Like Paul, I think Bachmann is not being taken seriously enough, and I particularly reject this kind of analysis, which you'll presumably hear a lot if you listen to Sunday talk shows: The Republican nominee is somebody who did ok in the primaries last time,...
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If we can infer from their preferred prospective GOP candidate, their worldview is a logical extension of the Sermon on the Mount: savage attacks on education and services for poor.
In the kind of article that makes you wonder if the journalist in question is in on the joke or not, Newt Gingrich has finally uncovered some of the vacation-generated.
Great column from Coates. After bringing much-needed national attention to Rick Perry's role in the murder of Cameron Tood Willingham, the punchline says it all: Whatever one thinks of the death penalty, the accounts of those who would seek to conceal the results of their...
Apparently actual Republicans haven't gotten his memo about what they believe. It's all too appropriate that media members seemed to outnumber actual supporters at his announcement...
It's nice to have constants you can count on in this ever-changing world, and Matt Bai's political analysis being wrong is hence reassuring. Seriously, Huntsman? Care to make it interesting?
It's rather disgusting but not really surprising that Newt's former staffers are lashing out at his wife -- the reflexive misogyny is to be expected, and I guess you have to tell yourself some kind of story about why you believed what any idiot could...
Reading Silver, I have two questions: Is there any reason to think Perry is more electable than Bachmann? Is there and reason to think Perry is less radical or more.
So it seems likely that Rick Perry will run for president. To distract myself, I've been reading Bill James' new book Popular Crime. The chapter on Lizzie Borden, in an.
...but if you signed up for Newt's presidential campaign unwatchable movie/unreadable book promotion tour, you were the sucker.
Right. His wife. His political instincts are absolutely surefire otherwise. ...I mean, he has Zell Miller on board! If it wasn't for that meddling Calista Newt could be rehearsing his.
I think using that word erroneously implies that his campaign was ever a going concern. The all-powerful literarti win again! I hope Grand Imperial Poobah Berube will let me keep.