As I mentioned earlier in the week, I had the opportunity to participate in the founding meeting of Women for FUTURE. This group is building numerous facilities around Iraq, providing support for Iraqi families to build up a foundation of education and oragnization, promoting volunteerism and self-reliance to Iraqi communities. The even was held on Capitol hill and attended by numerous officials including Senator Bennett from Utah.


The first clip I want to show you is of Colleen Parkin, who's son was killed in Iraq in a Helicopter accident. Her words should remind all of us why we are in Iraq and why should fight to win. Colleen is introduced by one of the women delegates from Iraq.



Next, my wife and I performed for the event a song called "For Good" about reconcilation and the recognition that lives change other lives.



Lastly, the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaidaie, translates for one of the women delegates from Iraq. Her words are right in line with the appreciation of the Iraqi people.

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Hearing the news that Former Senator Jim Talent is going to be Mitt Romney's Domestic Policy Czar is great. As a former intern on his campaign last summer, Talent ran a hard-fought campaign that discussed issues that faced Missourians and the nation. From discussing farm issues, highway funding, the military, and health care, Senator Talent possessed the ideas and the knowledge of these topics and if he was reelected again, would have been valuable in the Senate in proposing an getting legislation passed. Tough loss for Missouri and a huge gain for Romney. Now with this smart guy on his side, he can prepare for the tough policy battles that he will have between Sen. John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Sen. Sam Brownback, and the others in this ever growing primary. His experience in the Missouri Legislature, the U.S. Congress, and Senate will be valuable to Gov. Romney in knowing what and how to propose exciting new policies in his campaign and in convincing the American public that he is the right choice for President. All I have to say is that it is great news to hear that Jim Talent is joining the staff and I am already thinking if there is space for me to intern in his campaign over the summer!

Hat Tip to HeavyM at Race42008 (HeavyM also put together the following chart.) The latest ARG poll shows these numbers:

McCain 27% (29)
Rudy 20% (25)
Romney 20% (9)
Gingrich 11% (14)
All others - below 1%
Undecided 21% (17)
(Numbers in Parenthesis are Dec. Poll Numbers)

What's intersting is that Romney shot up 11 percent while Guiliani loosing 5, McCain loosing 2 and Gingrich loosing 3 (total of 10 between the 3). Romney seems to draw evenly from all three. Most impressively is this is done with a few small meeting and not much else. Wait till the debates get going an Romney starts hitting the PR mode of his campaign.

Prediction: If Romney keeps this surge up for the next year, by next January he will be at 152% Way to go Romney!!

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We all knew Hillary was up to no good with her failed socialist universal health care program. Now Hillary is stating she wants to seize the profits of oil companies and start a "strategic energy fund". I think she is slipping from her carefully crafted moderate position. This is good information for Mitt to have when he faces her in the general election. After all, Mitt is an extremely successful capitalist and instituted an innovative Republican style health care program in Massachusetts. For someone who claims to care about the common worker, Ms. Rodham is quite reckless with our economy and our jobs. Let's let Mitt handle our economy and health care instead.



On a related note see this website: TakeThoseProfits.com

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Dave Burris is live blogging from the Repulican Study Conference in Baltimore.

Listen in to his exclusive interview with Tom Delay!

I'm here at the RSC meeting in Baltimore, and the first entrant into the press pit was former Majority Leader Tom DeLay. He talks about the future of conservatism in a Democrat-controlled Congress and about his new passion for blogging.




MP3 File

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I wanted to get this up a lot sooner, but better late than never.

Romney was great at this event . . . not the most moving delivery I've heard from him, but solid and substantive. He had a great turnout and there was a great enthusiasm from those present.

I also met Romney's eldest son Tagg (who was named after one of Mitt's good friends at BYU). Very nice guy and impressive as well.


In the picture with me are my wife, my mother-in-law (visiting from Alabama), and my co-fellow at U Iowa, Jim Howard.

If you are like me, you like Romney. If you are like me, you like The Office.

