It seems my confidence in Romney for 2008 may have been uninformed. David Brooks points out today some serious problems the man has – including a stand on immigration that makes him Tancredo’s choice and therefore not America’s: Earnestly and methodically, he has appealed to each of the major constituency groups. For national security conservatives, […]

Prior to the Christmas holidays going into full swing I noted the deteriorating nature of the polls and how to prove samples over the holidays were a bunch of garbage. Here is what I said on December 20th, 2007: Never before has the Presidential election attempted an incursion into America’s sacred time to give thanks […]

“Unite America ’08” has a nice fresh tone to it as a possible political slogan for the coming silly season. It also seems cheesy, but that is why my dabbling in politics ends at writing a blog part time, I do not make a living in politics. But the observation is still valid, if not […]

The instability of the horse race polls in New Hampshire and Iowa are an indication of a much broader dynamic that the pollsters and the talking heads just cannot get their minds wrapped around. The dedicated party stalwarts – what is left of them – keep cycling around trying to find some other answer than […]

One thing a President can’t be is a loose cannon willing to shoot wildly and with out purpose and thought. Presidential candidate “Wild Mike” Huckabee has demonstrated why this is so true with a wild shotgun blast over the heads of the news media at a photo shoot (pun intended): Any good sportsman, though, couldn’t […]

I noted a couple of times recently (most recently here) that this year political activists probably made a huge mistake by pushing the nation’s first primaries right on top of Christmas – a time to forget the blood sport of DC and focus on families, friends and hope. It seems I am not the only […]

America has been through a brutal six and half years. We began President Bush’s first term with the attacks on 9-11, then went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and through all of this saw taxes reduced and major policies enacted (prescription drugs for seniors, education reform, etc). But all through these efforts we also […]

Evan Thomas has produced a real piece of irony today in Newsweek. He arrogantly calls it “The Closing Of The American Mind”. Of course a ‘closed mind” connotes someone unwilling to see potential, to grasp change, to recognize new opportunities. But what Thomas and Newsweek are guilty of is one of the most blatant cases […]

Never before has the Presidential election attempted an incursion into America’s sacred time to give thanks and pray for peace and solidarity. Never before has politics intruded so much on Christmas (and hopefully never again). The candidates’ desperate attacks and dirty tricks are ringing a harsh dissonant note against the backdrop of Christmas caroling, and […]

Want to know what’s wrong with the GOP at the moment? It’s in a muddle. The civil war the far right began imploded the governing coalition. They felt there was no more common ground with room to negotiate common solutions. Compromise was evil and traitorous and made you a RINO – unless you were an […]