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She’s in the Attic (Guest Voice)
She’s in the Attic by Will Durst Say what you will about the latest female politician taking her runway turn in the right-wing spotlight, Christine O’Donnell is a lock for Best Newcomer in the...
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Miller Now Leads in Alaska Poll: Palin Power?
A new poll shows Joe Miller, the Tea Party favorite who has the GOP nomination whose poll numbers went south after several highly publicized negative incidents, now back on top. And he’s back on top...
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Newt Gingrich Toxic Waste
Brian Fairrington, Cagle Cartoon This copyrighted cartoon is licensed to run on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. The post Newt Gingrich Toxic Waste appeared first on The Moderate Voice.
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The GOP’s Anti-Gingrich Campaign
MIAMI — When the empire strikes back, it hits hard. The Republican establishment is deploying every weapon and every soldier — even Bob Dole — in an increasingly desperate attempt to pulverize the...
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BREAKING: Gingrich Finally Sees the Light at the End of the (Exit) Tunnel...
UPDATE: While Rick Santorum still refuses to officially endorse Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich has finally done the right thing — in addition to suspending his foolhardy campaign. Mr. Gingrich plans to...
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For GOP, Storm Has Already Gathered
WASHINGTON — The uninvited participation of a hurricane at next week’s Republican convention would be superfluous. Buffeted by powerful internal winds, the party may be flooded with cash, but it’s...
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Democrats’ panic time? Odds increase that Republicans will win Senate
For months, as pundits suggested the Senate was poised to be taken over by the Republicans in 2014, some Democrats suggested there really was no need to panic. Now it sounds as if Democrats feel it’s...
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Another Trump card…
Donald Trump is driving the GOP nuts. Trump’s surging campaign has pushed the party in a different direction, one that often clashes with free-market principles that have long underpinned GOP economic...
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The GOP’s dysfunction all started with Sarah Palin
Why is the GOP so dysfuncational rather than just feisty? William M. Daley, Barack Obama’s White House chief of staff from 2011 to 2012 nails it in the Washington Post, noting something I’ve pointed...
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The GOP’s self-inflicted wound
WASHINGTON — As the leading Republican presidential candidates rant and rave about deporting 11 million immigrants, fighting some kind of world war against Islam, implementing gimmicky tax plans that...
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The GOP will be changed forever
WASHINGTON — History will remember 2015 as the year when The Republican Party As We Knew It was destroyed by Donald Trump. An entity called the GOP will survive — but can never be the same. Am I...
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What could go wrong in 2016?
Milt Priggee, www.miltpriggee.com WASHINGTON — You probably noticed that 2015 was pretty weird. But hey, it’s a brand new year — a fresh start, a blank slate, an unwritten script. In 2016, what could...
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GOP Chaos? Establishment rushes to Trump, conservatives towards Cruz
Welcome to chaos. Political chaos. The frenzied race for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination has turned into a quintessential example of a political fight or flight mechanism in motion. The...
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Why the GOP Establishment is Warming to Trump
Andrew Prokup acknowledges a GOP split but explains why many prefer Trump over Cruz on vox.com. But now several reports and public statements suggest just the opposite — that, believe it or not, at...
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The GOP establishment strikes back
WAUKEE, Iowa — The establishment struck back. The headlines will show that Ted Cruz won the Iowa caucuses, but the more significant message out of Iowa was that Marco Rubio was neck-and-neck with...
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Rubio becomes early hope for mainstream Republicans
Marco Rubio waves to supporters during the Rubio watch party at the Downtown Marriott Hotel in Des Moines. REUTERS/Dave Kaup By Emily Stephenson and Emily Flitter EXETER, N.H./MILFORD, N.H. (Reuters) –...
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New Hampshire spanks the elites
Mike Keefe, Cagle Cartoons These are, admittedly, large conclusions to draw from one contest in one small New England state. But politicians and Wall Street would be foolish to ignore New Hampshire’s...
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Trump blames refusal to disavow Duke KKK support on “lousy earpiece”
As the outcry increases over his refusal three times on CNN to disavow the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and white supremacists, showman Donald Trump is finessing his evasive answer...
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A GOP trapped by Trump
WASHINGTON — The Republican Party is on the verge of being taken over by an egomaniac who appeals to the nation’s darkest impulses. Yet Donald Trump’s foes are splintered, tactically but also...
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Cartoons: Riding with Mittens
Riding with Mittens by Clay Jones One of the more bizarre things that came out of campaign 2012 was Republican nominee once took his dog with his family on a vacation, and during the trip they...
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The Republican Party starts fracturing
Want some nice news? Top headline in the Times points to the fracturing of the Republican party. This shake-up, with any luck, will make them rethink the wisdom of obstructionism and the post-Nixon...
