Jason Stanford

Mitt Romney has given me gaffe fatigue. The other day he said, "I'm not familiar with precisely what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was," and I couldn't even be bothered to stop what I was doing and make fun of him. All winter...

A recent question on a standardized test in New York State seemed to set the bar for stupidity in education reform. Schoolchildren were asked to imagine a race between a talking pineapple and a rabbit and were asked why the spectators ate the pineapple and which animal was...

Since Barack Obama declared his support for marriage equality, the response so far has been one big yawn. Most independent and moderate voters say the decision makes no difference, and Republicans can't bestir themselves to growl at the gays.  Obama might have given the green light to two dudes...

Running for president -- for any elective office, really -- is an extended job interview. And as in any job interview, some questions are out of bounds. Why is your butt so big? Are you single? Do you have any embarrassing health problems? And do they explain why your butt's...

There are more kinds of lies in politics than there are Inuit words for snow. And when Mitt Romney said the other day that he didn't have a short list for VP, he was telling a "Washington lie," a false statement meant to forestall further questions without actually deceiving anyone:...

The black Kennedy has become the black LBJ.

In the hyper-political circles I travel in, the release of Robert Caro's latest Lyndon Johnson biography, The Passage of Power, was received with the glee that's usually reserved for an Obama rally. To paraphrase Joe Biden, the fourth book in Caro's promised...

If Rick Perry didn't exist, we would have to invent him. Luckily, David Frum did so in his new novel, Patriots.

Frum, the former George W. Bush speechwriter-turned-conservative apostate, describes our lushly coiffed governor in a cruel aside as a "bald-headed" Republican who "should have been a leading...

It's not every day a conservative DC insider tells the truth so nakedly -- "Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem."

That was the headline to a Washington Post op-ed written by Norman J. Ornstein, a conservative...

Does it ever seem that Republicans are wrong about everything these days?

The list of demonstrable malarkey that Republicans hold to be unalienable truths is laughably long: Obama is Kenyan; Obamacare has death panels, increases the deficit, and pays for health care for illegal immigrants; Abortions give you breast cancer...

Everyone believes that Barack Obama can't win Texas because Democrats don't spend any money here. I wrote as much in a guest column in these pages back in February, declaring confidently that when Texas Democrats put money into getting out the Hispanic vote, then we'll become the biggest swing state...

Mitt Romney came out with a new idea the other day, and it took his consultants a full day to disavow it. For Romney, that qualifies as a deeply-held belief.

Speaking at a fundraiser in Florida, Romney said, "We have to get Hispanics to vote for our party" and...

Sometimes the future shows up when you least expect it. Just ask Brewster McCracken. If his life had gone according to plan, right now he'd been running for re-election as mayor of Austin instead of driving one of his former campaign advisers around a new urbanist utopia he's creating.

And...

Welcome back from Neverland, America.

Republicans asked Americans to treat Herman Cain like a serious candidate and pretend that turning the moon into the 51^st state was a serious idea, and all the while Mitt Romney's handlers acted as if they believed happy thoughts could make their candidate fly.

It...

Anne Wynne says she's not surprised she became a gay rights leader, but it's still a heck of a story. It's not every day that a rich girl from one of the most segregated enclaves in Texas grows up to be a divorce lawyer with a husband, three kids,...

If there's one thing I've learned about women, it's that they love it when men belittle their concerns. When angry, they adore being told to "calm down." When worried, they want you to pat them on the head. When they have an issue, say, "Don't be silly." Works every time.

Y'all can go home. Put away your hoodies and cancel the vigils. Pick up the race cards, the game's over. There is no more racism in America. The Texas Attorney General said so.

All this is a result of what's called by the political cognoscenti as "Voter ID," a concept...

When Gallup came out with a new poll showing the president opening up an 18-point lead with women, pundits blamed the war on women. But according to a new study, Republicans might have someone entirely different to blame: Ann Romney.

No, I'm not referring to when she went on...

Which Ryan plan is worse, Rep. Paul Ryan's budget or Jets coach Rex Ryan's trade for Tim Tebow?

"Tough call," said Democratic strategist Adnaan Muslim, who identified himself as a "long-suffering" Jets fan. "Both (Ryan plans) could cause deaths, nausea and vomiting."

Most Jets fans I know howled when their...

It's possible we're not being fair to Mitt Romney. Really, would the stuff coming out of your mouth make any more sense if you had to spend a year traveling with Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich? I'm surprised the man's still speaking English. He must feel like the in-law on...

Who knew that Rick Santorum would turn out to be a voice of moderation in the war on women? In their fight to maintain control over their own health care decisions, women are now fighting this war on several fronts against the same kind of mouth breathers who opposed civil...