By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 25th at 06:30 AM  | 

Sometime before Election Day, before the debates, people already knew Stuart Stevens and his team were in over their heads. From the utter fiasco of Romney’s convention speech, which he stripped down to a thin gruel of bland forgettable pablum (and of course, stripped of any mention of America’s servicemen and women abroad), throwing aside Bush’s micro-targetting programmed wholesale, allowing his Hollywood aspirations to make | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 12th at 05:49 PM  | 

Let’s imagine we’re in some alternate universe, and everything else was the same (including regrettably, the results of Election Day 2012), except that, for some alternate universe reason, a majority of the members of the Republican National Committee in Charlotte, North Carolina, on the 25th of January 2013 decided to elect some guy named Martin Knight (yours truly) to be the Party’s new Chairman. The | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 7th at 06:22 PM  | 

Michelle Rhee has an article up on the Huffington Post – the key part is this; Most people in this country do not favor vouchers in education, because they don’t want public dollars going to private institutions or businesses. But the logic holds absolutely no water. We have federal Pell grants that low-income students use all the time to attend private colleges. Pell grants aren’t | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  November 7th at 06:23 AM  | 

I understand everyone is upset about last night, and therefore I understand the lashing out. However, we need to keep things in perspective and not throw blame willy-nilly simply to vent our frustrations. Personally, I believe Romney ran a credible race. But his Campaign made two major mistakes – one in the last week, and one from the very beginning of his campaign. In the | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 01:23 PM  | 

Remember all the chortling and eye-rolling at Romney on MSNBC for collecting food, clothing and other stuff in Ohio for victims of Sandy? Andrea Mitchell, Martin Bashir and their guests were all agog at Romney’s classlessness for not restricting himself to just blood and money for the Red Cross. Apparently, the only aid agency in America is the American Red Cross. Well, as it turns | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  September 30th at 08:24 AM  | 

1. The Debate Moderators are going to do all they feasibly can to help President Obama. The Debate on Wednesday October 3rd is not going to be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, but really Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama and Jim Lehrer. The Vice-Presidential debate between Paul Ryan and Joe Biden on October 11th is going to be Paul Ryan versus Joe Biden and Martha | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  September 26th at 05:43 PM  | 

The conventional wisdom is that the Romney Campaign squandered the opportunity presented by the National Convention by going the anodyne punch-pulling route, not to mention the scheduling error of putting Clint Eastwood in prime time instead of the numerous men and women who took to the podium and told their stories about the Mitt Romney they knew that is quite different from the Mitt Romney | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  September 22nd at 07:14 PM  | 

MAN and WOMAN in different locations. Both are of different races – preferably one is African American. First names and “Voted for Obama in 2008″ should show when they first appear. WOMAN: When you’re choosing a doctor, lawyer, contractor, plumber, mechanic, an accountant or even just a babysitter … {cut as woman is speaking to show doctor (female; in scrubs or white coat), lawyer (male: | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  September 13th at 06:00 PM  | 

The continued fecklessness of the GOP leadership and brain trust in continuing to treat blatantly partisan actors and the news outlets they operate as if they’re the disinterested, non-partisan, dispassionate, objective disseminators of news and fact that they so laughably claim to be has to end. The flagship news outlet of the American media is the New York Times. This is the same New York | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 22nd at 11:42 AM  | 

Ladies and Gentlemen, unless you’ve been living under a particularly dense rock, it’s obvious we’ve got ourselves a serious problem. I’m not going to say that no one of the three men in the running for the Republican Presidential nomination can beat Barack Obama, but at this point, it’s obvious that whoever we pick, whether it be Romney, Santorum or Gingrich, none of them will | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 21st at 10:25 AM  | 

Milton Friedman in a nutshell elegantly explains why I believe that Mitt Romney is going to end up pleasantly surprising Conservatives if he’s elected President. Unlike Jonah Goldberg, I don’t believe he’ll be a Conservative out of gratitude, i.e. because he’ll “owe” us – it will be because he’ll have no choice. Keeping the GOP’s conservative rank-and-file happy would not be just be a matter | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 14th at 08:18 AM  | 

If a brokered convention is our only hope … then we need to; Get united around someone. Convince him (or her) to throw his hat in. Help him  win some of the Primaries he can still qualify for … … and hopefully he would have gathered the support he’ll need to make him a viable choice for the nomination by the time we get to | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 1st at 10:55 AM  | 

Why is Rick Perry out of the race for the Republican nomination for President of the United States? Because the man and his Campaign messed up. Bad. He had the opportunity to introduce himself to the nation that any candidate would give his right arm for and he flubbed it. It was like watching a slow-motion trainwreck. Worse is that it was not the media’s | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  February 1st at 10:26 AM  | 

I’m curious. There’s a lot of people who are absolutely discombobulated at the thought of Mitt Romney winning the nomination (as it looks like he’s going to do). Some are distressed at the thought because they’re positively convinced that Romney simply cannot win against Obama, and others are even more distraught because they are convinced that he could actually win and end up being inaugurated | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  October 29th at 10:39 AM  | 

The Baroness Margaret Thatcher had a saying; “First you win the argument, then you win the vote.” This is how you win the argument.   Let me spell it out; get a bunch of your statisticians and Think Tank (e.g. The Buckeye Institute) folks, have them sit down with a bunch of Adobe Flash animators (heck, hire the same folks the MacIver Institute and AFP | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  October 29th at 09:27 AM  | 

Rick Perry needs to figure out that his problem is not Mitt Romney. If all he’s going to do from now at the debates is attack one particular individual (and that individual is not Obama but a fellow Republican), then it’s all smooth-sailing to also-ran status no matter how many excellent plans he rolls out or how often he makes his fan swoon by raining | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  October 7th at 01:30 PM  | 

Not even Rick Perry’s most passionate supporters can deny that his performance in the last three debates were anything but triumphs – and even if they refuse to admit it, the entire world is seeing it in the polls. The fact of the matter is that he got progressively worse during each debate and from one debate to the next. Frankly, he needs to get | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  May 23rd at 12:15 PM  | 

This is not to say that none of the folks currently running have no chance of winning; if you run a good enough campaign – if your campaign is flexible, aggressive, focused, disciplined, anyone can win. One of the many lessons I’ve learned from the fiasco of 2008 is that the a priori declaration that Candidate X and only Candidate X can win an election | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  January 20th at 08:40 AM  | 

First of all, both Ted Cruz and Michael Williams would make wonderful Senators and I’ll just as enthusiastically back either one if he wins the nod when the (Primary) votes are counted. That said, and maybe my reasoning for this is not “Conservatively Correct” but I would recommend Michael Williams for everyone’s consideration before Ted Cruz – who is still young enough to go for | Read More »

By: Martin Knight (Diary)  |  January 12th at 03:36 PM  | 

There is an unfortunate tendency by Conservatives, particularly on TV, to acquiesce – sometimes without really being conscious of it – to false premises put to them by liberals, either simply for the sake of argument so they can move on or just simply because they want to get along. An example is Michael Steele nodding along to D.L. Hughley saying the GOP Convention looked | Read More »