I’m starting to think that Rudy Giuliani is not going to take the path most observers thought he would take with regards to abortion. Giuliani’s socially moderate positions, particularly his wishy-washy support for abortion rights as long as the courts say so, are generally perceived as a vulnerability that will make him less appealing to […]

Joe Hallett of The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio Senator George Voinovich recently approached former Secretary of State Colin Powell and tried to get him to run for the GOP’s nomination.

Sen. George V. Voinovich visited former Secretary of State Colin
Powell about a month ago and urged him to seek the Republican
nomination for president in 2008. […]

The New Haven Register editorial board doesn’t go as far as the Danbury News-Times call for Gov. Rell to fire her embattled chief of staff Lisa Moody, but nonetheless rips Rell and calls for the legislature to close the loop hole that currently allows the governor’s CoS to fund raise for Rell politically while working […]

Chris Richter, national coordinator of the John Cox campaign (whatever that means), wants me to do something. From my inbox:
On Tuesday, May 15th, there will be the second Republican Presidential Debate and Republican Presidential Candidate John Cox has not been invited. We are asking our supporters to call both Fox News and the South […]

Matt Ortega, my coblogger at The Right’s Field, has ginned up this great video on Rudy Giuliani’s supposed optimism.

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Matthew Yglesias on Mitt Romney’s trawler-sized net of Islamic bad guys:
To put it bluntly, the trouble here is that the Muslim Brotherhood just isn’t a violent terrorist organization, and certainly doesn’t commit acts of violence against the United States. It’s an extremely traditionalist multinational civil society organization. It’s true that a lot of violent types […]

I recently had a conversation with a proprietor of a political web consulting company that designs campaign websites for candidates. He had been contacted by a staffer for Fred Thompson about building a campaign website for the former senator from Tennessee. It is highly unusual for someone who isn’t considering running for president to be […]

Mike Turk, writing at techPresident, casts serious doubts on the credibility of the Romney campaign’s claim of $7.2 million raised online ($3.3 million in website donations, $3.8 million in online donation pledges). I won’t recap the whole post, but Turk provides pretty clear evidence through analyzing average donations, donation size, web traffic and simple comparisons […]

Chris Shays, after returning from taxpayer funded trip number sixteen to Iraq:
U.S. strategy is “working as well as hoped, if not better.”
I was going to write a longer post about Shays trip with Chris Murphy to Iraq and their differing reactions to our progress there, the expectations for success from the Iraqi political process, and […]

John McCain seems to be actively seeking to destroy his campaign because of a lack of ideas on Iraq. McCain so heavily advocated for escalating the war in Iraq this fall and winter that the surge was suitably labeled the McCain Doctrine. It is a position grossly out of step with what the majority of […]