NH Primary Results

While I have welcomed those conservatives who seem to be recognizing that the Republican Party needs major reformation - e.g., Kathleen Parker, Jon Huntsman, Michael Gerson, et al - in the final analysis I have dim hopes that any meaningful reform will actually occur.  The Christofascists and Neanderthals of the Tea Party are simply too entrenched in local city and county committees and caucuses and in the primary process to allow sane candidates to be nominated or eschew that batshitery of...Read Full Story

President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney hold their first of three debates Wednesday night. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Wednesday's showdown is the first of three presidential debates There also will be one vice-presidential debate The 90-minute debate Wednesday will focus on the economy Jim Lehrer of PBS will be moderating his 12th presidential debate The first presidential debate will be shown live here on CNN.com and on CNN apps for iPhone and iPad at 9 p.m. ET; 2300 GMT, 0000...Read Full Story

It is interesting to see a conservative like Jon Huntsman repeatedly slam the lunacy of today's GOP.  I personally believe that had Huntsman been the GOP nominee instead of Romney, the election results might have differed..Huntsman is correct that the party has become too extreme and unwilling to accept objective reality not to mention simple math.  The problem is now that the GOP base has become so insane that the GOP nomination process makes it nearly impossible for a non-extremist - or...Read Full Story

Personally, I continue to believe that if any of the original pack of GOP presidential nomination contestants might have been able to defeat Barack Obama it is Jon Huntsman.  The problem, of course was that Huntsman wasn't crazy or extreme enough to attract the increasingly deranged and theocratic GOP base.  Like Bruce Bartlett and some other rational conservatives who have been ridden out of the GOP on a rail, Huntsman seems to be having some saying "I told you so."  In his latest salvo...Read Full Story

Much of Mitt Romney's sales pitch has been that he's an experienced businessman who knows how to create jobs. It's a line of bullshit if there ever was one because in truth Romney was a vulture capitalist or, as David Stockman - yes, Ronald Reagan's David Stockman who was budget director - argues in The Daily Beast a master speculator. Neither one adds up to the skilled businessman Romney seeks him self to be.  But then, who ever accused Romney of being anything but a liar.  Here are excerpts...Read Full Story