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Obama's policies old, not bold.
An amusing moment from yesterday’s speech in Iowa on the economy, in which Mitt Romney explains the difference between R&D in the public and private sectors. All you really need to know is the history of technological innovation in the 30 or so years since the breakup of the AT&T monopoly, but Romney’s parable is [...]
Florida folly.
Most political experts figure that Florida will be a close-run state in the presidential election this year, and with 29 electoral votes, it could make or break a candidacy. Both Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will spend a lot of time in the state, attempting to gain the edge on a state that Obama won [...]
Plus, the disconnect between Obama and his allies with mainstream America.
While Barack Obama’s fundraising dropped 20% from March to April, Mitt Romney’s tripled — and then some, according to his campaign disclosure for April’s fundraising. Team Romney, partnered with the RNC, hauled in more than $40 million, just $3 million less than Obama: Mitt Romney almost matched President Obama in fund-raising during April after securing his party’s presidential [...]
First official comments on the Mack endorsement, and more.
Earlier today, I had an opportunity to speak with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney about the campaign and the economy, as well as Romney’s official endorsement of Connie Mack in the Republican primary for the US Senate race in Florida. Governor Romney is traveling in Florida today, and while he and Mack have often appeared [...]
But Obama loves JP Morgan.
Why did fundraising for Team Obama drop so precipitously in April? The Boston Globe provides one possible answer. In 2008, Barack Obama attracted a lot of support from the banking industry. This time around, they have deserted Obama in favor of Mitt Romney (via News Alert): When the head of JPMorgan Chase met with shareholders [...]
3 pm ET!
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), Guy Benson returns to talk about the latest in politics. We’ll talk about the interview I conducted with Mitt Romney shortly before the show started as well, so don’t miss the recap of that before the interview itself goes live. In the second half, we welcome [...]
Swing states.
And that’s just what they’ll spend in a month: An independent group favoring Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney is launching a $25 million, monthlong advertising campaign in 10 states against President Barack Obama, further escalating an expensive TV ad war in presidential battlegrounds six months before Election Day. Crossroads GPS plans to open the effort [...]
Challenges.
Fifty-six percent of Americans think Barack Obama will win the 2012 presidential election, compared with 36% who think Mitt Romney will win. Democrats are more likely to believe that Obama will win than Republicans are to believe Romney will. Independents are nearly twice as likely to think that Obama, rather than Romney, will prevail. *** [...]
Endgame.
Ron Paul announced yesterday that he would not campaign in any states where primaries have yet to take place, a statement that many took to be a withdrawal from the campaign. This morning, the campaign held a conference call with the media explaining that they had no way to prevent Mitt Romney from winning the [...]
You're so Bain?
Consider this balance for MSNBC. After the Morning Joe panel openly scoffed at the Barack Obama campaign’s attack ad on Bain Capital yesterday, Hardball came to Obama’s rescue in the evening. Chris Matthews chatted with David Corn and Time’s Mark Halperin about how difficult it will be for Mitt Romney to defend his years at [...]
You're so Bain?
Consider this balance for MSNBC. After the Morning Joe panel openly scoffed at the Barack Obama campaign’s attack ad on Bain Capital yesterday, Hardball came to Obama’s rescue in the evening. Chris Matthews chatted with David Corn and Time’s Mark Halperin about how difficult it will be for Mitt Romney to defend his years at [...]
Plus, demands that insurers promote ObamaCare law.
Two stories coming from Health and Human Services will likely get overlooked today, with the main thrust of conversation turning to same-sex marriage and Barack Obama’s hypocritical attack on Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. Both deserve more attention, especially a curious award of a contract worth nearly $6 million to a crony of Obama’s back [...]
Hypocrisy.
Barack Obama’s campaign has a new ad and a new micrsosite to go with it, both freshly minted today. The ad is titled “Steel,” and it attacks Mitt Romney on the closure of a steel plant after Bain took over, with the attendant job losses that occurred. It’s an expected line of attack — Newt [...]
Hypocrisy.
Barack Obama’s campaign has a new ad and a new micrsosite to go with it, both freshly minted today. The ad is titled “Steel,” and it attacks Mitt Romney on the closure of a steel plant after Bain took over, with the attendant job losses that occurred. It’s an expected line of attack — Newt [...]
Bullies.
A top Democrat on Sunday defended Mitt Romney’s character, saying that despite recent reports that Romney was a bully as a young man attending prep school, he believes that has little to do with the man Romney is today. “There’s not a single thing that I know about Mitt Romney in his adult life which [...]
Oh oh, O.
