NRO: Did Romney Push Poll Himself?
I think that this story will dominate the GOP 2008 race today. It suggests that Alex Gage, who Chris Cilliza calls part of the Romney "inner circle," is behind the push polls.
Western Wats denies Romney connection … through Romney campaign?
Justin Hart, blogger at MyManMitt and Race42008, is the only person who seems to be in contact with people inside Western Wats. He has defended Western Wats’ denials that this whole thing is associated with the Mitt Romney campaign here, here, and here. Of course, Justin isn’t just a blogger. Read more…
Ethics
Stock tactic: Sleazy bigoted phone calls
The Politico’s Jonathan Martin asked one of the kings of political sleaze what he thought of the Mitt Romney phone calls. He sees a historical antecedent in the the 1960 JFK race: Just as Bobby Kennedy was behind anti-Catholic calls and literature to Catholic Households in The 1960 Democratic Party. Read more…
links for 2007-11-18
Ramesh Ponnuru on 2008 & Conservatives on National Review Online (tags: 2008 gop media giuliani) Blogs and Articles – Liz Mair – A Fresh Voice (tags: 2008 romney) Anti-Romney calls — a political whodunit in New Hampshire – The Carpetbagger Report (tags: 2008 romney) N.H. investigates anti-Romney calls — chicagotribune.com Read more…
State of play of Romney Poll Scandal
Well, we seem to be in day 3 of this scandal. The calls went out Wednesday or Thursday. The AP’s Phil Elliott and the Politico’s Jonathan Martin reported on it on Thursday. Friday, all sorts of speculation abounded. The solid facts appear to be that: First, Western Wats, an Orem, Read more…
links for 2007-11-17
Don’t buy Gingrich’s view of environmentalism, or his new book | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist (tags: 2008 gingrich environment democrats) Blogs and Articles – Liz Mair – A Fresh Voice (tags: 2008 romney)
Romney is friends with Western Wats family
UPDATE: I wrote the basics of this in a comment this morning, but I was at the DC Walk for the Homeless, and so could only update via my blackberry. I have been contacted by Vic Lundquist, who’s post is referenced below. Lindquist described the caption as a "mistake" and Read more…
Media
Did McCain win the battle of the “bitch”?
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 Read more…
The strange anti-Romney push poll
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 Read more…
links for 2007-11-16
Matt Taibbi on Mike Huckabee, Our Favorite Right-Wing Nut Job : Rolling Stone (tags: 2008 huckabee) 50 Days Out: GOP Race Continues to Confound – The Fix (tags: 2008 gop) Grassley plans no caucus endorsement | DesMoinesRegister.com | The Des Moines Register (tags: 2008 gop ia endorsement) One week left Read more…