Republican Romney will dispute the White House with President Obama
Mitt Romney clinched the US Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday with a resounding victory in Texas and now faces a five-month sprint to convince voters to trust him over Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 6 election.
Although the race has been essentially over for weeks, Romney finally cleared the necessary benchmark of 1.144 delegates for becoming the Republicans' presidential candidate after a long, bitter primary battle with a host of conservative rivals.
He will be formally nominated at the Republicans' convention in Florida in late August. In a statement, Romney said he was humbled to win enough of Texas' 155 delegates to secure the nomination.
“Our party has come together with the goal of putting the failures of the last three and a half years behind us. I have no illusions about the difficulties of the task before us. But whatever challenges lie ahead, we will settle for nothing less than getting America back on the path to full employment and prosperity,” he said.
While the milestone should create positive buzz for his campaign, Romney's big day was overshadowed by his appearance with real estate tycoon and reality TV star Donald Trump, who organized a major fund-raiser for Romney in Las Vegas. Trump has been fixated over whether Obama was born in the United States despite clear evidence that he was born in Hawaii.
Romney endured serious threats from Republican opponents from Rick Perry to Rick Santorum to reach a goal that his late father, former Michigan governor George Romney, fell short of achieving -- win his party's stamp of approval as its presidential candidate.
He is considered the underdog in his battle with the Democratic incumbent but all indications are that the US face the possibility of a cliff hanger election in November that will be decided by relatively small percentages of voters in as many as a dozen battleground states.
The former Massachusetts governor now faces a lengthy to-do list to gird for his duel with Obama, from picking a vice presidential running mate to raising hundreds of millions of dollars for a national campaign.
In the immediate weeks ahead, his goal is to bolster his case that Obama has been ineffective in handling the sluggish U.S. economy and hostile to job creators.
This argument will move soon to the energy industry, which Romney thinks Obama has bungled by not ramping up domestic production of oil and natural gas.
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is this true .
Mit Romney worth 230 US millons dollars, he is a bussiness man.
If elected he will be the richest us president in history.
Obama earns his pennies writting books about his black “father” and pretending he is the right president collecting $400,000 p/year.
Can you see the difference of religion and intellegence between Mit Romney and Obama...I wait for your answer.....
US secret services freaking out with religious cults....
Instead of making such comment, please check in the internet about the “more richers”...Kennedy and Bush....
Don't you remember Jackie Kennedy, wife of John Kennedy, marrying the Golden Greek Onassis because she was left in 1963 with 2 homes and 1 millon dollars ...not enough monies to pay for her 2 children education. ... Jackie Onassis received 26 millons from Onassis.. John Kennedy never saw such amount in his bank account....
Bush do not have 200 millons us dollars, he only have one ranch worth one millon and 2 millons dollars home in Dallas and some investment of approximately 17 millons. Ronal Regan had only a 5 millons dollars ranch in CA sold to private businessman for that amount. Clinton had made some millons selling his books and collecting donations from foreign countries reaching approximately 12 millons..
Religious trouble in the US are the muslims.
The Department of Justice investigate abusive cults.
The US Secret Service protects the life of elected officials only.
joke ?
Kennedy( clan) / Bush families are very rich from Oil investments.
US is more looser than European ones where has many secret /intelligence services have used some syntetic religious obliqued (not only muslims)cults/social organizations as the tools for foreign manipulative relations...go and see Pensylvania,Texas,Tennesee...
Bonus : He knows who owns the Falkland Islands, and has made that clear ;)
You couldn't make this s**t up, the American's are so pre-occupied with running around trying to find their next enemy that they don't think to look within their own borders, at their own leaders.
LOL
“The more things change, the more they stay the same”
The question was not, what religion he was,
It was a point in question about Mormons,
Well know in the United States, but very lesser known out side,
There fore we know not,
The impression I had, was, that Mormons were very anti violence / military /intervention ,
Now I may be wrong,
That’s why the question,
Will he be of great help, or a hindrance ,
Just asking,
Please then, just reply.
mmmmm
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I do not belong to any party, however, I would rather have Obama than this other guy.
I work for my money and have a large education behind me, and will not vote for the ones who gather the rich crooks and ignorant masses (for those of you in Argentina, peronists like people).
The US is ran by big economical powers, not its military like someone up there said. Most of my family is or has been in the armed forces at various ranks and I can tell you that they follow orders and even though they do not share it, they disagree with a lof of things that they are to do.
Relegion of a potential US presidential candidate does not matter...check in the internet when J.F.Kennedy was the first catholic running for the us presidency..he received unwelcome criticism...but he won..
