corner.nationalreview.com - 8/28/2008
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Judging by the Obama camp's assorted efforts to prepare the ground for McCain's VP choice on Friday, they seem to be terrified of Mitt Romney. They've got some good lines about him, to be sure, but more striking than what they say is that he's all they talk about.
The basic line of attack is that he's 1) rich and 2) a former investment banker whose work involved restructuring failing ...
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How Safe Is Romney?
Ross Douthat —
... ... but he has a real record of achievement both in and out of government, he isn't a D.C. insider, he won't get embarrassed by Biden in a debate the way, say, a Sarah Palin might, and his strengths dovetail reasonably well with McCain's message, as Yuval Levin argues. Again, I'm no Romney fan and I think McCain can do better (though I'm damned if I know who he should pick - or who he has picked, I guess I should say at this point). But Mitt, for all his slew of weaknesses, is much more of a known and tested quantity than most of his apparent competition for the slot, ...
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