One of the many successful strategies that Democrats have used against Republicans as of late is the age-old “divide and conquer” strategy. Their success has depended on breaking our formally big tent into many small tents while greatly expanding their own. But in expanding their big tent into a huge tent, the Democrats have left [...]
Lessons from Across the Pond
While the U.S. political pendulum seems to be swinging towards the left, our friends on the other side of the Atlantic are swinging in the opposite direction. Americans have elected the most left-leaning president and Congress in decades, in large part because of the Global Economic Crisis. What is interesting is that the same crisis [...]
On Judge Sotomayor and Racial Politics
Since President Obama named Judge Sonia Sotomayor and his first Supreme Court Nominee I’ve been asked plenty of questions from friends on the right and on the left about what I thought about her. At first, I didn’t think my opinion of her nomination was any more important than any other Republican’s just because we [...]
Obama’s Strategy for Defeating Republicans: Divide and Conquer
If there was any doubt about President Obama’s political genius after the election campaign was over, the POTUS certainly has done plenty to quell it. The man has to be given his fair share of credit, not for turning the country around, but for doing his best to keep the Republican Party down. When he [...]
Jumping the Gun in Florida
In a move that some would call peculiar and others would call desperate, the NRSC endorsed Florida Governor Charlie Crist in his bid to be the party’s 2010 nominee for the Senate a mere fourteen minutes after he officially announced he was entering the race. Don’t get me wrong, Governor Crist is an exceptional candidate, [...]
Draft Ridge and Castle for 2010 Senate Races
Besides affirming his own self-serving nature, if there is one thing that Senator Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democratic Party has taught Republicans, it’s that the GOP must work to portray itself once again as much as a party of the center-right as it is of the right. This is true especially in the Northeast, [...]
How the Minutemen can destroy the Republicans
If I were a wealthy Democrat looking to destroy the Republican Party, there is one senatorial campaign I would donate as much as possible to: Chris Simcox’s Arizona Republican primary campaign against Senator John McCain. Simcox is the co-founder of the Minutemen Defense Group, the anti-immigrant organization that has volunteered to watch the U.S. -Mexican [...]
Keeping Our Enemies Too Close
Besides the constant chatter about Cuba, the biggest headlines coming out of the OAS heads of state summit this weekend was President Obama’s warm greetings with the great Latin American demagogue, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and his lackey, President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua. These two militant socialists have made their political careers out of [...]
Blundering the “Auto” Response
After President Obama held a press conference to discuss his plans for dealing with the U.S. auto industry, two things were obvious on the Republican side. First, Congressional Republicans are deeply divided on the issue. Second, we were all caught completely off guard. These two factors led to party leaders not having a unified message [...]