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The Return of Rev. Wright and the Small Donor Surge To Romney

By Hugh Hewitt (May 17, 2012)

"He is a bitter man...Jeremiah Wright is a joke...[What] Obama's crazy preacher is saying this week" is a "side show." These quotes are from my interview Wednesday with... more

“Leading from Behind” On Same Sex Marriage: The President’s Foreign Policy Finds Its Domestic Policy Expression as Joe Biden Pushes Barack Obama To Flip Flop On Marriage, Again.

By Hugh Hewitt (May 10, 2012)

President Obama is a thorough-going man of the left obsessed with power and thus in re-election, so his decision Wednesday to declare for same sex marriage is hardly a... more

An Indictment of the President's Touchdown Dance

By Hugh Hewitt (May 02, 2012)

On Tuesday morning the Wall Street Journal carried a very unusual op-ed. The author was a former Attorney General of the United States, Michael Mukasy, who had served on... more

A Strong Nominee In A Strong Position: Romney Turns On The Engine

By Hugh Hewitt (Apr 25, 2012)

The zombie narrative of a brokered convention is dead, and Politico is having to lay off the brokered convention team. Mitt Romney is the GOP nominee and a very strong one... more

The Battle of the Buzzwords, 2012

By Hugh Hewitt (Apr 20, 2012)

Presidential campaigns often reduce themselves to words or phrases, slogans or gaffes. These fragments actually represent much more than the specific words employed, but... more

The Short-Short List of Three

By Hugh Hewitt (Apr 11, 2012)

With Mitt Romney all but universally acknowledged as the GOP certain nominee, attention has quickly and rightly turned to speculation about the former Massachusetts... more

Joe Scarborough, Meet Pauline Kael

By Hugh Hewitt (Apr 05, 2012)

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough recently got a lot of tongues wagging by saying that he didn’t know any establishment Republicans who thought Mitt Romney could win in the fall.... more

The Books And The Arguments That Matter In 2012

By Hugh Hewitt (Mar 30, 2012)

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has a new book out, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power. I don't know if it is a good and important book because I haven't read it yet. If... more

One of Two Men Will Be President in January, 2013: Which One Do You Support?

By Hugh Hewitt (Mar 21, 2012)

With a sweeping win in Illinois that ranged across almost every demographic and income level, educational achievement or religious background, Mitt Romney has almost... more

Why the MSM Doesn't Want To Do the Romney Math

By Hugh Hewitt (Mar 15, 2012)

Mitt Romney’s nomination as the GOP standard bearer in the fall is as inevitable as Barack Obama’s renomination. Meteors could hit either man, but it will be a... more

Doing the Math on Romney's Path

By Hugh Hewitt (Mar 07, 2012)

David Parker is a very smart and successful businessman, a Romney guy, and an occasional contributor to the blog MittRomneyCentral. He is close to the Romney campaign, so I... more

Mitt's Big Night and the Road Ahead

By Hugh Hewitt (Feb 29, 2012)

The significance of Mitt Romney's big wins in Arizona and Michigan is debated in a symposium over at NationalReview.com. Along with the Weekly Standard's Jay Cost, I think it... more

The End of the Debates and the Romney Campaign Ahead

By Hugh Hewitt (Feb 23, 2012)

Like most pundits, I dragged myself along through most of the death march of the 20+ debates. Last night's was an exception. After seeing excerpts of the first hour through... more

Brokered Conventions and Unicorns

By Hugh Hewitt (Feb 20, 2012)

It is the season for silly predictions about the presidential campaign, and the most absurd of all is that the GOP is headed towards the emergence of a new candidate or a... more

The President's Anti-Catholic Duck

By Hugh Hewitt (Feb 09, 2012)

When President Obama signed off on the new HHS regulations that demand every Catholic institution in the country not officially designated a "church" either shut down or... more

Memo to the Catholic Bishops

By Hugh Hewitt (Feb 02, 2012)

To the Members of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops: It may have taken a few days to sink in, but by now you should all have realized that President Obama... more

40 Years After The 1972 Campaign, "Dirty Tricks" No Longer Matter To MSM

By Hugh Hewitt (Jan 26, 2012)

The single biggest storyline out of Florida and concerning the GOP presidential nomination isn't getting much attention. It is the attempt by President Obama and his... more

MSM and the 13 State Election

By Hugh Hewitt (Jan 19, 2012)

Will ABC's interview of Marianne Ginrich matter in the South Carolina primary? Will Mitt Romney's wealth and "effective tax rate of 15%" hurt him in the Palmetto... more

Rick Perry's Long March

By Hugh Hewitt (Jan 12, 2012)

Rick Perry isn't giving up and isn't going home, and some folks in South Carolina have noticed. The New York Times followed the Texas governor around some his stops in the... more

Romney v. Santorum: 1976 All Over Again

By Hugh Hewitt (Jan 05, 2012)

Either Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee by early February, or we have a replay of the 1976 GOP primaries on our hands. Both Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum had great... more