Mitt Romney

Romney for President

Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the ...

Biden Takes Ryan to the Jerk Store

There is no bigger douchebag in American politics than Joe Biden. There is possibly no bigger douchebag in the solar system. His florid, monster-truck-sized, off-the-charts ...

Gary Johnson

Let Gary Johnson Debate

President Obama has been a failure. On his watch, the American economy has significantly deteriorated largely because he has stifled free market forces by over-regulating them and ...

Death of the Obamabots

Mitt Romney kicked Barack Obama’s ass so thoroughly Wednesday night, Attorney General Eric Holder has considered charging him with a hate crime. This gives us throbbing ...

Two Failures

President Obama is a failure as a president, and Gov. Romney is a failure as a candidate. When he took office, Obama told the press that if he couldn’t cure the economic ...

A Presidential Debate That Will Never Happen

Good evening, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney. I"€™ll be your moderator tonight. I hope our audience welcomes you with as much warmth as they can manage. Before I proceed with my ...

An Overdose of Hope

The Democrats are done weaving their web in Charlotte, and wow, what a web it was"€”an intricate lattice of multicolored Silly String that included everyone and said ...

Last Recourse of Failed Presidents

Both the 20th and 21st centuries have seen failed presidencies. William Howard Taft lost in 1912, though he might have retained office had not his old friend and former leader ...

A Fantasy Presidential Debate That Will Never Happen

Good evening, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney. I"€™ll be your sole interrogator tonight. I hope the audience welcomes you with as much warmth as they can manage. Before I proceed with ...

A Zero-Watt Affair

If the recently adjourned Republican National Convention was intended to cure insomnia, it was a thundering success. But if it was meant to light a fire under unmotivated ...

Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney

Mitt’s ‘Damn-the-Torpedoes!’ Decision

Mitt Romney’s decision to select Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate speaks well of the man who made it. Indeed, it seemed less like the moderate man we have come to know ...

Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?

Has Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war? So it seemed from the declaration in Jerusalem by his adviser Dan Senor, who all but flashed Israel a green light for war, ...

Is Mitt Serious About Condi?

The first criterion in choosing a vice president, it is said, is that he or she must be qualified to be president. Yet there is another yardstick by which candidates measure ...

Mitt Romney

Romney: Reaching Out to Everyone and Pleasing Nobody

On July 11 Mitt Romney addressed an NAACP conference in Houston, and the GOP media oozed admiration for his presumed courage and outreach. Although Romney is not likely to get ...

The Romnambulist

After winning a war of attrition in the primaries, Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican nominee for president. He is also a presumptive human being. Whereas questions still ...

The Antietam of the Culture War

It took Joe Biden’s public embrace of same-sex marriage to smoke him out. But after Joe told David Gregory of “Meet the Press” he was “absolutely ...


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