Wizbang Politics: February 2007 Archives

The Big Bang Primary

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 28, 2007

With as many as 19 states rushing to move their primaries up into February, the traditional primary campaign may be consigned to history. Candidates can no longer depend upon the momentum gathered from early showings in smaller states to bring them support and money to compete in the later, larger... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Romney: damned by faint praise?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (3)

BUMPED to include a reply from Mr. Bopp, who says his answer was to a different question. See comments. With questions swirling around his seemingly recent "conversion" to conservative positions on abortion and other social issues, Mitt Romney's campaign flooded the email inbox of anyone who would listen to promote... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.3/5 (3 votes cast)

Early polls: GOP picks frontrunners, Democrats take dark horses

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (1)

The history of contested party nominations over the last 35 years show Republicans generally nominate the person who is the frontrunner the year before the primaries, while Democrats often choose from someone deep in the pack. The Associated Press has the breakdown. Read the article at the above link. To... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (1 votes cast)

Giuliani: It's the economy, stupid!

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 27, 2007 · Comments (8)

In a speech hosted by the Hoover Institution, Rudy Giuliani said the economy and tax policy were the key reasons he left the Democratic Party for the Republicans. Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press reports: Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani addressed his Democratic past on Monday and offered one reason... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (7 votes cast)

Party of the Demented

Posted by DJ Drummond · Published: February 25, 2007 · Comments (5)

David Remnick, writing in the "New Yorker", has done a service to psychologists; he has demonstrated not only a cause for the now-infamous "Bush Derangement Syndrome", which has inspired countless luminaries to spew the most vacuous yet vitriol-laced screeds against the President seen in the past half-century, but also demonstrated... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (15 votes cast)

2007 Philadelphia Mayor Race

Posted by Alexander K. McClure · Published: February 24, 2007 · Comments (3)

Philadelphia is in the news a lot because of its high murder rate. Last year, it was 400 murders a year. The media, of course, ignores this because in its view the city of Brotherly Love is still in the midst of the imaginary "Rendell Renaissance." So don't expect it... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (8 votes cast)

2008 Presidential Race

Posted by Alexander K. McClure · Published: February 23, 2007 · Comments (5)

One of the problems with the GOP is that it has a tendency to cede certain issues to the Democratic Party. President Bush has started to solve this problem by making the GOP competitive on issues such as education. Mark Sanford, the two-term South Carolina Governor, suggests the GOP become... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (2 votes cast)

Vilsack drops out of Presidential race

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 23, 2007

Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack is dropping out of the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination, according to the Associated Press: Democrat Tom Vilsack is abandoning his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals, a senior campaign official told The Associated Press on Friday. Vilsack left office... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (1 votes cast)

Fred Thompson? Always room for one more!

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 23, 2007 · Comments (12)

If, like me, you were disappointed that the 25 or so declared, "exploring," potential, and expected candidates in both parties just weren't enough choices, there is potentially good news on the horizon. Fred Thompson is considering entering the Republican contest. From Michael Silence of the Knoxville News Sentinel: Fred Thompson,... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (6 votes cast)

Whither Mitt? Is he fit or should he quit?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 22, 2007 · Comments (4)

It's been a rough week for the Romney campaign, with more videos from the not-too-distant past showing him passionately declaiming his belief in "a woman's right to choose," and making his professed conversion to a pro-life position ever harder to swallow, and even his campaign's new "life adviser," the respected... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Steamed Pelosi: Roasted, well done

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 22, 2007 · Comments (4)

When Vice President Cheney recently observed that the Democrats were playing into the hands of the terrorists by pushing cut-and-run policies in Iraq, Speaker Nancy Pelosi saw red. How very outrageous, she claimed, that the Veep should describe accurately the Democrats' strategy! Why, she steamed, he has seen our secret... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (10 votes cast)

Obamination?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 22, 2007

While the Old Media focuses on Mitt Romney and whether America is ready for a Mormon in the White House, they forget to focus on other . . . unusual denominations. Erik Rush of Howard Was Right focuses: How many Americans would vote for a presidential candidate who was the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (8 votes cast)

Dem hopefuls spar in Nevada

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 22, 2007

At a forum sponsored by AFSCME, the predominately public employee union which has shown the most strength of any union in the country over the last ten years or so, most of the declared Democratic candidates appeared and traded soft jabs, mainly over Iraq. They unanimously endorsed "universal health care,"... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (4 votes cast)

