I am off to the Young Republican National Convention in Miami. I will be blogging some of it on-site. Mitt Romney will be speaking, as will Duncan Hunter. There will be a bunch of other exciting events, including a straw poll. The last big Young Republican straw poll last year Read more…
Details from Mike DuHaime on Rudy Giuliani: 60k donors. Thinks that this can grow. Lower than McCain’s and Romney’s. $33m raised for this cycle $11m spent in Q2 $18m CoH and $0 debt "Finance numbers catching up polling numbers" Campaign contnuing to grow: Active in 12 states "Only candidate who Read more…
Introductions Tancredo: MoC for 10 years Tommy Thompson: Candidate not the actor. Governor for 14 and Secretary of HHS Sam Brownback. Raised on farm in Kansas, have 5 kids, Senator Mitt Romney: Family, neighbor and MA. Giuliani: Likes the motto McCain: Served coountry all his life. Huckabee: Give people from Read more…
McCain discusses Romney’s position on immigration: Maybe I should wait a of couple weeks and see if it changes. Maybe he can get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his yard. McCain refers to Romney’s general flip-floppery, Romney’s gun gaffes, and the illegals who take care Read more…
John McCain opened the call with a discussion of his speech, his discussion with Kyl, and immigration. He notes that immigration is a national security issue. And he also notes that there’s no smaller bill that can get through the Senate. Ann Althouse asks about the difficulty of running for Read more…
Rudy Giuliani talks about the debate. He said it was better. Challenging questions. He points out that they had time. Jennifer Rubin, from ABCNews.com (she gets around) starts with a question about the Senate vote on withdrawal. She notes that it was 29-67, with all the Democrats running for President Read more…
I think that Rudy Giuliani did well tonight. No one really nailed him on abortion, which surprises me. And he really nixed Ron Paul. John McCain did well too. I think that he really had some good lines. He made a great impression. Without the really extraordinary intervention of Giuliaini Read more…
9:05: McCain gets lucky with the first question on his best issue. He is 9:06: Thompson (is that hair real?) is asked about pressure on Iraq to get out. That’s a different version of revenue sharing. Winning the peace is a good line. 9:08: Romney ducks the question about whether Read more…
So, Romney mispronounces al-Maliki…. Brownback sounded quite good. He is articulate. Too bad he doesn’t stand a chance. McCain seems nervous. The Iran-Iraq fumble was a little awkward. Tancredo. Mr. "Bomb Mecca" And Giuliani drops the Reagan name… Romney flip-flops on Osama bin Laden. "of course" except not the other Read more…