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National Journal has a new poll of Republican insiders over who is likely to be nominated for president: Republican insiders are screwy! I keep saying this: Mitt Romney has a serious flip-flopper problem and a far more serious not-insane-on-health-care problem. He can't solve the latter without worsening the former. It's over. READ MORE >>

Mitt Romney is in a terrible position because he moved right to run for president in 2008 while defending the then-respectable Republican position that regulate-subsidize-individual mandate was a sensible approach to health care reform. That position has since become The Death Of Freedom in the conservative mind. READ MORE >>

A couple weeks ago, Tim Pawlenty accused President Obama of creating a massive upsurge in government jobs while private sector job growth has dwindled: READ MORE >>

Tim Pawlenty, outgoing governor of Minnesota, is gearing up to run for president. When he does, I hope somebody asks him why he wanted to go easy on the insurance industry, potentially forcing his state's residents to pay more for their health insurance. READ MORE >>

The fervent mosque-haters have this much right: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the Sufi leader of the Cordoba Initiative that plans to build an Islamic center on Park Place near the site of the World Trade Center, is subversive. But what he wants to subvert is not the United States of America. What he wants to subvert are dictatorships in Islamic nations. READ MORE >>

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Ezra Klein believes that the White House wants to drive a stake through Mitt Romney's candidacy so that the party nominates a more radical (and unelectable) figure. Here is an example of an instance where liberal interests diverge from the Obama administration's interests. From Obama's perspective, the crazier the Republican nominee, the better. READ MORE >>

Good profile of conservative media mogul Andrew Breitbart in Wired. This passage was especially fun: READ MORE >>