Hugh's opening statement of analysis on Mitt's SPEECH!
Mitt Romney's "Faith in America" speech was simply magnificent, and anyone who denies it is not to be trusted as an analyst.
Hugh - that's simply ridiculous! ALL of the pundits above said something in a major or minor way that was negative/critical of the speech. It wasn't Mitt at his best. But it wasn't a big negative either.
Whereas his speech at Values Voters was brilliant both in tone and depth. In fact Mitt got greater response at Values Voters than Huckabee - who was in fact THE evangelical at THE evangelical event!
And as I pointed out in my very MILD critique of what I believed to be the weak spot in the speech you hard core partisans had better stop the "you can't be trusted if you disagree with me" or "you should vote only based on this criteria" or "you're a big fat poopie-head" stuff.
For the record - I have NOT endorsed a candidate - and am STILL not sure I've even decided upon one.
I don't take it well when I'm told that I'm a less trustworthy observer of events than someone else - merely because I didn't see it through the same glasses as someone who is at best - a tad bit beholden to the candidate in question...