One of the few Halloweens I remember from my childhood in Houston is tinged in orange and white not from candy corn, but from our UT-themed family costume. My dad graduated from UT with a degree in American Studies in 1987, and he’d raised us on stories of his beloved time at the university. My brother […]
Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan launched an attack on the middle class. We must reverse it to save our democracy
One of the challenges in trying to understand what has happened to a conservative movement that has clearly become detached from reality, is that for decades we ve heard that
some conservatives needed to be taken seriously as intellectuals. These chosen conservatives are often anointed as serious due their academic pedigree (usually Ivy Leaguers). But the equating of impressive degrees with intellectual seriousness has an especially bad track record for conservatives. Time and again when it comes to the integrity, honest analysis, and basic grasp of facts that are the basic standards of any serious scholar, they have failed.
radical? it is unbelievable. people ask, where has this rancid ugliness and partisanship come from in american politics. well, i ll tell you. this is a fair part of it. right from the has not of newt gingrich saying to politicians in his party, when you want to describe your opponents, use language like traitor, sick, pathetic. it is just disqualifying in my judgment for newt gingrich and it is bizarre that he is now leading the polls on the republican side. but isn t that the point, sir? that s what republican voters want. they want a man who is going to describe the democrats and indeed, the incumbent president as sick, that a thigt, radical, traitor. that s what they want. i hope not. this country is in very serious trouble. and in my judgment, needs at this point serious leadership. and my hope is that president obama will run for re-election. i m going to support him. i hope the republican there s choose a candidate who is serious about issues and has some ideas about the
more intelligent, smarter than newt gingrich. i ve never seen a guy who could think outside the box as well as he can. a big thinker. but you know, like all big thinkers, they have got some great ideas and then they have some other ideas. and he s had a few of those? ? oh, yeah. progresso. it fits! fantastic! [ man ] pro-gresso they fit! okay-y. okay??? i ve been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans.fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. is the pain reliever orthopedic doctors recommend most for arthritis pain, think again. and take aleve. it s the one doctors recommend most for arthritis pain. two pills can last all day. the pioneers. the aviators. building superhighways in an unknown sky.
because we just got in a clip from a new york time interview. and mitt romney said some not so nice things about newt gingrich. zany is great in a campaign. it s great on talk radio. it s great in the print. it beats, makes for fun reading. but in materials of a president, we need a leader. and a leader needs to be someone who can bring americans together. zany. what does he mean by that? that doesn t sound too good to me from romney s perspective. attacking gingrich. well, their first instinct was to try to paint gingrich as the political insider versus romney, the outsired, anti-establishment candidate. and voters looked at that and said how long, mitt romney, have you been running for president again? i don t think so. now they ve tried this zany erratic unstable line of attack. i have to tell you though, i think republican voters more or less know what they re getting with newt gingrich. the best that romney can hope for in iowa in particular is for