As the procession of people on book tours and social conservative vanity candidates to match or exceed Romney's popularity shows, the GOP nomination was Rick Perry's to lose. And, boy, did he lose it. Again, I'm very impressed that someone proved that you can be...
2012 Republican Primary
A candidate who thinks that Griswold v. Connecticut was wrong could win the Iowa Republican primary. Well, maybe I should predict this as if there's significant doubt about the Republican.
I wish everyone a happy Clown Show Day. The Iowa caucuses have as strong a predictive power for the Republican nomination as I do in the LGM bowl pool. Notable.
I think a couple commenters have been persuasive that I was too charitable toward Ron Paul, as my closing line implies that he's having a meaningful and positive impact on the debate. It would probably have been better just to say that he is indeed...
Things are breaking especially well for Mittens, but it is indeed just a question of how long the media can pretend there's a race, not whether there is a race..
Apparently, a twitter storm has broken out about the post I don't want to get into, but Greenwald's latest has a couple things I wanted to respond to on the.
Looks like little Ricky might get a decent showing in Iowa on the road to oblivion. I definitely expect him to beat Newt.
This won't be a surprise to longtime readers, but I agree 100% with Atrios about Perry changing his position to oppose abortion in cases of rape or incest. These exemptions.
There's no way around it -- having opponents who weren't running for president or were only half-seriously running is a major advantage. Relatedly, I think in his post arguing that.
On trying to challenge Ron Paul in Texas. Obviously, Republican elites are starting to pay attention to these newsletters for opportunistic reasons. But is nonetheless true that he spent years publishing grotesque racism under his own name. And while I agree that he was most...
Lithwick valiantly tries to explain what Newt was up to. In addition to the fact that he's envisioning himself as president, I think it's also a example of how a.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the attacks on the federal judiciary increasingly made by several Republican candidates, all of whom apparently have yet to be informed.