Here are three little words you'll hear over and over during the Republican National Convention that starts Monday in St. Paul: ready to lead. ...more

August 31, 2008

Here are three little words you'll hear over and over during the Republican National Convention that starts Monday in St. Paul: ready to lead. ...more

August 31, 2008

I am honored to have been selected to serve as an at-large-alternate delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis and look forward to joining my fellow party members in ratifying the candidacy of Sen. John McCain as the party's nominee for president. ...more

August 31, 2008

As the nation's attention reluctantly turns to the political parties' conventions, with their scripted suspense and stage-managed sentiment, it is important to keep in mind that these are phony representations of American political life. But the slick video profiles, the teary appearance of a beloved party elder - these are not what is phoniest about the conventions. ...more

August 29, 2008

By the time this column goes to print, members of Florida's fabled delegation to the Democratic National Convention will be happily hobnobbing with their peers at the Denver gathering, fully reunited with all their voting privileges. ...more

August 27, 2008

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist has been scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention on the same night Arizona Sen. John McCain will give his acceptance speech for the nomination. ...more

August 21, 2008

Socially moderate former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Joseph Lieberman will have featured speaking roles at next month's Republican National Convention, party officials announced Wednesday. ...more

August 21, 2008

Who is Charlie Crist? Get me Charlie Crist! Whatever happened to Charlie Crist? ...more

August 14, 2008

A 73-year-old retired surgeon marching in silence with a tombstone picturing a soldier killed in Iraq. A philosophy professor calling for a new investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks. A long-haul trucker from Texas protesting oil prices. ...more

August 4, 2008

Looking back over the last 40 years, the presidential campaign that most closely resembles this year's is the contest between Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter in 1976. The Republicans were the incumbent presidential party that year, as they are now, but the Democrats had a big advantage in party identification - on the order of 49 percent to 26 percent then, far more than today. ...more

July 20, 2008