IHT: The long defeat

The IHT’s David Brooks on why Hillary Clinton insists on protracting the primary season.
For nearly 20 years, she has been encased in the apparatus of political celebrity. Look at her schedule as first lady and ever since. Think of the thousands of staged events, the tens of thousands of times she has pretended to be […]

Politics, in four words

Supporters of Hillary Clinton: “Help Hillary make history!”
Supporters of Barack Obama: “Help make Hillary history!”

Huckabee

Election night always throws up some excellent speeches and comments. As I write, Mike Huckabee is announcing in Irving TX that he is dropping out of the race. And his speech so far has been awesome, the most memorable line of which was:
I would rather lose an election than lose the principles that brought me […]

The Audacity of Hopelessness

The media is at its best when it does a post-mortem. And beware, they could do this to anyone if they know they are losing. However, Frank Rich’s clinical piece in The New York Times dissecting Hillary Clinton’s stuttering campaign is worth a read.
If the press were as prejudiced against Mrs. Clinton as her campaign […]