About Bill Pascoe

I'll be the first to admit it -- I'm a political junkie. And I write for other political junkies.

I was born in the District of Columbia, and I grew up in a Virginia suburb of the nation's capital. The Washington Post was my hometown newspaper.

I've been hooked on politics since the day my best friend and I, having decided we wanted to make a statement of support for our favored candidate in the upcoming presidential election, chalked off the street in front of our houses and used a rock to spell out "Nixon Territory" on the asphalt. It was 1968, and I was eight years old.

Most of our neighbors -- many of whom worked at places like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the State Department, the CIA, and The New York Times, among others -- didn't think much of us.

Enough about my first political memory. What you want to know is, what makes me think anybody should bother reading me?

I'll leave it to my friend Marc Ambinder, who wrote this when I started writing my first blog:

"BILL PASCOE: BORN FOR THE BLOGOSPHERE: Consider Republican strategist Bill Pascoe. At some point over the past two decades, he's had his hands in a major race in nearly every state. His friends say he's a win away from superstardom. His detractors (Pascoe freely admits) think he's the Bob Shrum of statewide politics. He is nothing if not entertaining, and now he has a blog. Pascoe has: smuggled cash and computers behind the Iron curtain: was a Hill CoS; is a former RNC spokesman and chief speechwriter; is a former nationally syndicated radio talk show host; wrote a column for the Washington Times for 10 years; worked for the State Dept. on Central America; had the thankless job of being Bush-Quayle '88's liaison to conservatives; wrote his master's thesis on, among others, Sen. Chris Dodd; managed, in recent cycles, the campaigns of (ahem) Alan Keyes, David Vitter, Bret Schundler, and Doug Forrester ..."

That was all the way back in 2006. That blog lasted all of five weeks before I had to shelve it because I just didn't have the time necessary to write the way I wanted to write.

Last year, an old friend from the campaign wars gave me the opportunity to write a blog for CQPolitics.com. I enjoyed it immensely. But as a result of Roll Call's purchase of CQ, changes have been made -- and one of the changes made was a decision to do without my blog.

I'm very grateful to my friends at CQPolitics for having given me the opportunity to write that blog.

And I'm just as grateful to you for taking the time to read my new blog. If you get half as much enjoyment out of reading it as I do out of having written it, we'll both be better off.