Poor Rick Perry! When he busted into American consciousness as a bona-fide candidate for the Republican nomination, he had a killer rap: “I’m Rick Perry, bitch! I hang more men before breakfast than y’all do all day!” Rick’s no apologies, what you see is what you get image, of which he is obviously very proud,…
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Let Chris do it!
Rep. Paul Ryan, the Republican who would kill Medicare, the man without fear, is sort of wishing that some Republican would do something that he’s afraid to do—run for president. “It is not too late,” Ryan tells Politico. “Look it is 2011 still. The election is in 2012.” I give the guy credit. He has…
Because he can’t win, or because he can?
The Wall Street Journal editorial page, easily my least favorite site on the web, bemoans the weak Republican field. Michele Bachmann, they claim, “has a record of errant statements” (as if the Journal doesn’t), has seemed “on occasion less principled than opportunistic” (Oh, snap!), and (the topper) “Americans are already living with the consequences of…
George Will: Eating words if not mincing them
Over at the American Conservative, which is not entirely All Pat Buchanan, All the Time—and Pat, as the only living American Falangist, deserves more respect than he gets—Daniel Larison has a chuckle over George Will’s discomfiture over the “circus” known as the Ames straw poll. Last March, George announced, in the sort of neo-Burkean harumph…
“Why isn’t he on ‘The View?’”
That’s what Jon “Pretty Boy” Huntsman’s wife has been asking Big Jon’s campaign staff, according to this long, long article in Politico, which probably just destroyed what’s left of Huntsman’s campaign. Newt Gingrich must be thrilled to know that there’s someone out there more dysfunctional than he is, while Mitt Romney, if he doesn’t die…