Politico’s Roger Simon, writing about a town hall meeting featuring Mitt Romney and John McCain that featured quite a few unfriendly questions from the audience, closes with this: After a few more questions, Romney says, “I am told we are out of time for questions.”… Read More
Archives for January 2012
I’ll See You in New Hampshire — Then Iowa, Utah, and Nevada
Did ‘Deregulation’ Cause the Financial Crisis?
Peter Wallison says no.
Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Is the Best Thing About Him
“I like Ron Paul, except for his foreign policy” is heard a lot. It often means, “I like Ron Paul, but he doesn’t repeat the statements about foreign policy I am accustomed to hearing from the establishment.” I took a stab at discussing Ron Paul and foreign policy to skeptics… Read More
The One Good Thing John McCain Did in 2008
He ran this ad against Mitt Romney. (Thanks to Lew Rockwell’s Political Theatre .)
New Suffolk University Poll
I just received an email from the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston; its latest Suffolk/7News New Hampshire poll (conducted January 3-4) returns these results: Romney 41% Paul 18% Santorum 8% Gingrich 7% Huntsman 7%
Ron Paul and Iowa
A few belated thoughts on Ron Paul and the Iowa caucuses. Certainly it’s a disappointment. Some people counter that what matters are the delegates, but in my opinion what actually matters right now is momentum, and an Iowa victory would have been great in that… Read More
Heritage Foundation: Drop Those Independent Thoughts, Citizen
The Heritage Foundation, as usual, is trying to rein in all non-establishment thinking, which is popping up all over the place these days. Its New Year’s Resolutions for Conservatives basically amount to this: if you still have any conservative instincts left, drop them and become a neoconservative already. Of course… Read More
‘I Support My President’
A Facebook group with this creepy name has 1.5 million likes.
Iowa, Tell the Establishment to Stick It
By voting for Ron Paul in the Iowa caucuses . From my latest article: If Ron Paul wins Iowa, CNN will put on a brave face. But don’t believe it. They will be deeply alarmed to realize that a large and growing segment of the population — many of them young people, who… Read More