What Those Primary Results Mean
Blanche Lincoln narrowly beat her Democratic challenger Bill Halter. She is among the walking wounded stumbling into the November election and is unlikely to keep her seat. Ben Smith got the quote of...
View ArticleNikki Fever
In the end, it wasn’t even close. Nikki Haley trounced her opponent by 30 points in the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial primary. She overcame smears about infidelity — which were never proven...
View ArticleNot to Be Ignored
Hotline reports: Ex-AK Gov. Sarah Palin’s political action committee is no joke, according to new reports filed with the FEC: In the last quarter, Sarah PAC raised $865K and spent $654K, demonstrating...
View ArticleForget the Rule Book
Ross Douthat looks at the pre-positioning for the 2012 Republican presidential primary. He explains that there are the populists — Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee — with devoted followers and equally...
View ArticleSarah Palin’s Certain Type of Genius
Over at Slate, no fan club of Sarah Palin’s, John Dickerson concedes: Sarah Palin has special medicine. That’s about the only clear conclusion to be drawn from Tuesday’s primary results. She backed...
View ArticleLiberal Feminists Freak Out
Charles Krauthammer spots one of the most important political developments of 2010: The rise of the conservative woman. Sarah Palin’s influence is the most obvious manifestation of the trend. But the...
View ArticleThe Perils of Palin Punditry
You can bet the “how to stop Palin” columns will keep proliferating. There’s one in the Daily Beast today, warning the GOP establishment “to treat her with respect, and to avoid any hint at all of a...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: A Grizzly Cub Wins
One of Sarah Palin’s picks, Nikki Haley becomes South Carolina’s first woman governor. If Palin deserves some blame for Christine O’Donnell, she gets some credit for this one.
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Best Tweet of the Night
From GOP tech-meister Patrick Ruffini: “The racist teabaggers have elected Marco Rubio, and Susana Martinez, and Tim Scott, and Nikki Haley, and Bill Flores, and Allen West, and…”
View ArticleDiversity Matters Only on the Left
As the New York Post‘s editors remind us: Remember the “angry, racist Tea Party?” For months, that was the line pushed by Democrats, the NAACP and much of the mainstream media. Funny, though: The Tea...
View ArticleSearching
As I noted on Friday, the GOP could use some unifiers who can fuse the Tea Party’s enthusiasm and small-government devotion with the mature street smarts of conservative stalwarts who possess...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Paul Ryan
The Republican response — indeed, the opposition-party response — to the State of the Union is usually the graveyard of upward ambitions. Not tonight. Paul Ryan, the Wisconsin congressman, is giving...
View ArticleThe Nikki Haley Pinata Spectacle
Remember the time that some random liberal hanged Sarah Palin in effigy for Halloween? This is like that, except instead of “some random liberal” it’s long-time South Carolina AFL-CIO President Donna...
View ArticleAnother Day, Another DNC Nazi Reference
In case you’ve lost count, South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian is the third Democrat to compare Republicans to the Nazis in the past three days. The State reported on Harpootlian’s...
View ArticleThe Age of the GOP Governors
Yesterday a landmark event happened in Michigan. The Wolverine State–which is not simply home of the United Auto Workers but in many respects is the birthplace of the modern labor movement–has become...
View ArticleDelicious Irony
Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina has appointed Rep. Tim Scott to fill the Senate seat held by Jim DeMint, who has resigned to become head of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative Washington...
View ArticleRacism at the Times
There is a New York Times op-ed this morning that is somewhere beyond appalling. It is by Adolph L. Reed Jr., a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Reed writes...
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