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“If this is what the conservative movement has become, then count me out”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2012 66 Comments

I finaly have an embedable version of Mark Levin's comments yesterday about the attacks on Newt. It is a sad commentary on the damage people have done in the name of electing Mitt Romney. Add it to the list. “I’m going to tell you something. Newt Gingrich...

Lying about Reagan to get Romney elected

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2012 54 Comments

I have been pounding the keyboard all week about the lies and distortions of the Romney campaign and supporters about Newt's record of support for Ronald Reagan. These allegations were played out by the Romney campaign and on Drudge, and did serious damage to Newt, both...

My winter break.

Posted by Kathleen McCaffrey on January 27, 2012 10 Comments

Happy 2012, everyone! I just started my final semester at Cornell, which promises to be exciting. Before I delve into current events, I thought I would take my first post back to recap my winter break in south east Asia. I spent one week in...

Managing our (space) decline

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2012 48 Comments

Did you witness the pile on Newt last night about his vision for new space exploration and the reinvigoration of the space industry? While some of Newt's space ideas (they're just ideas, not proposals) are grandiose in the way we always have dreamed of space, his proposals...

It is worth getting angry about

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2012 44 Comments

Whatever my criticisms of Rick Santorum, we owe him a debt of gratitude for this segment last night, which confirmed that Mitt Romney loves him some Romneycare: As Jeffrey Anderson writes, Romney's defense of Romneycare will be political death in the general election: Romney then replied by issuing...

Prof Claims Trump’s Demands of Universities ‘Echo’ Hitler’s and Stalin’s

More Than a Dozen Students at UConn Have Their Visas Revoked

Private Universities in Ohio Could Lose Scholarship Money if They Keep DEI Programs

NYU Holds Event to Promote the Decriminalization of 'Sex Work'

Reporters Barred From ‘Fat Liberation’ Event at UW-Madison

U.S. Military Academies Drop Race Consideration in Admissions

Smashing your success

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 27, 2012 3 Comments

Thanks to reader Bob from Colorado, who writes: I can't remember if this one had crossed your desk before. The electorate had better be awake and act this 2012 election season. ...

Jacksonville Republican Debate

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2012 125 Comments

Endgame assessment: It's almost like there were two debates. Early on Romney scored points against Newt on Freddie Mac and the "wealth issue," and Santorum scored major points against Romney on Romneycare. The first half of the debate was not strong for Newt, although I...

Pre-debate irreparable split

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2012 80 Comments

The only way Mitt Romney wins a nomination is by destroying others. It was true in 2008, and it's true in 2012. He is incapable of bringing people together with positive inspiration. He had the chance early in this cycle to prove he would not run the...

Shock, video of Newt bashing Reagan misleadingly edited

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2012 58 Comments

One of the videos linked by Drudge, of Newt supposedly bashing Reagan while talking about George H.W. Bush running in 1980, is misleadingly edited. Dan Riehl has the details and the more complete video: There's a short excerpt of a 1988 C-SPAN video purportedly showing Newt Gingrich...

Mitt Romney’s shameless use of Nancy Pelosi

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2012 55 Comments

The claim by Nancy Pelosi that she had secret information on Newt has been thoroughly debunked ...

Confirmed: Romneycare template for Obamacare

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2012 44 Comments

I read the analysis below, and then I look at the hyperbolic rhetoric about how Mitt Romney is the most electable and Newt must be destroyed, and I just shake my head in disbelief. Via James Pethokoukis: It’s one thing when Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum say...

Drudge versus history

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 26, 2012 88 Comments

Politico's homepage top headline is The right drops a bomb on Newt featuring photos of Ann Coulter, Tom DeLay, Elliot Abrams and Matt Drudge. Just like in December, the rise of Newt has caused panic in Republican circles. In December the charge was led by National Review, and now...

Nancy Reagan 1995: Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 121 Comments

There is something truly obscene about the full blown assault on Newt Gingrich's strong Reagan conservative history from and on behalf of Mitt Romney, who unabashedly ran away from the Reagan legacy and conservative principles in his 1994 Senate campaign and 2002 gubernatorial campaign. Truly...

Are we seeing the beginning of the end of Rick Santorum’s campaign?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 38 Comments

Rick Santorum has said he will be in the race for the long haul, and I have no reason to doubt his sincerity. But what message does it send his supporters in Florida that he's not even hanging around for election night? Failing to show early signs...

Gov. Scott Walker looking strong in early recall polling

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 16 Comments

Come on Cheeseheads. So what if your team isn't going to the Super Bowl, we need someone to get us out of the funk. Or at least me. I've long predicted that a Scott Walker win in the recall will be the perfect launch to the...

Panic at the disco

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 99 Comments

S.E. Cupp, who previously called Newt a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, is on the verge of a breakdown, Newt's Doomed Crusade: At the risk of sounding maudlin or apocalyptic, the conservative movement is poised to become irrelevant or simply extinct...

Romney campaign sends mass email quoting Pelosi threat against Newt (Update: Pelosi backs off)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 72 Comments

I told you this morning that anti-Newt forces would try to use Nancy Pelosi's claim that she had secret information about Newt. And the Romney campaign didn't waste any time, sending out a mass e-mail quoting Pelosi as well as Romney attacking Newt on Fox & Friends about...