Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Matt Naugle on 3.15.12 @ 10:10AM When Mitt Romney was asked in a GOP debate to name a Hispanic he would like to see his his Cabinet, the first name that came to mind was Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval. In addition to being pro-abortion, what makes Sandoval unique [...]
Romney’s Aura of Electability is Diminishing
February 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By David N. Bass on 2.24.12 @ 2:04PM Conventional wisdom says that Mitt Romney is a more viable candidate than Rick Santorum in a head-to-head fight with President Obama. Polling bolsters that viewpoint, though by a slight margin. But my sense is that the so-called Romney-Santorum electability divide [...]
Romney’s Poor Remark
February 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 2.1.12 @ 10:29AM Mitt Romney is drawing fire for saying he’s “not concerned about the poor.” Well, let’s take a look at precisely what he said: I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I’ll [...]
Romney’s rivals suggest he’s not electable
January 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum reacts as former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answers a question during a Republican presidential candidate debate at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, N.H., Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Mitt Romney’s rivals are casting doubt on whether he’s the strongest candidate to [...]
Romney’s 10K
December 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
DNC Attacks Romney’s Flip Flops
November 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Joseph Lawler on 11.28.11 @ 11:13AM The DNC is out with this ad juxtaposing many of Mitt Romney’s flip-flops (although some of the supposed flip-flops are a bit of stretch): This isn’t the first ad with this theme, and it won’t be the last. As far as [...]
Pushback on Romney’s Medicare Strategy
November 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Joseph Lawler on 11.10.11 @ 11:10AM In the Washington Examiner, Philip Klein takes issue with a National Review editorial praising Mitt Romney’s outline for a Medicare reform plan, which would offer seniors the choice between subsidies for privately-managed insurance plans and traditional Medicare: One of the biggest [...]
Get off Romney’s Back
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Bad-mouthing Romney is like saying Ronald Reagan was a failure because he didn’t colonize China. Romney is a conservative who will work well with a GOP Congress. His flipflopedness is both on purpose and irrelevant. Time to get off his back. Previously I wrote an article on American Thinker promoting the ticket of Romney and [...]
Romney’s Smoking Gun Picture
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Does Mitt Romney have a political death wish? When I heard him utter the phrase, “There are plenty of reasons to vote against Mitt Romney…,” I cringed, imagining endless repetition of this sound byte in the attack ads that will be the basis of the Obama re-election campaign, funded with hundreds of millions of dollars [...]
Romney’s Clincher
October 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Wlady Pleszczynski on 10.11.11 @ 11:21PM Tonight I think I’ll be like Quin last time (and Aaron tonight) and offer some instant analysis with not too much querulous criticism of each of tonight’s debaters. I’ll do so in alphabetical order, if I can still remember my ABC’s [...]