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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…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: November 8, 2012
President Barack Obama is on Tuesday’s ballot, seeking four more years as president of the United States. Like many Americans, I find that prospect deeply troubling — downright scary. Some say the nation cannot survive another four years of Mr. Obama. Though that belief probably underestimates our resilience as a…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: December 20, 2011
Unless our elections are rigged, Congressman Ron Paul — like anyone else running for president — has a bona fide chance to win. Because we regular people get to decide. It’s our votes; it’s our caucuses. So, why does the news media keep telling us that Ron Paul has no…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: May 3, 2012
When former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson sought the Republican nomination for president, he was unequivocally told “NO” — not by voters, who had little chance to consider his candidacy, but by media outlets refusing to give him a place on their debate stages. Mr. Johnson didn’t garner enough support…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: November 6, 2012
The most interesting presidential election in U.S. history may have been the fourth, wherein Thomas Jefferson won. Sort of. How Jefferson got to be president may be relevant in this election, which is now so close that some wonder what would happen if there were an Electoral College stalemate, 269…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: May 30, 2012
President Barack Obama recently signed a much ballyhooed Strategic Partnership Declaration with Afghan President Harmid Karzai, ostensibly to remove all U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. He trumpeted the withdrawal in pursuing a second term, aware that most Americans want out. A late March New York…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: October 26, 2016
Russia is being painted as Enemy No. 1 by Hillary Clinton, despite her predecessor’s mocking of the same notion four years ago, when Republican Mitt Romney said it. Of course, Mrs. Clinton is just using Russia as a distraction from her conspiracies and crimes and inadequacies as revealed by WikiLeaks.…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: April 2, 2012
The Ron Paul 2012 campaign’s caucus-state delegate strategy, discussed here before, aims to work around the candidate’s biggest hurdle: Republican voters. Though Ron Paul has a strong appeal to the young and to independents — constituencies needed to win against a sitting president — older, mainstream Republicans voters aren’t especially…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: July 19, 2018
“There is one law for man,” goes an ancient saying, “another for cattle.” Moo. Glenn Reynolds, writing in USA Today, sees this principle in operation now, where the ruling class gets away with a whole heckuva lot while the rest of us do not: “Freedom from consequences: It’s the defining…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: June 12, 2016
This weekend at Townhall.com, your Common Sense advocate for freedom tries to free minds from the constraints of the two major political parties. It's easier, this year, since both parties seem bent on picking candidates that are . . . bent. Click on over, then come back here for more…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: August 16, 2012
Maybe it was the smile that spread across my face, or the extra bit of jubilance with which I poured my cup of coffee, but whichever telltale mannerism alerted her, my daughter certainly noticed. Our telescreen had just announced that U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) had been chosen by Mitt…