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Subscribe to RSSWASHINGTON -- Portman. Pawlenty. Rubio. Jindal.
Those are just a few of the headliners of Mitt Romney’s summer surrogate tour, a whirlwind blitz that begins Thursday and will feature the presumptive nominee’s most prominent supporters hitting swing states throughout the country while he is overseas.
NBC News has learned at least eight surrogates will make campaign stops in the key battleground states over the next six days. Some of those names are believed to be under heavy consideration to be named Romney’s vice presidential running mate in the coming weeks.
While speculation was rampant last week that the former Massachusetts governor could make his VP pick before heading off to London, at least one benefit of delaying his pick will be on display this weekend.
Instead of having just one running mate to campaign in the states while Romney is abroad, he’ll instead have a team spread throughout the country, most of which will be getting attention as the potential next vice president of the United States.
Voters in six battleground states -- Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin -- will see Romney campaign buses traveling the state and hearing the politicians on the stump.
The surrogate surge begins on Thursday when Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal head to Iowa.
“I've told Governor Romney anything I can do to help him win in Virginia or any other state, I'm glad to do. So they asked me to go to Iowa and I'll be there with my friend Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and we're going to talk to the people of Iowa about what's important for the country when it comes to getting us back on track,” Gov. McDonnell said while speaking at one of Romney’s “We Did Build This” events in Richmond, Va. today.
Also on Thursday and Friday, South Dakota Sen. John Thune will be in Virginia where he will bracket President Barack Obama’s visit to the Old Dominion state on Friday.
On Friday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani heads to Florida, a place where voters know him well. During his 2008 presidential run, Giuliani spent the majority of his time and campaign resources in the Sunshine State. He’ll even host a “Cafe Con Rudy” to reach out to Hispanic voters.
On Saturday, former Minnesota governor and one-time presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty will make an appearance in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was in the Tar Heel State last month where he gave a rousing and well received speech at the state's Republican convention. While North Carolina has seen limited attention from Republicans in recent weeks, it will likely be a hotbed for activity next month as Republicans prepare to distract from the Democratic National Convention being held in Charlotte at the beginning of September.
And while Pawlenty is in the East, one of the party’s most popular young conservatives will be representing the Republican ticket in the West. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will spend Saturday in Las Vegas, NV, the city where he spent a majority of his youth. There he will hold a rally in the elementary school he attended as a child, marking his first solo public appearance on Romney’s behalf.
Also on Saturday, Jindal hopscotches to Florida to hold an event for the presumptive nominee.
Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus will be traveling on a bus through Wisconsin this Sunday. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin may also join.
Not to be forgotten is the man who many consider the frontrunner in the VP search -- Ohio Sen. Rob Portman. He has spent most of his weekends away from Washington helping Romney in some capacity in his home state. Last Friday he attended a Romney fundraiser in Lima, Ohio, and the weekend before that, he both bracketed President Obama’s campaign stop in Cincinnati, OH and helped to open a Romney Victory office the southwest part of the Buckeye State.
On Monday he’ll take his act on the road to campaign in Pennsylvania. It will mark the second time Portman will hit the Keystone State in hopes of turning the traditionally blue state to red.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has not campaigned for the GOP nominee for months, will also hit the trail in the coming days. She will travel to Michigan on Romney’s behalf.
Two potential VP contenders -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte -- are notably not on this weekend’s surrogate blitz. However, both Christie and Ayotte have campaigned for Romney in recent weeks.
The rush of Romney surrogates over the next five days across the country seems to indicate it will be a full on sprint from now until the November election for the Romney campaign.
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So with Willard tucked safely away out of the country, he sends out his stooges to do his dirty work!
This is best the GNOP has to offer? lmao
Never saw THAT one coming... lol
Will they be talking about President Obama not understand the "anglo-saxon" relationship the way Willard told the UK press?
And hussain obama does not have any "stooges" to help with the constant lies being told to the American people! This pathalogical liar of a president sells out this countries security for a vote or headline and sure cannot run on his record so here comes more negative ad's !
Mitt the Zitt is stinking rich, able to pay proxies to do the dirty job for him. Mitt's blitzkrieg is much worse than that of its inventor.
The Telegraph:
The Republican Party’s shift to the Right, reflected by the rise of the Tea Party movement during the mid-term elections in 2010, has left it out of step with the Conservative Party on issues such as taxation, health care and rights for same-sex couples. Mr Cameron’s party is more in line with the Democrats in several areas.
