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Is Newt in need of an intervention?
2012-02-05 08:28:00 I didn’t just turn off Newt Gingrich’s odd speech last night in order to meet my date for dinner; I also turned it off because he reminded me of an angry leftist, eager to criticize a conservative or Republican not on the merits of his opposition but in order to vent his spleen. When I ...
Newt gets conservative argument on poverty
2012-02-04 23:32:00 Seizing on Mitt Romney’s recent gaffe that he is “not concerned about the very poor,” Gingrich offer his goal as . . . . . . the exact opposite of Governor Romney['s] — my goal is not to ignore or forget the poor. My goal is to turn the safety net into a trampoline to ... More About: Conservative , Poverty
Trump?s impeccable sense of timing in endorsing Romney
2012-02-04 09:48:00 When I first heard that Donald Trump was backing Mitt Romney for President (and not Newt Gingrich as had been reported), my first reaction was similar to that of Philip Klein: ”Mitt Romney made the biggest blunder of his candidacy today ? at least so far.” The more I think about it, however, the more ... More About: Sense
Here on Republican Isle. . .
2012-02-04 09:33:00 Caught this on the Facebook page of a friend of a friend (and a friend of Bruce): More About: Humor , Republican
Will Nevada mean anything?
2012-02-04 09:18:00 Some pundits, it seems, want to explain away a potential Romney because tonight in Nevada because, well, as Rachel Rose Hartman puts it on Yahoo!’s The Ticket, “Polls continue to show Romney leading Nevada by a wide margin, in part attributable to the heavy Mormon influence in the state.” Now, to be sure, Nevada, percentage-wise, has ...
Rick Santorum is a Happy Wife!?!
2012-02-04 07:36:00 So says Maggie Gallagher: Methinks it was a typo. Or a Freudian Slip. Still it’s amusing. More About: Humor , Wife , Rick , Happy
On Mitt Romney, conservatism & class
2012-02-03 22:04:00 Perhaps, the Republican frontrunner’s gaffe earlier this week that he is not concerned about the “very poor” will serve as a teaching moment for him. He has to do a better job of articulating how conservatives think about poverty. As Bruce’s junior Senator put it: Because I know [Mitt Romney ] does care about the poor. ... More About: Conservatism , Class
Do NYT editors understand meaning of liberty?
2012-02-03 21:48:00 Yesterday, James Taranto linked this excerpt from a New York Times editorial: Even in his victory speech Tuesday night, Mr. Romney hinted darkly at the tone of the campaign to come. He accused President Obama of ordering “religious organizations to violate their conscience” and vowed to defend religious liberty. It was a reference to the ... More About: Freedom , Liberty , Editors , Media Bias , Meaning
Why is Santorum going after Newt?
2012-02-03 20:01:00 Hopefully, I’ll have some time to blog later today, but caught two recent ads, the first, a TV ad that Jennifer Rubin linked on Tuesday, the other, a radio ad which Tina Korbe links today. In each the former Pennsylvania Senator and GOP presidential candidate goes after not his party’s presidential frontrunner, but its apparent ...
Guess this means Democrats don?t want to cut spending
2012-02-03 00:27:00 Sometimes one headline just says it all: Dems see GOP budget reforms as ?sneaky? way to cut spending: House Democrats on Thursday were resisting two Republican bills that would reform the budget process, and charged that the bills were a backdoor attempt by the GOP to reduce federal spending without having to pass more specific ... More About: Congress , Spending
The Shark?..Jumps The Shark
2012-02-02 22:44:00 Could this get more absurd? QUEER OWS TO PROTEST HRC NYC GALA QUEER OCCUPIERS DENOUNCE HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOR HONORING GOLDMAN SACHS & FAILING TO DEMAND FULL FEDERAL EQUALITY New York, NY, February 1, 2012 – Queer/LGBTIQA2Z Occupy Wall Street, a caucus of the NYC based Occupy Wall Street movement, announced today that it will ... More About: Shark
Since when do conservative Republicans want to hang gay people?
2012-02-02 20:59:00 In his review of Wanted Women, “a new joint biography of two Muslim women [which] refuses to distinguish between an al-Qaida terrorist and a feminist intellectual“, historian Andrew Roberts provides one example of the author’s twisted sense of moral equivalence: Writing of a speech that [Somali-born campaigner for Muslim women?s rights, Ayaan] Hirsi Ali was set ... More About: People , Republicans , Conservative
In successful bid for media attention, Trump endorses Romney*
2012-02-02 20:22:00 You gotta credit Donald Trump with one thing — the man sure knows how to get media attention. Last night, we read that he was set to endorse Newt Gingrich. Today, we learn he’s going to “endorse Mitt Romney for president“. Jennifer Rubin fears this may hurt her candidate: Trump is certain at some point ... More About: Media
Taliban planning to take over Afghanistan when U.S. Leaves?
2012-02-02 16:56:00 Wonder if this report will change the president’s mind about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan : A NATO report leaked to British news outlets found that Taliban leaders are confident they will regain power in Afghanistan after the U.S. withdraws, and said the insurgency has not been seriously eroded by the military efforts of America and ... More About: War On Terror , Planning
What do Democrats have against workers deciding for themselves?
