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Democrats are beginning to question whether former Vice President Joe Biden is too old to be president, Politico is reporting. ... "It's the 78-year old elephant in the room," said political consultant Fernand Amandi, who worked for the Obama-Biden campaigns in 2008 and 2012. ...

Radical left-wing icon former California Democratic Rep. Ron Dellums was a hired lobbyist for Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. June 9, 2016, the Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. Dellums, who represented liberal San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., is a long-time darling of left-wing political activists. He served 13 terms in Congress as an African-American firebrand and proudly called himself a socialist. He retired in 1996. The former congressman is one of several high-profile Democratic partisans who was on Veselnitskaya’s payroll, working to defeat a law that is the hated object of...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation will recommend that the Justice Department bring criminal charges against Hillary Clinton and various of her aides, and soon. The evidence consists of materials that the Bureau has gathered in the course of its months-long investigation of Mrs. Clinton's personal server. The recommendations will come very soon. The charges will consist of some of the following: 1. Improper disclosure or retention of classified information. 2. Destruction of government records. 3. Lying to federal agents. 4. Lying under oath. 5. Obstruction of justice. All the counts are familiar to those of us who have followed the...

Just a question I'm throwing out for the FR gang. When I watched Fox News last night, it was humorous to see the two Democratic pundits, Joe Trippi and Kirsten Powers so obviously minimize Romney's results while falling over themselves boosting Santorum. I almost had the impression that these two partisan Democrats (especially Powers who's as transparent as they come) were a cheering squad for Santorum and can't wait to run against him. Or at least they believe he will be an easy opponent to beat. Powers even let her guard down a moment and implied that the Dems' strategy...

Trippi: GOP trying to turn Obama into another Jimmy Carter Posted: September 6th, 2009 12:21 PM ET From CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart WASHINGTON (CNN) – A prominent Democratic strategist said Sunday that Republicans are trying to turn President Barack Obama’s administration into another “failed presidency” like that of former Democratic president Jimmy Carter. “They’re going to keep gunning,” Democratic strategist Joe Trippi said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, referring to conservatives’ recent — and ultimately successful efforts — to target Obama’s green jobs adviser Van Jones over controversial comments he made before becoming a part of Obama’s...

There is no question that John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has changed the dynamic of the 2008 Presidential campaign, moved the current wave of polling to the GOP’s favor, and altered the terrain the rest of the election will likely be fought on. The Obama campaign’s ability to recognize the shifting ground, understand that it is real, and adjust accordingly will determine the outcome. And the outcome, for the first time, is in doubt. The Obama campaign went into the Democratic National Convention believing that the race would be fought out on Washington experience and “more of...

There is no question that John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has changed the dynamic of the 2008 Presidential campaign, moved the current wave of polling to the GOP’s favor, and altered the terrain the rest of the election will likely be fought on. The Obama campaign’s ability to recognize the shifting ground, understand that it is real, and adjust accordingly will determine the outcome. And the outcome, for the first time, is in doubt. The Obama campaign went into the Democratic National Convention believing that the race would be fought out on Washington experience and “more of...

I have seen a lot of commentary on why John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a cynical and transparent ploy to bring disaffected women who supported Hillary Clinton to his cause - and why this ploy would fail. But I don’t think John McCain and the people around him are that stupid. Something else in his speech introducing Palin as his choice caught my attention and I believe shines some light on the real reason McCain chose the Alaskan. McCain said of this pick “I have found the right partner to help me stand up to those...

I have seen a lot of commentary on why John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a cynical and transparent ploy to bring disaffected women who supported Hillary Clinton to his cause – and why this ploy would fail. But I don’t think John McCain and the people around him are that stupid. Something else in his speech introducing Palin as his choice caught my attention and I believe shines some light on the real reason McCain chose the Alaskan. McCain said of this pick “I have found the right partner to help me stand up to those...

Ten years ago, he was a reclusive 31-year-old who, bashing away on a laptop in his grungy Hollywood apartment, shot to prominence after he broke the Monica Lewinsky scandal that threatened to bring down Bill Clinton's presidency. Now, Matt Drudge owns a luxurious home on Rivo Alto Island in Florida's Biscayne Bay, a condominium at the Four Seasons in Miami, and is said to drive a black Mustang. He remains an elusive, mysterious figure, but the Internet pioneer is arguably the world's most powerful journalist. Mr. Drudge is still an outsider, contemptuous of the cosy relationships and closed-door deals that...

