Romney out of touch?

I have worried about the strange sense that I get that Mitt Romney is out of touch. He seems like a rich guy who doesn’t understand what normal people go through. The question is whether this impression gets down into the voters. MSNBC’s exit polls found that in New Hampshire Read more…

Mitt’s Meet mistakes

It has turned out that Mitt Romney’s Meet the Press appearance appeared decent at the time, but mistakes seem to be coming out of the woodwork. Race 4 2008 has one write-up. First, there was Romney’s lie about the NRA endorsement. He claimed that he had received it in 2002. Read more…

Grover on Rudy and Huckabee

So much happened yesterday, and I was away from a computer for most of the day, that I was left nearly speechless. Perhaps the most interesting was Grover Norquist’s comments on Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. Grover’s whole schtick for over a decade has been his tax pledge. You sign Read more…

How anti-tax are IA GOP caucus goers?

I am curious. If, as David Yepsen notes, Mike Huckabee is doing well in Iowa, it might be because Iowa caucus-goers are relatively strange. We already know that Iowa GOP caucus-goers are much more anti-war than the national party. We also know that Iowa caucus-goers are more religious than the Read more…

Thompson on Security and Unity

Fred Thompson’s campaign’s motto is "Prosperity, Security, Unity". He addressed the first of these during his main speech to the Americans for Prosperity. He addressed the other parts during a speech to the Virginia delegation. Nothing special, but interesting to see the rest of his message. I was struck, again, Read more…

Romney taxed New Hampshire

There’s a fight over taxes between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani. Yesterday, Romney accused Rudy of supporting a commuter tax. But, as always seems to be the case for Romney, whose operating principle seems to be "what is good for me is not good for thee," Romney raised the commuter Read more…

Huckabee at AFP

Mike Huckabee speaks at AFP. He starts with populism. "Getting the economy moving for everyone." But then he switches to talking about the defects with the tax code. He is so interesting. This is anti-government populism. "The average American is more afraid of an audit by the IRS than getting Read more…