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State by State, by Stereotype
Several explanations have already been offered for Mitt Romney’s solid victory in Tuesday’s Florida presidential primary, and most of them are plausible. One theory, held by distant runner-up Newt...
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The Devil and Rick Santorum
Many of Rick Santorum’s seemingly endless controversial remarks are quite defensible, but it’s becoming a rather Sisyphean chore to defend them. The former Pennsylvania Senator and current Republican...
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The Race Goes On
Mitt Romney had a pretty good “Super Tuesday,” all in all. He didn’t clinch the nomination with a convincing romp, but it was a good night. The former Massachusetts governor won six of the 10 states...
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The Race Comes to Kansas
The race for the Republican presidential nomination has come to Kansas, where Saturday’s caucus will actually have an effect on the race for the first time in memory, but thus far you’d hardly notice....
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What We Saw at the Kansas Caucus
The Grand Old Party had a grand old time in Kansas on Saturday, with the most fervent of the state’s Republicans gathering at 99 different locations for the quadrennial caucus. We roused ourselves out...
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The Race Goes South
Southerners are a diverse group of individuals, in our experience, and they don’t deserve the crude stereotypes that appeared in much of the coverage of Tuesday’s Republican primaries in Alabama and...
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Romney and the Shouters
The race for the Republican presidential nomination is all over but the shouting, to resort to an old cliché, but there still seems to be a good deal of shouting left. Mitt Romney’s clean sweep of...
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Sayonara Santorum
Rick Santorum has dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination, and that’s probably best for both him and his party. The stated reason for the former Senator’s withdrawal is the poor health...
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About Those Speeches
The art of political oratory has become so degraded in America that Barack Obama was able to pass himself off as a silver-tongued speaker just four years ago, but we still enjoy hearing what passes...
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Of Sleeping Dogs and WMD
The late Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction are back in the news, and they’re proving an embarrassment to both sides of the debate about the Iraq War. Readers of a certain age will recall...
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