal Debt, Arizona, Election 2008.

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This is just so typical!
House Democratic leaders passed around to colleagues Tuesday a plan they would focus on if their party wins control of the lower chamber on Election Day, but although the document was drafted to achieve consensus, it has already angered Democratic Hispanic leaders.
The cause of the consternation is not something …

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http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzhiOWIyNmJiMzA3NGU5NTYzZTAxNzdiYTY0N2VkMTg Well, the mainstream media (MSM) . . . this time in the form of the Associated Press . . . is absolutely nuts. They sent this “Khatami Love Letter” across the wire earlier today praising the visit of this “moderate Islamic leader.” The article was titled “Former Iranian president’s tour offers moderate vision of Iran” by MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN. His rosy take on Khatami’s visit is effusive:

Iran’s former President Mohammed Khatami could be found munching seared salmon and Caesar salad last weekend with Harvard professors on the last leg of a five-city U.S. tour.

In speeches, interviews and meetings with foreign policy groups, Khatami offered a moderate take on relations between East and West that focused on nonviolence, discussion and mutual understanding

The other side of the coin can be seen here:
(Hat tip to Bala Ambati . . . one of my mentors during residency and a real life genius/Doogie Howser . . . became an M.D. at age 17. He also blogs some here). This editorial at NRO by a former Iranian (who probably knows a bit more about Iranian life and politics than your average AP writer). IN his editorial “Good Cop, Bad Cop: Don’t be fooled by Khatami” he said:

The U.S. decision to enable former Iranian President Muhammad Khatami to visit Washington to discuss “Civilization and Tolerance” is an unfortunate reflection of the Bush administration’s continuing confusion about Iran.

The Islamic Republic has convinced successive U.S. administrations that there is a dichotomy in Iran between reformers and hardliners and that, if only Washington would engage the former, they might nudge Tehran toward moderation. There is a dichotomy in Iran, but U.S. officials constantly get the sides wrong. The division within Iranian society is not between hardliners and reformers, but rather between regime and the population.

The Islamic Republic is neither democratic nor capable of reform. This fact is inherent in its constitution. Reform can occur only if unelected officials and the Supreme Leader agrees. It is unlikely that he would ever agree to a reduction of his power. So-called moderates may talk about cosmetic changes, but they neither oppose the theocracy nor the export of revolution.

The White House should not be fooled. The visit from Khatami is the latest reflection of the Islamic Republic’s “good cop, bad cop” strategy.The idea is that while President Mahmud Ahmadinejad speaks about “wiping Israel and the United States off of the map”; Washington should seek dialog with more “moderate” former president Khatami. It is meant to buy time. Unfortunately, the State Department has once again taken the bait.

Khatami portrayed himself for eight years as a “reformist.” During this time, he built up the nuclear program that is now threatening global peace. Khatami and his administration are responsible for the murders of opposition leaders and their families, the crushing of the student rebellions, and the disappearance of many journalists.

I encourage you to go and read the whole thing.

So, who’s right, the AP writer or the Iranian editorialist? Is Khatami a real moderate? Or is he a “wolve in sheeps clothing” as Romney said? As I’m getting used to concluding . . . Romney’s right again.

At the University of Virginia Katami slammed Bush:

Just before heading to Washington, Khatami also took a veiled swipe at President Bush in a speech at the University of Virginia. He didn’t name names, but he left little doubt that one of his barbs was aimed at Bush.

“The rationale whereby the world is divided into `us and them,’ the justification of `us’ is contingent upon the negation of the other and results in statements such as `whomever is not with us is against us,’” Khatami said. “This `us’ is a small circle encompassing a few that have the right to arrive at any verdict they please regarding the ones they consider `the other.’ They can force this `other’ to submit to their whims or even eliminate `the other’ altogether.”

Fortunately, the Harvard student newspaper the Harvard Crimson gave us some actual details of Khatami’s words and themes during his 30 minute speech at the Kennedy School of (BIG) Government. The article was titled “Khatami Slams ‘Imperial’ U.S.: To polite audience, controversial cleric defends execution of homosexuals”

In his 30-minute address under heavy security, the Muslim cleric also defended the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah as a legitimate resistance movement fighting for the “territorial integrity” of Lebanon.