2012-02-02 08:17:00 Whenever Republican governors and legislators push right-to-work laws in their various jurisdictions, unions and their Democratic allies become almost apoplectic. Despite doing their darnedest, Democrats in the Hoosier State couldn’t prevent the elected legislature from making Indiana . . . the 23rd state to pass anti-union [sic] “right-to-work” legislation on Wednesday and the first in ... More About: Workers
Is On the Waterfront the only movie. . .
2012-02-02 06:16:00 . . . where union bosses are the bad guys? Just saw Super 8. Now, to be sure, I enjoyed the flick, was a fun, very well-made popcorn movie, but once again, the villains come from the armed forces. It’s not just the military; it seems that all too often businessmen, particularly oil tycoons, are ... More About: Movies , Movie , Pop Culture
In Florida, Newt fumbled his second second chance
2012-02-02 00:48:00 When sometime in the next three to six weeks, pundits write Newt Gingrich’s 2012 political obituary, they will wonder why the seasoned politician hasn’t learned from his mistakes, indeed from mistakes made in the current campaign. Considered an als0-ran for the better part of the campaign lat year, he zoomed up in the polls last ... More About: Chance , Florida
Hey, Mitt, just saying the GOP will be united won?t make it so
2012-02-02 00:18:00 Mitt Romney, Fred Barnes writes, citing the candidate’s victory speech last night . . . . . . insisted the brutal primary campaign, with Romney and Gingrich trading attacks on each other?s character and motives, won?t leave Republicans divided. ?A competitive primary does not divide us,? he said. ?It prepares us. When Republicans gather in ... More About: Congress , United , Make
A window into the liberal mindset
2012-02-01 23:15:00 Last April, I wondered how Thomas Friedman gained the reputation as “one of the most, if not the most, thoughtful columnists in America.” He never seem to offer anything more than the “conventional [liberal] wisdom with just a little bit of a twist.” Given his appeal, his columns do aoffer a window into the liberal ... More About: Liberals , Liberal
Newt refuses to congratulate Romney on Florida victory
2012-02-01 09:02:00 When just ten days ago, Mitt Romney lost the South Carolina primary, he congratulated Newt Gingrich, the man who defeated him. With the tables turned in Florida , the former Speaker did not return the favor. As Jennifer Rubin reports: Newt Gingrich gave his post-primary speech tonight while gracelessly declining to congratulate the man who beat ... More About: Victory
Romney will wrap up nomination if he learns from Newt?s mistakes
2012-02-01 08:44:00 If Mitt Romney wishes to lock up the Republican nomination and rally those parts of the conservative base which remain cool to him, he would be wise to learn from Newt Gingrich’s defeat in Florida. The returns last night in the Sunshine State were as much a defeat for Newt Gingrich as they were for ... More About: Nomination
Mitt?s Speech looks to November
2012-02-01 02:47:00 I thought Mitt Romney’s victory speech was a good one, in that he took the fight to Barack Obama, but did not, as I had hoped, show any magnanimity toward his Republican opponents. Instead, he all but ignored them. Perhaps, he was thinking of how his speech would play with independent voters rather than how ...
Will Mitt Manage to Muster Majority in Sunshine State?
2012-02-01 02:18:00 As we watched the Iowa returns just four weeks ago, we waited until past midnight to learn the winner, only to learn a few weeks later that the man who was declared the winner by a margin of fewer than 10 votes actually lost the state by a margin of fewer than 40. Tonight, the ... More About: Sunshine , State
California Crisis Continues: State to Run out of Money in March
2012-02-01 01:15:00 If the states are laboratories for democracy, as Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote, then Americans in the forty-nine largest states should be grateful for California . Since Jerry Brown first became governor (in 1975, not 2011), the (once-)Golden State has often shown us what policies don’t work. The state is running out of money: ... More About: Money , March
Mitt Must Manifest Magnanimity (even if he musters majority)
2012-02-01 00:36:00 If the returns tonight show what the exit polls indicate, Mitt Romney will muster a near-majority in the Florida primary. He may win by a bigger margin over Newt Gingrich in the Sunshine State than that by which the Pennsylvania native bested him in South Carolina. Should Romney do well, he would be advised not ...
Must be that ?smart power? about which we?ve heard tell
2012-01-31 21:37:00 US-Egypt standoff worsens (H/t Power line) More About: Smart
What?s at the bottom of Newt?s ?insurgency??
2012-01-31 18:01:00 Williams McGurn nailed it in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal: That’s because at bottom the Newt insurgency is fueled by the sense that Mr. Romney’s tepid policy agenda reflects no fixed beliefs. Many who support Mr. Gingrich will concede he is not their ideal candidate. In fact, it’s telling that Mr. Romney’s GOP rivals are defined ...
It?s the deficit, stupid
2012-01-31 16:52:00 Federal budget deficit to stand at $1.1 trillion: A new budget report released Tuesday predicts the government will run a $1.1 trillion deficit in the fiscal year that ends in September, a slight dip from last year but still very high by any measure. Now, will someone in the legacy media please ask President Obama ... More About: Stupid
James Taranto backs Mitt Romney?
More articles from this author:2012-01-31 02:18:00 From today’s Best of the Web on the polarizing Mr. Obama and his standing among independent voters: According to exit polls, independents made up 29% of the electorate in 2008, and Obama carried their votes, 52% to 44%, very close to his overall margin over John McCain. Obama’s airy promises of postpartisanship no doubt helped him ... More About: Mitt Romney 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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