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The Spectacle Blog
1. Mitt Romney had a bad week. But if I was running for president, would I rather deal with having committed an alleged gaffe in London or being an incumbent with an economic record that includes weak 1.5 percent growth in the second quarter of an election year? I think the question answers itself.
2. Romney delivered a speech today in Jerusalem in which he stood strongly with Israel and praised the Middle East’s lone true democracy. Most Americans will agree with his defense of Israel against her critics. But Romney also came awfully close to committing the United States under a hypothetical Romney administration to a repeat of Iraq in Iran. It’s less clear he can sell a majority of Americans on that.
3. While New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg decided that the Chick-fil-A spat was a government encroachment too far even for him, the woman who would like to succeed him disagreed. City council speaker Christine Quinn would like to keep the fast food restaurant out of the city that never sleeps because of its president’s views on the love that dare not speak its name.
4. Ross Douthat correctly observes that some would like religion to be the love that dare not speak its name, at least in the public square:
If you want to fine Catholic hospitals for following Catholic teaching, or prevent Jewish parents from circumcising their sons, or ban Chick-fil-A in Boston, then don’t tell religious people that you respect our freedoms. Say what you really think: that the exercise of our religion threatens all that’s good and decent, and that you’re going to use the levers of power to bend us to your will.
Preach it, brother.
5. The runoff in the Texas Senate primary will be held Tuesday, with David Dewhurst vs. Ted Cruz standing out as the latest contest between the Republican establishment and the Tea Party. The polls and the tone of Dewhurst’s campaign seem to favor Cruz.
6. Democrat Tammy Baldwin has taken her first significant lead in the Wisconsin Senate race, though things remain competitive. It doesn’t seem to matter much whether Tommy Thompson, Eric Hovde, or Mark Neumann is the nominee, based on the numbers.
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Cobalt| 7.29.12 @ 7:37PM
The debates cometh.
The first Presidental Debate is October 3rd.
Will the independent voters be influenced by these debates?
mike 3/505| 7.29.12 @ 8:49PM
I am still trying to figure out what gaff Governor Romney allegedly committed. After reports of security issues, traffic congestion, sold out venues with lots of empty seats and best (worst) of all, that horrible opening ceremony, I'd say Governor Romney was spot on. I just pray, he won't have any reason to think, much less say, "I told you so, " regarding the security.
mike 3/505| 7.29.12 @ 8:50PM
Edit Button Please
Reggie Love| 7.29.12 @ 9:48PM
Telling the truth is a gaffe?
As for that senate race,I will bet money that Baldwin will not win. That has been a divisve GOP primary,while she has had no opposition. Baldwin is a open lesbian,I bet not many voters outside of her leftwing Madison district know who she is.
spike59| 7.30.12 @ 5:50AM
i'm not sure what constitutes an 'open' lesbian, but the mental image made me throw up in my mouth a little
Reggie Love| 7.30.12 @ 8:04AM
I meant openly a lesbian. Bad choice of words.
aware| 7.30.12 @ 6:00AM
Is there a deliberate avoiding mentioning Romney held a fundraiser in Israel? Wonder what promises were made? For the first time ever a presidential candidate openly solicits donations from foreigners and hardly a peep out of "conservatives".
Before the neo con protection squad accuses me of antisemitism, I couldn't care less which foreign country he's in. Think about Romney following Obama's "world tour" with one of his own and then adding the fundraiser.
Is it going to be OK to have this? What happens when the fundraisers are held in Saudi Arabia? Russia?
JimH| 7.30.12 @ 7:37AM
Re item 3, It is no longer the ‘love that dare not speak its name’. It is the love that will not shut up for a minute.
Jake| 7.30.12 @ 2:20PM
Romney made the mildest of comments and you would have thought he had groped the Queen.
Who wouldn't be disconcerted at all the stories about security problems ?
He didn't insult the British or London and the overreaction on both sides of the pond was very disconcerting.
It was much ado about nothing and indicates the desperation of the media to find an equivalent soundbite like the devastating
" You didn't build that ".