HANDICAPPING THE REPUBLICANS WHO DID NOT LISTEN TO DOLE

THE REPUBLICANS 

TURN THEIR BACKS ON DOLE  

Senator ROBERT J. DOLE (R-Kansas) 

Photographed for Business Week 

Published in the July 19, 1982 issue (p. 52) 

Former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 Republican Presidential Nominee Bob Dole, disabled serving his country in World War II, came to the Senate floor today, in a wheelchair, to lend his support to the American ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.  Only eight of the U.S. Senators of the Grand Old Party voted to ratify the treaty.  Thirty-eight Republicans having voted against, the two-thirds majority needed for ratification was not reached. 

MITT ROMNEY: RICHARD VIGUERIE IS NOT BEST PLEASED

RICHARD VIGUERIE TOOK NOTE THAT

MITT ROMNEY SPOKE TO THE

CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL ACTION

CONFERENCE (CPAC) YESTERDAY

RICHARD A. VIGUERIE

The Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com points out that he has been in "conservative politics at the national level" for fifty years. Here he is (above) in his role as conservative fundraiser, photographed for the October 30, 1978, issue of BUSINESS WEEK (p. 158).

Chairman Viguerie wishes to inform the Governor that "Mitt, you may have the words of conservatism right, but you just don't have the tune." The offending remark? Romney's description of himself, in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), as "severely conservative"; in full, that he was "a severely conservative governor of Massachusetts." It was reported that there was "much head-shaking in the hotel ballroom...." (The "severely" is not to be found in the official transcript.) The headline response: "Richard Viguerie Says Mitt Romney is A Severe Conservative Impersonator."

Today Mitt Romney won the CPAC presidential straw poll, 38% to 31% for Rick Santorum, 15% for Newt Gingrich, and 12% for Ron Paul.

WHO IS THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM? THE REPUBLICAN FRONT-RUNNER, MITT ROMNEY

BEING TAKEN

FOR A RIDE

MIRAFLORES, LIMA, PERU

Frank Rich has an article in NEW YORK Magazine (January 29, 2012) which asks, "Who in God's Name is Mitt Romney?" It is not clear that Rich has discovered, or at least, defined in any detail, the essential secret of this particular would-be leader of the G.O.P., but he tries.

Meanwhile, Romney, flush from his victory in Florida, seemed to shape-shift into the proverbial bull-in-the-china-shop, with his comment about not being concerned about the very poor. He tried to rescue himself by saying that he was not concerned about the very rich either....

No? Check out the analyses of the beneficiaries of his proposed tax policies.

But then Romney, as far as can be determined, has only $250 million. Perhaps someone who has only a quarter-billion dollars does not feel himself very rich; there are, after, all, those "worth" tens of billions of dollars.

MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL: WHICH REPUBLICAN IS MOST CONSERVATIVE OF ALL?

PROMISES,

PROMISES

DUELING TVs #8

ABC Report on the GOP &

Religious Conservatives +

PBS on Andy Warhol

ON THE EVE OF THE FIRST

REPUBLICAN PRIMARY OF 2012

WHO IS THE MOST CONSERVATIVE OF ALL?

AND DO THE REST OF US WANT TO HEAR IT?

OR HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT?