All Hands on Deck as the Silver-Tongued President Continues Clarifying ‘You Didn’t Build That’

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  July 25th at 09:00 AM  | 

Years ago, our own Dan McLaughlin  defined ”swiftboating” as “Accurately quoting a Democratic politician’s own words.” By that definition, President Obama is being swiftboated up a creek without a paddle right now, as constant repetition of his own words has the campaigner-in-chief and every attack dog he can muster working day and night to “clarify” his remarks on small business. For review, here’s the president’s direct | Read More »

First Suggested 2012 Obama Campaign Ad

By: TobyToons (Diary)  |  July 22nd at 07:00 AM  | 

Cross-Posted: TobyToons.com (Conservative Political Cartoons)

Sarah Palin’s Campaign Innovation

By: Melissa Clouthier (Diary)  |  May 27th at 03:04 PM  | 

Yesterday on Greta’s show, Greta asked Karl Rove about Sarah Palin’s bus tour. He seemed sort of bemused. He listed the ways she wasn’t doing things normally: no big fundraisers and donor meetings, no focusing on New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina, and using social media to message. Sarah Palin is breaking the mould. Will it work? Who knows? Here’s her video announcing her bus | Read More »

How I got on my county GOP committee

By: mommymagpie (Diary)  |  January 6th at 08:11 AM  | 

I was originally going to post this as a comment to this post, but I decided to make it an entry in my diary because there might be folks out there like me who took a few years to get their wheels under them, so to speak. Until 2009 I’d never participated in a protest, never worked a political campaign, never put signs in my | Read More »

What’s the cost to taxpayers for Patty Murray’s 911 call to Obama and Biden?

By: Bryan Myrick (Diary)  |  October 17th at 01:14 PM  | 

Democrats are hitting the panic button in Washington State as the race between Democratic Senator Patty Murray and Republican challenger Dino Rossi narrows down to the nail-biter many of us knew it would be. How much is Murray’s eleventh-hour 911 call to Pres. Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice Pres. Joe Biden costing taxpayers? After already receiving two visits from the executive branch’s | Read More »