Connecting.the.Dots

The Empty Suit is back, winning a 2012 straw poll at the Southern Republican revival meeting, in absentia over Dr. No, Ron Paul; the Man o...

Some divine Anthropologist must be balancing the racial books for America, giving us an African-American as president who is a superbly tale...

But enough of reality, let's spend some quality time in Republican Fantasyland, where Barack Obama has a 4 percent approval rating and R...

TV news is beginning to look like the mother of all game shows with Washington contestants competing to pick a jackpot for the economy. Here...

As Democrats put Obama/Clinton issues behind them, the Republican identity crisis comes front and center in John McCain's decision abou...

Two Republican losers are in Denver this week, jockeying for TV face time and puckering up to their new best friend, John McCain. In the pri...

Joe Biden's slip in his first vice-presidential peroration today (“the next president of the United States--Barack America!”) may be a ...

Duping the Prince of Darkness is SOP for the GOP, as the Valerie Plame outing showed, but the McCain campaign is in "reprehensible...

John McCain had a senior moment in Texas the other day. “I’m a proud conservative liberal Republican,” he said in a speech, then catching h...

Now that John McCain's hair has been mussed a bit by New York Times reminders of his ties to lobbyists, Mitt Romney may be rethinking h...

The man who has more enemies in his own party than any front runner in memory keeps talking about friends. "Tonight, my friends," ...

In 1968, a Republican governor remarked, "Watching George Romney run for President is like watching a duck try to make love [PG version...

In the eyes of its diehards, the Republican Party will go a long way tomorrow toward nominating a candidate who has betrayed its principles....

George W. Bush and Karl Rove apparently accomplished something the North Vietnamese in five years of captivity could not do--get John McCain...

From the moment Barack Obama held out Hillary Clinton's chair as they sat down to debate to the near-hug as he patted her shoulder when ...

Like the finale of "Blazing Saddles," last night's Republican brawl broke through the fourth wall and spilled over onto the se...

Mitt Romney loses a primary to John McCain that would have knocked a less loaded man out of contention for the Republican nomination, but Ro...

In last night's Theater of the Absurd, a Lame Duck is quacking at the podium while the ducklings-in-waiting look on, pretending to liste...

On Wednesday morning, either Rudy Giuliani or John Zogby is going wake up with a big headache. Running fourth in the state on which he has b...

At the Republican debate Thursday night, Mitt Romney was hearing voices, and so were we. Before he answered a question about Reagan's So...