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In Defense of Sarah Palin and Rick Perry
Tweet Share on Facebook March 30, 2012 Comment (26)Why would a sitting governor who has decent approval ratings at home and who seems to actually enjoy running his or her state want to be on a presidential ticket?
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Newt Gingrich and the Limits of Unlimited Campaign Cash
Tweet Share on Facebook March 28, 2012 Comment (3)Money can, and has, fueled the campaigns of candidates who otherwise might have faltered a long time ago. And money may well be what forces a struggling candidate out of the GOP race.
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Rick Santorum's 'Bullshit' Comment Is No Big Deal
Tweet Share on Facebook March 27, 2012 Comment (5)Former Sen. Rick Santorum used a mild expletive to chastise a journalist recently. And despite all the media and political attention the episode has received, it's really not a BFD.
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Obama Has Every Right to Bring Up Race in Trayvon Martin Comments
Tweet Share on Facebook March 26, 2012 Comment (34)It was real, it was jarring, and it was just a little unsettling. President Barack Obama, who is half African-American, said that the youth shot by a self-described neighborhood watch captain looked like what his own son might look like. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, running for Obama's job, was appalled, saying:
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In Defense of the Etch A Sketch (and Mitt Romney Too)
Tweet Share on Facebook March 22, 2012 Comment (4)Mock the Mitt Romney campaign if you will. But please, do not impugn the value and the very American symbolism of the Etch A Sketch.
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Memo to Newt Gingrich: Robert De Niro Is No Rush Limbaugh
Tweet Share on Facebook March 21, 2012 Comment (5)It's either wildly hypocritical or just amusing that in the midst of perhaps the nastiest presidential campaign in modern history, a candidate is asking another candidate to apologize for a pretty tame joke. It's even more remarkable when you consider the request is being made of a candidate who didn't even make the joke himself.
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Media Should Emulate C-SPAN's Brian Lamb
Tweet Share on Facebook March 20, 2012 CommentIt was in the days before the Internet, before 24/7 news coverage, and it was 7 o'clock on a Saturday morning. And Brian Lamb, the creator of C-SPAN and the host of a weekly roundtable discussion with journalists, had somehow already managed to read virtually every major newspaper in the country—along with a few other publications.
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Santorum's Anti-Immigrant Pander Hurt Him in Puerto Rico
Tweet Share on Facebook March 19, 2012 Comment (4)¿Es Rick Santorum popular en Puerto Rico?
Apparently not. The island's GOP primary electorate overwhelmingly favored former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the weekend primary contest. Santorum campaigned there, and might have had a shot at a good showing, since Puerto Rico is overwhelmingly Catholic. But the former Pennsylvania senator showed not just a little xenophobia, but also a misunderstanding of history, when he waded into the debate over English as the national language.
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The Upside of the Prolonged GOP Primary Fight
Tweet Share on Facebook March 15, 2012 Comment (11)The still-unresolved GOP primary race is being used to portray the Republican party as an organization in tumult, one that is so divided it can't decide, half-way through the nominating process, who it wants as its presidential nominee. And while there are indeed divisions within the party, the length of the process is not an indicator of it. In fact, it stands (along with the Democrats' 2008 primary season) as a sign that both parties can be rid of a more serious divisive fight: the childish argument over who gets to go first in the primary process.
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Newt Gingrich Is Mitt Romney's Secret Weapon
Tweet Share on Facebook March 14, 2012 Comment (2)For someone who thinks the "elite media" has "anointed" Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich is doing a pretty good job of helping the former Massachusetts governor get the nomination.
