Every party has its wings–different sub-groups that are part of the larger organization. The Republican party has three wings that the Republican leadership believes is so dangerous to the future of the party, that they tried to suppress their influence in the last election, and pointed fingers at them as the reason for the GOP’s poor showing in the 2012 election cycle. The Tea Party | Read More »
The Conservative Hand – Part 3 Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Despite what the typical liberal would tell you, conservatives are not insane. Still, when asked what conservatives should do to take back the country from its current liberal domination you often hear conservatives recycling the same old ideas that haven’t worked in the past. Let’s | Read More »
The Conservative Hand – Part 2 I sit here after the Republican catastrophe of 2008 and wonder what went wrong. The Republican Party has gone through many changes since I became interested in politics in the late ‘60s. The Republican and the Democratic parties were not that far apart at the time. While most would have pointed to economics as the biggest difference between the | Read More »
The Conservative Hand – Part 1 It has been thrilling to be part of the Tea Party movement, and see power move away from the political elite and back to the grass-roots. The sleeping giant has awakened and slowed the liberal freight train, but slowing the train isn’t enough. We must reverse its direction and set it on a conservative track. To do that we | Read More »
The Tea Party movement doesn’t have a single leader or a central organization, and that’s the way the members of the movement like it. How though, can an unorganized movement get anything done? Economist Adam Smith addressed this same question. He recognized that the free market is made up of countless businesses all pursuing their own goals. With no central leadership or organization the free | Read More »
The Hatch Rule: if a GOP politician without a conservative record starts cozying up to the tea party, you can be sure he’ll veer back left as soon as he is out of danger of losing his seat. Some lessons you just have to learn the hard way. Tigers don’t change their stripes, and RINOs don’t change their ways. We made a mistake believing this | Read More »
Same sex couples are staging a “kiss in” Friday at various Chick-Fil-A restaurants. If you think this is to demonstrate a widespread level of support for gay marriage, you’re wrong. The purpose is to bait someone on the right into doing something stupid. The left would like nothing more than to capture on camera someone: yelling at a gay couple assaulting (shoving, hitting, etc…) a | Read More »
Sports wisdom says you should refrain from trash-talking your opponent prior to a game, as it only creates bulletin board material which: gets your opponent mad as hell turns the opposing team into a unified group focused on one thing: kicking your butt causes you opponent to double down on their efforts to defeat you It’s hard to predict ahead of time what comments will | Read More »
SPLOST – special local option sales tax. SPLOST’s have been popular in Georgia. So popular that they have routinely passed with only token opposition. In the last decade, Georgia has become a hard-core Republican state. The entire machinery of the state government, as well as a significant part of local government, is in the hands of the GOP. This GOP machine put another SPLOST on | Read More »
There has been a bit of talk lately about what will happen if the GOP fails to curb the government after this election. The possibility (and problem) of a third party has been raised. One of the problems not being discussed is the name. The Tea Party The American Party These are good names. You feel good just to saying them, but they are also | Read More »
Last week a Georgia Tech student awoke in his dorm room to find a man holding a gun to his head and another rummaging through his belongings. Yet another in a long (and rapidly growing) list of crimes against students occurring on and around the Georgia Tech campus. Georgia Tech is one of the nation’s elite engineering schools, because of its scholastic rigor and facilities | Read More »
Did Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum just go back and forth over Puerto Rican statehood and English as America’s official language? Did Rick Santorum actually say that he would crackdown on hardcore pornography? Did the GOP candidates actually allow themselves to get bogged down in a debate over…birth control pills? The GOP has been called the Stupid Party by even its most ardent supporters, because | Read More »
Way I remember it, albatross was a ship’s good luck, ’til some idiot killed it. Serenity, 2005 Mitt Romney took his dog along on a family vacation. They took a 12 hour trip, with the dog strapped to the roof of the car in a dog carrier. Mitt Romney doesn’t deny this, in fact he claims it was great fun for the dog–the the dog | Read More »
