Outside the Beltway

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul won a completely meaningless straw poll.

Senator Rob Portman changes his position on same-sex marriage. Another sign of the times.

CPAC’s organizers have decided not to invite the most popular Governor in the country.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game (more or less, anyway).

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

Republicans should have listened to Mitch Daniels, because he was right.

Rick Santorum’s campaign is starting to tilt at windmills.

The Queasy Rider Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

It’s looking increasingly unlikely that anyone will have the race for the nomination wrapped up any time soon.

While I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction with the degree that CPAC has embraced the worst elements of the conservative movement in recent years, it does appear that there is a line.

The Massachusetts Moderate has won the Conservative Political Action Conference poll for a fourth time.

At the very least, nominating Santorum would let the GOP test a hypothesis that’s been debated for years.

If the reaction at this year’s CPAC is any indication, Mitt Romney still has some work to do to seal up his party’s base.

A new poll shows Santorum surging ahead of Mitt Romney nationally

Is the Cain Train finally running out of steam?

The venerable conservative columnist once endorsed Romney as a “good option for the Right” but now calls him “the pretzel candidate”

House Energy and Commerce Committee “is investigating Planned Parenthood’s federal funding, requesting lots of docs.”

Despite all the negatives going against him, Mitt Romney may yet be the inevitable Republican nominee.

Rick Perry’s immigration positions aren’t at all unreasonable, and that presents a problem for him inside the Republican Party.

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

Meet your new Republican frontrunner.

Rick Perry will need to get past Michele Bachmann before he takes on Mitt Romney. But, really, how hard could it be?

After years of becoming more inclusive, the Conservative Political Action Conference is closing itself off to opposing points of view.

If Mitt Romney looked in the rear view mirror he might just see Rick Perry gaining on him.

Where’s the line when a public figure interacts with a teenage fan?

Last night’s Presidential Debate in South Carolina was interesting, but, in the end, not very important.

What is Donald Trump up to? Only he seems to know for sure.

It’s a Republican meme that President Obama has “apologized” for America repeatedly. The one problem with the meme is that there aren’t any facts to support it.

The American right has become infected with the notion that Barack Obama isn’t just wrong, but evil. That won’t be healthy in the long run.