The kiss and make up scenario unfolds. The base gets energized. St John annointed by St George. The Elders approve. Nothing cryptic about this 2008 triptych.  If I was Michele Obama, I’d be telling Barack to twitter Bill Richardson.  After all, it was Hill’s old Watergate nemesis Dick Nixon who said “experience counts” long before she did. […]

So Multiple Choice Mitt is out of the race. Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, he said, “If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign, and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in […]

The National Football League’s Championship Sunday is usually better than its Super Bowl Sunday. When there’s just one game, a stinker leaves you stuck. On Championship Sunday, you’re practically guaranteed at least one thriller. This week, my guess is that we’ll have one of each.
But first, the pregame activities: caucuses in Nevada and a primary […]

John McCain is older than Ronald Reagan was when he ran for president in 1980. Even though it is less than politically correct to even mention that age might be a factor in influencing the outcome of a presidential election McCain’s military bearing can’t mask entirely his unscripted senior moments and he lacks the B-movie actor skills […]

In the midst of the discussion about the Bradley Effect and whether Hillary’s tears were contrived or spontaneous, the pivotal events march on by the minute. A couple of things: Bush is positioning himself as the savior of the Middle East and thinks he’s brokered a real Israeli/Palestinian peace accord. Is that […]

My interest in the Iowa caucuses stems from having lived there for most of two decades. I take mild offense at all the inbred-pig-farmer jokes made by people dissing the caucuses, although many of those same jokers are spot-on about the blinding cultural whiteness of the place. I’ve been to New Hampshire once in my […]

Our long national nightmare is almost over . . . the Iowa caucuses are tonight. One of the most ludicrous aspects of the 2008 campaign is that we’re doing this two days after New Year’s. (If a few other states had gotten their wish, we’d have done it around Christmas.) January 3 is the earliest […]

Mitt Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital, is said to have struck a deal to buy Clear Channel Communications for a cool $19.5 billion.  Let’s see, Clear Channel, which owns 1100 AM and FM stations and operates virtually the entire right wing echo chamber on radio, in the direct control of potentially the next POTUS?  […]

It’s waaaay to early to proclaim winners and losers but trends as they appear now have the New Yawkas on both sides of the aisle headed for an early exit. The Clinton equivocation rap has stuck to Hilla big time, and Guiliani has some serious ’splaining to do. Just wait until Judith Regan […]

Ironic that Western Wats, the data mining and push poll outfit trashing Mitt Romney for his Mormon beliefs, is located in the great state of Utah. Stranger yet that the second largest Mormon temple in the world is located in Phoeniz, AZ, where Senator McCain rules the roost.  Stranger yet is the tradition that the governor of […]