What's Waiting for Obama: A Commentary by Joe Conason
For the next month or so, the conservative valentines will arrive every day at the headquarters of Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
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February 14, 2008
February 14, 2008
The Case for McCain: A Commentary by Lawrence Kudlow
Some things in life are quite simple. Here's one of them: Sen. John McCain is going to be our next president.
February 13, 2008
Why Hillary Will Lose: A Commentary by Dick Morris
Hillary Clinton has blown an almost sure shot at the Democratic presidential nomination. Having surrendered the lead to Obama, she is not likely ever to regain it.
February 13, 2008
Beware What You Wish For: A Commentary by Susan Estrich
A century ago, actually about 26 years ago, the powers in the Democratic Party decided it was time to take back control of the nominating process from the often derided crazies who had been leading the Party straight down the tubes with their choices of McGovern and Carter. Of course, Carter did win, but that was in 1976.
February 12, 2008
Treating Nature-Deficit Disorder: A Commentary by Froma Harrop
Attendance has been falling at America's National Parks since 1987. Blame videophilia, says a Nature Conservancy report.
February 11, 2008
Obama, the Democratic Nominee? Yes He Can!: A Commentary By Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
I believe that Barack Obama will defeat Hillary and win the Democratic nomination. I think that this weekend's victories in states as diverse as Washington State, Louisiana, Nebraska, and Maine illustrates his national appeal and demonstrates Hillary's inability to win in states without large immigrant and Latino populations.
February 11, 2008
The Bradley Effect?: An Inside Report by Robert D. Novak
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Which Democrat really won Super Tuesday? Thanks to the Democratic Party's proportional representation, it is not easy to say a week later. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama ran a virtual dead heat for delegates that day in 22 states clearly stacked in Obama's favor. But the way Obama lost California raises the specter of the dreaded Bradley Effect.
February 9, 2008
The Verdict of Super Tuesday: A Commentary by Michael Barone
Well, Super Tuesday is over, and now we have two major party presidential nominees. That's the lead sentence I thought five weeks ago I'd be writing for this column. But the 33-day round of caucuses and primaries that seemed likely to produce decisions after 23 states voted on Super Tuesday have failed to deliver.
February 9, 2008
McCain at CPAC: An Inside Report by Robert D. Novak
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. John McCain's managers, fearing an unfavorable reaction at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday, wanted to precede his speech with a video of Ronald Reagan praising McCain.
February 9, 2008
Barack's Road To Victory: A Commentary by Dick Morris
Is Hillary Clinton bi-coastal? Can she win in America's heartland? These questions surface in the wake of her victories in New York-New Jersey-Massachusetts and in California-Arizona and her defeats everywhere else except in her former native state of Arkansas and its two next-door neighbors, Tennessee and Oklahoma.
February 8, 2008
Bernanke's Next Challenge: A Commentary by Lawrence Kudlow
Charlie Plosser, president of the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank, warned this week about the risks of inflation, overly aggressive interest-rate cuts and further damage being done to the Fed's credibility. I agree with Plosser.
February 8, 2008
Between 'Inspiration' and Health Care: A Commentary by Froma Harrop
Why so many Americans want their president to be a personal motivator and religious guide vexes me. You do want a leader with dignity and self-control, but attending to the economy, national defense, foreign affairs, the environment and other aspects of the public's well being should be a full-time occupation.
February 8, 2008
Lucky Fella: A Commentary by Susan Estrich
John McCain is one lucky guy. A funny thing happened to him on the way to the Republican nomination. He was forced to run as himself. He had no choice but to try to win without the support of the hard-core conservatives he initially set out to court. He was pushed back onto the Straight Talk Express, onto the coach section of the plane, into the endless town halls, where he had no choice but to be himself, say what he thinks, run on his record and leave it at that.
February 7, 2008
GOP's Anti-Pork Nominee: An Inside Report by Robert D. Novak
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Mississippi's top two Republicans took sharply different views of Sen. John McCain as he moved toward their party's presidential nomination. Gov. Haley Barbour went on the Fox News Channel as primary returns came in Tuesday night to suggest the time was near to stop the contest and accept McCain as the winner. A few days earlier, Sen. Thad Cochran declared that his colleague from Arizona was not fit to be president.
February 7, 2008
Unconventional Thinking: A Commentary by Susan Estrich
A long time ago, which is to say at least a month or two ago, I consoled some friends who were despairing of the nastiness of the Democratic race by telling them that whoever won would be the better candidate for it, and that we might need a real race to produce a real winner.
February 7, 2008
Quo Vadis, Conservatives?: A Commentary by Michelle Malkin
"Quo vadis," conservatives? It's the ancient, apocryphal question the apostle Peter asked Jesus while fleeing persecution in Rome. Where are you going? Where do we go from here?
February 7, 2008
What Will McCain Do Now?: A Commentary By Joe Conason
The revival of John McCain's presidential candidacy, now expected to carry him through to his party's nomination, can be interpreted as either proof of the judgment of Republican primary voters or evidence of the paucity of alternative choices.
February 7, 2008
The Meaning of Super Tuesday: A Commentary By Douglas E. Schoen
The Republican Party has effectively chosen its nominee. That nominee is John McCain.
February 6, 2008
Berkeley Vs. America, Again: A Commentary by Michelle Malkin
The troop-bashers in Berkeley are at it once more. But this time, the rest of America lashed back. Message to the Left Coast: It's not the 1960s anymore.
February 5, 2008
"I Call You My Base": A Commentary by Froma Harrop
President Bush's new budget will top $3 trillion. It envisions massive deficits for fiscal years 2008 and 2009 -- nearly matching the record in 2004, when the federal budget went $412 billion into the hole.