The Chevy Volt’s batteries hold the same amount of energy as one gallon of gasoline—one single gallon. Would you buy a car that held only one gallon of gasoline? Neither would I. Yet, we’ve invested billions of dollars developing and promoting a car with an “electric gas tank” (the batteries) that only holds one gallon’s worth of energy. I’ve heard that new super batteries are | Read More »
He could have. He wasn’t term limited. There was no legal reason that prevented Mitt Romney for running for reelection. So, why didn’t Mitt Romney run for a second term as governor of Massachusetts? He would have lost. And, not just lost by a little. He would have been creamed. Romney won his first term with about 49% of the vote. After 4 years in office | Read More »
In may last post I asked a simple question: should we worry that Mitt Romney hasn’t been fully vetted? Well, it didn’t take long to get an answer. Yes, we should be worried. John McCain’s opposition research file on Mitt Romney has been leaked and is available on the internet as a PDF. It can be read on-line and downloaded here: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/18/opposition-file-on-romney-hits-the-internet-likely-from-2008-mccain-campaign/ I haven’t read | Read More »
It’s only in the last few weeks that people have started to examine Mitt Romney in detail, despite the fact that he has been running for president for five years. For the first time, people are starting to discuss the specifics of what he did at Bain. After 5 years of running for president, the question of why Mitt Romney has never released any of his tax | Read More »
Ron Paul is touted as the guy that really understands our Constitution and the various roles of the federal and state governments. However, when doing research on Ron Paul’s position on abortion at http://prolifeprofiles.com/ronpaul I found a huge hole in Ron Paul’s understanding of the Constitution. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their | Read More »
There was something about the recent Herman Cain “smoking” ad that seemed familiar to me, but I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Then it hit me, it reminds me of the Edgar Friendly speech from the movie Demolition Man. For those not familiar with the film, it is a Sylvester Stallone move set in the not too distant future where the nanny-state has | Read More »
If you go to Rick Santorum’s official website, you’ll find the following blub on the front page: HERMAN CAIN – PRO-TARP, PRO-TAX AND NOW, PRO-CHOICE Cain Tells CNN’s Piers Morgan That Abortion is a Decision for the Individual, “Whatever They Decide, They Decide.” Verona, PA – Herman Cain has said another outrageous statement out of touch with conservative values, this time… Follow the link, and | Read More »
Vote for any of the current GOP candidates that are offering tax cuts as part of their economic plan. 47% of voters pay no income taxes. In 1984 it was only 18%. Over the years that number steadily increased under both Democrats and Republicans. We’ve reached the point where creating more non-taxpaying voters will tip us over the edge. Most of the current GOP candidates | Read More »
Paul Ryan “loves” Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/13/paul-ryan-loves-herman-cains-9-9-9-tax-plan/ First Art Laffer, now Paul Ryan. It looks like the heavyweight conservative economic minds are starting to line up behind Cain’s plan. Look, I know everyone loves their candidate, and the temptation is to demagogue Cain’s plan to help your candidate, but we’re moving past that point. Now that serious people are getting behind it, it’s time | Read More »
Once again I watched a commentator spin the idea that Occupy Wall Street crowd is no different from the Tea Party, because both groups are angry about the Wall Street bailouts. I suppose they are correct on that one point. Tea Partiers are in a financial hole. They played by the rules. For years they worked hard to support themselves (often in mundane, unfulfilling careers) | Read More »
In his only election victory he got 49% of the vote. He didn’t run for relection, even though he was still legally eligable. Why not? Because he would have lost–badly. After four years as governor, he was polling under 30%. In the 2008 GOP primaries Mitt Romney only pulled in 22% of the vote. This cycle, despite having huge monetary and organizational advantages, Romney still can’t | Read More »
Anyone can see that there is a concerted effort by Ron Paul supporters to attack Herman Cain. The reason is obvious: Herman Cain’s performance in the South Carolina debate sucked the oxygen out of the Ron Paul campaign. Paul–a fringe candidate at best–was depending heavily on making a show in the SC debate to drum up early enthusiasm (and donations) for his 2012 run. But | Read More »
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