In what amounts to a mixed blessing for the GOP, New York Congressman Eric Massa is going to resign Monday for “health reasons” according to his Chief of Staff Joe Racalto. As is the culprit of late for Democrats, Massa seems to actually be resigning because of scandal revolving around sexually harassing a male staffer.
Rick Perry’s campaign has just taken their battle against Kay Bailey Hutchsion to a whole new level. With just days left before Tuesday’s GOP primary, the Perry camp has come out with their funniest video yet mocking the Senator for her bailout and pork friendly voting record.
To the tune of ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and sung by American Idol’s Stephanie Daulong, I present to you: Earmark Queen.
Since Scott Brown’s stunning victory in the special Senate election in Massachusetts in January, he’s been the man in demand for Republicans everywhere who are looking to rub off some of the magic that allowed him to win the first GOP Senate seat in the Bay State in decades. Inevitably, there have been rumblings here and there about running Brown for president in 2012 against Obama – hey, he can win in Massachusetts, why not? Hold on there, tiger.
Will the support of Sarah Palin, the TEA Party movement and the conservative blogosphere be enough to propel Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman to a win on November 2nd and beat the Washington backed liberal Republican?
I’ve personally cut Meghan McCain slack, because she’s a young kid and I shudder when I think of how I was at that age. But there is a vast difference between youthful naïveté and willful ignorance. Meghan McCain has now clearly shown that she suffers from the latter.
Governor Mark Sanford announced today that he has been in an extramarital affair with a woman in Argentina, ending his hopes for 2012.
Matthew Bandyk believes that the theory that Republicans ought to take something of a libertarian turn in their search for a new direction is overblown. I don’t know why he thinks so. To be sure, there is a demand for big-government spending that can be found in polling, but the success of the tea parties and the attention that they received also seems to indicate a not-so-latent demand for government to pull back on the spending front–something that may well become amplified once the deficit numbers really begin to sink in. Additionally, while Bandyk appears to doubt that a turn from small-government thinking hurt the Republican party, can there really be any doubt that activists in the Republican base were turned off in the last two election cycles by big-government Republicanism–especially in the 2006 election cycle? Part of what is harming the Republican party these days is the disillusionment of the Republican base, and many of the members of the base are small-government activists who feel as if the party has abandoned their pet issue. Getting those people back would help tremendously in the revival of the Republican party, and a more libertarian turn to Republican politics would serve to…
I realize that the debate over Colin Powell’s party status doesn’t need any more participants, but I am going to throw in my two cents and say that if Powell wants to continue to identify as a Republican, not only should he be allowed to, but his decision should be welcomed.
I am a little bit late to this, but addressing Time magazine’s recent contention that “the GOP is doomed, doomed, I tell ya,” it is probably worth noting, just as a general matter, that when one of the two biggest American political parties are pronounced as being on the brink of self-annihilation by the mainstream media, that is generally a sign that said party is actually on the road to a comeback.
Eric Cantor: “A certain dose of contrition is absolutely in order. Could we have done better in terms of the fiscal record? Absolutely. But we have to come to grips with where we are, and understand that Republicans should begin to deliver again on equal opportunity, not equal outcomes. When it comes to the economy, it’s wrong for us to help those who can help themselves. We ought to be focused on helping those who cannot help themselves, and then empowering those who can to get back in the game.”
As we kick off WHIP this week, let’s take a look at the current political landscape and see how the parties are doing in the latest polls. Some interesting numbers show a slight lead for Republicans.