. . .

Khatami did not directly apologize for Iran’s human rights abuses.

. . .

But he condemned America for acquiring “imperialist” and “colonialist” aspirations, saying it must not fall into a sense of “false pride.”

“In all honesty, the West needs spirituality more than ever before in its history,” Khatami said.

Oh, so like maybe we all just need to become jihadists converts? What hypocrisy . . . if only we had the spiritual enlightenment that has made all Islamic nations so peaceful and unagressive. This is a religion founded by one of the most imperialist leaders in history!

Later we hear Khatami answer a question about Islamic (and Iranian) laws calling for execution for those performing acts of homosexuality:

“Homosexuality is a crime in Islam and crimes are punishable,” Khatami said. “And the fact that a crime could be punished by execution is debatable.”

This last statement is the kind of thinking that makes Khatami a “moderate” in the eyes of the liberal MSM . . . that he’s willing to debate whether or not homosexual acts should be punishible by death, or just life in prision or deportation. Sound like a “moderate” stance to you?

Another source covering Khatami’s speech quoted him as saying that . . .

American politicians, since World War II, have been infatuated with “world domination.”

Providing a stark contrast to who these left-wing nut-jobs think the real terrorists are we can thank, again, the Harvard Crimson’s reporting. This is what the folks protesting the presence of Dick Cheney at a GOP fundraiser in Boston on Sept 8th, 2006:

“It’s the equivalent of Hitler coming back to life and coming to Boston,” said Nick Giannone of Quincy, Mass. “This guy’s a straight-up fascist. I also find it pretty appalling that someone would pay $2,500 to sit in a room with a war criminal.”

Suren Moodliar of the Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition expressed distaste for Cheney’s ability to raise money: “I am appalled that he can go around raising money now that the party and he, in particular, have demonstrated to be so morally bankrupt.”

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the group of approximately 200 hundred gathered a block down from the crimson and white flowerbeds of the club’s entrance. Protestors screamed, “Shame on you!” and “Murderers!” to those making their way to the fundraiser.

. . .

The crowd waved signs calling Cheney a “demon” and chanted, “Cheney, Cheney’s got to go! Send him to Guantanamo!” Three men dressed in jailhouse stripes and wearing Bush, Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld masks mugged for passerby. A group of self-proclaimed ‘Billionaires for Bush and Cheney,’ dressed to the nines, serenaded the crowd: “All we are saying is give greed a chance!”

Something’s telling me that these protestors were not the same orderly and respectful crowd that protested Khatami’s record/presence at Harvard a couple of days later.

Why does Khatami get respectful consideration while Harvard students in the past have booed conservative speakers and protested President Reagan’s plans to speak at Harvard’s 350th anniversary? Gotta make ya wonder, eh?

Jeff

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http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/print?id=1907074 I don’t generally quote and entire article . . . but this is a big one from ABC News. See the link here for the original article:

‘Know Thine Enemy,’ Romney Says of ‘Jihadists’
Republican Presidential Hopeful Warns of Religious-Tinged Threat
By TEDDY DAVIS
April 30, 2006 — - Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., has sought to confront the religious element of terrorism.

“They are terrorists, yes, but more directly they are Jihadists,” the White House hopeful told ABC News. “That has broad implications.”

Romney’s determination to avoid referring to America’s enemies solely by the tactics that they use is earning praise from some foreign policy specialists.

“I think it could change the entire center of the conversation,” said Mary Habeck, a professor of strategic studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

By identifying America’s enemies as Jihadists, Habeck thinks the United States would be better positioned to wage an ideological campaign to “portray these people as the extremists that they really are” and to “drive a wedge between them and the vast majority of the Islamic world.”

In her new book, “Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror,” Habeck argues that Jihadists are not merely angry about U.S. policies. In Habeck’s view, Jihadists are at war with the United States because they view America as the biggest obstacle to the global rule of an Islamic superstate.

