I just wrote something on Bill Frist and I got an email from, presumably, a Frist fan asking why I don’t take Frist seriously. He pointed me to a positive review by Hindraker and by a guy who went to Princeton. Ed from Captain’s Quarters was also there and has Read more…
Bill Frist tried to take a little credit for tracking down the missing holding Senator. Note how he praises his volunteers: Led by sites like PorkBusters, TPM Muckraker, and GOP Progress, online activists across the political spectrum have worked to clear away the obstruction against this bill through hard work Read more…
David Broder — a fellow University of Chicago alum — wrote a great article on the Dem calendar shuffle which I have written on here and here. First he points out the history of Dem calender rule-changes: This way lies madness, and madness is what the Democrats have wrought. When Read more…
There’s a great argument going on at Ankle Biting Pundits about John McCain. Bull Dog Pundit has argued that conservatives will never trust McCain because of campaign finance and a set of other issues. But like many activists, his real bile is about BCRA. (it really does make my life Read more…
Today the NY Times ran an article about Bloomberg not endorsing Faso: Dealing a symbolic blow to Republicans’ hopes of holding on to the executive mansion in Albany, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that he would not make any endorsement in the race to succeed Gov. George E. Pataki. Read more…
The Nation has another picture. This one links him to the Council of Conservative Citizens. The Nation is a bunch of left-wing freaks. But the bleeding isn’t stopping.
As we noted earlier, Right Wing News has an analysis why Rudy may not be acceptable. Ann Althouse argues that those reasons make him more attractive to her (self-consciously in the middle). She says: But what about the potential to appeal to people like me who are in the middle? Read more…
The Family Research Council is holding a Value Voters conference in September. A number of Presidential candidates are confirmed as speakers, including George Allen, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Sam Brownback, and Mike Huckabee. President Bush and John McCain have been invited but not yet confirmed. Interestingly, Rudy Giuliani has not Read more…
RightwingNews has (yet) another summary of the case againset Giuliani for the conservative GOP primary electorate. While we agree that there are many things that are damning in the eyes of the electorate, we think that, to some extent, people are asking the wrong questions. I think that Chuck Larson Read more…
Sebastian Mallaby has a great article about Dems and Walmart in today’s WaPo. A killer quote: The truth is that none of these Democrats can resist dumb economic populism. Even though we are not in a recession, and even though the presidential primaries are more than a year away, the Read more…