To this day, when Bill Clinton makes appearances on behalf of his wife’s presidential campaign, he’ll frequently take the stage to the sound of his signature song from the 1992 campaign: “Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.” Increasingly, there’s ample evidence that the song’s chorus is actually the opposite of the message the Clinton campaign is […]
In October, Brave New Films released a devastating six-minute clip about one of Rudy Giuliani’s most serious 9/11 failures: his decision to ignore (and lie about) concerns over the FDNY’s radio equipment, which ultimately cost so many lives on 9/11. (The issue is now under investigation by city officials.) The video explains that Giuliani was […]
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 […]