The Republican presidential race appears to have shifted from debating the economy to discussing social issues - same-sex marriage, abortion and, amazingly enough, birth control. The year is 2012 and ...
Mitt Romney believes that his best line of attack is making the claim that he has not spent a moment as a D.C. politician while his two main opponents, Newt ...
No two ways about it, Rick Santorum had a good night. Not only did he sweep Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri but he also got off the best line of the ...
Few would argue the fact that Citizens United has been a major player in the Republican primary...and many if not most would concede that none of it has been healthy ...
As if you needed another reason to not vote Romney.
Celebrity business magnate Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president Thursday, telling reporters he will not mount an independent campaign if ...
In a perfect world, the Republican contest to find a nominee to face Barack Obama would go on forever...or at least until August. You cannot attach a number to the ...
I suspect there are a ton of conservatives secretly agreeing with Begala and while it's too early in the game for Dems to get cocky, it's difficult to not smile ...
Quotes don't get much better than this one by Bob Dole.
"Why do people take such an instant dislike to me?" asked a perplexed Gingrich, to whom Dole bluntly ...
After the beating Gingrich took last night, it's hard to imagine under what scenario he can make a comeback. Florida is going to Romney and for Gingrich to regain the ...
There's a lot out there on the President's SOTU, so I'll keep my thoughts short and sweet.
The speech did what it had to do which was target liberals and independents ...
The highlights from last night's debate.
- Newt Gingrich can't wait to become president so he can revisit the early 60s and overthrow Castro in Cuba. War, baby, war.
- Santorum, who ...
It appears that the South Carolina verdict is forcing Romney to start taking Gingrich seriously.
“We’re not choosing a talk show host, we’re choosing a leader,” Romney said, saying that their ...
Mike Huckabee offers advice to Mitt Romney concerning his unreleased tax returns.
Let him [Romney] make this challenge: "I'll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and ...
Via Political Humor...
"Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip." ...
Good line.
My guess is that after Romney fails to beat Obama in the general, Huntsman will be back in 2016. The most electable guy in the field and he could ...
I found this pretty funny...and accurate. It comes from a reader over at Balloon Juice.
So, let’s review. The contenders for the GOP nomination are
A vulture capitalist who believes that any ...
Lively little debate going on at one of last week's posts with Libertarianism put under the microscope.
ocLiberal:
I know I am in sketchy territory here, (start the indignant shouting now) but ...
In the contest to determine the winner of the Far-Right Politics gold medal, rack up a few more points for Newt Gingrich.
“I think an intelligent conservative wants the right federal ...
Via Political Humor...
"Congratulations to Mitt Romney. He won the New Hampshire primary last night. See, this is proof that even the multimillionaire son of a multimillionaire can beat the odds ...
Allen Quist is hoping to win a Republican nomination in Minnesota. He tells the world what to him is the greatest political battle of the current generation.
“Now why am I doing this? I don’t need to be in lights, I don’t need to speak, I don’t need to be before a TV camera, I don’t need to be in the paper. I have been there, I have done all that. I don’t need to be there”
“It’s because I, like you, have seen that our country is being destroyed. I mean, this is — every generation has had to fight the fight for freedom. This is our fight. And this is our time. This is it. Terrorism, yes — but that’s not the big battle. The big battle is in D.C., with the radicals. They aren’t liberals, they’re radicals. Obama, Pelosi, Walz — they’re not liberals, they’re radicals. They are destroying our country. And people all over are figuring that out.”
Got that? According to this wingnut, President Obama and his fellow Democrats represent a greater threat to the country than terrorism. These guys are so far out of whack now, they’ve completely lost perspective on what’s what and they’ve got me convinced that they’re actually believing their own idiocy.
Someone’s got to save these morons from themselves. Eight years of Bush and not a peep from conservatives as President Numbnuts systematically worked on destroying not only the country but it’s standing in the world. Eleven months of a Democrat in the White House and it’s a “fight for freedom.”
Whatever.
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Although I doubt Quist’s campaign will get much traction, what he means by the “big battle” is the ongoing struggle between opposing ideals of what this country should look like, and how involved the government, especially the Federal gov’t, should be in our everyday lives.
Of course Quist recognizes the grave & immediate damage that terrorists pose to people and infrastructure at any given time. And we have several agencies charged with combating just that threat.
But even the terrorist’s greatest success to date didn’t fundamentally change our economic/political/cultural identity. We’re still a capitalist free-market (mostly), constitutional representative republic, with freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, a right to bear arms, etc.
However, those who work to make America a more Liberal, collectivist, socialist nation pose a greater threat IN THE LONG RUN to the traditions and identity of America (and our economic solvency, eventually) because they seek to change the very foundations upon which this country was built.
They call it progress, but it’s unsustainable. The system will collapse under it’s own weight eventually. It may take a few generations, but we simply cannot give everyone everything they need. It WILL bankrupt us, ultimately.
Conservatives battle the creeping socialism that (mostly well-intentioned) liberals continue to plug-away at, always looking for another way to “help people out”. Through, as always, the government.
Heed the prediction often attributed to Norman Thomas, 6-time Socialist Party presidential candidate: “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of “liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
And, he DID opine: “The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly”.
Although I doubt Quist’s campaign will get much traction, what he means by the “big battle” is the ongoing struggle between opposing ideals of what this country should look like, and how involved the government, especially the Federal gov’t, should be in our everyday lives.
Of course Quist recognizes the grave & immediate damage that terrorists pose to people and infrastructure at any given time. And we have several agencies charged with combating just that threat.
But even the terrorist’s greatest success to date didn’t fundamentally change our economic/political/cultural identity. We’re still a capitalist free-market (mostly), constitutional representative republic, with freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of association, a right to bear arms, etc.
However, those who work to make America a more Liberal, collectivist, socialist nation pose a greater threat IN THE LONG RUN to the traditions and identity of America (and our economic solvency, eventually) because they seek to change the very foundations upon which this country was built.
They call it progress, but it’s unsustainable. The system will collapse under it’s own weight eventually. It may take a few generations, but we simply cannot give everyone everything they need. It WILL bankrupt us, ultimately.
Conservatives battle the creeping socialism that (mostly well-intentioned) liberals continue to plug-away at, always looking for another way to “help people out”. Through, as always, the government.
Heed the prediction often attributed to Norman Thomas, 6-time Socialist Party presidential candidate: “The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of “liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.”
And, he DID opine: “The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly”.
That’s the battle that Quist is talking about.
It’s not just any old Democrat in the White House. It’s a black Democrat. The wingnuts’ clockworks are pretty tightly wound right about now.