I was critical after last week’s debate, not so much of Herman Cain per se, but of the fact that he has been unable to show he is competent in handling policy. Right Online and the Republican Leadership Conference both show it doesn’t really matter right now with the crowds. They love him. In both New Orleans and Minneapolis, Cain pounded the Obama Administration, its | Read More »
The energy level was not the same as with Michele Bachmann, but then the speech was a different sort of speech. Pawlenty arrived at Right Online after a rough day of travel from Iowa with a very late plane. We were actually going to meet and chat before he went on stage. Instead, he took off from Iowa at the time we were supposed to | Read More »
Michele Bachmann was scheduled to speak for 17 minutes at Right Online. She took an extra 18 minutes and 30 seconds. The whole speech felt like it was only a few minutes. It was funny, fascinating, informative, and powerful. She set the bar very, very high for other candidates. Her tax lawyer background showed in her speech, as did her faith. She used a dollar | Read More »
We’ve talked a lot about rebuilding the party. Let’s talk instead about rebuilding the movement. Every day in Washington, there is some right-wing group somewhere bemoaning the efforts of the right online. Sadly, for them and the rest of the right, their first thought is “let’s do it ourselves”, instead of “let’s invest in the existing talent.” It’s often bemoaned on our side that the | Read More »
The other day on Twitter, I commented thusly: Resolved: fixing the GOP cannot be done from in DC and fixing the tech problems cannot be done without professional technologists. Within days of the election I was approached by three people representing three different groups, all of whom wanted my advice on how to proceed on the technology front. My advice was pretty simple: That you | Read More »
I had wanted to stay out of this conversation until after the election, but events, threads, emails, and other posts seem to have dragged me in. I’m not sure this is a helpful thing to distract us from the pending election, but I’ll make this brief. Iain Murray, John Hawkins, Patrick Ruffini, Mark Tapscott, and Jon Henke are engaged in discussing the future of the | Read More »
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