According to The Note, here’s what Mitt Romney had to say about immigration on Monday:
“This has always been a priority for the president he chooses to do nothing about,” Romney said. “Let the immigrant community not forget that while he uses this as a political weapon, he has not taken responsibility for fixing the problems we …
This Washington Post story on Mitt Romney’s plans to run hard against Barack Obama on foreign policy doesn’t persuade me that Romney has any especially clever new ideas on that front.
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As the Republican primaries drag on, some of Mitt Romney’s old friends are harking back to a time when, decades ago, the former governor honed his skills at winning over skeptics. That time was 1968, and the place, …
Mitt Romney continues his derision of Russia today with an op-ed today bashing Dmitry Medvedev–while also, naturally, accusing Barack Obama of going soft on our rivals. (“[A] sad replay of Jimmy Carter’s bungling at a moment when the United States needs the backbone and courage of a Ronald Reagan,” Romney writes.) Romney lists several …
Today’s big campaign news is the endorsement of Mitt Romney by George H.W. Bush. This comes just days after Jeb Bush came out for Romney, and a few weeks after Barbara Bush recorded robocalls on his behalf. We’ve heard barely a peep, however, from the Bush who recently finished two terms as President. And it’s now three weeks past the …
One of the first things people who know Mitt Romney tell reporters is how delightfully personable and funny he is. This is spin, of course, but it also appears to be an actual surprising secret his intimates want out. Romney is one of those guys who generally has a tough time being personable with strangers, and on the campaign he has …
As Crowley points out, Mitt Romney was pretty well-poised to seize on Obama’s open mic moment, in which he told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that he’d have “more flexibility” on missile defense after his re-election. Romney dug in on the issue Monday, hammering the White House on the stump and calling Russia “without question our …
For months now, Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign has overwhelmingly focused on the economy. But as he geared up his candidacy a couple of years ago, Romney opened with an argument heavy on foreign policy. In March 2010, for …
We live in the age of the iPhone, yet the 2012 presidential campaign has so far been run on Betamax. In the Republican primary, new media and mobile technologies are next to incidental, subsumed by a nostalgic embrace of a technology that was cutting edge in the 1960s: television.
Barack Obama never mentioned Mitt Romney when he spoke at the United Auto Workers Convention on Tuesday. But when Obama said “folks,” he meant Romney. When Obama said “these politicians,” he meant Romney. And when Obama said “some politicians,” he meant Romney.
In baseball, a tie goes to the runner. But in presidential primaries, a tie goes against the front runner.
In a matter of hours, America will discover if Mitt Romney can pull out a squeaker in his native state of Michigan. As of this morning, Nate Silver, the whiz-kid of poll-based projections, pegs the state too close to call, with a …
Mitt Romney is on the 35-yard line. He’s at Ford Field, home of the once-struggling Lions, in Detroit, home of the still-struggling economy, to deliver a juiced up version of his stump speech. “A bold conservative plan for …
On Thursday, Pew released some timely data on three major federal undertakings that defined the beginning of President Barack Obama’s first term: the bank bailout, passed under George W. Bush just before Obama took office; the …
