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Lately, I've been hearing all this talk about election fraud, "noncitizens," and the like. Well, I say forget about it. Not necessary! What we need is an election dance-off à la Dancing with the Stars, and the winner gets to be president of the United States!
I could spend months detailing my differences with John Derbyshire regarding American race relations. However, one of his observations about politics and race is uncomfortably true.
The ability to snatch the spotlight when good things happen and vanish the moment they go south is the domain of the credit weasel. Shamelessness is fundamental to superior credit weaseling. It's also a sine qua non for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
We have been entertained and outraged as the political theater of the absurd that was the Republican primary played out. From one state to the next, a collection of mixed nuts attacked each other and President Obama with a wild-eyed hysteria that is, frankly, beneath the office.
Romney has been free for almost a month now to campaign against Obama. Not surprisingly, campaigning against a gifted politician like Obama has proven more difficult than debating Santorum or trying to raise more money than Gingrich.
It is a sad reflection on the state of the Republican Party, but nonetheless true, that nominating somebody with a basic knowledge of the economy, foreign policy and history was not a given.
There is no more misleading thing in politics today than polls, particularly those that are conducted more than three months before a primary or general election.
As with many things in life, when it comes to being an independent voter, actions speak much louder than words. If your actions show that you are a party loyalist, then embrace it. If your actions show that you are an independent voter, then embrace it.
Most Americans agree that sexual harassment is a serious matter, but it's not surprising that Letterman's audience loudly laughed: there's no longer anything shocking about these sorts of revelations.
The Republican primaries and Angry Birds share several basic characteristics: both are infuriatingly frustrating, defy physics and logic as we know them and can instantly turn into terminally addictive pastimes.
The Republican nominating season was good entertainment, but much less competitive than many had hoped. By the end of the first week of April, Mitt R...
Sarah Palin has apparently fooled another foreigner, this time a young British historian, Timothy Stanley, who can't quite see the American political landscape from his ivory tower at Oxford University.
This week the hoodie replaced the Etch A Sketch as the most talked about item in the news media, with Geraldo Rivera standing by his outrageous comments and Rep. Bobby Rush illegally rocking one in Congress.
If you don't know the difference between a socialite and socialist, you are a prime candidate for the U.S. Republican debate team.
You guys and your radical extremist social views are the gift that keeps on giving. So keep it up! Keep all the God, gays and sex stuff coming. We love it.
As millions of Republican voters cast ballots on Super Tuesday, many are no doubt wondering how the GOP managed to squander a 2010 electoral victory into such a mistake-riddled 2012 presidential campaign. I'm not a Republican, but as a former White House aide and veteran of several political campaigns, I'm quite frankly shocked and stunned by how badly the Republicans have campaigned this year. That doesn't mean the Democrats will win in November, but at times it seems as though the Republicans have been trying to lose this election.
