Mitt Romney

GOP veep tryouts: Romney or Pawlenty?

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:02:28 -0400

In addition to attack dog, a purpose Romney is filling as we speak, the top contender must also be uncertain about how many houses he owns.

Republicans have governed the country with a willful disregard for the issues facing the middle class. There is nothing about the Republican ticket in 2008 that would make one believe they have any intention of changing.

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Mitt Romney has not yet foresaken us

adamg — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:30:16 -0400

Michael Prager reports:

... [T]his morning, for the second time in a couple of months, I ran into him in the market. The other time, I was with Georgie but he was alone, cruising the produce section of the Shaw's Market in Belmont. This time, I was alone but he was with his wife, Ann, when we met up at adjacent cash registers at Wilson Farms. ...

Hmm, I wonder if Mike Dukakis still shops at the Harvard Street Stop & Shop when he's in Brookline? A former co-worker once reported Dukakis started arguing with him about his choice of cereal - Dukakis tried to convince him the store brand was just as good and would save him money.

What $12 million buys you these days

adamg — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:22:51 -0400

The Real Estalker takes us on a virtual tour of Mitt Romney's new pied-a-mer on the beach in La Jolla, Ca.:

... It goes without saying all those hideous chairs and the beige rugs will be hauled out to the dumpster and Your Mama suggests that the Romney's spend a few hundred thousand doing over the kitchens and bathrooms in a style befitting someone of their financial stature. We hope the couple will bring in a local landscaper who knows a thing or two about indigenous vegetation and do something about the paltry and pathetic landscaping on the ocean side of the house that gives the rear facade the vague visage of an upscale mobile home. Your Mama would also consider opening up the ceilings to gain some volume, particularly in the living and dining rooms. This is a single story house and there's really no need to feel smashed down by vast planes of just slightly too low ceilings. ...

Spotted by Margalit.

Romney to plague us again

adamg — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:38:27 -0400

He sets up another North End PAC to run for president in 2012 on the assumption McCain will lose, Boston Daily reports.

Huh! Somebody still cares what Mitt Romney thinks

adamg — Sat, 17 May 2008 11:55:47 -0400

Enough to do a story on his thoughts on the California same-sex marriage ruling .

How quickly they forget

adamg — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:15:23 -0400

Harry catches the Globe getting the name of our former presidential candidate wrong.

And now, the rest of the Romney ...

adamg — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:04:09 -0400

Mitt Romney to sub for Paul Harvey today. So lock it in for WEIM 1280 out of Fitchburg. What? Can't get WEIM? Click on the link and scroll down a wee bit for the Tubes version of today's broadcast.

Isn't France the France of the 21st century?

adamg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:09:01 -0500

Everything Mitt Romney did wrong

adamg — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:48:42 -0500

John Ellis compiles a Romney Campaign Mistake List - which includes the Mittster's you'll-still-have-me-to-kick-around speech yesterday:

... Having mismanaged their candidate to political defeat, the Romney team added insult to injury by spinning his departure as reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s defeat in 1976. This is preposterous. Reagan electrified the conservative movement in 1964 with his televised address on behalf of Barry Goldwater. Reagan came within one endorsement -- Strom Thurmond's -- of wresting away the Republican nomination from Richard Nixon in 1968. And when he arrived in Kansas City in the summer of 1976, he had carried any number of critical states by majority votes (and in some cases, by wide margins) in Republican primary elections. Reagan left the stage as a force because he was a force. Romney leaves the stage having carried Michigan and Massachusetts and a number of caucus states. ...

Via Jay Fitzgerald, who has a much shorter list:

... At what point do you stop blaming the consultants and blame the candidate who so casually brushed aside integrity and honesty? Mitt lost because Mitt's character allowed him to be multiple Mitts.

Speaking of the speech, Mike Ball dissects it. David Bernstein takes a few whacks at the speech as well.

Romney gives up

adamg — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:00:41 -0500

For the good of the country, of course.