Yeah, that is the question that is bouncing around in my head right now. Maybe it was the fact that after watching this whole thing play out some things have become apparent to me. With Harry Reid playing Mitch McConnell like a fiddle again, it is obvious that the GOP House approach to working with the Senate must be changed. I don’t blame John Boehner | Read More »
I have seen a lot of consternation Nikki Haley’s endorsement of Mitt Romney has caused among conservatives. Now all I am going to offer is my observations and insight on how this whole thing is playing out and could play out. Of course, this could have been all orchestrated a long time ago by the Romney campaign. This is politics after all. Nikki Haley’s approval | Read More »
Ron Paul’s campaign self-destructed tonight. The way to trip up Ron Paul is to always bring up foreign policy and then he goes off the hinge. He may have a loyal following but they will be very hard-pressed to persuade anyone to come over to them. He’ll start falling in the Iowa polls within a week. Rick Perry given the somewhat shortened time he had | Read More »
(Update: Rasmussen has come out with a new Iowa poll: Romney 23, Gingrich 20 (!) Paul 18, Perry 10. I’m shocked by the Gingrich free fall. Seems like a lot of Iowa voters that were supporting Gingrich went back to the undecided pile) Let’s just say….I don’t want to get prematurely excited. I have seen the polls from the American Research Group and Insider Advantage | Read More »
Newt Gingrich has conducted a brilliant campaign strategy since he stumbled back in late spring regarding Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity Plan. He has been masterful in debates and shown an eagerness to take on and fight the media elite. He has owned up to his personal and political mistakes and stated candidly what his positions are, though many may disagree with them but still | Read More »
Dark days. Rick Perry has been rolling out an incredible platform over the last few weeks in his still rather young presidential campaign. Unfortunately, the prevailing opinion among the GOP base is getting a man who can go toe to toe in a debate with Obama and look good doing it. Have we become obsessed with the optics of what may happen in a future | Read More »
(A hat tip must be given to Mike Gamecock Devine and his post he wrote earlier. I wanted to expand on it by highlighting some other things that have come up. I figured if I had made this whole thing in the comments on his thread, that could pose a problem ) It’s been fun to watch some Romney supporters vent their ill-advised frustration at | Read More »
It would be apparent that this is the choice that we’re going to have to make sometime very soon before the Iowa caucuses on January 3rd. I hope this is sooner rather than later. The most recent polls indicate that Newt Gingrich is skyrocketing, Herman Cain is falling, Mitt Romney is wet wood that can’t catch fire, and Rick Perry still in the doghouse with | Read More »
I can’t believe anyone hadn’t reported on this here at RedState. Good grief! On the issue of collective bargaining, Cain said he supported the right of public employees to bargain collectively. “But not collective hijacking. What I mean by that, if they have gotten so much for so many years and it’s going to bankrupt the state, I don’t think that’s good. It appears | Read More »
There apparently is some much watering down and MSM spin being attempted to dilute the performance of Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich last night. Make no mistake about it, these were two men among boys and a girl last night. The key point in this debate and all the talk and focus is about Rick Perry’s zero-based foreign aid of all nations America contributes to, | Read More »
I was very pleasantly surprised by Rick Perry’s handling of a subject tonight that I thought he would have been weakest in. His first two answers in response to questions regarding shutting down Iran’s central bank and starting from $0 in foreign aid to every country set the tone. After that, all of the candidates were following Rick Perry. His answers indicated that the U.S. | Read More »
To every Gingrich, Romney, Perry and Cain supporter on here: Drop your swords and stop fighting each other. It serves no purpose but to distract and deflect attention away from who we should be fighting. You know that to be the current leader of our country that resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. To each of the presidential candidates and their campaigns: YOU CAN STOP THIS | Read More »
B-R-U-T-A-LNot depressed, just flat out disappointed. The Perry campaign is all but over. I just don’t see how he recovers from this. As ardent of a supporter of Perry I have been, I have to call it like it is. So, we’re left with three candidates. A candidate who is the darling of the GOP establishment that is the Republican version of John Kerry. One | Read More »
Uh oh Keep in mind that PPP is the pollster for leftist blog Daily Kos. However, their polling tends to be fairly good and accurate on the final few days prior to an election. According to people on the ground in Ohio, the unions have been running some very….emotion evoking ads. You know the type. How the claims like “we have to provide our kids | Read More »
I just didn’t know about Herman Cain though I really liked him a lot. No matter how slimy and anything but solid journalism by Politico, the way Herman Cain and his campaign reacted to this crisis was downright awful. There was one thing that I learned about Herman Cain from this whole thing, he doesn’t handle a crisis well at all. If he cannot handle | Read More »
Folks, I really hope he starts gaining his feet again. The longer he stays in the race, the better he is going to get. The plans that Perry is putting out are solid and simple to understand. These plans will not be difficult to articulate and sell to the American public. Also, they are simple enough that he will be able to debate effectively without | Read More »
As this presidential nomination fight is heading into the election year, the above question really will be the determining factor in whom the GOP voter will cast their vote for to take on Barack Obama. There is no question that all the candidates have noticeable flaws, some more than most. But in the end, who really is best? The final four candidates that I am | Read More »
DOH! Sometimes it is the most unexpected of moments that can turn the tide and reveal a man’s true character what we all suspected he is. This seemingly unnoticeable slip that was caused by a well prepared attack by Rick Perry is an advertising nuclear bomb waiting to be detonated on the Romney campaign. Mitt Romney is like Barack Obama in a way. Just an | Read More »
Watch out for Herman Cain. That straw poll in Florida wasn’t a Ron Paul style hijacking, it was an eye opener. For a man who made some misinformed comments and was left for dead a few months ago, suddenly has new life and people are taking another look at him. Here are some observations: Cain doesn’t have the baggage of Mitt Romney and Rick Perry | Read More »
There are two kinds of public servants. Those whom stick with a core set of principles and beliefs and those whom stick their finger in the pragmatic wind driven by the thoughts of the masses for their own political ambition. The race for the GOP nomination has been a fun ride since Rick Perry entered the race. The last two debates have been excellent with | Read More »
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