Fred Barnes seems to be channeling neo-neocon in his latest Weekly Standard article. Towards the end of his piece describing Iraq’s recent progress towards reaching those benchmarks we used to hear so much about, Barnes asks some of the same … Continue reading →
Read the speech John McCain made on Thursday to CPAC for yourself, and see what you think. Although he freely admits that he hasn’t always marched to conservative tunes on every issue, he asserts his basic conservatism. McCain then goes … Continue reading →
But now it’s Wednesday. The upshot? Hillary and Obama are still neck and neck, with Hillary a hair ahead. I see Tuesday’s results as a slight check for Obama in that his momentum may have been slowed somewhat. For me, … Continue reading →
I thought by now I’d be off the topic of McCain, but it seems to have legs. For my readers who can’t see their way clear to supporting McCain in the general election if nominated, Jeff Jacoby does an excellent … Continue reading →
Take a look at the comments responding to Ed Morrissey’s post asking whether Ann Coulter jumped the shark when she said she’d be campaigning for Hillary if McCain is nominated. They prove—as if we needed any proof—that the conservative base … Continue reading →
As Michael Barone points out, the Republican race is coalescing around candidate McCain after an early period of chaos, while the Democratic race is still up for grabs after an early period of seeming clarity. Nevertheless, McCain remains a polarizing … Continue reading →
Gerard Vanderleun has called our attention to a campaign poster of Obama, created by graphic artist Shepard Fairey in his characteristic retro-Soviet style: It’s really got it all, hasn’t it? The iconic angle of the fearless idealized leader as seen … Continue reading →
Some people have said that if the Iraq War had been instituted by a Democratic administration, the Democrats would have remained behind it despite the setbacks encountered. If history is any guide, that’s a false assumption. Once again, the history … Continue reading →
Edwards is out of the race, with Giuliani to follow. There’s no dearth of analysts to explain why, so I’ll be brief in my own offering: Giuliani never really wanted it all that much, and he didn’t know how to … Continue reading →
Bush’s State of the Union message last night was the usual Rorschach test that people tend to view according to their previous conceptions of Bush and his policies. His basic message: Iraq’s doing relatively well, we need to cut pork. … Continue reading →
It’s common knowledge that President Bush’s approval ratings still hover somewhere in the 30th percentile, where they’ve lingered for the last two years, with only short forays into the 40s. One would think this proves that Bush is a lousy … Continue reading →
It’s not new information. But this seems to come straight from the horse’s (Saddam’s) mouth and, if true, ought to obliterate the “Bush lied about WMDs” meme. Yeah, right. Dream on, you say. To recap: if Saddam took steps to … Continue reading →