He had already deployed forces on this primary front.
Notwithstanding the fate of previous primary front-runners, the same point could be applied to pundits and everybody else.
He had hosted a similar show for WSB, a station in Atlanta, before running for president last year and briefly becoming the Republican primary front-runner.
It is to be hoped that John McCain's victory in the New Hampshire primary (front page, Feb. 2) will impress upon all the candidates that less self-protective spin and more self-exposing candor is the way to go.
Even as Turiaf tries to round into form in his return from a knee injury, he is still D'Antoni's primary front-court substitute, and at this point the only one.
Changing the statute of limitations "has turned out to be the primary front for child sex abuse victims," said Marci A. Hamilton, a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University who represents plaintiffs in sexual abuse suits.
Mr. Grove imposed his Trump boycott after the developer and onetime Republican primary front-runner spent much of the 2012 campaign season hounding President Obama over his birth certificate.
As he now saw things, therefore, the war had two fronts — a primary front at home, where the government struggled against a foe who could not only overthrow the Constitution but also "defeat" and "humiliate" the United States, and a secondary front in Vietnam, where the government struggled against a less formidable foe, unable to accomplish any of these dread things.
Just as the efforts against Senator John McCain are intended to stifle competition in the presidential primary (front page, Jan . 28, the ballot-access system in New York stifles competition for elective offices throughout the state, rendering incumbents virtually "challenge-proof" and undermining the effectiveness of our government.
Before a single vote has been cast in Iowa, New Hampshire or anywhere else, Mr. Krugman scolds various Democratic presidential contenders and compares them to Ralph Nader, the 2000 general election spoiler, because they've had the audacity to attack and erode support for Howard Dean, the presumptive primary front-runner.
