Pete Spiliakos

when he writes “ if pressure could be put on Bush to nix Harriet Miers in lieu of Samuel Alito, then I suspect that, if circumstance opened the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice, similar effective pressure could be put on Romney from conservatives.”  Romney might . . . . Continue Reading »

speech to the NRA today.  The stuff on four more years of Obama meaning forty more years of an Obama Supreme Court was pretty good for his intended audience, though I think that a focus on specific issues would help Romney more with both right-leaning and swing-voters.  If any of the five . . . . Continue Reading »

1.  If Romney is “doomed” (in the sense that he will lose regardless of whatever strategy he employs or whatever gaffes he does or doesn’t make), then it will be because the public perceived the economy to be improving enough that the marginal voters(s) decided that Obama is . . . . Continue Reading »

or learn to live with him anyway.  There was this moment, just before Michigan, when it seemed possible to avert a Romney nomination.  That doesn’t mean that we would have gotten a Santorum nomination.  If Santorum had won Michigan, it is possible that Romney’s’s . . . . Continue Reading »

I think there are multiple reasons why the Trayvon Martin incident has become a big deal socially.  I have a low opinion of the motives of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and I think Carl gets at some of the truth.   When something gets this big, a lot of different kinds of people and a . . . . Continue Reading »

Do you know that the Supreme Court struck down a federal economic regulation in Lochner v. New York?   President Obama knows it.  It just isn’t true.   I think Carl got the tone just right in his comments in this thread.   Carl writes: But with Obama, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Carl is right that President Obama didn’t mean to come out against the power of the Supreme Court to strike down laws passed by Congress.  Well, actually he did just that in this sentence where he said “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would . . . . Continue Reading »

Social conservative journalist Ramesh Ponnuru (one of my favorites) writes that putting social conservative Rick Santorum on the Republican ticket would be bad for social conservatives.  Ponnuru argues that Santorum is too often bad at picking his fights and makes a bad impression with . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, he isn’t really that, but I have some thoughts on Anthony Kennedy and Obamacare over at NLT. . . . . Continue Reading »

I’ve been trying to come up with some organized thoughts about who Romney should pick as Vice President.  That’s not working out so well.  So I’ll go with some disorganized thoughts, 1. Obama has a likeable persona who will run a well organized, tactically competent, and . . . . Continue Reading »