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Romney at it again:
While the Republican candidate (Romney) now emphasises his admiration of Britain, he has previously held it up as a post-imperial warning to those who would allow the US to decline. "England is just a small island," he wrote in his memoir 'No Apology'. "Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people want to buy”.
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What a two faced clown Romney is.
Pat,
What is with Romney always commenting on the size of things?
"Small road and small houses" but in Michigan the trees are the right size. LOL
Pat Boston MA. -- Hmm, Romney sounds so "foreign" don't you think? A little pro-colonial even pro-monarchy sounding?
NorthstarDFL -- Aside from speaking like an alien, in watching Romney at a podium, I've noticed the way he turns his head from one side to the other after saying something he thinks is profound. I see what people mean about robotic--not just looking like he has a board nailed to his back.
Even his personality, and whether he has any interests, Romney is less curious than Dubya (curious George), or should we say the android Data on Star Trek is much more human?
With Obama's job approval at 45% and his DISapproval at 48% (per Gallup),m Obama doesn't have many prominent politicians to act as 'surrogates' for him.
By the way - If you want to REALLY find out who's ahead in the polls, you need to use Realclearpolitics.com because they average all of the major pollsters which gives them a much better accuracy - for example, in 2008, their final poll had Obama winning by 7.6% - very close to the actual of 7.3%.
One caveat however is that Realclearpolitics 'mixes apples and oranges' to some extent by combining polls of 'Registered Voters' with those of the much more accurate polls of 'Likely Voters'. When you look at polls of 'Likely Voters', Romney has a slight lead nationally, and Romney's 'trend' is up, while Obama's is down.
Of course, the campaign is early and things don't start to 'settle in place' until after the conventions.
NO, that will be the subject in the other 57 states; when Obama is on a trip to the Maldives.
"Bring in the clowns....oh wait, they're already here!".
These guys are worse than clowns, they are carnies running a rigged booth where you can never win the stuffed animal for your kid.
Lets see, we have two unemployed politicians, T-Paw and Rudy going on the road this weekend.
Then we have sitting governors and sitting senators going outside their states to drum up some Romney support. Who is paying for their trips? Romney's campaign?Or on they on official business?
Meanwhile their guy is having dinner in London with the banksters who will fill his coffers with the money they made off manipulating LIBOR rate.
north,,,I love your double standards with not a word about the record breaking fundraisers this puke of a president has attended besides the record golf outings after he puts in his 1 or 2 presidential hours a day(if that much) on the focus of unemployment and the economy! Ya see where we are on that!
Dude?
Have you ever looked into anger management?
The hatred will eat you alive... buddy! ;o)
Murphy - what an ignorant, stupid, moronic, Republican post!. Our President spends more time working than any other President outside of Clinton. If the GOP wasn't blocking every jobs bill - we'd have them passed!
Obama/Biden 2012
frosted redhed,,I'am not angry. Just like to tell the truth. seeking insanity, that truth hurt also in your case. This liar in chief is on record for what I had said and just because you get ALL your news from msDNC, your just lacking in truth!
Well then, get back to me when you finally do... K? lmao
frosty redhead,,,OK libtard,,,tell me your prophet hussain obama does not have the record in golf outings or campaign fundraisers compared to ANY OTHER PRESIDENT in this pukes first(and only) 4 years? You should quit watching rick maddcow and sargent "slut " shultz for ALL your news.
Read them & weep... @!$%#!
Now go STFU!
frosty redhrad,,,and yet again you slide around the debate and have not said 1 word about golf games and fundraiser numbers but spew bull about vacations which I can find a website or 20 that will shoot your venom off the charts! I had stated about the golf games and fundraisers which you are afraid is true so the libtard way is change the subject! Now you just run along!
I can just hear that race card getting ready to be played!
According to Murph and Spanky President Obama should simply sit in the White House and crank a handle creating job after job. Congress and businesses would, of course, have nothing to do with it. He, in their world, would not be allowd to fight back against lies told about him nor would he be allowed to raise money for his campaign while their candidate could say whateve the Koch clan tells him to say and raise trillions . The problem is that some of the GOPers can't stand the heat but they refuse to get out of the kitchen.
Maybe if this liar in chief would spend a little time in the white house(besides the weekly parties), and maybe even meet with his "job czar and team" a couple a times a year instead of having more visits with crooks frauds and thieves , just maybe he could "crank out a couple of jobs" and not with the phoney democrat phrase "created or saved", and one possibly a job that is NOT with the fed government! Adler, the lies are from you socialist lib moocher democrats that say unemployment is * plus percent when in reality it is more like 18% libtard.
