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December 2011

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 46 Comments

Some people in the Republican Party want to follow John McCain's policy of not going after Obama personally: Republicans on a private Republican National Committee conference call with allies warned Tuesday that party surrogates should refrain from personal attacks against President Barack Obama, because such a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 9 Comments

Someone got the message that the current "hide and don't seek me" strategy was not working. Now when Romney goes on Glenn Beck like Newt just did, then I'll really be impressed.  But until then, this will have to do: But I'm curious about the timing. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 14 Comments

Wow, just wow. Republican Mark Reed is running for Congress in California's 30th District against Democratic Congressmen Brad Sherman and Howard Berman in a new district resulting from redistricting.  Reed is a conservative, Tea Party backer. Reed is making a big deal about the Obama administration's policy towards Israel,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 67 Comments

The latest polling has caused an avalanche of attacks on Newt from just about every corner: Newt had an extensive interview with Glenn Beck (audio and transcript).  Beck hammered Newt on all the known Newt policy issues, and all of the questions were appropriate.  I think Newt...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 27 Comments

I've posted about "unknown unknowns" before, as it is a structure I use in class to discuss how to build a case.  At a press conference about Iraq Donald Rumsfeld famously said: “[T]here are known knowns; there are things we know we know.  We also know there...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 43 Comments

Prior to Rick Perry announcing he would run for President I brought on Katie Thompson to make the case for Perry.  Katie now is a leader of Students for Perry, and I predict, a future mover and shaker in Republican circles. Given all that has happened over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 06, 2011 3 Comments

Thanks to frequent photographer Jason, who writes: taken about a week ago in Raleigh, NC...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 20 Comments

LI reader and blogger Jeff Dobbs has a post up about Romney's media strategy, which can be termed "hide and hope they don't seek me" (that's my term).  Jeff compares it to Obama's strategy in 2008 of carefully controlling his exposure to the media. The strategy...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 12 Comments

When someone finds himself so in need of criticizing the U.S. that he ends up defending the brutal Iranian regime which for over 30 years has funded anti-U.S. and anti-Israel groups around the globe and sought to export Islamist fundamentalism, then all credibility has been lost. See,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 11 Comments

I previously have highlighted the treatment of the "Arab Street" by NY Times columnist Roger Cohen in the midst of the Arab Spring protests, many of which revealed an open and ugly anti-Semitic side: In the Middle East you expect the worst. But having watched Egypt’s extraordinary civic...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 32 Comments

I posted yesterday the spot on article by Byron York, The insider-outsider divide over Newt Gingrich, which delves into the great divide between Washington Republican political players (politicians and media) who have their noses out of joint over Newt because he was mean to them in...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 4 Comments

It's hard to be shocked at anything anti-Scott Walker protesters do anymore given Wisconsin's Long Strange Trip. So as much as I want to be shocked at anti-Walker protesters greeting the Governor with a Nazi salute at a Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at the State Capitol...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 23 Comments

The Center for American Progress (CAP), the George Soros funded Democratic messaging machine, runs the aggressive Think Progress website. Think Progress is obsessed with attacking the Tea Party movement as racist, the Koch Brothers as evil manipulators, and Clarence Thomas as corrupt.  Think Progress blogger Matthew Yglesias helped ignite the false story...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 14 Comments

Newt Gingrich just released his first Iowa television ad, a few days after Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul did so. (Some SuperPACs have been running ads longer, but these are from the campaigns.) Very different themes, with Newt keeping it in a "Morning...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 05, 2011 4 Comments

who didn't get the "civility" or public decency memos. Click on image to enlarge and see why. ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2011 11 Comments

There are multiple reports that Herman Cain will endorse Newt tomorrow, based on reporting by Fox 5 in Atlanta.  This would not be a huge surprise, as Cain and Newt had a very good relationship, as witnessed by their joint appearance on the issue of...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2011 39 Comments

I've done this before, more than once.  But now that Herman Cain is out of the race, this may be the last time (probably not, but we can hope): As of today, 5 weeks after Politico broke the story, we still do not know what Herman Cain was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 04, 2011 31 Comments

In the wake of Herman Cain's suspension of his campaign, lots of movement: Michele Bachmann claims to be picking up Cain supporters.  Just stop it.  Just stop it.  This is the same thing you pulled over the summer about Palin planning to endorse you. Rick Santorum seems...

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