Bachmann And Santorum 2016? Dusting Off The GOP Nomination Clown Car
It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.
It’s beginning to look like the 2016 race for the Republican nomination will have its own collection of oddballs.
A setback for supporters of Rand Paul in the Hawkeye State.
The Texas GOP wants to “pray away the gay.”
One of the longest serving Members of Congress just got his political career saved.
Allen West seems to think that God might want him to run for President. Unfortunately for Mr. West, so does Ben Carson.
From the beginning, the Tea Party has shown itself to be just plain bad at picking candidates. This year, they finally seem to be on the verge of paying for it in the GOP primaries
Republicans have some good ideas about overhauling how they pick a nominee. Unfortunately, it’s hard to see how most of them can be enforced.
Much like the guy who’s afraid to talk to girls in High School, Republicans don’t seem to know how to talk to women. But their problems are actually bigger than that.
Chris Christie has had a very good month, and it’s ending with him with a strong lead among potential Republican candidates for 2016.
Chris Christie did as well as expected last night, but that’s just the beginning.
Republicans appear to be uniting behind a short-term plan to deal with the debt ceiling, but seem okay with keeping the government shutdown going forward.
The 10th anniversary of McCain-Feingold teaches a lesson we should already have learned.
Could Rick Perry recover from his disastrous 2012 campaign to become a viable candidate?
The GOP seems to be making the same mistakes that led to defeat in 2012.
The wacko fringe of the GOP is increasingly finding room in the mainstream of the party.
Republicans seem to think they need fewer Presidential debates in the 2016 cycle, but it’s unclear how they can make that happen.
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum apparently talked about uniting to stop Romney during the 2012 Republican primaries.
Last January 1, some of us made a series of predictions. Here’s how we did.
There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.
The Governor of Iowa thinks the Ames Straw Poll should be ended, but he really ought to go further than that.
Was Rick Perry the worst candidate to run in the 2012 cycle? It certainly appears so.
Mitt Romney wasn’t a perfect candidate, but he was much better than most of the 2012 Republican field.
Republicans are trying to figure out what went wrong. Will they learn the right lessons from their loss?
Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.
Whether Mitt Romney wins or loses, the GOP needs to evolve or be doomed to minority party status.
Whether Republicans like it or not, Mitt Romney was the best candidate they had in 2012.
Republicans will have some choices to make if President Obama is re-elected.
In Rick Santorum’s brand of conservatism, no smart people need apply.
There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.
Once again, Chris Christie makes one wish there were more Republicans like him.
The most recent round of national polling seems to show that the negative attacks on Romney are having an impact.