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Many libertarians might be inclined to cast their ballots for Johnson in order to send a message to the GOP. But anyone who is inclined to believe that Johnson could actually win the general election should disillusion himself immediately. The electoral game is too rigged in favor of the two major parties for a third party to break through and in any case the Libertarian Party’s nomination process occurs too late in the year for Johnson to have time to assemble the kind of grassroots coalition he would need to accomplish such a feat. Casting a vote for Johnson will only have...
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You probably won’t hear about Sen. Paul’s detention by the TSA in President Obama’s address tonight. You’re not likely to hear anything about it in the GOP response delivered by Governor Mitch Daniels (R-Ind.), nor even in the Tea Party response offered by businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain (R-Ga.). You probably won’t hear about the National Defense Authorization Act, the Stop Online Piracy Act, or any of the other manifold ways that Washington has undermined the Bill of Rights. But whether our politicians want to raise these issues or not, these are the issues that define the state...
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At NRO, former Congressman Artur Davis (D-Ala.) suggests that Republicans should draft former Governor Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) for president. Excerpt: The fact is that Jeb Bush bent Florida, a famously interest-group-ridden state, in a rightward direction; that’s an accomplishment Romney can’t begin to claim vis-à-vis Massachusetts. Bush is not just an authentic movement conservative, but a groundbreaker on an array of issues that drive votes, such as accountability for teachers and reining in the costs of private health insurance. While his record has blemishes that Democrats would exploit, from his stint in the Eighties lobbying for southern-Florida business interests to his...
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I was sent a link to the above video by someone on Twitter, who asked me to take it viral. I hope that it will go viral because it provides a definitive answer to the question: “Who could have known beforehand that things would turn out this way?” Ron Paul knew and he warned his fellow members of Congress in 2002. He predicted virtually every crisis and problem we have faced over the past decade. He knew and everybody in Washington should have known too, because he warned them. So the question isn’t: Who could have known? The question is:...
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We’ll give Grover Norquist points for honesty. At least he knows that Republicans can’t hope to win in November without Ron Paul and his supporters. But in his commentary on the New Hampshire GOP primary results for The Guardian (h/t Andrew Sullivan), Norquist seems to be operating under the delusion that Congressman Paul’s endorsement could save Romney’s presidential candidacy in the general election: However, Ron Paul is the only candidate for the Republican nomination whose endorsement will matter to Mitt Romney. It is the only endorsement that will bring votes and the only endorsement, if withheld, that could cost Romney the general election. If...
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I hate to admit it, but Sarah Palin actually makes quite a bit of sense here. I’m not saying that the other candidates’ attacks on Romney’s work for Bain Capital don’t have an anti-capitalist tone to them. But Palin is absolutely right that if Romney doesn’t confront these criticisms now he will be forced to confront them in the general election (and even if he does confront them now, he’ll see them again). Gingrich, Santorum, and Perry might back off when they hear cries of class warfare. Barack Obama will take those complaints to mean he’s doing something right. Also,...
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Republican obstruction in the Senate reached a whole new level yesterday when Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was forced to, well, filibuster himself. From The Huffington Post: A move to embarrass Democrats backfired on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell Thursday as the Kentucky Republican proposed a vote on raising the nation’s debt ceiling — then filibustered it when the Democrats tried to take him up on the offer. Two things occur to me here. First, Senator McConnell should never play poker. Never. Second, remember when former Vice President Dick Cheney had a few choice words for Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) in 2004? We should...
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Following President Barack Obama’s defeat of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Tuesday, many are wondering what brought Obama’s supporters back to the polls in an election year when the economy is still struggling and unemployment is still high. After all, Obama supporters defied history in reelecting the President. No President has been reelected with an unemployment rate this high since the Depression-era reelection of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. What’s more, America has not seen three consecutive two-term Presidents since Thomas Jefferson and his two successors. Some possible answers to this question have been gleaned from exit polls and common sense....
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From The Washington Examiner: Kansas House Speaker Mike O’Neal is under fire after asking Republican House members to pray for President Barack Obama’s death. O’Neal made the request via an email he forwarded to GOP colleagues in the House. In an email sent in December, O’Neal asked his fellow Republicans to pray Psalm 109 . . . News of the email is a sad commentary on Republican politics in Kansas. In addition, the email prayer request indicates an astonishing disregard and disrespect for the office of the presidency. For a government official to pray for the death of President Obama, and...
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In an interview with National Journal (h/t Hot Air), Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, floated the idea of impeachment if President Obama raises taxes in a hypothetical second term: Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach. The last year, he’s gone into this huddle where he does everything by executive order. He’s made no effort to work with Congress. To be clear: If Norquist is proposing that Obama can or should be impeached for raising taxes or signing executive orders,...
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On Wednesday, I wrote a post at United Liberty arguing that libertarians and Tea Party conservatives should embrace former Governor Mitt Romney (R-Mass.) as the best viable candidate to take on Barack Obama. Yesterday I penned another post pointing out that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) are much more connected to the Washington, D.C. establishment than Gov. Romney. Whether Tea Party conservatives like it or not, their own convictions demand that they back Gov. Romney over Speaker Gingrich or Sen. Santorum. Tea Party conservatives liked former Governor Rick Perry (R-Tex.) because he had governed a state...
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An excerpt from yet another post at United Liberty: It’s pop quiz time. Which of the following sounds least like the description of a Washington, D.C. establishment candidate? a) A former one-term state governor never elected to federal office who spent decades prior to running for public office as a businessman in the private sector; b) A former Speaker of the House who spent just eight years working as a college professor before serving for twenty years in the House of Representatives, who as Speaker was reprimanded and fined for an ethics violation, and who after resigning from Congress spent nine...
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Yes, really: It’s pretty simple: marriage is between a man and a woman. This is a historic doctrine driven deep into the Bible, both in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, and it’s a perfect example of what I mean by the rise of paganism. The effort to create alternatives to marriage between a man and a woman are perfectly natural pagan behaviors, but they are a fundamental violation of our civilization. In one conference call Gingrich has managed to alienate gay and lesbian Republicans and independents, inaccurately disparage actual Pagans, and turn off anyone who would prefer...
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An excerpt from one of my posts today at United Liberty: What does all of this mean for the race? Well, for starters, it means that Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex.) is now the only remaining Republican presidential candidate who hasn’t supported mandated health care coverage in the past. It also means that it’s time for Gingrich’s and Santorum’s supporters to acknowledge that their candidates aren’t anti-establishment conservative alternatives to Romney; rather they are both establishment Republicans who have a long history of supporting government expansion. Read the rest at United Liberty.
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