rnc: random thoughts from red meat day
Before I get to Governor Palin’s wonderful speech, there are several other things that struck me as the RNC proceeds forward to the acceptance speech by McCain tonight. The first is that there aren’t many conservative women in the GOP pipeline contesting Senate races or any higher state offices. What does it say about this [...]
no choice
The continuing discussion over the wisdom of Senator McCain choosing a pro-choice VP should be about more than whether conservatives would actually sit the election out. I don’t think we can afford to make that threat. Senator McCain has a long pro-life Senate record, and we have a clear indication of where he stands on [...]
trust no one
We can now take offshore drilling off of the table as an issue Republicans and John McCain can use to hammer the Democrats in the general election. Any serious attempt to address our energy costs by adding offshore drilling to the mix has been sabotaged by five Republicans, including my other senator Lindsey Graham. Hope [...]
frum’s unconventional idea
David Frum wrote an article last week for Opinion Journal that is worthy of discussion regarding the party conventions of the Democrats and Republicans — he suggests that they would be more useful and interesting if we got rid of the media circus and the two major presidential candidates. He says: But what if the [...]
go right not left
Believe it or not, there is a Republican left with some credibility on fighting wasteful spending by our Congress — Senator Tom Coburn. Senator Coburn has been consistent in this area, but unfortunately many of his colleagues have refused to follow his lead, and that of other senators like SC’s Jim DeMint. There aren’t enough [...]
democrats attempt to punish big oil
They might want to remember what happened last time we imposed a windfall profits tax. Interesting findings from a 2006 Congressional Research Service Report (quoted here). Full PDF here. This is the most interesting part: Reinstating the windfall profit tax would reduce recent oil industry windfalls due to high crude and petroleum prices but could [...]
this is not good
House Republicans are voting in favor of entitlements and earmarks, and not even trying to resist all these new spending proposals by Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats. So says Bob Novak. Maybe it’s fair to blame the Republican leadership for this, although I’m not sure how much they can do, because it’s clear that the [...]
mccain is wrong
I’m not sure why John McCain is overreacting so much to the North Carolina GOP ad. It is an ad that mentions Obama’s association with Jeremiah Wright and pointing out that Democratic candidates for governor Bev Perdue and Richard Moore support Obama. Oh yeah, and the ad might have said a little something about Rev. [...]
leave mitt alone
Some social conservatives can’t accept victory. Mitt Romney will not be our next President. They got what they wanted. They won. Seems to me they can’t take yes for an answer. Thanks to their support of anyone but Romney, we are now stuck with McCain. Now a small vocal group of malcontents is making threats [...]
understatement
Bill Kristol says that the GOP debate tonight is very important to Mitt Romney’s future prospects in the presidential race. There’s some brilliant (and very ORIGINAL) analysis. McCain is inevitable and Mitt is doomed. Is there any pundit with good news still out there? Anyone? Tags: ’08 election, Republicans, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bill Kristol
