Such brio would be met by laughter, or scorn, and it’d be, well, deserved. It goes without saying that had George W. Bush told a TV interviewer in 2004 he “deserved a second term” the liberal media would’ve run with that bit for months. Slate’s Jacob...

At a time when cost-cutting pressure has pitted management against labor in newsrooms everywhere, Graham is regarded by his employees as a benevolent figure, a throwback to an earlier era of corporate paternalism. “From my point of view he’s been an...

Mitt Romney takes another step to the nomination and gains momentum , the question of personal chemistry comes to the fore. Would Americans elect a president they viscerally dislike? In a Slate piece titled “Romney is Kerry. Maybe Gore,” Jacob Weisberg...

“Romney Is Kerry. Or Maybe Gore: He’s too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans,” by Jacob Weisberg. Weisberg says that John Kerry, Al Gore, and Mitt Romney are all “statuesque, handsome, from privileged...

Far from being "too perfect," when it comes to "intellectual honesty" Romney is "all too human." "Mitt Romney isn't too perfect — He's too phony" He just needs to embrace his perfection: The Gore analogy is apt, says Jacob Weisberg at Slate, because...

Or Maybe Gore. He’s too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans.” Gore and Kerry both suffered from the same characterizations that get applied to Romney—too wooden in person while too flexible in their views. Their...