Give me a break!...The US goverment separates all religions from govermental business
@5 Max Small Mind
You stupidity.... the Bushes and other us presidents don't have 230 millons us investments... check on the internet
Illegal cults are monitored by the local sheriff in each city to avoid innocent people be brainwashed like the Jones Cult...
@10 British-ketchup
I am a woman that admire smart men, beside that, he has the perfect looks: hair cut, profile, shoulders, legs, arms, hands, ooooohhh and .....
we dont talk to children
please grow up, or dont post in this site,
adults only please .
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posters please just ignore the child, it has been reported to the higher authority .
Never mind all the good that Obama has done.
Never mind the mess he inherited from the most most unpopular president in a LONG time. ( who is another white man and a Republican )
anyone seeing the pattern developing here?
Never mind that Obama talked a lot of sense. He's black!!!! get him out!!!! American's don't want a black man ruling over them!!!
ha, ha!! Land of free? who does believe that anymore?
you are the whimp...short, owerweight, bold headed, coward
@13 loooose toool
Freeze it right there....you need to learn to talk in american english so I am going to crash....means..I will take a nap, not your nappie or not your ring me....
So you lost your cool...a mature male from the UK unable to speak in american english...@ 13 looose tool....Pay attention, american english is different from your english and turkey gloooglooogloo accent...
Any person running for president needs to have a plan for the economic recovery, Obama does not have one. If he accepted the presidency is his responsability to present a budget to avoid borrowing foreign monies...he does not have one...his 2013 budget proposal still is in the US Congress for approval...if Obama does not know what to do he should put COUNTRY FIRST but not seek a second term just to collect a pay check. Fair enough?...
Obama was elected as the first black president because the american people trusted what he promised...he will do...instead the economy is worst..with hundred of millons unemployed people surviving on a $1,000 dollars monthly check...not enough to buy a month of groceries., I spent $30.00 per day on groceries just for me..plus $350 monthly utilities, $300 on gasoline plus car insurance, health insurance, housing, clothing, recreation, etc. total....$3,000 per month...so get the picture...I need a better president...
Why don’t you grow up,
As for you lingo,
Their is only one English. Language
Just one, and its the queens /or kings English
Read it up.
If American English is not the English then why all software , manuals made overseas and other literature is written with American spellings...
You will find, that this is called regional dialect,
Not uncommon throughout the world, every nation or region or community
Will have its local jargon,
And this is including the UK .
Oh dear, oh dear. American-English was invented by........(drum roll please!! ) an Englishman. He had to simplfy the oxford English dictionary becuase the American's couldn't get their heads round all the spellings in there. That is why you see colour spelt without the the “U” and “Randomisation” is spelt with a “Z” and not an “S” ( like it should be )
18 AmericanLight
The reason that all the software and manuals have the “American-English” spellings in them is ( guess what? ) the software companies have to toe-the-American line on these things as they have their own “standards” and ignore everyone elses.
oh and by the way Sussie? America is in a mess? your economy is in the toilet? loads of people are unemployed? Do you even know what is happening in the rest of the world ( the bit in the atlas that is not America or Canada ) it's s**t everywhere love!!! and Obama I'm sure will have been spending most of his time trying to clean up the mess left so thoughtfully behind by Bush Jr. Now you want to elect an idiot who is flush it all away rather than making things better. good luck to you on that one.........
Try to visit the US and you will see the american way of talking english is different from your english and turkey gloooglooogo accent....
I repeat, I am a citizen of 2 countries, the US and Argentina.. they are the most beautiful countries.... I don't care about the rest of the world ....
Romney 230 millons dollars fortune... say it all, I vote for him....
[but can only give loyally to one ]
The usa backs the British, so that’s bad news,
For you then,
And George Washington once said, to his argentine counterpart,
Your accent is utterly provisional .
.
Not convinced. A country is run as a company. I know what it is to be at the top of an organization and have people waiting to see you falling but integrity prevails in the end. As much as I am made fun of for having votes for Obama ( understand I am a southerner and some people here still have prejudices ) if I decide to go voting this October I ll go for the one I believe .
I must agree in part with a previous post that the only reason he is critisized is because of this ethnic background. Even a strong Christian that I know bashes him on Facebook daily but posts about tolerance right after....
I have told you several times I am not interested in you,your UK, citizens, and islands.
The insults made by the UK citizens against the argentine leader is unacceptable.
The insults made by me to certain viewers were made intentionally in retaliation for degrading my country leader.
DO NOT EXPECT any OTHER RESPONSE from me again. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I am busy traveling between Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix....spanish named cities...in my America.
IF YOU DONT LIKE IT
THEN STOP BLOODU INDULTING US BRITONS,
AND THEN CLAIM THE VICTIM
STUPID CHILD
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no more contact, dont reply.
yippee no more insults from the child
lolololol
stupid child
So what do we think ( that word again!! ) SussieUS is a troll? She does seem to a little confused ( poor little lamb ) Just re-read her comment at 25 and then at 27 ha,ha!!
