A smart lawyer writes: There is a blurb in one of my daily reads about Mike Huckabee defending his decision to pardon Clemmons and I like it very much. Huckabee’s actions as governor in granting pardons and his defense of his decision (instead of cowardly blaming someone else or his overworked schedule, or whatever other [...]
It looks like there is a possibility that the person suspected of gunning down 4 police officers earlier today might have been pardoned by then Governor Huckabee in 2000. If true, Mike Huckabee’s dream of holding any elected office in the future is in serious, serious trouble.
First-In-The-Nation, baby! True grassroots, baby! 2012, baby! Believe it.
First, because New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner is The Man. Second, because there is no credible path to victory in the 2012 Republican Presidential Primary for a Tim Pawlenty/Mitt Romney/another anti-Palin candidate to be named later that doesn’t include a WIN! in NH’s First-In-The-Nation Primary. Roaring into South Carolina, there can probably only [...]
Absolutely perhaps. Or something like that. The Republican Party could do far, far worse.
In a sense, Mike Huckabee is correct: The Republican Party currently depends, greatly, on the strength of its socially conservative base. Which isn’t breaking news. The big problem, for social conservative activists and the Republican Party which depends on them, is that American culture is hurtling towards a place where birth control, homosexual marriage, smoking [...]
…while most other wannabe Republican nominees will skip the caucuses all together and focus on winning the 2012 First-In-The-Nation Primary. So Mr. Murphy opined with all sorts of “it’s so early and a lot will change” caveats at last night’s New Hampshire Political Library annual fundraising dinner. And, with all sorts of “it’s so early [...]