By Patrick J. Buchanan Real Clear Politics March 7, 2020 Share Pat’s Columns: Friday – March 5, 2020 “All in all, a triumphal week for Biden, who racked up 11 state primary victories. Before last Saturday, he had not won a single primary in three presidential campaigns. But if earlier reports of the demise of […]
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MICHIGAN TALK NETWORK: The Political Insider #93 — Interviews with state Senator Curt VanderWall (R-Ludington), state Rep. Sheryl Kennedy (D-Davison), John Couvillon of JMC Enterprises & Vanguard’s Jen Eyer
PODCAST: Prez Primary Prestidigitation/Work Requirement Repulsed/Mass Transit Meltdown
Whiplash for political junkies trying to keep track of what MI Prez Primary will really be about. Despite all the drop-outs in the past 72 hours, will we actually be the state that decides whether it’s Bernie or Joe? Judge strikes down “work requirement” for Medicaid recipients. MI House Speaker Chatfield (R-Levering) pulls plug on […]
DEMOCRATS EXECUTE A SHOCKINGLY COORDINATED PIVOT
A FRACTIOUS PARTY UNITES By Jim Newell Real Clear Politics March 4, 2020 It worked. Joe Biden used his resounding South Carolina primary victory on Saturday night to quickly knock out—and earn the endorsements of—two rivals, coalescing the other center-left candidates around his candidacy just in time for Super Tuesday. Center-left voters wary of a […]
SLATE: WE’LL MISS ‘MAYOR PETE’
by William Saletan SLATE online On Sunday night, Pete Buttigieg, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, dropped out of the presidential race. With each passing week, he had lost ground—first in Iowa, second in New Hampshire, third in Nevada, fourth in South Carolina—and he was facing a grim landscape on Super Tuesday. Many […]
THE DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT’S ULTIMATUM: SCUTTLE BERNIE!
By Patrick J. Buchanan March 3, 2020 Share Pat’s Columns: Tuesday – March 3, 2019 “Of what is the establishment terrified? That if Sanders is nominated, Donald Trump will crush him in November. And not only will the White House be lost, all hopes of winning the Senate and blocking Trump’s second-term Supreme Court nominees […]
KLOBUCHAR DROPS OUT — AND THE ‘STOP BERNIE’ MOVEMENT IS NOW OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY
Just one day after Pete Buttigieg made his own primary exit, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar announced that she, too, is ending her presidential run. She is reportedly planning to endorse Joe Biden at his Dallas rally later tonight (Monday). Despite consistently low polling numbers, Klobuchar and her message of electability outlasted a crowded field of […]
HOW MANY WAYS ARE THERE TO GET RID OF A BAD JUDGE?
At least three, according to the Michigan Constitution — and that’s probably two too many. Which brings us to another question: Is there too much clutter in the state’s 57-year-old Constitution? The answer is Yes, and much of it could have been purged long ago but wasn’t and isn’t likely to be unless there is […]
ARE NON-WHITES VOTING MORE LIKE OTHER AMERICANS?
By Michael Barone Real Clear Politics/Washington Examiner March 1, 2020 Bernie Sanders’ victories in the inaccurately counted Iowa caucuses, the crisply conducted New Hampshire primary and the Nevada caucuses have made two things clear. One is that the Vermont senator, elected and reelected to Congress as an independent, is on the high road to become […]