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Suzanne Fields
Posted: 1/13/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Mitt Romney is learning what candidates before him learned. Small mistakes count, but usually not for much. But big ones can put a man down for the count.
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Paul Greenberg
Posted: 1/12/2012 3:55:00 PM EST
There were no surprises in the New Hampshire presidential primary. The voting results followed expectations and the polls.
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Matt Towery
Posted: 1/12/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The presidential nomination usually goes to the individual who wants it the most. Gingrich is now acting and spending like he really wants the job. But Romney has been doing the same for four years. The real question is whether a guy who got his act together in the 11th hour can defeat a man who has been ready for years. The answer will come in a real, live big primary ... South Carolina.
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Posted: 1/12/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Part of the joy of a presidential campaign is visiting different parts of the country. This past week was New Hampshire week. I've been to New Hampshire about a half-dozen times. It's a beautiful state. Mountains, ocean, beautiful forests and normally snow this time of year. However, we were snowless.
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Rich Galen
Posted: 1/11/2012 12:11:00 PM EST
Winning, in our culture, means coming in first. You don't win by coming in second or fifth. You win by coming in first.
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Jonah Goldberg
Posted: 1/11/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Mitt Romney is the most improbable of presidential candidates: a weak juggernaut.
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Pat Buchanan
Posted: 1/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
There still exists a possibility that, come Jan. 20, 2013, we could have a Republican Senate and House, and a Republican president.
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Bill Murchison
Posted: 1/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The New York Times' Bill Keller wants Hillary Clinton to replace Joe Biden on the Obama re-election ticket, but a better, likelier choice by far is available -- one Newton Leroy Gingrich.
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Mona Charen
Posted: 1/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
At the 757th Republican debate over the weekend, Newt Gingrich zinged Mitt Romney for attempting to portray his decision to forego a re-election race in Massachusetts as reluctance to become a lifetime politician.
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Chuck Norris
Posted: 1/10/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
Whom should we nominate to represent the GOP in a fight against President Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential election?
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Jeff Jacoby
Posted: 1/9/2012 2:24:00 PM EST
Mitt Romney has been thought for months to have the New Hampshire primary in the bag. But one vote he didn't have locked up until Wednesday was that of Steve Rowe, a Vietnam-era veteran who spent much of the 1970s aboard the USS Saratoga, a US Navy supercarrier.
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Matt Towery
Posted: 1/6/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
It will become conventional wisdom over the next few weeks that the Republican Party and its candidates for the nomination have been damaged by the close and surprise finish in Iowa. They will suggest the field is weak and that the failure of a candidate to win a mandate in Iowa would suggest a weak nominee in November. That's nonsense and wishful thinking by some pundits and media.
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Suzanne Fields
Posted: 1/6/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
What a country. Between the tears and triumphs, the angry accusations and the grudging admiration, the repetitive epithets and the evocative patriotism, the race in Iowa ends in a photo finish.
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Rachel Alexander
Posted: 1/5/2012 10:28:00 AM EST
Political analysts are scratching their heads trying to figure out how Mitt Romney won first place in the Iowa caucuses since the state is highly evangelical, he did not campaign heavily there, and his share of support in the polls has remained steadily at just under 25 percent.
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Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Posted: 1/5/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
My family and I have spent over a week in Iowa. We were expecting the normal cold, snowy weather, and bought boots, wool socks and sweaters the week before Christmas. We packed up soon after Christmas and flew to Des Moines. Four family members, 8 checked bags (double my initial goal -- bulky snow boots and sweaters).
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Debra J. Saunders
Posted: 1/5/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
As the results of the Iowa caucuses dribbled in, Americans got to see how the GOP candidates greeted victory and defeat. Top vote-getter Mitt Romney was gracious toward Rick Santorum, who came in second by eight thin votes, but uninspiring as he pledged to get America back to work.
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Ken Connor
Posted: 1/4/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
In case you haven't noticed yet, the battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination has been a highly volatile, highly unpredictable roller coaster ride. With a different candidate emerging at the top of the polls week after week, it would be folly for any of them to take their chances for granted. It is no exaggeration to suggest that each and every primary election will prove critical in the quest to amass delegates for the General Convention in August.
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Steve Deace
Posted: 1/2/2012 12:03:00 PM EST
Sadly, there are only two candidates offering a real means by which to actually undo that which the Left has done to this country for the past 50 years, and not just conservative platitudes.
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Jeff Jacoby
Posted: 1/2/2012 10:53:00 AM EST
Newt Gingrich's presidential ambitions may be heading for the exits -- opinion polls suggest that the former House speaker's hour has come and gone -- but his critique of judicial supremacy deserves to taken seriously no matter what happens in Iowa or New Hampshire.
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Bruce Bialosky
Posted: 1/2/2012 12:01:00 AM EST
The debates are over and the task of nominating someone to replace our current President now becomes a reality. The need to choose wisely could not be more important. The full impact of Obamacare and Dodd-Frank was deliberately deferred until after the 2012 election to disguise their disastrous effects. These policies will need to be dramatically altered in 2013. After months of campaigning, it’s clear that Mitt Romney is the best choice to do this and to be the nominee of the Republican Party.