Adler-273784
Yep. And now we see yet another hypocrisy. Teapublicans are arguing that cuts in defense spending will cut jobs. Imagine that, government creates jobs--but only in the Military Industrial Complex. These guys are worse than clowns, they are carnies running a rigged booth where you can never win the stuffed animal for your kid.
Murphy,
Keep your eye on the title of this thread. "Romney's surrogate blitz this weekend..."
any comment about this stradegy?
Instead you want to talk about how how many times the president plays golf?
who cares, in fact, I hope he plays golf every week.
BTW, what is your handicap?:)
Northstar - Murphy's handicap - I feel sure - is his mouth!
As allways you stick your heads in the sand when facts are given to you. As another headline msDNC has right now about biden spewing that Romney knows nothing about fireman's work! That has to be one of the biggest stooges in this country, but alas, libtards do not connect that and with the constant lies being told( even the ny times admit that) by all the primates like piglosi,dean, harkin and the rest of the socialist lib democrat moochers, you are lucky to even get a real story or even half truths from msDNC!
WHAT facts? Show us just one you've given us?
All you have done is parrot NewsforDumbFux squawking points & not very effectively I might add... junior! lol
Stop being a freakin ZOMBIE & start thinking for yourself for a change!
Murhpy,
After reading your post at #4.2 with your outrageous adjectives,
You Sir,are an anathema!!
unlike you north, I serve a purpose!
Who cares if he plays golf every day? Do we pay POTUS by the hour?
frosty redhead,,,look at posts above sand dweller.
The transition to NBC news seems to have it's glitches. I try to cut from a post before saving and it saves without the changes. Or doesn't post, or even voting up other posts doesn't save if I go to a different article before it saves. Please, IT fix these things. Thanks!
Independent thinking is not allowed in das Republik party.
Someone criticizing someone playing golf doesn't understand that a lot of wheeling and dealing is done on the golf course. Republican Presidents Eisenhower, Ford and Reagan were all golfers. They understood that the most powerful person on the planet should not be cooped up in his office to go nuts but get out and relax and maybe do some business of convincing Congressmen while on the golf course. Bush took excessive and very long trips to Crawford but he also spent time on the golf course. Working with his brain (Karl Rove) and Darth Cheney to plot and scheme more nefarious dirty deeds.
By virtue of his job, the President has an enterage of security, media, aides etc. traveling with him. These are some of the perks and headaches of the job. All modern presidents have this wherever they go. Better than total isolation and open for assassination. We've had 4 assassinated Presidents we don't need another no matter who he is that is why security is tight. This president has haters from day one who are bent on his destruction so such security is vital.
According to Veterans Today enewspaper a headline reads:
The article explains
It seems our boy Willard has been busy on both sides of the pond.
On his trip to London one can but wonder if Willard is going to visit some of the folks he dealt with in Bain. I wouldn't be surprised. It won't be reported either as someone will be told the meetings are off the record and very hush hush. Bob's your uncle.. pip, pip, cherry-o and all that sort of rot, what?
adler,,Bain, Bush,and racist. Why are you people so afraid to look at the unemployment, debt, race and class warfare, and total downgrading of our government with all the overspending and fraud? Yeh,I would be too if I created it!
You guys are seriously debating which President spends the most time on vacation? Check out Congress! BTW, Murphy Andrew. Obama has spent less money than just about any President in history. Don't believe me? Name the "NEW" spending bills signed into law by Obama and how much each one added to the debt (or deficit). When Bill Clinton left office, he left GW Bush with an $80B annual deficit. 8 years later when GW Bush left office, he left Obama with a $1T annual deficit.
Did I understand correctly that as a result of Congress' failure to raise the debt ceiling and the resultant downgrade of the USA's credit rating, increased the debt by over a billion dollars due to the higher cost of borrowing (which by the way continued even though the debt ceiling remained the same)???
I believe the Congress was counter-productive in making this move.
But, according to our friends in the GOP, it's Mr. Obama's fault...sigh.
President Obama plugged one hole. I don't mean the hole in the republicans head. IRAQ = $10 billion/month, multiply by 12 months, multiply by 11 years. Staggering. BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT. Iraq was just as bad as the meltdown on Wall Street followed by TARP.
Wow!!! That's great. Now we have a few fall guys who are about to stick their foot up their mouths. A few of them in trying to out flank the others will make a flobber Bokoo material to wrap them in many layers. Romney would be very sorry he let the pack loose.
