Former Oklahoma Senator Don Nickles Praises Mitt Romney
Former U.S. Sen. Don Nickles, a Republican who represented Oklahoma for 24 years and is now a Washington lobbyist, praised GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Wednesday, saying:
“Conservatives propelled Mitt Romney to victory in Arizona and Michigan and they are supporting him in Oklahoma because he is the only candidate with private sector experience and a bold plan to get our economy back on track.
“Throughout the campaign, Mitt Romney has displayed the same steady and reliable leadership he has shown throughout his life in business, the Olympics, and as governor – Oklahomans have been waiting for this steady leadership in the White House. I urge all Oklahomans who want to stop mortgaging our future to China, get Washington out of our lives, and ensure that our future is brighter than our past to vote for Mitt Romney on Tuesday – our country can’t afford four more years of President Obama.”
Oklahomans vote in the Super Tuesday presidential primaries on Tuesday.
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Some of the comments I have seen about Santorum in various places are totally fabricated. Compared to all of the remaining candidates, Santorum is the only consistent authentic conservative. Even some of his critics admit that he is authentic. I am surprised to see some conservatives continue to support Romney or/and Newt after observing their poor judgments and persistent unpopularity at the grass root level.
In politics, likability and less or non-political, personal and professional baggage are an asset. Both Romney & Newt have a lot of known baggage that could easily be used against them in the general election. The establishment (Republican) made a commitment to have Romney as a presidential nominee.
Romney, Newt, & BHO have a lot of things in common: Individual health mandate; cap & trade; bailouts; TARP. Romney tries to argue that his work in the private sector and as an outsider helps him better than Santorum – who worked and lived in Washington before, to grow our economy. He promotes himself as a candidate who could fix the American economic problem. He may think that the American people may not know that a POTUS cannot & will not create or /and grow jobs. A president could create a healthy environment through a legislative process by the US Congress for a private sector to grow our economy and jobs. Can any one of Romney’s supporters tell the American people all of Romney’s specific achievements that make him electable?
Whether a candidate is an insider or an outsider is less important than what they did or do in areas of their expertise. How can we support Romney when his records clearly show that Romney care is the basis for Obamacare (1/6 of the US economy)? His statement that “I do not care for the very poor”; Republicans say we do not want Romney. Thomas Sowell said (…His (Romney’s) Millions of dollars parked in a tax shelter in the Cayman Island is red meat for the class warfare democrats”. It is silly on the part of Romney and others to say that the most conservative person in the race (may not be an ideal of all) is the least conservative shows desperation. To know more about Romney’s false claim for a reduction of unemployment to 4.7%, please go to http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/26/critics-hit-romney-job-creation-record/?page=all#pagebreak
It is widely reported that Newt is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) since 1990. CFR stands for a global government at the cost of national independence. In his speech at the center for Strategic & International affairs in July of 1995, I have come across a report that says “He brazenly admitted his disdain for our founding document. According to the report, Newt said “I am for the United Nations”. Gingrich ruined his chance through adulterous affairs and erratic behaviors (according to those who know him closely). Newt is unpredictable and Romney is unreliable. Why still some individuals would like to vote for either Romney or Newt, when the BHO and DNC could easily ruin their candidacy in the general? Why do we give to the left a red meat for class warfare? The so called moderates (liberals) will not win in 2012. If conservatives have not learned from what happened to moderate Bob Dole in 1996 and moderate McCain in 2008, they have no body but themselves to blame. Relatively speaking, Santorum has a better chance of beating BHO by making BHO and his failed policies an issue of the general election campaign. The mass media would like us to believe that either Romney or Newt is electable. Knowing fully their vulnerabilities, they promote either of them as ”electable” in order to carry out their massive and vicious attacks in the general to have BHO re-elected.
Santorum has a family friendly and manufacturing centered economic policy that could grow our economy and jobs. Not only in social issues is he strong but also in national security & foreign policy better than any one of the remaining candidates. Please read online his Iran freedom & Support Act & the Syrian Accountability Act which he authored in 2004. His humble beginnings (lived in public housing, from a coal miner grandfather) with almost no political baggage’s unlike Romney & Newt & Ron Paul (with his reckless foreign policy and libertarian views, anti-Semitism views and his racist newsletters) make him immune to class warfare.
Romney is applying for the top job in the government sector. He was a successful business man in the private sector. Santorum is the successful man in the government sector, the sector to which Romney is applying for the top job. In the government sector, Santorum has a better experience than Romney. He has 8 years’ experience in areas related to USA’s national security & foreign affairs as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Romney accuses Santorum’s vote for earmarks (something done legally) while receiving earmarks for Utah Olympic Games and other projects in Massachusetts. Santorum has national security and foreign policy experience unlike Romney. Santorum has legal victories in social issues unlike Romney. Santorum is more believable unlike Romney & Newt and Ron Paul. Whether you agree or disagree with Santorum’s policies, we know where he consistently stands. Can any one of you say the same about the other candidates?
Santorum won for 4 consecutive terms in a 70% democratic district until 2006, the year in which the republican brand was hated. He won 53 out of 83 counties in Michigan primary and got 15 delegates like Romney, who outspent Santorum more than 40:1ratio. What a victory in Romney’s home state. The negative advertisements made against Santorum by both Romney & Ron Paul could not bring him down unlike Newt.
Rupert Murdoch (Owner of Fox News) said Santorum is the one with a big idea. The Wall Street Journal said Santorum’s economic policy is the one which is bold. Rush Limbaugh Santorum has not hurt a conservative cause.
We should thank the only man running who knows Mitt Romney is skillfully conducting nothing less than a Covert Election Operation against true conservatives, assisted by the Elite Media, including the next CNN (Fox News) and Political Group Thinkers, who wish to remain unchallenged in power, and who are using the unelectable Santorum to block the true conservative Speaker Gingrich.
Who could vote for a person like Romney who can only pull others down to his level, instead of running on his own record?
Congress and McCain will hand Mitt his marching orders, not the other way around. Newt knows how to control the bad eggs in Congress! That is why the elite Washington crowd is running away from Newt!
I don’t understand how people who consider themselves to be a conservative back Mitt Romney when if you do any research at all, as easy as watching him in videos on youtube, you find what he really stands for. There are many videos where he himself speaks to his beliefs and stances on the issues, showing him to be a moderate at the very best, liberal on most.Romney is truly only slightly right of Obama on most issues. I can understand changing your postion on 1 or 2 issues, but to change on the majority of them just reeks of political expediency.
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