Five reasons to be sorry Romney’s gone.
Shorter Mike Huckabee: Don’t let the door hit you… “Today, Mitt Romney announced that he will no longer seek the Republican nomination for President. I wish Mitt and his family all the best. “Over the past year, Mitt and his entire family have sacrificed a lot during the course of his campaign and for that, [...]
In which the Democratic race is assessed. A further word: I think that the key to this race now is that Obama or Clinton have win over at least a demographic sliver of the other’s constituency. Clinton will have a tougher time doing this. She might have had a larger slice of the African-American vote, [...]
Based on Romney’s prepared remarks, he won’t come anywhere near endorsing McCain during the red-meat speech he’s giving to CPAC right now. He’ll offer only tepid praise for McCain’s hawkishness on national security. Here’s the passage: I disagree with Senator McCain on a number of issues, as you know. But I agree with him on [...]
I have no idea what will get McCain staff out of bed in the morning… Can we take down the horserace banner up there now? UPDATE: Perhaps the weirdest thing about Romney’s speech at CPAC right now is that it is, essentially, the same stump speech I’ve seen him deliver about, well, innumberable times, right [...]
One of the great ironies of this week’s primaries, which brought a level of democracy to the Democratic nominating process unlike anything we have ever seen before, is that the result may have been to put the choice into the hands of party hacks. In this week’s dead-tree TIME (timenotdotcom), my story looks at the [...]
