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...Perhaps. But this time around, her motives don't ring as true. "In some ways, she is trying to repeat that feat," Persily says. "But there are some flaws in the argument. Under her thinking, every second-term governor or President was a misfit for staying in office because you can't run for re-election. That doesn't make sense." (See pictures of Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston...
...reporters in Las Vegas, doubtlessly dashed the hopes of many in the party who considered Ensign an emerging national leader. The 51-year-old even fanned the flames of presidential speculation earlier this month with a trip to the key presidential-primary state of Iowa. Beyond embarrassing the second-term Senator, the revelation opened him to charges of hypocrisy: he had previously called on both President Bill Clinton and former Idaho Senator Larry Craig to resign after their own sex scandals. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...Comprehensive immigration reform was the centerpiece of his effort to court the Latino voters whom strategists like [Karl] Rove and [Matthew] Dowd considered crucial to the party's future fortunes," Brownstein wrote. "It was also Bush's best chance for an important second-term legislative achievement after the collapse of his Social Security plan, not to mention an opportunity to make substantive progress against an entrenched problem. But Bush's overriding priority on unifying Republicans prevented him from achieving any of those goals. Instead, he was left with an immigration policy built solely around enforcement and symbolized by an exclusionary...
...understanding when to rely on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and when to call on the National Security Council - that sort of thing. But bear down even slightly, and the notion of experience is liable to crack and run all over. If knowing the system is so useful, then second-term presidencies should be more successful than first-term. Instead, many Presidents lose effectiveness as they go along. Lyndon Johnson, for example: his experience as a master legislator no doubt helped as he steered his historic civil rights and welfare agenda to passage. By the end of two years...
Competence and honesty are two words for the GOP that--following a recent spate of ethical scandals--have proved elusive. Yet 36-year-old Jindal, a second-term Congressman, was able to win Louisiana's highest office (a position that has almost always been held by a Democrat) on a platform of ethics reform and eliminating corruption. Following his January inauguration, Jindal will be the nation's youngest Governor, one of the Republican Party's few rising stars and the first Indian American to occupy a Governor's mansion...