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Relevance: 57% Posted on: May 7, 2012
Election news from the weekend tells us that Ron Paul won the majority of delegates at Maine’s GOP state convention, with a sizable hunk of Republicans saying, yet again, “no” to Mitt Romney. In France, Nicolas Sarkozy got ousted, as French voters put in a self-declared socialist for the second…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: October 8, 2012
The two major presidential candidates, incumbent Obama and challenger Romney, must spend their final weeks of the campaign appealing to Members of their respective parties disappointed enough to stay home on election day — or vote the dreaded “Third Party” ticket; Independent voters apt to find something distasteful about both…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: August 10, 2012
Republican candidate for the U.S. Presidency Mitt Romney has received some flak for keeping some of his vast hoard of wealth in foreign accounts. Though I have a few problems with Mr. Romney, this isn’t one of them. Folks with savings and investments should diversify. Anyone with large amounts of…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: October 19, 2012
Last week, actress Stacey Dash tweeted her support for Republican candidate Mitt Romney. And unleashed a firestorm, including AP coverage — “Do Black People Support Obama Because He’s Black?” On Twitter, she was called “jigaboo,” “traitor,” “house nigger” and worse. . . . The theme of the insults: A black…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: May 22, 2012
Some folks are quick to blame the voters for the mess this country is in. Not me. In 2008, Americans overwhelmingly opposed the TARP bailouts. Which candidate — Democrat Obama or Republican McCain — represented the majority of us on that central issue? Neither. This year, President Obama promises a…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: May 4, 2012
There is a reason I usually concentrate my political efforts on initiative measures: by being selective I can avoid making things worse. Electoral politics, on the other hand, is always fraught with dangers: compromise and betrayal are the norm. And the voter, when observant, often gets the feeling he’s being…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: November 15, 2012
What should the Republican Party do now? That’s the post-election question. Yet, not being a Republican, I figure I can only answer this question: What should the Republican Party not do? Before the election, I would have answered, “Talk about ‘legitimate rape.’” Even now I suggest a short course for…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: February 17, 2012
On Monday I reported on the Ron Paul campaign’s “open secret” strategy: Gaining delegates in the caucus states, while letting the caucus-night straw poll numbers basically take care of themselves. The “popular” vote on caucus nights in states like Iowa and Minnesota and Maine may show Santorum or Romney as…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: February 7, 2020
The impeachment of President Donald J. Trump, just concluded in the Senate with an acquittal, was — so far as the Senate trial portion of the exercise is concerned — the least partisan presidential impeachment in U.S. history. That’s because Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) was the first senator ever to…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: December 1, 2016
When Hillary Clinton assured her insider sponsors (as we learned through WikiLeaks) that there would be a crucial difference between what she tells the people and what her actual policies would be, she was not merely admitting to a private and a public face. The President is legally, and by…