Shot In The Dark

A Redder Shade of Purple

RCP notes it - putting the '08 GOP convo in Saint Paul might be not just part of an ongoing attempt to flip the upper Midwest to the GOP, but could also take T-Paw's act national:But the big enchilada for...

A Year Late

Where was this President Bush a year ago?President Bush suggested Thursday that Democrats don't have the stomach to fight the war on terror, battling back in the election-season clamor over administration intelligence showing terrorism spreading. "Five years after 9/11, the...

Roots of Discontent

Our good friends Ed and Mary Katherine Ham are involved in a fairly crucial fundraising effort. As Ed puts it:We have selected fourteen Congressional races and four Senate races we see as critical and close enough to warrant organized support...

The Amazing Race

For the first time since...er, 1996, I think, the GOP nomination race is an actual competition. Unlike 1996, we in the GOP have something to lose. And while the Democrats are obliging us by, so far, proposing a platform that...

GOP: Not Dead Yet

I've noted in this space before - every year, there's an issue or two that the punditry breathlessly slaver is going to "kill the GOP". In 2002 it was Gay Marriage, which was supposed to rip the social conservative wing...

Open Letter to the Senate Republicans

Does anyone recall the likes of George Mitchell or Tip O'Neill mincing around like they were afraid of a mouse under the couch, worrying about making sure their actions in Congress didn't screw them up someday when they were the...

Trip Through History

1974: Watergate was going to be the death of the Republican Party. 1980: The Moral Majority was going to be the end of the Republican Party. 1982: Reagan's "extremism" and defecit spending was going kill the Republican Party. 1988: The...

If Only...

...P.J. O'Rourke were Dubya's speechwriter, as in his Alternative Inaugural Address from the Weekly Standard. Intro:MY FELLOW AMERICANS, I had intended to reach out to all of you and bring a divided nation together. But I changed my mind. America...

Why I Love Ann Coulter, Part II

Most of us are raised to be painstakingly civil. Worse, most of us scandinavian midwesterners are trained from birth to be thoroughly conflict-averse. And when you're a conservative in Minnesota, you're probably working on recovering from four decades of political...

Coleman: Annan Must Go

Norm Coleman calls for Kofi Annan's ouster in today's WSJ.While many questions concerning Oil-for-Food remain unanswered, one conclusion has become abundantly clear: Kofi Annan should resign. The decision to call for his resignation does not come easily, but I have...

Somewhere In The Swamps of Jersey

My political hero, Bret Schundler, is running again for Governor of New Jersey....