Or so says NRO’s Byron York in a great article. There are a bunch of really important parts to this article. The first is about how Romney is using his religion to cover for his record: Oran Smith, pro-life, questions Romney’s explanation in a more subtle way. In talks with Read more…
Word on the street is that Rudy Giuliani has hired Jeff Semprini to run New Hampshire. Jeff’s dad is the outgoing state party chair, Wayne Semprini.
In an article in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal (SC), a spokesman for Mitt Romney’s Commonwealth PAC is quoted: "Gov. Romney has always stood on the side of life, he’s been a fierce defender of the sanctity of marriage, and will continue to fight for those conservative principles. Gov. Romney is a Read more…
California’s Flash Report has two posts (here and here) about the GOP money that is getting lined up in California. A summary below: John McCain: Jon Fleishman calls Donald Bren "the biggest prize in the sweepstakes for prominent figures in the California Republican finance community". One California consultant told me Read more…
The Boston Globe says that Romney used to be accessible and responsive and ever on message. Now not so much: But as Romney prepares to leave office… [h]e has entered a brush-past, sorry-got-to- run, talk-to-my-office stage. Romney has, for the most part, successfully avoided the press in Boston and elsewhere Read more…
Update: Drew Cline from the Union Leader corrects me. He says: Some anti-Mitt Romney outfit calling itself eyeon08.com has included me in a list of “MSM” members down on Romney for flip-flopping on abortion and marriage. Not so. I haven’t made up my mind about Romney yet. Nor do I Read more…
In day 4 of Pat Robertson’s offensive on Mitt Romney, the Christian Broadcasting Network ran a segment on TV about Romney’s Log Cabin letter entitled "Romney’s Pro-Gay Letter". Watch it here. Some tasty quotes: It could be a big problem. It really depends on whether he comes across as credible Read more…
Jerome Armstrong, at myDD, and Kos have started to write on the primary calendar. They have both argued that, to some extent, it favors John McCain. Two points should be made. First, it won’t be as compressed as it looks. There is strong evidence that New Hampshire will move up Read more…
One reader has gotten sick of watching the Romney car-crash and asks: Yea, I get it, Romney is toast. OK, I want to hear your thoughts on an alternative to the evangelicals, is it Brownback, Huckabee, or Gingrich? They each seem to have strengths. And what about Tancredo? I would Read more…
Bob Novak’s review of 2008 candidates had little to say about Mitt Romney other than he’s gotten creamed this week: The key to Romney, though, seems to be that he shifts his positions on issues important to Republican primary voters. The Log Cabin letter was cleverly released by someone while Read more…