A Conservative Look at Perry’s Economic Plan

By: Daniel Horowitz (Diary)  |  October 25th at 12:11 PM  | 

When Herman Cain proposed his 9-9-9 plan, many conservatives became energized, despite their misgivings with the fine print of the plan.  It wasn’t so much the details of the proposal that excited the base, as most conservatives intuitively recoiled from a consumption tax; it was the boldness of the plan that resonated with them.  Cain’s 9-9-9 brought some excitement to a race that was defined | Read More »

Americans For Cain Fires Up in Iowa

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 25th at 04:46 AM  | 

Capitalizing on the discord and acrimony at the last debate between Perry and Romney, Americans for Cain is kicking off a new ad with a heavy online push geotargetted to Iowa. Herman Cain is running a novel campaign without a lot of internal campaign organized ground game operations in the early states. But Americans for Cain intends to supplement the efforts of the Cain camp | Read More »

Romney, Romneycare, *free* health care, and illegal immigrants.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 24th at 12:00 PM  | 

It’s funny: by the standards of a lot of people in the GOP I’m pretty firmly in the ‘pro-amnesty squish’ wing. [INSERT INTEMPERATE RESPONSE TO INSULTING AND PROVOCATIVE STATEMENT THAT WILL NOT FOSTER PARTY UNITY, BUT WILL MAKE THE RESPONDER PERSONALLY FEEL BETTER ABOUT BEING CALLED A RUDE NAME HERE] So it’s always a little interesting to talk about the immigration debate in the primaries. | Read More »

Herman Cain, 2012 and Professional Politicians

By: Kevin Holtsberry (Diary)  |  October 21st at 10:30 AM  | 

It is not my attention to pile on Herman Cain or to get further into the abortion imbroglio covered in detail here at Redstate.  Instead, I want to take a moment to talk about the concept of “professional politicians.” People love to hate politicians and often for good reason. And in our hyper-populist mood these days there is a scrambling to be anti-politician, anti-Washington, anti-government, etc. | Read More »

After Las Vegas Slugfest, Romney and Cain Come Away Bruised

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 20th at 10:02 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Elizabeth Blackney are joined by Aaron Blake to discuss the attacks on Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan, and the Rick Perry vs. Mitt Romney battle royale from Las Vegas. Then we’ll talk about Herman Cain’s pro-life but pro-choice abortion position, and the winners and losers from the last fundraising | Read More »

New Perry ad: “Misleading.”

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 20th at 09:45 AM  | 

I can tell you at least one key difference between this latest ad by Governor Rick Perry and the latest one from former Governor Mitt Romney… …Team Perry will probably not have to fall all over itself later today to pull the ad from the Internet.  Which was something that Team Romney had to do yesterday with their ad. For those without video, the Perry | Read More »

Thin Skin

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 20th at 04:46 AM  | 

It finally hit me tonight why I think Mitt Romney would have a real problem in the general election. He is Barack Obama. No, not really. But yeah, there is something there. They are both robotically good on the campaign trail. But throw them off guard, get them off balance, and they turn a bit nasty. We are all intimately familiar with Barack Obama lashing | Read More »

Mitt Romney Bleeds. I Star in the Film

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 19th at 07:29 PM  | 

Mitt Romney has a new web ad out about Rick Perry. I star in it. This is a necessary attack from Mitt Romney. Had he not pushed something out like this, the story would be that Mitt Romney got wounded last night. In several unscripted, unguarded moments he mentioned he failed to keep costs down in Massachusetts and was worried about illegals working for him | Read More »

Mitt Romney: enabling the PRC’s foreign adventurism?

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 19th at 11:00 AM  | 

There’s a lot to talk about with regard to last night’s debate, but I want to drill down on this unforced error made by Team Romney. It’s… subtle, but it’s going to hurt Mitt in unexpected ways. Via the CNN debate transcript (via Ben Domenech’s Transom) comes this fascinating discussion of alternative methods of funding humanitarian aid: COOPER: Governor Romney, should foreign aid be eliminated? | Read More »

Exacerbating Distrust

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 19th at 09:46 AM  | 

Even Mitt Romney’s advisors will admit that they see what the rest of us see. In the Real Clear Politics polling average going back all the way to November of 2010, Mitt Romney has never gotten above 25.0% in the polling average. It is a real ceiling for him. The campaign had hoped that by encouraging states to escalate the time table and getting endorsements | Read More »

Mitt Romney and The Advice of Evil Men

By: Repair_Man_Jack (Diary)  |  October 18th at 01:53 PM  | 

Once upon a time, on a totally non-political day, during a non-political speech amidst his taxpayer-funded and non-political bus tour, Mein Obama offered us the following non-political discourse. “The Republican plan says that what’s been standing in the way between us and full employment are laws that keep companies from polluting as much as they want,” Obama said in a speech at the regional airport | Read More »

Free Trade Agreements, and Mitt Romney’s Possible Trade War on China

By: Brad Jackson (Diary)  |  October 18th at 10:00 AM  | 

Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Scott Lincicome to discuss the recent passage of free trade agreements with Korea, Panama and Columbia, Mitt Romney’s potential trade war with China, and the impact of Big Labor on America’s trade policies. We’re brought to you as always by BigGovernment and Stephen | Read More »

Little did we know how well Herman Cain was doing last week

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  October 17th at 12:00 PM  | 

Before the cold that really took me down since Friday (to explain my silence since), we checked in on the pre-debate polling for Herman Cain’s first debate as a major contender. It turns out that Cain’s momentum had taken him even further ahead of the Tuesday debate, though post-debate polling suggests he took at hit in the national audience.

Jim DeMint Is NOT Endorsing Mitt Romney

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 17th at 10:17 AM  | 

Roll Call is running a story that Jim DeMint may endorse Mitt Romney. Here’s what you need to know about it. A number of DeMint past and present consultants in South Carolina work for Mitt Romney. I’m not sure the reporter knew just how heavily he was being spun, but he was. The story is mostly wishful thinking by Romney consultants in South Carolina who | Read More »

The Jeremiah Wrighting of Robert Jeffress

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 12th at 01:14 PM  | 

Robert Jeffresss does not have a lick of political sense. You do not, in this day and age, to a gaggle of reporters after introducing a Presidential candidate to a crowd, say that the candidate’s opponent belongs to “a cult.” You just don’t. It doesn’t matter what you believe. Robert Jeffress lacks political skills. But he is not a politician. Robert Jeffress is a pastor | Read More »