Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.

- Ron Fournier

It's a deft trick to turn American exceptionalism into an exceptional political tactic.

- Ron Fournier

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

- Ron Fournier

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

- Ron Fournier

Don't stigmatize in a rush to explain inexplicable evil.

- Ron Fournier

Obama ran a hard-edged and negative campaign against Romney, hoping to convince recession-weary voters that his rival was unworthy of the job.

- Ron Fournier

I'm hearing echoes of Bill Clinton, circa 1996, in President Obama's reelection rhetoric.

- Ron Fournier

Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.

- Ron Fournier

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.

- Ron Fournier