My position on Mitt Romney has been that his flip-flopping and other things reveals a deeper honesty problem. They guy just doesn’t have any. From the immigrants on the front lawn "Sanctuary Mansion" story in today’s Boston Globe: "After this same issue arose last year, I gave the company a Read more…
Last week, Mitt Romney was in a world of hurt because someone had alleged that he had said that he would not hire a Muslim into a senior position. At the time, I wrote: This may open the door to a more open discussion of Romney’s religion. If he is Read more…
For months and months and months, there has been speculation that Mitt Romney would give a "Mormon Speech." There have been several reports that this has been an issue inside the usually disciplined Romney campaign. Well. He’s giving it on Thursday. Earlier Romney told the AP: "I have some folks Read more…
Drudge is reporting that the NH Union Leader is endorsing John McCain tomorrow. My gut is that, as newspaper endorsements go, this is a relatively big deal. The UL is influential in NH, and it can also drive local media. For a while people thought that Mitt Romney was going Read more…
Jonathan Martin posted the PDF of Mitt Romney’s immigration contrast mail piece in Iowa. He compares himself to the other top 4 GOP candidates. But look at the dates. The thing that strikes me…. Romney’s position on immigration is defended with 2 quotes from 2007 and one from 2003 and Read more…
The day after a debate in which Mitt Romney does …. not so well, it seems that there might be a concerted effort to lower expectations. Jen Rubin had been noticing it for a while. It seems that that strategy now includes raising Mike Huckabee’s expectations too. But I was Read more…
So this morning was the Mitt Romney’s hypocritical bigotry towards Muslims scandal. Then the Boston Herald broke that Romney’s affirmative-action judge had screwed up and let out a child-rapist before Romney gave her a promotion. And now Rudy Giuliani was making New York City pay for his affair? Proud day Read more…
UPDATE: TPM has another source. This is getting bad for Romney. Yesterday, the blogosphere was all up in a tizzy about a Christian Science Monitor op-ed piece that claims that Mitt Romney said he would not pick a Muslim for the Cabinet because there aren’t enough Muslims. Naturally, the Romney Read more…
UPDATE: Justin Hart corrects me that he resigned last night before going on the Hugh Hewitt show. The email that he sent me was dated later in the evening, but contained confirmation from earlier in the evening. I should have read more carefully. Justin Hart has notified me that he Read more…
UPDATE: Justin Hart has clarified with me that he has resigned from the Romney campaign’s Faith and Values Steering Committee. More facts emerge that further raise questions about the Mitt Romney Phone Scandal phone calls placed to two Iowan supporters of Mitt Romney, Marshan Roth and Rose Kramer. They both Read more…