The Republican Party is hiring people to reach out to black and Hispanic communities, and setting goals for the number of minority candidates it will recruit. At the same time, Republican judges are moving closer to a long-held conservative goal of ending affirmative action. It’s a delicate dance for the GOP: try to appeal to […] Continue reading → 
Allahpundit, If we’re destined to have another Bush versus Clinton election, it’s only right that there be a Perot-type in the mix too. As David Petraeus once said, tell me how this ends. Ben Carson is warming to the idea of running for president. Since the famous brain surgeon retired last year from Johns Hopkins […] Continue reading → 
Michael Reagan, Stop listening to so much conservative talk radio. Take a break. Watch a cartoon. Go to a ballgame. Do anything else for a while but think, talk or argue about politics. Do what I do and listen to country music instead. I guarantee you won’t be so angry all the time. That’s what […] Continue reading → 
Donald Lambro WASHINGTON - It is a sign of Barack Obama’s receding presidency that Hillary Clinton is drawing more attention from the national news media and political power brokers. As the president goes through the speech-making and ceremonial motions of what is left in his second term, most of the talk here is about her […] Continue reading → 
Erick Erickson Public Opinion Strategies, a Washington political shop, produced a chart last week that got much of the political press buzzing. The chart compared polling questions during incumbent friendly elections and, as they put it, “shellackings.” Their data suggests 2014 will be a shellacking for the Democrats. But, contrary to what many say, it […] Continue reading → 
Sarah Jean Seman, Republicans are baffled at how to tear down the powerhouse known as Hillary Clinton, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN Wednesday. Her comments came after Republican political consultant Karl Rove questioned Clinton’s state of health earlier this week. Attacking Clinton only makes her a more foreboding 2016 presidential candidate, Pelosi […] Continue reading → 
House Republicans are looking to implement a housing and transportation bill that cuts about $1.8 billion from current program funding. What is the bill’s chance of making it through the Senate, and what does it mean for Americans? Emily Goff, transportation and infrastructure policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, sets us straight: Briefly, what does the […] Continue reading → 
Nicholas Wapshott Establishment Republicans have been delighted by the victory of Thom Tillis, their favored candidate in last week’s North Carolina primary. After expensive advertising campaigns by establishment bagmen like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Karl Rove’s American Crossroads, mainstream conservatives believe they have a candidate who can beat Democrat Kay Hagan to win […] Continue reading → 
The national media continue to tout Georgia’s soon-to-be-open U.S. Senate seat as one of just a few “swing” states that could end up going Democrat in a year that otherwise seems to look great for the GOP nationally. And the current outlook for the May 20 Georgia contest might tell us a great deal not […] Continue reading → 
John Kirkwood, Reading from the Wall St. Journal, John McCain famously referred to tea-party supporters as hobbits. I’m not sure that a troll calling me a hobbit is an insult, but to build from the metaphor, it took a union of elves, dwarves, and men to slay the dragon and stay the war. I’ll leave […] Continue reading → 
Christopher Manion FRONT ROYAL, VA — Long ago, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum won the admiration of conservatives for his unstinting support of human life. His memorable speeches in opposition to partial-birth abortion on the Senate floor flummoxed liberals while they firmly established his reputation as the go-to guy for pro-life issues. While GOP insiders and […] Continue reading → 
Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito and Democrat Natalie Tennant captured primary wins on Tuesday, setting the stage for a historic U.S. Senate showdown in November that will give West Virginia its first female senator. Capito, a seven-term congresswoman and daughter of former Gov. Arch Moore, and Tennant, the state’s secretary of state, each cruised to […] Continue reading → 
A look at preparations by former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla., for a potential 2016 presidential campaign: Nondenial denial: “I can honestly tell you that I don’t know what I’m going to do,” is his standard disclaimer. Says he’ll decide by end of year whether to run. One factor in decision: whether he can run an […] Continue reading → 
Ben Marquis, After the latest revelations from released documents about the White House’s involvement in covering up Benghazi, talk of impeaching President Obama has been revived and is growing. There are already more than enough votes for impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives. If the GOP takes the Senate in the midterms, it has […] Continue reading → 
When in doubt, cry racism. That is the Democratic way, and Charlie Crist learns quickly. Or, at least eventually. On May 6, 2022 Charlie Crist gave his “reasons” for leaving the GOP and becoming an Independent and then a Democrat. Here are some of the more asinine answers and a reality check in response. Charlie […] Continue reading → 
Reaffirming his national political ambitions, Sen. Marco Rubio accused Democrats on Friday of threatening the American dream as he campaigned across New Hampshire, appearing in the first-in-the-nation presidential primary state for the first time in 18 months. The Florida Republican also jabbed at former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, considered the overwhelming favorite to […] Continue reading →