Mitt Romney for President

Mitt Speaking at the Rally in Denver

Everyone knows how heated the Presidential Nomination Race is right now for both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. For me its not heated at all because the choice is clear! Mitt Romney!! I am a Mitt Romney supporter, always have been and always will be. I've known about Mitt Romney my entire life because he and my father were Mission Companions in France in the 60's. Dad has often spoken of Mitt over the years and they have remained in contact through Christmas Cards and random phone calls! When Mitt announced he was running for President I decided that I wanted to really listen to the issues and the candidates and make an unbiased decision on who to vote for. From day one Mitt has impressed me. Without getting too political lets just say that I agree with him more than any other candidate. Admittedly my father being his friend probably swayed me in his direction initially, but I really do agree with him over the others running.

Mitt coming into the room where the rally was!

Anyway, today in Denver there was a "Rally for Romney" so I recruited my father in law to come with me and then met up with Adam, Richard and Colton. What an experience!! We got there about an hour early and the place was completely packed! After standing in a "sunny" spot with no hope to move Greg decided to move towards the back and cool down. I was determined to move closer to the front. After a bit of shuffling and planning with a fellow Mitt supporter, I made my way up to about the 3rd row!

Mitt cheering along with everyone there!

It was so exhilarating to be in a room where a candidate for the US President is standing and speaking. Mitt was AWESOME!!! He spoke for about 20-25 minutes but it didn't seem that long at all! He is so impressive in person. Not that he doesn't do a great job on TV but in person its a whole different story. Afterwards he walked around shaking peoples hands. I was about 2 people away from shaking his hand when he changed directions to shake hands with the other side of the crowd. BUMMER!! I stood around for a minute and then started to follow some of the media to the back of the building. My dad had emailed me a letter to give to him if I could so again i pushed my way up next to him just in time for him to be shuttled off to a press conference. I did touch his elbow though :-) During his speech he had introduced his nephew and as I turned to leave he was standing right next to me. I turned to him, told him my father was Mitt's old mission companion and asked him to give Mitt the letter. He accepted it and said he'd get the letter to him. While I was disappointed not to shake Mitt's hand I felt satisfied that I was able to deliver the letter. I eventually found Adam, Greg and the boys outside and as we started to head out heard someone say that Mitt would be coming outside to speak again. We found the door he was going to come out and stood right next to the walkway he would be passing by on. He came out, started shaking everyones hand while moving down the line. When he got to me I leaned in and told him who my father was. He stopped! Yep stopped and said "my mission companion!". I gave him a message my dad had told me to tell him and he knew exactly what the message meant. He then said, "We get their Christmas Cards every year. Your dad looks different. He looks thinner, tell him he looks great!" He had slowly started to walk away and I said "this is my husband Adam". He stopped and came back to shake Adam's hand! He also shook Colton and Richard's hands! It was SOOOOOO cool! HE was soooo cool! I was so thrilled that he stopped to talk with me when there were so many people around. The lady next to me had grown up with him and I thought for sure he'd chat with her, but he just kept moving right on down the line without even a titch of recognition towards her. I thought for sure he wouldn't give me the time of day if he didn't give a person he'd known his whole life any attention. But, the mention of my dear old dad and he stopped in his tracks! Anyway, if I wasn't going to vote for him before (which I totally was BTW), I would DEFINITELY vote for him now. And not just cause I shook his hand! He's charismatic, confident, has a clear view of what the country needs, looks presidential and stands up for what he believes is right! (and he shook my hand and remembered my dad!) So from me to you....VOTE FOR MITT!!!!
(As a funny side note: As we were standing around waiting for Mitt to come outside, this woman came up to Adam and asked if he was with the Romney Campaign. Adam laughed and said no, why do you ask. She said, "because you look like you should!!" My husband, the politician! :-)

The back of my head just before I shook hands and TALKED to Mitt Romney!!! AWESOME!!