If I were a presidential candidate…
In advance of last Saturday’s GOP foreign-policy debate, sponsors CBS and National Journal asked me to suggest questions for the moderators. Unaccountably, they did not make use of my suggestions. Still, I had posted the list on my blog, and soon got a query from an international friend: Okay, wise guy — how would you answer them? Here More...
10 politicians who say God told them to run: A slideshow
On Saturday, at the Young Republican National Federation, GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain announced that God had told him to get into the race. “I prayed and prayed and prayed. I’m a man More...
Have Republicans ‘gone off the rails’ by endorsing waterboarding?
During Saturday’s GOP presidential debate, Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann revived one of the most spirited arguments over the war on terrorism by promising to revive the Bush administration policy of More...
10 politicians who say God told them to run
On Saturday, at the Young Republican National Federation, GOP presidential frontrunner Herman Cain announced that God had told him to get into the race. “I prayed and prayed and prayed. I’m a man More...
The ‘disgraceful’ CBS debate: Did the network mess up?
Rick Perry must be breathing a big sigh of relief. On Saturday night, CBS News and National Journal hosted a foreign policy–focused Republican presidential debate, and for once, most of the post-debate More...
Saturday’s ‘crunch time’ GOP debate: 4 key questions
Capping off a tumultuous week, the Republican presidential candidates will meet Saturday night for yet another debate — this time in South Carolina, which holds a crucial early primary in January. It’s More...
The GOP’s ‘elimination round’ debate: 4 key questions
Less than two months before the presidential primary season officially kicks off with the Iowa caucuses, the Republican candidates are meeting in Michigan Wednesday night for yet another debate. This isn’t More...
The ‘historic’ Cain-Gingrich debate: Who won?
On Saturday night, GOP presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain sat in high-backed chairs on a Texas stage and engaged in a “historic” one-on-one debate. The affair was hyped as a modern More...
2012 GOP race: 6 biggest foreign policy gaffes
With all the emphasis on America’s economic woes, foreign policy has not been a big focus of the GOP race for the presidential nomination. The few times it has come up, candidates have made headlines More...
The GOP’s desperate hunt for anyone but Mitt Romney
I wish we could set aside Herman Cain, his economically insane 9-9-9 plan, and his pathetically inane responses to charges of sexual harassment — responses which have lurched from indignation More...