Introduction For those who have wondered where my login on redstate comes from, it was part of an idea that I had a few years back. The idea is simple — set up a change jar. Everyday, put your change in it. Every two years, empty it and split the donations into two parts and help support conservatives and Republicans. (For those of you under | Read More »
Many of us do not consider ourselves social media gurus, but there are three relatively easy things that we can do to help the Romney/Ryan team in the next two and a half months. That will take small amounts of time, but pay off big if done as a large group of conservatives.
Bruning? Nope Stenberg? Nope Deb Fischer wins after spending 1/10th of the money.
President Obama graciously pushed the Presidential race into Mitt Romney’s hands the other day with his same-sex marriage push that catapulted social conservative independents into Romney’s camp. There is another issue out there that will further solidify the “I only care about the economy” moderates and probably even guarantee a unification of the Ron Paul supporters as members of the Romney 2012 coalition.
Riding the Roller Coasters I have ridden the roller coasters this political season. First came the roller coaster of who will run. Next we were lead through the longest ever debate roller coaster. Now it’s time for the primary roller coaster.
Here’s a pipe dream that will never happen, but I would love to see what America would look like if it did. What if, you had to pay X amount of taxes no matter what those taxes were spent like, but you were given a list of check boxes. Your taxes would then be split across all of those check boxes. Here’s what the | Read More »
ColdWarrior challenged us to ask “What are we going to do to make a difference in 2012?” Back in 2010, I came up with an idea. I passed it around to a few people and a few local tea parties used it to raise some money. Now it’s time to reactivate the idea. So October 2011 is approaching. GOP debates are happening right and | Read More »
If I were a billionaire, I’d host my own debate for the GOP. Each candidate would get the chance to answer five questions without interruption. After they had each given their answer, I’d allow an attack / rebuttal time of 5/5 minutes each. 1) What is your plan to create full-time jobs in the private sector of this country? 2) Social Security and Medicare are | Read More »
Well, not really, but it seems that everyone else is. Most of my platform, you’ll agree with but for the more interesting part, scroll to the bottom. o Jim DeMint who said there was no way is now considering it. o Sarah Palin is doing what ever the heck she is doing. o Rick Perry is now re-considering it. o Mike Huckabee said he might | Read More »
DISCLAIMER I was a Daniels supporter until he dropped out. Now, I’m leaning heavily towards Pawlenty. LAST MONTH’S NUMBERS: Individuals: Obama 46% (but the only DEM) Pawlenty 9% Romney 8.25 Huckabee 7% Barbour 5.5% Bachmann 4.5% Palin 4% Daniels 3.25% Guiliani 3.00% Huntsman 2.75% Cain 2.5% Trump 2.25% Gingrich 2.0% NOW TO MAY: METHODOLOGY 1) Estimate the chances of a certain candidate to win the | Read More »
So none of this is based on deep scientific polling or anything of that nature. Just twenty years experience in retail politics. ASSUMPTIONS I start with the assumption that Barak Obama is fairly beatable at this point in time. The economy sucks. Obama is trying to raise taxes while the economy sucks. And in the meantime, he’s started a third war that we have no | Read More »
We’ve been called to be more civil in the past few months here at Redstate so I’m going to give you a contest to let you prove that you have what it takes. Here’s the rules: 1) In the comment section, using only POSITIVE phrases about your candidate, attempt to persuade me that your candidate is the best candidate for the GOP nomination for 2012. | Read More »
Introduction Most of you are familiar with ColdWarrior’s push to fill the Precinct Committeemen slots of the Republican Party with conservatives and push the GOP to the right in all facets of the party platform. To me, this should be especially true in our most conservative states, where we should be putting forth strong, Jim DeMint type conservatives. Georgia is such a state and now | Read More »
A few months ago, I said I would keep an open mind on all of the candidates and give them a pass on their previous statements as much as possible as we headed into a new campaign season. At the bottom of my list after the 2008 primaries was Mike Huckabee. I mean the bottom, as in, behind Guiliani.
It’s time to give all the candidates a chance Many of you know that I am leaning towards Mitch Daniels as the GOP candidate for 2012. This diary is not about you giving Mitch Daniels a chance in 2012. It’s more about me opening up my mind, and all of us opening up our minds, to all of the candidates as we move forward. How | Read More »
The Issue of Earmarks does Matter While the Republicans have generally made peace with regards to how they will proceed with earmarks, the fact that they consider them to be trivial and in the case of Jim Inhofe, the right thing to do, earmarks are the first necessary step in righting the ship. Earmarking is a symptom of what is wrong with congress James Madison | Read More »
Some people feel this is all you need to know about my political upbringing. Many of you know that I was a pro-life Democrat until they went instinct. I chose that road for the fondest of reasons — I knew it would drive my dad crazy if I became a Democrat (Dad thinks Rush and Hannity are moderates). Whenever my birthday falls on the election, | Read More »
Yes, I know we need to vote and GOTV and harass our friends on facebook about getting out to vote. A few points before my projections: 1) I think that the polls are still underestimating GOP turnout by 2 to 3%. 2) I think things are moving in the GOP’s direction. So here is my, overly optomistic prediction going forward, please add your own: House | Read More »
If you read through my previous diary entries, you will find my idea about using the change piled up in your change jar to make two donations. The first should go to someone on the RCP “Leans Republican” list and the second to someone in the tossup category. My first donation to John Raese was met with mild applause, but my second made to Karl | Read More »
Prologue In the first of my posts, I talked here about using your change to take back America and here I discussed why Jon Raese was my first of two donations. Instead of giving my second donation to someone I picked up off of the list for RCP, I went ahead and sent the money to Karl Rove and American Crossroads. Why American Crossroads and | Read More »
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