The Club for Growth and the Tea Party
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 16th at 03:25 PM |
Erick Erickson’s article regarding the study conducted by the Club for Growth and the Tea Party needs a little more explanation than can be handled in a response in the “comments” section of that article. In a way, it is a little misleading to a certain degree. But first, we have to go back to 2010 and look at the strength of the Tea Party | Read More »
Give An Inch, Take a Yard: The “Evolution” of the Gay Marriage Issue
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 11th at 03:36 PM |
Barack Obama’s recent announcement regarding gay marriage during an ABC News interview comes as no surprise to anyone with a modicum of interest in the 2012 elections. This is less a startling revelation and more a calculated effort to motivate his liberal base and, more specifically, their check books. There is no secret that the Left has adopted LGBT concerns as the “new civil rights | Read More »
Indiana Republican Primary: A Study in Hypocrisy
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 5th at 10:01 AM |
There is a tremendous battle looming in Indiana for the Senate seat currently held by Richard Lugar. No- it is not some right-of-center Democratic insurgent making his reelection a problem but the challenge comes from within the Republican Party in the name of State Treasurer Mourdock. In many posts, I have stated that, based upon the most recent polls, Lugar would have an easier task | Read More »
Six Months to Go: A Look at the Electoral Vote and Senate
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 4th at 10:19 AM |
We are slightly more than six months away from the general election where we will decide who our next President will be and whether Republicans can take control of the Senate. The following analysis of the battle for the Senate is based on recent polling information which I then modify based on the trends and the reliability of the polling data. Obviously, some polling services | Read More »
For Romney to Win: Part 5 (Income Inequality)
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 3rd at 05:52 PM |
No one on the Right denies that there is an income gap between the haves and the have nots in this country, nor do they deny that it is getting worse. In fact, 66% of conservatives polled said it was a problem with another 21% characterizing it as a crisis. So, 87% of conservatives are acutely aware of the income inequality problem in America. There | Read More »
For Romney to Win: Part 4 (Entitlements)
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 2nd at 07:52 AM |
Entitlement reform will be the main prong in the Democratic attack on Romney and Republicans this year. Whenever the subject of Social Security reform is mentioned, I am always struck by these words: “We shall make the most orderly progress is we look upon Social Security as a development toward a goal rather than a finished product. We shall make the most lasting progress is | Read More »
For Romney to Win: Part 3 (Wall St. vs. Main St.)
By: davenj1 (Diary) | May 1st at 05:35 PM |
How often have we heard that conservatives, or Republicans, are for the rich? To hear the Obama Administration speak, everything the Republican Party proposes is dictated by some secret cabal of rich businesspeople sitting in some oak boardroom somewhere. It borders on continuously discounted conspiracy theories. But, lets look at some facts from the past three years of the Obama Administration. In reality, it is | Read More »
For Romney to Win: Part 2 (Immigration)
By: davenj1 (Diary) | April 30th at 08:15 PM |
In the aforementioned Luntz article in the Washington Post, the author noted that a popular myth regarding the conservative voter is that they all support the deportation of illegal immigrants. However, it is exactly that- a myth. There is a fundamental difference, however, when it comes to the proposed solutions to the problem. Illegal immigration affects border states more than other states, but every state | Read More »
For Romney to Win: Part 1 (The Size of Government)
By: davenj1 (Diary) | April 29th at 10:35 AM |
Frank Luntz recently had an article in the Washington Post about five myths regarding conservative voters. This may very well be a starting point for a winning strategy for Romney in this year’s general election campaign if he can accurately and forcefully articulate the message. In short, he has to delineate a vision, based on pragmatic conservative ideology, that separates him and the Republican Party | Read More »
Musings of a Moonbat
By: davenj1 (Diary) | April 27th at 01:59 AM |
My favorite Democratic moonbat- Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)- was recently on Fox News talking about the Ryan budget plan. Incidentally, liberals are now using the proposal by portraying it as a Republican “war on the poor.” Ed Schultz recently dedicated half his show to the idea and found an accepting voice in E.J. Dionne which is illustrative of MSNBC’s fair and balanced approach. It is | Read More »