Category: Mitt Romney

Ross is onto her.

That’s what Fred’s saying. But why should anyone care what Bush wants?

Another Romney – yes, it’s sad it’s not Tagg! – contemplates politics as a career. Dynasticism continues. I have to say one of the most refreshing lines Obama has ever given is explaining that he asked one of his daughters to come on stage with him after a primary win. Her reply: "Daddy, you know that’s not my kind of thing." That girl is being brung up right.

It’s really unfair to get Hewitt all excited again.

David Frum says it was because he became the candidate to continue Bush’s legacy. And even Republicans don’t want that. I think that’s part of it. But his obvious inauthenticity was more important; and the bigotry of Southern evangelicals. Frum tolerates this sectarian bigotry when it’s directed at gay people – that’s how you win places like Ohio in 2004 – but when it hurts a phony Republican multi-millionaire, it’s distressing.

Romney’s divisive message:

Barack and Hillary have made their intentions clear regarding Iraq and the war on terror. They would retreat and declare defeat. And the consequence of that would be devastating. It would mean attacks on America, launched from safe havens that make Afghanistan under the Taliban look like child’s play. About this, I have no doubt.

Jennifer Rubin wants him to listen to Bill:

I do not know if Mitt Romney will follow Bill Kristol’s advice from last night and say his goodbyes at the CPAC gathering tomorrow. Having done so poorly in the South, come in third in Missouri, and lost California, there seems to be little point–other than to perpetuate the animosity within the GOP–to forging on. I think it is telling Romney did not in his speech last night argue that he was the conservative hope for the party or that only he could keep the Reagan coalition together.

Pomocon James Poulos makes the case for Mitt’s integrity:

Romney has not become ‘the evangelical candidate’ like Huckabee. He has not become the ‘America, dammit’ candidate like McCain. He is not the starving prisoner of the neocon establishment like Rudy. He is not the candidate of broken dreams like Thompson. He is no Ron Paul, for much good and some ill. Romney’s far too supportive of waterboarding, and when he’s pandered at his worst it’s always been in the context of voicing support for Bush. But how he could possibly receive the nomination without making these kinds of moves at critical times (like the Huckabee surge) is beyond me. And I have noted before that Romney moved immediately back to the position from which he’s most credible and competent as soon as he stabilized his campaign. In this mode — the guy who can turn around the Republican party — Romney is commanding. John McCain is not.

Not initially that supportive of the surge, apparently.

He wears an ear-piece?