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As a temple Mormon, knowing the covenents that Romney has made, he can't lead this nation. My vote in Utah tomorrow will go to Dr. Ron Paul. Adnerence to the United States Constitution, non-interventionist policy, fiscal responsibility, and self reliance makes Dr. Ron Paul the candidate capable of leading my country.

Newsweek wake up, take a breath of fresh air. . The clear choice is Romney. We get so tired of McCain war stories. Every response that he has no answer he defaults to his military service, who he served with side by side. With all due respect Sen McCain ENOUGH! Lot's of us have served, but don't pound our chest all day.
There is more to being president than just fighting the war on terror, which is basically MCain's platform.
McCain is what Washington is all about today, an "old" bogged down piece of machinery.
It is time for a fresh look; new, young ideas, with someone who has optimism and vision.
Now a Romney-McCain ticket would be the best of it all.....

If you had to turn over your organization to someone to run it for the next four years, would you give it to John McCain who has spent the last 25+ years deliberating in the Senate? Or would you hand the keys to Romney who has again and again, when put in charge, led organizations large and small, non-profit and for-profit, governmental and non-governmental to remarkable success. I thinkg the choice is clear--Romney!

Mitt Romney is a good man and will do well in this election process. With that said, it will be very difficult for any republican to win the white house with all of the anger that exists with the current republican administration.

Mitts a good man and will do well in his election process. With that said, there is so much anger with the republican administration it will very difficult for anyone to beat the democrats.

It seems that of all the GOP candidates, Mitt Romney has the most charm and charisma. He lightens up the race as he brings a fresh face. John McCain is a bit old , and Mike Huckabee doesn't have that presidential poise. Being that wealthy entails alot of success from a personal point of view. Since the desire for money is not so profound in this stage of his life, Mitt may now be able to make the country economically more successful and avert recession should he win the election.

Mike Huckabee was wrong. Mitt Romney doesn???t look like the guy who laid you off
He???s a CEO. He???s really the guy in corporate headquarters who told the guy to tell the guy to lay you off. He outsourced your job to India. He shut down the plant and moved the entire operation to Mexico. He???s the guy who looted the workers??? pension fund to give himself a golden parachute. He promises to bring you jobs - but only if you???ll accept the wages and working conditions of sweat shops in Saipan or Bangla-Desh. A number of great political luminaries are CEO???s. Halliburton, under Dick Cheney???s leadership as CEO, tanked, but Cheney has more than made up for that fiasco by starting the war in Iraq and permitting Halliburton to rob the country blind. George Bush was CEO of Harkens Oil and cashed out just before Harkens collapsed, selling his stock at a handsome profit and leaving his stockholders holding the empty bag. California???s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger made a secret deal with CEO Ken Lay which enabled Enron and energy traders to walk away with $ 9 billion. California???s poor, elderly, sick and young must foot the bill. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Ken Lay, Bernard J. Ebbers, Jack Welsh, Mark Bruce all have one thing in common - they were all CEO???s. Mitt Romney is in good company. Let???s all remember he???s a CEO - a Crook, Exorbitantly Overpaid.

Mitt Romney is an honest man who has, in sight of his record, has done nothing but to progress himself - morally and physically. Mitt has been called a flip flopper or a panderer. I flip-flop is to go from one position to another and them back to the other position. Example a fish that flip flops --> starts on its left side, flips to its right, then flops back to its left side. Romney has never left a stance to return to it - He has only progressed. Thereby clearing his name as being a flip flopping panderer. Those who say such things either have their own agenda or have the cognitive depth of a child???s wading pool.
I am disgusted by anyone who calls themselves a conservative and then berates a person who converts to pro-life.

"Mitt has the most votes, most delegates and is the only candidate to be competitive in every state.
How long will the media keep excusing his successes???" ?? Great point! Thank you for that comment!

Everywhere I look the media says the McCain is the powerhouse.

The truth about McCain and his truth squad is:
-He only has 13 delegates!( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032553/ 1/16/08)

-He lies through his teeth yet no one in the media points it out. (saying he had the majority of conservative votes in new Hampshire when in fact he did not)

-McCain said he was above a negative campaign (directed at Romney???s comparison of his own and McCain???s records. Turns out that the records that Mitt pointed out were completely true, McCain said they were not. McCain lies again!). The next move McCain makes is in Michigan he sends out negative mailings about Mitt Romney which were false. His ad said that Romney championed a bill to get tax funded funding for abortions. This was simply not true and the bill that was passed was mandated by the court system.

The truth is McCain is a liberal in sheep???s clothing that???s only purpose is to win the GOP so he can help out his buddies the Clintons win the general election. Maybe he will have a nice seat at the table for all of his hard work...... Liberal media and its desire to bring on left wing fascism.

GO MITT!!! America still has a few people left that can think for themselves!

Wow, can the author (Jonathan Alter) make it any clearer that he hates Romney? So much for "just reporting the facts"...... Alter said the following:

"The GOP race is still so chaotic that it would be folly to call him the front runner". Folly? Really? What else would you call someone who has won MORE states (Wyoming and Michigan) and taken MORE second places (Iowa and New Hampshire) and has MORE GOP delegates than any other candidate? No other GOP candidate can say any of those things. At this point in the race, he sounds like the front-runner to me.

"If Romney had lost (Michigan), he would have been finished." Really? Already? Too bad because the presidential race was just getting started. See the facts about the strength of Romney's bid in other states mentioned above.

