Outside the Beltway

Mitt Romney’s initial response to the attacks in Egypt and Libya displayed a tendency to jump the gun rather than wait for the facts.

The GOP still hasn’t dealt with the legacy of George W. Bush.

Over the weekend, Mitt Romney was sounding more like Rick Santorum than himself.

Based on its recently passed platform, the Democratic Party has given up any pretense of putting civil liberties ahead of “national security.”

The 2012 campaign is revealing once again that many conservatives have a view of President Obama not shared by the public at large.

Hey GOP, Lt. Sulu has some questions for you.

Another platform controversy?

Depending on what time you watched any of last night’s proceedings in Charlotte, you got a very different experience.

Do fiscal conservatives realize they’re being sold a bill of goods?

The GOP claims to be a party that favors limited government, but its foreign policy positions reveal this to be little more than a lie.

Over two days of speakers, not a single Republican has mentioned the Tea Party.

Lindsey Graham: “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”

Left with a choice between their hawkish foreign policy and their supposed commitment to fiscal conservatives, Republicans will, without fail, spend the nation into debt.

Today’s convention activities will include the opening salvos of an attack on the President’s foreign policy. This strikes me as a mistake.

Jeb Bush continues to speak the truth on the GOP’s position on immigration issues. Sadly, his fellow Republicans aren’t listening.

It’s official.

Security at the Republican Convention in Tampa looks more like a war zone than a political convention in a democratic republic.

Mark Levin provides the latest example.

The Republican Party has apparently solved all of the nation’s real problems and decided it can waste time on nonsense.

Mitt Romney’s forces won a rules change that will allow future nominees to have more say over their conventions. While this strikes me as a no-brainer, some conservative activists are up in arms.

As its convention begins, one has to wonder what has happened to the Republican Party.

Tropical Storm Isaac won’t be as much of a danger to Tampa as feared, but it’s still having an impact. That’s all because of bad scheduling ideas.

The former Republican governor of Florida says his former party is so extreme that it holds positions he held two years ago.

For the second Presidential election cycle in a row, a tropical storm has resulted in the postponement of the first day events at the Republican National Convention.

One of these men is going to his party’s convention, the other is not. The reason why is rather obvious.

The GOP is set to approve rules changes that will impact the 2016 primaries, and beyond. They’re a good start.

Wherein a National Review piece leads me to think I am the OTB alpha blogger.

National Review’s Kevin Williamson has some truly bizarre advice for Mitt Romney.

The candidates aren’t talking about the war in Afghanistan very much, but that’s mostly because the American people don’t want them to.

Abortion and “legitimate rape” are not what the Romney campaign should be having to deal with this week.

Todd Akin says he will continue to be the Republican nominee for United States Senate from Missouri.

The GOP Platform will include an abortion plank that Todd Akin would love.

POLITICO has a new eBook on the Obama campaign and wants you to buy it.

Todd Akin says he’s staying in the race, but his party is abandoning him.

There’s a large group of people out there that like the President, but they’re probably not going to vote.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

Both campaigns seem to be focusing on an argument that the voters don’t want to hear.

There is much to critique in Washington, but the nexus of the governance problem at the moment is the GOP.