There was an almost even split on the question of whether Michael Steele is good for the GOP in the most recent poll — “yes,” “no,” and “too soon to tell” got about equal numbers of votes. For my part,… Continue Reading
Remember when I said “Hooray for Meghan McCain?” And then when I pointed out that Laura Inghram mocking her for being “plus-sized” didn’t really respond very well to the very legitimate point that Ms. McCain was making about the state… Continue Reading
The Republican Party needs a new direction and a new leader. Meghan McCain is obviously not that person, but I could live with her being a minor figurehead. Especially after she drops this bomb — her beef with Ann Coulter.… Continue Reading
Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer. First and foremost, he is driven by the need for ratings, to attract ears and eyeballs to his show. He has figured out a product that sells, found a very large niche in the media… Continue Reading
From a new website called New Majority, Rudy! talks about what the GOP has become and how it can get better again: Yes, to some extent, it’s the same thing over and over again in the “Republican Reboot” posts here… Continue Reading
As I write, it is in the very last minutes of the Bush Presidency. Barack Obama will take the reins very shortly and begin the unenviable job of leading the country through a difficult economic crisis, and a substantially more… Continue Reading
I’ve not written heavily on political issues recently. Why is that? Doug Mataconis has been beating me to the punch on pretty much everything that’s been going on and his take on the issues has been spot on: Congress and… Continue Reading
Republicans seeking a reboot may be interested in this. The new effort aims to “rebuild the party,” focusing mainly on matching and exceeding the structural advantages of the Democratic party — particularly the kinds of innovative technological things that the… Continue Reading
The corpse of the McCain campaign isn’t even cold yet. And all of these Republican politicians already have speaking engagements in Iowa in the very near future, or are in the process of lining them up: Bobby Jindal, the Governor… Continue Reading
Republicans in Florida, readying their last-ditch GOTV and last-weekend campaigning, have begun distributing these signs:Seems to me that there’s something, well, missing from that sign. And that there are a lot of people in the party who are going to… Continue Reading