Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Daniel Allott on 4.19.12 @ 1:29PM Perhaps the Obama re-election campaign sees some potential for Republican outreach in its preoccupation with Mitt Romney’s alleged mistreatment of Seamus the dog. A 2006 Gallup poll estimated that 43% of Americans own a dog, and that 70% describe themselves as “dog [...]
4 Republican justices control fate of health law
March 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — Here’s a thought that can’t comfort President Barack Obama: The fate of his health care overhaul rests with four Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices. His most sweeping domestic achievement could be struck down if they stand together with Justice Clarence Thomas, another GOP appointee who is the likeliest vote against. But the good [...]
And if N.C. Elects a Republican Governor
January 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Print Email Text Size The Spectacle Blog By Aaron Goldstein on 1.26.12 @ 12:07PM David N. Bass notes that Bev Perdue’s decision not to seek a second term as Governor of North Carolina increases the likelihood of a Republican Governor being elected this November. Well, if North Carolinians are motivated to vote for a Republican [...]
Mitt Romney: The Last Republican President?
January 18, 2012 By Leave a Comment
There now appears to be an inevitability surrounding Mitt Romney and the Republican nomination for president. Are the American people prepared to sit through another term of George H.W. Bush? The chances are that Romney would be the last Republican president, as the Party may fly apart under his rule. The country would then have [...]
The Myth of Bad Republican Candidates
January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Repeat a big Democrat talking point often enough, and it becomes the truth. There is a certain liberal narrative that has recently filtered down to many independents and even some conservatives: the idea that the current crop of Republican candidates is weak, wanting, and worrisome. The lament is, “Hell’s bells, the guy in the White [...]
This is the Republican Field
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Which Republican Can Beat Obama?
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Electability and the Republican Field
October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If all the poorly articulated political and economic philosophy and the multiple contradictory and confusing major issue stands of George Herbert Walker Bush, Bob Dole, and John McCain were tossed into a blender, and the device were turned on high for a minute, the result would be a smoothie whose taste would be indistinguishable from [...]
Republican Lamar Alexander Resigns His Senate Leadership Post
September 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr) WASHINGTON (AP) – Sen. Lamar Alexander is stepping down from the No. 3 GOP leadership post in the Senate in January. The Tennessee Republican says he wants to focus more on helping the deeply divided Senate — where 60 votes out of 100 are needed to advance virtually any [...]