November 16, 2012
Game Change Or More of the Same?
Here are some remarks I made to NABPAC that I thought I would share with you. It was a status quo election. Or was it? The players all seem exactly the same. Barack Obama. John Boehner. Harry Reid. Mitch McConnell. ...
November 15, 2012
Missed Opportunities
My opinion of the Presidential debates is that they were about like watching a “Rocky 100” reunion movie in 2046 where Sylvester Stallone and Carl Weathers have another fight when they are both 100 years old! I think both Obama...
November 15, 2012
Getting It Good And Hard
It was H.L. Mencken who said: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” Plenty of people got what they deserved in this election. Mitt Romney proved yesterday...
November 14, 2012
Short-Term Pain, Long-Term Gain?
Airplane! is one of my favorite movies. It has a lot of great scenes, but one of my favorites profiled James J. Kirkpatrick and Shana Alexander arguing, like they always did on Sixty Minutes, about the fate of the airplane...
November 13, 2012
The New Puritanism
Had David Petraeus decided to divorce his wife, he would still be CIA Director, and the FBI would be investigating somebody else’s sex life. If David Petraeus were gay, he would still be CIA Director, and the FBI would be...
November 12, 2012
Forward?
In retrospect, Forward was a brilliant campaign motto. Forward for the President implied backward for his opponent. And, unfortunately for the Republicans, they fell into the archetype all too easily. The Romney campaign started with the premise that the election...