More Ben Carson Staffers Resign As the Campaign Starts To Look Terminal

Sorry Democrats. In Today’s New York Times, Nate Cohn crunches the statistics on Donald Trump’s supporters and reveals that the Donald “holds his greatest strength among registered Democrats who identify as Republican leaners.” Cohn also put it this way, Trump’s “very best voters are self-identified Republicans who nonetheless are registered as Democrats.”

Another mind-boggling conclusion set forth by Cohn is that registered Republicans are “one of Mr. Trump’s weakest groups.” If you can’t wrap your mind around that, well join the club. Perhaps this helps explain why so many Republicans I know don’t care much for Trump as a Presidential candidate.

Hillary Clinton really has no shame. She’s not worried of course. Her friends in the media are not going to care about the lies she tells, no matter how outrageous. It’s bad enough she has lied to the public about Benghazi and that all anybody can say positive about her testimony before the Select Committee on Benghazi is that she was able to sit down | Read More »

Let’s start off the Water Cooler by debating the inevitable: Are black eyed peas racist? Someone tell us now before it creates havoc tomorrow. Another Path: A couple days ago  Erick Erickson laid out what could be a Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) 94% path to victory.  Teaparty.org  wrote about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%to victory back in April.  In October, Patrick Buchanan explained Donald | Read More »

Recently a myth has been developed around Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) 100%. In this telling, the likely Republican nominee is cast as believing that a few million evangelical voters refused to vote for Mitt Romney and stayed home, handing the 2012 election to Barack Obama. The truth is that evangelicals who voted before also mostly voted for Mitt Romney, and Cruz does not believe | Read More »

The soon-to-be finished year of 2015 has been one full of milestones and records, but this one is certainly not worth celebrating. The Obama administration has been busier than even rolling out new regulations. The 2015 Federal Register has amounted to 81,611 pages of new and proposed ones, more than the federal government has ever before issued in a single year. Per The Hill: This | Read More »

Jeb Bush’s relationship with his brother has been a prickly issue for him to navigate throughout the course of this campaign so far. George W. Bush isn’t as unpopular as he used to be with the general public, which means that it isn’t as important for Jeb to distance himself from GWB during the general election. Moreover, Jeb is no longer the front runner by | Read More »

While the Iowa caucuses are volatile, and you never know just how the delegates will turn out as rooms full of people get together and make deals, the New Hampshire primary has a simple set of rules for determining the winner. Let’s check the current polling and see who would win delegates there.

Twitter’s new hateful speech policies are going to fail. Just not for the obvious reason.

Ted Cruz’s fourth quarter raising shows a rising candidate with the resources to fight a long primary and a long election.

“Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new!,” said Hobbes. “A new year… a fresh clean start,” replied Calvin. “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… let’s go exploring!” Twenty (!!!) years ago today, Calvin and Hobbes came to an end. Ten years later, I would finish my first year at the helm of RedState. And now ten years after that my time has | Read More »

Parody in politics is a given. It will happen and most politicians actually enjoy it. When Presidents (even Presidential candidates) become fodder for Saturday Night Live bits, it brings them a new level of attention. Most of the time it is not flattering but it’s fun. Of course, most times people know when parody is parody. Enter some Donald Trump supporters.  The people at the conservative | Read More »

Do you like to lose? If you think Hillary can’t be beat and that every possible break will fall her way then for Heaven’s sake, never post here again. RedState is a site for winners. Hillary Clinton is tired, sick, incompetent, mentally rigid and deeply unpopular old woman. She is not only not inevitable, she will have a very difficult time winning. Man up and stop liking to lose.

Opening Thoughts Welcome to the Watercooler! Hard to believe that this is almost the start of a new year… and even though we had plenty of warning, it’s hard to believe that the man who made RedState the powerhouse it’s become is moving on to other ventures. Fair Winds & Following Seas, Erick, and thanks for the inspiration. Also, an overdue thanks to the site | Read More »

Jeb Bush is canceling Iowa and South Carolina ad buys.

…DUNH DUNH DUNH!

  As despicable as this may seem, leaders of prominent American Muslim organizations have been busy trying to convince the American Muslim community that the deadly shootings in San Bernardino were a false flag operation. We have already covered the bizarre behavior of the lawyers CAIR hired to defend the Farook family, who have done very little to actually protect the legal interests of the | Read More »