My guess is very few people who have followed Romney’s run to the White House since 2008 are unfamiliar with the site EvangelicalsforMitt.org. The site’s co-founders and principle authors David and Nancy French are known to many of us as well. For the few that are not yet familiar with this fine couple let me introduce you.
David French is a Harvard Law School graduate (with honors) and now works as a constitutional lawyer. David has written many op-eds, a number of which have been published at NRO. And, oh yeah, he joined the US Army in his mid 30′s (while he had a wife and kids, and was enjoying a successful career) and served a 11-month tour in Iraq, during which he earned a Bronze Star. Nancy French is a best-selling author of several books. One of her works includes co-authoring Bristol Palin’s recent book Not Afraid of Life. Nancy has appeared on many news shows in the course of her book-publishin’ and Mitt-supportin’. Not least among Nancy’s accomplishments is being a fine mother to three kids, one of whom is a beautiful girl recently adopted from Ethiopia.
In the publication the David and Nancy describe how it is they came to support Governor Romney, including openly discussing common misgivings Evangelicals may have (as Nancy did) in supporting a Mormon candidate for President. They also lay down the facts regarding a number of Romney’s policies and positions that are typically important to the Evangelical community, and why Romney should be their man. I found the last section to be very interesting as Nancy describes the “Mitt and Ann I Know.” But I won’t tell you about it… you’ve got to get it read it yourself.
The book is Why Evangelicals Should Support Mitt Romney (And Feel Good About It). It is only available for download (only $3) on Kindle or any device with a Kindle app. (It was a snap to downloaded mine on my iPhone). Get yours today and help David and Nancy share their valuable (and interesting) insight from an Evangelical perspective.
Contents:
Introduction: “Sorry, but I’ll Never Vote for Mitt Romney”
Mormon Mitt: Are Souls at Stake?
Is Mitt Romney a Moderate? His Battle for Life and Marriage
Massachusetts Health Care and Mitt Romney’s Health Care Advantage
From Morality to Money: Fixing the Economy Without Compromising Core Values
Confronting Jihad: Mitt Romney Understands the Threat
An Opportunity for Friendship With Our Mormon Neighbors
The first post-Iowa national polls are out and Mitt’s path to the nomination is becoming clearer every day! Romney leads both the Rasmussen and the Gallup polls that were published yesterday, each by 8 points – though Gallup was +8 vs. Gingrich, and Rasmussen was +8 vs. Santorum. Here are the figures:
Rasmussen 1/4/12: 29% Romney
21% Santorum
16% Gingrich
12% Paul
4% Perry
4% Huntsman
I’m inclined to think the Rasmussen numbers are more accurate since the entire poll was taken after the Iowa caucuses, while the Gallup poll is a rolling average of their last 5 daily polls. Their figures will be accurate soon enough.
So the Gingrich slide and Santorum surge are official. Rick Santorum finally gets his turn on the GOP pendulum – how about that? As of now, each candidates except Romney and Huntsman have enjoyed a surge. Examining the graph below you get the feeling the GOP has been taken on quite the roller coaster ride, except for Romney’s campaign whose is more of a high-wire act. (Move slowly and steadily toward your goal, and don’t stray off course… and you’ll stay on top.)
As Gingrich and Santorum begin to trade places the new question is how low/high (respectively) will they go? Will Santorum muster enough support to become competitive in South Carolina? With Romney as the clear winner-to-be in New Hampshire, South Carolina truly is the last stand for most of the other candidates, and it may be Romney’s most difficult task yet. Whomever wins in SC will have great momentum going into Florida. If that happens to be Mitt we could officially dub his momentum as “unstoppable”.
~Nate G.
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UPDATE: The following tweet is even better news than the 8-point national lead: Read more…
As we patiently await the results of the first-in-the-nation caucus today (GO MITT!), we thought it would be fun and productive to help generate some positive buzz for @MittRomney in the twittersphere. The idea was actually birthed from a tweet I saw this morning from a fellow Utahan, Steven Starks. In his tweet, he recounts a old story from back when Mitt took the helm at the Olympics:
@StevenStarks: One of my favorite @MittRomney stories: When Mitt took over the 2002 Olympic Games he discovered that the board meetings featured catered lunches. Knowing the games were in a financial mess he immediately replaced the catered luncheons with Dominoes Pizza. He then charged $1 per slice during the meetings. This accomplished two things 1) saved money on lunches 2) sent a message to everyone that any excessive spending would be scrutinized and stopped. People involved said that simple act sent a message throughout the organization. That type of thinking is needed in Washington DC if we are going to get our nation’s financial house in order. #2012mitt #iacaucus
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Have a favorite #MittStory? We like that @MittRomney scrapped expensive catering at Olympics meetings & instead charged $1/slice for pizza!
I have not personally written much here on this blog about Speaker Gingrich, be he is one that has from the beginning been on the bottom of my list of candidates I would support. My reasons for not supporting him have been my own and I never felt to share them since I never thought Gingrich would surge as high as he has in the national polls. While it is true that his support is currently waning, it’s my belief that he still has the greatest potential against Romney due to his strong support in South Carolina.
