Some thoughts on the Des Moines Register and Boston Globe endorsements: 1. The Globe’s endorsement of Obama is a more persuasive piece of writing, and argument, than the Register’s endorsement of Clinton. For me, the best case for Clinton, which the Register chooses not to make, has been the quality of the positions she’s taken [...]
At least Seamus lived. Also, there’s some controversy about what happened to the dog in Arkansas, where as the only controversy with Seamus has to do with whether or not the dog “enjoyed” the trip.
Apparently, the people of NH and Iowa have “responded well” and given a “great response” to Edwards since his debate performance Sunday. Seriously, anyone who picked “respond/response” for their conference call drinking game word (really, the only way to get through them) is totally lit by now. A favorite moment came when Joe Trippi was [...]
Mike Huckabee, famously, has near-zilch foreign policy experience, but his gut reactions in a forthcoming piece in Foreign Affairs are refreshingly independent of the lockstep militarism deployed by the other Republicans running for President. This may be a consequence of conversations Huckabee’s been having recently with Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign [...]
Is this guy really trying? Okay, so Delaware is not exactly the sweepstakes state, but honestly: UPDATE: Jason Bonham at Race42008.com is reporting that the DOE said Thompson only had 281 out of 500 signatures, and that most of their signatures were rejected because they were not registered Republicans.
From our White House photo blog, a photo by Brooks Kraft of the candidate taking a photo of Chuck Norris: (Because, you know, we just haven’t been posting enough about Mike Huckabee here today.)
More than you really wanted to know.
So Mike Huckabee has brought on Ed Rollins to be his national campaign chairman. There are two things to note about this development. First, in Rollins Huckabee gets a heavyweight political operative who knows how to run and win a national political campaign. Rollins was political director to Ronald Reagan in Reagan’s first term and [...]
