I know Paul Burka is highly regarded and respected for his journalism, but I have to call bulls*** on him over this post his blog at Texas Monthly. According to Mr. Burka, as of 3:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon — that would be Sunday, October 23, 2011 — “there was no economic plan, even though it was scheduled for a rollout in the immediate future.” The | Read More »
Full disclosure — I’m one of the blurbs in the book. I like Phil Kerpen. I like his work at Americans for Prosperity. I knew I’d like his book. I did. So will you. No, Phil’s book is not about a shadowy Obama conspiracy to impose martial law or not leave office should he be booted out. It is a book that fastidiously chronicles the | Read More »
I’ve started getting in so many books lately for review, I need to start being more diligent with them. So how about this — I’ll write a blurb on the book, give you a picture of the book with Lincoln, and drop you a link to Amazon? First up is one past due and that I have read cover to cover and promised to write | Read More »
Governor Rick Perry’s campaign is making news today in anticipation of his flat tax release tomorrow. He’s adding national staff, but not just any staff — staff that led insurgent bids against the GOP establishment. Nelson Warfield is known among conservatives as the guy who went in and helped Doug Hoffman against Dede Scozzafava. Warfield was one of the guys who made the necessary decision | Read More »
The Washington Post has chosen to launch an attack on Marco Rubio because he may have gotten part of his parents’ life story wrong. They put the story on the front page of the Washington Post. Barack Obama, trying to push health care reform, screwed up details about a central story he used to get his package through Congress. Likewise, Barack Obama claimed his uncle | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For October 24, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Attacking Marco Rubio 2. Senate gives money to rich people. Where’s the #OWS outrage 3. Econ. Professor Explains to #OccupyWallSt Crowd How Marxist America Will Work 4. A Mea Culpa on Herman Cain and Abortion 5. As Obama’s NLRB Drags Its Feet On Employee Charge, | Read More »
It’s not just Marco Rubio who may have gotten facts wrong about his family history. But the Washington Post never put this on its front page. An aide to Barack Obama says the candidate misspoke on Memorial Day when he told a group of veterans that his uncle was among the American troops who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp. In fact, Obama’s great uncle took | Read More »
“She represents a +15 GOP district that voted for George Bush and John McCain for president by 63% and 62% respectively. ” She was elected in 1996, and is serving her 8th full term in Congress. She believes her mission in life is to solve world hunger—whether its through foreign aid or food stamps here in this country that we can no longer afford. But | Read More »
Manuel Roig-Franzia is a reporter for the Washington Post who once got punched by his 70 year old editor, Henry Allen, for writing “the second worst story [Allen had] seen in Style in 43 years.” That’s right, Roig-Franzia wrote a horrible piece in the Style section. His 70 year old editor did not like it. Roig-Franzia reportedly called his 70 year old editor and Marine | Read More »
Yesterday, Leon Wolf wrote that Herman Cain’s abortion position sounds much like that of the mythical pro-life Democrat, or like those Democrats who try to cast themselves as “personally” pro-life, but who would not do anything to actually change the law. On Piers Morgan’s show on CNN, Herman Cain seemingly took the position that while he is pro-life and things abortion is wrong, he would | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For October 21, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Barack Obama’s Fun With Pronouns 2. Herman Cain Clarifies His Abortion Position 3. African-American former Congressman supports voter ID, concerned about fraud 4. The Horserace for October 20, 2011
By now you’ve probably heard about Barack Obama’s interview with Jake Tapper where he says, “I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones.” I want to focus on something else that I think gets to the heart of the matter. It’s Barack Obama’s fun use of the pronoun “it,” as in the economy. He tells Tapper, “The economy is not where | Read More »
Tonight on the Erick Erickson Show I’m going to interview Jason Mattera about his video interview with Joe Biden and also spend a half hour with Ben Domenech, author of the very excellent Transom and a RedState Founder, on the state of play in 2012. I’ll break down Herman Cain’s position on abortion and how pro-lifers were suddenly confused this morning. Oh, and I’ll kick | Read More »
It’s a turning point on the campaign trail. No one has knocked Herman Cain from his perch yet, but there is a growing consensus among both Democrat and Republican consultants that this is still a race between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. Why aren’t they taking Herman Cain seriously? Why is this a Romney v. Perry race? And what about Michele Bachman? Intentional or not, | Read More »
It finally hit me tonight why I think Mitt Romney would have a real problem in the general election. He is Barack Obama. No, not really. But yeah, there is something there. They are both robotically good on the campaign trail. But throw them off guard, get them off balance, and they turn a bit nasty. We are all intimately familiar with Barack Obama lashing | Read More »
RedState Morning Briefing For October 20, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. All Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP 2. Thin Skin 3. Harry Reid: ‘Private Sector Jobs are Doing Just Fine; It’s the Public Sector Jobs Where We’ve Lost Huge Numbers’ 4. Mitt Romney Bleeds. I Star in the Film 5. Exacerbating Distrust
Mitt Romney has a new web ad out about Rick Perry. I star in it. This is a necessary attack from Mitt Romney. Had he not pushed something out like this, the story would be that Mitt Romney got wounded last night. In several unscripted, unguarded moments he mentioned he failed to keep costs down in Massachusetts and was worried about illegals working for him | Read More »
All night tonight on the Erick Erickson Show we’re going with a play by play of the debate and the horserace. You can listen live at http://wsbradio.com. Consider this an open thread.
Even Mitt Romney’s advisors will admit that they see what the rest of us see. In the Real Clear Politics polling average going back all the way to November of 2010, Mitt Romney has never gotten above 25.0% in the polling average. It is a real ceiling for him. The campaign had hoped that by encouraging states to escalate the time table and getting endorsements | Read More »
Apple has out a new app in its App Store — Cards. You can take a picture on your phone, design a card, and have it sent via the post office to someone. Think about that for a minute. In an age of digital communications, text messages, emails, and cell phones, Apple has produced a product that harkens back to one of the earliest message | Read More »
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