Feb 3, 2012
If the goal of the primary process is simply to nominate a candidate, essentially to nominate the man or woman most likely to win in the end, then this primary season should be declared over.
Clear the stage, and give it to Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich's promise to go the...
Feb 1, 2012
10. It would be very boring. People would stop paying attention to presidential politics. Campaigns are unique learning experiences, as professor Gingrich certainly knows.
9. He doesn't need his own plane. When you're running to make a difference, running to energize...
Jan 27, 2012
Clintonesque. That's what all the talking heads were saying about the president's State of the Union. And they didn't mean long.
Clintonesque means Barack Obama projected confidence and optimism.
It means he connected with his audience, that he looked and sounded BIG. Not...
Jan 25, 2012
Ask any honest Democrat, and they'll tell you what I'm about to tell you: We're rooting for Newt.
The death penalty for marijuana?
Replacing janitors with school kids?
Mining the moon for minerals?
Go, Newt.
It's not that the former speaker doesn't have the smarts....
Jan 20, 2012
Dear Democrats:
Me, worry?
Yes.
Every day I'm asked by Democrats whether to worry about Mitt Romney. Many of them, frankly, aren't. They tell me about his being a Mormon (unfair, but true, the prejudice is real) and about the right-wing attacks and the Bain business and...
Jan 18, 2012
There is a famous story (it may be apocryphal, of course) about Richard Nixon and his dog. No, I don't mean the Checkers speech, the one where Nixon saved his integrity by invoking his little dog, Checkers, and his wife's cloth coat. This one came later, after he lost,...
Jan 13, 2012
The people have spoken all 126,185 of them. That's how many votes turned Mitt Romney into the Republican nominee, for all intents and purposes. In a country with more than 300 million people, less than a tenth of a half of a percent have picked one of the two men who...
Jan 11, 2012
No one told me that January is the wrong time to visit Normandy (until afterwards, that is). Most of the places we went to visit were closed.
It was cold and wet and rainy. It took more than three hours each way. But I haven't been to France in 15 years, and who knows...