Doubtless you have all heard of Senator Reid’s comments on July 31st that he’s heard from a Bain investor that Romney hadn’t paid any taxes for 10 years. Then, on August 2nd, he doubled down, even in absence of any actual evidence, and he repeated those allegations on the Senate floor. On August 3rd, he tripled down. I think the title from the HotAir post | Read More »
It never fails to amuse me at the kind of things the media will say about Mitt Romney to try to bring him down. The typical narratives the media tries to spin about a given Republican candidate usually come down to picking two out of the following three: dumb, evil, and a wimp (with warmonger being a subset of the “evil” schtick). With George W. | Read More »
I haven’t posted recently, as I’ve been on vacation up in Yooperland dodging da Trolls dat live in da Mitten below da bridge. As my family and I were returning from Whitefish Point to the Soo, I encountered a nice story on my phone that merits mentioning. It has often been observed that the difference between the beliefs of the elites and the “rank and file” | Read More »
Shortly after election day of November of 2008, Aaron Gardner, one of this site’s front page contributors, made a post that has stuck with me to this day. Titled “Back to the Future”, he strove to update the 1980 Republican Party platform to fit the needs of the day. It’s a post that I’ve been coming back to several times lately as we face yet | Read More »
Has David Brooks finally been able to break the hypnotism of the crease? On Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour on PBS, a show that seems to have a fondness for inviting him on when they need a “conservative” to slap around, he said: “I sort of think this debate hurts both candidates,” Brooks said Friday on PBS’s “NewsHour.” “I think Bain is not popular. It is not | Read More »
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