President ’08

From Rasmussen’s latest head-to-head surveys (h/t Kathryn Jean Lopez)…Fred Thompson 45%, Hillary Clinton 45% (survey conducted June 27-28).Rudy Giuliani 46%, Hillary Clinton 45% (survey conducted June 20-21).OK, partisans on the Republican side, it looks like it may be time to move beyond electability, and to start making the substantive case for your candidate! Rasmussen’s most…

There can’t be any serious dispute that this is, well, odd: Before beginning the [twelve-hour] drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog. Then…

In Sunday’s Projo, Froma Harrop writes approvingly about recently-turned independent New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg…He started out as a Democrat but turned Republican to run for mayor. He’s governed as a friend of labor, education, the environment and surplus budgets…. A year after 9/11, when Bloomberg raised property taxes rather than slash city services,…

Here’s a quick addendum that Republican political junkies might find interesting to Marc’s post showing Rudy Giuiliani and Fred Thompson in a statistical dead heat : a major X-factor in the campaign dynamic is that Mitt Romney still has the lead in New Hampshire and Iowa polls. Most recently, a New Hampshire poll conducted after…

The trend is clear. Fred Thompson has all of the momentum in the GOP race. There’s change at the top in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson earning support from 28% of Likely Republican Primary Voters. Former New York City Mayor…

A little slow around here this morning. Here’s a conversation starter: It is a paradox of the 2008 presidential race. By a wide margin, several polls show, voters want a Democrat to win — yet when offered head-to-head contests of leading announced candidates, many switch allegiance to the Republican. In a Los Angeles Times-Bloomberg poll…

OK, I suppose it would appear that I’ve been flakking for Fred Thompson, so, in the spirit of encouraging debate, here are Rudy Giuliani’s just-announced “Twelve Commitments” (via Powerline): Rudy’s Twelve Commitments are based on the principles of giving people more freedom, more power, and more responsibility over their own lives, while protecting our nation,…

Two polls for your commenting pleasure. First, LA Times/Bloomberg (reg. req’d.) indicates Thompson trails Rudy Giulianni by 6 points: Republicans antsy for a conservative standard-bearer in the presidential race have begun to rally behind Fred Thompson, propelling the former Tennessee senator to within hailing distance of the lead for the party’s nomination, a new Los…

At last night’s Republican Presidential debate televised on CNN, Wolf Blitzer asked Mayor Rudolph Giuliani about Bishop Thomas Tobin’s criticism of his position on abortion. The joking and laughter at the beginning of the excerpt concerns a lightning strike that interfered with the Mayor’s answer…Wolf Blitzer: Mayor Giuliani, there was some news here today. A…

In the Rhode Island Catholic (until recently, the Providence Visitor), Bishop Thomas Tobin of the Diocese of Providence offers a stinging criticism of Republican Presidential Candidate Rudolph Giuliani (h/t RI Future). The Bishop makes a general moral argument against taking the “personally opposed but publicly in favor” position that Mayor Giuiliani has taken with regards…