America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president. — 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
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Vice presidents are at times tasked with issuing direct broadsides against enemies while the top guy stays above the fray. But never… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972,… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country's course. This cuts against the grain, and that's… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for… — 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 Image
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 Image
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
