Sorry, but we don't take advice anymore from the people who drove us into the ...
Todd Young is on my Top 10 List, running against incumbent Baron Hill in Indiana-09 district.Hill embodies the arrogance which has characterized Democratic Party control of Congress for the past several years:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmgQ2W3lhM?fs=1]New polling shows that the race is a toss-up. Via The Hill, Rep. Baron...
I have held off commenting on the GOP Pledge to America until I had a chance actually to read it, rather than press reports and punditry analysis.Now that I have read it, I'm in agreement with the approach, which amounts to A Thousand Points of...
We have heard so much about the supposed Buckley Rule, which Charles Krauthammer and other Mike Castle supporters over-simplistically synthesized as follows:"Support the most conservative candidate who is electable."The Buckley Rule is for primaries. The Delaware primary is over. To paraphrase Krauthammer, Castle supporters didn't go...
I know that you realize it, but this is a two-front political war.I have read some profoundly stupid commentary on the right about Christine O'Donnell, pronouncing O'Donnell's campaign dead because of a sophomoric series of appearances in the 1990s on Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.It appears...
Prior to last week, when is the last time anyone heard of the "Buckley Rule," a supposed prescription by William F. Buckley, Jr.? Now it is all the rage for pundits whose man in Delaware lost.The Buckley Rule now rolls off the tongues, keyboards and pens of the punditry...
The victory last night of Christine O'Donnell over Mike Castle in the Delaware Republican Senate primary signals a sea change. Not so much because O'Donnell won over the heavily favored establishment GOP candidate; that pattern is not new this election season.Instead, the reaction of the...
This year, the backbone of the conservative movement is provided by the ladies, who are not for turning. Unlike our men.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ-M0KEFm9I?fs=1]--------------------------------------------Related Posts:The Party of Whatever Nuts and Sluts In DelawareFollow me on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube...
Because not having an ideological purity test means we must have no test at all, no standards, no principles.All that matters is the long shot possibility that if the planets are in alignment and the cards all fall into place in every Senate race across...
The "nuts and sluts" defense is a common employment law tactic whenever a female employee brings a claim. It doesn't matter what the claim is, the defense -- after the usual legal mumbo jumbo -- will be something like this:"She's nuts. And by the way,...
Prof. Stephen Bainbridge and Dan Riehl have been debating the Delaware Senate Republican primary, and whether it is worth electing "RINO" Mike Castle. Bainbridge says yes, Riehl says no.I don't know enough about Castle or Christine O'Donnell to weigh in on whether Castle is a...
What is it about the start of August? In the past couple of days we have seen several pieces by people who create misleading caricatures of conservatives and then use those misleading caricatures to attack a broad swath of those opposed to the Obama agenda.This...
The headlines regarding The Washington Post-ABC News poll just released focus on the finding that Confidence In Obama Reaches New Low.I certainly understand why that is the headline, but only if one digs deep into the actual polling data does one get a true picture...
In a profile of Paul Teller, Executive Director of the Republican Study Committee, Mary Ann Akers writes:He's the bomb thrower in the shadows for more than 100 RSC members, whose purist conservative mission often poses a challenge for the more pragmatic House Republican leadership. Where...
Duh:Conservatives Are More Than Twice as Likely as Liberals to Be Strongly Patriotic, Says Gallup Poll: "Conservatives are more than twice as likely as liberals to express very strong patriotism, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll in which 48 percent of conservatives said they...
Ronald Reagan's final speech as President, sometimes known as the "Shining City Upon A Hill" speech. But the speech was so much more. Incredible foresight on the eradication of the American memory (at 2:50), coming true before our very eyes. -------------------------------------------- Related Posts: Now "Presidential Scholars" Befool Themselves Reagan on...
Conservatives are a dying breed and the Republican Party needs to move to the center, according to a paper published by the liberal Center for American Progress, sugar daddy of Think Progress and other liberal media message outlets. CAP published this report because it really,...
One of the difficulties of adhering to constitutional federalism is that liberals always, always want to use conservative acknowledgement of any acceptable role for the federal government as an excuse to require federal government control of just about everything. The slope is very slippery, indeed.In...
