Craig Shirley

Five days after Mike Allen reported that friends of Fox News creator Roger Ailes wanted him to run for president, and four-and-a-half days since Ailes laughed the story off, the Ailes-for-president bubble–as ridiculous as it seems–is still serving as a way for conservatives to frame what they see as a White House “war on Fox.”

“He’s a Republican gladiator, not a conservative,” said American Conservative Union chairman David Keene.

Craig Shirley, the Republican political strategist who wrote a fine book about Ronald Reagan’s 1976 presidential campaign, is probably the most red meat conservative writer for Politico’s “Arena” of short takes on the news. His take on President Obama’s trip to the Middle East:

And now there arose a new Pharaoh, who knew not Reagan.

That’s the [...]