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Ayatollah Khamenei Eliminated in Israeli Strike

Anti-Trump Revolt - Tucker Calls Iran Decision 'Disgusting and Evil'

My View From Moscow April 1980 - The Failed American Hostage Rescue Mission

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...

Students and Alumni at Smith College Protest for Divestment From Israel

Flyer Found at Penn State U. Says ‘Dead ICE Agents Can’t Kill’

Franklin & Marshall College Economic Department Features Marxist Curriculum

Students for Justice in Palestine at U. Chicago Cheer for Iranian Missiles Hitting U.S. Navy Base

Dearborn Henry Ford Community College Prof Says Trump Made a Huge 'Mistake' in Iran

Yale to Offer Free Tuition to Families Making Less Than $200K

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...

Claiming credit for Marco Rubio

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 19 Comments

There's something of a scuffle going on in Florida right now over the 2010 election of Marco Rubio and the hiring of Charlie Crist's Florida staff by the Romney campaign. Newt implicitly is tying Romney to Crist. Rubio, who has not endorsed anyone, in response, says that...

Romney’s claims about Newt’s ethics charge are false and misleading

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 37 Comments

Mitt Romney's key debate line of late is that Newt resigned in disgrace over ethics charges. It's even featured in the most recent Romney advertisement (not his SuperPAC) running in Florida. I posted links the other day showing that the charges against Newt were political and that...

Nancy Pelosi’s evil mind games (Update: Pelosi backs off)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 41 Comments

There's something Nancy Pelosi knows that no one else who was involved in the congressional investigation of Newt in the 1990s knows? (BTW, this Byron York column on how politicized and wrong the ethics charges against Newt were is a must read.) Not even any of the anti-Newt Republicans...

A promise to keep

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 25, 2012 1 Comment

Thanks to Linda from Tennessee for this photo taken at the Davidson Country Republican luncheon: ...

SOTU in one sentence

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 47 Comments

... Some said the state of our union was getting stronger, while others said it was getting weaker, but I was getting bin Laden. ----------------- Prior sentences: SOTU Speech (2011) In One Sentence, Obama Afghanistan Speech in One Sentence, Jewish History In One Sentence...

SOTU Group Commiseration

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 36 Comments

Speech starts at 9 p.m. Lock your arms around each other in a big circle and repeat while swaying back and forth: This is not happening, this is not happening, ...

Rationalizany

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 24, 2012 63 Comments

Coming to gripes: A frank discussion of Mitt's Bain problem, in other words, something which is almost impossible now in conservative circles without being called "anti-capitalist" (h/t OCBill). Where are the hard drives? Newt's campaign should be pushing this harder. National Review editors still don't like Newt. Washington Post columnists...