Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
A couple of days ago, I asked if the polls show a Bradley effect, with people deploring Obama’s performance, but still being too embarrassed to admit to pollsters that they don’t like America’s first white-black president. Most of you disagreed with me, saying (as DQ did) that Leftists will support
Continue readingThis election will be the first election since California voters decided, in 2010, to turn ours into an Open Primary state. The practical effect of having done so is that the November election, rather than being head-to-head combat between the two parties, will be a run-off between the winners from
Continue readingSadie’s fed up. Here is her Open Letter to the GOP and current Super Pacs: You tried once to force-feed us Dole, then McCain and currently a smorgasbord that still leaves us hungry. Didn’t you get the menu? We want meat and potatoes and you keep serving us vegetables. Oh sure,
Continue readingAs everyone will remind us, in politics, even a day can be a lifetime. With a little more than eight months to go before the elections, so much can change. But right now, this minute, today, are you optimistic or pessimistic when you think about November 2012. I have to
Continue readingDoes history repeat itself? I fervently hope not. Ok, I have grudgingly thrown my support behind Mitt Romney. It’s not that I am excited about Romney as a candidate, but I am genuinely excited about the need to get Obama out of office before he does irreversible damage to this
Continue readingYay, there’s another Sarah Palin in American politics. Mia B. Love – mayor of Saratoga Springs, Utah. Those of you that have read my posts and comments (whether you agree or disagree) know that I am a huge Sarah Palin fan. Frankly, there is a certain breed of all-American women
Continue readingThoughts during a busy day: Idle thought 1: I want to have Mewt Gingney for my candidate. Newt Gingrich is a completely principled conservative with, in his past at least, an unprincipled private life. Mitt Romney is an unprincipled conservative with, from the past to the present, what appears to
Continue readingThe Obama administration is headed for a big showdown with judicial accountability next year. Let’s look at the dance list thus far: 1. The “Fast and Furious” gunwalker scandal, involving potential collusion from the top of our government to funnel automatic weapons and explosives to drug cartels operating within and
Continue readingApparently the passions that burned in voters’ breasts in 2010 have yet to burn themselves out in 2011. In a very Jewish district (Jews! The Democrat stalwarts!) Republican Bob Turner took over Anthony Weiner’s seat (although I hope he disinfects it well before he sits down on it). This election
Continue readingAce has an excellent post up today about the way in which the media invariably frames Democratic and Republican victories: when Democrats win, Americans are intelligently embracing the Democrat agenda; when Republicans win, Americans are acting irrationally, operating from fear, or failing to understand the virtues of the Democrat agenda.
Continue reading We’ve skirted this topic before in Bookworm Room, but never really plunged into it: If you could plan the GOP’s 2012 campaign against Obama, what themes and visuals would you bring into it? This assumes you have a big war chest and carte blanche regarding the many embarrassing and
Continue readingGet a room full of conservatives together, and one of the things that they’ll talk about is potential Republican candidates. I can tell you that, last night, many were enthused about the thought of Rick Perry jumping in. Others dreamed of a Jeb Bush candidacy. The current “frontrunners” — Mitt,
Continue readingSince I’m in California, which has always been a late primary state, and since California is now switching to open primaries anyway, it’s always hard for me to get very excited about primaries. The fact is that I never feel I really have any say in them, since the front
Continue readingJack Davis put himself on the ballot in the New York-26 special election as the Tea Party election. If you are in that district, please beware the he is a fraud. He is either trying to capitalize on Tea Party popularity, or he is an imposter deliberately trying to destroy
Continue readingThe GOP has recognized that, as much as anything, the next election starts on the new media. In order to get House GOP members on board with new media, they’ve instituted a contest by which GOP representatives compete for the most YouTube links, twitter friends, etc. In other words, to
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