Posts tagged “George Will”
Romney’s Lingering Troubles
Today on This Week (now with George Stephanopolous) George Will phrased the essence of what happened in South Carolina in a simplistic but accurate way. He said, “Mitt Romney’s problem is somehow his Romney-ness… there is something about him that is not connecting.” The populist wing of the republican party wants a game changing candidate. They [...]
Republican Hyperbole Jumps The Shark
Over the weekend, this excerpt from Mark Halperin and John Heilemann‘s forthcoming book, Game Change brought Harry Reid much grief: He (Reid) was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as Obama – a ‘light-skinned’ African American ‘with no Negro dialect, [...]