So Lets put the two together. I would like to see Romney make a guest cameo on The Office. It probably won't happen. If it did, I gaurentee you I would watch it.

Here are a couple of my scenes:

Diversity Day

Lazy Scranton

According the the women I will see tonight... the future is very bright. The world would disagree.

Lead by former Iraqi Minister of State for Women Affairs, Dr. Azhar Al-Shakly,three delegates of Iraq's "Women for Future" are visiting with key leadership, including
Senators Diane Feinstein, Robert Bennett, and Richard Durbin, as well as Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, Karen Hughes, to discuss the contributions women are making in the rebuiliding of Iraq.

The group will also be honored at a special reception hosted by FUTURE (Families United Toward Universal Respect), www.womenforfuture.org, and the Iraqi Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Samir Sumaidaie, tonight on Capitol Hill. During the event, members of the delegation will share personal stories of courage, fortitude, organization, and self reliance.

My wife and I will be singing at the event I hope to have some video later tomorrow.

If you care to they could use your donation

Romney caught some good wind from Fox news today.

Ann Coulter- Tears apart both McCain and Guiliani. She really seems to knock Guiliani: "I think he's the only one not able to beat Hillary." I don't know if that's True or not but, that's a bold statement.

On Mitt she really purred out a "Yeeeessss" and he has a "proven ability to trick liberals into voting for him... He has a working knowledge of God." Her favoite of the top four. She said Gingrich is brilliant, but has missed his time- like 80's music.

O'Reilly than lastly asked "It looks like you are Mitt Romney Person?" Ann said, "Yes"

Fox and Friends- Doocy has a good interview with Romney.

Notably- Romney said "Senator Brownback maybe more conservative on some issues than I am. I am what I am." Basically his point was that he does what he thinks is right on the issues, not trying to outdo anybody. Don't worry Mitt, when it comes to brownback, you don't have to try.

Doocy said "I had a very good afternoon with the Romney's."

The fox and friends crew than gives Romney some very good reviews. Romney promises after he announces he will come in and do the weather with Fox and Friends. That will be awesome. Here's a quick preview from Doocy this morning.

Thank to reader Emily A. for the links.

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I'd like to introduce myself. I am Scott Allan of Scott Allan's World and I am honored to have been invited into My Man Mitt's Blogger Pool. I have included a picture of my beautiful family since I am nothing without them. I blog about anything that interests me including family, sports, news, technology, and entertainment with a strong emphasis on politics. Here is my post where I endorsed Mitt Romney on January 9, 2007.

I grew up in Massachusetts and voted for Romney when he ran a good race against Ted Kennedy. Growing up in Massachusetts and ending up a Republican is not an easy task. My father was a Reagan Republican and showed me the the virtues and benefits of conservatism, self-reliance, hard work, equal opportunity, capitalism, low taxes, and love of my country. I majored in Politics at Brandeis University and was probably one of three Republicans on campus. The experience was good as I was highly exposed to progressive liberalism which not only strengthened my conservative beliefs, but also gave me some perspective on how the other side thinks.

I moved to the more Republican friendly New Hampshire shortly before Romney was elected Governor of Massachusetts, but I followed the election and his term as Governor closely. I have since moved down to Birmingham, Alabama which I must say is quite different from the culture of Massachusetts. I love living here. It's very family oriented and people down here LOVE the United States of America as they should.

I hope to be able to contribute to this blog from time to time. For today, I just wanted to mention that Ann Coulter was on Hannity and Colmes O'Reilly last night and was giving her opinion on the Republican candidates. She got quite excited when Mitt Romney's name was mentioned. He is clearly her favorite at the moment. Besides his stance on the issues, she likes the fact that he is a conservative in a liberal state and can convince liberals to vote for him. The liberal media darling Barack Obama may be charismatic and attractive but so far he's one dimensional and he's no Mitt Romney. Not only is Romney highly charming, he also has an incredible resume of success. As I always say, the more you hear Mitt, the more you'll like him.

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