Category — Romney

Ronald Reagan might say, “There you go again!” And CNN does. This afternoon, CNN’s home page (pic below) twists Scott McClellan’s congressional testimony to make it appear as if McClellan is somehow incriminating Vice President Cheney. McClellan said he “doesn’t think the President knew” about the Plame name leak but that, “In terms the [VP - Cheney], I do not know.”

Help me out, here. Aren’t “don’t think” and “don’t know” pretty much the same thing? It would be just a fair to say that McClellan “can’t exonerate” Brad Pitt or Stephen Colbert.  But CNN has its political and entertainment agenda.  Here’s how CNN tries to make this molehill differential into a mountain of intrigue:

Where’s CPS when we really need ‘em? This from Time:

As summer vacation begins, 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies—more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1,200-student school had last year. Some adults dismissed the statistic as a blip. Others blamed hit movies like Juno and Knocked Up for glamorizing young unwed mothers. But principal Joseph Sullivan knows at least part of the reason . . . [Read more →]

John McCain’s “straight talk,” turns out, is bi-directional — right for “the birdy,” left for everyone else. But you can only lead a double life for so long. Wherever McCain is headed at the moment, Bob Novak has him in the crosshairs. Novak has confirmed a private conversation between McCain and two witnesses in which McCain expressed reservations about Justice Alito because he was too conservative: [Read more →]

I think Mitt Romney did remarkably well yesterday in Florida especially in light of McCain’s distortions of Mitt’s record on Iraq, the the media’s bias in favor of Rudy and McCain, and the Florida Republican establishment’s coming out for McCain. Romney can still win the nomination even though the Florida results make the task more difficult. It will be interesting to see how long Huckabee hangs in the race. He knows he won’t win the nomination. At this point, my guess is that he has two objectives: strengthen his case for a VP spot should McCain win and play the spoiler for the SBC in an effort to keep Mitt out of the White House.

Here’s Mitt on what’s up next:

Check out this personable, insightful radio interview of Mitt Romney by Ed Morrissey. Well worth the fourteen minutes it takes. Turn up your sound, open the page, look to top right, pull the radio bar rightward to 37:30 and listen. Romney demonstrates a thoughtful, measured approach to foreign policy, especially the war on terror and global jihad. It’s a refreshing contrast to one opponent’s habit of stating over and over that several decades ago he was a top-gun on the bridge of the USS Whatever and he “understands these things.”

Here’s a partial transcript:

Ed M: Now, regarding global Jihad, are you in favor of pursuing the same type of forward of strategy as the Bush administration has used? [Read more →]

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin for the McCain pic (left) and for this wonderful material on McCain’s connections to what amounts to the illegal immigrant underground:

Hispanic Republicans here in Nevada had a chance to speak by conference to Sen. John McCain and many of us were appalled to learn that his National Director of Hispanic Outreach is none other that Dr. Juan Hernandez, notorious for his open borders stance. How can McCain reconcile the fact that he says he “learnt his lesson w/the American people” with choosing as his Hispanic Ntl. Dir. someone whose views and interests are so clearly anti-security and not in the interest of the American people or for that matter us legal Hispanic immigrants. Can someone question him directly on this?” [Read more →]

Or at least this is frequently commented on by the Blitzers and Matthews of the punditry. As far as I can see the most obvious antipathy comes from Huckabee followed by McCain. Thompson seems to dish his shots pretty equally and I suspect he holds no special animus toward Romney. Giuliani looks about the same. [Read more →]

Leadership under pressure: Romney or McCain? Leadership is a compound of five related but distinct factors highlighted by Fred Greenstein — roughly equivalent to vision, character & personality, operational details, political skill and communication skill — the analysis of which I’ll oversimplify here [Read more →]

Fascinating exit polling data from Michigan.

Picture this: Protestants and catholics who attend church weekly picked Romney over Huckabeee 38-29 and 41-11, respectively. And the protestants who attend less often than weekly really tilted toward Romney, 38-9, over Huckabee. Voters who separately identified themselves as “born again” or “evangelical” favored Romney by a smaller margin, 34-29. What this proves [Read more →]

It’s late, I know, but surf’s up and I really had to flag — for the benefit of South Carolina’s true conservatives — Hugh Hewitt’s interview with former Senator Rick Santorum. The electoral storm’s headed your way and Huckabee’s no haven.

Santorum, whose conservative credentials are unimpeachable, has essential Senate-insider intell on McCain — what every conservative needs to know but was afraid to ask. [Read more →]