Despite the mania around Michele Bachmann, you can sense a new Washington conventional wisdom hardening around the idea that Mitt Romney is quite likely to be the 2012 Republican nominee. Even John Chait is reconsidering his …
Mitt Romney
Romney’s Obama-Centric Message
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-44o5Dn6V98]
Mitt Romney’s currently enjoying a comfortable lead in many state polls and the $25-$30 million in donations he’s said to have brought in this quarter will likely dwarf his opponents’ hauls. But it’s early. Michele Bachmann is rising. Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman are not as well …
Romney Warbucks
Former White House spokesman Bill Burton is chortling on Twitter about this campaign-trail moment captured by the Washington Post:
At one table, a boy offered Romney a $1 bill that he had folded origami-style for good luck. The candidate happily accepted it, but then rifled through his wallet looking for money to give the boy in return.
…
Romney’s Courageous Convictions?
In 2008 Mitt Romney ran a Gumby campaign, turning himself inside out trying to be everything to everybody. He bought in to every straw poll, competed in Iowa, signed most pledges–and lost. This time around, Romney seems intent …
Understanding Romney Humor: “I’m Also Unemployed”
A few days before the 2010 midterm elections, Mitt Romney opened with this joke at a GOP event in New Hampshire: “It’s nice to be so warmly recognized. I’m not always recognized where I go by the way. The other day I made a phone call. I was trying to dial for dollars, trying to help some of our friends around the country. I called a big …
Did Romney Lose Conservative Media?
The right’s reception of Mitt Romney’s health care speech in Ann Arbor last week was pretty icy.
A Cautious Mitt Romney Enters the Health Care Arena on His Own Terms
The 2012 Republican presidential nomination will not be won or lost on newspaper op-ed pages, or in the wood-paneled confines of a university classroom, where Mitt Romney spoke Thursday about health care. But that is where the …
What Can Mitt Romney Say About Health Reform?
Mitt Romney hasn’t officially filed to run for President. He has no campaign manager. He hasn’t been to first-in-the-nation Iowa so far this year. Yet at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday at the University of Michigan Cardiovascular Center …
Mitt Romney’s Health Reform Speech
Halperin reports the putative Republican frontrunner will address his Achilles’ heel Thursday in Michigan. Sort of:
Debate Prep: Mitt Romney, Leading From Off Stage
Mitt Romney won’t be at the first 2012 presidential debate Thursday night, even though he is the closest thing to the field’s frontrunner. “It’s still early, the field is too unsettled and he’s not yet an announced candidate,” says Romney aide Matt Rhodes, who is already effectively running the unofficial Romney campaign.
Romney Makes The Onion
I guess it was only a matter of time, so best to just get this one out of the way:
Boston Globe Defends Romney’s Health Care Plan
This morning the former Massachusetts governor woke up to an unexpected valentine from the main Boston newspaper that once covered him. A Globe editorial defends the 2006 state health care reform law Romney signed as a compromise with a Democratic legislature that “ward[ed] off various schemes favored by business”:
Romney’s Rollout: A Refocused Message and Open Season on “Multiple-Choice Mitt”
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAcxwfkAdDY]
Here’s the thing about Mitt Romney’s big news: It wasn’t really news to anyone. The Republican presidential candidate-in-waiting never really stopped running after 2008 and Monday’s announcement that he’s forming an exploratory committee to examine running for President hardly …