Way back in May, in one of the more memorable debate moments of the year, John McCain was asked a straightforward question: “Do you believe in evolution?” It’s the 21st century and McCain is an educated man, so it should have been an easy one, but he’s a Republican, and he needs to appeal to […]
At this point, far too much ink — digital and analog — has been spilled covering Mitt Romney’s bizarre exaggeration about his father marching with Martin Luther King, but let’s just add one closing note. To briefly recap, Romney, hoping to defend his civil rights and record and his church’s racist past, has repeatedly claimed […]
One of the striking things about the large field of Republican presidential candidates is just how diverse it is. No, not in the traditional sense of diversity — they’re all wealthy, middle-aged, Christian white guys — but in the sense there’s a candidate for the various factions of the party. Some have decades of experience […]
A few weeks ago, word surfaced that Karl Rove was shopping for a book publisher, and was poised to make a cool $3 million. He is, after all, Karl Rove. He’s The Architect. As the greatest political mind of the decade, his book is bound to be awesome. Or so the theory went. In reality, […]
As soon as we learned about the CIA hiding and destroying its torture tapes, the list of people who’d been misled about the videos’ existence was surprising long, and included a federal court, members of Congress, and the 9/11 Commission, which has been tasked with expansive investigate authority, including subpoena power. Almost immediately, it was […]
For the better part of the year, John McCain’s campaign was in free-fall, so much so that the rest of the Republican field felt entirely comfortable ignoring him altogether. His money was gone, his staff had quit, and his poll numbers had sunk to near second-tier status. There just wasn’t much point in challenging a […]
Conservative opposition to Mike Huckabee’s campaign has been solidifying in recent weeks, to the point of near movement-wide panic. He’s come under fire from leading conservative magazines (National Review, Weekly Standard), leading conservative pundits (Noonan, Krauthammer, Lowry), and leading conservative bloggers (Reynolds, Malkin, et al). But in nearly all of those instances, Huckabee supporters could […]
ABC News ran an item the other day that seems to have caused quite a stir in some circles. ABC’s Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama has often said he’d consider putting Republicans in his cabinet and even bandied about names like Sens. Dick Lugar and Chuck Hagel. He’s added a new name to the list […]
As the campaign unfolds, Mike Huckabee sounds less like a former governor, and more like a religious right activist with reporters following him around. Ron Chusid directed my attention to Huckabee’s latest remarks, delivered to reporters on a campaign bus in Iowa, which delved into his church-state thoughts in more detail. [W]hen he was pressed […]
This week, Rudy Giuliani traveled to Missouri to pick up the endorsement of the state’s governor, but was admitted to a St. Louis hospital after experiencing what his campaign described as “flu-like symptoms.” He was released the next day, waved to cameras, and went home. It was unfortunate timing for the former mayor — it’s […]