She told ABC News that if you refer to them as terrorists, “you have no idea what holds them together as a group or what gets them to join up as a group.”

Romney’s determination to go beyond the “terrorist” label has also met with approval by a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission.

“The governor is on the right track,” former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb., told ABC News. “I continue to believe very strongly that a war against a military tactic is not likely to be very satisfying in the end.”

Kerrey is concerned, however, that the root word jihad has multiple implications.

“I would not use the word jihad because there is a peaceful jihad,” said Kerrey.

The former Navy SEAL, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam, would prefer to see the United States declare war on al Qaeda.

Romney acknowledges that there has been a “big debate” in academic circles about the meaning of jihad, with some people believing that a spiritual jihad was never intended in the world of Islam to be militaristic.

He says, however, that “there is no question” about what jihad means to the Islamic militants fighting the United States. Nor does Romney think there is any question that Osama bin Laden would like the world to see him as a potential caliph.

“The old statement ‘know thine enemy’ is appropriate,” Romney told ABC News.

Romney wants the public to know that Jihadists are not an “armed group of crazed maniacs in the hills of Afghanistan.” Rather, Romney says the United States is facing a “far more sinister and broad-based extremist faction” with a “very 8th century view of the world.”

Based on his reading of books such as “American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us,” by Steven Emerson, and “Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies Against America” by Walid Phares, Romney believes the Jihadists want to “retake the ancient Muslim lands and unify umma, or the world of Islam, under a caliphate.”

To support his views, Romney points to a memo that Ayman al-Zawahiri is believed to have written to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on July 9, 2005, in which Al Qaeda’s number two tells Al Qaeda’s top agent in Iraq that their mission must not end with the expulsion of Americans from Iraq.

The letter, Arabic and English versions of which were posted in October to the Web site of the director of national intelligence, lays out a four-part plan that begins with expelling the Americans from Iraq but also includes establishing an Islamic authority over the Sunni areas of Iraq, extending the jihad wave to the secular countries neighboring Iraq, and clashing with Israel since Israel, in Zawahiri’s view, “was established only to challenge any new Islamic entity.”

Romney believes Jihadists are just a “very narrow and very extreme sector” of Islam. But given that there are more than one billion Muslims in the world, he warns that “a small percentage of a very large number is still a large number.”

One outgrowth of Romney’s focus on Jihadism is his support for increased surveillance in the United States.

In a speech to the conservative Heritage Foundation last year, Romney posed a series of rhetorical questions about domestic intelligence gathering.

“We have 120 colleges and universities in Massachusetts, roughly,” he said. “How many individuals are coming to our state and going to those institutions who come from terror sponsored states? Do we know where they are? Are we tracking them? How about people who are in settings — mosques, for instance — that may be teaching doctrines of hate and terror? Are we monitoring that? Are we wiretapping? Are we following what’s going on? Are we seeing who’s coming in, who’s coming out?”

The comments drew fire from Muslims and advocates of civil liberties in Massachusetts while being praised by some conservatives.

Romney told ABC News that it was not his intent to suggest wiretapping mosques, but he has not backed away from wanting to wiretap extremist individuals.

“I would wiretap individuals wherever they are who are preaching doctrines of hate,” he said.

“It’s important for as many of us as possible to understand the nature of those who are our enemies in this war,” Romney told ABC News. “They are Jihadists — an extreme and tiny slice of the world of Islam. They will be defeated by military might and by the forces of modernity and moderation within the world of Islam.”

ABC News’ Mike Westling contributed to this report

Awesome stuff by our man Romney!

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http://iowansforromney.blogspot.com/2006/09/iowa-christian-alliance-friends-of.html Check it out here.

Jeff

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http://www.nysun.com/article/39232 This interesting editorial from the New York Sun praises Romney and Giuliani for their strong stands against terrorist visits to our soil and compares their actions to Teddy Rooseveldt’s humorous handling of another Anti-Semite, Rector Ahlwardt.

