I’m not Spock, so I can’t do a mind meld to discover what Mitt Romney is thinking. All I can do is offer some political analysis. This is an important decision, but let’s not be too melodramatic about it. 2012 is NOT 2008, and removing Obama from office is exciting the base no matter the VP candidate. A really terrible pick could depress the base, | Read More »
I recently wrote a piece about my thoughts on the 2012 Indiana primary. Now I want to follow up with some additional thoughts after yesterday’s primary. These primary results are absolutely a good sign, and help prove that in Indiana the Tea Party is indeed very much alive and well. In all but one contest for the US House, more Republican votes than Democrat votes | Read More »
An analysis of vice-presidential choices over the past 50yrs. reveals some lessons and trends. Let’s list the VP selections made from 1960 thru 2008. 1960 John Kennedy chose Lyndon Johnson who served his state and country for 12 years in the United States Senate and previously served 12 years in the United States House of Representatives. Nixon chose Henry Cabot Lodge who served his state | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots In the next five months a lot of things may happen that have an impact on who wins the presidential contest. We’ve already seen biased analysis by political pundits with their own agenda of either striving for attention or scaring folks. I am not a political pundit, and the only reason I have for writing this piece is to provide a | Read More »
It’s another four months before a decision for the VP is going to be announced. The conventional wisdom is the VP choice will be someone to help gain votes in a political demographic based on race, gender, or a key battleground state. The conventional wisdom is the VP will be one of the nominee’s 2012 primary rivals, and the selection helps unite the party and | Read More »
I lived the first 58 years of my life in Indiana. While I don’t claim to know all about Hoosiers, I’m not talking out of my hat or making things up as I go along. On Tuesday, May 8th, Indiana holds its open primary with the new redistricting in place. I applaud Indiana for improving on the previously drawn districts by putting together more compact | Read More »
Can you remember those heady days in November 2010 after the midterm elections? The GOP had won a majority in the US House, and changed the US Senate from the 2008 result of 60 Democrats and 40 Republicans to a more manageable 53 Democrats and 47 Republicans. The new freshmen congressmen did not expect a hero’s welcome from the Democrats or the national media when | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots I agree with Sarah Palin’s analysis regarding her choice for VP. Here is a portion of what she told Sean Hannity: Top of my list is Allen West. I love that he has that military experience. He is a public servant willing to serve for the right reasons. He understands the Constitution. He understands our national foreign policy issues that must | Read More »
I put the word “could” in all caps because it is the key word of the title. If the 113th Congress looks like this, then it means that the GOP has a filibuster-proof majority in the US Senate. After seeing the vote in the Senate today, where the 16 Democrats running for reelection in 2012 voted to raise the cost of gas at the pump, | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots Lately, there has been a lot of attention given to Obama’s domestic policies, and the successes he has had in waging war against Christians, energy producers, health insurers, and car manufacturers. I’ve compiled some of his quotes from his current term in office to remind everyone of the successes he has made in the foreign policy arena. Remember, his goal was | Read More »
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Wisconsin 1st District Age: 42 (born January 29, 1970) Time in Office: 12 years Scores: Heritage 76% CFG 2011 73% CFG Lifetime 88% Majority Leader Jim Jordan Ohio, 4th District Age: 47 (born February 17, 1964) Time in Office: 6 years Scores: Heritage 96% CFG 2011 100% CFG Lifetime 99% Majority Whip | Read More »
The 5th congressional district of Illinois Current Representative Mike Quigley (D–Chicago) Distribution 100.00% urban, 0.00% rural Population (2000) 653,647 Median income $48,531 Ethnicity 77.5% White, 2.3% Black, 6.5% Asian, 23.0% Hispanic, 0.3% Native American, 9.8% other Cook PVI D+19 The 5th Congressional District of Illinois spans much of the North Side of Chicago, from Lake Michigan into the western suburbs. It includes Schiller Park, Franklin | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots President Obama got a laugh out of a Maryland audience when he mocked the Republican Party in a speech, comparing their skepticism of alternative energy to the “Flat Earth Society” in Christopher Columbus’ day and President Rutherford B. Hayes’ apparent dismissal of the telephone. But while Obama thinks the GOP is in need of a science lesson, he may need to | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots All three of these candidates have positives that make any one of them a superior GOP nominee to our 2008 choice, John McCain. All three would be a vast improvement over the current president, Barack Obama. The best way for me to make a positive case is by not looking at the current tactics of the campaigns, but instead focus on | Read More »
