Mitt Romney really wants to talk about the economy. Or at least he wants to talk about talking about the economy. The first major debate of the election cycle was more an exercise in wheel-spinning than anything else.
Mitt Romney really wants to talk about the economy. Or at least he wants to talk about talking about the economy. The first major debate of the election cycle was more an exercise in wheel-spinning than anything else.
Pawlenty manages to keep coming up with the most outrageous proposals of this year's Republican presidential field, and now he's tacking way to the right on government protection of the public's health and safety.
A friend asked yesterday whether I was planning to watch the Republican debate last night. I wasn't, and this morning, reading about the debate I realized why. It doesn't matter.
I can nearly remember a time when there was growth, when there were jobs. But for the life of me -- it's the amnesia sticks, still working their magic -- I can't remember how many rules and regulations there were back then.
Perhaps from a distance, the Garden State Governor is highly appealing but trust me, for many of us in New Jersey the bloom is off the Christie rose -- a rose that has too many thorns.
You can be a lot of things when you run for president -- slippery with your facts, loose with your zipper, overindulgent with the booze most of your adult life or in possession of a thin resume -- but you can't be weak.
Bachmann's biggest job right now is to convince political insiders who know her as a bomb thrower that she is more than a "movement candidate." If she is serious, she can't be the GOP's Dennis Kucinich.
To the chagrin of her less media-savvy opponents, feisty Michele Bachmann lives to fight another day. Long after most of these other candidates have vanished from the race, it appears likely she'll still be standing.
Every candidate on tonight's debate stage not only continues to support the Bush tax cuts, but also proposes additional tax cuts for corporations and individual millionaires. How do they explain this?
The Republican field for the 2012 presidential nomination is full of choices. But are they good choices? Not according to Republican candidates.
How about a moratorium on the politicization of Zen? What we're looking for is authenticity, a goal Zen shares with most religions, systems of thought and plain common sense.
As the President travels to the Island of Enchantment this week to fulfill a promise, his secret hope will be to enchant U.S. Latinos watching the President from the mainland with all eyes on the 2012 U.S. presidential race.
Americans enjoy the combativeness of their reality TV-inspired tactics, but the four-times bankrupt businessman and Alaskan half-term governor just don't have the movie-star moxie of our recent bigger-than-life American presidents.
The attitudes of Millenials represent more than a mere generation gap between younger and older voters in the population -- they constitute a political chasm when it comes to the policies of the two major parties.
Given that there's really no good reason for Newt Gingrich to be in the race, it was inevitable that his candidacy would flame out. It was just a matter of when.
Democracy in action is a beautiful thing to see. For the past few weeks, a colorful, makeshift camp erected by young Spanish protestors demanding gov...
Following the resignations of the Gingrich campaign manager and fifteen of the campaign's most senior aides, sources report that the campaign's candidate may now be heading for the door.
Politics would be much better served if we approached it in the same manner that we approach life and our relationships -- that we should communicate in campaigns in the same way that we operate in our personal lives.
Does knowing whom Paul Revere actually warned make a possible candidate any more or less savant on fiscal policy? Should declaring that the American Revolution began in New Hampshire doom one's chances for nomination?
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Among fiscal Republicans, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, energy subsidies are quickly becoming taboo. Palin recently w...
It's hard to predict what could happen in the GOP primary, but at this point, Rick Santorum's barely-limping-along campaign seems in need of divine intervention.