ST. PAUL, Minn. — When Sarah Palin took the stage Wednesday night, the reaction of conventioneers went beyond mere appreciation. It was gratitude.
And relief that the fi...
ST. PAUL — "The Republican Party will not stand by while Gov. (Sarah) Palin is subjected to sexist attacks," Carly Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard and consta...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — If conventions are supposed to be about message discipline and stagecraft, Republicans have been improv street theater to the Democrats' Broadway.
Ever...
I'm in trouble already. On a national television talk show, I referred to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Sen. John McCain's choice to be his running mate, as a nice "young lad...
"Sarah Palin... was elected Alaska's youngest and first woman governor in 2006. When she began her political career she was viewed as a rising Republican star but she wo...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Tom Donilon, the Washington lawyer who did the delegate-counting for Jimmy Carter in 1980, has a bit of practical wisdom that he has offered over the y...
Let's face it. John McCain's a loner with a stern, "it's-a-dangerous-world" message and fairly cold eyes. He isn't charismatic. And no one can accuse him of being a sunn...
Don't take this personally, but plenty of Democrats and Republicans think Americans are pretty ignorant when it comes to oil.
The politicians realize that far too many A...
DENVER — The Democrats had themselves a successful convention last week — at the price of appearing quite conventional.
The delegates left here happy and enthused, belie...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not ins...