The Talk Shows Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): President George W. Bush. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; Joe Trippi, former John Edwards campaign adviser; Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff to President Bush.THIS WEEK (ABC): Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va.; former Sen. Bob Kerrey, D-Neb.LATE EDITION (CNN) : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Edwards Adviser Trippi: Hillary Campaign Is Broke By Greg Sargent - January 7, 2008, 11:45AM Edwards senior adviser Joe Trippi has a theory about the Clinton campaign: He says that it's broke, or will be soon enough. "There's a good chance that they're on the ropes financially," Trippi argued in an interview by cell phone from New Hampshire. "I can guarantee you their money is drying up. I don't think anyone is contributing to them." Trippi was giving voice to a theory that's been moving around in political circles of late -- that the Hillary campaign's massive spending over the...

Mike Huckabee's sort-of-meteoric rise continues, as Newsweek now has him running away with the Iowa caucuses. So is Huckabee becoming the phenomenon of 2008, as Howard Dean was in 2004? There are some superficial similarities. Dean and Huckabee are (or were) relatively little-known governors of small states. Each appeals to an important part of his party's base on issues that other candidates have skirted, or on which they are at least less rabid. So is it likely that Huckabee will take off as Dean did, before his collapse in, coincidentally, Iowa? I doubt it, for several reasons. First, while Huckabee...

Insurance executive Tom Knox has made a down payment on a possible candidacy for Philadelphia mayor, transferring $5 million to his new political committee in what amounts to the largest single campaign donation in city history. The Oct. 26 payment from his personal fortune comes as Knox has taken other recent steps toward running for mayor in 2007. His campaign staff is moving into a Center City headquarters this week, a Web site is ready to launch, and aides are planning a series of "listening sessions" with neighborhood leaders. In jump-starting his campaign with cash, Knox joins a small group...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Trippi Multimedia has joined WakeUpWalMart.com in launching a national advertising and multimedia campaign about "the movie and the memo Wal-Mart does not want you to see." Trippi Multimedia has produced a 30 second TV ad, titled "High Cost," to be shown in numerous cities beginning Monday, Oct. 31. It is a preview of the Robert Greenwald documentary "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price." The ad will air in New York City, the Washington, D.C. metro area, Los Angeles and Little Rock, Ark. The text of the ad is as follows: Announcer: The movie...

WEBB HUMBLEIt appears that the race for DNC chairman may be winnowing down to two or three candidates, with a number of elected officials urging former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb to press his candidacy harder. Webb's supporters have let it be known that everyone from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Govs. Bill Richardson and Mark Warner has been speaking with Webb about the DNC election, and promising their support over Howard Dean and New Democrat Simon Rosenberg. Dean is thought by some DNC insiders to have an inside track for the chairmanship, though Rosenberg has been gaining a lot of...

The blood-red electoral map Democrats have been staring at since election night makes one thing clear: If we want to be a majority party again, the only road back runs through the heartland. ...In the red states, it was a bloodbath.... We need a decade-long Heartland Project that will put those states back in play.... • Come to terms with the main reason we lost the red states: Too many Americans doubt whether Democrats will be tough enough in the war on terror.... We need to be the party of... Truman and... Kennedy, not Michael Moore. • Put forward our...

Senator Rick Santorum (R-Virginia)? It might be a joke for some, but at SantorumForVirginia.com it's become a rallying call. The site, which states it is not authorized by any candidate, candidate's committee, or the PA or VA Democrat Party, has gone on the offensive with pictures of Santorum's Virginia residence, the VA house's actual address, and newspaper accounts of the recent Penn Hills School District controversy. SantorumForVirginia.com even lists the Top Ten Reasons why Rick Santorum Should Stay In Virginia, with several key stabs taken at Santorum from his position in theToomey/Specter primary and his wife's uncapped medical malpractice settlement...

...The staggering defeat of the Democratic Party and its ever-accelerating death spiral weren't obvious from the election results. Two factors masked the extent of the party's trouble. Without the innovation of Internet-driven small-donor fund-raising and a corresponding surge in support from the youngest voters, John Kerry would have suffered a dramatically larger defeat.... Mr. Kerry was a weaker candidate than Mr. Gore. He lost so much ground among women, Hispanics, and other key groups, that the millions in Internet money, the most Herculean get-out-the-vote effort in party history, and the largest turnout of young voters in over a decade, couldn't...

I have been surprised to see and hear Joe Trippi and Ron Reagan both tonight on MSNBC. I enjoyed hearing both of them and hearing Trippi praise Republican bloggers while Reagan praised College Republicans and Republicans in general for staying on message. Anyone else see this? Great stuff.