Last Southern Candidate Standing

Aside from Andre Bauer, the South Carolina lieutenant governor who may soon luck into his state’s top job, the biggest beneficiary of Mark Sanford’s sudden fall from grace could actually be the governor of Mississippi.

That would be 61-year-old Haley Barbour, who chaired the Republican National Committee in the mid-1990s and Read More

Bad for Jindal, Good for Romney (and Palin, and Huckabee)

Even Fox News panned it, but at least a handful of Republicans had to be delighted by the Mister Rogers/Kenneth the Page impersonation that Bobby Jindal performed on national television the other night: his fellow 2012 aspirants.
A rising star in the national Republican Party since his near-miss Louisiana gubernatorial bid in 2003, Jindal’s Read More

Jindal Gestures for President

Bobby Jindal is interested in running for president in 2012. We know this not because he has said much about the matter—on Sunday's "Meet the Press," he provided all of the customary non-answers—but because of his words and actions on another subject.

Jindal, who will deliver the Republican response to Barack Obama's address to Congress Read More