Another Political Thought
Now that Mitt Romney has won Iowa and New Hampshire, political pundits are acting as if the GOP nomination battle is over, so they're looking ahead to the next battle, which means making general election prognostications based on Romney vs. Obama polling. It's all...
A Political Thought
How different would the race for the GOP presidential nomination be if, instead of Iowa and South Carolina, the caucuses and primaries began in New Jersey and California (which won't vote until June!)? I'd bet that the nominees would be different, because the voters...
In Case You Missed It
We're only a week into 2012, but this is absolutely the best Knuckleheads In The News® story so far this year. I'm boycotting Fox News Channel because its anchors have refused to wish viewers "Merry Christmas" for over 10 days! Another flip-flop:...
Loathe The One You’re With
In Frank Bruni's column, "The Iowa Caucuses' Bitter Harvest," he explains how the extremist candidacies of Santorum, Perry, and Paul are damaging both the Republican Party and the country on the whole: As the hour of actual caucusing drew closer, Ron Paul’s campaign...
It’s Not Heaven, It’s Iowa
With the Iowa caucuses three days away, I invited Josh Kraushaar (executive editor of National Journal's Hotline) to join me on KTRS/St. Louis and analyze how things look on the weekend before the first votes of the 2012 presidential election season are cast. I asked...
Frank Schaeffer
"I guess this 180, if you're talking about politics, would take me from being a radical, right-wing, bomb-throwing evangelical on the far right to a position of what I would call 'moderate sanity,' in terms of social views and political views."That's Frank Schaeffer,...
Iowa, The Bad Bellweather
The political media can't stop talking about the Iowa Caucus, which takes place in a couple of weeks and they tell us is the first official electoral event of the 2012 presidential campaign. They're all playing it up like it means something, like it's a predictor for...
Fighting Super PACs
It's been almost two years since the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, which allows corporations to spend as much money on political campaigns as they like. This will be the first presidential election impacted by that decision, and we're already seeing the...