Super Tuesday: Romney and Santorum Limp Along, Tea Party Claims First Scalp

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  March 7th at 12:31 AM  | 

Romney wins OH, VA, MA, VT, and ID; Gingrich wins GA; Santorum wins OK, TN, and ND.  Alaska is still pending.  Here are some random thoughts. 1) It looks like Romney will eke out a very narrow win in Ohio.  The pattern is becoming familiar.  Romney can’t just outspend his opponents; he must swamp them in order to pull out a narrow victory.  There is | Read More »

Mittmentum moves to Ohio, Gingrich leads Georgia on a true Super Tuesday

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  March 5th at 11:30 AM  | 

The Republican party has held five primaries this cycle to date: New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida, Michigan, and Arizona. Mitt Romney won the statewide vote in four of them, including the last three. Super Tuesday tomorrow will shake all that up, of course. But Ohio looks to be one state Romney may come back to win from Rick Santorum.

I Blame Us All. Don’t Worry: You Will Too.

By: Thomas Crown (Diary)  |  March 1st at 11:55 PM  | 

From the diaries . . . So, as we begin our gallant charge into electoral defeat in November in earnest, I think it’s time to lay the blame for this primary season where it belongs: The voters. We’ve all spent a good bit of time deriding and decrying the Establishment for our current straits, and I truly believe they deserve some criticism. National Review backhanded | Read More »

Primary Day update of Michigan and Arizona

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 28th at 12:00 PM  | 

Last I looked at these two Republican Presidential primaries, the first primaries since Florida and the first binding races since Nevada, I called it Mittmentum. I was right about Arizona. Michigan though has remained complicated.

Your Entire House Delegation is Fired!

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  February 28th at 10:45 AM  | 

“The Tea Party was born out of the conviction that gov’t shouldn’t pick winners and losers, yet that is all these losers have done in Congress.” If you think that the 2010 elections cleared out all of the dead wood from the House, you need to think again.  If you think that our only intra-party problems emanate from blue-district Republicans, you need a reality check. | Read More »

Femi-regulars for Rick Santorum

By: Lori Roman (Diary)  |  February 27th at 11:25 AM  | 

From the diaries Left-leaning elitist pundits are scratching their heads.  After two weeks of liberals trying to convince women that Rick Santorum wants to rip the birth control out of their hands and put them in the kitchen, more and more women are supporting Rick Santorum.  “How could this be?” they ask.  Answer: We are smarter than you think. Let me offer a little primer | Read More »

Picking Back up on House and Senate Races

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 12:44 PM  | 

It is time for me to get focused again on House and Senate races. With redistricting, we’ve got to make some tough decisions in races where two incumbents are situated. Likewise, we’ve got new people running. It is time. Here’s my initial list of support and focus. I’ll add to it over time. One of the big races up front is going to be Manzullo | Read More »

Mitt Romney’s Debt Ceiling Deception

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 11:12 AM  | 

For the most part, last night’s debate was refreshing in the sense that the candidates were honest about their lack of conservatism.  Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul affirmed their support for some aspect of earmarking (although some parsed words), Rick Santorum owned up to his support of No Child Left Behind, Ron Paul unabashedly enunciated his support for Iran’s nuclear program, and Newt Gingrich also confirmed | Read More »

$2.50 per Gallon Gasoline, Energy Independence and Jobs

By: Newt Gingrich (Diary)  |  February 23rd at 07:48 AM  | 

To hear the White House and President Obama tell it, high gasoline prices are here to stay and we better get used to them. If Americans would quiet down and accept $4.00 a gallon gas, it would certainly make the President and his environmentalist allies happy—but it would also require us to forget everything we know about American energy. During the years I was speaker | Read More »

Principle as Political Liability: Even Reagan Understood it

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 21st at 12:07 PM  | 

Not to put a RedState reader on the spot, but these comments are rather predictable. Said one commenter to my original post on principle and political liability: This same false argument was made about Reagan, you know it, I know it, the press knows it. It got him shut out by the GOP leadership in 1976…it got him elected in 1980. Never run from your | Read More »

Mittmentum in Michigan and Arizona

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 21st at 12:00 PM  | 

Last week it looked possible that Rick Santorum would keep on winning in February with a big lead in Michigan and a possible lead change in Arizona. New polling this week though suggests Mitt Romney’s back, and could regain control of the race.

Carl Wimmer is the Winner for UT-4

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  February 21st at 08:00 AM  | 

Editor’s note: In our continuing effort to spotlight conservative fighters running for Congress, I’m posting some more endorsements from The Madison Project.  Today’s candidate is Carl Wimmer in Utah’s 4th congressional district. Almost every Republican candidate this season will pledge to repeal Obamacare, but none of them have done more to fight the healthcare behemoth than Carl Wimmer.  During his tenure in the Utah House | Read More »

Principle as Political Liability

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  February 21st at 04:46 AM  | 

What a weird campaign season we are having. Let me present you a truth that some of you may bristle under, but is true nonetheless. No matter how right the cause or principle, it may still be a political liability. I’ll start with the one you’ll agree with it. Barack Obama and many on the left may believe that abortion . . . er . | Read More »

Michigan and Arizona Poll Update

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  February 16th at 03:00 PM  | 

Today’s Twitter talk is focusing on the March 1 debate in Georgia, but the Arizona and Michigan primaries come two days before then. And it’s looking good for Rick Santorum over Mitt Romney, even in Michigan, the state that was Romney’s big win last time, and where George Romney was once Governor.

Clark Durant for Michigan Senate

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  February 14th at 08:00 AM  | 

Editor’s note: Earlier this year, I promised to harness our collective outrage against the GOP establishment by searching out candidates to support – men and women who will uphold our first principles.  Unfortunately, we have been too busy dealing with capitulation after capitulation on the major legislative battles.  That is about to change.  Over the next few months, I will be seeking out conservative candidates | Read More »