Appeals to party unity are always pretty much pure bullshit. So why is John McCain asking his supporters to raise money for Rudy Giuliani? Really, he is. He wants Hizzonner to have retired all of his campaign debt so that… Continue Reading
A really good online interview with Newt Gingrich. Worth a read, whether you’re liberal or conservative. In particular, Gingrich offers his take on the “Republican Reboot” theme I and many others have been writing about — he thinks that social… Continue Reading
Today’s WaPo offers an analysis that suggests Obama’s strategy of seeking delegate votes from traditionally Republican-voting areas will weaken him in the general election. The analysis is interesting in that it points out that Obama has managed to make gains… Continue Reading
I asked NAPP readers who, from a list of nine possible choices, would be the best choice for John McCain to make as his running mate. Eight of the nine were Republicans (obviously any such list will consist of all… Continue Reading
In Texas, at least. And why not? Limbuagh and his ilk have done little but to bad-mouth McCain since he took ascendancy, and there are no viable Republican alterantives to him. And Limbaugh listeners will never be convinced to vote… Continue Reading
Bill Cunningham, the conservative talk radio host from Cincinnati who repeatedly invoked Barack Obama’s middle name of “Hussein” in a warm-up speech for a McCain campaign rally, complains that he got “thrown under the Straight Talk Express” by the candidate.… Continue Reading
Today marks the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., the intellectual progenitor of the modern American conservative movement. Though I despise some of the social excess that movement has taken on in recent years, for the most part I remain… Continue Reading
For a while, I had liked Day by Day, in part because it was a conservative-leaning comic and in part because I could syndicate it daily for free here on the blog. I’m happy to offer my readers additional content… Continue Reading
Looking at the election returns this morning, I note that most of my sources have not distributed many delegates from California yet. But a look at the Fish Wrapper’s graphic illustration of county-by-county returns tells a couple of interesting stories… Continue Reading
When the primaries are over — which may not be Tuesday night, as it turns out — the Democrats will likely be able to reconcile themselves to whoever wins. Obama fans will, I have little doubt, be able to say,… Continue Reading