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...contrast until recently, there was no shortage of politicians proudly claiming the label "conservative." Now, the only serious presidential candidate who calls himself a conservative is former Governor Mitt Romney--and he clings to the label because, based on his record, he obviously isn't one. Senator Sam Brownback, who calls himself a conservative and actually is one, isn't considered serious for that very reason. Meanwhile, Senator John McCain, who is serious, calls himself a "commonsense conservative," thus implying that most conservatives lack common sense. This is even more insulting than George W. Bush's "compassionate conservative...
...there's more than a bit of shadowboxing going on. Republican consultant Mike Murphy, who has worked for G.O.P. contenders John McCain and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, says he always hangs a map behind his desk--and has a campaign intern pepper it randomly with colored stickpins--so that visitors will be impressed with his campaign's "field operation." The real measure of a campaign in the early stages, he says, is often what it isn't doing. "If you hear one campaign is talking to Mayor Bag O'Doughnuts, you feel...
...will probably try in 2008, but Richardson has spent most of his career in Washington and sometimes tries a bit too hard at playing the Western card: his cowboy boots are ostrich skin, which is permissible but fancy. Richardson certainly can't compete with Republicans John McCain or Mitt Romney, either of whom would easily sweep the region...
...will probably try in 2008, but Richardson has spent most of his career in Washington and sometimes tries a bit too hard at playing the Western card: his cowboy boots are ostrich skin, which is permissible but fancy. Richardson certainly can't compete with Republicans John McCain or Mitt Romney, either of whom would easily sweep the region...
...only a couple of months into the 2008 election cycle and already some things have the weight of cliche - the "Mormon question" about Mitt Romney, John McCain's precarious relationship with the Republican base, Hillary's and Obama's coyness about whether they're running, Joe Biden's complete lack of it. Viewed from almost any distance outside the Beltway, the current contest for each party's nomination seems less like a horse race than an awkward cocktail party, full of subtle maneuvers for better placement, coded messages of disapproval, blatant pandering, and a few uninvited guests...