With all of his other competition out of the way, no one should be surprised how Mitt Romney stacks up against other Republicans in the Oregon primary, set for next Tuesday. A new SurveyUSA poll shows Romney with 58% of the vote, with Ron Paul in a distant second at 14%, which means that the [...]
What happens when you end up on Obama's enemies list.
Allahpundit e-mailed me this today, calling it “a perfect end to Bully Week.” While the media ties itself in knots over an alleged incident of bullying in 1965 involving Mitt Romney, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly Strassel reports on how ending up on Barack Obama’s enemies list brings out the bullies on the Left. Frank [...]
Bad week at the O corral.
A bad jobs report and an evolution out of the mainstream didn’t do any favors for Barack Obama’s standing in the presidential race against Mitt Romney. Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll shows Obama dropping back seven points in the three-day rolling average, while Romney hits the 50% mark for the first time: The Rasmussen Reports daily [...]
“President Obama just ‘evolved’ himself into a one-term president.”
Hey, who would have dreamed that Mitt Romney could use evolution to unite the social-conservative base? Thanks to Barack Obama’s “evolution” on same-sex marriage, and Romney’s declaration that he will remain unmoved on the topic, social conservatives who had heretofore pledged to remain on the sidelines are now suiting up for November: Social conservatives who [...]
Over to you, WaPo.
The family of the eight-years-deceased alleged victim of a cruel prank by a teenaged Mitt Romney reacted angrily to the Washington Post story yesterday — but not for the reasons one might imagine. Calling the Washington Post story “factually inaccurate,” the sisters of the late John Lauber lashed out at the Post for using him [...]
Another meme bites the dust.
Thankfully, our long national nightmare is over: Mitt Romney apologized on Thursday morning for pranks he helped orchestrate in high school that he said “might have gone too far,” including an incident in which he pinned down a fellow student and cut his hair. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee was responding to an article published a few hours [...]
Distractions.
And so the general election media coverage begins. I guess the Washington Post ran out of stories based on Seamus the Roof-Ridin’ Dog. Despite demonstrating zero curiosity over Barack Obama’s college transcripts to check on just how brilliant the academic actually was, the Post now has a big expose on Mitt Romney’s high school career [...]
"Remarkably indifferent to the truth".
I received an e-mail yesterday from Stephanie Cutter of the Obama 2012 campaign, looking for some input regarding their “Truth Team”. Here’s what it said: As part of the Truth Team, you’re on the front lines of this campaign — protecting President Obama’s record and keeping the GOP honest. Will you take a minute to [...]
Plus: C'mon, Sen. Rob Portman isn't all that boring!
Virginia’s chief executive Bob McDonnell is a pretty darn popular governor who’s consistently led the purplish state to back-in-the-black budgets, and although he’s often typecast as being too “vanilla” to really help Mitt Romney round out the GOP ticket, his name has been much circulated as a potential running mate. But, he certainly isn’t the [...]
"What's the endgame?"
Larry Kudlow asks the most pertinent question about Ron Paul’s continuing efforts on the campaign trail after Mitt Romney has all but wrapped up the GOP nomination, which is what Paul hopes to accomplish by continuing to contest it. Paul says he’s not ready to follow Rick Santorum’s lead by endorsing Romney in the near [...]
Heh.
Romney’s delivery on this still needs a little work, but I think he might be on to something with this line of attack. The Obama team would probably love it if Romney called either the President or his policies “socialist”, because it would play into their narrative that Romney somehow represents the radical fringe of [...]
United front.
As promised, here’s the video of Rick Santorum appearing on The Tonight Show last night, backing up the e-mailed endorsement of Mitt Romney he sent out to supporters late on Monday night. The erstwhile presidential candidate looked perfectly chipper and relaxed: “Well, I met with Governor Romney last Friday, and you know, we’d been trying [...]
Inconvenient truth.
Mitt Romney stirred up a new round of liberal outrage today by stating in an interview with a local Cleveland TV station that he’ll “take a lot of credit” for the recovery of the auto industry. Romney’s point was that President Obama followed his advice in putting GM and Chrysler through bankruptcy, in order to [...]
Two thumbs up.
Last night, the GOP took another step towards unifying behind its presumptive nominee for President, Mitt Romney. Rick Santorum, who emerged late in the cycle to become Romney’s toughest competitor, formally endorsed him as the nominee in an e-mail sent out to supporters: Rick Santorum has officially endorsed Mitt Romney, and notified his supporters in [...]
Are we sure we're talking about the same Mitt Romney?
Well, darn it! For a moment there when I first read the headline, I thought we were finally in for a bodacious instance of youthful rebellion revealing that Romney has a hitherto unknown “cool factor” all his own… but alas, it really wasn’t anything untoward. I do, however, think it was a rather plucky bit [...]
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