Joe Klein posits that the GOP may end up running on immigration in 2008: It’s long been my belief that the GOP hole card in 2008 is going to be a rancid furriner-bashing anti-illegal-immigrant smear campaign. … A few months ago, I asked Mitt Romney if he thought illegal immigration Read more…
I have been thinking a lot about the race, and not writing so much. There are plenty of theories about what is going on and what is going to happen. Rather than make predictions, let me ask questions. First, the most important question is probably going to be the relative Read more…
A friend of mine is a lobbyist. He was on the Hill and asked a bunch of GOP members what they thought. Their position was basically: This is a blue state problem and the people affected are going to vote Democrat anyway Moral Hazard arguments and federal gov’t should not intervene Read more…
James Pethokoukis, who used to work at IBD and whose writing seems to lean pretty much to the economic right, has a consistent critique of the GOP primary so far. His most recent post is entitled, "GOP Debate Strangely Ignores Financial Turmoil." To be clear, he’s talking about things like Read more…
An important discussion is emerging on the role of social conservatives in the righty-blogosphere. Joe Carter, who organized the blogger row at FRC’s Values Voters summit, had this to say about the experience: Anyone who wonders why the audience for the right-side of the blogosphere is stagnant at an estimated Read more…
Ummm. Not so much. Why? Well, first, listen to Mike Duncan’s lukewarm statement, as reported by Jonathan Martin: Letters went out this morning warning New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan and Wyoming that they were "on notice," Duncan said in a conference call with reporters. Duncan did, though, emphasize that the Read more…
Justin Hart of Race42008 wrote a post that is 95% correct. He said: You don’t try to win straw polls as proof of your national success among a group of voters. You don’t try to win straw polls as proof of momentum. You don’t try to win straw polls as Read more…
Well, McCain’s lines dominated the debate: Putin Tied up To Romney about "fooling people about your record." "Lead" I posted my notes, and I am having trouble finding other things that struck me deeply. Giuliani did well on Hillary’s spending and teachers. Thompson was certainly more lively, and he had Read more…
It seems that John McCain and Rudy Giuliani are on. MItt Romney is struggling (although Hugh Hewitt has probably already writing his post for Romney’s victory) and I am not inspired by Fred Thompson. Mike Huckabee’s new Buchananite turn, which I predicted, is alarming me a lot. It seems quite Read more…
They ask Romney about his liberalism and 1994. He dodges. He won’t talk about his past. Thompson cracks jokes at Kennedy’s expense. He gets to talk about his details. Then he whacks at Rudy on abortion, immigration, and gun control. Rudy says, "Fred has his problems too. Fred was the Read more…