The GOP will not fulfill the hopes that conservatives have placed in it as long as it can take for granted the conservative vote.
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The electoral clock is quickly ticking toward the 2010 congressional elections where, as we all know, winds of November can be most cruel. Has the Republican Party hijacked the "Tea Party" movement? Senator Harry Reid is beginning to come to terms with the prospect of joining the ranks of unemployed after November's election. While understandable that Palin would support the man who put her on the national stage, other candidates who vouch for McCain's "conservative" credentials are doing a disservice to the movement. And it doesn't look like it's going to fly this time around. The groundswell of grassroots attitudes are emodied in the Tea Party movement, and [...] The few controversial parts of CPAC 2010 were outweighed by the momentum driving the various factions on the right together – opposition to the federal government's spending, bailouts, and attempted takeover of healthcare.
More than half of Democrats in a recent Gallup poll had a positive image of socialism. Over one-third of all Americans (36%) did. What gives? Are left-liberal mainstream media and the nation's educators putting us on the road to Professor Hayek's serfdom? Hayworth will win for this simple reason: This is a Tea Party revolt year, and Arizona's Republicans and Tea Partiers have had enough of McCain's support of this administration's bailouts and big-government policies.
The history of the Church of Secular/Progressivism. How the secular progressives have developed a political viewpoint into a religious experience. The Obama administration rejected the recommendation of career lawyers in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division to prosecute Minister King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson, members of the New Black Panther Party, for voter intimidation. America will have lost a great opportunity, both in real substance and symbolic significance, if J.D. Hayworth loses to John McCain in the Arizona Primary. The 2010 election cycle presents a series of navigational hazards for incumbents and challengers of all political stripes. The differences between Mitt Romney's 1994 Senate bid, and Scott Brown's successful effort, are striking. Just when you think Democrats might get their imperious ways with national health insurance and imposing other Big Government excesses, along comes Republican Scott Brown. Against all political odds, he wins a special election in the bluest of blue states. It's the political upset of the decade. Just in time, too. Brown and the Republicans discovered an amazing Truth in politics: votes win elections. In the words of Keith Olbermann, Massachusetts just elected an "irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees." In her new autobiography, Palin explains why some of her media interviews did not turn out well, calls out McCain staffers, and gives conservatives the meat and potatoes they crave. There are four reasons Sarah Palin will seek the GOP nomination in 2012. If it is true you can measure the greatness of a person, by the greatness of their enemies, then Palin surely has greatness in her. America is not, and will never be, inspired and motivated by a GOP strategy of diluted liberalism, especially when the full strength version is available right across the aisle. Having vainly attempted to ingratiate themselves with the political "center," GOP "moderates" lost touch with the conservative base. Obama and his acolytes are so accustomed to reverential treatment they view it as an entitlement. The Republican Party has opted to soften its stances and pursue a strategy of "inclusiveness," which in reality represents a shift to the left, and out of the good graces of heartland America. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner may not be the "conservative candidate" in California's gubernatorial race, but he is the most conservative of the three leading Republican candidates. The Republican Party must stop stereotyping Hispanics. Propping up liberal Republican Hispanics who actively lobby against illegal immigration measures does not represent most Hispanics, who are not one-issue voters. At the same time, the right needs to let Hispanics celebrate their culture without giving them grief. |
 
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