• Worse than Fiction

    Worse than Fiction

    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 [...]

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  • Ladies’ Night

    Ladies’ Night

    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 [...]

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  • Newtron Bomb

    Newtron Bomb

    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 [...]

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  • Live Blogging the Nov. 9 Republican Presidential Debate

    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 [...]

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  • A #Twist on Debating: Recapping the GOP Twitter Debate

    A #Twist on Debating: Recapping the GOP Twitter Debate

    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 [...]

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  • Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Alive and Well?

    Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Alive and Well?

    With regard to the U.S. military, 2011 will always be remembered as the year that our Navy SEALs finally took out Osama bin Laden.  President Obama rightfully told us the night bin Laden was killed, “Justice has been done”.  But what else will 2011 be remembered for in terms of our military’s legacy?   It certainly has the potential to be remembered as the year that the [...]

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  • Live Blogging the Republican Presidential Debate

    Live Blogging the Republican Presidential Debate

    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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