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Cruz, Trump split four states in setback for Republican establishment
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz speaks at the Kansas Republican Caucus at the Century II Performing Arts and Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas March 5, 2016. REUTERS/Dave...
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Only the voters can stop Trump now
WASHINGTON — We the people are going to have to save ourselves from Donald Trump, because politicians don’t seem up to the task. For the big-haired billionaire it was another week, another romp. In...
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Blowing the Biggest Political Story of the Last Fifty Years (Guest Voice)
Blowing the Biggest Political Story of the Last Fifty Years by Neal Gabler Tea Party rally in St. Louis, MO Ah, the crescendo of complaint! The Republican establishment and the mainstream media,...
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The GOP Elites Have Themselves to Blame (Guest Voice)
The GOP Elites Have Themselves to Blame Trump’s the symptom, not the disease. The Republican establishment has been infecting the body politic for years. by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship From their...
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Republicans, if you aren’t embarrassed, you aren’t paying attention (Guest...
A new poll shows 60 percent of Republicans are embarrassed by their party’s race for the White House. I have a question about that. What’s wrong with the other 40 percent? They aren’t embarrassed? Or...
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The GOP Blame Game
Kirsten Powers on the Republican establishment’s attempt to blame Trump’s rise on President Obama in USA Today. Who is to blame for the unraveling of the Republican Party? If you listen to...
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Reports of Trump’s demise are premature
WASHINGTON — Not so fast, everybody. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Wisconsin will not be the end of Donald Trump. It will not even be the beginning of the end. But it might be the end of the...
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Poll: Blocking Trump could hurt Republicans in election
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on stage during campaign event at Grumman Studios in Bethpage, New York April 6, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri By Chris Kahn (Reuters) – A third...
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FrankenTrump: Chased by angry (GOP) villagers
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md., April 10, 2016 – As this election season wears on, some facts have become clear. All the negative talk about President Obama and government by the Republican Party and its...
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Presidential Election 2016: How Much More ‘Fun’ Can We Take?
Photo by bored-now/Flickr Presidential Election 2016: How Much More ‘Fun’ Can We Take? By Colleen O’Connor This election has produced more theater, rancor, and nonsense — while simultaneously driving...
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Too late to turn back Trump
WASHINGTON — For decades, the Republican Party gave voters the impression that they get to pick the presidential nominee. The much-weakened GOP establishment theoretically has the power to choose...
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European dismay at Trump’s triumph in New York
Europeans stared transfixed as in an unfolding horror movie as Donald Trump declared victory in the New York Republican Presidential primary. Trump elicits dismay in any case because of his sheer...
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The New Trump as New Coke
WASHINGTON — If authenticity is your calling card, how do you become authentically inauthentic? Welcome to the New Donald Trump, a marvel of the Twitter-Cable-Facebook Non-Industrial Complex and the...
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The Scariest Trump
Chris Cillizza describes the version of Donald Trump that is most frightening to the GOP establishment in The Washington Post. Gone was “Lyin’ Ted.” In its place was “Senator Cruz.” Gone was the...
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Trump is no match for this tag team
Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons WASHINGTON — Don’t call it strategy, call it strategery: Ted Cruz and John Kasich are going to cooperate to deny Donald Trump the Republican nomination. Also, I don’t know,...
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Turns Out Trump is Right a Lot (Guest Voice)
Daryl Cagle, CagleCartoons.com Turns Out Trump is Right a Lot Raging Moderate by Will Durst As evidenced by his hair, Donald J. Trump is pretty much wrong all the time. Every time. About everything....
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Trump fills a vacuum left by the GOP
WASHINGTON — The Donald Trump rampage — still hard to believe, after nearly a year — is a symptom of something deeper and more profound: the Republican Party’s slide into complete incoherence. Rarely...
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Ornstein and Mann Updated
Non-partisan Congressional scholars Norm Ornstein (American Enterprise Institute) and Thomas Mann (Brookings Institute) update their diagnosis of government dysfunction in The Washington Post. Fast...
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Politix Update: GOP Is Left In The Gutter As Trump’s Lemmings March To The Sea
Let us begin this jeremiad with a couple, three acknowledgements: Despite the innumerable pre-mortems, the Republican Party is not dead, and despite the extraordinary spectacle of fear and loathing...
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Trump’s Toxic Legacy
Though it now appears likely (but hardly certain) that Donald Trump will lose the Presidential election this fall, his candidacy will leave a lasting influence on American politics. As Ezra Klein notes...
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Trump’s shakeup further imperils the GOP
Danger WASHINGTON — Shaken by the fact that he’s losing, Donald Trump has fled into the parallel universe of the extreme right — and apparently plans to stay there for the remainder of the campaign....
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