When Huckabee was coming out of nowhere in Iowa, we had numerous pundits on the left, jumping on the Huckabee bandwagon. And then McCain came out of nowhere in New Hampshire, and then they jumped on the McCain bandwagon. Romney wins in Michigan, and they didn’t jump on the Romney bandwagon. They stayed on the […]

The Republican Party matters to me in the sense that it is the vessel — it is the host, if you will — for conservatism. Now, too many Republicans look at themselves as the host, and conservatives as an infection — as a virus that has been spreading throughout the Republican Party and slowly eating […]

MATTHEWS: I think the Hillary appeal has always been somewhat about a mix of toughness and sympathy for her. Let’s not forget, and I’ll be brutal, the reason she’s a US senator, the reason she’s a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner, is her husband messed around. That’s how she got […]

According to AP writer April Castro, Texas has earned the dubious distinction of being America’s “biggest carbon polluter.” And since America is the world’s biggest polluter — that means Texas is the most evil place on the planet. Ms. Castro identifies Texans’ “fondness for large, manly vehicles” as the prime factor that makes them the […]

Those of you in Michigan, just to give you an illustration, you have the presidential campaign going on there now, the primary campaign, and you’re hearing from all kinds of people about how Michigan is a one-state recession, and we’re going to fix it. Romney‘s got his plan to fix it; McCain is offering his […]