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TweetWhile you and I and most of the American viewing public were watching J.J. Abrams' latest (not bad; not up to the hype, but not bad), the Republican presidential candidates had another "debate."...
View ArticleObama mail scavenger hunt
TweetApparently, President Obama is not too popular in Virginia. His only announced Virginia appearance during next week's bus tour is in a state senate district where the Democratic candidate has no...
View ArticleRomney was looking better, briefly
TweetWhen Rick Santorum surged into a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in Iowa, I actually started to warm up to Romney. I’d certainly prefer him to Santorum, a rabid social conservative who makes Michele...
View ArticleAnybody but Santorum
TweetI mentioned my dislike of Rick Santorum the other day. I’m not alone, and RedState’s Erick Erickson, a social conservative himself, has shown that you don’t have to be a libertarian to reject...
View ArticleAnti-capitalist conservatives
TweetYesterday, I mentioned in passing the leftist-sounding attacks on Romney by Gingrich and Perry. Bobby Eberle has much more: In their quest for the Republican nomination, it seems these...
View ArticleNewt at his best
TweetI’m not a big Newt Gingrich fan, but when he’s right, he’s right, and when he’s on his game, there’s nobody better. In last night’s debate, his response to Juan Williams’ race-baiting, “don’t you...
View ArticleIs 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....
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