My latest essay at Pajamas Media is up today, " McCain Continues to Prove Himself the Enemy of the Grassroots ": The timing was impeccable. On the day after HarperCollins released the cover photo for Going Rogue — Sarah Palin’s highly anticipated autobiography — Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s former chief campaign advisor, predicted that if Palin were to win the 2012...
A few months ago, I declared that former speaker of the Florida House Marco Rubio would win his insurgent US Senate primary against Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. Watching the race unfold early, I saw many parallels to our own efforts in Connecticut in 2006, down to a picture of "the kiss" -- this time with Crist and Obama. My prognosticating powers seemed to take a hit after the Q2 fundraising...
In the course of discussing with Sam Tanenhaus his book The Death of Conservatism (an expansion of this essay he wrote for TNR), Reihan Salam claims in passing Karl Rove never imagined that opposition to same-sex marriage would cement a permanent Republican majority. It was a distraction that I'm sure he found distasteful. Andrew Sullivan pounces Rove thought this was a distraction? From his realignment?...
Apocalypse talk is catching on! And on Monday, John Weaver, McCain’s closest political adviser for much of the past decade, said that he was nearly certain that the former governor would never be the Republican nominee and added that, if she was, “it would surely mean a political apocalypse is upon us.” Steve Schmidt goes with the [...]
A political party controls the United States Congress. That party holds congressional hearings on whether a Vice Presidential candidate sneaked on board an SR-71 Blackbird, flew to Spain to negotiate the delayed release of American hostages, and threw the election. That conspiracy theory was Gary Sick’s. He postulated that then Vice Presidential candidate George H. W. Bush sneaked on board an...
You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player! DOWNLOADS: (3) PLAYS: (32) Greta Van Susteren , FOX News' serial stalker of Sarah Palin, was in shock over the announcement that Palin quit her job. When asked about what this means, she said... Greta:...It's hard to tell if she's giving up or gearing up and that I don't know... Greta whined about all the ethics complaints...
Saturday punditry, with a twist of Sarah Palin. Howard Fineman : I have covered politics for a long time. I can tell when someone is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for president. Howard, you might be right, but you're wrong about this: she may be running but she's no longer a player. But you never say "never" in politics, and there are reasons why it’s worth paying attention...
It was a remarkably muddled speech, full of that combination of folksy charm - and embarrassingly cutesy references to fridge magnets - which has marked her every public utterance. And it says a lot about her astonishing ego that we are left wondering whether or not this is her preparing to run in 2012. Though, why someone throwing in the towel should show us that they are ready to lead the free world...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 3 (UPI) -- Republicans inside and outside Alaska suggested Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin's resignation is a poor move if she wants to run for president. Whit Ayers, a Republican pollster, said the decision confirms her image as a lightweight, the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News reported. If you're a serous politician and you're seriously interested in higher office, the best thing...
WASHINGTON, June 4 (UPI) -- Several prominent Republicans are sending signals of interest in a possible 2012 U.S. presidential bid as the party seeks to re-energize itself, observers say. The political community twice this week saw signs of activity among prospective GOP presidential candidates, even though no one -- former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Mississippi...
WEAVER SEES GOP 'HEADED FOR A BLOWOUT'.... Just a few weeks ago, Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) added Republican strategist John Weaver, a long-time John McCain confidant, onto his team. It was a move that signaled Huntsman's interest in the...
John Weaver, who advised Utah Governor Jon Huntsman and was for years a close adviser to Sen. John McCain, told Byron York that "[i]f it's 2012 and our party is defined by Palin and Limbaugh and Cheney, then we're headed for a blowout. That's just the truth."
I've added a correction to the post on Vicki Iseman below: the NY Times never reported that former McCain adviser John Weaver felt there was a romantic link between Iseman and Sen. McCain. Full correction note below the jump. Correction: the NY Times did not report that John Weaver felt there was a romantic link between Iseman and Sen. McCain--simply that Weaver met with her after concerns were raised...
Of dissension in the GOP , I mean. John Weaver, a former senior aide to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said that Republicans must be careful not to allow their Democratic rivals to paint them all with the brush of Limbaugh. "The Democrats and the far left will do all they can to grab electoral turf," said Weaver. "And one sure way to do it is take some of the most controversial voices on...
TOO LATE TO ATONE?.... John Weaver, one of John McCain's closest friends and confidants, had an interesting quote in the Washington Post today about the Arizona senator. "If you had told me two years ago that John McCain would end...
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