It’s hard to believe now that the GOP ever allowed such a thing. In 2007, the host of a major climate-change summit was none other than Florida’s then governor — and then Republican — Charlie Crist. “If you go back to …
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In Tampa, a Fractious Party Strives to Present a Unified Front
Tampa
This is the love-in Mitt Romney never had. Mere minutes elapsed between the moment Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus gaveled the GOP convention open and its weather-driven adjournment until Tuesday. …
Why Akin Matters
We now have Representative Steve King (R., Ostrich) saying that he never heard of a girl getting pregnant because of statutory rape or incest. He thus joins Rep. Todd Akin (R., Clueless) among the ranks of blithering idiots …
Always the Bridesmaid: What’s Next for Tim Pawlenty?
Four years ago this month, Tim Pawlenty was walking his little black dog Mazy down an Eagan, Minn., cul-de-sac. John McCain had just called to break the news that he had picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. In his …
Artur Davis, Former Obama Booster, Speaks the GOP’s Language
Artur Davis, a former Democratic congressman from Alabama, appeared on a panel in Washington Thursday to discuss contentious voter ID laws. One might have expected Davis, an African American, to take the classic liberal line: …
Why God Invented C-SPAN: McCain on Huma Abedin
2008 GOP presidential nominee Senator John McCain took to the Senate floor Wednesday to lambast five of his House colleagues and defend Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin. The House members have questioned if Abedin, who comes from a Muslim family and is married to former Rep. Anthony Weiner, has inappropriate ties …
The Case For (And Against) Bobby Jindal as VP
Operation Nevada: Can GOP Factions Make Peace in a Battleground State?
Like no other American city, Las Vegas loves to flout rules. Even so, it may have been something of shock for local Republicans to come upon a billboard this month that implicitly denigrated GOP nominee Mitt Romney while …
Romney vs. the GOP’s Cultural Warfare Wing
Fox News is slightly less predictable than its reputation–there’s Shep Smith, and Bill O’Reilly can surprise–but nothing on television resembles authoritarian state-run media quite like Hannity. Nothing about Sean Hannity’s …
Republicans Against Markets
There was a time, about thirty years ago, when I worked as a freelance writer. The work was plentiful, but the peripherals were lousy–especially when it came to health insurance. I had to buy it on my own and it was expensive. That’s one of the reasons I was so enthused when Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation developed his …
Why Marco Rubio’s Vice-Presidential Stock Is Overvalued
Now that Mitt Romney has, in an important psychological sense, clinched the Republican nomination, the conversation is turning to the question of his running mate. And everyone seems to agree that Florida Senator Marco Rubio is a …
Illinois Primary Reveals a Weakened Tea Party
Mitt Romney vs. Rick Santorum was the heavyweight bout in Illinois on Tuesday night, but one of the undercards was much more interesting. Democratic redistricting forced Republicans into their first intra-party primary skirmish of 2012, a bout that laid bare divisions between the GOP’s past and future.
What Santorum Means By the Odds of an Open Convention ‘Increasing’
That’s the line he used Monday morning in an interview with CBS News. Here’s what he can’t say, but really means:
The already slim chances of Santorum securing the 1,144 delegates required to clinch the nomination are rapidly decreasing. Mitt Romney routed him in Puerto Rico over the weekend and two polls out Monday show him trailing …