Mark Leibovich’s profile of Mitt Romney this week is worthwhile reading as it is, but today’s response from the Romney campaign makes it all the more entertaining. In the piece, Leibovich illustrates the Gov’s tight-assedness with this anecdote: He (Romney) travels with an entourage that includes two or three “operations” guys who serve as advance [...]
Politico Straw Poll everyone!!!!! Ultra meaningful! Some 700+ whole folks who attended the Take Back America thingee have spoken and they say: BARACK. Barack Obama: 29% John Edwards: 26% Hillary Clinton: 17%. Says Ben Smith: “The poll results also indicated intense concern about the Iraq war.” WHERE IS MY SIREN????? UPDATE: I usually don’t try [...]
Now I understand what Michael Grunwald meant in his cover story by “partisanship-on-crack“: Thomas Ravenel. UPDATE: I’m flattered to be asked what I think this means for Giuliani. As witnessed by my puzzlement over the popularity of the Clinton/Sopranos video, I’m not sure how reliable my insights are into the behavior of the voting public [...]
Not even the campaign denies that Hillary was booed (again) this morning at the Take Back America conference. What’s got the bloggers riled up: why she was booed. They contend that she wasn’t booed because she said she supported the troops, or that she declared their mission a success but because she said the disaster [...]
Josh Marshall looks a little deeper into Rudy Giuliani’s dubious commitment to figuring out the Iraq war: Rudy has very consistently been ducking the issue for months. He’s toed the party line opposing Democratic plans for a pull out. But he ignores the entire issue of Iraq whenever possible. And when he’s forced to address [...]
Karen just asked me to ask Swamphusband, if the Punjab memo’s substance is so relevant, why did the Obama people send it out “not for attribution.” I can’t speak for Swamphusband, but it’s been a topic of conversation around the Swamptable, so I’ll offer some half-baked thoughts. First: The move was clearly not well thought [...]
I still don’t get it, personally, but apparently the people — which is to say, the MSM — love that Hillary Sopranos video. I think Chris Matthews put it best this morning, on — I think — “Today”: “You’re stooping to conquer and people love it.”
Swamphusband looks at the actual substance (!) of the Obama “Punjab” letter: But what was it, in the end, that this horridly gauche campaign document was actually saying? That both Hillary Clinton and her husband have extensive blind-trust investments in Indian companies that outsource jobs from the U.S. to India, and that both have pulled [...]
