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Sen. Jim DeMint recently said that he does not want Ron Paul to drop out of the race yet, at least not “until whoever the front-runner is is collecting some of the ideas he’s talking about.” With Mitt Romney as the current frontrunner, it is hard to see which of Ron Paul’s ideas could be [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Election, Foreign policy, Healthcare, Politics
The Romney campaign raked in a whopping $24 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, the Associated Press reports today, padding an already robust war chest and ensuring that he’ll have plenty of cash on hand to fend off attacks in South Carolina and Florida. And despite a solid win in New Hampshire, there’s reason [...]
He really is the new Fred Thompson, the contender who was meant to vindicate movement conservatism and instead finished at 1 percent in New Hampshire. Actually, Thompson did almost twice as well as Perry: the actor and former Tennessee senator received 1.23 percent of the 2008 vote, to Perry’s 0.7 percent this year. Why did [...]
The former Massachusetts governor has avoided embarrassment, winning the Granite State — as expected — by a margin that’s set to be healthy enough to erase memories of his Pyrrhic victory in Iowa. Ron Paul can also declare victory, as he’s poised to shatter the 20 percent ceiling he encountered in the Hawkeye State; he’s [...]
Upon my arrival to Lancaster, New Hampshire last week aboard the Newt Gingrich press bus, I spotted an assortment of demonstrators who had congregated to greet (as in, chant directly at) the Speaker as he meandered into a townhall meeting. It was a small group — six or seven — but for way up in [...]
I won’t guess the final percentages, but I suspect the result will be Romney, Huntsman, Paul, Santorum, Gingrich. The surprise here would be Huntsman outperforming Paul; there are four reasons to think it might happen. First, Paul seemed to have a hard time winning over last-minute deciders in Iowa, and the polling so far in [...]
NEW YORK — America has come back, at least politically, to where it was in the far-off 1950s when Communist scares and the American fascism of Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy kept the republic in a state of fear and anxiety. “Reds under our beds” was the slogan in those days of paranoia and witch-hunting. Today, [...]
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Professional Romney apologist and Washington Post conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin notes that, from the way he was talking in Sunday’s debate, Gingrich sounds like he may have broken a commandment new to the 2012 election: Thou shalt not communicate with your Super PAC. It seems that that the former House Speaker was so keen on [...]
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There still exists a possibility that, come Jan. 20, 2013, we could have a Republican Senate and House, and a Republican president. But there is also a possibility that a Goldwater-Rockefeller-type family bloodletting could sunder the party and kick it all away. America is bored with Barack Obama. The young and the minorities are still [...]
Jim Antle is right, the Republican presidential contest is now a race for second. But why would anyone want to be runner-up? Actually, there’s a very good reason: assuming any of the candidates emerges as a credible not-Romney, he’ll have a leg up on the 2016 or 2020 nomination. In Ron Paul’s case, it’s not [...]