Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman KANSAS CITY, Kansas — Barring some big political development that again upends the conventional wisdom, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney still seems poised to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Here in the center of America newspapers are filled with stories about the Republican political nomination battle. The former moderate-but-now-conservative Romney is dominating the national [Read More]

“You can’t make this stuff up,” Johnny Carson used to say when truth trumped fiction in one of his monologues. The line is perfect for the current GOP presidential campaign, where the candidates’ seemingly serious pronouncements leave joke writers with little to add. The last time national politics provided such comedic lowlights was in 2008, when Tina Fey did her [Read More]