In his blog “The Fix” the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza stated “Romney is a gifted politician and he showed it” but took issue with the fact that Romney only said the word “Mormon” once. “If Romney is embracing rather than diminishing his faith, it seems as though he would mention it a time or two more, no?” Cillizza wrote.
Reaction from some MSNBC television personalities was generally positive as well. Newsbusters’ Mark Finklestein listened for reaction from the news stations and blogged that Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough said Romney “hit this thing out of the park,” political analyst and regular contributor Pat Buchanan said “I don’t know how he could have done any better” and that Hardball host Chris Matthews said, “I heard greatness.”
From the conservative tank, Townhall’s longtime Romney supporter Hugh Hewitt called the speech “simply magnificent,” and the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes said it was “very impressive.”
Amanda Carpenter
Amanda Carpenter is the author of “The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton,” published in October 2006.
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