At Powerline, “Cornhead” (a frequent commenter here) reports on Bobby Jindal’s speech yesterday. I’m glad to hear that Jindal has slowed down his speech rate. It’s a bad habit that’s one of the reasons he seems uncharismatic and hasn’t helped … Continue reading →
Commenter “Tonawanda” is puzzled and disturbed by the following exchange on Mark Steyn’s site. In it, Steyn reports receiving the following query: You insist that Trump has traction because ” … ‘real’ Republicans and ‘real’ ‘conservatives’ in Washington [haven’t] managed … Continue reading →
I’m fascinated by assertions such as this one that the conservative candidates for president such as Cruz, Walker, Jindal or Fiorina are not electable on a national scale, each for somewhat different reasons*. I’ve only been doing this for ten … Continue reading →
Trump’s immigration plan is certainly guaranteed to get him even more attention than before. It’s a nice list of pipe dreams for the most anti-illegal-immigrant wing of the electorate, although it also features some workable and laudable proposals that are … Continue reading →
I’ve seen a lot of blogosphere commenters saying that Trump is the only Republican with a strong policy on illegal immigration. I’ve also seen a lot of people saying they don’t know Carly Fiorina’s position and would like to hear … Continue reading →
Commenter “physicsguy” has an observation and a question: Given what I’m seeing this morning about his west coast trip, I’m beginning to think we all need to worry a lot more about Sanders than HRC. A declared socialist and drawing … Continue reading →
One thing I’ve noticed is that all of the post-debate polls I’ve located so far (except two that only deal with Iowa; see this and this) are online polls.[* see below] Now, they’re not the sort of online polls that … Continue reading →
Why? It’s not just that he’s been the talk of the news cycle for a while now, although he has. It’s not just that he engenders a lot of discussion in the comments section, although he does. It’s not just … Continue reading →
Let’s excoriate Ted Cruz for changing his mind on fast-track. Let’s do the same to both Rubio and Walker on amnesty. Let’s ignore their stated reasons for doing so. And by all means, let’s resurrect a post-9/11 speech Carly Fiorina … Continue reading →
I’m getting rather tired of talking about Trump. But he certainly knows how to get publicity. For example, there’s a predictable furor right now about Trump’s remark that during the debate Megyn Kelley had “blood coming out of her whatever.” … Continue reading →
Those people on the right who are mad at the establishment and continually frustrated by it, and are therefore supporting Trump, puzzle me for the following reason: this election cycle they finally have a very good chance to elect what … Continue reading →
Donald Trump’s popularity has been the talk of the political world. To me it reflects two things more than anything else. The first is that politics has become dominated by the idea of celebrity. The second is that many people … Continue reading →