Bob McCarty Writes

Getting 20 percent of the vote, Mitt Romney finished atop the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll of potential conservative candidates for the 2012 presidential race. It marks the third time the former Massachusetts governor has finished atop the CPAC straw poll. Finishing behind Romney were Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-La.), Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and [...]

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When I compare the speech President Barack Obama delivered before a joint session of Congress to Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s rebuttal speech that followed it, and it’s difficult to imagine anyone siding with the president’s point of view.  Moreover, it’s easy to see a glimpse of the future that involves a 2012 presidential race between [...]

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Today, I found two items worth sharing that serve as evidence that Barack Obama and the mainstream news media (i.e., ABC News) are showing signs of desperation in their effort to defeat Republicans John McCain and Sarah Palin: The first item highlights the poor research done by the Barack Obama campaign prior to releasing a new [...]

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Writer Paul Bedard published nearly a dozen posts today at the U.S. News & World Report Washington Whispers blog. Two of them dealt with photos and film footage of the place where John McCain spent five years as a North Vietnamese prisoner of war. Before the 2008 presidential race is over, those two should provide [...]

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Many Americans, including John McCain himself, have mentioned the Arizona Republican’s age as a factor in the 2008 presidential race. One — Ron English, at the liberal Billboard Liberation Front — took things a bit farther as the photo above, of his Los Angeles-area billboard (courtesy Hi-Fructose Magazine), shows. Though I don’t agree with many [...]

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Crime and politics seem to be not-so-strange bedfellows these days. But when it comes to the 2008 presidential race, the former seems to be haunting only the Democratic Party’s White House hopefuls: Case in point #1: There’s a strong possibility that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama will be called to testify under oath about his [...]

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Close presidential races are shaping the future of both the Democrat and Republican parties in 2008. In a post at Captain’s Quarters this morning, Ed Morrissey reports the Delegate Math Looks Bad For Democrats: Democrats have 4,049 delegate that will attend the convention, but 796 of these are superdelegates. That leaves 3,253 elected delegates, of [...]

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