Just over a week before the presidential election, Mitt Romney stood before an excited Ohio crowd and uttered these words: “[My opponent’s] campaign said, ‘if we keep talking about the economy we’re going to lose.’ That’s why he’s spending these last weeks calling me every name in the book. Because that’s how you play the game in Washington. If you can’t beat your opponents ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up. If […]
The impressive near-victory by Rick Santorum in last night’s Iowa caucus is making headlines today, but his star will fall soon enough. As I argued in my last post, Mitt Romney is the inevitable candidate, and for two reasons: he can beat Barack Obama, and he would be a pretty good president. Santorum is simply the latest in the never-ending train of “anti-establishment” candidates, a fact evinced by his complete inability to earn serious consideration […]
Despite Newt Gingrich’s lead in nearly every poll, the GOP should get solidly behind Mitt Romney. Romney’s weaknesses are in full view, and have been for several years; there are no surprises with Mitt. His primary faults are that he seems unprincipled and unable to relate to the “average” American, because of his changing positions and life-long wealth, respectively. But that’s pretty much it—no adulterous relationships, no political scandals and no problem with hyper-partisanship or […]
Wesley Gant 