Class War 101
Yesterday the stock market edged up again, with the Dow Jones Index cruising once more toward record highs. This ought to be good news for Republicans entering the presidential season. But is it...
View ArticleThe Politics of Personality
At first, it seems hard to disagree with Peggy Noonan’s op-ed in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal, which argues that in politics, ideas should outweigh loyalty to particular politicians. “It is better...
View ArticleIOWA: HillaryCare Will Save…Hillary?
How ironic it is that, in the wake of her defeat, Hillary Clinton will retreat to the issues of health care and the need for “universal coverage” as the core message of her comeback strategy in New...
View ArticleHillary: Not Dead Yet
While I share Pete Wehner’s enthusiasm for the possible demise of the Clinton era, I think dancing on Hillary Clinton’s political grave is premature. Yes, the latest USA Today survey has Obama up by a...
View ArticleJohn McCain’s Appointment in South Carolina
Sometimes, the Republican party picks a nominee when it’s that nominee’s turn. The person has to be vetted out by a round or two in the presidential race. Ronald Reagan got the nomination in 1980 after...
View ArticleRomney Plays Dole
The Fox exit polling reveals some additional good news for John McCain. He tied Romney with 33 percent among those who called themselves Republicans. (There’s a little confusion over this, because the...
View ArticleThe Voters Will Eventually Have The Last Word
As we wrapped up the day before Super Tuesday, it was an anti-McCain-fest from the Romney camp and his supporters. Talk radio and bloggers kept up the drum beat against McCain, bashing everyone from...
View ArticleAt Least We Know Their Priorities
Some saner heads ask of the McCain villifiers: “Don’t they care about the greatest issue of our time anymore?” It’s one thing to try to mount an argument that Mitt Romney would be as strong a commander...
View ArticleRomney’s Dilemma
Mitt Romney’s campaign would love nothing better than for the Republican base to follow the direction of many of the talk show hosts and conservative opinion makers who despise McCain. But not really....
View ArticleMcCain’s Dilemma
Others have noted that John McCain faces a challenge staying in the news: he’s fencing with no same-party opponent. This is especially acute for a candidate, like McCain, who does best as a...
View ArticleThe Deceptive Security Of Early Polls
Internal GOP polling shows John McCain leading both of his potential rivals and enjoying a healthy advantage among independents. However–and this is a big however–GOP consultants do not expect this...
View ArticleKlein’s Mad Again
Joe Klein is upset yet again–this time at Senator Joseph Lieberman. The source of his consternation is an interview Lieberman gave to Wolf Blitzer on CNN. When asked about a Hamas spokesman’s...
View ArticleThe Scandal Lobby
It’s nice to have friends in high places. It’s not so nice to see those friends unfairly pilloried by journalists intent on collecting another scalp. First it was Obama adviser Samantha Power, who was...
View ArticleRe: Clinton, McCain, and Obama: “We Stand United”
As Gordon has noted, today’s joint statement on Darfur, by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain, places pressure on the next president to address the ongoing slaughter in Darfur come January....
View ArticleBizarro World
Geraldine Ferraro sounds like Ward Connerly: As for Reagan Democrats, how Clinton was treated is not their issue. They are more concerned with how they have been treated. Since March, when I was...
View ArticleWhining About Whining
As the President and Vice President whine about the whining of their shrinking “base,” as being insufficiently appreciative of the superhuman efforts to confront our problems, they might remember the...
View ArticleThe Biden-Hillary Switch: Don’t Scoff
Bob Woodward made news this week by asserting there is talk inside the Obama administration about saying goodbye to Joe Biden in 2012 and nominating Hillary Clinton in his stead as vice president for...
View ArticleGOP Already Tried the Bob Dole Paradigm
Democrats are chortling about the latest round of grousing about the current Republican Party from those associated with its past. Bob Dole’s interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News this past weekend...
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