Romney set to speak on politics of presidency (Romney in '08?)

[Khephra]

Governor Mitt Romney will deliver a speech on presidential politics to the National Press Club Wednesday, amid speculation that he wants to run for the White House in 2008.

With his home-state senator, John F. Kerry, running for president this year, Romney is set to give a speech entitled "Presidential Politics: a Perspective from the States." The speech and the question-and-answer session that follows will be carried on C-SPAN and National Public Radio. His spokeswoman declined to provide specifics on the speech.

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Romney has seen his national profile rise in recent months, largely because of his opposition to same-sex marriage. After it was legalized in Massachusetts, he launched an effort to limit same-sex marriage to residents of the state. In June, he testified in support of the Federal Marriage Amendment before a US Senate Judiciary Committee panel. The amendment, backed by President Bush, would amend the US Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.

In a column Sunday, Chicago Sun-Times columnist and television commentator Robert Novak wrote: "Republican talk on Capitol Hill in Washington about presidential prospects for 2008 has turned to Massachusetts Mitt Romney as a conservative who was moderate enough to win in a liberal Democratic state."

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2004/07/10/romney_set_to_speak_on_politics_of_presidency/

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. Mitt fancies himself the Mormon JFK. n/t

[DAGDA56]

2. A friendly question to Massachusetts DUers...

...how in the hell did you let this get become your governor?

[Cerridwen]

3. The same way the rest of us "let" Bush become president ?! n/t

[AndyTiedye]

4. By Means of Theft and Fraud, You Mean?

[bushwakker]

5. His name is Tom Finneran

He is the Dem Speaker of the House of reps. He is hated by all and every 4 years the GOp runs their campaign against his corrupt, power mad style of leadership - and it works. The maddening (and sad) thing is that Finneran is not a liberal or a progressive. He is a fiscal and social conservative. So in MA we are double fucked. we have this odious character that the GOP gets to run against every for years - and he's not even a liberal!!! Dems won't take back the corner office until Finneran is gone.