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Santorum Skepticism

Henry Olsen is one of my favorite writers.  He explains the problem with Santorum’s strategy to win over white (and not only white) working-class voters.  Olsen just nails it and every right-of-center politician with national ambitions should read the article.  I . . . . Continue Reading »

Not So Bad In The End

I’ve spent a lot of the Republican nominating race complaining about the various demagogues and/or con artists like Trump, Cain, Bachmann, and Gingrich who, at one time or another either led the polls or were the main alternative to Romney. As Ross Douthat pointed out last month,  . . . . Continue Reading »

Very Quickly On Last Night

1.  I think Peter and Rich Lowry over at NRO said a lot.  2.  One huge advantage that Santorum will have over Gingrich is that conservative journalists won’t turn on Santorum the way they did on Gingrich (unless Santorum really melts down or something).  Santorum . . . . Continue Reading »

Involvement Issues

Over at Big Think, Peter Lawler writes that: Another reason for the low turnout is the bizarrely huge number of debates that have absurdly lengthened the campaign. Robert says that those who Republicans who long for a candidate worthy of their deep devotion—such as Jindal or Christie or . . . . Continue Reading »

Romney In Florida Tonight

The speech wasn’t as aggressively awful as his Iowa Caucus night speech, but his reworked stump speech still isn’t much good.  He is trying to run as human placebo.  He needs to kill a couple of lines that he has fallen in love with.  I’m talkinng about lines like: . . . . Continue Reading »

Grading On A Curve

Dr. Ceaser is right that we should consider the situation when looking at what a particular debating performance tells us about a candidate’s future debating ability.  Herman Cain’s boomlet was built on his debate performances.  A necessary condition of those performances was . . . . Continue Reading »

It Seems

that with every debate the questions just seem to get worse and worse.  Zero questions on Medicare.  Who-knows-how-long on moon colonies.  Why should your wife be the best  First Lady?  What job would you give Marco Rubio (it wasn’t phrased that way but . . . )?  . . . . Continue Reading »

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