I’m more than half-expecting Obama to win this one. Why? One reason is that I’m hearing a lot of conservatives say that Romney is going to win, and in a way that makes me think they’re whistling past the graveyard. There’s something about overconfidence that makes me run in the other direction. I’d love to be wrong on this, but I think conservative need to […]
Presidential politics
Apocalypse on the installment plan
An ancient sage has said, “there is nothing new under the sun,” and so it is with American politics. I have stopped keeping count of the number of “most important election in my lifetime” elections I have been through. So is Romney-Obama “the most important election in my lifetime”? It is and it isn’t. If Obama wins, the conservative, free-market ideal of America as a […]
GOP Smackdown, Round One
First impressions from Thursday’s first official presidential “debate” of the looooong 2012 season. The lineup: GOPers who have jumped in the presidential ring. Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico I want to like him, but he acted too much like an earnest professor (or worse, kindergarten-class teacher), often clasping his hands. He spoke a lot of sense, but got energized only when he was […]