"But now he'll be spending millions of dollars pounding his fellow Republicans on-the-air in more than 20 states, further eroding the GOP brand when it's already in trouble." Romney's ads will "erode the GOP"? Really? Says WHO? Could it be that Romney's relatively clear vision, business experience and integrity might unify the GOP and the country as a whole? Guess we'll have to wait and see, huh?

"It's his money that gives him the advantage." Oh, I see....the man campaigns hard and intelligently, spreading messages of optimism and promises of dilligent work from all involved but it's his money and not his vision, experience nor his integrity that won over Michigan. Too bad....and I was just starting to like him.

"Romney benefited greatly from his family ties to Michigan." Really? And yet just the other day a rather large segment of your very own media bretheren were saying that it had been so long ago since Romney's father had been governor of Michigan they predicted that relatively few Michigan voters would vote for Romney due to his father. Oops.

And finally, the mother of all insults when you really hate a candidate but you don't want to admit it or you just can't find any dirt on him....." He'll spend anything and say anything to win, and probably will." Really? He'll say "anything?" You have proof? Jonathan, do you realize that you just did the very thing that you just accused Romney of doing?......

American desperately NEEDS a man (or a woman) of integrity and courage and from what I can tell (and surprisingly, the majority of people on this blog) believe that person is Romney. Dan Maloy, Enid, OK

Alter and Newsweek should be ashamed of publishing such blatantly biased commentary. One would think that they could conceive a more subtle approach to promote their agenda. I hereby cancel my subscription.

It just seems so ridiculous to me that there is a different kind of election in all these states. A Caucus here, a primary there, cross registration, free voting across party lines...SHEESH! It's really no wonder we are going downhill as a country. Why can't we have one National and Independant Election organization that oversees all elections in the same manner and counts the votes the same way? Other countries do this and it would most certainly make it easier to 'count the votes' when the time comes.

I'll stop short of recommending all candidate be limted to the amount o money they can spend on their campaigns, even though it certainly applies to the Romney campaign. In all seriousness though, lets get our act together and get this process we call democracy under one set of rules amd make elections about the issues as they should be.

It is pretty obvious that you like John McCain and do not like whatsoever Mitt Romney, forget objective journalism. I am disappointed that you so matter of factlty state your opinion as fact especially considering that McCain and Huckabee first gained up on Romney in New Hamphshire, and even went so far as hitting below the belt by attacking his religion views. According to Sean Hannity, Romneys defense against other gops have been fair and not out of line. You so easily paint Mitt as a Chameleon, as if the other politicians are not saying what needs to be said in order to get delegates. In the words of Rush Limbaugh, Romney has flip-flopped on a couple of issues, so have all the republicans and democrats, while Huckabee has flip-flopped on four major issues in his governor term, but of course you only used the information that serves your obvious dislike of Romney. What do you expect Romney to do, he rich, he is at a disadvantage in some because of religious background, and therefore he will need to spend more to keep up in the front with the other gops. What is so bad about Mitt? He cut the deficit in Massachusetts by almost 1.5 billion dollars and did it while lowering taxes on earnings. Tell me how many other politicians have done that?

It is pretty obvious that you like John McCain and do not like whatsoever Mitt Romney, forget objective journalism. I am disappointed that you so matter of factlty state your opinion as fact especially considering that McCain and Huckabee first gained up on Romney in New Hamphshire, and even went so far as hitting below the belt by attacking his religion views. According to Sean Hannity, Romneys defense against other gops have been fair and not out of line. You so easily paint Mitt as a Chameleon, as if the other politicians are not saying what needs to be said in order to get delegates. In the words of Rush Limbaugh, Romney has flip-flopped on a couple of issues, so have all the republicans and democrats, while Huckabee has flip-flopped on four major issues in his governor term, but of course you only used the information that serves your obvious dislike of Romney. What do you expect Romney to do, he rich, he is at a disadvantage in some because of religious background, and therefore he will need to spend more to keep up in the front with the other gops. What is so bad about Mitt? He cut the deficit in Massachusetts by almost 1.5 billion dollars and did it while lowering taxes on earnings. Tell me how many other politicians have done that?

It is pretty obvious that you like John McCain and do not like whatsoever Mitt Romney, forget objective journalism. I am disappointed that you so matter of factly state your opinion as fact especially considering that McCain and Huckabee first gained up on Romney in New Hamphsire, and even went so far as hitting below the belt by attacking his religion views. According to Sean Hannity, Romneys defense against other gops have been fair and not out of line. You so easily paint Mitt as a Chameleon, as if the other politicians are not saying what needs to be said in order to get delegates. In the words of Rush Limbaugh, Romney has flip-flopped on a couple of issues, while Huckabee has flip-flopped on four major issues in his governor term, but acours you only used the information that serves your obvious dislike of Romney. What do you expect Romney to do, he rich, he is at a disadvantage in some because of religious background, and therefore he will need to spend more to keep up in the front with the other big gops

there is only one true candidate who can bring the people together and restore the faith of the rest of the world in the USA and that is Ron Paul. MItt,John,Mike and Rudy are up and down like a whores pants Ron Paul is as steady as she goes if you want to make money vote for RON if you want to make war and enemies vote for the rest

What a bad article. Neither informative nor accurate.

It is amazing how biased the media is against Romney. He has a major victory and Newsweek headlines "Michigan a Fluke?" and "Money Power". McCain wins NH and he's the Comeback Kid. This "unbiased" reporter then proceeds to call him a panderer and cameleon willing to say anything to get elected. Last time I checked, this description could be applied to all the candidates on both sides. McCain's new stance on immigration and border control for example.