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According to sources, Republican media guru Alex Castellanos?has been hired by?the Governor Mitt Romney 2008 presidential campaign to run their advertising shop.
Castellanos is a veteran of big time Republican campaigns at virtually all levels and someone who is known to be as hard hitting as he is conservative. He is perhaps?most famous?for his “white hands” television ad during a re-election campaign for United States Senator Jesse Helms in which an employment rejection letter is crumpled up on screen by two white hands as the narrator explains how this person lost a job they needed and were qualified for because of affirmative action. The ad was controversial because the?Democrat opponent of Helms in that campaign was black, in addition to being a supporter of racial preferences – former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt. Of course Helms was undefeated in his Senate campaigns and had a first-rate political team – a team that single-handedly revived the presidential campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1976 that was on virtual life support until it won the North Carolina Republican primary againt incumbent President Gerald Ford.
With Castellanos on board, I would expect some very tough ads from the Romney campaign questioning the conservative credentials of primary opponents Giuliani and McCain, who had better be ready to respond in kind and play hardball. Castellanos uses a “take no prisoners” approach and is a tone-setting kind of campaign principal. It ought to be very interesting.
It should also be noted that an anonymous aide to Mayor Giuliani tells David Saltonstall of the New York Daily News that their presidential campaign will be bringing in “national political advisers” to supplement the core advisory staff that has been used in his mayoral elections.
November 15th, 2006 at 8:52 pm
How is Mitt going to overcome his being a Mormon with Evangelicals? The hit pieces on some of their bizzare (to say the least) beliefs in his religion will kill him. has anyone thought of that?
November 15th, 2006 at 9:16 pm
I’m sure Govenor Mitt Romney has thought about the fact that he has different views then others. Although to say that it is something he will have to overcome is a little premature in my opinion. I feel that Mitt will simply need to focus on building a base with as many evangelicals as he can. He can’t change what he believes and personally I don’t feel Mormons have any weirder beliefs then many other main stream christian organizations, they are simply misunderstood!
November 15th, 2006 at 11:26 pm
Mitt has governed as a pro-choice, anti-gun liberal for four years. Whom, exactly, is he fooling?
November 16th, 2006 at 12:02 am
Stephen,
Care to back that claim up?
November 16th, 2006 at 12:45 am
Stephen can’t . . . just a nice catch phrase with no substance . . . sort of like some of the other candidates.
November 16th, 2006 at 10:18 am
If you are a true social/political conservative you will want to strongly consider Mitt Romney.
He is a true example of someone with a strong value based foundation (Family oriented) that leads by example. His policies fall in line because of this foundation. These are things that are very important to people and they will focus on that when it comes to a republican candidate. The religion issue will be a non-factor if he shares their values and beliefs and believe me that goes not only for Evangelicals, it goes for the whole US. Republicans are held to a higher standard than Democrats are. If you don’t think so then let me explain…
If you don’t think the Democratic machine, i.e., mainstream media, Clintoncrats, and the intellectual left (Public Universities) are going to be ruthless in the way they handle the Republican candidate…think again. They know they won’t win with their political ideas, but where they will win is if they hide behind their machine and make it a “Republicans are no better than anyone else” social platform. They lost the Presidency in ‘04 because they didn’t have anything on President Bush to bludgeon him with and eventually their lies about him caught up. Remember the line was that he won because of “family values”. In ‘06 they (Democrats) chopped and chopped away at conservative values (of course Republicans didn’t help by trying to move center with policy and in some cases just tried to ride what they thought was a mandate. They lost focus which tends to happen when you end up in Washington). But the Democrats hid behind their machine, threw things out to see what would stick which of course “the culture of corruption” stuck among other things, hid behind the machine and rode it out.
Mitt Romney is going to give you the best chance. Rudy and McCain are who the Democrats want because they take social issues off the table or create hazy differences between them. They will hide behind their machine and keep throwing things at you that make these two gentlemen look like they should have been aborted at birth don’t doubt that that’s what’s going to happen. They will be slaughtered and in the end Hillary will end up looking a lot better to the general public then they could ever pretend to.
November 16th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Wrong, Stephen. Sorry.
From my friends at EvangelicalsForMitt:
Romney is for the sanctity of human life and he has proven it:
He is a “convert†to the pro-life position, much like Ronald Reagan
He believes life begins at conception even though his church has no official position on the matter
He vetoed a bill to give kids access to emergency contraception without parents’ knowledge
He promised a “moratorium†on changes to abortion laws in his 2002 gubernatorial run
He opposes Roe v. Wade and thinks states should set abortion policy
He opposes cloning of human embryos for stem cell research—even though his wife has multiple sclerosis
He vetoed a bill to expand such research despite the overwhelmingly hostile liberal majority in his state legislature
Quote: “In considering the issue of embryo cloning and embryo farming, I saw where the harsh logic of abortion can lead—to the view of innocent new life as nothing more than research material or a commodity to be exploited.â€
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