Peter Lawler

1. So Pete is right: The Gingrich surge is SC is greater than I expected. The reason seems to be the demagogic debate performance Pete meticulously described. Newt’s only down three! The blog consensus is that he’s almost the favorite now. 2. And there are a couple of blogs explaining . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is the first of my big thoughts on it. . . . . Continue Reading »

1. It won’t change anything. Gingrich had the crowd with him and some memorable answers, and Santorum, although tough and quirkily authentic, didn’t shine enough. Romney was rated very low on the authenticity-meter by the tweeters and Pete, but he just wasn’t bad enough. Paul won . . . . Continue Reading »

1. It’s amazing how few blogs are saying MLK stuff today. So I thought about talking about the great and effective promotion of “direct action” directed against “white moderates” who knew, being Americans, what was right but (like most of us most of the time) preferred . . . . Continue Reading »

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The world’s leading blogging reviewers gave my MODERN AND AMERICAN DIGNITY an A+, a higher grade than the one earned by many timeless classics and perennial favorites. . . . . Continue Reading »

Pete’s bitterly hilarious post below on Romney being authentically vacuous—knowing it, loving it, bragging about it etc.—deserves a wide audience. But it seems to be, in its way, a sad goodbye to Romney bashing or a prelude to a long effort to be in love with MItt. Having read . . . . Continue Reading »

1. The turnout was down from last time and almost half the votes were cast by independents. 2. Romney won but nobody thought he really did well. I thought his speech was vacuous and inauthentic. 3. Most of the rest of the vote went to guys who aren’t really challengers to him for the . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s pretty obvious why. The people, like me, who believed that THE TEA PARTY energy would make this time different were probably wrong. THE TEA PARTY will make no real difference at all. But most interesting is a comment in the link’s thread. Romney is like Dole in exactly this way: . . . . Continue Reading »

Pete is right that Gingrich is hanging tough. The main problem remains South Carolina: He and Santorum split the non-Romney vote. Then it appears the same thing happens again in Florida. I think neither Newt nor Rick can really have a future without a win by Florida. So it appears that Romney is . . . . Continue Reading »