Anyone who spends their time writing, talking or even thinking about political campaigns likes to have a narrative that’s going somewhere. We want Harry Truman whistlestopping across the nation to pull out the slimmest of victories, or Ronald Reagan quipping “there you go again” and sending Jimmy Carter packing. In that spirit, I’d like to lodge a complaint. If the current [...]
Despite the common misconception, lemmings don’t actually throw themselves over cliffs. No, that’s an honor reserved for Republican presidential candidates. And I’m not just talking about Mitt “corporations are people”-”I like to be able to fire people”-”$10,000 bet”-”I’m not concerned about the very poor’-”Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs”-”I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners” Romney. Romney’s ability [...]
President Obama delivered his state of the union address this week, but I think he left some things out. His speech had lots of policies and ideas, but hardly any snarky reflections on the current state of political affairs. Yes, there was that one bit about Washington being disconnected from the rest of the country, but that wasn’t so much [...]
If you read an article in the last six months that mentioned Mitt Romney, it probably referred at least once to the inevitability of his nomination. Indeed, if you believed everything — or anything — you read, you’d think that the Republican primaries were just some sort of stimulus package for the political opinion industry, designed to keep pundits and [...]
Today, we’re going to play a game I’m calling “Who’s That Candidate?” You might think the game is about Rick Santorum, because every time his name is mentioned that’s what people say. But actually, it’s a game where I describe a politician’s political positions and you guess who he is. Ready? Then let’s play WHO’S THAT CANDIDATE! (Imagine a studio [...]
Tonight, CNBC is hosting, along with the Michigan Republican Primary, a Republican presidential debate focused on the economy. The debate is hosted by Maria Bartiromo and John Harwood at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. The participants include the now-established GOP candidates: Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman. A series [...]
I decided to do something a little different for this blog post, and share a pretty telling Mitt Romney gaffe during the last GOP debate. When Rick Perry cornered him about hiring illegal immigrants, Mitt Romney explained that he hired a landscaping company that happened to employ illegals. When he found out about this, he went to the landscaping company [...]
Let’s play a game I call six degrees of Mitt Romney’s lawn. I say a person’s name, and you guess how many steps it takes to link him or her to the front yard of the frontrunner. We’ll start with an easy one: columnist Gail Collins. Collins writes about Romney’s dog (and his trip on a car roof) a lot, [...]
CNN is live broadcasting the Republican Presidential Debate from Manchester, NH online at http://live.cnn.com and on television. The speakers are Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney. 10:00 p.m. Romney’s closing remarks – what he has learned from the NH debate and the NH people – are that the economy will be [...]
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