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.
Edwards Conference Call
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 …
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Wingtips Vs. Boots
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, …
Fred Thompson
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.
1,000 Words
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.)
Straight from the Horses’…
SwampCast: Advanced Caucus Math
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This Is Brilliant
From youtube, about Mike Huckabee
The Pastor and the Brawler
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 ran …
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Hillarious Overkill
Drudge has a banner headline: IS IT THE END? and a picture of New York’s Junior Senator up at his blog… and links to this story. Brother Fineman over at Newsweek is similarly dire, predicting that Clinton could lose all four of the early primaries.
Well, yes, she could. Or she could win a couple. Or win them all. The New Hampshire …
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Latest Column
As I was saying, this has been a very good Democratic campaign.
Fred Team Graduates from Idleness to Irony
Fred’s trying to muscle into the news cycle…. “Trying” maybe.
To: Interested Members of the Media
From: Karen Hanretty, Deputy Communications Director
Date: 12/13/2007
Re: Fred Thompson Campaign ApologiesIn light of Mike Huckabee’s heartfelt apology to Mitt Romney for making reference to Romney’s religion in the New York Times
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The Filibuster vs. the Pseudo-filibuster
Today’s Washington Post fronts a story about Democrats blaming each other for the lack of progress on their agenda. But as our commenters have so often pointed out, the real issue is tension between the House and the Senate–and specifically, the fact that Republicans in the Senate are using the filibuster in ways it has never been used …