Has the time come for a real maverick?
A few election cycles ago Republicans ended up nominating a real, honest-to-goodness old warhorse for their presidential candidate, putting him up against a scandal-plagued incumbent Democrat. With the...
View ArticleZero for 2012
Even though there were a few naysayers who thought Barack Obama “would rather be a really good one-term President than a mediocre two-term President,” we’ll get to see his re-election bid before our...
View ArticleDoes the strategy include snuffing out Osama?
I’ve had a lot placed in my e-mail box of late; fortunately this wasn’t time-sensitive. It’s a look at how the other half plans to live in 2012: The accompanying text noted the following, from campaign...
View ArticleThe insanity may return
For those of you who thought having an Iowa caucus right after New Year’s Day (and a full ten months before the election) was ridiculous, well, we may just see this happen again. In a Politico story...
View ArticleDropouts 4 Romney
This is something I found interesting. Having followed the Republican presidential nominating process for 2012 for some time, it’s telling to me that three candidates who have either bowed out or said...
View ArticlePaul: Caucus fraud ‘possible’
I took a lot of flak for talking about Ron Paul a few weeks back, and I can’t see how he has a path to the nomination. But I was chastised for the fraud allegations his supporters put out with the...
View ArticleCrying poverty
I just had to laugh when I read this from our President. I think I should pick it apart a sentence or two at a time. When I’m out there talking to voters, we talk about what we’ve done, what we plan to...
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Election Day 2012 in pictures and text
To be honest, the picture part of this will be pretty lean. But here’s one of all the signage lined up along Glen Avenue: This Election Day was a little unusual because I had to work – in previous...
View ArticleThe end of a week
The other night I wrote on Facebook that I was physically and mentally spent, and I meant it – the combination of a grueling work week at my outside job and the climax of the 2012 campaign was all I...
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My day at CPAC in pictures and text (part 2)
When I last left you at CPAC, I was ready to return upstairs to see Sarah Palin (and ran into Dan Bongino in the process.) But I wanted to digress beforehand and explain a little bit about my vantage...
View ArticleReady for…another shot?
Since the 2012 election came to an unsatisfying close, there’s been a portion of the Republican Party who wondered how Mitt Romney would have done with an open seat as opposed to facing an incumbent...
View ArticleA Palin problem?
As the 2016 Republican presidential field begins to expand rapidly, there is one name that evokes equal parts devotion and disgust: Sarah Palin. The question of whether or not she would run in 2012...
View ArticleTed Cruz: a palette of bold colors
By Cathy Keim I finally had the time today to watch the entire Ted Cruz speech at Liberty University on March 23, 2015, where he announced that he is running for president. It seems certain that he has...
View ArticleCarson, Carly, and Huckabee – oh my…
By this time tomorrow, the GOP presidential field will be three aspirants larger than it was over the weekend. Dr. Ben Carson and former HP head Carly Fiorina formally made it official today, while...
View ArticleAddressing the crowded stage
A few months ago, sensing the GOP may have up to 15 candidates in the race, I wrote about how the Republican presidential primary debates should be structured. With the addition of several candidates...
View ArticleNot too late for change
It was 2009, and Americans were still captivated by a shiny and new (or articulate, bright, and clean, if you prefer) President. Yet deep in the nether lands of liberalism there were people already...
View ArticleDebating the importance
As soon as I heard a commercial from CNN comparing tonight’s Republican presidential debate to a prizefight, I knew it wouldn’t be worth watching. The thing I find most interesting, though, is that by...
View ArticleAbout that TEA Party…
My “10 from 10″ post this morning regarding the 9/12 Rally back in 2009 got me to pondering where the movement has gone in the intervening years. If you’ve been a reader around here for a long time,...
View ArticleIs it really “Trump Republicans” that made the difference?
Yesterday Richard Falknor, who I gather is a Trump supporter, splashed a story onto his Blue Ridge Forum blog that asked whether the state Republican Party will welcome the 200,000 new voters that...
View ArticleA somewhat surprising endorsement
Perhaps the National Rifle Association is now in the “lesser of two evils” camp. You know, we used to rag on John Kerry for being for something before he voted against it, but I suppose the passage of...
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