Outside the Beltway

Ron Paul has a provocative new ad out asking Americans to imagine Chinese or Russian troops occupying Texas in the way American troops occupied Iraq and are occupying Afghanistan.

Ron Paul doesn’t want to talk about his newsletters now, but he was pretty talkative 15 years ago.

A comment on the commentariat.

Gary Johnson is jumping ship.

Iowa Republicans fear that a Ron Paul win on Jan. 3rd will destroy the credibility of their caucuses.

So what was it: taken out of context or written by someone else?

Newt Gingrich has fallen into a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in the latest Gallup poll, mirroring his decline in other recent surveys.

Ron Paul is rising in Iowa, which means he will soon face the scrutiny he’s avoided so far.

A new ground game in Iowa?

How much should Paul’s newletter and his questionable associations matter?

Should Ron Paul find his currently upward trajectory to continue he will find himself facing greater media (and opposition) scrutiny.

Newt Gingrich’s ideas about the role of the judiciary are very dangerous.

The final candidate clash of 2011 didn’t lead to the sparring that some expected.

Ron Paul is surging in Iowa. He’s in 3rd place in the national polls and has been for most of the race. He’s not Mitt Romney.

Signs that Newt Gingrich’s rise may be faltering.

With Gingrich surging in the polls, the pundit class has gotten out the long knives.

The former Speaker has the biggest lead of any candidate thus far in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP field, but losing to President Obama, but Republican voters don’t seem to care.

Savage has offered Gingrich one million dollars to drop out of the race and Beck has said that he’d vote for Ron Paul as a third party candidate rather than supporting the former Speaker.

This time, it was Newt Gingrich who walked away unscathed from a Republican Presidential debate.

Newt Gingrich’s foreign policy vision leaves much to be desired.

Mitt Romney’s campaign seems have Newt Gingrich targeted.

Newt Gingrich is looking really good in the Hawkeye State right now.

The odds of a come back by the Texas Governor do not look good.

Stranger things have happened.

Last night’s Huckabee Presidential Forum was different, and surprisingly substantive.

We won’t have Herman Cain to kick around anymore.

Could Newt Gingrich really become the Republican nominee? Stranger things have happened.

Expect plenty of GOP infighting if President Obama is re-elected next November.

I liveblogged and tweeted my instant, mostly snarky, reaction to the CNN foreign policy debate. Here are some more fully formed thoughts.

I’ll be liveblogging tonight’s Republican national security debate over at RealClearWorld along with a solid team of foreign policy analyst

Newt Gingrich, Republican frontrunner. Four words most people never thought they’d see together.

With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.

Are these The Final Two?