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Et Tu, Mitt? Romney Tells Wolf Blitzer He Would Vote For Ron Paul Over Obama

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Wolf Blitzer‘s series of interviews with the Iowa frontrunners continued today with an exclusive look into the campaign lifestyle of Mitt Romney, in which the candidate detailed some more of his plan to gain traction and fight off his fellow Republican hopefuls. Blitzer ran him through several questions he gave Newt Gingrich the day before– particularly whether he would find himself voting Republican in November should Rep. Ron Paul win the nomination. Romney’s answer differed significantly from Gingrich’s.

RELATED: Gingrich To Wolf Blitzer On A Paul/Obama General Election: ‘A Very Hard Choice’

Asked directly whether he could vote for Rep. Paul as a Republican nominee in the general election, Romney responded that he had “already crossed that river, if you will, by saying on stage a number of times… that all of the people on stage would be superior to the President we have.” Blitzer reminded Romney of some of Rep. Paul’s foreign policy positions, particularly that he was comfortable with Iran developing nuclear capabilities and did not see it as an existential threat to Israel. “I don’t agree with a lot of the things Ron Paul says,” Romney clarified, but “this is not a race about people on the stage who I don’t think should be the nominee– my race is about making me the nominee!”

Romney’s answer via CNN below:

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  • Anonymous

    Romney and Gingrich are way off message.   Why aren’t they talking about the most important issue of our time — Barack Obama’s socialist health insurance mandate?

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Wolf Blitzer still thinks of himself as the editor of the Jerusalem Post.  He always places the interests of Israel in front of the interests of America.

    Time to make these dual citizens swear out an oath of loyalty!

    Ron Paul will be a great President!

  • Anonymous

    How was lil’ Kims funeral? Did you weep as the sky did?

  • Jim Bummer

    As a conservative, his statement “this is not a race about people on the stage who I don’t think should be the nominee– my race is about making me the nominee!” is very confusing, as he hasn’t done or said ANYTHING to convince me that he should be the nominee.

  • Gloves P. Donahue

    Dumb question, Blitz.

  • Anonymous

    What’s with CNN asking candidates if they’d vote for other candidates?  Doesn’t their very existence in the competition render those questions moot? 

  • Anonymous

    Mitt Romney to Israel: F u c k you!

  • Anonymous

    Mitt’s governed a State, cut taxes, and spent years in the private sector investing in businesses- successfully!  He has a firm understanding of the importance of capitalism. 

    That’s not that bad.

  • Anonymous

    Would anyone who posts on this board even have seen this interview?  Honestly, mediaite, hardly anyone watches CNN anymore – they have become entirely too unreliable, caught in too many lies.  They even tried to out lefty the leftmost network of them all and your secret (well, not so secret) pals at MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    The point of this is to declare that OBAMO is worse than anyone or anything. As in, “He’d rather stick his arm in a tree grinder than vote for OBAMO.”

  • Brewzer

    Mitt Romney is smart by being careful not to offend Paul supporters. Although he is as liberal as Gingrich, he at least seems to be not as desperate. Oh well, Romney may have to follow those words up come convention time and the delegates are split between himself and Dr. Paul. Who thinks Paul is going to budge, or his supporters. All one has to do is look at Romney’s career and realize he would change his entire platform to match Dr. Paul’s if that is what it took to win.

    NO ONE BUT RON PAUL 2012! End the Fed, End the Wars!!

  • http://games-survival.com Justplaythegame

    He also flipped American companies and American workers like pancakes.. to make his fortune..  he climbed over the American workers.

  • Hout Bosques

    Not that dumb. It’s important to voters to know that, in a burst of cross-Xian unity, Mittens would vote for a candidate who so loves Teh Gay, he would work from the White House to have them unified with the One & Only God of Us All, in the most expeditious manner conceivable:

    http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/ron-paul-hired-anti-gay-activist-to-run-iowa-campaign.php?ref=fpa 

    And silly me, for not previously recognizing that pure libertarianism leads inevitably to the execution of more or less ten percent of the American population, for the inexcusable awfulness of their gender orientation & sexual preference.

    He’s all yours, Paultards. And they’re both all yours, Republicans.

  • 12voltman1

    Palin did the same. Except for the liquidation of businesses for profit part.(investing Ha!). Would you also accept Palin for President?

  • http://profiles.google.com/fatlibertarianinokc Fat Libertarian

    Political junkies watch CNN.  Sigh.  Including me.

    Actually I listen to CNN via Sirius in my 2008 Navigator which I love.  lol

    I heard this interview when it aired and knew that Mitt was trying to say Gingrich flip-flopped again.

