Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin and Fox News are splitting up. How well do you remember her time there? Take our quiz.
GOPocalypse: A Guide to Republican Purges
Why Are We Fascinated With Post-Election Romney?
How the GOP Destroyed its Moderates
Moderate Republicanism is not intellectually dead. So where is it?
Jersey Bore: Chris Christie’s Makeover in the Image of Mitt
The Gold Standard Is Nuts—and Perfect for Today’s GOP
The Far Right Cheers (Half of) the GOP Ticket
DES MOINES—“It's a historic day,” Rep. Steve King of Iowa announced yesterday from the podium of the FAMiLY Leadership Summit 2012, a major gathering of social conservatives in a suburban Des Moines megachurch that drew a host of national political celebrities. King wasn’t talking about the event, or even the prospect of ejecting Barack Obama from the White House, but of the choice of his friend and colleague Paul Ryan to become Mitt Romney’s running-mate.
Why The Palin Fiasco Argues FOR Kelly Ayotte
I’ve generally avoided the veepstakes—better, it seemed, to focus on matters such as what’ll happen to the nearly 100,000 Ohio voters who went to the polls on the final pre-Election Day weekend in 2008 but won’t be able to do so this year. But as Romney’s big day draws near, I’ll offer one pet theory of mine: that the pundits are wrongly counting out Kelly Ayotte, the new senator from New Hampshire. Ayotte offers obvious appeal, not least as a way for Romney to try and close his considerable gender gap with women voters.
GOP String Divas
Mindy Meyer is sexy and she wants you to know it. At least, that's the message from her campaign website, which blares an instrumental version of the campy LFMAO hit as accompaniment to a hot-pink color scheme and a slogan ("I'm senator and I know it") rendered in flashing, faux-rhinestone font.
