Subject: Mitt Romney

• Romney: Palin in Comparison

  August 29, 2008

• Wamp Decries 'Lack of Leadership'

  November 3, 2008

• No Committee for Old Men: Chip Saltsman Ditches Film Critique to Seek RNC Chair

  The world of film commentary lost one of its rising stars yesterday when Nashvillian Chip Saltsman officially announced his candidacy for Republican National Committee chairman. Check out the former Tennessee Republican Party chairman and Huckabee campaign manager as he discusses the Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men with Republican strategist Ed Rollins. And as the 40-year-old campaigns on the platform of bringing new blood to the Party of Old White Men, what more fitting film to discu

  December 9, 2008

• Bredesen, Cooper Still Waiting for Obama's Call

  After Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination for secretary of health and human services yesterday, Politico was quick to name Phil Bredesen and Jim Cooper as possible replacements. But overnight, our hometown heroes seem to have dropped out of consideration.

  February 4, 2009

• The Search for a Better Metaphor: Senator Corker and the Tar Baby

  In 2006, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, speaking at a Republican fundraiser in Iowa, called Boston's notorious Big Dig project a "tar baby." After a near-instantaneous rebuke from civil rights leader, the prospective presidential candidate quickly doubled-back, claiming the standard pol line of "I'm sorry if anyone was offended by the term I obviously didn't know was offensive."Yesterday, Tennessee Senator Bob Corker offered up his own Romney moment. "It's a tar baby," he said of the ongoin

  March 3, 2009

• The 2008 Boner Awards: Lowlights from Music City's year of clumsy crooks, posturing politicians and all-around bad news

  December 25, 2008

• Mike Huckabee at Davis-Kidd

  November 27, 2008

• Barack the Vote

  Special election edicion

  February 28, 2008

• Mormon Love

  Their good book says immigrants ‘shall be brought by the hand of the Lord’

  January 10, 2008

• Public Art

  December 20, 2007

• Rush to the Rescue

  Limbaugh praises Thompson, but can anything save his campaign?

  December 6, 2007

• Roots Revival

  November 29, 2007

• The Fabricator

  Clap Test

  November 15, 2007

• Clap Test

  Stars coach Thompson supporters on the basics of rhythm

  November 15, 2007

• Christers at the Gate

  Church of Christ members aim for electoral top

  June 14, 2007

• Musings From Memphis

  On ducks, Howard Fineman and Karyn Frist

  March 16, 2006

• Polling Dr. Frist…

  Southern Republicans choose their local doctor in an underwhelming victory for Bill M.D.

  March 16, 2006

• Bob Corker and the Curse of the 2012 Presidential Contenders

  Bob Corker: How much longer can he stay out of trouble?Bob Corker has edged up a spot in the latest Republican presidential rankings by Boston's altweekly, the Phoenix. Corker is currently ranked No. 15 just ahead of Sarah Palin and behind Tim Pawlenty, Jim DeMint, Mike Pence, John Thune, Mitt Romney, Haley Barbour, Rick Perry, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Newt Gingrich, Jon Kyl, Eric Cantor, and Lindsey Graham. Whew! What a crackerjack crew of contenders! Says the Phoenix:

  June 30, 2009

• Clash of the Titans: Ralph Nader vs. John Stossel, March 30 at Vanderbilt

  It'll be just like the Lincoln-Douglas Debates -- except this time Lincoln is a crotchety hard-liner who keeps even his ideological allies walking on eggshells, and Douglas aspires to out-gripe Andy Rooney. A "point-counterpoint" discussion March 30 between former U.S. presidential candidate Ralph Nader and former 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel opens Vanderbilt's annual Impact Symposium, organized this year around the theme "The Future of Capitalism." Nader and Stossel will trade salvos over the

  February 11, 2010