Dec 13, 2011 – It is worth noting the number of Senators who came out publicly for Senator Ron Johnson and the number who refused to publicly support … Senator Blunt.Senator Blunt is a fine guy, but he is decidedly on the side of the old guard that has shown a lack of initiative and … If he wins, “it gets him in the queue to be considered for other posts,” another former Blunt aide told PI.K Street certainly has big…

Dec 12, 2011 – politician — the Romney campaign has now set out to make Mitt v 467753.1: Romney the common man. … he regretted offering the bet, he tried to play down the incident with humor. … “If we were lucky, we actually bought a hose and we stuck it on the sink, and we’d hold there with the hose and the big bucket underneath…

Dec 9, 2011 – At this point, the big-government statists in both parties know that the only way for conservatives to fight for any semblance of the … He was not the leader of the Republicans. He was the number two guy. … The deal, by the way, was made between George H. W. Bush and the Democrats.…

Dec 8, 2011 – But I’m pretty sure the media will ignore all that and instead focus on the fact that I, a guy who said I’d never vote for Huntsman … I like the guy. I have many friends working on his staff. … A big ground staff in Iowa. Making the top three there buys him a life line into South Carolina.…

Dec 8, 2011 – proposed Robin Hood Tax and how it would hurt the little guy not big banks as intended. … We hope you enjoy the show. … The hosts and guests of Coffee and Markets speak only for ourselves, not any clients or employers.…

Dec 23, 2011 – Another big difference is that SOPA is backed by rich men in Hollywood and the OPEN Act is backed by people who actually use the internet … Please click here for the rest of the post. 2. … for him who might have written them, is shocked to learn he made big money off them, and people think this guy has the qualifications…

Dec 22, 2011 – have written them, is shocked to learn he made big money off them, and people think this guy has the qualifications to be President … of the United States? … Hell, if pigs did fly and he did get elected President, he’d be 81 at the end of his first term.…

Dec 22, 2011 – Iowa voters will go to the caucuses and start us down the road to the White House.Even though people are checking out and tuning out … He could still be the guy the non-Romney supporters rally around, but he is going to have to make a strong showing in New Hampshire.The … There is time after South Carolina for someone to get in, make a play for the big states, and get to an open convention.…

Dec 20, 2011 – man is the three term governor of the second largest state in the nation under whose administration close to 50% of all jobs in the … The former Speaker of the House is more a wild card than any of the other candidates, but he excites the base in a way that few do.A … She, like Perry, shares my values and has an unapologetic believe in the greatness of this country.Mitt Romney is not a bad guy.…

Dec 17, 2011 – The very short version: Sanchez was the handpicked recruit of the DSCC, much to the cynical amusement of hardcore partisan Republicans … who looked forward to savaging rabidly anti-war DSCC chair Patty Murray for recruiting and running the guy who ran the infamous Abu … …looking at those items in reverse order: the Democratic party has been the big-government party for a while.…

Jan 4, 2012 – campaign and it became divided between the “Austin Team” and the “Shadow Team” with the Allbaugh led shadow team calling the shots … It festered.Allbaugh is a good guy who many credit with turning the team around, but the situation has festered for too long. … heart and soul of the Republican Party — will be be a party of big spending or a party that devolves power back to the states and…

Jan 4, 2012 – the Republican party platform. … In 2008, we ran a guy whose entire national name ID was due to the fact that he was, without a doubt, the handiest and most available … However, the most salient point I can divine about this criticism, given the fact that Romney’s latest flops are all to the right,…

Jan 4, 2012 – and instead, because the 2008 season did not reboot the crop of candidates, is now the guy three quarters of the GOP does not want … failure of the tea party movement to see the race come down to two or three big government conservatives. … Republican Party into the hands of big government conservatives after all the gains the tea party has made, and then announce I’m…

Jan 4, 2012 – and instead, because the 2008 season did not reboot the crop of candidates, is now the guy three quarters of the GOP does not want … failure of the tea party movement to see the race come down to two or three big government conservatives. … Republican Party into the hands of big government conservatives after all the gains the tea party has made, and then announce I’m…

Jan 3, 2012 – (Let’s leave aside for the moment the arguments over who can claim the term “conservative”; clearly this is the role in the field all … He’s the guy best suited by money, organization and resume to capitalize on a strong Iowa showing, which is why Romney’s media allies … Please click here for the rest of the post.…

May 10, 2011 – As Democrats are doing more and more around the country, it appears they are setting up Davis to be the spoiler so a Republican can … The irony is that while Davis cannot win, he could be the spoiler to get the Democrat elected. … If that happens, the media will use this race to claim voters are rejecting the tea party movement.…

May 10, 2011 – From the diaries by Erick As so often seem to be the case, the GOP doesn’t follow the Democratic playbook when it comes to obstruction … Remember when the ABA rating was the “gold standard”? … comments, Reyna was nominated for the Federal Circuit, not the DC Circuit (a BIG difference), so my original comments below are apples…

May 10, 2011 – So, the big rumor that just started going around is that Microsoft will buy out Skype. This worries me. … And just as we saw in the Net Neutrality debate, when large, incredibly wealthy firms like Google were painted as the little guy, the … scrappy underdogs despite bringing in billions of dollars, now Sprint is supposed to be the little guy.…

May 9, 2011 – In case you missed it, Jay Cost had a great piece on Friday on “the Food Stamp recovery”, laying out the ways in which the currently-underway … [I]f the economic recovery does not begin to show substantial improvement, the likes of which we have not really seen in the last two … In many ways, a weak recovery is an even more perilous time for a big-government guy like Obama than an economic crisis.…

May 4, 2011 – The guy everyone wanted, Mario Cuomo, refused to run (Mike Pence and Chris Christie should take note). … His message was the economy. He won. Big name Republicans are again this year sitting it out. Chris Christie is nowhere. … Mike Pence, the guy a lot of grassroots conservatives wanted to run, will run for Governor of Indiana.…

May 2, 2011 – The Navy Seals and the elite group who, says the Washington Post, ” exist(s) outside military protocol and engage in operations that … are at the highest level of classification and often outside the boundaries of international law”, are loathed and hated by the left … The big homes, big salaries, and big competitive natures they possess? Their refusal to give extra taxes?…

May 19, 2011 – He has the outsider credentials, the evangelical street cred, and the messaging. … Tim Pawlenty Pawlenty is the guy I’m keeping my eye on. … That’s one reason I think the Romney camp made such a big deal out of his Las Vegas, NV take of $10+ million.…

May 17, 2011 – Massive debt-equity ratios and the financial instruments made available by Wall Street got many businesses big and small into trouble … So the only guy running with the professed foreign policy credentials has nothing to say about foreign policy? … In the case of Bush Sr., his ability to build on the end of the Cold War; Reagan gets most of the credit, but lost in that, Bush…

May 16, 2011 – The big downside? … He’ll be the guy who gets the crowds within the state policy network excited. … Given his recent statements on religion and his record as Governor, he’s the guy who will be seen as the adult by the media and the…

May 16, 2011 – He seems to want to be the ideas guy, but that really amounts to being a conservative technocrat. … Please click here for the rest of the post. 4. Who’s the Boss? … Now, one might think, so what’s the big deal?…