Mitt Romney holds four-month old Ryan Pratt while campaigning at the Pancakes Eggcetera restaurant in Rosemont, Illinois. Romney Campaign embed Garrett Jackson: “Wherever we go there are always a lot of people who want the Gov to hold their babies. With 16 grandkids he’s a pro.” March 16, 2012 ( Photo/Garrett Jackson)
It was pancakes and eggs and FOX & Friends in the Prairie State this morning…
Governor Romney met with voters very early this morning at Pancakes Eggcetera in Rosemont, Illinois to rally support ahead of their delegate-rich primary next Tuesday. He spoke on jobs/economy, gasoline prices, housing market, and Obama’s 18 minute Hollywood created infomercial (*poster below):
Mitt Romney pans new Obama documentary with two thumbs down
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney gavePresident Obama’s new campaign infomercial two thumbs down at an Illinois campaign event on Friday morning.
The “so-called documentary about President Obama is now on the Internet . And you can take a look at it. It’s about 17 or 18 minutes,” Romney said at a diner outside Chicago.
He ridiculed director Davis Guggenheim for remarking recently that he had nothing negative to say about Obama. Romney used that as a takeoff point to attack the president over gas prices, the struggling housing market and continued high unemployment.
“I’ll give you some help, Mr. Guggenheim,” Romney said. “You can make a call to some of the moms that are having a hard time paying for gas as they get their kids to and from school and practice and music lessons. And you can also talk to the people who are having a hard time getting to and from work, given the price of gasoline.”
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…Romney said gasoline prices “have gone through the roof, in part because of this president’s failure to develop our energy resources.”
Later, FOX & Friends’ Alisyn Camerota, Steve Doocy, and Brian Kilmeade caught up with The Gov at the restaurant. Here’s the interview:
“We’re not gonna drive cars with windmills on them.” ~Mitt Romney
Using the telephone, Romney also held a half-hour townhall with Illinois Republicans. He hammered home the point that Rick Santorum is an ECONOMIC LIGHTWEIGHT :
Romney, in a half-hour telephone town hall to Illinois Republicans solicited by his campaign, warned the state’s voters to beware of Santorum.
“Sen. Santorum, for instance, is going to be campaigning in Illinois,” Romney said. “I think you’ll find he’s an economic lightweight — not because he isn’t an intelligent person but because not having ever spent any time in the private sector. He really doesn’t understand fundamentally what it takes to make this economy grow and thrive and add jobs. The economy is in my wheelhouse, it’s something I know well.”
Romney sought to paint Santorum and Gingrich as lifelong creatures of Washington while portraying himself as spending his life “in the real economy.”
“I’ve actually run things,” Romney said. “Now as you know, we elected three years ago a president who’d never run anything. And it hasn’t worked out so well. And both Speaker Gingrich and Sen. Santorum, like the current president, have not really run anything. I think it helps to have run something and understand the economy by working in the real economy.”
Leaving no media stone unturned, Romney for President released a new television ad today in Illinois titled Wrong Choice:
Rick Santorum’s weakness is the economy and his economic plan has been criticized as the worst of all the GOP candidates. Mitt Romney has proposed the boldest plan since Ronald Reagan and has the leadership experience to lead our country.
Today, Rasmussen shows Romney ahead in Illinois (but it’s evident he’s not taking anything for granted):
Mitt Romney – 41%
Rick Santorum – 32%
Newt Gingrich – 14%
Ron Paul – 7%
*In response to Obama’s my-record-stinks-but-reelect-me-anyway MOVIE, the Republican National Committee released this fitting movie poster (Click on image to enlarge -you’ll be glad you did!):
(emphasis added to articles)
► Jayde Wyatt
OBAMA RAN FOR CHANGE 2008..And CHANGE we did..4 years of change, here we are trying to crawl out of a recession that he may not have started but he certainly made it worse under his administration and just NOW Obama is finally waking up because it’s ELECTION 2012. Well, we will vote for another CHANGE. A CHANGE that will bring someone who knows ECONOMICS someone who knows how to bring this ECONOMY back. Yes, with all his so call gaffes/cadillacs/mansions/millions/millionaire friends at least he’s not going to the WHITE HOUSE to get rich that I CAN BET MY ONLY SON’S LIFE ON…
We are NOT in a recovery – we are teetering on the threshold of economic disaster. We need a nominee who will be juxtaposed to the destructive policies that Obama’s administration has implemented. We do not need someone who talks, as Obama did, in generalities and slogans- broad, sweeping statements about Republicans being “stupid”, incompetent, unqualified, and don’t understand the economy. We don’t need a President who hides his true beliefs- or hasn’t explained them- so people will “assume” that he believes as they do:
STOP THE DEMOCRAT-LEFT styled ATTACKS on our presidential nominees. If the base Republican voters are disgusted with both candidates- and their mud-slinging low blows, they will stay home!
Give me a reason to support YOU, Mr. Romney- not a litany of reasons why your opponents are idiots! It can cause many voters to believe that by association, you think THEY are idiots as well.
CUT OUT THE DESTRUCTIVE- our Country’s future IS at stake- and it’s much more valuable than your career.
Love the poster! Love the feisty and fighting Mitt with a baby in his arms. As Mitt said after the 2nd debate in Florida, he’s ‘no shrinking violet’. I can hear the drum rolls of ‘Bring it on!!!!
Wishing mitt all the best on sunday in pr.its time to say enough no more obama got to go.
Stella, good statement: …”[H]e’s not going to the WHITE HOUSE to get rich that I CAN BET MY ONLY SON’S LIFE ON. So true!
GFurniss, yes. Some make the mistake of thinking that Mitt is “not a fighter” because he doesn’t get on the stump and light his hair on fire. But, sustaining him beneath his calm and reasoned demeanor are guts of steel.
It’s evident he sure enjoys all the babies he meets along the campaign trail. They’re so dear – don’t have an inkling of how lucky they are that The Gov is working his legs off to save their future!
Loved the fine print on the poster, too.
Stella: You hit it right on all points!