Mitt Romney Visits DuPage County

2008_2_mitt_romney.jpgWhile John McCain spent Super Bowl Sunday in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney made his pitch to the most reliably conservative county in Illinois. At a packed rally of several hundred people at the College of DuPage yesterday, he tried to convince voters here that he is the true conservative standard bearer. Romney vowed that as president he would "stand up for the principles of the Republican Party and to live in the house that Ronald Reagan built."

Although trailing badly in the polls, Romney is trying to capitalize on the outrage of some right-wing talk show hosts, and in comments to the press afterwards, he compared McCain to the two Democratic candidates. “He’s virtually indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama on a number of major issues our country faces."

In an interview with CBS2, Romney predicted that Obama would have trouble carrying Illinois in a general election. "I can't imagine America choosing someone to run the country who's never run even a corner store," Romney said. "I'd be able to be competitive in Illinois in a general election." John McCain and Barack Obama hold 2-to-1 leads over their closest primary rivals in a Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll released today.

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Seriously, if Mitt wins, I'm moving to Canada. He makes the most inane comments. I promised to move after the last election and didn't make good on it. There's apparently a movie about a guy who actually moves to Canada after the 2004 election, called "Blue State". Anyone heard of it?

It looks like you won't need to move to Canada.

I am not thrilled with the flip-flopping Romney, but I'll take him any day over John "Open Borders" McCain. Oops, I mean John "Don't Renew the Tax Cuts" McCain.

it took all of 5 minutes of watching a republican debate to hear romney defend pharamceutical companies and i realized he may not be good for this country

All these liberals always promise to move but never do. Suck it up whoever wins nothing really changes. Hillary/obama mcain/romnney no big groundbreaking changes are going to happen. Congress wont go along with any new grand ideas.

"Romney predicted that Obama would have trouble carrying Illinois in a general election."

What a dumbass! If Obama is the nominee there is no way he looses Illinois! God, this guy says some stupid shit sometimes.

Don't forget about John "We may be in Iraq for 100 years" McCain.

Although in fairness, none of the main candidates will have the U.S. military out of there even if they serve two terms. But at least they think we can be out before the unborn kids of my unborn kids die!

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