He’s their man. And he has signed on the dotted line:
"Mitt Romney has acknowledged that Mormonism is not a Christian faith," Minnery adds. "But on the social issues we are so similar."
Shoudn’t some reporter ask Romney directly if this is true? A lot of Mormons would be interested to know.
What the hell was that?
Yes, you can try and buy the presidency if you’re rich enough:
"Each of us runs our campaign the best way we know how given, if you will, the cards we were dealt."
If you will.
If Mitt Romney can’t prosper with Thompson out of the race, there are no conditions under which he could win the nomination.
Patrick Hynes makes the case against.
I’m with Dan:
The reporter sitting on the floor putting actual, tough, reality-based questions to Romney is AP reporter Glen Johnson—and someone ought to pin a medal on him. Romney lied, Johnson called him on it. He didn’t run off and find a Democrat or a rival for the GOP nomination to "dispute Romney’s claim." He reacted the way any reporter—any person—ought to react when they’re being lied to.
I really don’t believe it’s bias to call a candidate on a bald-faced lie. I wish the press corps would do it with the president.
Check out Romney’s TV pitch in Florida; McCain’s in South Carolina; Giuliani’s in Florida; and Thompson’s in South Carolina. From now on, the ads get more and more important.
Or the joys of film editing online.
Tigerhawk on Romney. That could become a consensus. But it hardly rivals Democratic enthusiasm. I guess Romney can always hope that Clinton will pull it out.
Now I’m one with John Hinderaker:
My guess is that Romney’s views on the social issues are similar to my own: he’s a social conservative, but doesn’t have much appetite for red-meat politics on abortion and gay marriage, and places much higher priority on the economy and national defense. With hindsight, I think there was a better way for Romney to position himself: as a conservative and supremely knowledgeable expert on the economy, as George Bush’s heir as a vigorous defender of the U.S. in the war against Islamic terrorism, and as a person who is himself a social conservative–just take one look at his family portrait–but who doesn’t talk much about those issues except in the context of the constitutional philosophy which will guide his appointment of judges. I think if he had followed this route, he would have been truer to himself and more credible to voters.
Absolutely.
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