Romney predicts 'landslide' reelection

[midnight armadillo]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/08/27/romney_predicts_landslide_reelection/

Romney predicts 'landslide' reelection
Forecast with a catch: That's if he runs again

By Michael Levenson, Globe Correspondent | August 27, 2005

Despite polls showing him trailing potential Democratic rivals, Governor Mitt Romney is confidently predicting that he would trounce the competition if he decides to run for reelection next year.

''Well, I win by a landslide in Massachusetts if I run for reelection. And that's very possibly what I'm going to do," Romney said in an interview with Chris Matthews that was televised nationally yesterday on the MSNBC political talk show ''Hardball."

Romney's remarks were the latest in a string of mixed signals in recent months. He traveled the country elevating his national profile and raising cash for Republicans earlier this year and explicitly acknowledged in June that he was testing the waters for a 2008 presidential campaign. But this month, he has emphasized to several reporters that he is focused on his job and that he has not made a decision whether to run for reelection.

Yesterday, his main Democratic rival, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, issued a one-sentence response: ''Whenever the governor makes up his mind, I'm ready."

During a bantering, back-and-forth interview, Matthews was clearly skeptical about Romney's insistence that he had not decided to seek the White House in 2008.

''I love being governor, love what I'm doing here," Romney told Matthews.

HA HA HA HA HA. Just try Mitt, just try!

[Cha]

1. How's the Attorney General?

"Yesterday, his main Democratic rival, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, issued a one-sentence response: ''Whenever the governor makes up his mind, I'm ready."

[paineinthearse]

15. "Where", not "how"

Where was Mr. Reilly last Saturday? Didn't see him at the Roxbury Carribbean Festival.

[Bozita]

2. The Republican slime machine awaits any and all challengers

[Autumn Colors]

4. Repubican slime machine??

or have they contracted with Diebold for the upcoming election? Perhaps someone from Diebold has promised him a landslide victory and he just couldn't keep his glee to himself. :sarcasm:

[ISUGRADIA]

3. Poor Mitt. Denial is not only a river in Egypt

[movonne]

5. What kind of voting machines do they have ?

[paineinthearse]

16. Video

Video Demonstration in English or Spanish for Voting Equipment in Massachusetts

http://www.lwvma.org/votingentertown.shtml

[yankeefanatic3]

6. Only if he runs in Mississippi nt

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

7. LMAO...is he hoping for more Repuke voter fraud???

If he's less popular than his opponents, what does he think his chances seem to be, especially in traditionally true BLUE Mass? He only has a 50% approval rating, and only 30% of people there feel he deserves a second term, according to a recent Boston Globe poll.

[MADem]

8. What, is Mitt the Shit on DRUGS?? nt

[still_one]

9. is diebold in Massachusetts?

[Dagaz]

10. mitt

who is he running against?

[wli]

11. doubtless assisted by Diebold, Sequoia, ES&S, et al n/t

[yy4me]

12. Mitt run again?

me thinks he suffers from delusions of granduer..or something. He has let MA run aground and has no right to claim otherwise. I don't know a soul who would vote for the turncoat again.
No-one who would take away our rights will elected here. We of Massachusetts are fiercely protective of our freedoms and will not let him change our right to free choice.

[Arkana]

13. Keep dreaming, Mittens.

MA is gonna run your scrawny Mormon ass out of Boston faster than you can spit.

[whalerider55]

14. it'll be a landlside, all right

with mitt buried at the bottom

whalerider