9 December, 2007 (18:24) | Uncategorized | By: soren
Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday called one of Mitt Romney’s mailers in New Hampshire "not true." Watch the video. What is Romney’s strategy? Lie about everything through the primary? CNN caught him being dodgy yesterday. But the guy has the money to do it. I don’t think that the Republican Party wants a guy [...]
Tags: Immigration, McCain, New Hampshire, Romney
Comments: 9
1 December, 2007 (19:13) | Media | By: soren
Drudge is reporting that the NH Union Leader is endorsing John McCain tomorrow. My gut is that, as newspaper endorsements go, this is a relatively big deal. The UL is influential in NH, and it can also drive local media. For a while people thought that Mitt Romney was going to get this endorsement. It [...]
Tags: Endorsements, McCain, Media, New Hampshire, Romney
Comments: 2
29 November, 2007 (21:59) | Uncategorized | By: soren
On November 19th, Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry published a very interesting cover-story in National Review. They argued that the situation that the party is in is much more dire. First, the diagnosis: So while Republicans are depressed these days, their condition is actually worse than they think it is. The deepest cause of the [...]
Tags: Conservative Movement, Huckabee, McCain
Comments: 8
28 November, 2007 (13:02) | Uncategorized | By: soren
McCain starts talking about his trip to Iraq. The troops are happy with the success that we have achieved. They know that this strategy has been succeeding. In Anbar things are quiet. In Baghdad, things are better. … Petraeus believes that there could be an uptick in al-Qaeda activity because they are on the run. [...]
Tags: Iraq, Live-blogging, McCain
Comments: 1
16 November, 2007 (13:48) | Media | By: soren
So, there was a three-ish day media frenzy on this. The video on YouTube has been watched almost 1m times. It was rebroadcast hundreds of times. Whoopi Goldberg defended John McCain on The View to a bunch of liberal women. CNN rebroadcast the exchange repeatedly, as they tried to smear him. Including John McCain saying [...]
Tags: McCain, Media, Technology
Comments: 1
16 November, 2007 (11:38) | Uncategorized | By: soren
Let me start with a story. Several years ago, in a swing House seat, volunteers for the Democratic candidate, started calling the finance committee of the Republican candidate, three days out. The message? That the Democratic candidate was a Jew and "we can’t let another Jew get in office." The Democrat volunteers identified themselves on [...]
Tags: Iowa, McCain, New Hampshire, Push polls, Romney, Rules
Comments: 11
14 November, 2007 (13:48) | Uncategorized | By: soren
First some notes from his opening: Pakistan leads the headlines. The Pakistani intelligence services has differences with us going way back. Mentions the Taliban and ISI and the rise of extremism in Waziristan and other places. Says that Pervez Musharraf is better than the options. There’s a lot at stake when a nuclear powered nation [...]
Tags: Live-blogging, McCain
Comments: 1
13 November, 2007 (17:53) | Uncategorized | By: soren
In New Hampshire, a die-hard Republican activist blue haired lady asked the question that is on all of our minds: How do we beat the bitch? Where "bitch" clearly means "Hillary Rodham Clinton." John McCain gives the answer. With respect and dignity. Unlike Mitt Romney’s attacking her over sex. Republicans still hate her, as the [...]
Tags: Clinton, McCain
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7 November, 2007 (21:04) | Uncategorized | By: soren
It has been a pretty remarkable two days in terms of endorsements: Yesterday, Mitt Romney got Paul Weyrich. Weyrich had been rumored to be going with Fred Thompson, but not so much… And he said Mike Huckabee couldn’t win. This is certainly a DC-insider endorsement. Today, Rudy Giuliani got Pat Robertson. The impact of this [...]
Tags: Endorsements, Giuliani, Huckabee, McCain, Republicans, Romney, Social conservatives
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25 October, 2007 (11:47) | Uncategorized | By: soren
The theme of the call really seemed to be communication. John McCain has made clear repeatedly that he would do more than the Bush administration to communicate. He would talk more about Iraq. About the deficit. About immigration. About global warming. About judges. He believes that he would be able to get through to people [...]
Tags: Live-blogging, McCain
Comments: 5