For all its struggles to break through into open field, the Romney campaign has made few mistakes. It has been methodical, disciplined, and on-message. So it’s surprising to read this morning that the campaign made a freshman error in redacting portions of a Detroit News editorial endorsement of Mr. Romney this week. The Detroit News is […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, Michael Gerson
“[Romney’s] campaign is very good at tactics. It has taken each challenger, found his weakness and pounded it home. But Romney’s candidacy remains short on aspiration. His public appeal, at this point, is a combination of emphasizing his business experience, criticizing Obama’s record and reassuring conservatives. This is a campaign — but not a cause.” […]
Read the rest of this entry »John Podhoretz Nails It
New York Post columnist John Podhoretz hits it out of the park this morning with a piece entitled, “Mitt Passes the Trash Newt Test.” It made me say “exactly” aloud at my desk while reading it. Mr. Podhoretz argues that many Republican voters turned to Newt Gingrich not because of his conservative bonafides — they are […]
Read the rest of this entry »Prediction: Romney Locks It Up by Michigan
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” I’m wrong at least half the time, at least when it comes to Newt Gingrich. I’ve left him for dead on this blog for a solid six months, but the guy keeps coming, like a figure out of “Night of […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Perry-Gingrich Gift
Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich have given Mitt Romney an extraordinary gift. Their anti-free-market rants against Mr. Romney and his former firm Bain Capital have made the ex Massachusetts governor a cause célèbre among conservative talk show hosts like Sean Hannity. These were the exact hosts who have been wary of Mr. Romney’s conservative bona fides for […]
Read the rest of this entry »Newt Hearts Mitt
Is there any end to the love being showered on Mitt Romney from former Georgia Congressman Newt Gingrich? The Earl of Pomposity generously assumed frontrunner status in the final weeks of the Iowa Caucuses, freezing the rest of the GOP field in place before predictably collapsing. Now Mr. Gingrich and his casino magnate backer are unleashing the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Can Perry Claw Back?
Rick Perry’s decision to stay in the GOP presidential primary until at least South Carolina is a good one. Mr. Perry, who entered the race from a cannon before falling to earth like, well, a cannonball at the end of its arc, was just beginning to get the feel of things at the close of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Santorum’s Conviction
Most people with good sense were asleep last night when Rick Santorum gave his Iowa Caucus victory remarks (he effectively won). They were extraordinary in their heartfeltedness, to coin a word. Like Rick Santorum or not, it is hard to deny that words like these come from deep within a soul. One can feel them. […]
Read the rest of this entry »The New “It”
Rick Santorum crept up in the Iowa polls in recent weeks as the last standing social conservative who could challenge Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. As Newt Gingrich’s and Michele Bachmann’s supporters looked for a relevant place to cast their vote, Mr. Santorum, who campaigned endlessly in Iowa, became the latest, and maybe last, “it” […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Newt Bubble — and Temper — Go ‘Pop’
So much for staying above the fray. The constitutionally acerbic Newt Gingrich, who promised to remain positive in the Republican presidential primaries, but who is now falling in the polls like an April barometer, is unleashing his pent up frustrations this week with fury. Mr. Gingrich and his campaign are accusing Mitt Romney of being […]
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