The following letter came to me in an email from Grant Hallstrom of Southern California. Though I didn’t write it encapsulates very well my personal thoughts and feelings on Speaker Gingrich, so I thought I’d post it here. Before this came to me Grant had sent it out to more than 1000 of his contacts and received many positive responses for his letter. I’d like say thanks to Grant for reaching out to so many people to help Mitt Romney, and for letting us post the letter here on our site.
I do not know your political affiliations, and do not want to offend anyone, but I feel the need to speak up. It is not my normal practice to point out negative attributes about political candidates, but I am amazed at how gullible so many Republicans are in buying the re-invention of Newt Gingrich from the bombastic, dishonest, ego maniac into an older, wiser and gentler statesman. I don’t buy it!
I can understand how uninformed people would be impressed with this smart, knowledgeable person with a strong personality and good communication skills who says the right things, but we have a track record on this guy to put things into perspective. Read more…
I always like to see supporters of Mitt Romney be creative and produce their own art, songs, and videos. The following video is an especially good one created by Darin Southam. It has many good clips that show a clear contrast between Obama and Romney, and it is set well to music. After watching it you’re gonna be pumped to help Mitt in anyway you can, so click here to make those calls to Iowa today.
Watch Mitt on Morning Joe and on Hannity below the fold.Read more…
A political action committee which had planned to support Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign has very quietly defected to Mitt Romney — and it’s spending big on his behalf.
Citizens for a Working America, the so-called Super PAC which aired TV ads against a Democratic congressional candidate last year, had indicated earlier this year that it was backing the Minnesota congresswoman in the GOP nominating contest. But the group instead made a $475,000 Iowa ad buy on Christmas Eve in support of Romney, according to Federal Election Commission data published today.
WaPo’s The Fix reported the group’s intention to support Michele Bachmann back in August:
Citizens for a Working America, as the group is known, will be chaired by former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. Ed Brookover, a longtime political consultant and adviser to Bachmann, will be involved as will conservative lawyer and economist Marc Nuttle.
“Michele Bachmann is a principled conservative with the policy prescriptions our country needs to pull out of its economic doldrums,” said Brookover in an email exchange with The Fix. “We look forward to promoting her and her programs to the American public.”
The group was formed in the fall of 2010 and spent more than $250,000 to defeat former South Carolina Democratic Rep. John Spratt. It will now be turned entirely to aid Bachmann.
Finally, via Politico, we have video of the big $475,000 ad buy the group made in Iowa: (Gingrich campaign official campaign ad buy from the 19th was $240,000)
Gov. Romney has written a new op-ed in USA Today titled What Kind of Society Does America Want? This is likely a preview of a major part of Mitt’s general election strategy and definitely worth the read. It begins:
In less than a year, the American people will go to the polls and choose a new president. A matter of great moment is at stake in this election. The question we will decide is this: Will the United States be an Entitlement Society or an Opportunity Society?
In an Entitlement Society, government provides every citizen the same or similar rewards, regardless of education, effort and willingness to innovate, pioneer or take risk. In an Opportunity Society, free people living under a limited government choose whether or not to pursue education, engage in hard work, and pursue the passion of their ideas and dreams. If they succeed, they merit the rewards they are able to enjoy.
Over the past three years, Barack Obama has been replacing our merit-based society with an Entitlement Society. The federal government has insinuated itself more and more deeply into health care, finance, energy, industry, the environment and labor. As a result of one of the most dramatic expansions of Washington’s power in our nation’s history, federal spending under Obama is now nearly a quarter of our GDP, and has risen to the highest level since the national emergency of World War II.
and it ends with:
The first step in returning to an Opportunity Society is scaling back our vast federal government. I will put every single government program to a simple test: Is this program so critical to our nation’s future that we should borrow money from China to pay for it? But my objective is not merely to cut unnecessary spending. As president, I hope to accomplish something far larger.
America has tremendous dynamic potential. Just in the past decades, America pioneered the computer revolution and the Internet revolution that have profoundly changed the world. Equally important revolutions are under way in American laboratories in fields ranging from biotechnology to nanotechnology to energy. Our potential as a nation is boundless. We need to unleash it again.
Building ever costlier government entitlements is not the way to go about that. Quite the contrary; the dead hand of bureaucratic Washington can only stifle entrepreneurship. Government dependency can only foster passivity and sloth. We need to rein in government and unleash the extraordinary vitality and creativity of the American people.
We must not wait to suffer a crisis like Greece’s or Portugal’s to right the ship of state. With the proper policies and strong leadership, we can once again become a society that rewards merit, that welcomes innovators and new ideas, and is capable of creating undreamed of opportunities for all who seek them. That is what the election of 2012 is all about.
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The thing best known about the French couple is that they have been stalwart supporters of Romney, particularly among the Evangelical community, since 2005. They now continue that streak by releasing a new book entitled Why Evangelicals Should Support Mitt Romney (And Feel Good About It), available for Kindle.
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