Kyle Bell

News broke today via the New York Times that billionaire Joe Ricketts planned to spend $10 million dollars in Super PAC attack ads against President Obama featuring his former controversial minister, Jeremiah Wright. While that in itself was newsworthy, the fact that the Ricketts family owns the Chicago Cubs is even more intriguing. The Cubs [...]

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The state of Indiana has lost a statesman today. Voters went to the polls to unseat incumbent Senator Dick Lugar, who has served in the Senate since 1977, in a low-turnout primary where fewer than 20 percent of eligible voters participated. Lugar was the mayor of Indianapolis prior to his election to the Senate. His [...]

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President Obama’s re-election team is set to launch a record $25 million ad blitz in a number of swings states in the coming days, weeks and months. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Nevada, New Hampshire, Iowa, North Carolina, Florida and Colorado will be the first targets – each of them states that Obama won in 2008, but [...]

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Mitt Romney got an endorsement today that highlights the challenge his campaign will have with satisfying Tea Party conservatives while also appealing to independent voters. Michele Bachmann, the decidedly crazy congresswoman from Minnesota, appeared in Virginia with former governor Romney in order to give her endorsement. How can you try to pivot towards the middle [...]

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Dear conservatives, We accept your apology for denying that climate change is a real, serious threat to the planet. We realize that science isn’t your strong suit. Now let’s work together to find a solution that will ensure a future for our children and grandchildren. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to [...]

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Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum accomplished two important wins in the Deep South on Tuesday – one in Alabama and the other in Mississippi – that denied front-runner Mitt Romney the opportunity to finish up the nasty GOP primary fight. While Romney’s aides publicly state that it would take an “act of God” for Santorum [...]

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Senator Olympia Snowe unexpectedly announced on Tuesday that she is retiring from the Senate. Along with her colleague Susan Collins, the two are known as the “Maine moderates” and have both consistently won re-election as Republicans in a Democratic state. She cited increased partisanship as her main reason for retiring: “I do not realistically expect [...]

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Last night “The Artist” won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The Chris Matthews Show lampooned the Romney campaign by playing off of the silent film theme: Mitt Romney’s campaign could learn a thing or two from Hollywood: his campaign would be better off if he just kept his mouth shut. var wordpress_toolbar_urls = [];var [...]

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Mitt Romney delivered one of the strangest and yet most hilarious stump speeches ever a couple weeks ago when he pandered to Michigan voters by talking about how their trees had the right height. “I was born and raised here. I love this state. It seems right here. Trees are the right height. I like [...]

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New York Magazine‘s John Heilemann has a great piece this week on the GOP primary race thus far. He writes about the rightward drift of the Republican Party, the struggles that “front-runner” Mitt Romney has had to curry favor with the Tea Party base, and Santorum’s rise as his primary conservative challenger. In Heilemann’s own [...]

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