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...must admit, I can't imagine anything more awful than polygamy.' MITT ROMNEY, the Mormon Republican U.S. presidential candidate, whose great-grandfather was a polygamist...
...MITT ROMNEY, the Mormon seeking the Republican presidential nomination, whose great-grandfather was a polygamist...
...Bush, and their constant summoning of a mythic Reaganite past just makes them seem ... old. The second, on May 15 in South Carolina, clarified the field--not just which candidates should be taken seriously but also how the serious candidates are likely to relate to one another. I thought Mitt Romney won the first debate because he was smooth and lost the second because he was slick. Rudy Giuliani won the second because he seemed forceful, after appearing uncertain in the first. John McCain was a presence in both--a mostly honorable presence, I might...
...Mitt Romney won the first debate because he does the most convincing Reagan impression of the bunch. But it's a matter of style more than substance. The Gipper was always thick with conviction; Romney has positions, not convictions. He never says anything striking or memorable. And in the second debate, he did something Reagan never would have done: he attacked McCain's bipartisan campaign-finance reform and immigration bills, McCain-Feingold and McCain-Kennedy. McCain stood firm. He said the money in politics "has corrupted our own party." And he stood firm on the war in Iraq, as expected...
...Advisers to Giuliani's leading opponents, John McCain and Mitt Romney, say the influence of the big states is overrated; that with so many candidates chasing votes in so many places, the influence of the first states will actually be magnified, not diminished. And they believe that the Republican party is, at its core, pro-life - no matter how many "big tent" speeches delegates have endured at recent G.O.P. conventions...