Romney’s Drudge ads on immigration
Romney is buying immigration ads on Drudge tonight. Here are two of the pictures: Note that he compares New York City to San Francisco.
Thoughts before the spin room
John McCain did well with the national security focus. Mitt Romney always does best with a domestic security focus. I suspect that the commenters will say that McCain won. I was going to say that I am not sure that his position on Iraq was going to resonate with voters. Read more…
A Romney representative on Iraq
I’m at the debate media room at the GOP debate. A Romney representative says that Mitt Romney’s position on Iraq is nothing new and that no candidate believes that they will keep troops for a long time. I am not sure that that is true. After all, both Hillary Clinton Read more…
Different models for the future of the GOP?
Ross Douthat ends a discussion of Mike Huckabee with: The most important thing, to my mind, is that a Huckabee-Giuliani-Romney race would be a lot healthier for the GOP than a Thompson-Giuliani-Romney race, which is reason enough to wish the Huckster well. Now, assuming that these aren’t battles over personality, Read more…
Romney attacked by grassroots for police escort
The South Carolina Citizens for Tax Reform sent out the following email to approximately 10,000 activists:
From: Jason Swanson [mailto:sctaxpayers@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:02 PM
To:
Subject: Petition for Romney to Return Tax DollarsSouth Carolina Taxpayer:
Today former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney used taxpayer funded police escorts to speed him to various campaign events in our state. Needless to say this is a waste of taxpayer dollars for any South Carolinian who does not support Romney’s campaign and he should apologize to all of us.
We have put together the "Return South Carolina Tax Dollars" petition to urge Mitt Romney to reimburse in-full the costs from this trip and apologize to the taxpayers of South Carolina for using our tax dollars and breaking our laws. This reminds us all of the fake police troopers he used on his campaign in the past.
Please send an email to SCtaxpayers@gmail.com to add your name to the petition and please include your full name and address.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
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Romney acting a little too presidential?
Mitt Romney has gotten in some hot water because his "Director of Operations" seemed to be role-playing a secret service. Mitt Romney also said that "the presidency ought to be held at a higher level than having to answer questions from a snowman," and so he ducked out of the Read more…
Strategy
Romney’s “challenges” and “legs” ad
So Mitt Romney released a new ad. A number of people have commented on the "legs" side of Romney’s ad, but I thought the "challenges" side was more interesting. Consider some quotes: "An Olympics hit by scandal and deficits" "He turned around dozens of companies" "State losing jobs with huge Read more…
Romney changing his story on abortion again
GraniteGrok has the video. Mark Kilmer at Redstate thinks Mitt Romney is wrong about Reagan and abortion.
Romney’s healthcare plan: The politics
So, I have already reviewed the policy aspect of Mitt Romney’s health care plan. Basically, I think it is reasonable, but he is playing "hide the ball" with the money. It has to come from somewhere and he is leaving the "where" up to the states. Fine. Now the next Read more…
Romney’s healthcare plan: The policies
UPDATE: Sally Pipes is kind enough to remind us that it just didn’t work in MA. And, of course, Romney’s proposal is tax breaks for people who can afford health insurance but don’t buy it. In other words, another subsidy… First, let me say that I am reasonably sympathetic to Read more…