"Fading" Mitt Romney has gone Hillary on Mike Huckabee. One of the turning points of Hillary Clinton’s campaign was when she went personal on Barack Obama. She said that he wanted to be President since he was in kindergarten. Well. Romney, after achieving Clintonian honesty, is now borrowing Clintonian negative Read more…
Twitter is an amusing tool. A lot of things become more public. Like this from Chris Johnston: I was contacted today about being a delegate for Mitt Romney in the Louisiana Caucus
Yesterday, National Review endorsed Mitt Romney. This came as a surprise to no one, and it’s significance is unclear. It seems that the operative parts of the endorsement are: Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate. In our judgment, that candidate is Mitt Romney, Read more…
The first negative TV ad of the cycle comes out with Mitt Romney attacking Mike Huckabee’s immigration position. The commentariat and the Huckabee campaign have responded pretty sharply. Jonathan Martin called it "Mitt desperation". Chris Cilizza said: First, it attempts to blur any differences between Romney and Huckabee on issues Read more…
Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday called one of Mitt Romney’s mailers in New Hampshire "not true." Watch the video. What is Romney’s strategy? Lie about everything through the primary? CNN caught him being dodgy yesterday. But the guy has the money to do it. I don’t think that the Read more…
I was not too impressed with Mitt Romney’s speech at the time. I wanted to give the speech several days to settle before I weighed in. Several things seemed clear to me. The first thing is that Romney had a clear "comma problem". Ron Fournier at the AP wrote about Read more…
From yesterday. Note the closing quote: this is a narrative that is continuing with Mitt Romney that he says something publicly that might not match what he is doing privately or what he has done in the past H/T: Jen Rubin. Marc Ambinder was also there.
UPDATE: I’ve watched. The twitter traffic was positive for Romney. The comments that I have heard have not. Bill Bennett on CNN was pretty negative I thought. I’ve read the excerpts of Mitt Romney’s speech. They seem pretty banal. If this is all it is, is it worth it?
Well, this race is certainly in flux isn’t it? Two sets of polls The first is Rasmussen’s daily trackers for a little over a week. The second is RCP’s averages for the national race from Wednesday, December 5th. RCP messed up the dates a little. Rasmussen should have been at Read more…
Let me get this straight. A candidate has a religion problem. He is giving a big speech on religious liberty. And his supporters are dropping a movie, Article VI: The Movie. They also sent out a media advisory, the text of which is after the jump. But the text is the interesting part: (excuse the erratic formatting. It was in the text of the release)
Filmmaker Bryan Hall of Living Biography Media along with co-producer and former Assistant White House Press Secretary Reed Dickens will announce the release of the feature length documentary entitled, Article VI. The film is an intense discussion of the role of faith in politics intended to examine the national scrutiny of a candidate’s religion in the 2008 election.
The filmmakers and representatives will hold a conference call with bloggers to discuss the film and its potential impact on voters in key primary states. The film will be accompanied by an aggressive grassroots marketing campaign.
So supporters of Romney intend to highlight his religion in the last several weeks of the campaign? When he has to win Iowa and South Carolina, two states whose nominating contests are dominated by evangelicals? In essence, going into Christmas, evangelicals are going to be presented with a large-scale discussion of Romney’s religion. How can that be good?
Advisory after the break (more…)