God forbid those GOP clowns actually do some work in their own states. So what's up with Portman going to Penn. they must have given up on Ohio.
sure genius; like the Dems back in their homes states bankrupting Blue city after city as in California?
Redhead...you're a walking poster for birth control.
I sense panic creeping into libs' postings. You should read threads on Yahoo...anti obungler posts cover about 98% of the responses.
Your boy's going down!!
And, lo and behold, yesterday Axelrod ADMITS that the security leaks actually did come from the White House!
My gawd...even poor Jay Carney is starting to look embarrassed about attempting to spin Obungler's off the cuff...off the telepromtor gaffs.
Obungler's feeble attempts to walk back his "you didn't build that" boo-boo make for excellent comic relief.
But of course you idiots cling to every utterance of this disgrace of a so-called president!
an ACORN fell from a tree and tried to destroy America
The real problem is that all of these surrogates are advocating the exact policies that caused our problems in the first place. The trickle down theory, that was accurately described by George H.W. Bush as "voodoo economics".
As allways you stick your heads in the sand when facts are given to you.
WHAT facts? Show us just one you've given us?
All you have done is parrot NewsforDumbFux squawking points & not very effectively I might add... junior! lol
Stop being a freakin ZOMBIE & start thinking for yourself for a change!
#4.3 - Wed Jul 25, 2012 7:14 PM EDT
Just a quick note about Faux Noos. Rupert has decided not to establish a Canadian version of Faux Noos. Unfortunately in Canada it is unlawful to tell lies and call it news and since that would make Faux Noos programs about two minutes long they would be unable to sell enough advertising to survive.
I wish half of you that want to down grade the President would send your commits to your Congress. The President cannot make congress pass a bill. Only Congress can and they the House have passed zero. Instead of get mad at the President for the economy what about your Senator they tell you they our for the Middle Class yet nothing is done why they would like to see us fall. They do not understand that if we do not work they would not be rich. And women out there you really need to watch them our right are being taken away little bye little before to long your voting right will be gone.
Alex Moe and Andrew Rafferty, you didn't write that. Somebody else made that happen. I mean you have traveled on roads and bridges to get to your office, and demonstrably posted this on government (and Algore) invented Internet.
Please remove your names from the byline.
If you possess a comprehensive understanding of world history and economics it is impossible to accept the modern liberal ideology. Unless you're just a dumb phuck. Hey you liberal geniuses... how's Europe doing? And Cali? Nice work. Rucking Fetards.
Liberals, please, tell me: what part of Obama's record are you proud about it?
1. His record deficits/debt?
2. His unemployment numbers? The other day I listened to an Obama clip (I think from 2008) where he was criticizing Bush for bad employment numbers. Those numbers were unemployment rate 5.6% and in that month only 319,000 jobs were added. Compare that with the numbers reported the other day. If you are not ignorant you should know the numbers I am talking about: 80,000 jobs added. That kind of jobs added does not keep with the number of new people entering the work force. The GOP should use Obama's own words against him.
3. The rise of energy prices?
4. The underemployment numbers?s
5. His stimulus that did one thing and one thing only, exploded the deficits/debt.
6. How about Obamacare? That has scared the small businesses and they are not growing neither are they employing.
Whatelse?
7. Are you proud of the weakening of the dollar (what stopped the down fall was the fact that Europe and the Euro did worst but the Dollar is still weak).
8. How about real state? How proud are of real state dismall numbers?
9. How about the USA credit rating? Lowered for the first time in history.
10. Are you proud of Obama's budget that did not pass the Congress and did not even get one vote from Democrats in the Senate?
11. How about Solyndra anyone?
12. How about Fast and Furious?
13. How about changing the laws and overruling what is in the books?s
14. How about the highest number of in poverty under Obama recently reported?
15. How about the registering of record number of people in food stamps?
16. Well, we can go on and on and on ...
Well, I will stop here. How can anyone support Obama is a mistery. Certain pundits explain it by saying people say they support him because they don't want to be called racist. Well, the liberals play the race card all the time. They disregard Obama's record. What this mean is that people who support Obama live in a dream world, one that is outside reality.
Liberals, please, tell me: what part of Obama's record are you proud about it?
1. His record deficits/debt?
2. His unemployment numbers? The other day I listened to an Obama clip (I think from 2008) where he was criticizing Bush for bad employment numbers. Those numbers were unemployment rate 5.6% and in that month only 319,000 jobs were added. Compare that with the numbers reported the other day. If you are not ignorant you should know the numbers I am talking about: 80,000 jobs added. That kind of jobs added does not keep with the number of new people entering the work force. The GOP should use Obama's own words against him.
