Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore   For years I’ve been picking Mike Pence when handicapping lean and hungry Republican politicians. Even when he didn’t register in the 2010 CPAC presidential poll, and was ignored by Newt Gingrich as he mentioned the potential presidential candidates who had addressed the conference—Tim Pawlenty (remember Tim Pawlenty?), Mitt Romney, Ron […]

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Trump in Scotland in 2012. Photo Credit: Friends of the Earth Scotland/Maverick Photo Agency   “You have here, Gentlemen, said the Earl, two of the noblest objects that can entertain the eye, the finest river, and the greatest city in the world,” begins Scottish politician Andrew Fletcher’s 1703 Account of a Conversation, a fictional dialogue […]

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Edel Rodriguez   September 9, 1975: Peter Hannaford, a principal in the public relations firm managing Ronald Reagan’s political career, takes time out from preparing the ex-governor’s bid to challenge President Gerald Ford for the 1976 Republican presidential nomination to write to the editor of a weekly newspaper, proposing his client as a new columnist: […]

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Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore   Ah, those craven fiends atop the Republican Party, whoring before power and calling it “unity.” Consider the man Donald Trump used to call “Little Marco,” a “disaster for Florida” who “couldn’t get elected dog catcher.” He might not be qualified to catch dogs, but he sure does a convincing imitation […]

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Image Credit: Marc Nozell   Can anyone capture the essence of Donald Trump? What, if anything, is at his core? Journalists have been trying to define Trump ever since his rise to prominence in New York in the 1970s. And since his presidential campaign accelerated last fall, the takes on Trump have multiplied exponentially. There’s no […]

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