Posted in: Republican Party
Monday Jun 21, 2010
A couple of days ago, one of my commenters correctly mentioned that conservatives want a smaller government and that conservatives have no desire to eliminate government. I can agree with both of these statements. The problem is that conservatives have...
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emailFriday Nov 27, 2009
Maybe I'm wrong but it sure seems like times have changed. At the risk of sounding like one of those old-timers in the movie Barbershop, it seems that words like integrity, honesty and truth have lost their meaning. As the...
Wednesday Oct 21, 2009
Where did this divisiveness start?
American politics is always been a contact sport. Heck, even the founding fathers didn't agree on many things and that's what caused the original founding party to break up but what we're seeing today is a little bit different. It...
Wednesday Apr 29, 2009
Bill O'Reilly hates cartoons and the New York Times and...
In my ongoing quest to try to enlighten some friends of mine, I watched Bill O'Reilly's Talking Points which aired last night. Okay, let's break it down -- O'Reilly starts his rant by showing a cartoon picture of the Statue...
Wednesday Feb 25, 2009
Jindal Presents Tax Cuts As The Answer
The best thing about President George W. Bush was that he was a pure red-blooded Republican. He is a conservative's conservative. He allowed the American people the opportunity to see what the Republican Party truly believed. He was Reagan on...
Monday Dec 1, 2008
Conservatives Running Out Of Oxygen
How desperate are conservative hacks for talking points in the Obama Era? Witness "Republican Strategist" Leslie Sanchez on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, paired with James Carville, try to find something negative to say on Obama's latest cabinet...
Thursday Nov 13, 2008
Looking at the same data I did when diagnosing the conservative "secular problem," Karl Rove concludes: Then there were those who didn't show up. There were 4.1 million fewer Republicans voting this year than in 2004. Some missing Republicans had...
Monday Nov 10, 2008
The Conservative "Secular Problem" Deepens
On Fox News Sunday, leading House conservative Mike Pence looked at the success of ballot initiatives that deny equal marriage rights as evidence that conservatism remains healthy in America. Discussing how the Republican Party should move forward, Pence told host...
Friday Oct 31, 2008
10 Hours Left For an October Surprise
No strike on Iran. No giant homecoming of troops from Iraq. No incendiary videotapes. No new trumped-up scandal (though a very silly attempt at one.) Republican political operatives may be underhanded, but they are not omnipotent. ...There is stepped-up activity...
Monday Oct 27, 2008
Dramatically out spent. Horse race coverage crowding out any substantive message. Weak message coordination between president and vice president. (Weak message period.) Open infighting from inside and outside the campaign. For once, it's the Republican campaign suffering from these indignities....
Thursday Sep 25, 2008
When David Letterman announces that Sen. John McCain canceled his CBS Late Show appearance so he could focus on the financial crisis, then shows the live feed of McCain getting makeup applied for an interview across the hall with CBS'...
Friday Sep 12, 2008
Palin fumbles and stumbles in her ABC interview
No matter what you think Gov. Sarah Palin, no matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat, you have to say that her overall performance in her exclusive ABC interview with Charlie Gibson, was adequate until she got...
Thursday Sep 11, 2008
Special Comment - 9/11 hijacked
I usually agree with most of what Keith Olbermann has to say in his special comments. He is usually blunt and to the point. He points to something glaring and obvious that we (I) have ignored to some extent. This...
Friday Sep 5, 2008
Kicking Off a Campaign of Lies
McCain lamely tried to grasp the mantle of change last night, with a rehash of the same failed conservative policies and same dishonest politics that most folks want changed. He accused Obama of wanting to raise taxes on everyone, when...
Thursday Sep 4, 2008
Convention Twittering From The Couch
Thursday Sep 4, 2008
Really, what did you expect, Minnie Mouse? Governor Sarah Palin delivered the speech (full text) that everyone with half-a-brain expected. There were no surprises. She stood in the Xcel building and delivered the exact Republican Neoconservative attack speech that would...
Thursday Sep 4, 2008
Ready To Guest Host The Rush Limbaugh Show on Day 1
Gov. Sarah Palin can give a speech. She can deliver sarcastic one-liners. She can repeat long debunked misinformation about her opponents and misrepresent herself. We now know she is ready to guest host The Rush Limbaugh Show on Day 1....
Wednesday Sep 3, 2008
Lieberman serves up a big steaming bowl at RNC
Completely and totally nauseating. I tried Pepto but that didn't help. I tried Phenergan and that just made me sleepy but the nausea was still there. From WaPo: The Statement Obama voted "to cut off funding for our American troops...
Tuesday Sep 2, 2008
Super Honest Convention Punditry
Nobody cares about what George W. Bush, Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman have to say about John McCain. Nothing happened to end the questions about McCain's reckless vice-presidential selection process. Politically speaking, tonight was a meaningless night....
Tuesday Sep 2, 2008
Models of personal responsibility
I thought that these social conservatives were supposed to be models of personal responsibility? Abstinence education (that Sarah Palin supports)? I'm guessing that didn't work. It never worked. After throwing millions of dollars into the abstinence education the rate of...
Tuesday Sep 2, 2008
Right Wing lies through viral e-mails
Thomas Sowell is any conservative syndicated columnist. He is also an economist and senior fellow at the Hoover institution at Stanford University. Because this man happens to be black, I have received the same column on three separate occasions. The...
