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Quote of the day: Romney’s failed attack on Trump
Analysis: True — If Romney had shown the passion against Obama that he now shows against Trump, he would have been elected president in 2012. Mitt Romney started a dialogue with his wide ranging, at times, uncharacteristically personal attack on Trump. But it helps Trump when politicians attack him. Instead, anti-Trump forces should be coordinating authenticity…
Read MoreRubio is Romney Redux
Politico: At every campaign stop, Marco Rubio calls it “the biggest lie in American politics” — the notion that Republicans are the party of the super wealthy, and hopelessly out of touch with the working class and minorities. The party, in other words, that Democrats eviscerated with Mitt Romney at the helm in 2012. But…
Read MoreIf Mitt Romney were president today…
Here’s What Would Be Happening if President Romney Had Bombed a Hospital in Afghanistan The news out of the Perpetual War on Terror is pretty grim these days. The US military knowingly but “accidentally” bombed a hospital in Afghanistan, killing 22 doctors and patients. Just days later, the president decided not to draw down troops in the country as…
Read MoreRomney makes right decision not to run
AP: Romney announces he will not run in 2016 “After putting considerable thought into making another run for president, I’ve decided it is best to give other leaders in the party the opportunity to become our next nominee,” Romney told supporters on a conference call. Full text of Romney’s statement to his supporters here. Now…
Read MoreWill Republicans nominate Mitt Romney in 2016?
They will only if they are looking for their own Adlai Stevenson. Like Adlai, Mitt Romney is an eminently decent man and would make a good but not excellent president. The fact is he won’t make any kind of president because he will never be president. He failed to excite the conservative base last time…
Read MoreBest headline of the day: “The Obama administration is making the case for conservatism better than Mitt Romney ever did.”
This headline is from a piece at the left-leaning Slate.com, written by John Dickerson. I don’t know who he is but he has given us an insightful, perhaps brilliant, piece of writing here. To find such wisdom and perception at a leftist rag like Slate is jaw dropping. So be it, I’ll take it. Here’s…
Read MoreBest postmortem on the Romney fiasco of a campaign
It’s at Where’s Mitt? by Michael Walsh. A sample: The more I ponder the chimerical presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, the more I’ve become convinced it was all a practical joke played on gullible suckers by the GOP’s krack kadre of kampaign konsultants, a phantom “run” designed to hoover as much money out of the fat cats’ wallets…
Read MoreRush Limbaugh: “The Real Reason Romney Lost”
Rush Limbaugh was on fire in the 3rd hour of his radio show on Friday. Well, not literally on fire, liberals would love it if he spontaneously combusted, but I mean he gave a hard driving monologue on “the real reason Romney lost,” and the Republican leadership and their consultants were the targets of his…
Read MoreWhy Romney lost — America goes into the darkness
Melanie Phillips points to Obama’s agenda to increase the power of the state over the citizen at home, and to neutralise American power abroad. Then she nails Romney’s loss to his failure to understand any of this, to confront it and tell voters why they should reject it: Romney lost because he refused to provide an alternative…
Read MoreMore large newspapers that endorsed Obama in 2008 have endorsed Romney this morning
First among those is the New York Daily News with a ringing endorsement of Mitt Romney along with a stinging indictment of Barack Obama. A declining economy amid rising prices for everyday staples such as gasoline, food and apartment rent along with shrinking middle class income and “achingly slow job creation” are just a few…
Read MoreMittmentum continues apace — 28 large newspapers that endorsed Obama in 2008 have endorsed Romney
Romney is ahead of Obama in total newspaper endorsements with 112 endorsements against Obama’s 84. The Blaze has a list of all 28 former Obama endorsers along with the thesis sentence from each editorial explaining the reason they endorsed Romney. Here are four of the best: The Orlando Sentinel: “It verges on magical thinking to…
Read MoreMichael Barone calls it for Romney — says he’ll get 315 electoral votes
In the Washington Examiner today Michael Barone notes that Republican enthusiasm greatly outpaces Democrat enthusiasm and that Romney leads handily among independents. There is more early voting by Republicans than Democrats this year, and the percentage of Republicans voting this year will exceed the percentage of Democrats, unlike 2008. The advantages Republicans had in 2010…
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