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Democratic political strategist James Carville has made his 2012 prediction: Mitt Romney will be the GOP nominee. Continue Reading Carville made the pick during a speech in New York on Thursday to ICON Capital, a group for which he consults. A source there told POLITICO that Carville thought Jeb Bush was perhaps a more natural choice, but suffered thanks to his last name. "If Jeb Bush were named Jeb Smith he'd probably be the front-runner," Carville said, referring to the fact that the Bush family has already had two presidents. This comes a week after another Carville speech in which...

To oversimplify: Democrats are for Big Government; Republicans are against it. To oversimplify somewhat less, Democrats aren't always for Big Government, and Republicans aren't always against it. Democrats treasure civil liberties, whereas Republicans are more tolerant of government censorship to protect children from pornography, or of wiretapping to catch a criminal, or of torture in the war against terrorism. War in general and Iraq in particular--certainly Big Government exercises--are projects Republicans tend to be more enthusiastic about. Likewise the criminal process: Republicans tend to want to make more things illegal and to send more people to jail for longer. Republicans...