My friend Rob Bluey is concerned that a Romney advisor signing an immigration letter sends mixed signals. I think that’s strange for two reasons. First, Romney has said that the bill is amnesty, that it is not amnesty, and that it’s a form of amnesty. Those are mixed messages. I Read more…
This is not on topic for me, but it is too funny to pass up: State and federal authorities said Senate Minority Leader Louis DeLuca in 2005 sought help from James Galante, a Danbury trash hauler currently awaiting trial on 72 counts of tax fraud, racketeering, threatening and extortion. "When Read more…
I was going to write on this but Deal Hudson beat me to it, and more articulately. Romney’s record: As governor of Massachusetts, Romney ordered Catholic hospitals to administer emergency contraception to women who claim they had been raped. Romney’s words last night: I don’t say anything to Roman Catholic Read more…
Marc Ambinder writes, in response to Matt Yglesias, that Hillary Clinton is "not doomed! Yet!" and discusses her relationship with the blogosphere. The fundamental question is "does Hillary’s failure to catch on in the lefty blogosphere mean that she is doomed." Marc describes one way of answering the question: In Read more…
Now, I’ve been trying to avoid the Rudy pile-on on abortion. But, now he is blaming bloggers for his problems? He could be running against Hillary Clinton. And he thinks bloggers play dirty? WTF?
This is quite interesting… Apparently, the Florida state legislature is moving up the primary, again, to January 29th. This would be the same day as South Carolina, I believe. I see several implications: I believe that the Democrats will penalize Florida for this by either stripping their delegates or stripping Read more…
In some ways, each state in the early process of the Presidential nominations captures something about the GOP electorate. I have noted that Iowa tends to emphasize religious conservatives. In New Hampshire, the "Live Free or Die" state, it is much more libertarian focusing on issues like guns and, to Read more…
This is interesting: GOP consultant and former state GOP Executive Director Brendan Quinn, who was involved in the state Republican Party’s efforts to keep U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Az, off New York’s presidential primary ballot in 2000, confirmed he is now working for McCain and setting up his Empire State Read more…
At the end of this RedState post there is a complete list of Romney’s foreign policy advisors. Apparently, a partial list was published, but the Romney campaign complained that the full list was not public. I am struck by something. I don’t know where most of these people are on Read more…