Would the real Republican candidates for president please stand up? The field of conservatives willing to challenge has gone from almost nobody to anybody with a book or TV show to sell.
Mike Huckabee
Media briefs: Royal wedding watch … Syrian blogger defiant … Fox pushes Huckabee …
In today’s Media Briefs: get your Will and Kate cut-out masks in The Hun, Fox wants Mike Huckabee for run for Prez, Star magazine apologises to Katie Holmes and more…
US08 media wrap: Chasing the Big Mo in Wisconsin
The battle for both the Republican and Democratic nominations in the race to the White House moves today to Wisconsin, writes Thomas Hunter
US08 wrap: Obama keeps riding the Big Mo’
News that Clinton’s campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle has bowed out after a year combined with his resounding victories in Washington State, Nebraska, Louisiana and Maine over the weekend further served to top up Barack Obama’s momentum tank.
US08: After the tornado, the oesophagus of victory
It tore across the heart of the country, ripping up everything in its path – no, it wasn’t the Mike Huckabee express, it was a brace of tornados that the rest of the country barely noticed until all the votes had been counted, writes Guy Rundle in Chicago.
US08 media wrap: Fred Thompson gets out of the kitchen
An already steaming race heats up. Republican “possible” Fred Thompson, the former senator of Tennessee, is getting out of the kitchen, which is possibly good news for Mike Huckabee with the two competing for similar constituents. Things are certainly fiery in the Democrats.
US08 media wrap: put Rudy’s head on Mount Rushmore
No one does navel gazing better than the US media on US media — - today we have a few treats on the nature of the media pack, and is talk radio the big loser out of South Carolina? Meanwhile, Bill Clinton’s halo is slipping in his bid to help Hillary, but it’s a briliant tactic that’s starving Obama of on-message oxygen and ensuring reams of free media to the Clinton campaign… And someone should put Rudy Guiliani’s head on Mount Rushmore, says Daily Kos.
US08 media wrap: Mitt splits the GOP vote, Dems call a truce
As the GOP comes to term with three different winners from three very different states, the Democrats’ Vegas debate set the scene for a truce on the race talk that’s been muddying the campaign over the last week. And hovering above it all like a big, black cloud, the Recession predictions continued to loom…
Ron Paul: US08′s outsider candidate
Ron Paul’s US election campaign reflects the real division in American politics: not between Republicans and Democrats but rather between the tiny minority contented with the political status quo and the vast majority entirely alienated from it, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Blogwatch: US08 – Happy holidays from Huckabee
A Christmas wish … Smart move … the Huckabee offspring .. Gun totin’ … why aren’t the GOP happy?
US 08: Everyone hearts Huckabee
Former Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee has been dominating the headlines, and not just because everyone loves saying his name. And where once the wonks would have sworn that Hillary had Iowa in the bag, Obama, with Oprah in tow, is steadily gaining ground. Meanwhile, political writers are still all in a tizz over Mitt Romney’s Mormonism, as he nabs the dubious distinction of launching the campaign’s first attack ad.
Suffering election withdrawal? It’s only 22 sleeps to the Iowa Caucus…
Only 23 sleeps now until the next election day! The US primary season gets under way with what they call the Iowa Caucus in early January and then there will be a rash of primaries to keep all us political junkies going through until the first Tuesday in November, writes Richard Farmer.
Mitt Romney: of mormons, morons and morals
Republican hopeful Mitt Romney’s speech on faith and politics was mostly reported by the US newspapers as a call for religious tolerance. In reality, it was nothing of the sort, writes Jeff Sparrow.