  • Gloves P. Donahue

    “…whether he would find himself voting Republican in November should Rep. Ron Paul win the nomination. ”

    It’s a secret ballot, unlike how the unions would have it with the ” Employee Free Choice Act”.
    Who are you voting for, Blitz?

  • 12voltman1

    You guys(Paul supporters) really should start your own policical party!!!

  • Anonymous

    I am Mitt Romney, and I approve of this message. 

  • Anonymous

    Right.  Because the alternative which would be 0 employees and a dead business is preferable to needing to reorganize a company to save both the business and the workers that will remain.

    See how it works?

    Some jobs means people can feed their families…and pay their federal taxes to support government programs that go to people with 0 jobs…

    And organize a company so that it’s positioned to hopefully grow…So they can hire more workers… that feed their families…and pay their taxes….

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Willard’s gift to Obama, while late, is generous.

  • Hout Bosques

    “Ron Paul will be a great President!”
    Except for the gays, of course; but then very quickly President Ron Paul would bring about the Ultimate Solution to that little problem. 

    I can see it all so clearly: first the government tells us it’s the patriotic duty of those who know or even just suspect themselves of homosexuality to turn themselves in, and the patriotic duty of the rest of us to inform on any of our family or friends or fellow workers who might be gay, while the government goes into a massive works project to build camps to house the 30 to 35 million gays & lesbians & transexuals & those suspected of ‘leaning’ towards any of those ways, in order to efficiently process them towards administrative hearings & funnel the guilty into an execution machine. There’d be so much work involved, it would solve the unemployment problem virtually overnight.

    You can easily see why Mittens, with his long & profitable experience in the efficiencies involved in vulture capitalism, would be so taken with this vision. 

  • Hout Bosques

    I wonder how Andrew Sullivan is feeling today about his recent endorsement of RoPaul the Gay Assassin.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what Mitt thinks of the sun dress that Mrs. O was wearing – the one highlighted on Drudge that costs $2K?  Hmmmmmm, was this part of the $4M dollar expense of the Hawaiian vacation???  Why didn’t Wolf ask that question – that makes as much sense as the question he did ask.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t understand the importance of what companies like Bain does?

    Ask anybody from Staples.  From the executives to the management to the warehouse workers to the stores to the trucks that deliver to the stores, etc…

    These people pay taxes that prop up an obese government that gets bigger and more bloated daily.

  • Gloves P. Donahue

    Whackjob.

  • Anonymous

    I hope you’re kidding.  Ron Paul, much like Dick Cheyney, is more tolerant of homosexuals that President Obama.  Both of them believe gays have the right to marry, unlike the President.

  • http://twitter.com/HighlyRandom Highly Random

    “Romney responded that he had “already crossed that river, if you will, by saying on stage a number of times… that all of the people on stage would be superior to the President we have.””

    the funny thing about this is, Newt Gingrich has done the exact same thing. but in typical schizophrenic fashion….

  • http://twitter.com/pornofan386 John Doe

    oooooooh schnap.. racist jokes.

  • Hout Bosques

    Romney’s ‘involvement’ with Staples is pure public relations bull shit. He made a deal with Bill Bain of Bain CC that allowed Romney & the Bain Mergers & Aquisitions subsidiary to take credit for the original financing & organization the Staples franchise operation as cover for its moving into the Romney variation on vulture capitalism. It worked to the extent that it provided cover & some unearned credibility to Romney as he sold his plan to owners & stressed out workers & pension plan managers, but it invariably turned out to be a scam. It’s not surprise that now Romney is leaning so heavily on Staples to support this false image of him as a ‘jobs creator’; it was always intended to serve that role. 

    In grifter-speak, it’s called the Long Con.

  • Anonymous

    Mittens is a major azzhole.. I hate this mutha fucka and will work to see him defeated.. and help out him as a cult member

  • Anonymous

    You take my breath away with your ignorance, and your acceptance of whatever this liar says or claims. 

  • Anonymous

    Trevor knows im just playin’  and that wasn’t so much a racist joke as it was a poke at propoganda.

  • Anonymous

    I have not been a Ron Paul supporter but I will vote for him over Romney or Gringrich. If Romney gets the nomination I will do like I did last time. Vote for McCain, this time Romney and go home and throw up. He is still better for American than Obama.

  • Anonymous

    You have it exactly right, Bain invested in Staples, all of a sudden now Romney claims that he happened to notice that there was a lack of  low cost office supply stores, PUHLEASE, This man will do and say anything to win, he will use his wife’s chronic illness, his church membership, his Olympic crap for whatever he can get.

  • Anonymous

    Ever heard of “Christmas presents”? 

