Romney keeps high profile on Republican circuit

The News Review:

- Romney keeps high profile on Republican circuit
- Party Politics Backlash Surround Bloomberg Bid
- Winner Weeks Away In New York Congressional Race
- GP Budget: $500 Billion-plus Annual Deficits

Romney keeps high profile on Republican circuit
Salt Lake Tribune
” Shortly after his free-wheeling remarks Romney was set to hop a plane to New York City for another Republican donor event. That schedule can’t hurt observers say. “Clearly he wants to keep his options open” says Saul Anuzis the former Michigan Republican Party chairman. “By anybody’s calculations he would be a leading candidate for 2012. So I think it makes sense for him to continue to keep a high profile and meet with party leaders and help raise money and be a speaker and continue in that role. ” Later on Anuzis says Romney can still choose whether to jump in the presidential race a second time and he’ll have the option because he’s kept busy on the Republican circuit. Romney’s moves stand in contrast to another potential 2012 candidate: former GP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.

Party Politics Backlash Surround Bloomberg Bid
NY1
Then come back here and refresh the page. Mayor Bloomberg may have quit the Republican party but that didn’t keep him from meeting some of the GP’s most powerful officials Wednesday. NY1’s Michael Scotto filed the following report. The head of the National Republican party says he’s staying out of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s push to run on the Republican line. “What I recommend is local Republicans get together and figure out what they want to do and do it” said RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Steele was in town to attend a meeting with New York Republicans.

Winner Weeks Away In New York Congressional Race
CBS News
Democrat Scott Murphy currently holds a 25 vote lead over Republican Jim Tedisco according to the AP and as voters in the Albany-area district wait for absentee ballots to be counted everyone seems to be spinning away as to who will prevail and what the current non-outcome means. Chris Van Hollen D-Md. the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee told reporters this afternoon that he’s happy they’re where they are citing Murphy being an unknown to voters and pointing to a Republican poll in February that showed Murphy down 21 points to Tedisco.

GP Budget: $500 Billion-plus Annual Deficits
The New American
9 percent per year for the next 10 years. ”If the best that the Republican Party can do is claim — using their own words — “slightly slower growth” than bama’s spending proposals what’s to be said of Republican “principles”? The Republican leadership seems to have confused the word “principles” with “percentages. ”Republicans clearly are a party of big government. They want all the government the bama administration would bring to America except that they would bring this about at a slower rate. Massachusetts State Senator Robert Hedlund once told a community newspaper in his south-of-Boston district: “When the voters are given a choice between a Democrat and a Republican who presents himself as a cheap imitation they will usually go for the real thing. ” As someone who has been continuously re-elected in one of nation’s strongest Democratic bastions this Republican Liberty Caucus member has witnessed the continuous suicide of the Massachusetts Republican Party firsthand for two decades.
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