Archive for February, 2008
Missing Blogrolls
9 February 2008You may have noticed that my blogroll is missing. I’ve noticed that too as have a lot of people using blogrolling.com. Many bloggers use blogrolling.com because their free service makes managing blogrolls much easier. But for the last several days, blogrolling.com has been down. We can’t log on to our blogroll accounts and their site [...]
Romney Exits with Barn Burner Speech
7 February 2008Speaking to CPAC today, Mitt Romney announced his withdrawal from race for the Republican presidential nomination. In the process he gave an outstanding speech. He talked about what makes America great. He said that dependency is the enemy of freedom and initiative. He talked about how Bill Clinton depleted our military and how now we [...]
Romney Dropping Out
7 February 2008FOX News is reporting the Mitt Romney will announce he is dropping out of the GOP race in his speech at CPAC today. More to follow.
For the Good of the Party
7 February 2008When John McCain uses the phrase “for the good of the party” I have a little trouble taking him seriously. When did McCain ever do anything for the good of the party? Was it good for the party when McCain spent years ramming campaign finance reform down our throats? How about immigration reform? Was that [...]
Home State Advantage?
6 February 2008One result of Super Tuesday bears paying attention to and a little compare and contrast is in order. While John McCain won his home state of Arizona, he failed to achieve a majority there. Indeed, McCain only received 48% of the vote of Arizona Republicans. That means that 52% of Arizona Republicans felt McCain was [...]
Super Tuesday Delivers Surprises
6 February 2008The political landscape is taking on a firmer shape for Republicans following Super Tuesday yesterday. The news is, of course, not good for conservatives. As expected, John McCain did quite well. But there were some surprises. Mike Huckabee did better than predicted and Mitt Romney did worse than expected. In West Virginia, Romney expected to [...]
The Future of the GOP
1 February 2008Limited government conservatives have been in a quandary for years. The party has slowly but steadily moved to the left, apparently because Republicans have come to believe that is necessary to remain viable. Reagan’s limited government conservatism has given way to compassionate conservatism and big government conservatism. Those are, of course, oxymorons at best. By [...]