They then continue:

Mr. Romney faced a slightly different situation than Commissioner Roosevelt, for we are now in a war and anti-Semitism isn’t looking so ridiculous. Mr. Khatemi is not just an itinerant preacher. He’s the front man for a nation that is actively fighting against us, that is levying a war against the Jewish state, that has played a role in killing hundreds of Americans. His motives in coming here are patently disingenuous, as are those of the Kennedy School in hosting him. Our government has allowed Mr. Khatemi in as a private person, but the mission on which he is here is to carry out hostile state purposes — and his speech at Harvard has been timed to mock the victims of the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Mr. Romney put out a long and exceptionally thoughtful statement explaining his decision. By our lights Mr. Khatemi’s visit is more like ,. . . [a] calculated insult

They have it right like Romney does.

Also, Romney has spent at least some of the last two days speaking to media outlets. I saw him on the “Personal Story” segment of the “O’Reiley Factor” tonight and he seemed to convince a skeptical Bill O’Reiley toward his point of view. I heard he was on Sean Hannity’s, Laura Ingraham’s, and Hugh Hewitt’s Radio shows recently too. When I find links . . . I’ll get them posted.

Jeff

Edit:

The Political Pit Bull has the video of Gov. Romney’s appearance on O’Reilly.

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http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=pressreleases&agId=Agov2&prModName=gov2pressrelease&prFile=gov_pr_060905_khatami.xml Strong statement from Romney!

The Press Release is here.

“State taxpayers should not be providing special treatment to an individual who supports violent jihad and the destruction of Israel,” said Romney.

Romney’s action means that Khatami will be denied an official police escort and other VIP treatment when he is in town. The federal government provides security through the U.S. State Department.

Romney criticized Harvard for honoring Khatami by inviting him to speak, calling it “a disgrace to the memory of all Americans who have lost their lives at the hands of extremists, especially on the eve of the five-year anniversary of 9/11.”

“The U.S. State Department listed Khatami’s Iran as the number one state sponsor of terrorism. Within his own country, Khatami oversaw the torture and murder of dissidents who spoke out for freedom and democracy. For him to lecture Americans about tolerance and violence is propaganda, pure and simple.”

After a long list of Khatami’s abuses and support of terrorists Romney concluded:

“Khatami pretends to be a moderate, but he is not. My hope is that the United States will find and work with real voices of moderation inside Iran. But we will never make progress in the region if we deal with wolves in sheep’s clothing,”

Addendum:

Bravo to Gov. Romney. It takes a certain moral clarity (if not certainty) to be President of the United States. At times bold statements like this are necessary to remind everyone that all things are NOT equal. Believe it or not, this is depressingly easy for people to forget.

I’ve read a few pieces over the last few days about this guy on our soil lecturing us on how we’re creating terrorists. Despite his label as a moderate, this is a man who has been out of power in Iran for less than a year. As dispicable as Ahmadinejad is, he was not the one who armed Hezbollah with those 4,000 rockets they used against Israel in the recent war. Indeed, the only difference I can see between the policies of Ahmadinejad and Khatami is that Ahmadinejad has been kind enough to shout his intentions from the mountaintop.

This reminds me of the time Rudy Giuliani kicked Arafat out of the Lincoln Center (too socially liberal to be president, but man was that sweet). Look for history to repeat itself and for many to recoil in horror of Gov. Romney not showing Khatami the respect he never earned.

Correctly placed at the top of the list of griviences is this:

During the period of time he was in office, from 1997 to 2005, Khatami presided over Iran’s secret nuclear program. Currently, the Iranian Government under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is snubbing the international community’s request to cease nuclear weapons production.

