Michael Kranish
The Search For The Real Romney, Ctd.
More polls are suggesting that the Democrats' attempts to cast Mitt Romney as a self-interested, slice-and-dicing wheeler-dealer are gaining ground with swing-state voters, despite the much-ballyhooed reservations of the mayor of the 68th biggest city in the country. READ MORE >>
Mitt’s Very Awkward History On Gay Marriage
The Basis For Mad Men’s George Romney Tweak
Liberalism Needs A Toilet
Mitt Romney has decided that light bulbs represent liberalism's soft underbelly. Actually, they don't. The replacement of incandescent light bulbs with more energy-efficient alternatives is at best a minor inconvenience. READ MORE >>
The Counter-Intuition Of Mitt Romney
Mitt's Not The One Who Needs to 'Get Real'
There was a stretch, a few weeks back, where it was Mitt Romney's detractors in the lib'rul media, led by Frank Rich, who were working overtime to try to divine the "real Romney," the tormented soul hidden beneath the America the Beautiful exterior. Now it is apparently the turn of Romney's admirers to go plumbing for the true Mitt, in an attempt to coax a more genuine and likable candidate to emerge. READ MORE >>
Bright College Years, Sans Salinger
What Would George Do?
There's a remarkable bit in the Real Romney, Michael Kranish and Scott Helman's new biography of Mitt Romney, where they describe George Romney starting his campaign for president in 1967, and making clear that he did not share his church's less than enlightened views on race: "Appearing in North Carolina, he took on segregationists who opposed civil rights measures on the grounds of states' rights, saying, 'As far as I'm concerned, states have no rights. Only people have rights...obstructionism masquerading as states' rights is the height of folly.'" READ MORE >>
The Outsiders
See if you can tell which of the following passages are from The Obamas by Jodi Kantor and which are from The Real Romney by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman. The answers are at the end of this column. No peeking! READ MORE >>
