Now that Mitt Romney has lost and faded into a life of McDonald's, dad jeans, and Disneyland, his campaign advisers can talk freely about how badly they blew the election. This afternoon, at last, comes the truth about the video that sent their candidate spiraling.
Mitt Romney's campaign manager Stuart Stevens has offered up a counter-history of the 2012 presidential election, the kind you might imagine coming from lefties like Howard Zinn or Oliver Stone — if the purpose weren't to protect the reputation of a former private-equity executive.
Mitt Romney did all the things conservatives wanted him to do, and they're still not happy with him, because he hasn't managed to do those things in a way that would put him ahead of President Obama in the polls.
Mitt Romney's speech at the Republican National Convention didn't exactly knock anybody's socks off, and according to a new Politico exposé there's a good reason for that: it was thrown together at the last minute.
Washington men experience a second puberty when they work for a presidential campaign. No longer are they the sickly nerds with shriveled T-Rex arms. They blossom into icons of masculinity, Ernest Hemingways on the campaign bus.
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