Category Archives: Romney


Mitt goes Hillary on Huckabee

"Fading" Mitt Romney has gone Hillary on Mike Huckabee. One of the turning points of Hillary Clinton’s campaign was when she went personal on Barack Obama. She said that he wanted to be President since he was in kindergarten.
Well. Romney, after achieving Clintonian honesty, is now borrowing Clintonian negative tactics. Today, his campaign sent out […]

Twitter of the day: Romney delegates in LA

Twitter is an amusing tool. A lot of things become more public. Like this from Chris Johnston:
I was contacted today about being a delegate for Mitt Romney in the Louisiana Caucus

Tags: Louisiana, Romney, Technology

National Review endorses Romney

Yesterday, National Review endorsed Mitt Romney. This came as a surprise to no one, and it’s significance is unclear. It seems that the operative parts of the endorsement are:
Our guiding principle has always been to select the most conservative viable candidate. In our judgment, that candidate is Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts. Unlike […]

Romney goes negative on Huckabee

The first negative TV ad of the cycle comes out with Mitt Romney attacking Mike Huckabee’s immigration position.  The commentariat and the Huckabee campaign have responded pretty sharply.
Jonathan Martin called it "Mitt desperation".
Chris Cilizza said:

First, it attempts to blur any differences between Romney and Huckabee on issues of importance to social conservative voters by noting […]

Fox News: Romney mailer “is not true”

Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday called one of Mitt Romney’s mailers in New Hampshire "not true." Watch the video.
What is Romney’s strategy? Lie about everything through the primary? CNN caught him being dodgy yesterday. But the guy has the money to do it.
I don’t think that the Republican Party wants a guy […]

More thoughts on Romney’s speech

I was not too impressed with Mitt Romney’s speech at the time. I wanted to give the speech several days to settle before I weighed in. Several things seemed clear to me.
The first thing is that Romney had a clear "comma problem". Ron Fournier at the AP wrote about it like this:

Indeed, there was intense […]

CNN setting a Romney narrative?

From yesterday.

Note the closing quote:
this is a narrative that is continuing with Mitt Romney that he says something publicly that might not match what he is doing privately or what he has done in the past
H/T: Jen Rubin. Marc Ambinder was also there.

Tags: Immigration, Iowa, Media, Romney

Romney’s speech

UPDATE: I’ve watched. The twitter traffic was positive for Romney. The comments that I have heard have not. Bill Bennett on CNN was pretty negative I thought.
I’ve read the excerpts of Mitt Romney’s speech. They seem pretty banal. If this is all it is, is it worth it?

Tags: Religion, Romney

Huck rises, Rudy slides, Romney’s strategy breaks down

Well, this race is certainly in flux isn’t it? Two sets of polls

The first is Rasmussen’s daily trackers for a little over a week. The second is RCP’s averages for the national race from Wednesday, December 5th. RCP messed up the dates a little. Rasmussen should have been at the top, rather than the bottom. […]

Is Romney closing on Mormonism?

Let me get this straight. A candidate has a religion problem. He is giving a big speech on religious liberty. And his supporters are dropping a movie, Article VI: The Movie. They also sent out a media advisory, the text of which is after the jump. But the text is the interesting part: (excuse the […]