Editor’s note: In recent weeks, The St. Petersburg Times has been trying to make the case for how each major 2008 presidential contender could win. These aren’t predictions or endorsements, just food for thought. This week, they consider Republican candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley had planned to stay […]

Is this the Achilles heal for the Republican Party?
Critics press Romney on immigration view
A blunt cliché best captures John McCain’s rebuttal to persistent attacks from Mitt Romney over his immigration plan: Put up or shut up 
 In his appeals to conservative voters, Romney has made the Arizona senator’s work on immigration one of his favorite targets. […]

Last week President Bush did to his own what he did to any Democrat who voice opposition to his wa, he accused anybody who opposed his Immigration Reform Bill, that if they didn’t support it, they were un-American. Here’s the money quote;
“If you want to kill the bill,” Bush said, “if you don’t want to do […]

We can’t go a week without a wise word or two from E.J. Dionne from the Washington Post.
 Debating In Parallel Universes
So when Democratic presidential candidates get together, they argue about who has the best health-care plan. When Republicans have a big discussion, it’s about torture and who’ll use it when.
Okay, okay, Republicans had their chat […]

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A few weeks ago I did something I never expected to do in my life. I shed a tear for Richard Milhous Nixon.
That’s in no small measure a tribute to Frank Langella, who should win a Tony Award for his star Broadway turn in “Frost/Nixon” next Sunday while everyone else is […]