Ehrm, those are his daughters. So many Oedipal/Electra issues here I don’t even know where to begin.
TIME retraces the former Speaker’s steps from apple-cheeked lad to GOP presidential candidate.
Republican sources say Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s crusading attorney general, is “highly likely” to announce a run for governor in 2013, as the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Washington Post report. A bid could set up an interesting contested Republican primary against the state’s lieutenant governor, Bill Bolling, who is expected to run to replace the state’s popular [...]
Stick around long enough in Washington, and everything does happen. The party of Abraham Lincoln eventually rallied against the Civil Rights Act. The individual mandate eventually became a left-wing idea. Democrats eventually argued for a cut in payroll taxes, depriving Social Security of its much needed revenue stream. Today we see another headscratcher: The Republican [...]
Mitt Romney isn’t having a very good week. He gave a testy interview to Fox News. Newt Gingrich is surging–and actually shows signs of uniting the conservative anti-Romney vote. He shows signs of becoming a Potemkin front-runner, whose support was based on name recognition–like Joe Lieberman in 2004 or, to a lesser extent, Hillary Clinton in 2008. So it seems time to ask the big question: Why Don’t They Like Him?
Cain leads a compartmentalized life. He seems to be constructing a rhetorical escape pod. Romney decides to spend money on TV ads in Iowa, running this positive spot statewide:
Ned Hunter, 52, was the sixth person to sign up to volunteer for Herman Cain’s campaign in New Hampshire. “I remember seeing the sheet, all brand new,” he recalled. But in the last month, with all of the accusations of misconduct swirling around Cain – first charges of sexual harassment and then a woman who alleged a 13-year affair with the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO – Hunter has begun to question his support.
