Before Rory McIlroy’s triumph fades in our memories, it’s worth considering the lessons the young Irishman’s U.S. Open victory offers for the 2012 presidential race. As he headed into the U.S. Open weekend, McIlroy explained that his strategy was to set an overall goal, do his best, play things out in small segments on the [...]

Kicking off her recent bus tour, Sarah Palin attended a motorcycle rally and took a deep breath. “I love that smell of the emissions,” she exulted. Her comment reflected a common attitude in the Republican Party : Exhaust fumes are as American as apple pie. Cool kids don’t need clean air. Arctic ice is overrated. Republicans like Palin [...]

That sucking sound you’ve been hearing is Republican presidential hopefuls going down the drain. Professional strength Liquid Plumber couldn’t help now. Forget October, we just had the May Surprise. And what a surprise, a full 20 months before the 2012 election. No cynical, political manipulation needed, raising terror levels to scare Americans. Only a slow, [...]

The chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Tuesday became the latest top party official to say that there will be surprise entries into the 2012 presidential race. The GOP leader declined to predict who those candidates might be, but he confirmed the widespread dissatisfaction with the current field. “We don’t know who’s going [...]

One of the most often-overheard refrains from the Republican Party and its far-right base is that President Obama is the worst president in American history. Others say he “pals around with terrorists.” They say he’s destroying America. They say that he’s weak, that he dithers and that he’s effete — implying either that he’s gay [...]

Rumors spread over the weekend that Republican Budget Chair Paul Ryan is really a Democratic sleeper agent. The story goes that Ryan was recruited by Democratic operatives as a young man and agreed to assume a cover as a deeply conservative Republican. He was hired as a Legislative aide for Conservative Senator Sam Brownback and [...]

Less than half of all Republicans in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll are satisfied with their choices in the 2012 presidential field — numbers that run well behind the 2008 race and suggests the 2012 race remains ripe for a late entry. Just 43 percent proclaimed themselves satisfied with their options, a far cry [...]

Michael Ashner was one of Sen. John McCain’s major fundraisers in the 2008 presidential campaign, bringing in $500,000 for the Republican nominee. That makes the Oyster Bay, N.Y., real estate investment executive one of the most sought-after bundlers for prospective GOP election candidates in 2012. Supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney have been particularly [...]

Former President Bill Clinton’s oft-quoted remark that, when choosing their election candidate for president, “Democrats fall in love; Republicans fall in line” was a clever and insightful way to describe the nominating process for most of the last few decades — but it may be changing in 2012. While this maxim described the 2008 campaign [...]

The United States presidential election of 2012 pits a confident Democratic President Barack Obama against the frontrunner of a Republican Party that journalist Judy Woodruff describes as suffering from in-fighting . While perennial election candidate Jimmy McMillan of “Rent is Too Damn High” fame has already declared his candidacy on a Republican ticket, other would-be election candidates are [...]

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