In February of 2008 former oil man and then president George W. Bush was asked about the coming prospect of $4.00 a gallon gasoline. His response to what he would advise working Americans was a basic, “That’s interesting, I hadn’t heard that.” President Bush’s conservative defenders at the time were quick to point out that [...]
As the Republican party’s rank apathy for its presidential field becomes more and more apparent, the party has been putting forward a series of wedge issues in an effort to steal the political momentum back from President Obama. After House Speaker John Boehner’s work to fire the American people’s passions over the proposed Keystone XL [...]
I’m having a difficult time trying to fashion a coherent point regarding the new Catholic-Contraception uproar with the White House. I was raised in the Catholic faith and attended Catholic school until the fifth grade. I also have no issue with contraception availability as a way to stem the growth of unwanted children. The timing [...]
After last night’s results from GOP Primary Party Train Part Seven, things again look bad for our boy Mittens. But it should be noted that this year’s Republican presidential primary is like the weather in Florida. Just give it a minute and it will change drastically. Last night’s turn had Dan Savage’s favorite Pennsylvania senator [...]
Nuance and context are normally things that the modern conservative shuns when it comes to political discourse. When former Tennessee senator and Vice president Al Gore discussed how he’d spearheaded the development of the internet for public use through legislation, conservatives and Republicans spent the next decade guffawing about how he’d claimed he’d invented the [...]
Today former Utah governor John Huntsman withdrew from the race for the Republican nomination for president. Now, what looked like a crowded race could be over before Florida holds its presidential primary at the end of January. The city of Jacksonville was slated to host a nationally televised presidential debate on January 26th, and the [...]
The wonder and spectacle of the Iowa Caucuses has come and gone. I was thinking on Tuesday evening that somewhere, out there in the great beyond, Theodore H. White was sitting down to the typewriter and began the first chapter of The Making Of The President 2012. It’s normally my custom to write a post [...]
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We are just beyond one year from the 2012 United States presidential election, and at this point the cast of characters are essentially set. The combination of time and contenders who have bowed out, have us set with the incumbent Democrat and his main Republican challengers. The Republican field has some returning faces from 2008, [...]
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