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More endorsements

15 January, 2007 (15:32) | Michigan | By: eye

More endorsements:

From The Fix. RGA Vice-Chair and MN Governor Tim Pawlenty for McCain. Lobbyist and former Congressman (also MN) Vin Webber to Romney.
From Michigan Cooler. MI National Committeeman, Chuck Yob, and National Committeewoman, Holly Hughes, are for McCain. This is only sort of news.
From The Shot. Brownback picks up two South Carolina social conservatives.

Romney retracts attack on conservative activist (update)

15 January, 2007 (12:04) | Media | By: eye

Update: The Romney campaign has put the article back up! They call it "a glitch". However, they have removed the article from the list of press releases or a list of "All News". I agree with Race42008, which called this, "Team Romney first big goof" and Rob Bluey says it may be a "flip-flopping on [...]

Was Romney’s Camenker attack a Forti mistake? (update)

14 January, 2007 (19:07) | Media | By: eye

Update: Whoever’s mistake it was, it has been pulled.
Mitt Romney’s attack on Brian Camenker has been criticized in a number of places (I did it here). However, National Journal’s Danny Glover has what might be the beginning of the explanation: Carl Forti doesn’t get the new media:
Yes, that’s right, the same Mitt Romney who earned [...]

The downside of the Giuliani/WSJ piece and Bush’s problem

14 January, 2007 (13:39) | Media | By: eye

Yesterday I praised some of the ideas behind Rudy Giuliani’s WSJ piece. However, some people have responded that it demonstrated a sort of smallness of vision.
Dick Morris has just written on precisely this, and I think that it speaks to Rudy’s weakness:
In President Bush’s speech on Wednesday night, he gave graphic evidence of the [...]

Giuliani/Gingrich WSJ/Iraq op-ed

13 January, 2007 (22:13) | Uncategorized | By: eye

On Friday, Rudy Giulaini and Newt Gingrich published an op-ed on Iraq in the Wall Street Journal. This was very interesting from several perspectives.
First, Rudy misplayed the Iraq issue. He came out with a statement on the President’s surge proposal relatively late. And he has not demonstrated any particular opinions on the subject. Has he [...]

Romney attacks conservative activist for flip-flopping

12 January, 2007 (10:35) | Media | By: eye

This can’t be smart. There goes Romney’s good media week. Romney launches an ad hominem attack against Brian Camecker, author of the the Mitt Romney Deception piece. Romney has been bleeding from that and an AP story about it.
In an attempt to undermine Camenker’s credibility, Romney’s campaign says:
Camenker Admits He Used To Be "A [...]

Explaining Brownback on the war

12 January, 2007 (08:05) | Uncategorized | By: eye

There has been some debate over Sam Brownback’s position on the Iraq war.
First, of all, the visuals were pretty good. By announcing his position from Iraq, he got a certain kind of credibility. A sort of, "I’m here, I can see what’s going on, and I think it’s a lousy idea."
Second, there’s some political logic [...]

Florida moving … to January?

12 January, 2007 (07:34) | Uncategorized | By: eye

This is remarkable:
Lawmakers said Thursday they want Florida’s primary pushed up to January 2008 to increase the state’s political influence, but they may face retribution from the national Republican and Democratic parties.

If that happened, Florida Democrats would lose all their delegates at the convention, according to current DNC rules.
This will be fun. You also have [...]

State of play in Iowa

11 January, 2007 (09:29) | Uncategorized | By: eye

Krusty has a great analysis of what is going on in Iowa. Romney does have some substantial advantages on the ground. And it will be interesting to see what happens when MoveOn goes on the air next week against McCain.

Fisking Mitt’s YouTube defense

11 January, 2007 (07:02) | Media | By: eye

The YouTube video of Mitt Romney during a 1994 debate with Ted Kennedy shows him to be an eloquent defender of gay rights and abortion rights and dismissive of Ronald Reagan. Romney released a YouTube video of his own (per David All’s best practices) claiming that he had been wrong on some issues in the [...]