Sorry for stopping posting.
I have joined John McCain’s campaign in the Political Department. Since I have joined the campaign, I have not blogged, except for noting a couple of stories in my twitter and del.icio.us feeds. I will also blog at Redstate after we win the nomination and it is clear what my role in […]
January 15, 2008 – 8:59 am
Dean Barnett offers a scathing assessment of the Romney campaign today. I don’t want to focus on that here, instead his closing:
I hope Mr. Romney does well enough in Michigan today that he gets the opportunity to introduce the public to the real Mitt Romney. He is a wonderful and gifted guy. It would be […]
January 15, 2008 – 8:41 am
Dean Barnett, Mitt Romney’s former driver, attacks the campaign today in the New York Times:
Because Mr. Romney chose to make this argument a secondary matter compared to his stands on social issues, he mounted a campaign that was, at its most basic level, insincere. … But the public correctly sensed something disingenuous about Mr. […]
January 12, 2008 – 1:38 pm
(Cross-post from Redstate)
Macomb County, Michigan, is one of the homes of the Reagan Democrat. Today, I saw John McCain give a town hall in the closing stretch of the Michigan primary. I don’t have pictures because my video camera was stolen, but I have impressions.
Michigan is in an a single-state recession. Unemployment is […]
January 11, 2008 – 6:36 pm
I have worried about the strange sense that I get that Mitt Romney is out of touch. He seems like a rich guy who doesn’t understand what normal people go through. The question is whether this impression gets down into the voters. MSNBC’s exit polls found that in New Hampshire the only income class that […]
January 11, 2008 – 10:24 am
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 he ironically would have done his […]
January 11, 2008 – 9:09 am
The John McCain campaign is trying to score some endorsements out of the ranks of other campaigns. They are looking for a press boost and more momentum to add to what they already have. Note that with Rudy Giuliani’s complete pull-out of MIchigan those activists, voters, and endorsers may help with that boost.
Dear McCain Supporter,
Over […]
January 10, 2008 – 10:39 pm
No one touched John McCain. No one. Fred Thompson whacked Mike Huckabee a couple of times. Mitt Romney was nowhere to be seen.
McCain wins as the untouched front-runner. Fred for showing life. And Huck for handling some tough questions with grace.
Tags: Debates, Fred Thompson, Huckabee, McCain
January 10, 2008 – 12:22 pm
The Rhode Island Secretary of State just released the list of filed delegates. Delegates then need to get signatures to get on the ballots. But… John McCain and Mike Huckabee filed 40 delegates. Fred Thompson 8. Mitt Romney 7. And Rudy Giuliani 0.
There are two stories here. The first one is that Romney’s delegate operation […]
January 10, 2008 – 9:49 am
In March of this year the Boston Globe analyzed Mitt Romney’s economic record in Massachusetts:
On all key labor market measures, the state not only lagged behind the country as a whole, but often ranked at or near the bottom of the state distribution. Formal payroll employment in the state in 2006 was still 16,000 or […]
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