Hugh Hewitt's Townhall.com Column

Talk Radio, Online College, Deep Content and the 2012 Campaign: Embracing the Disruption

2012-05-24T06:39:00-04:00

Hugh Hewitt Column
What do New York Times' columnist David Brooks, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen, and Thomas Nelson Publishing Chairman Michael Hyatt all have in common?

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

2012-05-17T09:36:00-04:00

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"He is a bitter man...Jeremiah Wright is a joke...[What] Obama's crazy preacher is saying this week" is a "side show."

“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.

2012-05-10T06:44:00-04:00

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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 surprise.

An Indictment of the President's Touchdown Dance

2012-05-02T00:01:00-04:00

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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 the federal bench for 18 years before taking on the top job in federal law enforcement.

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

2012-04-25T09:38:00-04:00

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The zombie narrative of a brokered convention is dead, and Politico is having to lay off the brokered convention team.

The Battle of the Buzzwords, 2012

2012-04-20T00:01:00-04:00

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Presidential campaigns often reduce themselves to words or phrases, slogans or gaffes.

The Short-Short List of Three

2012-04-11T10:35:00-04:00

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

Joe Scarborough, Meet Pauline Kael

2012-04-05T10:23:00-04:00

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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. “Nobody thinks he’s going to win,” Joe said, referencing the vast, unnumbered GOP establishment that Joe hangs with in the Green Room.

The Books And The Arguments That Matter In 2012

2012-03-30T10:48:00-04:00

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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 her publisher sends it to me, I will read it and will have her on the show to discuss it in detail.

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

2012-03-21T09:02:00-04:00

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Mitt Romney has almost completely killed off the "zombie narrative" of a "brokered" convention.

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

2012-03-15T10:55:00-04:00

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Mitt Romney’s nomination as the GOP standard bearer is the fall is as inevitable as Barack Obama’s renomination.

Doing the Math on Romney's Path

2012-03-07T11:49:00-05:00

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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 read his posts and emails with care, and found this bit of math from his missive on Wednesday morning to be the sort of analysis missing from the MSM as it sifts through Romney's big night Tuesday.

Mitt's Big Night and the Road Ahead

2012-02-29T09:58:00-05:00

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Along with the Weekly Standard's Jay Cost, I think it is hard to see anyone but Mitt Romney as the GOP nominee. More to the point, I am of the view that the race for the GOP nomination is effectively decided. Not over, just decided.

The End of the Debates and the Romney Campaign Ahead

2012-02-23T09:32:00-05:00

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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 our of the debate through the last hour of my radio show, I was obliged to dash to another event and thus could only judge the result through the anlayses offered by others.

Brokered Conventions and Unicorns

2012-02-20T11:28:00-05:00

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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 “brokered convention.”

The President's Anti-Catholic Duck

2012-02-09T00:01:00-05:00

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The president and his team had thought they were dividing women from Republicans when in fact they were uniting Catholics of all political persuasions in a single front.

Memo to the Catholic Bishops

2012-02-02T09:47:00-05:00

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It may have taken a few days to sink in, but by now you should all have realized that President Obama has opened a massive assault on the Roman Catholic Church in America the likes of which none of you have ever experienced and for which few of you have prepared.

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

2012-01-26T00:01:00-05:00

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The president and the Chicago Gang as well as their allies in Big Labor want the GOP nominee to be Newt Gingrich.

MSM and the 13 State Election

2012-01-19T10:24:00-05:00

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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 State? Will the endorsement of Rick Santorum by key Evangelical leaders over the past weekend in Texas swing him crucial support on Saturday?

Rick Perry's Long March

2012-01-12T08:44:00-05:00

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Rick Perry is giving up and isn't going home, and some folks in South Carolina have noticed.