RON PAUL IS A BRAVE MAN. By applause alone, I’m giving this debate to Ron Paul. He is a bold man and his passion and cut-through-the-B.S. directness really is making the others look like fakers and hacks (except for Rudy G., who’s a fairly blunt fellow himself). As soon as the transcripts are up I’ll […]
Garance Franke-Ruta
Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.
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HUCKABEE COMES OUT…
HUCKABEE COMES OUT AGAINST CONTRACEPTION. Wait, did you miss that? That’s what Mike Huckabee‘s statement during the debate that he supports a Human Life Amendment and believes life starts at conception means. First, Huckabee played the nice guy card and said, “If someone is looking for a president who is going to have a mean […]
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RAGGING ON THOMPSON….
RAGGING ON THOMPSON. The debate’s opening moments certainly drove home the point that Fox News is not a huge fan of announcing-in-just-moments G.O.P. presidential contender Fred Thompson. The first question to the candidates was about his absence, leading to a series of acerbic and amusing replies from the candidates at his expense. John McCain, perhaps […]
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THE SIXTH SON….
THE SIXTH SON. Watching the lead-up to G.O.P. debate in New Hampshire tonight on the Fox News Channel, it occured to me that local Republican chairman Fergus Cullen looks like he could be Mitt Romney‘s long-lost sixth son. As it turns out, he’s a 35-year-old former D.C. political staffer who graduated from Yale in 1994 […]
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THE GORE ENDORSEMENT….
THE GORE ENDORSEMENT. Like Ben Smith‘s dissenter of the day, I’m also not sure that Barack Obama has Al Gore‘s endorsement locked up. Yes, there are commonalities between the two, but taking all the chatter I’ve heard over the past year into account, I would have to say that there are doubts in Gore circles […]
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Early Caucus Date Could Hurt the Democrats in Iowa
Holding the Iowa caucuses in early January will wreak havoc on Iowa’s student vote — and any campaign relying on it.
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IOWA CONSERVATIVE: CRAIG…
IOWA CONSERVATIVE: CRAIG SCANDAL NO RELFECTION ON ROMNEY. The arrest and guilty plea of Iowa G.O.P. frontrunner Mitt Romney‘s Idaho state chairman in a public restroom gay sex sting is unlikely to have an impact on the presidential preferences of Iowa social conservatives, said Iowa Christian Alliance president Steve Scheffler today. Idaho Sen. Larry Craig […]
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CAUCUSES SHOULD STAY…
CAUCUSES SHOULD STAY IN JANUARY. Iowa Secretary of State Michael Mauro says Democrats and Republicans have told him that they are committed to keeping the caucuses in January 2008. “We are bound and determined to hold the thing in January,” Mauro said in a phone interview this morning, reiterating the position he has taken all […]
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HUCKABEE’S WAITING GAME….
HUCKABEE’S WAITING GAME. Des Moines, Ia. — Rather than kicking his Iowa campaign up a notch, second-place Ames Straw Poll finisher Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas downsized his Iowa operation to just three paid staffers in the wake of his low-budget achievement. “Right now were back down to three. We had, gosh 16 or 18 […]
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SAVE THE MOUNTAINS!…
SAVE THE MOUNTAINS! Democrats are starting to issue statements condemning the administration’s new rule allowing coal mining companies to blast the tops off mountains and deposit them in streams, but if you’re looking for citizen action on the subject, I am reliably informed that ilovemountains.org, a site produced by Appalachian Voices and former Howard Dean-campaign […]