The Ron Paul Newsletter and His Jeremiah Wright Moment
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 22nd at 04:45 AM |
If you’ve been under a rock somewhere recently you may not know that Ron Paul published a bunch of crazy, racist newsletters in the late 80′s and early 90′s. Ron Paul, ten years ago, took responsibility for the content, even admitted at one point that he had written some of them. Today, Ron Paul claims he knew nothing about them even though they generated around | Read More »
Morning Briefing for December 22, 2011
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 22nd at 04:44 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing December 22, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Lack of Principle Got Them In This Mess. Principle Gets Them Out. 2. The Ron Paul Newsletter and His Jeremiah Wright Moment 3. Ron Paul Hates Republicans and Everything They Stand For 4. Coburn Details $7 Billion in Waste from 100 Dumb Projects 5. Why Do | Read More »
Commending the Perry Campaign
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 21st at 04:46 AM |
I risk being accused of endorsing Rick Perry by saying nice things about his campaign two days in a row, but this is genuinely worth commenting on and is not an endorsement. Yesterday, I wrote a post that started with Perry as one of the best candidates to beat Barack Obama, but commented on what I perceive to be one of the flaws in his | Read More »
Morning Briefing for December 21, 2011
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 21st at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing December 21, 2011Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. I’m filling in for Neal Boortz today from 8:30 am to 1:00 pm ET. You can listen right here on the WSB live stream.If you want to be part of the show, the phone number is 1-877-310-2100. 1. Commending the Perry Campaign 2. New Gang of | Read More »
From the Mail Bag: Ron Paul, Is That You?
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 20th at 10:01 AM |
I don’t know, but I bet whoever it is will be voting for Ron Paul. Begin forwarded message: From: crazyjerk@excite.com Subject: Dear dirty Jews Date: December 20, 2011 To: contact@redstate.com No one likes Israel. Every one hates you, your f**king website and your ideas. You guys are filthy f**king jews and I’m very happy that you died in the gas chambers. Iran is not a | Read More »
Filling In For Neal Boortz #EERS
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 20th at 08:35 AM |
I’m filling in for Neal Boortz today from 8:35 at to 1:00 pm ET. You can call in at 1-877-310-2100. You can also listen right here on the WSB live stream. Consider this an open thread.
The Candidates
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 20th at 04:47 AM |
I will not be endorsing any time soon. I have made clear my reasons here. I am, however, continually surprised that anyone in the GOP thinks Mitt Romney is a really viable candidate. Should he be the nominee, the American public will be treated to interviews and commercials with every person ever fired or laid off because of Bain Capital, an organization from which MItt | Read More »
The Strategic Incompetence of Mitch McConnell
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 20th at 04:46 AM |
Mitch McConnell‘s minion are in full on spin mode trying to blame Speaker of the House John Boehner for botching the payroll tax cut extension. The only person who deserves any blame is Mitch McConnell. In this, the first deal he pretty much single handedly negotiated with the Democrats, he not only screwed up, but proved he has no freaking clue how to get the | Read More »
Morning Briefing for December 20, 2011
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 20th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing December 20, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. The Candidates 2. The Strategic Incompetence of Mitch McConnell 3. RedState Interview with Jon Huntsman 4. Can Congress Subpoena Judges?
Gingrich Is Right #EERS
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 19th at 08:59 AM |
I’m filling in for Neal Boortz today and I am so shocked that some conservatives are beclowning themselves trying to defend an imperial judiciary. I’ll have to spend some time on why Gingrich is right. You can listen right here on the WSB live stream. I’ll be on from 9am to 1pm ET today. The phone number is 1-877-310-2100. Consider this an open thread.
Insanity
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 19th at 04:46 AM |
The Republican Party has gone insane. For the better part of the last three years the Republican Party has exercised itself into a frenzy over the need to repeal Obamacare. For the two years leading up to November of 2010, mostly middle aged working white people took to the streets in sizes rivaling a NASCAR race to protest the socialization of the American health care | Read More »
Morning Briefing for December 19, 2011
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 19th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing December 19, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Insanity 2. House Must Decouple Payroll Tax Cut From Broader ‘Extenders’ Package 3. Offshore O&G Lease Sale: Small Companies Stay Away in Droves 4. SEIU Job Description: Train & Lead Members to Occupy State Buildings & Takeover Banks 5. The Truth about the New Detainee Policy
The Debate Play By Play #EERS
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 16th at 05:59 PM |
Tonight from 6pm ET to 9pm ET I’m going to do a detailed play by play of the Fox News Republican Debate from Iowa last night. You aren’t going to want to miss it. You can listen live on the WSB live stream and call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK. You know, you guys never call in, but you really are allowed to. Consider this an open | Read More »
Bad News for Barack Obama’s Re-Election
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 16th at 11:18 AM |
He is still the favorite to win. He is the incumbent President of the United States. He flies on a big blue airplane that gives him free media exposure whenever he lands. He gets to bring along politicians with whom he can curry favor. It is hard to pick off an incumbent President. But there are warning signs on the horizon for Mr. Obama. It | Read More »
Perry & Bachmann in Iowa
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 16th at 04:46 AM |
They had to do well in Iowa and they did. Mitt Romney had a better debate performance than this past Saturday. The software upgrade must have worked. Newt Gingrich held his own. But Michele Bachmann got to Newt. She got the better of him on the issue of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and he treated her so dismissively on the issue of abortion I | Read More »
Morning Briefing for December 16, 2011
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 16th at 04:45 AM |
RedState Morning Briefing December 16, 2011Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Perry & Bachmann in Iowa 2. National Review: “they lived long enough for us to see them become the villain.” 3. Work for Obama, Get a Federal Contract, and Watch Left-Wing Pseudo-Journalists Roll Over and Purr 4. Replacement worker beaten & hospitalized, Ohio | Read More »
Paging Conservatives In Kentucky
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 15th at 07:05 PM |
One of the most pathetic excuses of a Republican in Congress has finally decided to go away into anonymity. Geoff Davis is retiring. Davis famously whined to the media that those awful conservatives at Heritage Action for America and other groups were “worthless,” which was more a reflection on him than them. Davis has a 63% score from Heritage Action for America. Sure conservatives can | Read More »
Polls and More. Same Show. New Time. #EERS
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 15th at 05:29 PM |
My radio show moves up to its new time today. We’re going to start at 6:00 p.m. ET and go till 9pm. Tonight we’ll work through the polls, what I’m hearing on the ground, Mitt Romney’s three tiered marriage plan, and local news too. You can listen right here on the WSB live stream. The phone number, if you want to call in, is 1-800-WSB-TALK. | Read More »
National Review: “they lived long enough for us to see them become the villain.”
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 15th at 12:26 PM |
One of our co-founders, Ben Domenech, produces one of the best daily reads in my inbox. It’s the Transom. If you do not subscribe, you should. And if you do subscribe, today you got Ben’s thoughts on the two big conservative endorsements for Mitt Romney. I think he hits the nail on the head and it is very much worth sharing.
Work for Obama, Get a Federal Contract, and Watch Left-Wing Pseudo-Journalists Roll Over and Purr
By: Erick Erickson (Diary) | December 15th at 10:35 AM |
Solyndra, Lightsquared, and now Solayzme are all companies that are closely connected to the Obama campaign and all got government money. While the Obama Administration has been attacking Republicans as “crony capitalists” and using an army of left-wing pseudo-journalists to make the attacks, the Obama Administration has been rewarding campaign friends with government contracts. In Barack Obama’s America, he, not the marketplace, picks the winners | Read More »