It is probably a sign that things are hardly going gangbusters for your presidential campaign when your police escort is larger than the crowd of supporters who show up to cheer you on. ...more

November 1, 2008

By now most of us have become so inured to the jibber-jabber of campaign advertising that if we turned on the television and heard a commercial accusing a candidate of being a lying, conniving, race-baiting, drug-dealing, sex-crazed Satanist, most of us would probably idly shrug and say: "That's nice. Would you pass the salt, Bertha?" ...more

September 18, 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

This is always the best way to begin a political career: simply having someone hand you an elective office, which spares one the indignity of having to bother with all those icky-poo-poo details of a campaign such as shaking hands with total strangers, asking people for money, eating bad food, showing up. ...more

August 21, 2008

Do you think there will be more pandering, teacher's pet sucking-up going on this weekend at the McCain Ponderosa than in the Miss America interview segment, when the contestants profess to wanting to save the world, harp seals and lost puppies? ...more

May 24, 2008

Now we know what it would have looked like if Steve McQueen had ever run for president. ...more

May 22, 2008

undertaking an exercise that has no meaning and still managing to turn it into a hissy fit. ...more

May 20, 2008

If you're a government apparatchik, seeing Hillsborough County commissioner and resident board parson Brian Blair barging through the door has to be the paper-pusher equivalent of the pol who came to dinner meets Mongo from "Blazing Saddles." ...more

February 5, 2008

As revelations go, this probably qualifies as a poor man's epiphany-lite meets "I coulda had a V-8!" moment. ...more

January 31, 2008

Coming soon to a Gag-A-Plex near you, these blockbuster Florida primary thrillers. ...more

January 29, 2008