3. The rise of energy prices?
4. The underemployment numbers?s
5. His stimulus that did one thing and one thing only, exploded the deficits/debt.
6. How about Obamacare? That has scared the small businesses and they are not growing neither are they employing.
Whatelse?
7. Are you proud of the weakening of the dollar (what stopped the down fall was the fact that Europe and the Euro did worst but the Dollar is still weak).
8. How about real state? How proud are of real state dismall numbers?
9. How about the USA credit rating? Lowered for the first time in history.
10. Are you proud of Obama's budget that did not pass the Congress and did not even get one vote from Democrats in the Senate?
11. How about Solyndra anyone?
12. How about Fast and Furious?
13. How about changing the laws and overruling what is in the books?s
14. How about the highest number of in poverty under Obama recently reported?
15. How about the registering of record number of people in food stamps?
16. Well, we can go on and on and on ...
Well, I will stop here. How can anyone support Obama is a mistery. Certain pundits explain it by saying people say they support him because they don't want to be called racist. Well, the liberals play the race card all the time. They disregard Obama's record. What this mean is that people who support Obama live in a dream world, one that is outside reality.
United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction
Senate members:
Democrats: Patty Murray, Washington, Co-Chair, Max Baucus, Montana, John Kerry, Massachusetts
Republicans: Jon Kyl, Arizona, Rob Portman, Ohio, Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania
House members:
Democrats: Xavier Becerra, California, Jim Clyburn, South Carolina, Chris Van Hollen, Maryland
Republicans: Jeb Hensarling, Texas, Co-Chair, Fred Upton, Michigan, Dave Camp, Michigan
"Not to be forgotten is the man who many consider the front runner in the VP search -- Ohio Sen. Rob Portman. He has spent most of his weekends away from Washington helping Romney in some capacity in his home state. Last Friday he attended a Romney fundraiser in Lima, Ohio, and the weekend before that, he both bracketed President Obama’s campaign stop in Cincinnati, OH and helped to open a Romney Victory office the southwest part of the Buckeye State."
"On Monday he’ll take his act on the road to campaign in Pennsylvania. It will mark the second time Portman will hit the Keystone State in hopes of turning the traditionally blue state to red."
WHAT THE HECK IS THIS MAN DOING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL WHEN HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE WORKING ON THE DEFICIT SUPER COMMITTEE TO PREVENT THE FEARED ACROSS-THE-BOARD BUDGET CUTS IN JANUARY 2013???
"THIS IS WHY MODERATES IN BOTH PARTIES WILL VOTE FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA IN NOVEMBER"
Financial Disasters Caused by Bush/Chaney and GOP:
1. AIG bankruptcy – September 2008 - $1 trillion is losses.
2. WorldComm – June 2002 - $103.9 billion in debt.
3. Sprint laid off more than 17,000 employees in 2003.
4. Sprint lost over 95% of the value in their stock between 1999 and 2003.
5. ENRON – October 2001 - $11 billion.
6. Lehman Brothers - September 13, 2008 - $700 billion in debt.
7. Bear Stearns collapse.
8. Merrill Lynch collapse.
9. Collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
10. Near fatal collapse of the GM and Chrysler.
11. Housing collapse
12. Westar collapse – Western Resources – Kansas Utility –2006.
13. Aquila – Missouri Utility Co. – Collapse – billions lost.
14. 55,000 manufacturing companies closed.
15. Illegal 10 year war that has cost $5 trillion dollars.
16. 6,000 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
17. 770 point drop in the Dow in one day.
18. Non-regulation of derivatives, credit default swaps, and CDO’s.
19. 2002 - Tyco collapse – 240,000 employees fired – Top exec’s in prison for 30 years.
20. Sky high utility rates for people in California thanks to ENRON.
21. Washington Mutual Bankruptcy - 2008 - $327 billion.
22. Thornberg Mortgage – 2009 - $37 billion.
23. Pacific Gas and Electric – 2001 - $36 billion.
24. Bush has the lowest approval rating in history at 22% at the end of his term.
25. Most increasing gasoline prices since GWB, Sr.
26. Irreversible damage to foreign policy.
27. A prospected bankrupt Social Security System following a surplus.
28. A do nothing Congress split by partisanship.
29. Lower tax rate for the wealthiest of Americans.
30. Increased national crime rate.
31. An international embarrassment on fiscal policy and responsibility.
32. Leading the United Nations to a "World Market", then pulling the rug out from under it.