Gingrich Writes Reagan Era Obituary, Rush Limbaugh Apoplectic
14 January 2008No one is a bigger fan of Ronald Reagan than I am. Reagan stood for conservatism long before it was fashionable and he is the model of conservatism. But we aren’t facing the Soviet Union, Reagan defeated that. We aren’t facing many of the problems we faced in the eighties. We have a whole new set of problems and we have to face them head on as a party and decided how we’ll deal with them and articulate that to the electorate. We can’t do that if we’re constantly bickering over Reagan.
Pat Robertson Has Lost His Mind
7 November 2007The news is full of talk today about Pat Robertson’s endorsement of Rudy Giuliani. It is certainly a shocking event. How can a leader in the evangelical movement endorse a man who supports gay marriage, government funded abortion and sanctuary cities? It is completely mind boggling.
The only thing I can come up [...]
Thompson in South Carolina
27 June 2007I has the privilege today of attending a luncheon sponsored by the South Carolina Republican Convention. The luncheon was held in Columbia and the keynote speaker was Fred Dalton Thompson. When the opportunity to go to this presented itself, there was no chance I was going to pass it up.
Thompson spoke for about 25 minutes [...]
Views on Mike Huckabee
22 June 2007I had the opportunity to be at a Mike Huckabee campaign stop. Governor Huckabee came to Charleston Bagel in Mt. Pleasant, SC and spoke to a small crowd of maybe 40-50 people and he was, in my view, very effective.
The campaign stop was sponsored by South Carolina FairTax. The FairTax organization does not endorse candidates [...]
Thompson Moving Closer
30 May 2007According to Politico.com, Fred Thompson is a little closer to jumping into the GOP presidential race. In a story today, Mike Allen said that Thompson will will form an exploratory committee in June. Allen says Thompson has already raised millions of dollars and “is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations.” From [...]
Ft. Hard Knox
29 May 2007If you’re wondering why I haven’t posted lately, there are several reasons. First, my son and daughter in law were here visiting for the Memorial Day weekend. It was great seeing them. But I’ve also been working on a new project. Some conservatives on the internet, lead by Jenn Sierra, have started a new project [...]
Can a Republican Win in ‘08?
2 April 2007I was reading a short piece about Fred Thompson on Slate.com today with the interesting title, The GOP’s Therapy Candidate: The Trouble With Fred Thompson. Starting with the claim that Thompson’s chief qualification is that he makes Republicans feel good, author John Dickerson makes the same mistakes Republicans in Congress have been making for some [...]
Conservative John McCain?
3 March 2007It’s been a little while since I wrote a purely political post and now it is time. I received an email today from Bobby Harrell, Speaker of the House in the South Carolina Legislature. He was enthusiastic over John McCain’s win in the Spartanburg straw poll on Thursday. It seems that as of Thursday even [...]
Co-Equal Branches of Government
6 February 2007Much is being said in the halls of Congress these days about the “fact” that Congress is a co-equal branch of government. As such, the argument goes, Congress has the authority to reign in the President’s plans with respect to the Iraq war. There have even been plans floated to limit the number of troops [...]
Is the War in Iraq Worth Supporting?
22 January 2007Unless you live on a deserted island you are aware that 2/3 of American no longer support the war in Iraq. That coincided precisely with President Bush’s approval ratings which are the lowest of his presidency and one of the lowest of all time. For a multiplicity of reasons, Americans simply do not support the [...]
