Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment. — 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
Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Whatever Romney's failings, he certainly doesn't suggest that the United States is teetering on the brink of a moral cesspool. — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only… — 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
In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a… — 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
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
But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He… — 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… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering… — 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
Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
The 2004 presidential election that saw George W. Bush win with 51 percent of the vote was the last one Republicans will… — 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
Why, listening to Obama talk about his economic triumphs over the last three years might make you want to move to the… — 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
This, of course, has no chance of passing. But then Tuesday night's State of the Union address could be the first one… — 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
Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the… — 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
