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Reporters got a listen — apparently unplanned — to Mitt Romney’s remarks today at a fundraiser at a private home in Palm Beach. What they heard wasn’t terribly surprising. It’s about what you might expect Romney to say when the cameras aren’t running and to a friendly audience. Read More
New poll shows fading enthusiasm for the Tea Party, especially among women.
Before last week’s fracas, Romney said mothers on welfare need jobs to have the ‘Dignity Of Work’.
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Secret Service says prostitution scandal did not affect president’s security.
At the beginning of President Obama’s trip to Colombia, 12 Secret Service agents have been relieved of duty and sent home over alleged ‘misconduct’ tied to prostitution.
In itself, there are certainly bigger deals than cavorting with prostitutes. But for members of the President’s Secret Service team to be doing so on a foreign trip is actually a pretty big deal, especially in a country like Colombia racked by endemic violence and drug cartels. A classic invitation to blackmail and other forms of compromise.
I’ve always taken it as a given that the ‘real’ Mitt Romney isn’t so much a political moderate as not particularly engaged on issues besides management and right-leaning economics. In other words, he’s a center-right technocrat. So the moves to the center we’re about to see are comparatively easy for him since these just aren’t issues which are core to who he is one way or another. Still it will be fascinating to watch the repositioning. And E.J. Dionne has found a great example.
Tucked away in a Fred Barnes piece in the Wall Street Journal, he finds this quotes: “According to a Romney adviser, his private view of immigration isn’t as anti-immigrant as he often sounded.”