Romney Announces a Presidential Exploratory Committee

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April 12, 2011 RSS Feed Print
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is jumping into the 2012 presidential race. He took the official first steps Monday by announcing a presidential exploratory committee, which means he can officially start raising money. His announcement--made on Twitter--comes at the five-year anniversary of his signing of the Massachusetts state healthcare plan, which analysts say resembles President Obama's healthcare law. Romney made no mention of this in a campaign video he released and instead touted his business experience and his goal to fix the economy. Last month, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced an exploratory committee, and he hired a campaign manager this week. Meanwhile, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann stopped in Iowa, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum won a South Carolina straw poll, signs both conservative Republicans are testing the GOP waters for a White House bid. Still, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll shows Romney leading the pack with support at 21 percent. Real estate mogul Donald Trump--who has been stealing headlines in recent days with his birther campaign--is tied with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for second place, according to the poll.

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Judging from the people signaling their interest in becoming the republican candidate for president it appears that they have become a party of flacks, hacks and quacks. That's what happens whenever the bar is lowered so low ,as it was for bush, that just about anybody qualifies for president. Now they are going to have a hard time ever getting it raised back up. In a sense they have opened the floodgates. McCain's choosing Palin didn't help. The bar got lowered a few more notches in fact. Is there anyone who doesn't qualify to be a Republican candidate today? If you can memorize a few stock conservative phrases and say them over and over then you pretty much qualify.

whatHappenedToQualityControl of CO 10:21PM April 16, 2011

Romney has plenty of deficiencies in issues he's championed that people don't need to play the religion card. Romney has Romneycare to live down, Romney's promotion of off-shore tax havens, of outsourcing industries, and all the ruined local economies here in America he's responsible for. Romney's been great for China's economy or Caiman Islands, but This guy has spent his career selling America short. These are the things that should come back to bite Romney. Not his Religion!

What comes around goes around. Romney is not insulated from the marathon of hate Republicans have been promoting. Religion and race has been the bread and butter issues that conservatives, tea partyiers and extreme righties are most concerned about. So no surprise the same sentiment that attacks the president on the phony birther issues are going to attack Romney's religion as a phony Christianity.

Its a shame and its UnAmerican to attack a candidates religion, but neither of the concepts the Republican party seems to adhere to lately. Of course you can dismiss all this kind of hate like Kyl dismisses truth - #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement.

Jesse of OK 9:46PM April 16, 2011

You were starting to somewhat intelligent before your antimormon dogma rant. He is more honest than the bulk of Congress and the healthcare industry that is bankrupting us.

Paul of UT 6:22PM April 15, 2011

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