After winning the Virginia Conservative Convention Straw Poll, Newt Gingrich did a fundraiser for the organization. Robert Bluey of the Human Events reported the event. At the event, Newt went on the attack against Bush: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich last night offered a grim outlook for the final two Read more…
Political Insider has a little blurb about Newt being the real candidate of the right. I’ve mentioned this a couple of times before here and here. It is very interesting. At today’s American Democracy Conference, Rich Galen said: There is zero downside no matter what he decides to do. Newt Read more…
A couple of weeks ago, the Virginia Conservative Convention was supposed to pick George Allen as the conservative front-runner in their straw poll. Obviously, that didn’t happen. But something quite interesting did happen. They picked Newt Gingrich instead (results below), and Newt even doubled Mitt Romney, who, somewhat implausibly, has Read more…
Another question about the 2006 election results is: Who survived and lost and what effect does it have on 2008? Note that The Fix is back up with Presidential rankings… We think that he is too high on Huckabee. A big one that people have talked about a lot is Read more…
Today the Blogosphere is buzzing with the news that people are advising Hillary Clinton not to run for President. Some discuss her future as the Democrat’s Senate Leader. I have written earlier about some of this here and here. Why is she considering this? There are several theories: She is Read more…
Update: WorldWideStandard has commentary on the content of the speech. Disclaimer: the author of the post used to work for John McCain. Ralph Hallow wrote in today’s Washington Times about Newt Gringrich’s speech on the Freedom Cruise. Newt is clearly an ideas and big picture man. And his distance from 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…
Dan Drezner is saying that the next McCain is Brownback. One Redstate writer agrees, but another suggests Hagel. Of course, no one really thinks that these are viable 08 candidates. But the search for an anti-McCain candidate continues furiously. One option seems to be Mitt Romney. But Gary Glenn, the Read more…