a big endorsement for romney
Mitt gets the support of National Review. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, especially based on the discussion on The Corner over the past year or so. It’s no secret that editor Kathryn Lopez is a big fan, but it must have been hard to reach a consensus on this, since there are others at NRO who [...]
romney’s speech
Read it all here. Watch it here. I’m going to pull some excerpts from his remarks and make a few comments on the parts of the speech that stuck out when I read them. Given our grand tradition of religious tolerance and liberty, some wonder whether there are any questions regarding an aspiring candidate’s religion [...]
romney’s problem
Patrick Ruffini: Romney should resign himself to the fact that he won’t be able to out-conservative Thompson or Huckabee on issues. But he does have unique qualities that make him a more appealing choice than the other conservatives in the field on other grounds. In short, his path to the nomination is to out-conservative Rudy [...]
second look
Let me be clear about this: I don’t see John McCain rebounding enough in the presidential race to knock off Romney or Giuliani. He has burned quite enough bridges to make more than a few enemies along the political road. His dogged stubbornness to defend stupid policy like campaign-finance reform and that misguided illegal immigration [...]
where has this guy been?
In a New Hampshire speech, John McCain, shall we say, seriously questions Mitt Romney’s authenticity. Courtesy of the Corner: I don’t usually do this but I’m going to depart for a moment from the issues I want to talk to you about today. One of the other Republican candidates made an extraordinary statement yesterday. Former [...]
