Bobby Jindal Has A Point …

This website has run hot and cold with likely 2016 Republican presidential contender Bobby Jindal. However he said something during a recent interview with The Washington Times that we believe to be instructive.
“We’ve got to present thoughtful policy solutions to the American people — not just bumper stickers, not just 30-second solutions,” Jindal told the [...]

Mick Mulvaney: A “Walker” Talks

Virtually every “Republican” politician talks the talk … less government, lower taxes, blah, blah, blah.  Only a handful “walk the walk,” though, consistently voting to uphold elemental liberties and pro-taxpayer free markets.
Therein lies the disconnect that’s killing the GOP brand … a growing and seemingly incurable hypocrisy on fiscal issues.
One of the only elected officials [...]

This Billboard Ought To Do It!

Every time we see one of these billboards it cracks us up …
“Black Republicans?” That’s a good one …
The GOP (such as it has become) scored 7 percent and 5 percent of the black vote in the last two presidential elections, respectively. In 2004, “Republicans” got 11 percent of the black vote, up from 9 [...]

Rick Santorum: The GOP Isn’t Changing

The Republican Party keeps losing elections because of its failure to appeal to evangelical voters, a pair of failed presidential candidates contend. Not only that, these two sanctimonious Bible thumpers believe the party should resist any effort to adopt a more libertarian tone on social issues.
“The Republican Party isn’t going to change,” former Pennsylvania Senator [...]

Is Mister “Read My Lips” Dead Yet?

NO … BUT HIS PARTY IS
George H.W. Bush – one of the original status quo “Republicans” whose betrayal of core free market convictions helped ruin the Grand Old Party – is spending the Christmas holiday in a Houston, Texas hospital.  Is the 88-year-old former president on his deathbed?  No one seems to know … although [...]

The GOP: Another Fiscal Betrayal

REPUBLICANS CUT AND RUN ON AMERICAN WORKERS, TAXPAYERS
U.S. Rep. Tom Cole – a “Republican” from heavily red Oklahoma – is the latest member of America’s perpetual minority party to cut and run on the supposedly bedrock principle of not raising America’s tax burden.  Cole is a GOP leader, and his defection to the ranks of [...]

What Should The GOP Do? “Die”

A NEW PARTY IS NEEDED TO PROTECT AMERICAN TAXPAYERS, FREE MARKETS AND INDIVIDUAL LIBERTIES
In the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama’s reelection this week there are plenty of columns out there offering unsolicited advice as to what “Republicans” need to do in order to to reclaim their electoral relevance.
“Don’t run to the middle,” “run further [...]

Thomas Peterffy Had Us …

… RIGHT UP UNTIL THAT “REPUBLICAN” THING
Thomas Peterffy is a Hungarian-born entrepreneur who made billions of dollars in America as the founder of Interactive Brokers, an online discount brokerage service.  Legend has it he was born in Budapest in 1944 during a Russian air raid and emigrated to this country at the age of 21 [...]

WTF, America?

THIRD PARTY? U.S. ELECTORATE SAYS NO …
It’s a very curious time to be an American … and a very dangerous time to be an American taxpayer.  And yet at a point in our nation’s history when additional electoral options are probably needed more than ever, fewer Americans seem interested in exploring those options.
In fact according [...]

Mitt Romney Hits Delegate Threshold

ANOTHER MILE POST ON THE ROAD TO ASSIMILATION
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney – the presumptive GOP presidential nominee for several weeks – appeared to clear a critical threshold in his quest to nail down the Republican nomination this week. By winning 152 delegates in the Texas Republican Primary, Romney passed the “magic number” of 1,144 [...]

SC Chris Christie Supporters Organizing

South Carolina supporters of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie are launching a movement aimed at drafting the rotund Republican into presidential service this week.
Led by Florence Rep. Kris Crawford, a group of state lawmakers will roll out their “Draft Christie” movement at the S.C. State House on Wednesday.
“The campaign will focus on increasing awareness of [...]

The Speech Nikki Haley Didn’t Want You To Hear

There was a good reason that S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley went out of her way to make sure that the mainstream media missed Monday’s tea party speech from S.C. Treasurer Curtis Loftis.
The first-term Republican – who thrashed incumbent RINO Converse Chellis in last year’s GOP primary and ran unopposed in November – poured cold water [...]