They start with Fred Thompson. Thompson: No reason to believe in a recession. He rattles off the numbers. He cuts to long-term spending, which is right up his ally. They follow up and ask about the polling and the angst. Read more
Yesterday, Kevin Hassett, an economist at AEI and a member of John McCain’s economics team, pointed out something that we forget. Hillary Clinton is a big ole porker: Democrats have been so busy preparing the coronation of Hillary Clinton that Read more
Andrew Sullivan makes a powerful argument against Hillary Clinton: A thief and liar is hired by Clinton. But his thievery is less important to Clinton than his loyalty. After all, his theft was an attempt to keep president Clinton’s failures Read more
Dan Bartlett ripped into the GOP field the other day: One of President Bush’s closest advisers has a brutally candid analysis of the Republican nomination battle: Fred Thompson is the campaign’s "biggest dud," Mitt Romney has "a real problem in Read more
I spent Friday morning at the Americans for Prosperity Conference, Defending the American Dream. (blog here) I was struck by several things about it. First, there were a lot of people. 1,600, and they said that they turned away more Read more
District Winner Total Votes California 34 (Los Angeles) D+53.6 74,818 California 31 (Los Angeles) D+100 64,952 Neil Stevens has an interesting post at Redstate about "Rotten boroughs" in California, among other states. He points to some interesting issues. He points Read more
Marc Ambinder has the story. It seems to me that there are some real consequences to this. First, doesn’t an exciting win (say Mike Huckabee or Fred Thompson) or a blowout by Mitt Romney get buzz-killed by the probably-more-interesting Democratic Read more
Candidate % Romney 29 Thompson 18 Huckabee 12 Giuliani 11 McCain 7 I normally don’t like to write on polls, but I think that this one tells us a lot about the future of the GOP race in Iowa. David Read more
Candidate % Romney 29 Thompson 18 Huckabee 12 Giuliani 11 McCain 7 I normally don’t like to write on polls, but I think that this one tells us a lot about the future of the GOP race in Iowa. David Read more
Fred Thompson’s campaign’s motto is "Prosperity, Security, Unity". He addressed the first of these during his main speech to the Americans for Prosperity. He addressed the other parts during a speech to the Virginia delegation. Nothing special, but interesting to Read more