Smacking down Kristol and the GOP--long
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Weekly Standard Editor and Project For a New American Century guru William Kristol is spouting the latest GOP talking point: Kerry is disgraceful for criticizing Bush and thus is unfit to be the President.
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I just read an article on the Village Voice website that summed up one of the complaints I have had for some time about the Democratic Party: They won't fight.  At the same time, they are trying to convince conservative voters to vote for them instead of the Republicans and are losing votes on the liberal side as a result.   For both of these problems, I blame the Democratic Leadership Council.
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especially big business -- has never been monolithically Republican. Executives have been far too pragmatic for that. They have long used campaign
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It's a voluntary army vs. a professional force. Button-down Republicans vs. street-wise Democrats. It's the ground war of American politics, with allies of President Bush and Sen. John Kerry spending fortunes to find their supporters and &#151; here's the hard, final part &#151; get them to vote.
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Why their Hollywoos fight over Democratic territory is a taste of things to come
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* The Democrats have the blues. Their guy lost the White House. Their candidates lost campaigns for the US House and Senate. The map of the United States looks like someone spilled a full can
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In 1994, pollster Frank Luntz helped congressional Republicans sweep into power. Now he says the GOP has become everything it once swore to destroy
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A number of assertions in the latest Republican presidential debate went unchallenged because candidates spent more time criticizing Democrats from afar than challenging Â and correcting Â each other face to face.
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The Republican debate in Columbia, South Carolina on May 15 broached the issue of 'enhanced interrogation techniques' and torture, and whether or not the use of either is legitimate. &nbsp;Ron Paul and John McCain were the only two in the whole field who called 'enhanced interrogation techniques' a euphemism for torture, and they were the only two who expressly rejected the use of these techniques. Ron Paul at one point accused Brit Hume, a Fox News moderator, as well as the other candidates, of engaging in 'newspeak.' &nbsp; This was a big highlight for me, even though I have, for years, resisted the urge to simply compare Fox News or the Bush administration to the societies described by George Orwell in his novels. I always rejected it as overly simplistic, or as breathless left-wing hysteria on par with 'OMG BUSHITLER' and the like. I must admit however that the exchange was getting pretty surreal until Ron Paul pointed it out. But that was hardly the strangest thing that happened. That would be the exchange between Paul and Giuliani, facilitated by moderator and all-around Fox News hack Wendell Goler. Paul comported himself well in spite of the openly hostile treatment by Fox News and some of his opponents, notching 2nd place in the Fox News text message poll. This is notable because Paul's positions on almost every issue stand in stark contrast to those of his opponents. Links, transcript, and some thoughts below the fold, with a poll.
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Our position is: Politics trumped ethics in the House GOP vote to drop its no-indictment rule for the majority leader. When he was admonished by the House ethics committee last month for holding a golf fund
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Polarized voters, almost perfectly divided between the two parties &#151; and the balance of power hanging on hard-fought, expensive campaigns in a few key areas. It's the story line of the 2004 presidential election, but it's also playing out in the battle for power in state legislatures, where Democratic and Republican control has probably never been so evenly divided.
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At times it was hard to tell who was the Democrat and who was the Republican in what has shaped up as one of the most important Senate races in the country.
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Not true. Though Mitt Romney has been accused of flip-flopping by some Republican rivals, he has not gone so far as to switch parties.
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In reviewing 844 bills this session, he&#39;s angered both parties at times. But he&#39;s also gone with public sentiment. By Mark Sappenfield | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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In Arizona, one House candidate called party officials idiots. In Rhode Island, ad-makers turned a Senate hopeful into a political pinata.
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Whoever officially wins this election&mdash;at the time of this writing, it&rsquo;s technically still a squeaker that could conceivably go either way, though it&rsquo;s looking like Bush&rsquo;s first election to office&mdash;what is clear is that the Republicans owned the political agenda. I&rsquo;m not talking about Iraq or terrorism, though those were significant issues. What I&rsquo;m talking about is what got so many people to turn out and vote Republican on Tuesday: values.
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Motherhood is hard to miss in Minnesota's most competitive House race. Democrat Patty Wetterling, whose son disappeared 17 years ago, has grabbed the national spotlight in the fallout from the Mark Foley scandal. She immediately launched a hard-hitting television ad that argued Republicans "knowingly ignored the welfare of children to protect their own power."