It’s sort of fun to watch as the right-wing press attempts to handle the phenomenally unprepared and unworthy Herman Cain with kid gloves. Here, for example, is the neoconservative Weekly Standard, explaining Cain’s cluelessness about neoconservatism on Meet the Press:
“Would you describe yourself as a neoconservative then?” [David]
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There’s some talk this morning about whether various things Herman Cain said this weekend will pop his super-inflated bubble. Maybe, but not everything plays with base Republican voters the way Washington thinks it does. Take …
Presidential hopeful Herman Cain isn’t just a former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and head of the National Restaurant Association. He is also a prolific writer, who produces a weekly opinion column syndicated by the North Star …
Four second-tier Republican presidential hopefuls — Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman and Rick Santorum — are threatening to bypass the Nevada caucuses if they take place Jan. 14, as presently planned. This is not, …
As my colleague Michael Crowley notes, the anti-Mitt Romney vote is still a lot bigger than the pro-Romney vote. I agree with Michael that Romney doesn’t have this thing as sewn up as the inside the Beltway pundits are saying. That said, he’s smartly playing his rivals off of one another to ensure that that anti-Romney vote is never …
After weeks of shaky debates and swirling questions about his record in Texas, it’s no surprise that Rick Perry is running behind Mitt Romney in head-to-head general election matchups against Barack Obama. Perry lags 12 points …
In South Carolina today, Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s wife, Anita, committed a cardinal campaign sin: Candor. In an address that was sometimes teary, she offered a window into how the family has been dealing with this first two months …
That’s increasingly the consensus among the Washington insider set. But I’m still not sold.
President Obama’s re-election campaign reported Tuesday that it raised $42.8 million in the last three months. That’s a big number. He’ll no doubt need every dollar he can get with post-Citizens United campaign finance laws …
One of the juicier nuggets in TIME’s wide-ranging new poll is that voters are embracing the Occupy Wall Street movement as they sour on the Tea Party. Twice as many respondents (54%) have a favorable impression of the eclectic …
When Richard Trumka, the head of the nation’s largest labor union coalition, the AFL-CIO, visited the Occupy Wall Street protesters last week, he offered a simple message. “We are going to support them in any way we can,” he said. “We’re not going to try to usurp them in any way.” Those marching orders have since been spread across the …
I’ve got a story in the new issue of TIME, now available online to subscribers, about the man of the moment–and perhaps only a moment–in the 2012 Republican primary campaign, Herman Cain. Regardless of whether The Hermanator can actually be nominated, and there’s reason to doubt that, his sudden popularity says something important …
I’ve written the cover story for this week’s magazine, which is now available online to subscribers. The piece summarizes some of the things I saw and learned on my recent road trip from Laredo, Texas, to Iowa.
The most important conclusion seems obvious, but it isn’t much appreciated by our political class or by those of us in the …
