Michigan
How McCain tries to steal Romney’s thunder
NYT’s The Caucus has a good rundown. John McCain did the same thing at Mitt Romney’s Republican Governors Association meeting.
Romney has more lobbyist support!
On the day that Mitt Romney is announcing, his campaign must have known that his opponents were going to find ways to dump on him. Sam Brownback attacks Romney for misrepresenting Brownback’s record. Three Romney supporters jump ship to McCain. Perhaps worse, the press dumps on him. Romney’s local Fox-affiliate Read more…
Romney losing MI supporters to McCain
Fox has the details. Apparently they think Romney has a "consistency problem". Whoda thunk?
Brownback campaign: Romney misleading voters
I think that this press release just about says it all. No need to comment. Apparently this was triggered by the Romney campaign circulating statements comparing Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney’s record on abortion: Mitt Romney’s Campaign Misleads Voters about Senator Brownback’s Position on Abortion "Mitt Romney’s flip flops are Read more…
Romney versus USDA?
So Caucus Cooler finds… How long will this one stand?
Romney’s Policy Director (almost) saying GOP can’t win?
I think that’s what Vin Weber is saying, "I don’t want to contribute to my own party’s demoralization, and it doesn’t necessarily mean there will be a Democratic landslide, but I think there is a thumb on their side of the scale that’s not going to come off until after Read more…
Michigan
More grassroots anti-Romney protests (update)
At the MRP conventjon, which I blogged about here, there was an anti-Mitt Romney protest put on by members, apparently, of the Michigan State and University of Michigan Young Americans for Freedom: In this video, there are protesters with signs like "RINOs for Romney" or "If you don’t like Romney’s Read more…
Michigan
McCain wins MI GOP proxy fight (update)
Two sources at the Michigan Republican Party Convention report that John McCain’s campaign defeated Mitt Romney’s campaign in a clear proxy fight at the convention in the battle for Youth Chair. While neither campaign endorsed in the race, staffers from both campaigns were managing the floor fights for their respective Read more…
Fisking Romney’s Campaign Finance Rebuttal
Mitt Romney got slammed yesterday for flip-flopping on campaign finance reform. First The Hill wrote about it and then Caucus Cooler, a great Iowa blog, got his hands of Romney on C-SPAN video sounding like a wild-eyed campaign finance reform radical (below too). Then the Romney campaign sent out talking Read more…
Romney Mitt-floppery on campaign finance reform
The Hill reports that in 2002 Mitt Romney advocated radical campaign finance reform: “Mr. Romney campaigned in favor of clean elections, which provides public money to candidates for state office who meet strict fundraising requirements,” the Telegram & Gazette reported. “But he suggested an alternative funding method. Instead of providing Read more…