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...Second, Romney will spend much of the next week trying to drum up old conservative distrust of McCain, who leaves Florida with considerable momentum and already-high poll numbers in many of the states that vote on February 5. Though McCain has been hammered by some conservative voices, such as the radio host Rush Limbaugh, he has so far escaped the full ideological revolt that greeted him in 2000, when he lost the nomination to George W. Bush...
...This final Romney gambit is likely to determine more than just the fate of one, well-heeled candidate. It could set the course for the Republican Party. In the old days, those who supported tax cuts for the wealthy worked closely with those who wanted to amend the constitution to ban gay marriage. Those who wanted to grow the size of the military made common cause with those who saw global warming as an environmentalist scare-tactic meant to interfere with free markets. Those who wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade also wanted to overturn campaign finance reform...
...McCain, Huckabee and a nation of disconcerted Republican voters now threaten to reformulate that coalition. Romney is certainly not a lifelong member of the old conservative movement. But as it stands, he may be the only thing left to hold it together...
...surprised to see Mitt Romney or Barack Obama don a yarmulke in Brooklyn or Hillary Clinton or John McCain down a tamale in Los Angeles. But the most direct way that politicians try to curry favor with their ethnic audience is to try to speak like them. Nothing forges as much of a connection - or presents as great a risk - as trying to address an audience in their native tongue...
This year, the candidates are focusing on Latinos, and brushing up on their Spanish. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney both released Spanish language television ads in Florida that concluded with each of them stumbling through the Spanish version of "I approve this message." On the Democratic side, Barack Obama does the same in his ads, though he has yet to find an audience to use his fluent Indonesian. Both the Hillary Clinton and Obama campaigns have recently released Spanish-language ads, with Obama's ad featuring a shot of Ted Kennedy, who just endorsed the Illinois Senator...