Jan 26, 2016 – ultimate, you know, as the ultimate of the billionaires in terms of, you know, people you don’t want. … The Democrats really don’t care about making deals unless the deals move their agenda forward. … big government bigger.…

Jan 25, 2016 – That’s the big question of this primary, and everyone seems to be dividing the voters into “the conservatives,” “the establishment, … guy is on our side and has the best chance of beating Hillary and doing the things people elect Republicans to do. … “We can’t have a guy who stands in the middle of the Senate floor and every other senator thinks he’s a whack job.…

Jan 25, 2016 – the wreckage of the Carter era. … the battle for swing voters in the center of the election mostly academic. … Watch how Rubio manages to walk the line of treating this guy and his concerns with respect, while standing without apology for his…

Jan 22, 2016 – the anonymous sources crawled out of the woodwork again: The classified material included in the latest batch of Hillary Clinton … The officials say the emails included relatively “innocuous” conversations by State Department officials about the CIA drone program … The term “special access program” is commonly associated with the military, but the inspector general’s latest letter used it to refer…

Feb 9, 2016 – He was very clearly a dog backed into a corner in the New Hampshire debate, and he attacked who he saw as the biggest threat on the … Out of spite for taking his opportunity to be the GOP big money’s favorite? … If the intent was to make the country better, then Donald Trump should be the clear guy to knock out of contention.…

Feb 9, 2016 – do the talking here. … John Kasich is seen by folks like the New York Times as the most electable. … That’s what puts Trump at a very, very big first place and keeps Ted Cruz in the top three.…

Feb 8, 2016 – of him— something that needs to happen, for the sake of the country, conservatism and the GOP, in roughly that order.  … Data from that poll also suggests that attacking Trump for being “the Man” as opposed to the guy who will “stick it to the Man” is … I’m all for people going after Trump as a big government liberal, and goodness knows, that’s why I and the others at Make America Awesome…

Feb 8, 2016 – Trump, on the other hand, loses big to any Democrat running. … I would gamble with the unqualified nice guy before I’d ever cast a vote for the unqualified, barely coherent, reality TV star, though … they’re not “our guy,” we run the risk of closing out all of our better choices and leaving Trump at the top.…

Feb 7, 2016 – And a lot of the big conservatives that tell me how conservative they are — I think I’m more than they are — they tell me, oh — well … You know who has the tickets for the — I’m talking about, to the television audience? … While Bush deserves credit for flogging Trump with this particular prevarication, let’s not lose sight of the fact that the guy who…

Feb 6, 2016 – The governors on the stage, however, looked like actual grown-ups tonight. … John Kasich, though a sanctimonious ass, once again plays the friendly guy in the room, and doesn’t come off looking any worse for … late for the crowd on stage and perhaps for the primary.…

Feb 5, 2016 – Neither was an excite-the-base guy, which is one reason the huge margin of Kasich’s 2014 win was mostly the product of depressed Democratic … Frankly the big down-ballot wipeouts of 2008 were due in good part to supercharged turnout for Obama (especially black voters), as … into the “war on women” narrative, and suffered a big gender gap.…

Feb 4, 2016 – If this message caused precinct captains in the precincts to say, well, your guy is getting out… if that cost Carson four votes per … assume it on the part of the Carson campaign? … Here, in fact, is the polling over the last two weeks of Iowa – Rubio is the pink line, Carson is the red: As you can see, although…

Feb 3, 2016 – He may see in Trump something of himself, a guy who blazed his own trail where one did not exist before (in the age of the Fairness … the McCains, and the Bob Doles, and the Romneys, and the others that have come along and been nominated by the establishment. … Rush has reminded his listeners that a race where Rubio is the guy the establishment has to settle for is a race conservatives have…

Feb 2, 2016 – Conventional wisdom said that big turnout would be great news for Trump, and that the possible failure of Trump’s amateur turnout machine … I suspect he also needs to win South Carolina, at which point two big primary wins in the bag would make it possible for him to lose … The guy who seems like he ought to re-evaluate before New Hampshire is Christie.…

Feb 2, 2016 – So what kind of businessman looks at all the market research that shows he is winning in a big way and then cut his investment? … This is the guy who was leading in the RCP average: Let’s review the bidding on spending: Trump did spend a “fraction” of … The difference being that all the money Trump spent was his own. Not so with the other candidates.…

Jan 31, 2016 – Is the RNC the biggest loser?    … AdAge says $377 million is being spent by companies to get airtime in and around the big game. … The guy cannot stop messing it up.  Please help find this missing B-52 bomber.…

Dec 23, 2015 – Lets go to the tape, as they say: Male questioner: “Can I ask you a question? So, I’m a big supporter. … And I’m curious: Given all the problems that the country’s facing — like ISIS, the growth of government — how big a priority is fighting … As to the unnamed GOP consultant, this guy is so out of touch with the general mood of GOP voters that one wonders what he could possibly…

Dec 23, 2015 – Second, and at the opposite pole, we have the anti-Establishment crowd, in the extreme case the “burn it all down” crowd. … November if that guy they dislike so much gets the nomination. … I’m sick of seeing most of the really big cases at the Supreme Court deliver victories for the Democratic voter base handed over and…

Dec 22, 2015 – I did a post back in 2009 about the relationship between the late, unlamented super-lobbyist PMA Group and the particularly odious … Say what you like about the GOP, but push the base too hard and the fangs come out*.   … *Just ask Eric Cantor, who went in a single night from being the next Speaker of the House to being some guy working a lobbying job…

Dec 22, 2015 – Ted Cruz has maintained a low profile for the most part in the scrum. … Watch the whole interview or just skip to 3:00 for the lead in to the immigration comments. … So Rubio is the guy who is holding the piggy-bank of votes ready for the taking AND Christie has to believe that ultimately he, much…

Dec 21, 2015 – South Carolina has been – besides Newt beating Romney in 2012 – the traditional “decider” state, and Jeb being nothing if not a guy … At the close of the day, the map looks like this, prompting Christie and Carson to exit the race (the shaded candidates are the ones … Cruz takes North Dakota on April 1, but Rubio again claims the larger share of a big Midwestern prize, Wisconsin.…

Dec 30, 2015 – Ask yourself, who do you know under age 70 that actually depends on one of the big three broadcast networks or CNN for news? … voting for the first black guy to run for president was cool and self-validating — and his sharply creased slacks was enough to tingle … The lies about the video to the families of the dead. Libya. Syria. The rise of ISIS. The list goes on and on.…

Dec 29, 2015 – And our belief in the basic sinfulness of humankind should make us skeptical of the NRA’s slogan, “the only way to stop a bad guy with … So the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a bad guy with a gun, then. Fine. I’m fine with that. … Here at last he is at least somewhat addressing the big, click-gathering headline that you can’t be pro-life and pro-gun.…

Dec 29, 2015 – If Cruz wins Iowa, South Carolina, and then has big wins in the SEC primaries — primaries that are mostly proportional and a commanding … The longer voters are willing to wait, the longer Rubio has a shot at winning the whole thing. Why? … The guy is a natural and he has a team in place that includes Terry Sullivan, who helped Jim DeMint.…

Sep 27, 2011 – from the government in the form of loan guarantees. … The Obama administration talks big on infrastructure, but in practice, they won’t let that get in the way of a power grab. … The TEA Party Patriots have come out against PROTECT IP, the dangerous bill backed by the administration and Senate Democrats which…