Sarah Palin invokes him. Mitt Romney glorifies him. The "tea party" movement hopes to recapture him. And the Republican Party still can't get over him. ...more

March 14, 2010

Whatever the legislative fate of health reform - now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats - the health reformers have failed in their argument. Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president's public standing, lowered public regard for Congress to French revolutionary levels, sucked the oxygen from other agenda items, re-engaged the abortion battle, produced freaks and prodigies of nature such as a Republican senator from Massachusetts, raised questions about the continued governability of America and caused the White House chief of staff to distance himself from the president's ambitions. ...more

March 10, 2010

Mitt Romney says a recent airplane scuffle with a rap star "broke my hair." ...more

March 3, 2010

A rap singer says former Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney first touched him — and not the other way around — during a confrontation aboard an Air Canada flight that was preparing to take off from Vancouver, British Columbia. ...more

February 19, 2010

If it weren't for bad luck, Mike Huckabee would have no luck at all. Of all the deranged criminals in the country, Maurice Clemmons - granted clemency by then-Gov. Huckabee of Arkansas almost a decade ago - recently murdered four police officers in Washington state. Seldom has an act of mercy been more publicly or horribly betrayed. ...more

December 11, 2009

Could it be true that the Republican Party is intentionally committing suicide? That's what a lot of folks are saying and some Republicans are crying foul. A culture war is raging within the party, and a lot of good people are being booted. Who benefits? The Democrats, of course, but other consequences also could result. ...more

November 6, 2009

Come on, Ginny In response to Ginny Brown-Waite ("Letter over Obama Nobel criticized," Metro, Oct. 28): Are you kidding me? ...more

November 1, 2009

I read with interest the latest joke being perpetrated on the folks of Massachusetts by the Democrats. They changed the law in 2004, so that their then Republican governor, Mitt Romney, would be blocked in naming a successor to Sen. John Kerry, if Kerry won the presidential election. ...more

September 21, 2009

A straw vote suggests former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is a favorite among religious conservatives to be president in 2012. ...more

September 19, 2009

Mitt Romney crosses the country as people look to the next presidential campaign. ...more

March 30, 2009