Just for the record, Pawlenty's economic plan is absolutely nuts, and I still say he's the most likely nominee. And what's even scarier is that the plans of subsequent nominees are going to have to accomplish the difficult feat of being even more crazy.
2012 Republican Primary
It's too bad Kristol is wrong about everything, because we could really use the lulz. There's something special about a candidate whose popularity has an almost perfectly inverse relationship with.
Cain has been receiving quite a bit of press lately as he challenges for the Republican nomination. The NYT discuss him in today's edition here, noting his strong tea-party credentials,.
At this point, Newt must be lying just because he enjoys it. He's sucked Limbaugh into his vortex!
It's important that the campaign of this major intellectual be taken very, very seriously. Give Trump this: he was smart enough not to run.
I know we could be dealing with yet another Republican primary that nobody should logically be able to win, and hence anyone could win. But I still say that Mittens.
My question: what are the chances you'd see an article like this about John Edwards? In fairness, it's not like Newt has an extensive history of being a moralizing blowhard that would make his serial cheating on and divorcing of ill wives hypocritical as well...
I don't know if this means that Daniels is running, but it certainly confirms that he's an asshole.
Matt thinks Mittens has a good chance of getting the 2012 nomination: I think it’s worth recalling that Mitt Romney won National Review’s endorsement in 2008 explicitly on the theory.
Shorter Newt Gingrich: "I had to sleep with various members of my staff who were not my wife because I just loved this country too damned much. But to my credit, I've always displayed the same tolerance for others that I'm asking for now; it's...
Shorter Mike Huckabee: There's no surer route to political glory than recycling Dan Quayle routines from the early 90's.