The Tea Party Patriots and the Claremont Institute both scheduled shindigs to welcome the Freshman class of Republicans to Washington DC on the same day, at overlapping times. It’s a classic tempest in a teapot. Leaving aside hurt feelings, territoriality and resentments it’s important to make a few points. The Tea Party Patriots event begins with brunch and goes 11:30AM to 3:30PM. The Claremont event | Read More »
Want to see what is wrong with the Republicans in elected office? Take a look at the following table from Pew. Allahpundit has plenty more. But that table shows where the Republican party has been going wrong for the last 10 years or so. It shows the Republicans have been doing the wrong thing so long it might not be possible to recover. But I | Read More »
The Jackson County (MS) Republican Executive Committee has passed a resolution in support of auditing the Federal Reserve. I’m announcing it because I think it is important that the local parties assert conservative and classical liberal principles such as those in the 2008 platform to the State and National parties. The State and National parties seem to be to some degree captive to those moderates | Read More »
Today, prompted by an anecdote at the American Thinker, The Other McCain (the conservative Hunter S. Thompson for today) wrote about finding and convincing future ex-Democrats that conservatism is the shiznit. Also, on RedState pilgrim wrote that the Thugocracy Will Yield a Bumper Crop of Ex-Democrats. I think that I shall never see, A billboard lovely as a tree Future Ex-Democrat. (Ogden Nash, mostly) Like | Read More »
For those of you who want the Republican party to become a “progressive” party, and by that I mean a party that endeavors to incrementally increase the power and reach of the government ever more, until finally we live in dependency on the government that supplies all our needs, then I submit you should join the Democrats.
Read More »One thing Republicans should have learned from the last sixteen years is when campaigning stops it is as good as surrendering to the Democrats. I just hope that the next time we Republicans grab the big brass ring our President realizes the two years of campaigning that just ended isn’t enough, and he or she will have to campaign for eight more years. Two years | Read More »
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