Romney had a fantastic interview with George on “This Week”. Here are some key excerpts. Here Romney fields some tough questions in a lightning fashoin and shows why he knows his stuff. Referring to numerous books including Lawrence Wright’s book “The Looming Tower”.

Quick click on Romney discussing North Korea. George is throwing a lot of stuff at Mitt with tricky angles. He fields then very well:

Consistent and vehement.

Keith Steurer is amongst the intial “Iowans for Romney” and was also on Romney’s “List of 50″ charter members of his Commonwealth PAC’s “Iowa Advisory Board”. Many of us met Senator Chuck Grassley in Des Moines at the Iowa State GOP convention last June. He’s an impressive man and a pillar of conservative strength in the US Senate.

Well, as a follow-up to that, Sen Grassley sent Keith the following note:

Disclaimer: This personal note is published at the request of Keith Steurer and after approval from Sen Grassley’s office (though it is clearly not an endorsement of Romney, it is certainly not a reprimand either . . . like Grassley just hurled at McCain yesterday)

Consistent and vehement.

Quick click on Romney discussing North Korea. George is throwing a lot of stuff at Mitt with tricky angles. He fields then very well:

Romney had a fantastic interview with George on “This Week”. Here are some key excerpts. Here Romney fields some tough questions in a lightning fashoin and shows why he knows his stuff. Referring to numerous books including Lawrence Wright’s book “The Looming Tower”.

OK, so a lot of Congressmen and women have already endorsed Mitt Romney’s Presidential bid. The lists are long in fact.

However, today Mitt Romney’s website sent out a press release detailing the endorsement of just one state representative in Iowa, Doug Struyk.

Normally, this would not be “press release” type material. However, not only is Iowa an important state, Council Bluffs is a major population center of Western Iowa ( where most social conservatives in the state reside). This is a big endorsement and bodes well for Romney among social conservatives here in Iowa.

And in further Iowa/Romney news:

Coverage of Romney’s Iowa Announcment from the Krusty Konservative is available here and Caucus Cooler’s coverage is here.

Another report from Iowa State Student Leslie Pralle at “Romney Report” is here. And more coverage from the Souix City Journal and the Des Moines Register
(OK, that’s probably overkill)
Also, you can support Mitt in online polls if you feel so inclined. A list of those are here.

Romney will be the keynote speaker at a major five county GOP event on Feb 19th (President’s Day–how fitting!) in the Souix City area ( this blogger chimes in with why this event is such a big deal ).

Jeff Fuller

This is by no means scientific but from the research I’ve done and the details I’ve gathered it appears that Romney has a serious edge in public endorsements (for what its worth). Yes its early in the campaign… but that’s the point.

The tally: Romney 171; McCain 93; Rudy 16. These numbers were taken from official press releases and other public endorsements. We’ll have a detailed list available on Tuesday.

we produced this chart

There’s been a good deal of controversy around Mitt’s appearance on This Week this weekend and his explanation for voting for Tsongas in 1992. This is really a pithy issue.

Let’s detail a few things here. (Many thanks for our man at MittBase for his detailed research on the issue)

First, there is nothing contradictory here. We have a report from two Boston Globe employees as to why Romney voted for someone 15 years ago. There is no direct quote.

Second, I bet if you asked Scott Lehigh, Frank Phillips, or Mitt Romney that those weren’t the only reasons why Romney voted for Tsongas (the fact that Tsongas was from Massachusetts, and that he was better than Bill Clinton). Do you vote for someone because of only two issues? You might only give two issues, when you have limited time, but no one votes for a candidate because of only two issues.

Third, why don’t we take Romney at his word. He voted for Paul Tsongas because he liked him better than Clinton, and that he didn’t think that he would win the general election against Bush? Are these somehow mutually exclusive.

Fourth, the democrats and MSM is going to take everything Romney ever said 10 years ago, tell us it, and then say “however today he says…” blank. They are going to use this tactic weather it contradicted the previous statement or not. They will use this tactic every time Mitt Romney does not repeat his previous statement verbatim.

Lastly, there was NO GOP PRIMARY in 1992. There was only one place to vote. As one political guru told me “he does it all the time”.

One more thing. This also means Romney voted against Clinton twice!

Today in the US House a resolution was passed undercutting our military’s heroic efforts in Iraq. Tomorrow in the Senate the same resolution will be debated, though not by John McCain.

I was disappointed to see that my Congressman, Republican Phil English(PA-3) , voted for this resolution. (More on my thoughts on him here)

I find it sad that English and the other supporters of this awful resolution, including 16 additional Republicans and all but 2 Democrats, failed to see the historical significance of their votes today.

Chief Deputy Whip Rep. Eric Cantor(R-VA) posted a video detailing this historical debate and its place in history.
In case it goes off his website you can see it here on Redstate

The lessons of History must not be forgotten!
-Eric Cantor on the Floor of the House

Observe the Lessons of History:

• “The Summer Soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country…”
  ~Thomas Paine
• Remember that in these grave days in the affairs of the world we need internal unity, national unity, for the sake of the nation. That is good advice and it never grows old. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Alexander Hamilton said that A nation that prefers disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Now let’s set the record straight: there’s no argument over the choice between war and peace but there’s only one guaranteed way you can have peace and you can have it this second: surrender.
  ~Ronald Reagan

Let’s hope the Senate realizes this tomorrow.