Greenville, S.C. - In the hours before the first Republican debate Thursday night, a number of established pols here in Greenville saw it as a showdown between former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and a bunch of other guys. "It's Pawlenty," said one veteran of state politics. "He's got a chance to move up into the first tier or stay in the second tier." The debate's other participants -- Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Gary Johnson -- weren't going to be much more than a supporting cast.
That's what the pols thought. Among the non-pols, also known as the people, there was intense interest in Cain. The former CEO of Godfather's Pizza and radio host has become a Tea Party favorite, with strongly-held opinions on issues he knows by heart from his business career, like job creation and economic growth. The debate, according to his fans, would be the perfect format for him to make a great first impression on the national stage.
Nothing worked out exactly as planned.
Philip Klein - How the five GOP candidates fared at the South Carolina debate
This early in the game, and without a full field participating or even declared, it’s hard to really pick winners and losers in tonight’s South Carolina debate. So I thought I’d offer a rundown of each candidate’s performance. Read More
Susan Ferrechio - GOP: Medicare reform unlikely this year
Lawmakers and the White House met for the first time Thursday to negotiate federal budget cuts and raising the debt ceiling, but congressional Republicans acknowledged that the deal is not likely to include Medicare reform. Read More
Hayley Peterson - White House story of bin Laden's death keeps changing
The White House account of the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been changing almost daily since the last shot was fired, and the administration's claim that it was a capture-or-kill mission has come into question as new details emerge. Administration officials repeatedly described the operation as a "continuous" firefight that lasted 40 minutes from the moment the Navy SEALs landed in bin Laden's compound in Pakistan until they left with his dead body. Read More
Byron York - in Laden coup won't help Obama in GOP budget fight
Barack Obama believes he can leverage some of his killing-bin-Laden popularity into new power on Capitol Hill. "It is my fervent hope," the president told a bipartisan group of lawmakers at the White House Monday night, "that we can harness some of that unity and some of that pride to confront the many challenges that we still face." Read More
Timothy P. Carney - Media ignores central issue in Missouri redistricting: Race
One thing the liberal mainstream media doesn't do well is deal with race when there's not an obvious or politically correct angle. We get a case in point this week in Missouri's redistricting battle. Read More
Conn Carroll - Obama’s Osama bounce is small, limited, and likely temporary
Today’s Gallup and Rasmussen daily tracking numbers are the first complete set of post-Osama numbers. When paired with other major polls they show President Obama received little boost from the Navy SEALs killing of bin Laden. Read More
Mark Tapscott - Here's the story liberal mainstream media won't report on Obama's permitorium
Soon after the Deepwater Horizon tragedy began in the Gulf of Mexico, President Obama imposed a moratorium on all off-shore drilling for oil and natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico. The moratorium was lifted, finally, after a federal judge twice ruled the administration's approach was illegal, but not soon enough to prevent thousands of jobs from being lost around the Gulf coast, and not just in the energy industry. Read More
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