We here in the news and from a number of lawyers and citizens different ideas about what civil rights are and on what basis to judge what is or is not a Constitutional Right. The answer, as I will lay out, is straight forward and clear. Our founding fathers had a clear definition of what rights should be guaranteed by the Constitution and should be decided | Read More »
Several months ago I said there were 3 key group that Romney needed to pander to if he was to win the election. I was dead right, and this is why Romney lost. 1. First are hispanics. Romney got a significantly lower percentage of the hispanic vote than McCain and Bush recieved. Why? As I said months ago, Romney needed to reach out to hispanic | Read More »
I was shocked to see the decision 1-4-4, with a decision by Roberts essentially being written with a majority of 1. The opinions make it clear that the liberal judges on the court felt that the commerce clause allows the government to do basically whatever it wants in terms of forcing people to buy a service. On the other hand, the conservatives took the possition | Read More »
I never thought I would find that Mitt Romney would be more consistant than any opponent he ever would run against; however, that is now the case. Mitt Romney had his past flip-flops on abortion, taxes, marriage, and healthcare. In fairness to Romney, all these flip-flops took place during his 4 years as Governor — the only time he served in public office. It makes | Read More »
There is an 80% chance that this election will be close; a 10% chance Romney will win in a landslide, and a 10% chance that Obama will win with a solid victory. At this point, it is impossible for Obama to win a landslide due to a number of states where Obama would lose an election against a dead tree stump. The VP choice Romney | Read More »
In 2008, McCain faced a very difficult choice of who to have as his VP. He wanted someone who would both gain the full support of conservatives, and who would also help McCain with women and moderates. So he made a bold choice and picked Palin. He aimed very high, and missed. Bush had the support of moderates and the base and was able to | Read More »
In the 1980 presidential primary Georage H.W. Bush lost to Ronald Reagan in his home state of TX. Bush had also lost his home state in a Senate Race previousily. History has shown that someone can lose a race for the senate in their home state and lose a primary in their own state and come back to be the future nominee. Based on that | Read More »
The Romney team has made a huge rookie mistake in its election campaign. I have long said that no politician is ever helped by losing his home state in a primary. In the case of Rudy, I said he needed to drop out before NY because of the damage of losing it. I have had the same opinion, and continue to hold it. Santorum would | Read More »
Demographically, Pennsylvania is a state that Romney should win. However, it is also Santorum’s home state. At issue will be a critical question of: will voters who ideallogically are closer to Romney vote for Romney, or will they vote Santorum as their homestate boy. This is no small question, as it asks whether issues matter more or people. If issues matter more, the more liberal | Read More »
The three key states that the GOP must win to have a chance to beat Obama are: Virginia, Ohio, and Florida. The latest polling data from Quinnipac shows the following: Virginia: Obama 50, Romney 42 Florida: Obama 49, Romney 42 Ohio: Obama 47, Romney 41 When breaking down the polls, when voters were asked about the favorability of the Democratic Party, they were split | Read More »
Newest Rasmussen poll now shows Obama up 51% to 42% over Romney in Virginia. Meanwhile, Rasmussen’s latest poll shows GOP Senator George Allen up 46% to 44% over his Democratic Oppponent. Why is Romney trailing Senator George Allen by 11%? Why is Allen up 2, while Romney is down 9? Senator George Allen was Senator from 2000 – 2006 and voted down-the-line with Bush and | Read More »
For folks who say never to compromise, I want to share what a 2nd Obama term will look like to give us a picture of what a GOP loss of the House, Senate, and White House would mean: Obamacare would be enacted in full, and once there, will only grow every time we get a new president. Like Medicare that grew under Bush. Like Social | Read More »
At some point there comes a time to chose. Do we want to support the GOP in trying to win the House, Senate, and the White House, or do we want to support the Democrats. If the choice is that it doesn’t matter, that is also an option. What we need to realize, however, is that in any battle an election season is fought as | Read More »
I remember the day that John McCain picked Palin as his VP choice. My wife — who refused to do anything to help McCain — immediatly called up the RNC and started going door-to-door to support McCain/Palin. She went out every day, and was very excited. Many other people who didn’t like McCain, but would have voted for him anyway, were excited. On the other | Read More »
3 years ago, things started to turn around for the GOP. After the Democrats took control of Congress and the White House, the American people rejected the left-wing Democratic agenda. Christie and McDonnel won governorships in NJ and Virginia, and poll after poll showed increasing GOP leads. By 2010, the GOP had peaked and started losing momentum. The 2010 elections –which initially had projected GOP | Read More »
Along with only a sample size of 290, and thus not enough to be reliable, a recent poll suggested Gingrich’s support was evenly split between Romney and Santorum. The Poll is at http://www.gallup.com/poll/153308/Romney-Santorum-Tie-Gingrich-Voters-Second-Choice.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=All%20Gallup%20Headlines%20-%20Politics
It is sad that many people who talk about growing the economy have no understanding of how the economy works, lack any understanding of economics, and are really just talking about what policies benefit them. Here is how to grow the economy: 1. Pay down the debt. There are 2 types of spending: consumption, and investment. Consumption spending is buying a new car, eating food, | Read More »
First, we need to see what the real delegate count is. All the networks continue to give Romney 50 Delegates for Fl. Those are in dispute and it is not clear Romney will win them all; if we go by the rules, Romney will win fewer than 1/2 of them, based on proportional representation. So, Fl should be 23 for Romney, 16 for Gingrich, 7 for | Read More »
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-12-342SP A recent GAO report has identified 51 areas where government agencies can make cut to duplicative programs and save billions of taxpayer dollars. Time for Congress to act. I understand that the GOP and Democrats agreed on a budget target. I think we should take these 51 areas and subtract the savings from the budget target. Make all the suggested changes and put 100% | Read More »
Right before voting in South Carolina, Rick Perry endorsed Newt Gingrich. The timming was perfect, and Perry — who at that point had no chance to win the nomination — did the next best thing: he stopped Romney from getting it. His endorsement provided manpower, money, and momentum for Newt and made a big difference. Newt was not able to close the deal in Florida; | Read More »
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