  • Anonymous

    Wow, what a blatent lie. Watch as he shakes his head no as he verbally says yes. SMH…

  • Anonymous

    You liberals are amazing.  I suppose venture capitalism is evil…unless it’s done the right way – by the government and with tax payer dollars.

    This is why Occupy Wall Street exists.  It exists because of economic ignorance combined with a spoiled sense of entitlement.

  • Anonymous

    Lol Romney is so full of crap. He wouldn’t vote for Paul over Obama. Romney has way more in common with Obama than Paul. What a joke these guys are. He is the like a cardboard cut out politician. If there was technology to make a robot politician they would model him exactly after Romney.

  • Anonymous

    Blitzer didn’t ask that question for the same reason no one asked why George W. Bush spent over $20m on Air Force One operating costs to vacation at his ranch in Crawford, TX. It’s irrelevant.

  • Anonymous

    you’re losing it dude.

  • Anonymous

    did you know there are 2 koreas?
    racists usually arent too bright

  • Anonymous

    Like Steve Jobs?

  • Anonymous

    …. if he was from the North then he is blessed indeed. c’mon man wake up.

  • 12voltman1

    Dickhead!

  • Anonymous

    President Barack Obama said he didn’t care who was his challenger the Repubs all have the same ideology.  He is 100% correct Republicans are a bunch of white racists.The scum of the earth. 

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Seek Professional Help Soon….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Lee/100000182470888 Fred Lee

    I’m trolling for Newt . Here is a clip from Dick Morris explaining Mitts lies about Newt . http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fshar.es%2FWsIHh&h=nAQEIC0_HAQFX1qZKUS6T4Qi3NJQ0gbUMY8m2BQ350EGlDQ

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Lee/100000182470888 Fred Lee

    Ouch . Your funny . The comment you made screams racism . Frederick Douglas would be proud of you . Not .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Lee/100000182470888 Fred Lee
  • Anonymous

    My bad. I should have respected your devotion to the continuing Il Dynasty.

  • Anonymous

    That’s a very simplistic formula. Problematic is that a private equity business, like Bain Capital, depends on debt for its profitability. Romney made money on fees and dividends even if the businesses they buy go bankrupt. Laying off workers while profiteering from liquidating company pension funds is the alternative you are applauding. 

  • Anonymous

    Does Governor Romney Dream of Electric Sheep?

    “Well, I like music of almost any kind including this.”

  • Anonymous

    I am still looking forward to a couple of months from now when all the insane people are on here telling us how Romney is the second coming of Reagan.

  • jfhdsiu

    So….. Gingrich would cast a “SPOILER” vote to spite an individual, potentially giving Obama another 4 horror filled years! But Romney WOULD vote for Ron Paul if he himself doesn’t get the nomination. That settles it for me. If Romney thinks Ron Paul is the better man, who am I to argue. He should bow out now and throw his support behind Ron Paul. That Gingrich has shown by his statement that he WOULD NOT vote for Ron Paul if he becomes the nominee,  says EVERYTHING! On the other hand Republicans chose ‘McCain’, of all people, OVER Romney in the last presidential primary. Obama got elected BECAUSE most people couldn’t stand McCain. How does Romney figure he’s going to do what the guy that beat him for the nomination the last time COULDN’T do?

    I don’t want MORE of the same failed leadership exhibited by the previous choices the Republican party has made. There is simply nothing sane about electing the SAME, tired, formerly rejected choices and expecting a different result than what we’ve always gotten for our troubles. MORE troubles. Nothing gets fixed. Nothing is made better. It only gets worse EACH TIME!

  • jfhdsiu

    Since flee party Liberal Democrats are LOWER than Republicans, (in a miniscule way, in my opinion), what you said makes flee party Liberal Democrats more detestable than the ‘scum of the Earth’. What would that be?  What’s lower than the ‘scum of the Earth…..Answer?  Flee party Liberal Democrats, of course. (Assuming that the original charge of ‘scum of the Earth’ is accurate)!

    And if the Republicans are “a bunch of white racists” then it logically follows that flee party Liberal Democrats are “a bunch of black racists”, doesn’t it?

  • Anonymous

    Getting the socialist health insurance changed or repealed is a given for all the GOP candidates.

  • Anonymous

    Does Mitt ever fail to pander for votes?  Paul is undeniably to the left of Obama on most issues but because the base has a hardon for Obama he still says he’d support Paul over Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Convoluted reasoning.

    People got McCain because of Huckabee and the evangelical’s thing in Iowa.  He rose and peaked at the right time.  GOP has since changed campaign rules to make one section of thecountry less powerful.  Makes sense since that section of the country are more interested in their theology than in political savvy.

  • Anonymous

    End the USA and all hope.

  • Anonymous

    Liar.  First thing he has said he will do as president is visit Israel.  It is Paul that is a threat to Israel.

