Jan
27
The South Carolina primary placed the building critique against Mitt Romney and Bain Capital in stark relief. Romney the “vulture capitalist,” destroying companies and livelihoods for “Mr. Potter-like” fat cat investors, who cashed in handsomely. The attacks by primary opponents serve as a preface to what a nominee Romney will face, with the full force …
Jan
26
A Man Worthy of His Time How could the Republicans blow this? Over his three year tenure, President Obama has racked up the worst presidential record since Jimmy Carter. The blueprint to defeat President Obama writes itself, remarkably, in the President’s own promises and results. In almost every category of the American experience, life in …
Jan
22
A Remarkable Victory For Mitt Romney, the bitterness of South Carolina may not be found so much in defeat, but in how tantalizingly close he came to victory. On Monday, January 16th, Rasmussen polling, showed Romney ahead in South Carolina by 14 points. With wins in Iowa and New Hampshire under his belt, and the conservative …
Jan
17
Thank You , Governor Looking out amid the wreckage that was the Republican Party in early 2009, I began to wonder who – if anybody – could be a credible challenger to President Obama in 2012. I set about to think through what a GOP altnerative might look like. More than anything else, the eventual …
Jan
14
The Best Agency You’ve Never Heard Of Speaking in the East Room yesterday, President Obama recalled a pledge from his 2008 campaign to make the federal government leaner and smarter and more consumer friendly. He noted that, “the government that we have is not the government that we need.” It would be hard to find anyone …
Jan
11
No matter where you stand politically, you have to hand it to Mitt Romney. He blew the proverbial doors off the New Hampshire primary yesterday, in a win that even opponents would have to appreciate. As a “next door neighbor” who ran Massachusetts for a time, and with a vacation home in the state, and having run …
Jan
09
While we are focused on political developments in New Hampshire, the eventual Republican nominee and the coming horse race between that candidate and President Obama, the issues that will shape next November’s decision are in play now outside our borders, and largely outside the control of President Obama and his team or his GOP rival. …
Jan
08
The Right Argument When it Mattered The New Hampshire debates have come fast and furious – only twelve hours apart. After a very strong performance last evening, Governor Jon Huntsman stepped up his game again this morning, in what was easily the most concise and compelling rationale for his candidacy to date. I could write …
Jan
08
If you’d tuned into last night’s debate without any knowledge of the GOP nomination battle so far, you’d be forgiven for coming to some false conclusions. For instance, you might think that given their serial, testy exchanges, that Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich were duking it out for first place. But if you listened to …
Jan
07
With a hat tip to the great German strategist, Carl von Clausewitz, we can more clearly see the road from New Hampshire and beyond by recognizing that, “politics is war by other means.” And in the current war for the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney is trying to pull a “Schlieffen.” Yes, yes, all these obscure Germans …