NRD Editor’s Note: Each day, Bill Smith of ARRA News Service, provides us with special reports on what is happening down in Tampa. Tampa, FL — Bill Smith: on the final day of RNC 2012, delegates awoke knowing that they were going to the “big dance” and their nominee, Mitt Romney, would take the stage and accept the nomination as [...]
NRD Editor’s Note: Each day, Bill Smith of ARRA News Service, provides us with special reports on what is happening down in Tampa. Each night, ALG staff participate in a live-chat of what is happening at the convention that you can participate in. Tampa, FL — Bill Smith: Today the delegates to the RNC 2012 in Tampa, FL had free [...]
By Bill Wilson — The left has been in a huff over the Republican National Convention Platform Committee’s decision to include a proposal calling for a gold commission to examine whether the value of the U.S. dollar should be fixed as a weight of gold. New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman called it a “very bad, no good, [...]
A new telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports shows that 1/3 of likely voters want a new candidate from the GOP: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 34% of Likely U.S. Voters think it would be good for Republicans if another candidate entered the race for the party’s presidential nomination. But nearly as many (31%) say it [...]
Jon Huntsman, after receiving the endorsement from one of South Carolina’s largest newspapers, will drop out of the race for the GOP nomination tomorrow. Huntsman will endorse Mitt Romney Monday as well.
The debt ceiling vote could do for Republicans today what the TARP vote did for them in 2008…
This is one of the best charts that explains why the GOP should reject tax increases, and shows why taking $1 in tax hikes for every $2 in spending cuts is a bad deal: The chart and explanation below are courtesy of Americans for Tax Reform: In 1990, President George H.W. Bush was promised $2 in spending cuts for every [...]
By David Bozeman – While nothing here is intended as a diatribe against open primaries (where voters of any or no affiliation are allowed to vote in the party’s primary of their choice), I do submit that in 2012 Republican voters alone should pick their own nominee for president. Supporters of Ron Paul are counting, in part, on anti-war Democrats [...]
By Robert Romano – It was a telling moment in America’s political discourse. It hinted at how Republicans might govern should they reclaim a majority in one or both houses of Congress in 2010. “We need to capture this lightning in a bottle,” former Virginia Republican Congressman Tom Davis said of the tea party movement in 2009. Tellingly, he added, [...]
By David Bozeman – Rule #1: Never heed conventional wisdom. According to the latest pearl, President Obama is all but guaranteed a second term because the GOP is fielding a weak slate of candidates. So opines Bill Maher, and numerous liberal pundits claim that they are praying for a Donald Trump presidential run for the comic relief he will surely [...]
