At a briefing Monday, Mr. Christie, a Republican, said Mr. Springsteen, a staunch liberal, had embraced him after performing at a benefit concert for hurricane victims on Friday.
Before he added Paul Ryan as his running mate, Romney had a problem; Staunch Conservatives did not embrace him.
About five years ago I wrote a column that said that although most of my close friends are staunch liberals, I myself could never embrace liberalism because it refuses to hate evil.
Far from returning to being the "maverick" in the Senate who annoyed his fellow Republicans, Mr. McCain has embraced his role as staunch partisan.
But Garcetti, a staunch liberal when on the council, embraced the layoffs and benefit cuts as proof that he would show fiscal restraint as mayor.
Thomas Henry Huxley, who became his staunchest defender, initially was reluctant to wholeheartedly embrace how species were formed, but Darwin's experiments with pigeons were decisive in convincing Huxley (as well as Lyell), and both became firm supporters of the mutability of species.
Schmitt is a staunch defender of sovereignty, but he does not embrace a flat rejection of international legality.
While I am a staunch supporter of technology and our eagerness to embrace the digital era, it cannot be denied that every advancement in how we communicate creates a physical distance between us.
Yet he became a unifying figure for social conservatives because of his staunch anti-Communist credentials, and because he came to embrace their positions opposing abortion rights as well as tax cuts.
But in the end, it was his stands, like his staunch support of the war in Iraq and his embrace of bipartisanship, that may help explain how Mr. Lieberman went from being the most nationally prominent Democrat in the field to being just a step ahead of an asterisk in the race.
