Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Quin Hillyer on 2.15.12 @ 12:09PM My friend and New Orleans radio/TV host Jeff Crouere and I will do an online chat at 11:30 Central time (20 minutes from now) about the presidential race. The chat will be on-line at www.wgno.com the website for the ABC affiliate [...]
Six Random Thoughts on the Presidential Race
February 4, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By W. James Antle, III on 2.3.12 @ 4:14PM 1. Mitt Romney needs to avoid giving his critics easy ammunition. The controversies over “I like firing people” and not being concerned about the poor are totally unfair. They are also totally predictable and involve phrases it should be [...]
Support for a New Presidential Entrant
January 25, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Quin Hillyer on 1.25.12 @ 12:15PM Michael Steele says the idea of a late entrant into the presidential sweepstakes is “stupid.” If Steele says it stupid, that must mean it’s one helluva good idea…… Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, Bobby Jindal, take note: This is as good an [...]
Presidential Race 2012: Imperfect Conservatives Need Not Apply
December 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The criteria embraced by the liberal media, Democrats, and some conservatives for selecting the 2012 Republican presidential nominee are quite clear: imperfect conservatives need not apply. Conservative presidential candidates must have been born yesterday, not having lived long enough to break any of the Ten Commandments, make a mistake, or say or do anything stupid. [...]
Finally! A Pin-Up Girl Calendar for a Presidential Candidate
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Via Andrew Malcolm: Juliet Annerino is a Los Angeles singer who’s long admired Rep. Ron Paul and what she calls his “Peace and Freedom Agenda.” Juliet and some gal pals, who also like the 76-year-old Republican candidate’s message of less spending and smaller government, were talking about what they could do as Paul activists to [...]
Parliamentary vs. Presidential Systems
October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 10.13.11 @ 12:34PM F.H. Buckley of George Mason University Law School has an interesting piece on the mainpage which makes the case that if we had a parliamentary system like Canada we could have avoided a downgrade in our credit rating last August. As [...]
That Presidential Look: The Bad, the Beautiful, and Voting-Booth Realities
September 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
While there was more than one reason why John McCain was a long shot to win the 2008 general election, a big one was something almost no one talked seriously about: appearance. That is to say, when was the last time an old-looking, white-haired, half-bald man won the presidency? If you think this piece will [...]
Conservative Elites Dislike 2012 GOP Presidential Field
August 23, 2011 By Leave a Comment
AmSpecBlog By W. James Antle, III on 8.23.11 @ 1:09PM Yesterday I wrote about the longing for a Republican presidential candidate who could unite all factions of the conservative movement. But there is just as much truth to this Politico story: conservative elites — movement leaders, journalists, policy wonks, newspaper columnists — are pining for [...]