Outside the Beltway

President Obama is once again catching flak for his leisure activities.

If the Republicans need their own Bill Clinton, how about Mark Sanford?

Mitch Daniels says that the GOP needs to get beyond its obsession with social issues if it’s going to survive. He’s right.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is beginning to more like a real candidate for President. She won’t win, but she will be entertaining.

Mike Huckabee channels Dan Quayle when he decides to comment on the pregnancy of Oscar winner Natalie Portman.

A day after apologizing for an odd comment about the President’s upbringing, Mike Huckabee now feeds into the conservative myth that Barack Obama isn’t a real American.

Critics of Barack Obama’s foreign policy should engage his actual policies — not policies that don’t actually exist.

Democrats won’t say if they consider Mitt Romney a threat, but they’re sure acting like they do.

Republicans begin to discover that defeating an incumbent President isn’t an easy task.

Scott Walker’s attempt to crush the Wisconsin public employee unions may be the first wave in a fight to elect Republican governors in 2012.

Opposition to marriage equality is no longer the wedge issue it used to be.

A new set of polls from Gallup show that President Obama is still looking good for re-election.

Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was a Tea Party darling when he picked up Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat last year, but he’s not embracing the movement as he prepares to run for re-election next year.

Florida has again scheduled its primary ahead of the deadlines set by the Republican and Democratic parties.

President Obama isn’t unbeatable in 2012. but it’s clear even now that he’s going to be a far more formidable opponent than many Republicans seem to think.

The 2012 GOP nominee will have to raise $300 million and assemble a top-notch staff.

Andrew Sullivan is finally fed up with Barack Obama.

Haley Barbour is making all the moves toward a 2012 Presidential run, but his stand on immigration issues could pose a problem in the Republican primaries.

Polls matching President Obama against potential Republican contenders are entertaining but not informative.

Newt Gingrich is very popular among young conservatives. But two ugly divorces will keep him from being a contender for the presidency.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels made quite an impression last night at CPAC