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 [...]
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 [...]
It’s (almost) Halloween, when the dead walk the earth. In keeping with the season, Newt Gingrich‘s political career — which just about everybody thought was dead — has returned to haunt us, or at least annoy us. The New York Times reported Monday that the Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House would like to dissolve the Ninth [...]
On Wednesday, as debt deal talks continued to consume most politicians inside the beltway, the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls stepped away from politics as usual toward the politics of the future — a Twitter debate. With all of the quoting (read: retweeting), finger-pointing (read: @mentioning) and following (read: following) inherent in any political debate, the Republican contenders and their followers [...]
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 [...]
“I _____ pledge to the taxpayers of the __________ district, of the state of __________, and to all the people of this state, that I will oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes.” It’s the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, and it’s been a rite of passage for Republicans for over 25 years. It’s also the hallmark of [...]
PPR: You’ve laid out a timeline for when you are going to make a decision on a presidential bid in the next few weeks. Do you have any updates on that? Newt Gingrich: Yes, I’m going to make a decision in the next couple weeks. Probably at the beginning of March. PPR: In light of the recent uprisings in the [...]
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