So what kind of convention will it turn out to be?
Everyone already knows that the Republican faithful will gather in Tampa this week to nominate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to take on Barack Obama and Joe Biden in November. …
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Mitt’s Moment: TIME Talks to Romney About Business, Budgets and Beliefs
Managing editor Rick Stengel and senior correspondent Michael Crowley spoke with the Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday for the Sept. 3 issue of TIME, now available online to subscribers. A lightly edited transcript follows.
Romney at the Convention: Whom Will Mitt Speak To?
The Republican Convention is Mitt Romney’s first big opportunity since the primaries to speak directly to general-election voters. Will he focus on rallying the Republican base, or will he try to connect with the swing voters …
“If the Democrats said we had a war on caterpillars and every mainstream media outlet talked about the fact that Republicans have a war on caterpillars, then we'd have problems with caterpillars.”
Can Occupy Wall Street Be Used Against Obama?
The Republican National Committee seems to think the answer is yes. Here the tear gas in Oakland is shown to describe instability in Obama’s America, and the Occupy protesters are used to demonstrate dissatisfaction with Obama.
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American Crossroads and the Ascendant Super PACs
The leaders of American Crossroads, the conservative super PAC formed last year under the watch of Karl Rove, sat down with reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in D.C. this morning. The subject of the discussion was, of course, money: the role deep-pocketed super PACs will play in 2012 and the specific spending plans of …
Out of the Spotlight and Into the Margins
Ben Smith has nabbed a letter from some wealthy Republican donors urging others to send money to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Smith notes, rightly, that this is further evidence that although RNC Chair Michael Steele is no longer in the spotlight as a liability to the party, he’s still being marginalized – in an election …
Let’s Have Another Round Of RNC “Office Supplies”
Lindsay Beyerstein dug a bit deeper into the Republican National Committee’s expense report–the one with the “meals” at the lesbian bondage-themed nightclub–and found some questionable categorization.
Listed on the report in the category of “office supplies” are purchases from a New England winery and a Capitol Hill liquor store, as
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Steele Looks to Scare Some Donors, Actually He Already Does
Politico got an exclusive look inside the Republican National Committee’s fundraising scheme for the rest of the year. It seems chairman Michael Steele is going to try and scare donors into giving him cash by fear-mongering about the “socialist” government President Obama will usher in without their help to oppose him. I would say …
Oops. Guess Whose Health Insurance Covers Abortion?
Or did, until Politico reported it. The Republican National Committee issued this statement late last night:
News reports have revealed that the RNC’s health plan dating back as far as 1991 may have included some coverage for elective abortion. Upon learning of this, Chairman Michael Steele instructed the RNC Director of
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Health Care and the GOP
I’m guessing that the word “experiment” was pretty effective with the focus groups:
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(Via our friends at C-SPAN)
Zing the Bling…
I saw the RNC statement on Gov. Palin’s $150,000 clothing bender on the RNC’s tab. This caper is gonna make for a long day at the office for the good folks at the RNC/McCain press operation. Thought I’d offer a little help in a humorous vein; some other possible spin lines for the RNC.
1.) What you sneering critics in the liberal MSM …
Blue Screen?
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
I’m watching McCain on TV, like most of America. I know the backdrop has been solid colors for most of the speakers, with a larger image above them, but that comes from watching the convention the past few days. For anyone tuning in tonight what they see, for the most part, is McCain in front of a blue screen — …