July 19, 2007 04:07 PM UTC

Romney Fires Up Colorado Springs

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• by: Colorado Pols

A remarkably…consistent speech to the El Paso County GOP, as the Rocky Mountain News reports:

Mitt Romney told about 750 El Paso County Republicans on Wednesday that all three Democratic presidential front-runners do not understand terrorism and hold European, socialist, tax-and-spend views.

“There are more Republicans here tonight than I have in my state,” he joked, before honing in on what he said was the difference between himself and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards.

Romney said he strongly supports the war in Iraq, as well as President Bush’s authorization of intense interrogation techniques on prisoners of the war…

Romney’s remarks at the fundraiser for the El Paso County Republican Party came at the end of a whirlwind day of working on his own presidential campaign in Colorado. Earlier Wednesday, he padded his war chest with about $150,000 during speaking engagements in Aspen, Denver and Colorado Springs. It was Romney’s fourth visit to Colorado in eight months.

By ending his day at two events in Colorado Springs, Romney, who is Mormon, reinforced his Reagan-esque, “big tent” message to Republicans living in a hotbed for evangelical Christian beliefs.

He emphasized his support for a federal ban on gay marriage. And he said his belief in family values would drive him, if elected, to push for a “one strike and you’re ours” policy toward Internet sex predators, giving offenders harsh prison sentences followed by a life of monitoring with ankle bracelets.

A diarist offers additional thoughts, and some video from a prior incarnation of Mitt Romney–not to be confused with today’s Mitt Romney. From what we understand, they’re not even the same person.