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...While sharp words have been exchanged between practically every Republican candidate at one point or another on the campaign trail, the aversion to Romney seems to go beyond mere policy disagreements. It's also a suspicion of what they see is his hypocrisy and essential phoniness - what one former staffer for Fred Thompson called Romney's "wholesale reinvention...
...sure, the candidates' staffs do seem to have bonded in their dislike of Romney. "It was very common for e-mails to be flying around between the Thompson, McCain and Giuliani campaigns," says the former Thompson staffer, "Saying, 'No matter what happens with us, we all need to make sure it's not him.'" The staffer says that campaigns would share opposition research on Romney and offer each other tips on how best to undermine him: "Like, 'Hey, I saw you hit Mitt on immigration - have you thought about going after him on this issue?" In some cases, the attitude...
...McCain's victory tonight was his most significant yet, even if it was the ugliest. Most importantly, it was a win among Republicans and only Republicans; unlike New Hampshire or Iowa, there was no "independents' safety net," as a Romney staffer put it. A victory in Florida's closed primary should silence the refrain that has echoed through talk radio and conservative blogs ever since McCain started to claw his way toward the nomination: He's not a "real Republican." Says one McCain staffer: "Maybe after they see his name next to an 'R' in the general election they...
...reporters jumped from their seats and ran to the parking lot. An overflow crowd of 200 for Mitt, whose events had been drawing merely respectable crowds, would be news. A short jog to the parking lot revealed: satellite trucks and some people carrying Ron Paul signs. Oh. A Romney staffer caught up with us: "They were just here...
...Strauss seemed to show little interest in practicing law. After a honeymoon in Africa while his classmates took the bar exam, Strauss moved to Washington with his new wife to begin work as a policy aide before becoming a staffer for former Illinois senator Charles H. Percy...