Seven Republican presidential hopefuls will take the stage Monday night at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. With the possible exception of Mitt Romney, none of them have as much riding on the Granite State as Jon Huntsman. And yet the former Utah governor will be watching the debate on television, capping a day [...]
If Mitt Romney has his way, Monday night’s Republican primary debate in New Hampshire will be all about Barack Obama. If Mitt Romney’s Republican rivals have their way, Monday night’s debate will be all about Mitt Romney. Herein lies the danger, and the opportunity, for Mitt Romney, who has emerged as expected as the early [...]
Governor Rick Perry’s office called in response to my post on his jobs record last week. His spokesperson, Catherine Frazier, wanted to defend Perry’s business-luring tax credit funds, and I’ll get to that below. But first, some more context on the subject of Texas and job creation, which will be central to the 2012 campaign [...]
Steve Bannon announced Friday morning that his $1 million, two-hour cinematic opus on Sarah Palin’s political career will be distributed by AMC Theaters, the second largest theater chain in the U.S. with 5,325 screens. The Palin film will not be hitting all those screens, though, just those in 10 U.S. locales: Dallas, Denver, Oklahoma City, [...]
Republicans are always standing with things. They “stand with Israel.” The “stand with” each other. They “stand with” themselves. Sarah Palin even once said America should “stand with our North Korean allies.” Suffice it to say, they got this standing thing down. If you like Ronald Reagan, lower taxes and Pat Boone, chances are you [...]
As I report in this week’s magazine, several current and former advisers to President Obama would like Congress to pass more short-term stimulus, but no one inside is quite saying that publicly just yet. “I don’t have any new policy announcements to make,” White House Spokesman Jay Carney said on Thursday, when asked about one [...]
Updated, 8:45 PM Newt Gingrich vowed to continue his presidential bid on Thursday afternoon after a slew of campaign staffers staged a mass exodus that raised questions about the future of the campaign. “I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring,” Gingrich wrote in a statement [...]
You may have seen that Bill Kristol said yesterday that two reliable sources have told him Rudy Giuliani “intends to throw his hat in the ring” for President. It’s a little hard to take the idea seriously, given what an epic fiasco Giuliani’s 2008 campaign turned out to be. (Rudy started out with sky-high name [...]
I hate to keep picking on Mitt Romney, but…oh, who am I kidding. I love to pick on Mitt Romney! He’s an Onion headline in a suit! He’s John Kerry with an R after his name! Today’s new hilarity comes from an unnamed adviser in this Washington Post story about Republicans trashing Romney’s inconveniently sane [...]
Ed Rollins, a veteran strategist newly attached to Rep. Michele Bachmann, has a deceptively simple LinkedIn profile. Only two jobs are publicly listed: his current position as a fellow for CNN and Hofstra University and a stint as “Assistant to the President” from 1981 to 1987. Unmentioned are the slew of campaigns he’s worked on [...]
