Romney gives press the slip at Trump meeting

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NEW YORK -- Two of the loudest voices in the presidential race met today -- but in as quiet a fashion as possible.

Donald Trump and Mitt Romney huddled for about an hour in midtown. Romney slipped out a side door, however, avoiding reporters and his campaign left it to the Trump camp to characterize the conversation.

While the talk between the two businessmen mostly focused on the economy, the deficit, jobs and China, the two also spoke about their personal lives and children, including Trump progeny Ivanka and Eric -- and a surprise guest appeared. Trump's wife, Melania, popped into the meeting "by coincidence", according to Trump spokesman Michael Cohen. "It was a lot of fun to say the least."

Cohen said the two men may have crossed paths before, but have not met since Romney announced his candidacy for 2012.

Next on Trump's presidential interview schedule: Florida Straw Poll winner Herman Cain. The two agreed Friday to meet in New York on Oct. 3. Trump has met with a number of presidential hopefuls, most of whom set up their appointments weeks ahead of time -- Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney. He also held meetings with Mike Huckabee, a 2008 contender who decided not to make the race, and Sarah Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, who has still not decided whether to get into the race.

Romney's campaign appeared to be trying to create a distraction to minimize press attention to the meeting. While Trump and the GOP presidential candidate were conferring, a Romney aide fretted and paced up and down the street, intimating to reporters that Romney had still not arrived, and was running late.

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[GoUnion86]

Mitt was late to the meeting because his housekeeper was on the other side of the mansion cleaning one of the 35 bedrooms, the butler had to take the dog to the hospital, the gardeners hands were dirty, so he had to get the limo driver to tie his tie.

Donald was fuming that the chauffer called in sick forcing him to take his private helicopter which he hates because it wreaks havoc with his hair.

Is there a pair of men more out of touch with ordinary Americans than these two?

[vpcharan]

Is Trumph a self-appointed elderly leader/kingmaker of the GOP? Is the going so bad for the GOP that they have to listen to a used cars salesman? Trumph reminds of Cliff Barnes of the 1980 TV serial " Dallas"

[nasteaparty_dot_com]

Apparently Trump wanted to show Romney his penthouse in New York, but Romney had already seen that magazine. A breeze blew out the candles and their romantic dinner on top of Trump Towers fell into darkness. Fortunately, Trump's permanently orange face provided ample illumination, as he adjusted the fox on his head and made one of his more trumped up allegations. Trump confided in his latest theories about the Obama birth certificate, but Romney was more interested in Trump's impressive collection of bankruptcy certificates. Romney had seen and heard enough. Here was a man even more nutty than Rick Perry at an anti-gay rally. He told Trump he was going to his car to get some papers that would prove Obama was really a Mormon. But it was just a ruse to give Trump the slip.

[doeslovetoread]

Wow..........the libtards are out in force tonight

[noloyalisti]

Vote for a Republicon lose your social security. And pay more for everything.

[sandiegopete]

How true. All the right wingers can do is say its all a lie. They can't provide any logical response. Trolls like America_is_Great never provide any justification for their comments because they can't. The Republican plan for Social Security is to require U.S. workers to buy investments from investment banks like the defunct Lehman Bros. and then see their retirement money disappear while the bankers that fund the Republicans reap big profits by buying credit default swaps that will pay them the money the worker has given to the investment bank.

Those people have no integrity.

[hsinco-2009]

Vote Repug and gamble with your ability to retire!

Period!

[bobbyboobee]

Romney didn't want the press to smell his breath or see the scuff marks on the knees of his pants.

[bobbyboobee]

Romney didn't want the press to smell his breath or see the scuff marks on the knees of his pants.

[bobbyboobee]

Romney didn't want the press to smell his breath or see the scuff marks on the knees of his pants.

[hsinco-2009]

Come again?

[NinthSt78]

Some girl is gonna be mighty happy when she gets her slip back.

[raflin1]

Hilarious!


Rick Perry IS the current GOP "nut du jour." The poor Republican voters appear to move from nutcase trainwreck to nutcase tranwreck in this election's primary cycle. First, they swarmed to the nutty Donald Trump and his crackpot birther claims, then they realized what a joke HE was so they swarmed to the even nuttier Michelle Bachman. Then when they realized that she couldn't get the facts right and was off her rocker, they swarmed to the current prize nutzoid Rick Perry. But now they're beginning to see just what a whacko he too is. It's pretty bad for the GOP that the apparent "best" candidate they can come up with is Mitt Romney, who lost in the last election to John McCain, who went on to lose to Barack Obama. (I guess this makes Romney a loser, twice removed??)