The Road Ahead: A Reali...

Rich Beeson, MittRomney.com Since launching his campaign for President in June, Governor Romney has dominated the debates, travelled tens of thousands of miles rallying Americans with his conservative message of American renewal and clearly emerged as the one Republican who can defeat...

Washing the MSM’s...

John Nolte, Big Journalism Oops. My headline mistakenly reads “cracker” journalism.What I meant to write was ”crack” journalism – but in a completely sarcastic way.At the top of Politico’s front page today...

Obama Is the GOP Primar...

Steve Kornacki, Salon  (Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing) In an interview with Matt Lauer that aired before the Super Bowl, Barack Obama argued that "I deserve a second term." And if the election were held right now, he'd probably get one.A new ABC...

Obama’s Made-up J...

Joseph Curl, Washington Times When it comes to the unemployment rate, it’s nice to be president.Sure, it wasn’t so nice for President Obama in October 2009, when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics declared the rate was 10 percent. But exactly a year from Election...

Obama Holds Edge Over R...

Dan Balz & Jon Cohen, Washington Post Boosted by improved public confidence in his economic stewardship, President Obama for the first time holds a clear edge over Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in a hypothetical general-election matchup, according to a new Washington...

Box-Checking Obama in a...

Michael Barone, DC Examiner It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker has now done this twice.The first time was in an article last April on Obama's foreign policy in which he quoted...

The GOP Front-Runner Is...

Charles Blow, New York Times No one should be surprised that the Tin Man has a tin ear. Charles M. Blow After all, Mitt Romney is the same multimillionaire who joked that he was "unemployed" while he was "earning" more in one day than most Americans...

Jobs Report Makes It a ...

John Cassidy, New Yorker If you think you heard a loud cheer around 8:30 E.T. this morning, you were right. It came from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where Super Bowl weekend started early—at just about the moment when the Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate fell...

Romney: The Last Republ...

Geoffrey Norman, The American Spectator So it seems it will be Mitt. And good thing he won't be offering his main rival the second spot on the ticket. "Mitt & Newt" sounds like the name of a comedy act or a network sitcom. Not right for something epic or tragic....

Flaws Won’t Stop ...

Jonathan Tobin, Commentary Since Florida Republicans gave him a massive victory on Tuesday night, Mitt Romney has not had a good few days. His absurd statement about not caring about the very poor, from which, as Seth wrote earlier, he has already backtracked, was a gaffe of the first...