Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack.… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning.… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden. — John Podhoretz Copy Share
The exit polls suggest that after a relatively disappointing first term, Obama managed to reassemble almost all of his 2008 electorate. — John Podhoretz Copy Share
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. — John Podhoretz Copy Share
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. — John Podhoretz Copy Share
Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including… — John Podhoretz Copy Share
Aside from being bad sportsmanship - Romney basically said Obama won by cheating - he was displaying the same obtuseness about the wants and… — John Podhoretz Copy Share
There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment. — John Podhoretz Copy Share
As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical… — John Podhoretz Copy Share
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for… — John Podhoretz Copy Share
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. — John Podhoretz Copy Share
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for… — John Podhoretz Copy Share
By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion… — John Podhoretz Copy Share
The defense of ObamaCare's constitutionality relies mainly on the truism that everyone is sure to get sick at some point in their lives, and… — John Podhoretz Copy Share
