Bookworm on Feb 07 2008 | Filed under: John McCain, Mitt Romney
Romney is as gracious in defeat as I’m sure he would have been in victory. Here’s Wizbang:
Mark Halperin at The Page says Romney will drop out of the race. His announcement could come at his CPAC speech at 12:30pm. This means that McCain is definitely the Republican nominee because Huckabee doesn’t have any chance [...]
Bookworm on Jan 29 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Bush Derangement Syndrome, Conservative ideology, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Identity politics, John Edwards, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Rudy Giuliani
I caught a minute of Mike Gallagher today, and he was talking about the fact that Republicans are more critical of Republican candidates than Democrats are critical of Democratic candidates. It occurred to me that, at least in this election cycle, that may be because there are real, substantive differences between the Republican candidates. [...]
Bookworm on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Media matters, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Religion
Christopher Hitchens is totally right when he notes that Mike Huckabee’s defense of the Confederate flag harmonizes perfectly with racist views. That is, a person could argue that the defense of the flag is all about States’ rights, but the fact is that the Confederate flag is so inextricably intertwined with the KKK and Jim [...]
Bookworm on Jan 16 2008 | Filed under: Economics, Mitt Romney
Question for you: With economic fears on the rise, wouldn’t it make sense for Romney to play up his money abilities? He turned the Olympics around, and he seems to have a knack for seeing economic systems and turning them to gold. People claim that his economic savvy was what won in [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney
I’m not a fan of populism in politics, since I think it usually boils down to an ugly appeal to people’s baser instincts, with the sole benefit accruing to the demagogue making the statements. Huck is emerging as precisely that kind of populist, as Jay Nordlinger demonstrates by discussing Huck’s new attacks on Mitt. Now [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2007 | Filed under: Islam, Mormons
Michael Cappi, who got interested in Islam after being near Ground Zero on 9/11, has written what looks like a must-read book called A Never Ending War. Jamie Glazon interviews Cappi at Front Page Magazine, and Cappi has some very interesting things to say about the nature of Islam, the Koran, War and the [...]
Bookworm on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: Barack Obama, John Edwards, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Mormons, Presidential elections
I don’t like Obama, whom I consider an empty shirt, utterly devoid of experience and elevated to his lofty position only because of his skin color, something that I consider that worst kind of racial identity politics. (I just checked and it turns out that, at this particular minute, Silky Pony, the radical rich [...]
Bookworm on Dec 14 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul
I’ve noted in the past that I really, really like competence and the ability to take responsibility, both in the people who surround me and, especially, in the people who are tasked with guiding me. I’ve also noted that Mitt’s Mormonism isn’t a problem for me, and that it shouldn’t be a problem for [...]
Bookworm on Dec 11 2007 | Filed under: Christians, Mitt Romney, Mormons
On May 23, 2007, I did a post in which I looked at Mitt’s Mormonism, and concluded that it shouldn’t matter because his values are what counts, not the path he took to arrive at those values. Based on comments left in response to that post, I updated it to explain that, as far [...]
Bookworm on Dec 06 2007 | Filed under: Mitt Romney, Religion
I didn’t listen to, but I did read Mitt Romney’s faith in America speech. I think it’s a good speech and says at length what I’ve said more briefly in previous posts (and what others have said in millions of posts):
(1) the separation of Church and State that our Founders envisioned was intended to [...]
Bookworm on Nov 30 2007 | Filed under: Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Presidential elections, Religion
I went to law school in the Bible Belt, so many of my fellow students were devout Christians. Thomas, however, out-Christianed everyone. His parents were missionaries, and he’d been raised with a level of faith no one else at the school could equal. He was one of the nicest people you could [...]
Bookworm on Nov 27 2007 | Filed under: France, Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Islam, Media matters, Mitt Romney, Muslim violence
I kid you not — the language I put in quotations in this post caption is the precise language the BBC uses to describe those who are engaged in a little bit of urban unrest In France. You know, the kind of innocuous urban rioting that results in more than 80 policeman being injured [...]
Bookworm on Nov 25 2007 | Filed under: Democrats, Presidential elections, Republicans
Three paragraphs of perfect political analysis from Mark Steyn:
If I could just sneak out in the middle of the night and saw off Rudy Giuliani’s strong right arm and John McCain’s ramrod back and Mitt Romney’s fabulous hair and stitch them all together in Baron von Frankenstein’s laboratory with the help of some neck bolts, [...]
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