Exultant over having their own potentially history-making candidate, Republicans at their national convention have seemed intent on matching vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, rather than John McCain, against their opponent Barack Obama. ...more

September 5, 2008

Vile Garbage I have to thank the Hernando Today for printing Frances Earl's column, because it shows the good people of Hernando County just how crazy those on the left have become. ...more

September 5, 2008

The issue of John McCain's age became a bit more comical and interesting... ...more

September 4, 2008

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the running mate for GOP presidential candidate John McCain, wrote e-mails that harshly criticized Alaska state troopers for failing to fire her former brother-in-law and ridiculed an internal affairs investigation into his conduct. ...more

September 4, 2008

When a 17-year-old becomes pregnant, there may be talk at school and tears at home, but the girl and her parents are generally not foisted into the national spotlight. ...more

September 3, 2008

Because I have spent a better part of my life hanging around the hustings as a scribbler, there have been times when I have deluded myself into thinking that, in another life, I would have made a pretty fair-to-middling political consultant. ...more

September 2, 2008

Republicans opened their scaled-down national convention Monday with calls for aid and compassion as Hurricane Gustav smashed into the Gulf Coast. ...more

September 2, 2008

It may be the result of misfortune for many - a hurricane - but the absence of President Bush from his party's convention here this week probably isn't a misfortune for John McCain. ...more

September 2, 2008

Terrible luck involving two storms, particularly Hurricane Gustav, threatens to distract America from a Republican National Convention in which John McCain hopes to convince voters he's the one ready to lead the nation. ...more

August 31, 2008

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is an ethics reformer under an ethics investigation that is plowing through private domestic matters. ...more

August 31, 2008