  • Anonymous

    No offense, but you’re stupid. The “socialist” health insurance mandate was invented by the Republican frontrunners.

    Please try to remember that you are a Republican, and all Republicans are systematically trained to believe precisely the opposite of the truth.

  • Anonymous

    “And silly me, for not previously recognizing that pure libertarianism
    leads inevitably to the execution of more or less ten percent of the
    American population, for the inexcusable awfulness of their gender
    orientation & sexual preference.”

    I’m not sure if you’re insane of just a typical “liberal”?

    The only way mass bloodshed like this would happen is only if the government had the power to order such an action. The only “people” who openly support giving the government absolute power are…you guessed it… “liberals and progressives”.
    Libertarians on the other hand would never allow the government to have even a fraction of the power needed to do such a horrible thing.

    Libertarians believe in peace, prosperity and freedom for ALL Americans.

    “Liberals and progressives” have been programed to believe in Statism, aka oppression through powerful centralized government.

  • jfhdsiu

    No convolutions, just facts. The Republican party DID reject Romney in favor of McCain. McCain LOST to Obama, therefore Romney, who lost to McCain who LOST to Obama is not a wise choice. Gingrich WOULD be a spoiler vote by his own admission. Where’s the convoluted reasoning. I call it logical. One thing follows another. Changing rules doesn’t change people’s opinions of the candidates. Any rule changes DON’T change the candidate. So logically it is not at all convoluted reasoning.

  • Anonymous

    Saw the interview and since old wolfie asked the dumb question,Romny could have only answered what he did…it was obvious whoever wrote the question for old wolfie expected the only answer Romney could give…so lib wesites and networks could run the headline you see above…

  • Anonymous

    He hout,look up the work putz,it fits

  • Anonymous

    WORD!

  • Anonymous

    Its(he),is to crazy to be nuts….whew

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Romney loves Ron Paul’s racism and bigotry – it mirrors the kind that was part of Mormon teaching as recently as the 70s (when Mitt was a Bishop in the Joseph Smith clan).

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for the link, it was a good piece on the lies about Gringrich. However I never did believe the lies they tell about him and knew what Morris said already. Gringrich is a far superior candidate to Romney but I happen to like Ron Paul’s stands on the issues better. I believe Ron Paul is the only one serious about shrinking the government and putting us back to work. If Gringrich gets the nomination, which I don’t think he has a chance of getting, I will not go home and throw up after voting for him. In truth I was against Ron Paul because I did believe the lies told about him. I have been studying what he is really saying. Do an honest study of what he means in what he says and you well see he really means states rights and srinking the federal government. Its not just talk with him. In truth I was against Ron Paul because I did believe the lies told about him. I have been studying what he is really saying. Do an honest study of what he means in what he says and you well see he really means states rights and srinking the federal government. Its not just talk with him.

  • AMP2020

    Where are the Republican Hawks these days?.. Honestly, it SHOULD be a hard choice considering Paul is a nut job when it comes to international issues. Obama is shit in a lot of ways but not when it comes to his drones that are cowboying around wiping out terrorist pieces of shit.

  • Anonymous

    Mitt pledged to call Netanyahu before he says anything, not sure he followed through on his pledge in this case

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and i wonder how much did Dumbya’s flight suit stunt cost the taxpayers? You lnow, the one where they held a carrier out to sea an extra day for Rove’s P.R. Funny Drudge and his minions had little to say about that at the time.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t hold your breath if you think obamacare will get repealed. The $$$$ they see in this are just too irresistable to repeal.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t do that, defensiveness is pathetic.

    Romney said he’d “call” Netanyahu to get permission before uttering a word on anything closely or remotely related to the middle east region

    I’d argue Romney has promised to cede United States sovereignty to a foreign entity

    If that isn’t supporting Israel, I don’t know what is & the creep you’re responding to knows that full well

  • 12voltman1

    My wife is Korean!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    1 month from now, Mitt will be stating that he never said he would vote for Paul over Obama!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LUKTQTZLZUTCR3SGOO76TTVOGY moremonkeybusiness

    Ron Paul should run as a third party if he is not nominated by the Repubs. He would take a bunch of votes away from Obama.  Right now if Paul doesn’t win most of the Paul supporters would vote for Obama. 
    With his wacko views the right and center would remain solid for the Repubs and Obama’s lunatic fringe would vote for Paul as a third party which in turn helps the Republicans.

  • http://republicaninthearts.blogspot.com/ Incognito

    well he effectively lost my vote. I would never vote for Ron Paul.

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  • Anonymous

    Keep believing that fallacy…

    The Republicans will bleed as many, if not more voters, than Obama if Ron Paul runs third party.

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