Sometimes, when Romney is trying so hard to convince an audience that he agrees with them (on what? who cares? Romney doesn’t), he comes off like the Matt Dillon character in There’s Something About Mary , when Dillon is trying to explain how much he likes the mentally handicapped. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. As Reihan Salam , Rich Lowry and others have pointed out, Romney’s comment about the “47 percent who are with him [Obama], who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they . . . . Continue Reading »
Reihan Salam notes a piece by an ex-Obama aide who argues that, given Obama’s persona, it has proven tough for Republicans to make attacks on Obama stick. Like Salam, I think that the Obama’s persona is less than half of the story. The vast majority of those who produce the news at . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been assuming you will all have seen the video, “Dishonorable Disclosures” . It was mentioned in the WSJ on their Washington Wire blog about a month ago. It turned up in an email several days ago and since no one has mentioned it, I decided to share it while I rant . . . . Continue Reading »
or why I don’t think the Washington Times is not quite right. 1. I’m not at all sure the Iranian Embassy situation did all that much to hurt Carter in the end. Take a look at Carter’s job approval numbers in his last two years. From Spring 1to mid-November of 1979, Carter’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete Spiliakos has been complaining about Romney’s performance at the Republican convention and about the lack of definition and specification of policy in convention speakers as a whole . It didn’t bother me. I figured that the next week and all through the fall, Romney, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Times thinks yes. I think not, and I’ll explain why tomorrow. For starters, I don’t think the Middle East carterized Carter. . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the purposes of the Republican convention was to give us some insight into the good, faithful, and hard working Mitt Romney. The stories about Romney as a Mormon religious official caring for his fellows were genuinely moving. Romney’s business experience and his experience in the . . . . Continue Reading »
So Romney entered the convention season very slightly behind Obama. Romney got either a modest bounce (in Rasmussen) or a nonexistent bounce (in Gallup) from his convention. Obama got either a modest bounce (in Gallup) or a large bounce (in Rasmussen) from his convention. The result is that, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Very boring. I had trouble focusing. And I like this stuff more than most. 2. When he is talking about domestic policy (especially in the first half of his speech), he sounds like a guy asking for a first term, even when he is looking back on the first term he is still having. 3. He . . . . Continue Reading »
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