The Return of the Politics of Personal Destruction

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  June 16th at 09:14 AM  | 

During the Clinton years, Newt Gingrich and Ken Starr were household names vilified as Republican Torquemadas. During the Bush years, the Democrats turned the Republicans into the party of Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and Mark Foley. It was this type of politics that candidate Barack Obama campaigned to end. In fact, Obama was often quoted saying we need to get away | Read More »

For Your Own Sake, Stop the Jesus to Obama Comparisons

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  September 13th at 02:46 PM  | 

Being a partisan, I want to win this election. And I think you lefties have come upon a winning strategy to help us do it. The whole “Jesus is to Obama as Pontius Pilate is to Sarah Palin” analogy will do nothing but inflame the senses of the evangelical community, others who recognize the offensiveness of the statement, and the edge of voters needed to | Read More »