Pete Spiliakos

Bachmann’s support  is collapsing in the latest national poll.  She is well behind not only Romney and Perry but even below Ron Paul.  She is in fact down there with no hopers Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain.  This is great news for Rick Perry.  His nightmare . . . . Continue Reading »

1.  Reihan Salam has some thoughts (and stats) about “”persuadable switchers” (voters who voted Obama in 2008 and Republican in 2010.)  Long story short: these voters think of themselves as to the right of the President, but are strongly for some kind of federal old . . . . Continue Reading »

In order to be environmentally conscious, this post most is mostly recycled from a comment I made over at No Left Turns: I’m not a Romney supporter because I think that even the “modest” kinds of entitlement reforms I favor really do represent big change and enacting even diluted . . . . Continue Reading »

1.  Romney won the argument on Social Security.  He just won it in the wrong major party.  Same thing with Perry on immigration policy. 2.  Perry’s policy on Social Security seems to be that Social Security is an inviolable Ponzi scheme covenant for current recipients and . . . . Continue Reading »

I’m not even sure I’m watching, 1.  Romney and Bachmann are going to be gunning for Perry on Social Security.  Perry might have been executing a rope-a-dope.  If comes back with a plausible answer built around condemning what is broken about the current system and . . . . Continue Reading »

I think you can look at Perry’s performance yesterday as either a floor or a ceiling.  It was his first time out and just about everybody was looking to take him down.  Romney wants Perry’s more competence/electability-focused voters and Bachmann and the rest want . . . . Continue Reading »

more on Sunday (maybe) when I have more time, 1.  A really good night for Romney.  He did about as well as he could have hoped on the jobs thing.  We created more jobs.  Well, we had a 4.7 % unemployment rate.  Mike Dukakis was better than you.  . . . . Continue Reading »

1.  I’ve seen most of the South Carolina thing on a Ron Paul supporter’s YouTube channel so apologies to Paul supporters for later comments.  I didn’t watch Cain’s comments.  Time (and life) is too short. 2.  It was a bad night for the loudly . . . . Continue Reading »

Robert George turned Ron Paul inside out on whether 14th Amendment protections should be extended to the unborn. . . . . Continue Reading »

So I’m watching some of the DeMint thing on CNN.  If presidential elections were based who would do best in the format of a pseudo-doctoral thesis defense to a friendly audience,  Gingrich would be Emperor of the Universe.  The one Robert P. George question I saw on gay . . . . Continue Reading »