Lanny Davis Purple Nation Weekly

By Lanny Davis – 12/19/2011 – What happens when you are wrongly accused in a posting on the Internet and you call to correct the false or misleading assertion? This happened to me on Dec. 8 — not the first time — on a post on a website associated with the liberal Democratic organization the […]

By Lanny Davis – 12/07/11 President Obama’s “Renewed Nationalism” speech on Tuesday sets important themes for his 2012 campaign and offers him a chance to win back the vital center of American politics. His focus on fairness, income inequality and the plight of the middle class is his best chance to overcome what is, at […]

By Lanny Davis – 11/16/11 – President Obama looks better for reelection today than any Republican could have possibly imagined as recently as six months ago. Recent polling shows him ahead of all Republican candidates in the pivotal swing state of Ohio, and he leads or is in a dead heat in the national polls […]

By Lanny Davis – 11/2/2011 – A hypothetical conversation: “Hello, Mr. Davis, this is Herman Cain. People tell me you combine the practice of law with crisis communications — I could use your help.”

By Lanny Davis – 10/26/2011 – Even before the first Republican debate, I have consistently stated in TV and print interviews that Mitt Romney would be the strongest Republican candidate against President Obama. Full disclosure: I am strongly supporting the president for reelection. I think he’s done a good job starting out on his first […]

By Lanny Davis – 10/19/11 – In the 1960s, the late New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (D) used conservative, market-based, competitive forces to renew and create new jobs in the inner-city wasteland of the minority neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. A cynical New York City reporter (a redundant expression) was heard to mutter, […]

By Lanny Davis – 10/12/11 – If ever there were an example of hyper-partisanship, the recent personal attacks challenging the honesty and competence of Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the ATF’s errors in its “Fast and Furious” gun-tracking program should be Exhibit A.

By Lanny Davis – 10/05/11 – I like and respect Grover Norquist. Despite the many matters on which I disagree with him, I respect his consistent, deeply held belief in limited government, which leads him to oppose higher taxes as an enforcement mechanism. Norquist genuinely believes that government is a barrier to helping the poor and […]

By Lanny Davis – 9/21/2011 – It is a mystery: Why do so many Jewish Americans wherever I go express grave concerns about President Obama’s commitment to the Jewish state of Israel? The shocking loss of the Democratic congressional candidate last week in New York’s 9th district — the first time a Republican has won […]

By Lanny Davis – 09/14/11 –   On Sept. 6, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz published a letter to “Fellow Citizens” in The New York Times challenging the leadership of both parties in Washington, the president and the Congress, to “put an end to partisan gridlock and, in its place, to set in motion an upward spiral […]