Jun 16, 2014 – “We wanted to bring the debate away from the Tea Party and back to the middle.” … If you look at the Tea Party, I think most of them would say they hate Big Business.” … what the Tea Party view of the world is: smaller government, lower taxes, less spending, and less regulation.…

Jun 15, 2014 – at HotAir, embattled Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper is having some buyer’s remorse on the gun control legislation he and his party … These laws resulted in the historic recall elections last year that ousted the sitting Senate President and an up an coming female Democrat … Governor Hickenlooper is up for reelection this year and has largely lost the thin veneer of a moderate democrat, which, along with…

Jun 13, 2014 – that regardless of the particular issues at hand, Cantor’s loss was an almost unalloyed good for the country and the Republican party … Republicans only fear losing to Democrats (as opposed to more conservative Republicans), then we are good and screwed as both a party … And the fear of Tea Party challengers that is instilled in the entire flock is, for my money, worth the loss of the occasional sheep…

Jun 13, 2014 – To a great extent, this episode serves as a metaphor of Obama’s foreign policy and that of the Democrat party at large.…

Jun 13, 2014 – One of the big problems with an open primary system like Virginia has is that, since party registration is not required to vote for … The 33 percent Independents is higher than I often see, but in states with no party registration, lots more people self-define as “ … Independents” while their voting behavior is clearly more strongly in favor of one party or the other.…

Jun 13, 2014 – The Colorado Democrat is trying to hold onto his Senate seat in a state with extensive oil and gas development and a strong environmental … Colorado’s other U.S. senator, Democrat Michael Bennet, is chairman of the DSCC and is on the invite. … But honestly, did you really expect the pampered President and his out of touch party to do more than host a fundraising lunch?…

Jun 12, 2014 – The Republican party has long held to traditional values around these issues. … They voted for the GOP candidate anywhere from a 3:1 to 4:1 ratio over the Democrat candidate. …

Jun 11, 2014 – of Thad, when not globetrotting with his “special assistant,” bringing home federal dollars would outweigh the inclination of Democrat … “In a Politico article today, Harry Reid made it clear as “he said that ‘everyone is pulling for’ tea party favorite Chris McDaniel … And, we can’t help but note that Cochran is still trolling for Democrat votes.…

Jun 10, 2014 – Mind you, Cochran has previously admitted he only knows about the tea party from what he reads in the paper. … Perhaps Cochran is only reading the Democrat run Clarion-Ledger in Mississippi. … What is most striking, however, is that the tea party wants someone who will go to Washington, stand up for conservatives, and join…

Jun 10, 2014 – hope of Cantor budging on immigration reform, but it certainly didn’t help that he’s come under fire in the last few weeks by Tea Party … The comments from Reid appeared to be the most definitive that the Senate’s top Democrat has given on the politically thorny question … It is also a sign that those who think conservative/tea party movement is dead are only fooling themselves.…

Jun 29, 2014 – Lest you think it is unusual for a party establishment to celebrate winning the primary elections in its own party, you have to realize … The GOP establishment had to spend millions of dollars and they had to illegally recruit Democrat voters in order to haul Cochran’s…

Jun 28, 2014 – So she may seem at first blush an odd choice to campaign for Democrat Natalie Tennant in this year’s Senate race in West Virginia — … Absent an actual pledge to caucus with the Republican party – which probably would not work, at that* – the Democrat’s options are … Tennant’s only hope is in trying to play the populist card; and while there are no actual populists in the Democratic party, per se…

Jun 27, 2014 – Without recounting history, from 2008 to 2010, when the Democrat party controlled both House and Senate, Obama treated Republicans … The best example of this is a Democrat majority marching lockstep over the cliff in order to give Obama his health care plan.…

Jun 27, 2014 – Tea Party Delenda Est It is actually a rather apt analogy when you think about it. … So it is now with the establishment fight against the Tea Party. … The question is, is the Democrat worse this time?…

Jun 27, 2014 – In a lot of ways, it’s hard to discern an identifiable platform for the Democratic Party nowadays, but one thing they have openly … Reid and 42 other Democrat Senators are currently on record co-sponsoring a Constitutional Amendment to curtail the exercise of Free … Every once in a while, it’s refreshing when a Democrat slips up and says what they actually mean.…

Jun 27, 2014 – Mississippi should either NOT vote in the Senate race, or even better ( or worse, depending on one’s perspective) vote for the Democrat … Others posit that the GOP, like Iraq, is beyond any hope for conservatives, and it’s time to once again evaluate a third party option … As Obama’s popularity continues to implode, more Democrat seats will be seen as vulnerable. 3.…

Jun 27, 2014 – establishment campaign hands and consultants have been somewhat smug of late about their belief that they have beaten back the TEA Party … When the TEA Party runs a candidate with even marginal skill, the establishment candidate tends to go down in flames. … The party elite had better take a close look at that 47-49 percent of the party electorate that voted against Cochran at least once…

Jun 26, 2014 – Group One, three currently Democrat-held seats in deep-red territory without real incumbents, is the likely GOP blowouts. … Montana and South Dakota are both looking locked up, and the South Dakota polling may get even uglier for the Democrats if the third-party … Seven of the nine are Democrat-held seats, five with incumbents (Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana and North Carolina) and two…

Jun 23, 2014 – Hard work The fact that these stories are being generally reported indicate that there is no enthusiasm in the Democrat party base…

Jun 21, 2014 – At RedState we’ve covered the Cochran campaign’s strategy of encouraging Democrats to vote in the Republican primary (see Democrat … In a weird change of pace, the Mississippi Democrat chairman, Rickey Cole, is accusing the Haley Barbour’s operation of widespread … “We want a clean, hard-fought primary decided by voters who plan to support the Republican Party and our candidates in November.…

Jun 21, 2014 – It has an entire political party looking out for its interests, while the other part is either subdued in its willingness to reform … It was little Tea Party and pro-life groups, many of them dining-room-table operations run by people who had never been involved in … becomes something else you’ll never be allowed to vote on again, not if your vote is to unplug yourself from the State – and the Democrat…

Jul 3, 2014 – But, the Democrat party is the party of Montessori school parents, not plumbers with two jobs.…

Jul 3, 2014 – being uniquely mistreated at the hands of Republicans in Congress rings especially hollow in light of the fact that the previous Democrat … And so, I don’t think this is a permanent state of affairs; I think over time the Republican Party will move back to the center, mainly…

Jul 3, 2014 – GOP party bosses have declared an all-out war on conservatives and betrayed our Republican Party itself in the process. … The party boss behind the NRSC’s bone-headed betrayal is Kansas’ own Sen. Jerry Moran. … Jerry Moran confessed, “First of all, the NRSC is not the Republican Party.”…

Jul 2, 2014 – The Democrat party is composed of a dog’s breakfast of special interest groups looking to score government handouts. … So long as a Democrat promises to support the pet grievance of these groups they are golden. … The GOP in Congress seems more interested in comity than pushing back on Democrat and executive branch overreach.…