Why I Want to Be Your President: The Republican Round Up

And then there was, one.

As of Tuesday, 29 May 2012, Mitt Romney is it.  No longer 2012-Republican-Presidential-nominee-wannabee.  He has clinched the GOP nod.

The Associated Press has projected he has won the Texas GOP primary, and ABC News estimates he will win 97 of Texas’s 155 delegates, giving him the 1,144 needed to win the nomination.  

“I am honored that Americans across the country have given their support to my candidacy and I am humbled to have won enough delegates to become the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nominee. 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,” Romney said in a statement. “On Nov. 6, I am confident that we will unite as a country and begin the hard work of fulfilling the American promise and restoring our country to greatness,” Romney said.

So, has anything changed, now that’s he’s the man? Seemingly, not. He still has the same cynical reasons for wanting to be my President.

On Tuesday, Donald Trump joined him at a fundraiser at the Trump Towers near the Las Vegas strip. Donald Trump. Of continued delusional, crazed birther rants against President Obama. And Romney’s response?

“You know, I don’t agree with all the people who support me and my guess is they don’t all agree with everything I believe in,” Romney said. “But I need to get 50.1% or more and I’m appreciative to have the help of a lot of good people.”

On Wednesday night he mingled with California donors and told the story of Staples, one of the companies backed by Bain Capital, the private equity firm he used to run.  The emphasis is mine:

It looked a lot different, Romney said, than the glass-walled headquarters the green energy company Solyndra built and maintained with the help of federal loan guarantees before it went bankrupt last year. 

“This was real people’s money,” Romney said of the Staples investment. “It wasn’t taxpayers’ money.”

There’s a difference between real people’s money and taxpayer’s money?  I wonder if public servants know this.  By now I am sure they know it’s real people who get out of paying taxes. 

How perfectly cynical.

On Thursday, the media blasted Romney for criticizing President Obama on foreign affairs, but saying little about what he would do differently.  Here, here and here.

Anything – or nothing – to get that 50.1%.