Mitt Romney’s Early Endorsers

By: pilgrim (Diary)  |  January 16th at 04:47 PM  | 

Cross-posted at Unified Patriots In 1884, members of the Republican party’s independent wing rejected their party’s presidential candidate, James G. Blaine, to support the Democratic party nominee, Grover Cleveland. Republican loyalists called the insurgents “Mugwumps,” an Algonquian word for “great man,” used in this context to deride the bolters’ claim to moral superiority. Most Mugwumps were college-educated business and professional men from New York or | Read More »