Romney VP column makes HuffPo’s frontpage

by Jason Stanford on May 19, 2012

For all of you spending your Friday night reading political analysis of dubious accuracy, check out my latest offering on the front page of The Huffington Post: Picking Romney’s VP Harder Than It Looks. You lucky, lucky bastards.

Best. Movie. Ever.

by Jason Stanford on May 18, 2012

This one might be more accurate than Game Change.

 

POLITICO: If Rev. Wright is fair game, so is Grandpa Romney

May 17, 2012

Sometimes the best way to kill a bad idea is to leak it. That’s what happened to Republican media guru Fred Davis who wants to re-litigate a losing case by using Jeremiah Wright to attack Barack Obama. Sorry, it’s Barack Hussein Obama in the donor prospectus that’s on the New York Times’ website now. Despite [...]

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Donna Summer, RIP

May 17, 2012
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POLITICO: Who should Romney pick as his VP?

May 17, 2012

There are more kinds of lies in politics than there are Inuit words for snow. And when Mitt Romney said the other day that he didn’t have a short list for VP, he was telling a “Washington lie,” a false statement meant to forestall further questions without actually deceiving anyone: “We really haven’t had a [...]

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The Lone STAAR Rebellion

May 15, 2012

The Texas legislature only meets for a few months every other year because when they’re in session they can do more damage than Mötley Crüe in a hotel room. And in 2011, they got a little out of hand. Rick Perry was nursing his presidential ambitions like a bad hangover and made the Republican legislature [...]

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We get hate mail (birther edition)

May 13, 2012

One more time, with feeling. He was born here:

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Obama, the black LBJ

May 10, 2012

The black Kennedy has become the black LBJ. In the hyper-political circles I travel in, the release of Robert Caro’s latest Lyndon Johnson biography, The Passage of Power, was received with the glee that’s usually reserved for an Obama rally. To paraphrase Joe Biden, the fourth book in Caro’s promised five-volume LBJ biography is a [...]

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