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Thursday, Aug 21
Thursday’s campaign round-up
Rudy Giuliani really thinks his party would be just fine with a pro-choice running mate for John McCain. Come to think of it, he thinks the GOP would be fine with a pro-choice nominee, too, but the primaries should have made it clear how wrong this is.
Friday, Jul 18
McCain declares ‘we have succeeded’ in Iraq
Back in September, during a debate for the Republican presidential candidates, John McCain and Mitt Romney got into a bit of rhetorical tussle. Romney used a couple of phrases that McCain didn’t care for: “the surge is apparently working” and “if the surge is working.” McCain snapped at Ro...
Thursday, Jun 26
Leading McCain surrogate labels non-proliferation and energy efficiency ‘liberal’ issues
Let’s unpack this a bit. Romney, a leading McCain campaign surrogate, wants to argue that Obama hasn’t worked with Republicans on “controversial” issues of significance. When confronted with evidence of Obama working with Republicans on non-proliferation and energy policy, Romney s...
Tuesday, Jun 3
Tuesday’s campaign round-up
Mitt Romney criticized Obama for only having visited Iraq once. Mitt Romney has only visited Iraq once. Why these guys don’t think before criticizing remains a mystery to me. On a related note, Rudy Giuliani may be McCain’s “right arm” in counter-terrorism, but Giuliani has never been to Ir...
Tuesday, May 27
Tuesday’s campaign round-up
CNN: “Former President Bill Clinton said that Democrats were more likely to lose in November if his wife Hillary Clinton is not the party’s presidential nominee, and suggested some people were trying to ‘cover this up’ and ‘push and pressure and bully’ superdelegates to make up their mi...
Thursday, May 22
McCain to meet with three possible running mates
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, and Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts and a onetime rival for the Republican nomination, have all accepted invitations to visit Mr. McCain at his ranch in Sedona, Republicans said.
Thursday, Feb 7
Opinion: And then there were two
There wasn’t any real doubt before Mitt Romney ended his presidential campaign, but now that the former governor has officially called it quits, and John McCain’s nomination is all but assured we have a new question: what is McCain going to do with Mike Huckabee? Mr. McCain is now left with...
Monday, Feb 4
McCain, Romney stumble in front of a jury of their peers
Oddly enough, despite his very long tenure as a Washington insider, McCain actually has fewer congressional endorsements than Mitt Romney. Of course, there’s also a flip side — Republican lawmakers aren’t impressed with McCain, but Republican governors aren’t enamored with Romney.
Thursday, Jan 17
Opinion: Does a protracted primary process help the GOP?
While voter turnout soared to new records in Iowa and New Hampshire on the Democratic side, it was actually down for Republicans in the first three states in which the candidates aggressively campaigned when compared to the last competitive race, in 2000. All told, 1.2 million voted in the...
Thursday, Dec 20
Tancredo quits, endorses Romney
Tancredo has consistently polled at the bottom of the nine-person Republican field. He based his campaign on fighting illegal immigration and has run television ads that link lax border control to terrorist attacks, rape and other crimes.
