A Comment About

Do Endorsements Work? Mitt Romney and National Review

December 18, 2007 - 1:00 am - by Richard Miniter
Dean Esmay
2007-12-18 09:12:26

First: “One of those aides was Bill Baroody, a senior staffer on the Goldwater campaign who was a wanted to be the resident conservative intellectual”

What on Earth does that sentence say?

Second: I used to subscribe to National Review, and I recall them making Presidential endorsements fairly regularly. If I’m not mistaken, during the ’70s they were solidly in Ronald Reagan’s corner.

Not to say that Romney = Reagan. Different men, different campaigns, different times. I’m just saying, I’m not quite sure I understand the assertion that the magazine hasn’t endorsed candidates in the past.