Ron Paul Sets Online Fundraising Record
Yesterday's bid to raise $10 million in one day for Ron Paul fell well short. Paul's campaign will happily settle, I'm sure, for the $4.2 million they brought in, which is easily the most brought in on a single day of online fundraising. He'll also gladly take the outpouring of media attention. "Ron Paul Raises More Than $4.2 ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 6, 2007 08:08
Voyage of the Damned - The Nation’s Cruise
Not my headline, but rather that of the alternative Seattle Weekly to describe The Nation’s all Liberal cruise to Alaska, with prices from $2600 to $8400. Focus cruises are proliferating, started by The National Review decades ago. The cruise departed Seattle last Saturday. Of course it was the success of The National Review's cruise that obviously prompted The Nation's first ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 30, 2007 01:42
Nader Ponders Run, Calls Clinton ‘Coward’
Ralph Nader may make yet another run for the presidency in 2008, Roger Simon reports. Ralph Nader says he is seriously considering running for president in 2008 because he foresees another Tweedledum-Tweedledee election that offers little real choice to voters. "You know the two parties are still converging -- they don't even debate the military budget anymore," Nader said in ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on June 21, 2007 10:48
Presidency Hillary’s to Lose?
Mike Allen begins a story with a rather stunning aside: "Even many Republicans will tell you that the presidency this cycle is Sen. Hillary Clinton’s to lose . . . ." Given how polarizing she is, can that really be the case? Maybe. Months of head-to-head polls showing that every plausible Republican nominee would be her have now ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 21, 2007 12:44
Gingrich Decries ‘Game Show’ Presidential Campaign
Newt Gingrich is disgusted with the pathetic, bizarre, and shallow manner in which the current crop of Republican candidates are conducting the campaign. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the 2008 White House candidates are "demeaning the presidency" by focusing on the race rather than ideas. "We have shrunk our political process to this pathetic dance in which people spend an ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 18, 2007 08:07
Chuck Hagel’s Bid for the Republican Nomination
The Politico's Jonathan Martin assesses the presidential chances of Senator Chuck Hagel, who is expected to announce his candidacy today. Essentially, the question is whether a guy with a "lifetime American Conservative Union rating north of 85" but who has little money in the bank and is his party's most vociferous critic of its president on the most controversial ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 12, 2007 09:11
CPAC - Romneybots and Browbackshirts
I rather like Sam Brownback but don't consider him a plausible presidential candidate. I find Mitt Romney rather smarmy and opportunistic, even by politician standards. Until arriving at CPAC, though, I had no ill feelings about either of them. After two days of barely being able to walk around the convention center ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on March 2, 2007 11:24
Democrats, Republicans and the Deficit
hilzoy, reflecting on a pay-per-view Paul Krugman column arguing that, for political reasons, "Given a choice between cutting the deficit and spending more on good things like health care reform, Democrats in Congress should choose the spending," observes, [I]t has not escaped my notice that Democrats' hard work at cutting the deficit, and our willingness to postpone a lot of things ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 23, 2006 09:10
Did the Libertarians Cost the Republicans the Senate?
An interesting article in the Economist (via Instapundit) suggests that this was indeed the case. Libertarians are a generally Republican-leaning constituency, but over the last few years, their discontent has grown plain. It isn't just the war, which some libertarians supported, but the corruption and insider dealing, and particularly the massive expansion of spending. Mr Bush's much-vaunted prescription drug benefit for ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 8, 2006 17:17
Is Driving Faster, Safer?
Yesterday's OpinionJournal notes something we don't hear everyday: "Driving on the highways is safer today than ever before." In 2005, according to new data from the National Highway Safety Administration, the rate of injuries per mile traveled was lower than at any time since the Interstate Highway System was built 50 years ago. The fatality rate was the second lowest ever, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 8, 2006 07:36
