Well , Charles is hard on both Mitt and Newt. He gives us the manly advice to pick from the candidates we actually got, and he reminds us how important the election is for the country. Still, it’s hard not to wish to be delivered from this necessity of choice. These words, to me, get to the . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s ME on courage. Sean Trende and Jay Cost, who did a nice job debating at Berry tonight, both agreed that Newt is a ridiculous candidate. I don’t think they had a good response, though, to the pathology of the present presidential race for the Republican nomination: The party has . . . . Continue Reading »
Gingrich is polling at 50% in Florida. He is more than doubling Romney’s support in the Rasmussen poll. Peter asks below if there is enough time to stop Gingrich. If we were talking on Christmas Day, I’d say no. But it is December 1st and I’ll be very, very . . . . Continue Reading »
It didn’t become a hit, but this version does contain one of the band’s better guitar solos, and what matters more for our purposes, anti-oligarchic lyrics. (Read my long post below to see what I mean by oligarchic.) Here’s how it starts: You keep sayin’ no to her, Ever since . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . . To explain , with his big brain, why the hybrid model of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac works so well in making mortgages so readily available to some many Americans. I heart Ron Paul for going after Newt too. It may be too little, too late, though. . . . . Continue Reading »
For this ad. I’m tired. Maybe some thoughts on Cain, Gingrich and Romney tomorrow. . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter was fishing for my responses on Christianity and its relation to modernity’s three stages in America AND on whether or not America is more oligarchic than democratic according to Plato’s sense of the terms. Well, that first topic is huge, but even as I focus upon the second one . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are the latest. Newt now has a huge lead in Iowa and South Carolina, and is within spitting distance in New Hampshire (the victory in Iowa would give him the big mo’ required actually to spit, it would seem). So nobody has voted yet, but the question of stopping Newt is really insistent . . . . Continue Reading »
I think the answer is very, very, likely yes and before the Iowa Caucuses (not that he’ll drop out, just that he will have substantially lower support than now.) There was this time during the Cain boom when he had just spent the section of a debate dealing with criticism of 9-9-9 by . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in June. And did so hilariously. Apparently, must reading these days. Sigh. But at least it will make you laugh. . . . . Continue Reading »
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