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Romney trumpets business requirement for the presidency in Vegas

By Seema Mehta

May 29, 2012, 5:12 p.m.

LAS VEGAS — Mitt Romney, campaigning at a furniture warehouse in the desert heat on Tuesday, did not mention the two big issues of the day – that he was likely to clinch the GOP presidential nomination within hours, or the fundraiser he planned to attend this evening with controversial mogul Donald Trump.

All attention in the political world has been focused on the Trump event, because of Trump’s continued insistence that President Obama was not born in the United States, a claim that has been repeatedly disproved. Romney has maintained that the president was born in Hawaii and is eligible to be the nation’s commander in chief, but he added a new line to his standard stump speech about the requirements to hold the office.

Romney said he was speaking to a restaurant owner earlier in the day who said he believed that another prerequisite should be added to become president in addition to the age, citizenship and birthplace requirements in the Constitution – a provision that the president have worked for three years in business.

That way, “he or she would understand the policies they’re putting in place have to encourage small business and make it easier for businesses to grow,” Romney said. “They would understand if they say something negative about Las Vegas, it means businesses and government agencies aren’t going to come here.”

That line was a reference to a statement Obama made in 2009, when he said that failing financial institutions that received federal bailout money shouldn’t use it for junkets to places like Las Vegas.

Romney, taking a turn as spokesman for the city’s visitors’ bureau, pledged that if elected, he would urge people to visit Sin City.

“I tell you, if I become the next president of the United States, I’m going to remind people, I come to Las Vegas, I love it here,” he said. “Come on to Las Vegas and spend some time.”

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la ... 3425.story

Pelranius wrote:To the best of my knowledge, FDR only served two years in a law firm (which I don't think is what Mittens has in mind), and Reagan's acting career and presidency of SAG probably doesn't count either.

Ron Paul won the majority of national convention delegates in Iowa this weekend, ending a Republican Party drama that has been unfolding since January.

The Paul campaign announced tonight that the Texas Congressman won 21 of the state's 25 unbound delegates at Iowa's state and district conventions this weekend, despite a concerted effort by the state party establishment and Mitt Romney supporters to purge the national delegate list of Ron Paul backers.

Here's the release from the campaign:

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has won a significant majority of Iowa’s Republican delegates to the national convention in Tampa.

Dr. Paul won 10 of 13 delegates elected at today’s state convention in addition to having won 11 of 12 delegates elected at last night’s district conventions, for a weekend total of 21 of 25 contestable delegates, all unbound.

Dr. Paul’s victory in the Hawkeye State affirms his delegate-attainment strategy and it has the added benefit of having occurred in the first-in-nation voting state, also a swing state.

“We thank the many Iowa Republican activists for working tirelessly toward this meaningful victory, in particular the work they performed in the service of constitutional government and personal liberty. This win is a real validation for our campaign and its many supporters in Iowa and across our great nation,” said Ron Paul 2012 National Campaign Chairman Jesse Benton.

“We look forward to bringing the Ron Paul delegation to Tampa and to making a significant, positive contribution to the 2012 Republican Party Platform,” added Mr. Benton.

The victory is further evidence of the growing power of Ron Paul's so-called Liberty Movement, mimicking similar national delegate landslides at state conventions in Maine, Nevada, and Louisiana.

It also gives Iowa its third Republican presidential winner of the 2012 election cycle — a potentially bad sign for a state that prides itself on its first-in-nation caucus status. The Republican Party descended into chaos after this year's January caucus, which was initially called for Mitt Romney until the state GOP declared Rick Santorum the real winner. The debacle led to the resignation of Iowa's state GOP chair, and Ron Paul's highly-organized army of grassroots supporters stepped in to fill the leadership void.

Still, the results of this weekend's Iowa conventions will have virtually no effect on Mitt Romney's all-but-certain nomination at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this summer. Paul effectively dropped out of the race last month — and his son, Sen. Rand Paul, has since endorsed Romney — and some of his delegates have hinted they won't even try to get the elder Paul's name on the ballot at the national convention.

“The movement has a huge responsibility when it goes to Tampa to show Iowa we’re a real movement and we’re not there to be ramble rousers,” Iowa Ron Paul supporter Dave Cushman told the Des Moines Register today. "“The goal is not to embarrass the party...The goal is to make the party stronger and broaden the base, and walk the Republican talk.”

UnderAGreySky wrote:Someone please explain this to me

TimothyC wrote:Rep. Paul and his lackeys are a bit of a pox on the current party.

JME2 wrote:

TimothyC wrote:Rep. Paul and his lackeys are a bit of a pox on the current party.

Good; it means more infighting and division before November.

CaptHawkeye wrote:One way or another Ron Paul and his legion of Brownshirt thugs are determined to obtain the attention they think they need by being as loud and aggressive as possible. We're lucky the political climate even in the Republican base is as stable as it is because his kind of behavior was classic of 1920s fascist groups.

One way or another Ron Paul and his legion of Brownshirt thugs are determined to obtain the attention they think they need by being as loud and aggressive as possible.

Elheru Aran wrote:Perhaps this thread should now be replaced by a sticky for '2012 US Presidential Election'? Just a thought...

Dalton wrote:Anyone die from the "GOP bloviator tells a lie" drinking game? Paul Ryan alone would probably kill an elephant.