Mitt Romney Seeking GOP Kingmaker Role
A potential candidate no more, Mitt Romney is charting an aggressive course to help shape the Republican presidential field in 2016.

A potential candidate no more, Mitt Romney is charting an aggressive course to help shape the Republican presidential field in 2016.

The Steve Scalise controversy had a fairly simple resolution. When the accusation had emerged that he had spoken in 2002 to a white supremacist group associated with former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, he ought to have stepped aside temporarily and asked the House Republican leadership to conduct a full investigation. That would have confirmed that Republicans would not permit anyone to lead the party who kept such associations, and without punishing Scalise before the facts were known.
