Outlook Through Super Tuesday: More Prognostication, for What It’s Worth.
24 January 2008It seems the race for the Republican nomination is in some disarray. Some pundits are predicting a brokered convention. Some Fred heads are talking write in votes in an attempt to force a brokered convention. What are the likely scenarios through Super Tuesday?
Giuliani had a solid lead in Florida before the early primaries. Some polls [...]
McCain Wins South Carolina
19 January 2008I don’t mind saying I’m disappointed. I’ve had harsh words for John McCain and my opinion has not changed. I really thought South Carolinians would not be fooled by him but I was wrong. Of course, independents are what pushed McCain over the top. If you didn’t know, South Carolina has open primaries, something I’ve [...]
Romney Finally Wins One
15 January 2008As soon as the polls closed in Michigan FOX News declared Romney the winner in the Republican primary. As the votes continue to be counted Romney’s lead continues to increase. When FOX News called it the lead was six points. As I write this that lead has expanded to nine percent over McCain. The question [...]
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.
Reagan’s Eleventh Commandment
14 January 2008During Ronald Reagan’s 1966 campaign for governor of California, Republicans established the so-called Eleventh Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
It was proposed by State Republican Chairman Gaylord Parkinson to help prevent a repeat of the liberal Republican assault on Barry Goldwater that laid the foundation for Goldwater’s trouncing in the 1964 [...]
Republican Presidential Forum
6 January 2008I vastly prefer the format of the Republican Presidential Forum tonight vs. the standard debates. Issues are dealt with on a much deeper basis and the candidates have the opportunity to actually answer question in depth. Tonight was outstanding. Chris Wallace was relentless in seeking answers to the questions he asked and he was equally [...]
Iowa Caucus Predictions
2 January 2008To voters in primary states the Iowa Caucus is not well understood. That’s because a caucus doesn’t work the way a primary works. In a primary everyone comes out and votes for their candidate and the one with the most votes wins. In some states if no one gets a majority of votes there may [...]
Attacks on Huckabee Continue
26 December 2007For months Mike Huckabee was ignored by the pundits. Then suddenly, Huckabee began to look like a viable candidate and the long knives came out. There has been much speculation about why this might be. Huckabee’s camp speculates that many had already picked their candidate and when Huckabee began to surge he was perceived as [...]
Throw Out Conventional Wisdom
8 November 2007Conventional wisdom is an interesting thing. It is certainly the easy path. After all, it doesn’t require a lot of thought. Yet those who excel don’t typically follow conventional wisdom. If they did they’d be like everyone else. They’d be average, not excellent.
Conventional wisdom is nothing more or less than [...]
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 [...]
