After everything is done, here are my thoughts: Fred Thompson did not have a good weekend. His speech was ok, but in contrast to Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, it wasn’t so impressive. Lots of people were disappointed in hindsight. Mike Huckabee was a success in the room. He clearly Read more…
Total (fundraising) Offline (real) Candidate Votes Candidate Votes Romney 1595 Huckabee 488 Huckabee 1565 Romney 99 Paul 865 Thompson 77 Thompson 564 Tancredo 65 They made on and offline versions First, values: Abortion Marriage Tax cuts Family tax issues Sounds like Republicans. FRC had indicated that they would provide online Read more…
Mike Huckabee has a great crowd here. Certainly a much stronger reception at the beginning than either Romney or Giuliani. Way bigger. Starts with jokes about the baby boomers collecting social security. "If you that’s bad economic news, just wait until you hear about all the old graying hippies getting Read more…
The entrance had more standing, but less cheers than Mitt Romney. But Romney had a lot of astroturf, as Phil Klein pointed out, so it is hard to tell. Rudy starts with an attack on Washington. Unlike Romney’s speech, there was more of a narrative structure. He wanted the people Read more…
It took me a lot of time to process Mitt Romney’s speech tonight. I had seen John McCain’s and Sam Brownback’s on TV. Romney’s was in sharp contrast to the others. He offered lots of details and great quotes like: "Time to make out of wedlock births out of fashion." Read more…
Today, Governor Mitt Romney called for the US to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council. According to the AP: "The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. Read more…
I have a lot of admiration for Senator Sam Brownback. I am deeply sympathetic to a lot of positions that he has taken. But he is dropping out. When the tank runs out of gas, the car stops moving. That’s what happened with the Senator and money. They did a Read more…
Alan Fram AP’s story about Rudy Giuliani and conservatives fundamentally misses the point. He says, "Giuliani’s Conservative Vote Tenuous." That would be true, if it turned out that his lead in polls was based on the vote of conservatives who don’t know what he thinks on issues. It seems that Read more…
You don’t often get to write this sentence, so I had to do it: State of New Mexico $277,230 University of New Mexico $31,950 Total from NM State Employees $309,180 Bill Richardson would be violating congressional ethics if he were still in Congress. What am I talking about? Bill Richardson Read more…
I have two questions about the possibility of a December NH primary: Can candidates collect matching funds for that? What are the mechanics of that? When do they actually get the money? It is clear that John McCain has more than enough money to compete if he takes matching funds. Read more…