Tag Archives: John Kerry

Presidential Debate Tips: Listen, Study, Practice

By Laura Meckler The people charged with preparing presidential candidates for debates don’t, as a rule, talk publicly about their best secrets. But Ron Klain, one of the people leading President Barack Obama’s prep team, has already put a bevy of pretty good tips out there. In a memo for interested parties written for Third [...]

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So much for Sarah Palin as a serious ’12 contender

There was a time last summer and fall, when Tea Party ideologues like Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell and Joe Miller were winning key Republican Senate primaries, that it seemed quite possible — maybe even inevitable — that the Republican Party would nominate Sarah Palin for president in 2012. Here were Republican primary voters shedding all [...]

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Democrats in Denial About Unpopular Policies

By Rich Lowry When John Kerry calls you out of touch, you must be so far out of touch that you need to call Mazlan Othman, the U.N.’s designated liaison to space aliens, to re-establish contact with Planet Earth. The Massachusetts senator is one of the world’s experts in out-of-touch. What Tony Dungy is to [...]

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The Pro-Life Comeback of 2009

By:  Michael J. New In the aftermath of the 2008 election, offering advice to Republicans became a cottage industry among Beltway pundits. For the most part, it was the same advice Republicans always receive when their candidates fare poorly: Moderate your positions on abortion and other social issues and focus on defense and fiscal policy. [...]

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