Thursday Jun 12, 2008
McCain Lies About Social Security Privatization
In March, after ThinkProgress caught Sen. Joe Lieberman lying to cover up Sen. John McCain's support for Social Security privatization, I posted video (with the help of reader Tom M.) from 2004 of McCain, in response to an audience question,...
Thursday May 1, 2008
I'll be on The Young Turks in the 4 PM ET hour today, discussing McCain's campaign aide, Richard Quinn, owner of the neo-confederate racist Southern Partisan magazine. UPDATE: You can listen to the segment here....
Monday Apr 21, 2008
McCain: Guilt-By-Association For Thee, Not For Me
After the media frenzy over Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Sen. John McCain's campaign refused to criticize Obama for the words of his former pastor. Senior campaign adviser Charlie Black said on MSNBC: ...what Sen. McCain has said repeatedly is that these...
Tuesday Mar 25, 2008
McCain: Ready On Day One ... To Evaluate Other People's Ideas
Key quotes from Sen. John McCain's major speech on the housing crisis and the economy: I am prepared to examine new proposals and evaluate them based on these principals [sic]. ... it is time to convene a meeting of the...
Thursday Feb 21, 2008
I was curious last night to see how the conservative movement reacted to the NYT/McCain story: chance to dump McCain before the convention, or chance to use the NYT as a foil to firm up conservative support for the expected...
Friday Jan 11, 2008
Selected responses from last night's GOP debate, answering the critical question, "did the American commander in the Strait of Hormuz the other day make the right decision by responding passively when approached aggressively by Iranian fast boats believed to be...
Sunday Jan 6, 2008
Republicans Can't Figure Out Obama
The most interesting part of last night's GOP debate was when Republicans were asked how they would run against Barack Obama. They obviously haven't thought it through, presumably because the entire conservative movement is so Clinton-obsessed, they didn't seriously consider...
Thursday Dec 13, 2007
Four years ago, I wrote that it looked like Howard Dean was going to coast in Iowa because his competitors shied away from direct attacks in what was their last scheduled debate. Of course, that was way off. His rivals...
Thursday Nov 29, 2007
Wednesday night's CNN/YouTube Republican debate spent the first 23 minutes on immigration. That is primarily a decision of CNN in choosing several immigration questions first, but the candidates did not need much prompting, and the conservative audience likely had no...
Friday Oct 26, 2007
Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail are getting hammered by the playground bully Republicans. At this point, though, the bully is toothless, scab-covered, disease-riddled, ruptured, bald, fat, gimpy-kneed, gasping for breath and nearly unanimously despised. One swift blow...
Wednesday Oct 17, 2007
The good folks at Brave New Films, who earlier exposed "The Real McCain", have a new video and petition exposing "The Real Rudy." It's efforts like these which may have helped put the entire Republican field in a weak position...
Monday Oct 15, 2007
The Most Polarizing Prez Candidate Is...Not Hillary
Here's some poll data that I don't believe has received much attention. *** ABC NEWS/WASHINGTON POST POLL. Sept. 27-30, 2007 "If [see below] wins the Democratic/Republican nomination for president would you definitely vote for him/her in the general election for...
Thursday Sep 6, 2007
After watching all the Republican frontrunners made to look like hypocrites and fools on immigration during the Fox News debate, and after watching Fred Thompson make himself look sleepy and bored on The Tonight Show, one can only assume the...
Tuesday Jul 10, 2007
McCain's Problem is Every Republican's Problem
John McCain campaign is faltering for one simple reason: Iraq. More specifically, McCain has been mistrusted by the conservative base of the GOP ever since he picked fights with them in 2000, despite his long-standing neoconservative foreign policy views. In...
Monday Jun 11, 2007
GOP '08ers Start To Address Permanent Bases
We know that the entire Democratic presidential field opposes the neocon goal of a permanent military presence in Iraq. Now, after the White House began comparing its Iraq strategy to Korea, Republicans are starting to get asked the same question....
Tuesday May 15, 2007
For Guaranteed Applause During a GOP Debate...
...just say "waterboarding." UPDATE: Hear the applause at Think Progress....
Thursday Apr 26, 2007
Why The Republicans Are In Trouble
Rudy Giuliani was stuck in 2004 when he attacked Dems for wanting to "go on defense" against terrorists. As were leading Dems for defensively responding that Rudy was being mean and divisive -- instead of going on offense and attacking...
Monday Mar 5, 2007
The Conservative Movement: Stuck On Step 1
My wrap-up of the Conservative Political Action Conference, The Conservative Movement: Stuck On Step 1, is up over at The Huffington Post....
Thursday Mar 1, 2007
The Conservatives' "Secular Problem"
Conservatives are gathering in Washington today through Saturday for the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. To greet them, I posted on The Huffington Post an expanded version of last week's "Secular Problem" LiberalOasis post. I'll also be liveblogging CPAC for...
Friday Oct 20, 2006
Look Away From The GOP Crackup
In my most recent book tour appearances, I've been bracing us for what Republicans will do the day after Election Day if Democrats win: Blame Mark Foley. Don't blame conservativism. Don't blame six years of failed Republican governance. Remain defiant....
Tuesday Oct 3, 2006
Hastert was able to rally some conservative troops to his side yesterday, but that wasn't enough to squelch resignation speculation. A party split on how to move forward is the worst scenario for the Republicans. It fuels the story and...
Tuesday Oct 3, 2006
The right-wing Washington Times is calling for Speaker Dennis Hastert's resignation for failing to properly investigate then-Rep. Mark Foley. This does not appear to be a consensus strategy among Beltway conservatives. The National Review is defending Hastert. The White House...
