Unless you’ve been under a rock for quite some time, you’re no doubt aware that today is the New Hampshire primary. New Hampshire’s small, but it has a traditional day in the sun in choosing the nominee, although New Hampshire … Continue reading →
Here’s Walter Shapiro in TNR on the most boring primary ever, this one (which he thinks Romney will win): Romney inspires all the enthusiasm of “Vegetables Are Our Friends” week in an elementary school cafeteria. My nominee for the typical … Continue reading →
I think that Limbaugh lets his disapproval of a Romney nomination blind him to the other possibilities here when he offers the following exchange as support for his thesis that “the Democrats want Romney [as Republican nominee] — and you … Continue reading →
Yesterday I decided, New England being the small place it is, that I would go to one New Hampshire primary event. I had a few basic criteria. The first was that it not be a breakfast meeting (not a morning … Continue reading →
The other day the following metaphor came to me about the Republican race and the antipathy to Romney’s candidacy: In football (a sport about which I know next to nothing of the fine points), one thing I do know is … Continue reading →
…what you think of Santorum’s chances, now that he’s not only in double digits but in the 20s. My preliminary opinion is that he could win the nomination if Perry and Gingrich were to drop out. I don’t see that … Continue reading →
There are so many articles floating around lately saying “Romney has the nomination all sewed up” that there’s hardly any need to link to them; if you do much reading about politics, you’ve already seen plenty (but, for the sake … Continue reading →
Commenter Wolla Dalbo points out that the Iowa results indicate that Romney remains not all that popular with voters. Absolutely true, and increased familiarity hasn’t seemed to change that situation. But I’m not sure it matters this time round for … Continue reading →
…that this particular endorsement will help Romney. Maybe McCain still holds a grudge against him. And despite the Iowa results, I don’t get this type of “Mitt Romney has it all sewed up” article. Premature, to say the least. And … Continue reading →
Let’s get one thing straight: to be a politician is to lie sometimes, or at the very least to tell half truths and/or shade the truth when it’s strategic to do so. And sometimes—as today, when Newt Gingrich called Romney … Continue reading →
Commenter “foxmarks” writes: Barry can’t really be a -100. He has studiously continued many of GWB’s policies (cf: FICA tax holiday, GITMO, drone strikes). Barry’s rhetoric is a -100, but as the Progs fairly argue, he has governed as a … Continue reading →
Who are these people? The chorus line at Chippendale’s? The lineup for the baseball All Stars game? The cast of “The Book of Mormon” on Broadway? (Hint: now we’re getting a bit closer.) Or is it—yes—four of Mitt Romney’s five … Continue reading →