Jen Rubin captures the most important dynamic leading into South Carolina: Thompson gave himself an opening in South Carolina and gave conservatives a place to jump from the Romney leaking ship. He may have scuffed up Huckabee sufficiently to allow either himself or McCain to win SC. If the latter Read more…
I normally don’t write about polls, especially ARG polls. But I was struck by two things in the most recent batch. The first one, which lots of people have talked about is Mitt Romney’s rise in South Carolina. That’s new. Is it real? Is it TV moving numbers? But the Read more…
Today, Governor Mitt Romney called for the US to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council. According to the AP: "The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. Read more…
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…
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…
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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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…
Somehow, I am not all that impressed by the fight over the national parties stripping delegates from state parties who will have primaries prior to Feb. 5th. Last week, the story was Florida and the Democrats. This week, it appears to be the Republicans and Florida, South Carolina, and New Read more…
At least the weather will be better. But that’s what the WSJ is telling us: South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson will join with New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner tomorrow morning to announce that both states are moving up their presidential primary dates earlier into January, according Read more…
When the good news is that you lose your Iowa campaign chair to the OMB, you know you had a bad day. But how bad? So bad that your South Carolina campaign chair is indicted for conspiring to peddle crack cocaine? (Another reason I’m happy I made phone calls in Read more…