September 25, 2008 - John McCain's makeup artist costs over $5,000 per application. (She also works on American Idol). No offense to her skills, but for five grand, he should've looked like this...
September 15, 2008 - On the morning news media are now calling 'Black Monday,' we turn to our presidential candidates for words of reassurance and hope. And, maybe- just maybe-there is hope, as the candidate who up until recently did not understand the internet, has just opened his very first email...
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July 9, 2008 - On CNN's "American Morning" John McCain tangles with John Roberts...
April 9, 2008 - The farm would have been at its summer peak, and one may imagine John and Abigail walking their fields together, John glad for home ground beneath his feet again and delighting in the look of things under her management. There would be hard cider again, to start the day...
D...
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February 5, 2008 - In true Orwellian style, the McCain camp paints Romney as 2008's John Kerry...
February 4, 2008 - As I watched the Republican debates the other night...well, as much as I could watch without hurling, I was stunned to witness John McCain, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee competing to see who was more like Ronald Reagan. Secretly I was hoping they'd all be like Ronald Reagan...
January 31, 2008 - While I'm not ready to give Barack Obama the Democratic nomination just yet, the idea that he may get the nod has me worried. Not for myself or for the country. In fact, he could indeed be the greatest thing for the country since Devo. Well, OK, maybe my...
January 31, 2008 - With each of the Republican candidates desperate to be seen as the new Ronald Reagan, Paul Slansky looks back at the presidency of the old one, whose senility clearly set in at least a decade before he acknowledged it in 1994...
January 25, 2008 - The mysterious "raise taxes" whisper during Mitt Romney's answer about Ronald Reagan...
January 18, 2008 - Thinning the Republican herd in this year's Presidential Sweepstakes is proving to be harder than 3-D chess with transparent pieces. In their first three primaries, the GOP has mounted three different heads on their electoral wall. And yeah, that means I'm disregarding the great state of Wyoming...
January 16, 2008 - [Romney stands at his father's headstone in an empty, cold cemetery]
MITT: Hey, dad. It's Mitt. Well, I did it. I did it for you--won the 'ol homestate. Lots of car factories here. It's just...oh, I don't know. It felt like you were here...
January 3, 2008 - Enough is enough. I've been stuck on a shelf for nine weeks with no writing staff, afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted in advance for me. That's because, for the last 10 years, I've been fortunate enough to have a full line-up of...
December 7, 2007 - Mitt Romney may be downplaying the role Mormonism would play if he's elected president, but 23/6's investigative unit has unearthed a sacred text long kept under wraps by the Church of Latter Day Saints. These secret teachings, known as The Book of Rom, were first revealed in...