At the CNN GOPdebate last night in Arizona, the candidates were asked this question:
Since birth control is the latest hot topic … But there’s a simpler way of framing the right answer to this in a debate. … Newt’s approach should be studied by every future GOP campaign.…
VA Governor Bob McDonnell Hangs VA GOP Out To Dry
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s Republican Presidential cycle to the Democrats’ go of it in 2008. … It has to do with a well executed PR strategy to frame a debate on mandating Americans subsidize the sexual habits of women as a war … on women by the GOP.…
I had another teachable moment as well: the GOP has yet to realize what a travesty it is to cravenly cave to lefty false narratives … in the GOP. But, hey, us dames will handle it with our huge sets of brass ovaries. I’ll start, as I’m a giver. … Presidential phone call!
Clearly, the President did that because he knows a Useful Idiot when he sees one.…
Fred Barnes, who is nothing if not plugged in to the thinking of leading Beltway Republicans, looks at how the Congressional GOP plans … to work with the presidential nominee. . . .Even considering the fact that McConnell has to play coy due to the fact that there’s … Can the GOP beat Barack Obama and run the country the next four years without presidential leadership?…
The GOP’s national leadership – including the presidential candidates stumping today in Louisiana – may be uninspiring, but the GOP … through the Louisiana House of a landmark school choice bill (the bill still awaits action from the LA Senate), before proceeding to debate … The vote was 61-42 after nearly 12 hours of debate.…
Ten things I want from the eventual GOP nominee. … I want the candidate to stand by the implications of his Vice Presidential choice. … I WANT TO SEE JOE BIDEN WHIMPER LIKE A KICKED PUPPY AT THE END OF THE FIRST (AND SUDDENLY LAST)[*] VICE PRESIDENTIALDEBATE.…
In the past week the presidential campaign has been hit by two events that many have termed silly. … Since Mitt Romney has become the presumptive GOP nominee we’ve seen two broad lines of attack opened against him. … Bush impatiently looking at his watch during a debate (he wasn’t the only one doing that, trust me) and George H. W.…
political fallout of “Bridgegate” may not be entirely clear just yet – but the lesson it holds for Republicans looking for a 2016 presidential … Nobody should be rushing to pick a 2016 presidential nominee two years before the first primaries. … It’s also important that the party have a real debate on the issues – and a real debate on the issues can only happen if you have more…
The best time to put such plans on the table is in a presidential campaign, or when the party holds both Houses of Congress (as it … But with the Senate up for grabs and potential presidential candidates beginning to gear up, Governor Jindal has decided that it’s … love with any one candidate this far ahead of 2016, and given the plethora of potentially attractive candidates and the roiling debate…
One of the major reasons why Mitt Romney was able to make such rapid inroads against Barack Obama in their first debate, and why … Of course, it gave Clinton something too – more presidential power. … Instead, besides blaming things on his GOP predecessor, he complains incessantly about GOP obstructionism, knowing full well that he…
Allow me just to repeat the title of this post: presidential politics does not-and should not-define conservatism. … Every cycle many on the right seem to believe the GOP primary and then the general election results define conservatism. … The problem is that a presidential election is a complex and multifaceted (not to mention constantly changing) process taking place…
To go back to one more example from baseball analysis (sabermetrics), this is sort of like the “statheads vs scouts” debate: whether … Nation
For the third consecutive presidential election, the RealClearPolitics averages of state polls correctly called nearly all … There was great debate over whether it mattered at all to look at the national polls, since presidential elections are determined on…
as applying to undecided and low energy voters in the same way it had to the GOP base. … But in reality, as the first debate faded hundreds of thousands of potential GOP voters still were not motivated to vote for Romney … The 2012 presidential race in Ohio came down to two simple things. Ohioans are not really happy with President Obama.…
Let’s not sugarcoat this: last night was a bitter loss for Republicans and conservatives, all the worse because the presidential race … Bush did as a candidate – and while there’s plenty to debate in the Bush legacy, he’s the only Republican to win a presidential election … But as it turned out, the House GOP fared a lot better than the presidential or Senate tickets, losing seats but easily retaining its…
The House GOP Should Have Used The September Continuing Resolution To Frame The Election. … The GOP has not done the same to, e.g., gaff-prone Joe Biden. … The Same Is True For McConnell and Senate GOP Campaign Chief Cornyn.…
That does not mean the GOP must offer up amnesty. … past two years the GOP has atrophied into a party of intellectual lightweights in the House and Senate. … That nothing burger was not, per se, Mitt Romney, but the GOP as a whole.…
Rasmussen’s surveys had been right in presidential and non-presidential election years, in years before and during/after the rise of … Obama, and had never before overstated GOP turnout. … Presidential vs.…
No GOP-controlled House since the institution of the income tax has ever raised rates. … The GOP can always retreat – but it must be to more defensible ground. … But it doesn’t mean the GOP is holding a strong position, either.…
The obvious knock on Herman Cain as a presidential candidate is his lack of political experience. … But that won’t be true after the first debate (in June 2011 I think?). … Establishment GOP picks are now suspect rather than shoo-ins.…
Both were re-elected; Truman used the GOP as a foil to confront, Eisenhower showed he could cooperate with the Democrats, and Clinton … Whoever the GOP nominates in 2012 will have the ability a presidential candidate usually has to declare some level of independence … Unless Mitt Romney wins the nomination, the GOP will almost certainly run a presidential candidate who can and will mount a full-throated…
appearance on ABC News’ This Week in which he said the investigation into the attack was driven by a “delusional minority” of the GOP … If so, was there a presidential finding that authorized providing weapons to al Qaeda fighters in Syria? … Was the self-absorbed “selfie” Commander-in-Chief really so hotly engaged in debate prep that he couldn’t be bothered as one of his…
So Warren’s race was much more contested than Cruz’s or than the presidential race in either state. … The proverbial 800-pound gorilla in the 2016 presidential race is Hillary Clinton. … If you compare them to the roster of Republicans who might be in the Presidential or Vice Presidential mix (by design, this is an overinclusive…
The GOP has the weakest defense in the league. … Based on the demographic debacle of the 2012 presidential elections, the GOP can’t afford to lose any more of the booster club. … The GOP has celebrities too. Use them. …
