NOVEMBER 23, 2011 Most political battles are won by seizing the center. Anyone who believes otherwise ignores the electoral experience of the last 50 years. By MICHAEL MEDVED Conservative resistance to Mitt Romney’s nomination increasingly emphasizes electability as much as ideology, concentrating on his perceived weaknesses as a candidate along with an inconsistent approach to […]
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stephen F. Hayes November 14, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 09 Is this finally a Mitt Romney that conservatives can love? Or at least support? Governor Romney spoke last week in Washington to a group closely associated with the Tea Party. And, for the first time, he sounded like a
Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Stephen F. Hayes November 12, 2011 11:38 PM Spartanburg, South Carolina After a series of debates in which foreign policy and national security issues received little attention, Republicans spent Saturday evening here debating everything from the Arab Spring and Pakistan to foreign aid and China currency manipulation. The candidates largely
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NOVEMBER 10, 2011 Barack Obama is leading us toward a cascade of proliferation in the Middle East. By MITT ROMNEY EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: In his “reset” of relations with Russia, President Obama caved in to Moscow’s demands by reneging on a missile-defense agreement with Eastern European allies and agreeing to a New Start Treaty
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USA TODAY By Mitt Romney November 4, 2011 I spent much of my 25-year career in the private sector turning around failing enterprises. With a great team behind me, I helped to turn around the Salt Lake City Olympic Games, and fix a badly broken state budget in Massachusetts. But I have never seen an
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Gift of Gab With Mitt Romney as its candidate, could the GOP find that its long national nightmare of verbal inadequacy is over? James W. Ceaser October 31, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 07 If, as most pundits now believe, Mitt Romney has the inside track for the Republican
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November 2, 2011 Get off Romney’s Back By Mercer Tyson 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
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U.S. NEWS & World Report October 27, 2011 by Rick Newman On some things, virtually all the Republican presidential candidates agree: President Obama’s health-reform plan must be scrapped. Government spending is far too high. Taxes should be lower. Washington needs to be reined in, and more power should devolve to the states. But many differences
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OCTOBER 27, 2011, 4:37 P.M. ET Michael Vick went to prison for staging dogfights, but for presidential debates, it’s legal. By DANIEL HENNINGER Politics, like any guilty pleasure, breeds nightmares. One of late is that we’ll soon elect an American president based mostly on what people know from reading Yahoo! headlines and the three lines
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