Quote of the day
Jesse Walker of Reason Magazine on Mitt Romney: Romney isn’t an ordinary flesh-and-blood candidate, after all; he’s a machine calibrated to say whatever is most likely to emerge from a focus group of Republican primary voters.
The lesson of Romney’s videos
I wasn’t going to write about this, but at today’s conservative blogger lunch, Gary Marx said that I, by name, would not get to vote in Mitt Romney’s make your own ad gimmick. Romney’s problem is, of course, his stage managed personality and values. The most remembered video out of Read more…
Romney (Reform-MA) on Republicans
Mitt Romney’s new ad says that too many Republicans "act like Democrats". Quotes: When Republicans act like Democrats, America loses. It is time for Republicans to start acting like Republicans. Of course, this is the same guy who said: My R doesn’t so much stand for Republican as Reform Jonathan Read more…
Romney’s Keyes problem?
The other day, I reviewed the history of the 2000 election in which Alan Keyes served as a conservative attack dog. He attacked every candidate from the right and helped make arguments that prevented the consolidation of the right. It appears that he might have that effect by attacking Mitt Read more…
Romney’s Clinton problem
Drudge is pushing a story about Hillary Clinton’s health care plan. While Drudge focused on the dollar amount, I saw this: The centerpiece of Clinton’s plan is the so-called "individual mandate," requiring everyone to have health insurance — just as most states require drivers to purchase auto insurance. Rival John Read more…
Glad someone finally said it
Todd Harris said what everyone has been thinking for a while:
The statement from Todd Harris, communications director for Fred Thompson, accuses Mitt Romney’s campaign of a "half-baked cover-up" of what he alleges is the association between a Romney consultant and a hastily pulled website that said nasty things about Thompson.
Harris concluded with the kind of rhetoric that tends to warm Democratic hearts: "This latest episode only serves to prove what many voters are already figuring out: Mitt Romney will do anything, say anything, smear any opponent and flip flop on any position in order to win. The American people in general and the Republican Party in particular deserve better than this."
Amen. Team Thompson telling it how it is.
UPDATE: Full statement after the jump.
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PhoneyFred.org and other Romney astroturf
Yesterday, we learned that an anonymous attack website was linked to Mitt Romney’s South Carolina’s consultants. The Romney campaign has thrown one of their consultants under the bus for it: Sources are telling FITSNews that Mitt Romney’s South Carolina campaign organization has fired consultant Wesley Donehue in an effort to Read more…
economy
Where’s the economics? Romney’s tax plan is new
James Pethokoukis at Capital Commerce asks an important question. Where is the economics in the GOP primary? Talk about weird. It was as if Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate hosted by Fox News was beamed in from an alternate reality— Earth 2 or something—where the economy is still booming and Read more…
Ethics
PhoneyFred.org: More Romney dirty politics
Earlier today, Jonathan Martin pointed out the new www.phoneyFred.org website: Clearly, though, this is no amateur effort. The volume of information and the way that it’s sourced reeks of a grasstops hit-job. Repeatingly calling Thompson "Phoney Fred" in the on-message style of political operatives, the site offers up unflattering quotes Read more…
Hillary has another shady fundraiser
Sometimes I offer advice to candidates. When you are trying to shake a story about felon-fundraisers, don’t hold fundraisers at the home of people convicted of extortion who steal elections. We are talking about Raul Martinez, the former mayor of Hialeah, Florida with a shady past. Back in 1991 Martinez, Read more…