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6 Jul, 2007 2:03 pm
... pleasure of publishing the third installment of the DailyWrit Candidate Profiles, which will examine former Massachusetts Governor Mitt
Romney. Romney, 60, attended Stanford before leaving for France on a mission trip customary in the
Church of Jesus ... chartered schools, but is opposed to comprehensive abortion rights and civil unions. As I mentioned in a blogging here, Mitt is very electable at the top of a ticket when a more experienced moderate (such as Giuliani or McCain) is placed at the ...
24 Nov, 2007 10:44 am
... Horton look quite tame. "Besides," Dukakis sighed, "all of this is merely a distraction from the far more serious issue when it comes to Romney. And that is, this guy is simply a fraud. It is inconceivable to me that the Republicans could actually nominate this guy. ...."There's just ...
because I certainly don't." Dukakis is right. Rather than crying "Willie Horton" and slinging mud at Mitt Romney over the judicial appointment of a fully vetted prosecutor, let's focus on Romney's record, whatever ...
6 Feb, 2008 7:41 pm
And then there were two . . . leading presidential candidates left in the race with JDs. Mitt Romney,
the former private-equity guru, Massachusetts governor, and candidate who most looks ... his campaign. Here's the early AP story. We never really thought of Romney as a lawyer, largely because he was first and foremost a business guy. That said, had ... , Nine Elevens it. Okay, so bring out your best by-kus for
Mitt! Update: James Taranto, who brought the idea of the by-ku to our attention, has come up ...
11 Nov, 2007 5:55 pm
Ben Muse's post on Mitt Romney reminds me that there is more to Mitt Romney's trade views than I mentioned in my earlier post. Picking out some ... at the rules. Starting with a
core of U.S. free trade agreement partners, Governor Romney would seek to bring together nations committed to open markets and playing by the
... to push reforms and work cooperatively in areas like labor and the environment. Governor Romney would seek to expand these efforts to
include the European Union and other nations that ...
1 Jan, 2008 4:34 pm
Today's afternoon delight was a Mitt Romney house party at the home of Ann Warren and family. It was
in a suburban neighborhood where the houses are all white or beige and look almost ... start of today's house party, is undecided who he will caucus for -- it's between Romney and McCain. He thinks a Governor has a better chance than a Senator. ... him. Then it's over and the most of the press make a beeline to the door.
Romney stayed inside a while longer to chat with reporters. Jane heard him talking ...
1 Feb, 2008 5:35 am
... from California, but I've lived most of my adult life in Massachusetts. I can tell you categorically that the problem with Mitt
Romney is NOT that he is "from" Massachusetts. I've been here about as long as he has, and, believe me, you're ... type: a well-tamed little
nerdy Brookline doctor's son. Dukakis is, to Massachusetts connoisseurs, from Central Casting. Romney is from Not Around Here. The differences
may be subtle to outsiders, but to Massachustts people, they're glaring. John Kerry is a ...
4 Jun, 2007 8:14 am
The NYT story about Mitt Romney linked by Vic includes a brief reflection on whether Romney ever "ran a corner store." Eric Kriss, a former partner at Bain Capital, is quoted as saying (with the whiff of ... not being a Pollyanna, and I am not
arguing that every private equity transaction is good for America or whatever. But to insinuate that Romney was engaged in something other than
a productive activity by this sort of "connect the dots" argument is offensive. In some instances, companies need to ...
7 Feb, 2008 11:47 am
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney formally dropped out out of the race for the Republican
nomination for president Thursday, effectively ceding the contest to Arizona senator John McCain. Romney made his announcement at the
Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC. His decision came after his campaign's poor performance on Super Tuesday. "If I fight on in my campaign, all ...
25 May, 2007 10:47 am
... questions from the Fox News moderators that didn't help matters. Here's Mitt Romney, defending
his tax record as governor of Massachusetts: WENDELL GOLER (Fox News ... pledge shouldn't be seen as a blatant appeal to the party base, sir? MR. ROMNEY: I want to make it very clear that I'm not going to raise taxes. As governor ... "plan" for balancing the budget? Goler's question is, in fact, a good
one. How to reconcile Romney's behavior as leader of Massachusetts with the harder line he's taking in his ...
6 Dec, 2007 9:17 am
The audience for Mitt Romney's speech on faith in politics was Christian conservatives in the
upcoming Republican primaries, and hardly anybody else. As if on cue, Hugh Hewitt immediately pronounced the speech as "simply magnificent ... do so would enable the very religious test
the founders prohibited in the Constitution." On the other hand, two paragraphs later Romney emphasizes that "I believe that Jesus Christ is
the Son of God and the Savior of mankind." Having announced that it would be wrong ...