Below is a list of the remaining contests in chronological order, and the number of delegates remaining. Everyone needs to remove their rose-colored glasses, and that includes the supporters of Mitt Romney. Nothing is guaranteed, but there are some scenarios that are more likely than others. I agree with the political pundits like Dick Morris that it will not be in the best interests of | Read More »
There has been some mocking of those who speak about a battle going on between the Republican Establishment and the grass roots tea party conservatives. They mock these grass roots conservatives saying, “there is no secret handshake or secret meeting place, and it is tinfoil hat conspiratorial clap trap to even suggest such a thing.” These same elitist critics try to convince us that this | Read More »
There are rumors that after Congress spent an additional 100 billion dollars (they don’t have), to extend the payroll tax cut thru the end of the year, they don’t plan to take any other major Congressional actions. We’ll see. Meanwhile, this is a good time to take stock of where our country is headed. Some of our grassroots citizens are deeply disappointed that the newly | Read More »
H.R.3521 Expedited Legislative Line-Item Veto and Rescissions Act of 2011 Sponsor: Paul D. Ryan Introduced: November 30, 2011 Passed House: February 8, 2012 254 – 173 Impoundment is the decision by the President not to spend money that has already been appropriated by the U.S. Congress. The precedent for presidential impoundment was first set by Thomas Jefferson in 1801. The power was available to all | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots There have been 14 Presidential elections in my lifetime, and 2012 is number 15. Style and rhythm can be recognized by a young child and a senior citizen, but it is very difficult to quantify. It’s like distinguishing between art and porn. You just know it when you see it. Friends have told me that they are only interested in issues, | Read More »
There have been many false narratives promoted throughout this primary season by the establishment elites, and also by the pundits and national media. The reason for these false narratives have varied. The first one was the “inevitability” of Romney winning the nomination. This narrative was promoted by establishment elites in order to clear the field and discourage people from entering the contest. The liberal national | Read More »
When I was two years old the GOP had won the majority of seats in the US Senate and the US House, and the country had elected Dwight D. Eisenhower POTUS. There had not been a Republican elected POTUS in 24 years. I waited 50 years before the GOP again won the majority in the US Senate and the House (2002) after the country had | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots In 1884, members of the Republican party’s independent wing rejected their party’s presidential candidate, James G. Blaine, to support the Democratic party nominee, Grover Cleveland. Republican loyalists called the insurgents “Mugwumps,” an Algonquian word for “great man,” used in this context to deride the bolters’ claim to moral superiority. Most Mugwumps were college-educated business and professional men from New York or | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots In November 2011, Mia Love filed to run for Utah’s newly formed 4th Congressional District based on her demonstrated leadership on conservative principles. She credits her parents with providing the foundation for her ideals. After many years of living in the unstable, regime-torn socialist island country of Haiti, her parents immigrated legally to the United States with $10 in their pockets | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots Jay Cost has written an excellent article at the Weekly Standard, Morning Jay: The Nomination Rules Are Rigged Against Grassroots Conservatives. I encourage you to read the entire article. The title may appear to be just another piece whining and groaning about results, but there is a different message in this one. The message is that conservatives are not active Precinct | Read More »
Cross-posted at Unified Patriots Vaclav Havel, the dissident Czech playwright who helped bring down Communism in his home country and became a national hero during the Cold War, has died in his sleep aged 75. An avowed peacenik whose heroes included rockers such as Frank Zappa and Lou Reed, he never quite shed his flower-child past and often signed his name with a small heart | Read More »
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