thinkprogress.org - 11/3/2008
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This morning on NBC’s Today Show, host Meredith Vieira asked McCain campaign surrogate Mitt Romney about a new University of Wisconsin analysis, which found that more of McCain’s ads have been negative than Obama’s in the past week. Romney attempted to defend the McCain ...
money.cnn.com - 11/7/2008
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money.cnn.com —
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Mitt Romney, former Massachusetts
governor and co-founder of private equity firm Bain Capital,...
is often mentioned as a GOP contender for 2012. He spoke with Fortune's Jia Lynn Yang. Any management advice for the next president? ...
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Republican Mitt Romney on Obama's challenges - Nov. 7, 2008
marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 11/8/2008
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marcambinder.theatlantic.com —
Rumor : Aides and advisers to Mitt Romney
are responsible for spreading most of the anti-Palin stories...
that have been going around; during the campaign, they pressured reporters to look into reports of tension between McCain and Palin factions. ...
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Rumor Patrol: Romney Camp Spreading Palin Stories?
spectator.org - 11/5/2008
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spectator.org —
Tears streaked the faces of the young conservative
activists, heartbroken by the disastrous news. It was Feb....
7 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel and I had stepped down to the exhibition hall where scores of attendees at the Conservative Political ...
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You Did Not Lose
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MIDDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... [image] The Republicans’ Future – Steve Benen, Political Animal [image] Lost Horizons – Ross Douthat [image] Don’t Believe the Hype! – R.S. McCain [image] What Might Have Been – Jonah Goldberg, The Corner [image] My Picks – Ed Morrissey, Hot Air [image] The Road is Through the South – S. Newberry, firedoglake [image] McCain Would Put Coal Out of Business - Jed L, Daily Kos [image] Romney Won't Dignify McCain Camp - A. Terkel, Think Progress [image] ...
Ratus Exit Shipus
Talking Points Memo —
Romney refuses to say McCain ran a "dignified" campaign.
Dignified
Political Animal —
... . It was hardly a ringing endorsement. Romney was similarly flummoxed this morning when asked about the dignity, or lack thereof, of the McCain campaign. Specifically, "Today" show host Meredith Vieira referenced a University of Wisconsin analysis, which showed that McCain's television ads have been more negative, more often, than Obama's. VIEIRA: So, let me ask you, would you characterize John McCain's campaign as dignified and honest? ROMNEY: Well, what I'd characterize the entire campaign as is extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama. [...] VIEIRA: So you ...
Where Are All The McCain People At?
Newshoggers.com —
... Significantly, more conservatives will turn out for McCain's "pitbull" than for McCain himself. Equally significantly, even Mitt Romney refuses to say McCain ran a dignified campaign - and yet despite one of the sleaziest campaigns in the history of the World ...
The "honesty" of Mitt Romney
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings On Today this morning, host Meredith Vieira asked the seemingly very pro-McCain Mitt Romney if the McCain campaign has been "dignified and honest." In fact, she asked him three times. (Think Progress has the video and transcript here.) Becuase Romney refused to answer the first two times, first blaming Obama for being "extraordinarily negative," then suggesting that the race will come down to national ...
One Brief Shining Moment
N/A —
... The Romnoid has crash landed into the McCain campaign again. Mitt can’t admit McCain’s been dignified on the trail. ...
Mitt Who?
Balloon Juice —
I see a number of libs linking to this NBC interview with Mitt Romney:
VIEIRA: So, let me ask you, would you characterize John McCain’s campaign as dignified and honest?
ROMNEY: Well, what I’d characterize the entire campaign as is extraordinarily negative on the part of Barack Obama. […]
VIEIRA: So you think his campaign was dignified?
ROMNEY: Well, I think it’s going to come down to this, and I think that is, who is going to be able ...
No More Mister Nice Blog —
... Meanwhile, of course, Mitt Romney was on TV Monday and couldn't bring himself to say the McCain campaign was "dignified," even after he'd been asked three times. ...
