Outside the Beltway

The Iraq War did significant damage to the legacy of the Republican Party.

Ross Douthat says American women should stop being decadent and have more babies, explaining that raising children is easier than it used to be, so there’s really no excuse for women to be so selfish.

Republican opposition to same-sex marriage is costing it yet another demographic group.

Republicans are starting to talk about immigration reform, but do they really mean it?

More griping about poor analysis.

America’s Protestants are dying off and being replaced by non-believers.

Let’s take a trip back in time to see what some conservatives thought 2012 would look like if Barack Obama were elected President.

Mitt Romney still has problems with Southern whites that could pose problems for him in states like Virginia and North Carolina.

Another platform controversy?

The fallout from Todd Akin’s rape comments on Sunday has exposed a rift in the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney and other top Republicans are not taking part in the latest round of the culture war debate over same-sex marriage, for good reason.

The “Mormon Question” that has long plagued Mitt Romney is being raised again by a new study showing the sentiment rising among liberals and non-believers.

Yet more evidence that this is shaping up to be a very close election.

Will Obama’s announcement on same-sex marriage benefit him or Romney in the upcoming campaign?

All of a sudden, people are talking about Mike Huckabee as a potential Romney running mate.

With the nomination pretty much inevitable, it’s time to start thinking about Romney’s running mate.

Rick Santorum has bigger General Election problems than Mitt Romney it seems.

If you listen to the punditocracy, you’d think that there’s actually a doubt as to who the GOP nominee will be.

A poll commissioned by the Alabama Education Association shows Mitt Romney with a rather surprising 10 point lead in the Heart of Dixie.

Would Rick Santorum be the frontrunner for the 2016 GOP nomination? Not necessarily.

A discussion in the comments thread of my “Time Running Out For GOP?” post led me to a post from four-plus years ago by frequent commenter and erstwhile blogger* Michael Reynolds titled “Money, Bombs and Jesus.”

2012 may be the last chance for the current Republican Party to win the White House.

In order to succeed on the right today, you have to do more than just say the President is wrong. You have to say that he’s evil.

The race appears to be tightening in The Wolverine State.

Once again, the face of the Republican race has changed.

A new poll shows Santorum surging ahead of Mitt Romney nationally

One analyst sees a way that the current GOP race could indeed lead to a brokered convention.

Are culture war issues about to make a comeback in the 2012 campaign?

Mitt Romney seems headed for a big, and important, victory tomorrow in Florida.

The polls are open in the South Carolina.

Ronald Reagan wasn’t really much a of a “Christian Conservative.”

The race in South Carolina is going down to the wire.

It seems that Saturday’s vote by evangelical leaders in favor of Rick Santorum was less than meets the eye.

150-plus evangelical leaders are trying to derail the Romney Express. They’re going to get run over.

Things are tightening up among the Republican candidates in the Palmetto State.

The former Utah governor will almost certainly never be the GOP nominee. But someone like him will be soon.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of government are somewhat disturbing.

Rick Santorum returns to his old ways when asked about same-sex marriage.