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“Tax returns for college transcripts” will not work

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2011 22 Comments

The second Mitt Romney announced he would not release his income tax returns if he becomes nominee I predicted it would not stand because the refusal would, at a minimum, create a major distraction. It's part of a larger problem with secrecy which will haunt Romney if...

Worst Tweet of the Year

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2011 7 Comments

The Best Bumper Sticker of the Year, Worst Bumper Sticker of the Year and Best Tweet of the Year competitions have left me on the verge of blogger burnout, but I soldier on, because that's just the way I am. And the internet never stops. The Worst Tweet...

Hey, let’s make fun of Newt crying about his deceased mother

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 42 Comments

I posted earlier about Newt Gingrich's emotional discussion of his mother, in which he shed tears while discussing his memories. What kind of person would make fun of this, and what type of supporters laugh in response? Mitt tweaks Newt: 'I won't cry': POLITICO's Emily Schultheis, on the trail...

How disastrous was Santorum’s endorsement of Specter? Can you say ‘Obamacare’?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 37 Comments

Rick Santorum backed Arlen Specter over Pat Toomey in 2004. It was a tough race with Toomey mounting a credible, well-financed challenge. Toomey's candidacy, by his own estimation, was one of the precursors to the Tea Party movement: The "battle for the heart and soul of the Republican Party"...

“Mothers are the civilizing influence”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 24 Comments

It's the major headline at Drudge: But the headline suggests it's a reaction to polling, but instead it was questioning by Frank Luntz about Newt's mother. The most poignant moment to me was not the discussion of his mother but at 4:25 when he recounted a story...

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So much of what the left-wing said about Coulter turns out to be true

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 35 Comments

Who would have expected it. Ann Coulter in her endorsement of Mitt Romney gave a very misleading account of Rick Santorum's immigration record, asserting that he voted against E-Verify. Ann's a lawyer, so she knows that omitting material facts can be just as much a fraud...

SOPA will make the whole internet like WordPress.com

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 18 Comments

Readers have been emailing me about the dangers of the Stop Online Privacy [wow, what a slip] Piracy Act but I've been a bit distracted. Here's the concern from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: The "Stop Online Piracy Act"/"E-PARASITE Act" (SOPA) and "The PROTECT IP Act" (PIPA)...

“In light of that, Romney decided to run as a pro-choice candidate”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 29 Comments

Via Byron York, a preview of a book by Boston journalist Ronald Scott: According to Scott, Romney revealed that polling from Richard Wirthlin, Ronald Reagan's former pollster whom Romney had hired for the '94 campaign, showed it would be impossible for a pro-life candidate to win...

We will pay the price for giving Romney a free pass

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 28 Comments

"Why Is No One Attacking Romney?" That's the question I have been pounding all fall, particularly in the past 6 weeks. It's also the question asked by Alex Roarty at National Journal: It's an old story this primary, where Romney has not faced the kind of...

Best Tweet of the Year

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 30, 2011 9 Comments

The Best Tweet of the Year competition was really, really tough. There were so many great tweets arising out of the Occupy Wall Street protests that it could have been its own category. Not surprisingly, Obama also was a hot topic. I excluded from consideration tweets...

Rollins: Bachmann stayed clear of attacking Romney in hopes of VP slot

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 26 Comments

One of the conspiracy theories floating around the comment section here and elsewhere was that Michele Bachmann served as the attack dog against everyone but Romney in the hope of gaining a VP nod. The speculation was fueled by Bachmann's relentless and often inaccurate attacks on...

Don’t fall for Operation Psych Out

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 49 Comments

A certain someone already has declared that the media got the primaries all wrong, and that it was going to be Mitt all the time. Others have written off Newt and Perry to the dustbin of history. The emerging media consensus, pushed by the mainstream...

New Year’s Greetings from the IDF

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 8 Comments

With war in Israel just one shot or rocket or kidnapping away, it's always worth seeing the faces of the people who will fight it. The Jewish New Year was in September, so this is the IDF's New Year's greeting to you (via Sheya): ...

Let’s all surge for the least scrutinized not-Romney

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 33 Comments

Rick Santorum has lived in Iowa for months, visiting every county, street, house, coffee shop, bakery, and front porch waiting for his time to come. It may have arrived, if the recent polling is indicative of reality. But because Santorum's surge comes just days before the...

The problem with socialized medicine is that eventually you run out of other people’s money

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 26 Comments

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. The problem with socialized medicine is that eventually you run out of other people's money, too. In Britain, they have run out of other people's money, so the National Health Service has...

Romney keeps digging on secrecy

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 29, 2011 17 Comments

I noted the other day Romney’s emerging secrecy problem, including the refusal to release income tax returns even if he becomes the nominee. This is a break with standard practice for nominees, and creates a no win situation in which Romney makes his income and taxes...

Romney’s electability is overblown