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1. Mitt Romney overcame his biggest obstacle to winning the Republican nomination when Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign, but pockets of resistance to the all-but-certain nominee remain. In Colorado, a Conservative Unity slate of Santorum and Ron Paul supporters defeated Romney backers for delegate slots at the Republican National Convention.
While Romney took 13 delegates to Santorum’s six, reports indicate that at least 13 of the 14 unpledged delegates were Paul supporters who intend to vote for the Texas congressman on the first ballot at Tampa. So not all Santorum backers are ready to ratify Romney and Paul is continuing to amass delegates even in states where he lagged in the popular vote.
2. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made clear that team Obama was focusing on Romney, however, when he used such strong terms — “ridiculous and very misleading” — to push back against the Republican frontrunner’s claim that women accounted for 92.3 percent of the jobs lost under Obama.
3. Dick Cheney made an appearance at the Wyoming state Republican convention and gave his first public speech since his heart transplant surgery. The former vice president called Obama an “unmitigated disaster to the country” and predicted Romney would do a “whale of a job.” Cheney also defended the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques. Cheney reportedly looked healthy and spoke for an hour and 15 minutes.
4. We’ll know soon enough, but I have to wonder if Orrin Hatch erred in angrily attacking the conservatives who want to deny him the Republican senatorial nomination in Utah. By all accounts, Hatch was pulling away from his opponents. Why do anything to mobilize them?
5. Newt Gingrich’s campaign is broke, but he’s obviously in a good position to benefit from Santorum’s departure in Texas and North Carolina. Will he?
6.. Former National Review editor John O’Sullivan has posted some characteristically interesting thoughts on the John Derbyshire matter. O’Sullivan mounts something close to a defense of Derbyshire, but a very qualified one, handling the issues with care. One wonders what Derb’s piece would have looked like if O’Sullivan had edited it.
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C Bowen | 4.15.12 @ 6:48PM
Did Cheney stress his support for Gay Marriage?
It is not exactly shocking the liberal Republican wing is hanging together, and Republicans are wise to keep their distance from the Cheney-Bush types.
The Presidency will be lost if either is allowed to speak at the Republican Nomination--cause the boos, they would be thick.
Mender| 4.15.12 @ 6:59PM
Not if he really supports Romney's campaign. Romney's desperately trying to shut up about that around everyone except wealthy socially liberal donors back home in Boston.
C Bowen | 4.15.12 @ 7:25PM
I don't doubt Cheney supports Romney--that is my concern. Cheney is a very liberal Republican--a a zealot for 'gay' rights and feminism, let alone UN Wars, Big Government, and Big Debt--and at the tactical level, Romney should distance himself from that 'thing.'
Wait, what???| 4.15.12 @ 7:17PM
Paul is continuing to amass delegates even in states where he lagged in the popular vote.
That makes NO sense whatsoever. What does he have, like THREE delegates total??
C Bowen | 4.15.12 @ 7:23PM
Paul won Missouri, and tied, perhaps won, in Colorado as far as the delegate count goes...how close are you following?
Santorum's folks at the State Level are not falling in line with the support Romney crowd.
spike59| 4.17.12 @ 7:28AM
keep spitting in the wind...the Tinfoil Hat Tinhorn is Texas Toast
Clint| 4.16.12 @ 7:47AM
Do Your Homework, Waiter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?f.....U2AvSwzuok
spike59| 4.17.12 @ 7:30AM
his support is a mile deep...and an inch wide
C Bowen | 4.15.12 @ 7:45PM
Mr. Antle;
This tactical battle over 'economic women' is a loser. Who is advising Romney to take this tact? Women make up so many soft, government supported jobs, it doesn't make any sense--even Geithner pointed this out.
How could you miss that?
Government employed women are no more going to support Romney then Sharpton's mobs are going to vote Romney/Rubio/West, because Rubio/West are pro-Eric Holder/Sharpton v. Zimmerman.
W. James Antle II | 4.15.12 @ 9:17PM
"How could you miss that?"
I haven't missed it. I've never endorsed Romney's tactic. But the flap is the first direct battle between the Romney and Obama camps of the general election campaign.
Drek| 4.15.12 @ 8:37PM
Before NR begins the journey back to conservatism and sanity, it must first purge Lowry.
Check out NR today, wherein they take issue with some Republicans pointing out the weirdness and incongruity of a lesbo carpet muncher taking on Ann Romney about what it is to be a woman and a mother.
NOW they're subscribing to political correctness on the whole homosexual narrative!
And this from supposedly a conservative publication!
I couldn't believe it, that they went out of their way to take issue with conservative attacks on the lesbos, and that they went out of their way to distinguish themselves from conservatives who they obviously deem yahoos.
gafas de sol prada | 4.16.12 @ 5:20AM
great!
Marco2| 4.16.12 @ 8:49AM
I wonder if a way will be found for Republican Party grownups to quarantine the Santorum and Paul fanatics at the Tampa convention? Allowing several hundred weirdos mill about the floor wearing tinfoil hats and grand inquisitor costumes would make for really bad optics.
Dai Alanye | 4.16.12 @ 2:01PM
Let us by all means seek to prevent free Americans from expressing their political convictions. Issue a loyalty oath on behalf of Mitt, and allow no Republican to so much as travel to Tampa unless he/she signs it and offers a performance bond.
BTW, these "Republican Party grownups" Marco II mentions include many who went for Obama in the previous election. Coincidence? You tell me.
Clint| 4.16.12 @ 5:30PM
Why Don't Ya Try It Fascist Greaseball And See What Happens To You.
spike59| 4.17.12 @ 7:30AM
don't worry about the Rontards...they'll be wandering around the parking lot behind the Tinfoil Hat Tinhorn as he looks for loose change