I have no doubt that some cites in America are named by the spanish but, as far as I know, The Argentinians didn't discover America. Maybe I am reading the wrong history books..........
But I will leave you with the words of a great englishman Sir John Gielgud:-
“The gentleman was speaking a form of English I was not familar with, however I do believe the gentleman was from Chicago”
thanks 29 toooldtodieyoung
What these 2 queers are talking about?
I am SPANISH. My parents were born in Spain and I am also a citizen of Spanish parents born in Argetina. I can reside in Spain if I wish. You see...I have 3 nationalities spanish, argentinian and us citizen. I am proud Cristobal Columbus discovered my America... What these 2 queers are going to say...is the result of their fucking.....
Once again, you cant open your filthy mouth, without insults,
You scream like a baby child, when others just reply,,
All you do is insult and abuse,
If this is the standard of ex Argies going to America,
Then we fell sorry for the Americans,
It is not our fault that you uneducated delinquence cant stand the fact, that we British are more grown up and better than you,
You are uncouth , jealous , and your envy , drips from your words,
So please little one,
Either take your filthy mouth, out of the gutter, and grow up,
or live in the utter shame that you deserve,
as we will not lower ourselves into the gutter to insult you back,
Now go home
No one tell me what to do.... you are wasting you fucking time..your comments about me goes directly to the drain. ..The british are inferior and physical deformed ...... read you Diana Spencer book and watch the US movie The Queen...
cant here you
la la la
DIE BASTARRRRRDDDDDD!
AAwwww bless you, are very confused arn't you? there's a lanb. I thought that travel and duel nationality was supposed to broaden the mind but it would appear that you have managed to Inherit all the very worst bit's of the spainish, American and Argentine........well done!!!
Before you go about insulting people that you know nothing about, I would invite you to re-read your post @31 again. which country is “Argetina”??? you really are a retard. You see, you are now embarassing yourself, so you should take that chip off your shoulder, it appears to blinding you with hate.
33 SussieUS........and again with the unfounded insults “The british are inferior and physical deformed” do you have any facts to back up that claim???
You would do well to take on board what my friend Briton is trying to tell you @32 but then, maybe you are blinded by your hate so much that don't know when someone is trying to do you a favour.......
I'm sitting here beside myself while I wait for you next post............
For what your continue critizing my country and the argentine leader.? Are your expecting to win something from your comments? ....No one wins nothing insulting each other and making public “observations” on a web site..... politically you don't have any power to overthrown the argentine leader...she is there to stay, like it or not
I keep repeating UK PM David Cameron can stop your english circus circus immediately...but....what he is waiting for?....Respond me right now....
cant hear you, please shout louder,
over 1,000 bloggers watching this are laughing at you .
36 toollooose said he is waiting for my nest post ...is he still masturbating...hehehe you might be next....hahaha
la la la .
hahaha I guess toollllooose is not finished yet....hahaha can you give him a hand? ...... this Mercosur web site is a passing time....
Sorry it's taken so long to answer you, but I was recovering from the hilarity of your last postings. Now that I have got my fit of giggles under control I can answer you......
Firstly, my delusional friend, who wants to overthrow ol' turkey neck? I am merely pointing out that if there is one person that Argentina could do without then it's KFC, she is robbing the people blind and running the country into the ground yet no one can see that. I feel that it's time for a revolution, with ol' turkey neck and her off-spring first up against the wall.
Also, I would invite you to re-read your post at 37 and then 35 not that you are in any way a Hypocrite right???
Oh and for the record, I didn't vote for David Cameron. He is a knob-end of the highest order. I wish he would shove his coalition party up his a*se and f**k off while he's doing it. He is a clown but we KNOW he's a clown so that's ok. It's a shame that the population of Argentina hasn't wised up to the fact that KFC is a clown as well. maybe they will when it's all too late.....
I Think that this Mitt Romney is a fool, a dangerous fool who will do more harm than good, but because American's are a bunch of racists they'll vote for an idiot instead of the one they really need right now.
Now I've answered you, perhaps you could answer me..... “The british are inferior and physical deformed” do you have any facts to back up that claim??? not that you are in any way a Hypocrite right???
You don't win anything.....you don't have any positive eonomic plan for any country...so get lost.
www.StopFundingArgentina.org
Anyone reading this outside of Argentina sign THE FORM NOW.
CAMERON father was born with deformed legs..this information is found in the internet..but the internet does not say if Cameron's mother inserted Cameron father's penis in her cavity before or after his deformed legs surgeries..
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