Jonathan Martin posted the PDF of Mitt Romney’s immigration contrast mail piece in Iowa. He compares himself to the other top 4 GOP candidates. But look at the dates. The thing that strikes me…. Romney’s position on immigration is defended with 2 quotes from 2007 and one from 2003 and Read more…
There’s a lot of uncertainty in the race right now. The biggests questions are probably: First, will there be a Mitt Romney-Rudy Giuliani murder-suicide? Luntz focus groups suggest that Romney might have done better on immigration in the debate. Second, will Giuliani’s scandals continue? There’s Placa, Shag Fund, and others. Read more…
Romney’s Imaginary Advisers – Swampland – TIME (tags: 2008 romney mccain) Marc Ambinder (November 29, 2007) – Atlantic Umpire: Does Romney Want South Carolina Republicans To Think He Favors An Immediate Constitutional Ban On Abortion? (tags: 2008 romney life sc) Ross Douthat (November 29, 2007) – Pushing the Envelope (Politics) Read more…
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. Read more…
The day after a debate in which Mitt Romney does …. not so well, it seems that there might be a concerted effort to lower expectations. Jen Rubin had been noticing it for a while. It seems that that strategy now includes raising Mike Huckabee’s expectations too. But I was Read more…
RealClearPolitics – Articles – How to Meet Our Nation’s Challenges (tags: 2008 security) Marc Ambinder (November 27, 2007) – Romney And Muslims (tags: 2008 romney) RealClearPolitics – Articles – McCain’s Electability Argument (tags: 2008 mccain) Mitt’s Muslim Checkbox | Democracy in America | Economist.com (tags: 2008 romney) RealClearPolitics – Articles Read more…
I didn’t get the chance to live-blog this, but I did take notes. There were some great moments. Rudy Giuliani’s slap of Romney with "sanctuary mansion" was outstanding. Mike Huckabee’s handling of the death penalty question was masterful. The complexity of his answer to the literalism of the Bible question Read more…
So this morning was the Mitt Romney’s hypocritical bigotry towards Muslims scandal. Then the Boston Herald broke that Romney’s affirmative-action judge had screwed up and let out a child-rapist before Romney gave her a promotion. And now Rudy Giuliani was making New York City pay for his affair? Proud day Read more…
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 Read more…
UPDATE: TPM has another source. This is getting bad for Romney. Yesterday, the blogosphere was all up in a tizzy about a Christian Science Monitor op-ed piece that claims that Mitt Romney said he would not pick a Muslim for the Cabinet because there aren’t enough Muslims. Naturally, the Romney Read more…