August 27, 2012
Locker Room Speech
When Bob Dole announced Jack Kemp as his running mate in 1996 at the San Diego convention, there was a hope that the one-time quarterback could lead a drive to take back the lead from Bill Clinton. Dole was down...
August 26, 2012
Airport T-Shirts
On my way to Tampa, I walked in a novelty shop in Reagan Washington Airport (I thought I could buy a magazine there, which I couldn’t), and I noticed a t-shirt that said something pejorative about Republicans (something along the...
August 24, 2012
Obama’s favorite opponent?
First published in The Hill. When my fellow columnist Juan Williams wrote, “Political professionals are saying quietly that Mitt Romney conceded the presidential race by putting Rep. Paul Ryan on his ticket,” he was channeling his inner James Reston. In...
August 24, 2012
Turning Conventional Wisdom
The conventional wisdom at the beach house needs to be turned if Mitt Romney is going to be able to win this November. My wife’s girlfriends all gather together for a week each August at the beach, and I had...
August 22, 2012
Pro-Life Democrats Roll Over and Beg
With all the attention the media are and will be putting into presenting the GOP as a party held captive by pro-life extremists, it’s worth noting that the Democratic Party of recent memory has continued its long march leftward on...
August 22, 2012
Will Social Issues Kill the GOP?
Wide-spread panic has hit the Republican Party, thanks to Hurricane Todd. Todd Akin, the Missouri Congressman who is slated to run against Claire McCaskill, the Democratic Missouri Senator, made some inaccurate medical assertions the other day, and is now facing...