“Could Nobel Prize Spur Gore To Run In ’08?” No. This has been simple answers etc. (Long version.) I’m worried that pundits asking “will Gore run?” although there’s absolutely not the slightest shred of evidence that he’s considering it is going to be the new “will there be a brokered convention this year?”
Category: 2008 primaries
Last night was the first ever presidential debate focused on LGBTQ issues. Dems and Republicans were both invited. Unsurprisingly, none of the Republican candidates attended. Bill Richardson didn̵
I try to remain focused on substance here, but I am also puzzled about why someone running for President would analogize themselves to an (albeit fictional) mob family. And, of course, Cox is correct
I was busy Monday and forgot to mention Krugman’s great column. Bob Somerby summarizes for the non Select: “Authenticity” became the press corps’ favorite buzz-word in 1999, along with its silly handmaiden, “comfortable in his own skin.” And let’s state the obvious: When the press corps adopted such subjective markers as key standards of measure, […]
I don’t really agree with the take of Garance and Ezra on Maureen Dowd’s abjectly horrible column yesterday. The error they’re making, I think, it to assume that these charges have s
Exhibit Z. Well, at least we can be reassured that his assertions of unlimited executive power won’t extent to providing health care for poor working people, who frankly deserve to die if they &
Yglesias finds Rudy Giuliani asserting an “inherent authority” to fund troops without Congressional appropriations. Evidently, it would be difficult to find a claim made by a mainstream candidate more transparently at odds with the text and structure of the Constitution. (Even John Yoo concedes that Congress can check the President’s wartime powers by cutting off […]
Fred Thompson scares me in the general more than Matt if he could secure the nomination. (I think Giuliani is a poor general election candidate — he largely takes social issues of the table, whi
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What Garance said. Beck’s attack on Clinton is no less objectionable than Coulter’s attack on Edwards. …see also Echidne.
Matt is right about this. Now, it must be said that when it comes to a candidate’s personal “family values” I’m strictly of the “Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good
Ed Morrissey and Kevin Hayden are right–this is a bullshit smear piece on Romney. Indeed, it seems to me straightforward religious bigotry. I mean, seriously, he had a relative with 5 wives duri