Outside the Beltway

Expect plenty of GOP infighting if President Obama is re-elected next November.

Could the GOP go into Tampa next August not knowing who their nominee will be? It’s possible, but not probable.

It was a good day for Newt Gingrich, but will it matter in the end?

With the Super Committee dead, 2012 is likely to see a fight over the defense cuts set to take place starting in 2013.

How did Republicans get in this mess?

The most disturbing part of Saturday’s debate came when most of the GOP candidates endorsed torture.

The venerable conservative columnist once endorsed Romney as a “good option for the Right” but now calls him “the pretzel candidate”

George Will reminds conservatives to look in the mirror if the prospect of a President Romney dismays them.

Would Republicans really be crazy enough to nominate Herman Cain?

If Republicans keep looking for the next Ronald Reagan, they’re going to be disappointed for many reasons.

President Obama is being attacking from the right for following through on a policy decision made by his Republican predecessor.

Barack Obama uses a teleprompter. This is not a big deal.

Herman Cain’s foreign policy consists of little more than deliberate ignorance.

Why do pundits who are consistently wrong keep getting invited to be on television?

Rush Limbaugh, who three years ago said Mitt Romney embodied all three legs of the conservative stool today declared that Romney is not a conservative. He was right both times.

Two candidates face a test tonight.

In a move sure to make conservative heads explode, Chris Christie is set to endorse Mitt Romney for president.

Mitt Romney is still being dogged by charges of changed positions. Now, he’s trying to spin that as a good thing.

Yet again, a state seeks to buck the primary calendar (and yet again it provides a chance to wonder why we have the nomination system we have).

Despite all the negatives going against him, Mitt Romney may yet be the inevitable Republican nominee.

The cable networks and the political parties will tell you otherwise, but the 2012 isn’t quite as important as they’re saying.

We’re getting close to the point where only two people on this stage will matter.

The economy continues to drag the President down.

The President’s jobs push isn’t doing much to help his job approval numbers so far.

51.5 percent of Americans disapprove of President Obama’s job performance. It’s still his race to lose.

Supreme Court nominees were confirmed quite easily within recent memory. What’s changed?

Will 2012 be the Republican version of the 2008 race between President Obama and Hillary Clinton?

That a popular two-term governor of Utah is being rejected by likely Republican primary voters as insufficiently conservative shows just how extreme American politics has gotten.

Steve Benen has coined the phrase “Thank America Last” to describe those avoiding praise of President Obama for success in Libya.

The treasurer behind “Rick Parry with an ‘A’ for America” has left to work with Rick Perry

Rick Perry may be much less than meets the eye.

Tim Pawlenty is out, to nobody’s surprise.

The Ames Straw Poll is like the first scrimmage of NFL training camp.

State-level job approval numbers seem to suggest that the President could have Electoral College worries in 2012.

Examining the impact of current events requires stepping back from them just a little bit.

Should President Obama call Congress back into session? Not if there’s nothing to do he shouldn’t.

The Obama re-election campaign is preparing an extraordinarily negative campaign against Mitt Romney.

The primary calendar is going to look very different next year.

The cuts to Pentagon spending in the new debt deal are further revealing a split in the GOP over foreign policy and military spending.

You thought you’d seen the worst of Congress in July? Oh, you silly American you.

Condi Rice’s speechwriter thinks Huntsman can appeal to the Tea Party.