29 Nov, 2007 1:35 pm
Mitt Romeny???s primary business experience comes from heading Bain Capital, the Boston based private equity venture fund. Its not surprising
then that Romney believes in a ???strong U.S. patent system.??? ... U.S. patent law, particularly since all decisions in patent cases by the
United States district courts are appealable to the Federal Circuit. Romney also praised the October 31 injunction against the PTO Rules as an
appropriate way to stop this ???anti-innovation governmental meddling.??? Of ...
3 Feb, 2008 10:07 am
We've already done our big get-to-know-you interview with Mitt Romney, but with Super Tuesday coming
up in a couple of days and the race tight, ... and Ann Coulter's promise to campaign for Hillary if McCain is nominated. Plus, whether Romney
is mean enough for politics. Can he pull off a Turnaround? You can listen directly ... always, my lovely and talented cohost is taking comments. (Bumped to top). UPDATE: Romney charged with flip-flopping on guns, but his team responds with this. You decide. ANOTHER ...
10 Jan, 2007 8:09 pm
Mitt Romney has officially declared his interest in the 2008 Presidential election. In this
interview, he responds to a controversial YouTube video about his positions on abortion and other social issues, and talks about the war, gun rights, ... . And, of course, you can
always subscribe via iTunes. And our show archives are at GlennandHelenShow.com. Check out our interviews with Romney rival John McCain, or
non-candidate Mark Warner., who explains why he decided not to run. Music is by Mobius Dick. ...
4 Sep, 2008 8:55 am
... night Sarah Palin made her grand introduction to the American people. But we'll also remember it for another reason: Mitt Romney's line about the Supreme Court. The former Massachusetts Governor had just gotten out of the gate when ... to a specific decision, but making a more
general statement about the Court. For now, let's make like Mitt and throw some questions your way, LB Readers. What do you make of
Romney's line? Did he mean to paint the entire Court as liberal? And if so, is that assessment ...
9 Apr, 2007 5:42 pm
Attacks on Mitt Romney based on his religious beliefs make me very uncomfortable because even the
most measured versions seem somehow wrong and, yes, unAmerican. (Concerns about his views on separation of church and state might be acceptable. Issues of creed, no thanks.) On the
other hand, attacks on Mitt Romney based on the way he markets himself to supporters, on Romeny's
two-faced approach to basic moral issues, and on his ...
14 Nov, 2007 1:50 pm
Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee responded to a swipe from Mitt Romney on immigration,
which we reported earlier today. Romney in the past allegedly used a lawn service firm that employed undocumented immigrants. "I think
Mitt Romney would rather keep...
8 Sep, 2007 11:37 am
That Mitt Romney has flip-flopped on social issues in his attempt to pander to the conservative
Republican base in order to win the Republican nomination for President is old news. Nonetheless, a story in today's New York Times provides a ... occurred while he was governor of
Massachusetts (as possibly evidenced in the New York Times story by the reference to a 1994 speech in which Romney allegedly called
homosexuality "perverse") and not now during the presidential campaign? -Anthony C. Infanti
20 Nov, 2007 5:36 am
... Attorney General's office has opened a formal investigation into the anti-Mormon calls targeted at Mitt Romney's (R) religious faith. The call scripts invoked numerous references to Mormon religious beliefs. Romney said
the message was "un-American." The calls were aimed at voters in both New Hampshire and ... welcomed the AG's investigation. US Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH), speaking for the
Romney campaign, also praised the AG's office for opening an investigation. The other GOP campaigns also ...
12 Feb, 2007 2:53 pm
Here's the question about Mitt Romney's decision to launch his presidential bid at the Henry Ford
Museum: does Romney not know that Henry Ford detested Jews (and was even rewarded by Hitler for it), or does he not care? It's got to be one or
the other. UPDATE: A commenter suggests that the answer to my question is that Mitt Romney just
didn't know of Henry Ford's pathological hatred of the Jews. Maybe. But if he'd asked a Jewish person, he'd have learned. To ...
18 Oct, 2007 12:11 pm
... campaign. While saying "anything is possible" when it comes to the politics of the death penalty, I was reminded of the interesting encounter that candidate Mitt Romney had with death penalty politics when governor of Massachusetts. As noted in my very first blog post, ...
, intriguingly, is no longer easily accessible on-line [Update: S.cotus found the report] --- that became a Romney-backed bill for bringing the
death penalty back to the Bay State. However, as this amazing article from the Boston ...
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