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Together they have eliminated the entire field , and are forcing the GOPe to resort to dirty pool in order to slip in somebody other then one of them at the convention . These are two very smart men who met in NY last year . Ever wonder what they discussed at that time ? This " feud " is getting so ridiculous it dawned on me that perhaps Trump and Cruz hatched this idea way back when , and agreed to throw support to whomever got the most delegates in the primaries , assuming it would be one of...

Last December, before Mitt Romney captured the Republican nomination for president, the Associated Press surveyed over 400 of America’s leading economists about their opinion of his economic plans. At that point there were still several candidates in the ongoing Republican primary so this “survey” was likely an attempt to stir up division among the Republican rank and file. The results showed that by 2 to 1 America’s economists favored Romney’s ideas. Now the survey is public knowledge and the AP is stuck with the results. America’s economists believe that Barack Obama’s policies are killing America. This is what the economists...

[Chuckles @ LGF] Johnson’s comment seems to me radically unfair. Pawlenty is a model of sensible modern conservatism. His answers to Newsweek’s barbed questions indicate an instinct for practical compromise, even as he eschews any personal support for creationism. That said, the interview – and Johnson’s reaction – bespeak a religious problem for Pawlenty that will require much tact on his part and that of his campaign team. Pawlenty now attends an evangelical church, but he was born and raised a Roman Catholic. He changed denominations at marriage, accepting his wife’s evangelical faith. Without pretending any insight into the souls...