Results for: the big guy
A Call for Sanity in the Anti-Romney Rhetoric
https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2012/01/04/a-call-for-sanity-in-the-anti-romney-rhetoric-n41706
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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,…
Everything You Heard Last Night Was Bull, Perry Might Want to Stay In, & a Newtlear Attack
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/01/04/everything-you-heard-l…ght-want-to-stay-in-and-prepare-for-a-newtlear-attack-n41700
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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…
Morning Briefing for January 4, 2011
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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…
Morning Briefing for January 3, 2011
https://redstate.com/erick/2012/01/03/morning-briefing-for-january-3-2011-2-n41681
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(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.…
Are New York Tea Partiers Really Willing to Sell Out?
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/10/are-new-york-tea-partiers-really-willing-to-sell-out-n38963
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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.…
Senate GOP allows judicial confirmation of ex-Planned Parenthood director
https://redstate.com/bk/2011/05/10/senate-gop-allows-judicial-confirmation-of-ex-planned-parenthood-director-n38954
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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…
Tech at Night: History Eraser Button, Privacy, Skype, Google, Sprint
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/05/10/tech-at-night-history-eraser-button-privacy-skype-google-sprint-n38950
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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.…
Notes From "The Food Stamp Recovery"
https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2011/05/09/notes-from-the-food-stamp-recovery-n38943
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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.…
The Winter of Republican Discontent
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/04/the-winter-of-republican-discontent-n38881
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/04/the-winter-of-republican-discontent-n38881
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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.…
Osama Bin Laden's Death: Proving Liberals Really Don't Mean Their Rhetoric
https://redstate.com/melissaclouthier/2011/05/02/osama-bin-l…eath-proving-liberals-really-dont-mean-their-rhetoric-n38864
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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?…
The Horse Race for This Week
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/19/the-horse-race-for-this-week-n39082
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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.…
Jon Huntsman for Mike Bloomberg's Vice President!
https://redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/05/17/jon-huntsman-for-mike-bloombergs-vice-president-n39043
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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…
Natural Constituiences
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/16/natural-constituiences-n39029
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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…
Morning Briefing for May 16, 2011
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/16/morning-briefing-for-may-16-2011-n39026
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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?…
Newt Gingrich's Rapidly Self-Limiting Campaign Defends the Individual Mandate
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/15/newt-gingrichs-rapidly…self-limiting-campaign-defends-the-individual-mandate-n39023
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the reform minded movement sweeping the GOP.First, he endorsed the individual mandate and said he would not bash Mitt Romney over the … He seems to want to be the ideas guy, but that really amounts to being a conservative technocrat. … The transcript of the related remarks is below the fold.Endorsing individual mandate:
GINGRICH: well, i agree that all of us have…
How I View The Horse Race
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/13/how-i-view-the-horse-race-n39016
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/13/how-i-view-the-horse-race-n39016
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The establishment fears her. I’d gladly support her.
Ron Paul
The third time is only the charm in fairy tales. … Tim Pawlenty
If Mike Huckabee does not get in, Pawlenty could shine as the anti-Romney, evangelical. He’s a good guy. … Mitt Romney
The guy we all want to like, but just have such a hard time liking. His defense of Romneycare hurts him.…
Morning Briefing for May 13, 2011
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The guy fascinates all of us, but let’s face it: he also raises a lot of questions. … Who’s the real guy behind the money, flash and fast talk? Join us. I promise you this won’t be interviews as usual. … The reality is that Republicans don’t have the requisite political power to statutorily roll back big government policies through the…
Mitch McConnell Yet Again Tells Fiscal Conservatives to Go to Hell
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/11/mitch-mcconnell-yet-again-tells-fiscal-conservatives-to-go-to-hell-n38985
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Tom Coburn is the only significant fiscal conservative on the committee.Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) had the seniority to get the job … , but:
“Oh gosh, I’ve got all the stuff I can stand,” Burr told The Hill when asked last week whether he was interested in the spot.Burr … Senator DeMint has taken the lead on Obamacare repeal, the GOP health care alternative, pushing for Paul Ryan-style medicare voucher…
Union-Controlled NLRB Unleashes Union Rats on Company Suppliers and Customers
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With their big, beady red and rubber fangs, unions have found Scabby to be a reliable symbol to protest the use of non-union labor … “Imagine hurting an ice cream guy whose crime is daring to sign a lease at the mall!” … Ironically, Big Sky Balloons, the maker of the unions’ now famous rodent, is a non-union company.
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Morning Briefing for May 26, 2011
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The Fight of the Century
4. The Willingness of the Press to Believe Democrat Spin
5. Lee Fang: Math is Hard
6. … Heh.Honestly, I’d never heard of this guy until about a month ago, when he made the mistake of thinking he knew something about oil … The secret meetings? The refusal to let the American people see the language?…
The Washington Post Goes All-In On Left Crazy: Welcome Think Tanked!
https://redstate.com/thomas/2011/05/25/the-washington-post-goes-all-in-on-left-crazy-welcome-think-tanked-n39134
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There’s the Twitter feed. Oh, what a gold mine that is.
The GOP should be put to the noose. … Koch funding is the same bete noir on the left as Soros funding is on the right. … Maybe we shouldn’t hire this guy to cover a subject he hates? Maybe? Maybe the whole Dave Weigel thing was an object lesson?…
Morning Briefing for May 23, 2011
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/23/morning-briefing-for-may-23-2011-n39111
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/05/23/morning-briefing-for-may-23-2011-n39111
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Off to the races with the horses we have
2. Mitch Daniels as Mario Cuomo
3. The Perils of the Pre-1967 Proposal
4. … the guy it helps the most is Tim Pawlenty. … click here for the rest of the post.
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The Stupid Party Prepares to Get Down Right Dumb
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/03/29/the-stupid-party-prepares-to-get-down-right-dumb-n38456
https://redstate.com/erick/2011/03/29/the-stupid-party-prepares-to-get-down-right-dumb-n38456
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Fred is the guy who coined the term “big government conservative” as a way to defend Bush’s big government agenda. … I like him very much, but he has become the guy the GOP leaders go to so he can parrot their talking points with a veneer of “conservatives … That means precisely that the GOP is losing the budget fight.How are we losing the budget fight?…
Tech at Night: AT&T, T-Mobile, FCC, Patents
https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2011/03/24/tech-at-night-att-t-mobile-fcc-patents-n38399
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Dick Blumenthal, the guy who lied about a war record, all but spitting on actual war veterans, wants to use the deal to push for Net … We need patent reform, and not the Leahy bill which would just make life easier for big corporations with lots of patent lawyers. … Anyway, Big Government continues to hammer on the unfair, un-Constitutional, economy-hurting Amazon Tax proposal to attempt to apply…
Unions & Racism: An Age-Old, Institutional Problem Continues Unabated
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by the National Black Chamber of Commerce, the Latin Builders Association, the U.S. … Across the country, in California, the exclusion of minorities has led to the Aboriginal Blackmen United pushing back at the IBEW for … “This is what I would refer to as using the minority card; using the fact you’re a minority to make big ruckus against Tommy White,…