Hillary takes on Obama, Geffen

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 21, 2007

After Hollywood mogul David Geffen, a former major supporter of the Clintons, was quoted making some rather sharp remarks about them by some dried-up old hag in the New York Times, Hillary's spokesman Howard Wolfson lashed back - at Obama, whom Geffen is backing now. It went downhill fast from... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (5 votes cast)

Italian Prime Minister resigns after losing vote

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 21, 2007

Italy will be looking to form its 62nd (!) government since the end of World War II after Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned after a no-confidence vote in the Senate over keeping troops in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reports: Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigned today, just nine months after winning... [Full Story]

Rating: 0/5 (0 votes cast)

A World Without America

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 21, 2007 · Comments (4)

Not every Brit is a weaselly, pink-pantied leftist who hates America, you know. In fact, the chaps of the 18DoughtyStreet.com group have been producing ads highlighting cooperation between our countries, in the spirit of Churchill's famous advice. Here's the latest, "A World Without America": Source here. Hat-tip to The Corner... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

John Kasich: the once and future star?

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 21, 2007 · Comments (2)

Former Rep. John Kasich of Ohio, once considered a rising star in the GOP, is considering a run for Governor of Ohio - in 2010. From the Cincinnati Enquirer: Former U.S. Rep. John Kasich is contemplating a run for Ohio governor 2010, prompting him to begin speaking regularly at Republican... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Obama strikes gold in California

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 21, 2007

While his support in polls seemed to slip a bit after he announced his candidacy formally, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. isn't letting any grass grow under his feet. He just raised over $1.3 million last night, including donations from big names like Jennifer Aniston, Ben Stiller, Morgan Freeman, and Ron... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

Too much, too soon - but we have to look

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 20, 2007 · Comments (5)

With the 2008 Presidential election a scant 20 months and two weeks away, how is it possible we haven't been eyeballing the poll numbers much yet? A few cycles back, polls nearly a full year ahead of the Iowa caucuses could be readily dismissed as meaningless. The political battlefield changes... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (2 votes cast)

Edwards: Israel biggest threat to peace

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 20, 2007 · Comments (4)

Having successfully alienated Catholics and other Christians with his short-lived hiring of rabid gyno-warrioress Amanda Marcotte, John Edwards turns his attention to driving away potential Jewish voters. Peter Bart reports in Variety: The political star system has its built-in tensions, to be sure. Adam Venit, a honcho at Endeavor, hosted... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (4 votes cast)

A "Surge" Soldier on the House vote

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 20, 2007 · Comments (2)

Even though it has no practical chance of getting to a vote in the Senate, the House's resolution against the "surge" has already sent a message of encouragement to our enemies, and the enemies of a free and democratic Iraq, and a most discouraging one to our troops. One of... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (10 votes cast)

Train wreck over war powers coming

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 20, 2007 · Comments (5)

John Murtha is a man with a plan. The vote of no confidence against the President's new Iraq strategy was only a "first step." He really wants to stop the implementation by writing restrictions on military funding which would prevent, from a practical point of view, the deployment of the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (10 votes cast)

McCain, Romney run right

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 19, 2007 · Comments (9)

Two of the major contenders for the 2008 Republican Presidential nomination spent the weekend burnishing their conservative credentials. Romney reversed his old position on allowing gays to serve openly in the military, while McCain underlined his pro-life bone fides by calling for the overturning of Roe v Wade and the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

A living Hero speaks to the House

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 18, 2007 · Comments (6)

Amidst the din of defeatism on the House floor during the Surrender Resolution debate, one voice rang out clearly in defense of our troops in harm's way: that of Rep. Sam Johnson, retired Colonel and long-term POW in Vietnam. At Let Freedom Ring, Gary Gross introduces it with: I've chastised... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (14 votes cast)

Advice for the Ages

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: February 18, 2007

From the estimable Ann Althouse: When people come up and try to hand you underwear, it shows good instincts not to accept it. Read it all at the link above. She's defending Hillary Clinton, but the post offers a veritable smörgåsbord, including a link to priceless video and another to... [Full Story]

Rating: 2.2/5 (4 votes cast)

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