With all due respect to President Bush’s speech today, a nuclear Iran, not Bin Laden, is the greatest threat we’re facing today (and it disturbs me how non-serious the whole situation is being taken). Khatami deserves a great deal of the blame for this massively destabilizing program.

~~~Thomas

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http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060826/NEWS09/608260348/1001/NEWS Here in Iowa Romney spoke with local Republicans yesterday about an important issue . . . the fact that English is the language of our country.

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, campaigning for Iowa Republicans on Friday, said that while the United States should embrace its diversity, all students should be immersed in the English language.

“If you’re going to be successful in America, you have to speak the language of the land,” Romney told a group of about 60 Dallas County elected officials and Republicans on Friday in West Des Moines.

Romney spoke at a fundraiser breakfast for state Rep. Ralph Watts, who is seeking re-election in November. Watts, of Adel, faces Democrat Russ Wiesley of Waukee.

Romney is eyeing the 2008 presidential nomination. This is his seventh trip to Iowa since 2004. The 2008 Republican presidential nominating process is scheduled to begin with the Iowa caucuses.

Romney said he has been a proponent of “English immersion,” in which a bilingual student is placed in a classroom where all materials, books and instruction are in English.

Voters in Massachusetts approved a ballot initiative for English immersion in 2002, the same year Romney was elected.

Romney vetoed legislation the next year to soften the law and allow bilingual education to continue, but his veto was overridden.

Romney said English immersion has worked in Massachusetts, where fourth- and fifth-graders this year rated first in the nation on standardized English tests.

Having grown up in California and living in Latin America (immersing myself in their language and culture), I agree that English Immersion is the only way to go. It’s better for EVERYBODY in the long term and helps UNITE rather than divide our populace.

Jeff

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Romney_California_GOP.html Governor Romney gave the keynote address last night to an enthusiastic California GOP convention. His remarks were greeted with enthusiastic applause from this conservative crowd, for whom illegal immigration is a hot issue. Romney, a Republican governor in a Democratic state, is exploring a presidential run in 2008. California, with its reservoir of campaign cash, is a key stop along campaign trails.One focus of his speech was the other side of the immigration problem. “It is wrong for us to build an absolute concrete wall against those with skills and enterprise,” he said, referring to foreign students who come here for advanced study, “and have a wide open door for people with no education and no skills.”All in all, an incredibly successful trip to California for Governor Romney and the Commonwealth PAC, which raised a cool million the previous evening.

Dave

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http://iowansforromney.blogspot.com/2006/08/hear-mitt-speak-speak-mitt-speak.html A new Iowa political blog focused on the 2008 presidential race is being run by Kevin Schmidt. It is named “RealWorldPolitico.” I breifly met Kevin at Romney’s PAC event in Ames and he seemed like a nice guy. Fortunately, Kevin recorded Romney’s speech and the Q&A session (two seperate mp3s) and has them available at this link (the speech cuts out a few minutes early). In the Q&A session, mine is the second question about the political risk of taking over the Big Dig . . . yes, the question that brought forth the now famous “tar baby” comment.

Additionally, this link should get you to the streaming audio (about 13 minutes) of Gov. Romney on today’s “Morning in America” radio talkshow hosted by Bill Bennett . . . he states he has 2.4 million listeners/day and is the #9 radio talk show in the nation. Sounds like good exposure for Gov. Romney. Not sure how long it will be available online as free streaming audio.

Topics discussed:
The Big Dig
Welfare Reform
Immigration
War on Terror/Iraq/Afghanistan
Israel and Lebanon
China and Economic Policy

One thing that struck me from the interview . . . Romney said: “we under-communicate to the world and to the American people when we call it a “War on Terror.” Terror is the technique that’s involved by the others side. This really is a war against radical jihadists. And we’re going to have to recognize that, and see it’s breath and help the world of Islam reject the extremists, because they and we together are going to have to do this.”

Just after the interview Bennett said of Romney: “Clear, smart, an articulate voice thinking about the wider world as well as his own state of Massachusetts . He’s shown that he can work with Democrats; the question is can he work with Republicans–because there aren’t any up there . . . or at least not very many.”

Great showing, once again, by our man Mitt!

Jeff (cross-posted at Iowans for Romney)

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So my question is, what is the motivation for the Republican Senators who voted for this plan which on its face is self-defeating other than out-of-touch with reality?

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