"He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to... run."

Tagg Romney tells on his dad, Mitt. "If he could have found someone else to take his place...  he would have been ecstatic to step asid...

Ridiculous WaPo headline + photo combination.

"A detached Romney tends wounds in seclusion after failed White House bid" ? He doesn't look detached or wounded and he's ...

Email from John Kerry: "I have one message burned into my memory..."

What?! I can't believe Kerry would evoke his old "memory which is seared — seared — in me" line. If you don't have that se...

Is the caricature of Romney as "hollow, cynical and inauthentic" attributable to downplaying Mormonism?

Ross Douthat seems to think so. ... Romney clearly does have deep convictions: the evidence is in his intense commitment to his church, as a...

Obama adopts Newt Gingrich as a surrogate crybaby.

Strange! This is an official Obama ad . Watch for Gingrich at the end. It's also weird in that it shows Romney making his harshest attac...

"Black Mormons and the Politics of Identity."

Another NYT article about Mormons and the presidential election. The conversion of blacks in this country has been a challenge, given the ch...

"Mitt and Ann Romney’s marriage is strong because they believe they will live together in an eternal afterlife..."

Writes Jodi Kantor in the NYT, citing "relatives and friends" as the source of information. It's a whole long article about M...

The Democrats' "jewbag" problem.

Have you noticed this controversy? It's the kind of thing that makes you want to say that if Republicans made a misstep like this we wo...

"Romney, like all Mormon politicians, usually tries to walk a thin line."

Gordon Smith analyzes Mitt Romney's presidential aspirations.