Is ABC News helping or hurting Newt?
TweetMatt Drudge reports that ABC News is sitting on an interview with Newt Gingrich’s first wife, Marianne, that contains “explosive revelations.” On my way home, I heard Hugh Hewitt tell his radio...
View ArticleRomney number cruncher thinks it’s all over but the counting
TweetHugh Hewitt quoted Romney supporter David Parker as having crunched the numbers and concluded that “there is NO scenario wherein Rick Santorum or Newt Gingrich, or anyone else other than Mitt...
View ArticleAdios, Santorum!
TweetRick Santorum has ended his quest for the Republican presidential nomination. Good riddance. Apparently, he was headed for a humiliating defeat in his home state of Pennsylvania. Jennifer Rubin:...
View ArticleRINO Lugar given the boot
TweetThe French may have embraced socialism, and the Greeks may have embraced default, but Indiana Republicans have embraced Senate challenger Richard Mourdock, who was endorsed by various Tea Party...
View ArticleElectoral signs of the times — or something
TweetI’m not sure what these things mean, but I suspect they mean something. In the West Virginia Democratic presidential primary, Keith Judd, a convicted felon imprisoned in Texas, got 41% of the vote...
View ArticlePreparing to embrace defeat
TweetSenate minority leader Mitch McConnell thinks that even if the Republicans take control of the Senate, repealing Obamacare will be hard and the odds are against it. I’m not surprised. This is the...
View ArticleRomney’s acceptance speech
TweetI haven’t posted anything about the GOP convention, although I’ve watched as much as I could in the evenings. I wanted to post about some of the significant speeches that weren’t covered by the...
View ArticleRethinking Clint Eastwood
TweetI want to retract what I said yesterday about Clint Eastwood at the Republican convention. I was clearly wrong. That evening, I had C-SPAN on in the living room and listened to the convention...
View ArticleGallup: Electorate decidedly more Republican than in 2008
TweetGallup has compiled demographic data on 2012 likely voters (sample size 9424, margin of error 1%), and in most respects the electorate is essentially unchanged from 2008. The only exception is...
View Article“The pursuit of power over principle”
TweetDaniel Horowitz destroys the “wait until we control the Senate” argument: The unambiguous strategy of the GOP establishment this year has been to avoid any and all confrontation in the hopes of...
View ArticleGOP leadership prefers Democrat to upstart Republican
TweetPat Caddell, for one, has been arguing for some time (most recently at CPAC) that the GOP leadership is part of the beltway ruling class and would rather see an establishment Democrat elected than...
View ArticleRand Paul “no longer outside the mainstream”
TweetScott Conroy has an interesting article about Sen. Rand Paul at RealClearPolitics. It’s clear that Paul is able to appeal to people outside the GOP, especially the young. But Conroy argues that...
View ArticleAwesome political commentary
TweetToday’s Mallard Fillmore comic strip caricatures the Republican leadership almost perfectly. But check it out at Billlls Idle Mind; he points out the one small flaw. *snicker* #call_to_action...
View ArticleDon’t do it, Ted!
TweetI see where Cruz is putting time and money into Florida, where he’s a distant 3rd (~12%), and going after Rubio. Florida is winner-take-all. Cruz is willing to hand Florida to Trump to hurt Rubio....
View ArticleAnother GOP “leader” caves to the left
TweetToday brings yet another example of why many rank-and-file Republicans are so fed up and pissed off that they’re saying “screw all the party politicians, I’m backing Trump.” Press release from...
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