Ron Paul is in a statistical tie with President Obama if the election were held today, with President Obama pulling 47% of the vote and Congressman Paul taking 45%. In fact, Paul would probably beat the President today, as the undecideds almost all break to the challenger in a presidential contest. Michele Bachmann is four points behind the President […]
Read the rest of this entry »The New Abortion Debate
The New York Times tackles today the emerging issue of gender selection in the U.S., otherwise known as gender selecting abortions. The practice has become commonplace in China, India, and other nations, but it remains rarer here. But hardly unheard of. The impetus for the Times story is the new DNA test that can show […]
Read the rest of this entry »The $50,000-a-Week Vacation
President Obama has every right to a vacation, and he hasn’t been shy about taking them. So Nile Gardiner in The London Telegraph today poses the better question than “should he or shouldn’t he?” Gardiner asks, “Is this an act of presidential Hara Kiri?” And, indeed, it looks like it is. President Obama, who once showed […]
Read the rest of this entry »Ron Paul Goes for It
Ron Paul’s new ad just has to make you smile. I laughed out loud at its…audacity. Taking a page out of the Obama Book, Paul and his team half-facetiously declare him “The One.” Paul may never become President of the United States, but he is representing his libertarian principals nobly. Paul may get — and deserve — his […]
Read the rest of this entry »And Then There Were Three
Rick Perry and Mitt Romney are locked on each other already. The two are sniping back and forth 48 hours after Perry’s entrance into the GOP primary. The news media is gobbling it up. Finally, something of interest to cover. Perry, a late entry in the race, needs to mix things up. The worst thing […]
Read the rest of this entry »The President’s Numbers, Minus the Black Vote
President Obama fell below the 40% approval threshold for the first time this weekend, according the latest Gallup Survey, not long after the stock market dipped below the 11,000 mark again. Mr. Obama now enjoys the support of just 39% of Americans; 54% disapprove of his performance, with the rest falling into undecided territory. President George W. Bush, […]
Read the rest of this entry »More Obama Buyer’s Remorse
More buyer’s remorse from a former Obama supporter who now wishes he had supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic Primaries. St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bill McClellan opines: Hillary was not new. She represented the second act of ‘Billary,’ and I had tired of that play long before it ended its eight-year run. So I voted for Obama in the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Empty Suit
Dana Milbank has an excoriating piece in The Washington Post today on President Obama’s serial lack of leadership. It’s worth a read. What I find most interested in how ingrained the lack-of-leadership narrative has become, especially among the White House press corps. It will only grow more intense. This could be a long 16 months for the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Campaign Ad, Rick Perry ’10
Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) has a great economic story to run on. I would expect to see his presidential campaign ads looking a whole like this one from his 2010 re-election campaign. It couldn’t be more on message in today’s economy.
Read the rest of this entry »Perry ThisClose
Politico is reporting that Texas Governor Rick Perry will all but announce his candidacy for President in South Carolina on Saturday. The fact that he’s planning to run isn’t exactly a secret, but lots of candidates get right to the edge of the pool and never jump in. This suggests he’s already in mid-air. The interesting thing to watch over the next […]
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