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Dignified
washingtonmonthly.com 11/4/2008 — DIGNIFIED.... A couple of weeks ago, Mitt Romney, a leading McCain campaign surrogate, appeared on CNN and asked whether he believes Sarah Palin is ready to lead. "Well, that -- that's something which I -- I believe the American people...
Lopez: Wheres Mitt?
article.nationalreview.com 11/5/2008 — Mitt is "keeping a low profile nationally?" Pih!
Former Romney aides on McCain campaign behind Palin trash-talk
americablog.com 10/27/2008 — Joe reported earlier that Mitt Romney is a top McCain economic adviser. McCain should be wary. According to the right wing American Spectator , Mitt's people have been undermining Sarah Palin, because they're trying to set up Mitt for 2012: Some ...
Mitt Romney: I’m no back stabber
news.bostonherald.com 11/8/2008 — itt Romney s camp is firing back at reports his foot soldiers are behind a brutal smear campaign against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a backdoor strategy to position the former Bay State governor for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. It s a ...
Romney is Already Running
politicalwire.com 12/8/2008 — Mitt Romney "is laying the groundwork for a possible White House campaign in 2012, hiring a team of staff members and consultants with money from a fund-raising committee he established with the ostensible purpose of supporting other GOP candidates," ...
Why not Mitt Romney for RNC Chairman?
thenextright.com 10/26/2008 — Patrick Ruffini mentioned the likely candidates for the upcoming Republican National Committee Chairman race: Alec Poitevint, Chuck Yob, Katon Dawson, Jim Greer, Chip Saltsman, and Saul Anuzis. Ruffini says the job will be ...
New Math
theheretik.us 12/8/2008 —
Mitt Romney took in over two million with a promise to support Republican candidates and then spent only a quarter of a million?
Romney aides insisted that the primary mission of the Free and Strong America Political Action Committee is to ...
Mittragious: How Romney is angling for 2012
the-reaction.blogspot.com 12/8/2008 — By Michael J.W. Stickings "It is more essential than ever that conservative candidates and organizations have the resources they need to get their message out to voters." -- Mitt Romney In other words: "I'm running for president again!" ...
On the Romneybot Attacks Against Sarah Palin
redstate.com 10/29/2008 —
When I was in St. Paul for the Republican Convention, more than
a dozen people told me acolytes of Mitt Romney were feeding all the
stories to the media portraying Palin in a negative light.
In fact, I heard that one of the biggest pushers of ...
The Anti-Romney Campaign
corner.nationalreview.com 10/29/2008 — I feel like the primary campaign isn't over as fingers point to Mitt Romney supposedly trying to take down Sarah Palin. The whole thing is a distraction Dems must be grateful for.
If the former Massachusetts governor is trying to do Palin in for the ...
McCain to make last-minute push in the West —
CNN Political Ticker 11/3/2008
McCain is heading back to New Mexico tomorrow.
(CNN) — John McCain will spend the final hours before the polls close Tuesday visiting Colorado and New Mexico, two states his campaign manager now says are key to a last-minute “new pathway to ...
Obama hits McCain on the economy —
First Read 11/3/2008
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- With the election one day away, Obama returned to a central theme of his campaign: McCain is not prepared to be the steward of the nation’s economy at this difficult time.
The Democratic ...
Biden predicts foes will eat their words —
First Read 11/3/2008
From NBC/NJ’s Mike Memoli
LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. -- Kicking off an election eve sprint in the Show-Me State, Biden told an energetic crowd that America is “on the cusp of a new brand of American leadership” with Obama . ...
Rove Forecasts Obama Victory —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 11/3/2008
Laura Meckler reports from Washington on the presidential race:
He was the architect of the last presidential victory. Will he be the prognosticator of the next?
On his Web site, Karl Rove has been tracking polling in all 50 states, ...
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