John McCain is not a normal conservative. He has instincts, but few abstract convictions about the proper size of government. He's a traditionalist, but is not energized by the social conservative agenda. As Rush Limbaugh understands, but the Democrats apparently do not, a McCain administration would not be like a Bush administration. ...more

September 4, 2008

She has been known, at times, as "Sarah Barracuda." It began with her ferocity on the high school basketball court. As co-captain her senior year, Sarah Palin was a point guard who made the final free throw that won the Wasilla Warriors their first state championship. ...more

August 30, 2008

John McCain picked up former President Bush's support on Monday, a critical blessing by a pillar of the Republican establishment whose members aren't completely sold on the party's next standard-bearer. ...more

February 19, 2008

John McCain's embrace from the Republican establishment, once hard to imagine, is nearly complete. ...more

February 16, 2008

Mike Huckabee's defeat of Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses jolted a Republican Party establishment already distressed about the state of its presidential field. ...more

January 5, 2008