News of Thompson’s relatively anemic fundraising in June could put a damper on his big event in Washington tonight. It also calls into question the wisdom of Thompson’s decision to wait until the fall to enter the race officially rather than announcing in the spring or summer. Most of the Thompson supporters I interviewed for my story in …
Fred Thompson Comes Up Short?
Over at Politico, Mike Allen reports that, for all the hype around the Law & Order star’s potential presidential campaign, Fred Thompson isn’t drawing all that much by way of box office receipts:
Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than
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The Maggie Primary-Continued
We have posted here before about the attraction that Republican politicians seem to feel for Margaret Thatcher–or at least, for being seen with her. The Daily Telegraph reports that Rudy Giuliani is next in line to make the pilgrimage.
Morning Jumble: Cleavage-Free Edition
Some of the stories that’ve caught my eye in the past twenty-four hours or so.
· “If voters vote with their hearts, [Obama’s] experience problems might not matter that much. His candidacy also will test how voters assimilate their feelings about George Bush. . . voters are so depressed after the Bush presidency (seventy percent of the
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What’s Missing in this Column?
I agree with many, but not all, of the conclusions Ken Pollack and Michael O’Hanlon reach in this NY Times column, but you really can’t write a piece about the wae in Iraq and devote only two sentences to the political situation, which is disastrous and, as Petraeus has said, will determine the success or failure of the overall …
What the Meaning of “Is” Is to Alberto Gonzales.
Today’s lead story in the New York Times brings some clarification–and illumination–to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ claim that the NSA’s domestic surveillance program was not the subject of that now-infamous March 2004 dispute at John Ashcroft’s hospital bedside. (That’s the episode, alluded to in congressional testimony by …
Navel Gazing on Saturday Afternoon
OMOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGMGOMG G GONZALES MAY HAVE COMMITTED PERJURY!!!!! OMOKMFGELKFJMDKSMFKLDS MFKLS TEH LIES TEH LIES!
More information about perjury can be found on the internet.*
Seriously: It looks bad, indeed it may be worse than Watergate. Here’s my question for the haters: Do you think that my apparently insufficient number of posts …
YouMoved
The Ron Paul campaign announced, and other campaigns have confirmed, that CNN is moving the YouTube debate to another date, possibly in December.
Patrick Ruffini continues his passionate plea for Rs to stick with the format here. The push to participate has some surprising (to me) supporters, including Michelle Malkin and
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Angels on Pinhead
My friend Andrew Sullivan makes an interesting case on the “serious” front. But I think Andrew’s being a bit too hard on himself for being as dismissive of the anti-war arguments and arguers as he was. For the record, I wasn’t dismissive, not even of Janeane Garofolo–and you can look it up. But I’d quibble with Andrew on two points:
1. …
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Today in Iraq
There’s a lovely V.S. Naipaul story–brain fog, the title escapes me now–in which a white couple is driving through an African country during a time of troubles. They stop at a gas station and a smiling African attendant pulls out a squeegee to clean their windshield. But the rubber has been worn off the squeegee, leaving only metal, …
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O’Reilly Unhinged
As Swampland readers know, I’ve had my problems with Kos and Kossacks, but this is ridiculous. Has O’Reilly hired Colbert as a ghost writer?
For the record, I think the Democratic candidates should show up at Kos…and also at the Southern Baptist Convention, West Point, Jerry Falwell’s church and any place else where they can make …
Wither the YouTube Debate?
A longer story looking at the possibilities of the GOP unplugging here.
A slight clarification, if not correction: I make a little crack about Romney in the piece confusing MySpace and YouTube, and the Romney campaign contacted me to point out that the Governor has made the same point — about online predators — numerous times using …
FOH = Fearful of Hillary
Not that long ago, it was a widely held opinion among conservatives in the professional political class that Hillary Clinton would be a dream Democratic presidential nominee — for the Republicans. Her high negatives, divisive personality, weak political skills, excess baggage and reputation as a big government lefty would all combine to …