Assuming you think Trump is a problem, you certainly don’t do it by yelling at him to shut up – a strategy very unlikely to be effective with this particular candidate. You don’t do it by expecting conservative media to drum him off the public stage, either. A healthy political party handles a challenge like Trump by understanding what his supporters are concerned about, and producing more durable candidates who can address those concerns. Don’t waste your time telling me why Trump is awful, ladies and gentlemen of the GOP. Tell me why you’re better.
by John Hayward14 Aug 2015, 9:54 AM PST0
It should be noted that the poll was actually conducted July 21 through August 2, so it doesn’t even account for the incredibly damaging recent revelations about classified and top-secret material moving through Hillary Clinton’s server, which is – let’s be frank here – indisputably a federal crime. It’s likely that most poll respondents are not well-versed in the relevant laws, but think it’s simple common sense that such a serious matter should be thoroughly investigated.
by John Hayward12 Aug 2015, 10:16 AM PST0
Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) presidential campaign is firing back at The New York Times and Washington Post for disparaging Graham’s military record.
by Caroline May4 Aug 2015, 3:02 PM PST0
With the first debate coming this week, only seventeen Republicans are currently running for President. Not Duggar numbers, sure, but it’s a start.
by Lee Stranahan2 Aug 2015, 12:11 PM PST0
It’s not as if Hillary Clinton used to be in charge of the department that has supposedly spent years studying the issue, rejecting every study that says the pipeline is environmentally sound and economically necessary with claims that further studies are forever needed. Oh, wait, it’s exactly like that.
by John Hayward28 Jul 2015, 10:43 AM PST0
Democrat presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders (I – VT) has taken his campaign into the realm of virtual reality.
by Daniel Nussbaum22 Jul 2015, 5:10 PM PST0
The Trump Moment was supposed to be a perfect opportunity for Hillary to lay low, while her loyal supporters, donors, and former employees in the mainstream media quietly strangled her scandals and pronounced the corpses “old news” that was no longer relevant. Instead, one of the more solid political polls, Quinnipiac, just released a new study that found Clinton’s poll numbers crashing even though she’s been kept out of the public eye.
by John Hayward22 Jul 2015, 7:27 AM PST0
One of the problems faced by Republican campaigns is that Silicon Valley tends to lean left, giving Democrats substantial support in a variety of forms from the big tech companies. There are plenty of great tech people out there ready to work for Republican campaigns, though. Recruiting them early and folding them into a well-organized campaign is essential. Gov. Scott Walker seems to have done just that.
by John Hayward16 Jul 2015, 12:40 PM PST0
Launched on Monday, a press release about Campbell Brown’s news site highlights initial stories about a search-and-rescue pilot for the Coast Guard who became a second-grade teacher at a charter school in Newark, NJ; a column about the necessity of addressing the relationship between educational inequality and income inequality; and an investigative piece that focuses on “the forces and scare tactics behind the opt-out movement” in Montclair, New Jersey.
by Dr. Susan Berry16 Jul 2015, 11:14 AM PST0
It’s pretty rich to watch Democrat media drag out an Obama-donor financial analyst to critique the Rubio family budget. At least the Rubios have a budget, which is more than congressional Democrats can say. Let me know when Senator and Mrs. Rubio start using continuing resolutions and “cromnibus” techniques to buy stuff, with a vague plan to force their neighbors to pay all the bills when they find it impossible to rack up more debt.
by John Hayward9 Jun 2015, 8:24 AM PST0
For some reason, the New York Times decided to devote two reporters to the urgent task of reviewing Senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s driving record over the past 18 years. And they still couldn’t make much of a story about it, so they decided to add his wife’s record to the story.
by John Hayward5 Jun 2015, 9:09 AM PST0
Today’s children should get used to building their diminished dream under the stern eyes of the bureaucracy Democrats want to make ever more powerful, at the pleasure of the aristocracy, using whatever time and resources their rulers permit them to keep.
by John Hayward3 Jun 2015, 11:24 AM PST0
A Christian hip-hop group calling itself We Are Watchmen has released a single in support of Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential bid.
by Kipp Jones28 May 2015, 12:52 PM PST0
Of course, even though their shell company is obviously designed to conceal sizable amounts of money from possibly controversial sources, the Left will suddenly decide pass-through financing is completely unremarkable when the Clintons do it. Liberals won’t even bat an eye when Hillary resumes bad-mouthing corporate CEOs, shrieking that there’s “too much money in politics,” and complaining about how every millionaire except herself, and her favorite donors, got rich by unfairly winning the lottery of life.
by John Hayward26 May 2015, 2:46 PM PST0
WASHINGTON (AP) — The newly released financial files on Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s growing fortune omit a company with no apparent employees or assets that the former president has legally used to provide consulting and other services, but which demonstrates the complexity of the family’s finances.
by Breitbart News26 May 2015, 2:33 PM PST0
The ultimate political organism doesn’t have to worry about winning elections, and is only modestly concerned about the possibility of losing one. American politics is no longer a question of what the people support, but what we can marshal the combined willpower to stop.
by John Hayward21 May 2015, 11:56 AM PST0
Gov. Scott Walker, a likely 2016 Republican contender, said he will not be able to go toe-to-toe with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in terms of financial resources in a hypothetical contest between the two for the Republican nomination. But he says that won’t matter, if he’s got “a good message and a good strategy.”
by Dr. Susan Berry18 May 2015, 1:49 PM PST0
Why run? “While other Republican leaders are talking about change, I’ve published detailed plans to repeal and replace Obamacare, rebuild America’s Defenses, make America energy independent, and reform Education for our nation’s children,” Gov. Jindal says.
by Dr. Susan Berry18 May 2015, 11:34 AM PST0
The media’s dogged determination to chase every Republican presidential contender down and pummel them for comments about the Iraq War is remarkable to behold, since they are simultaneously willing to let the only 2016 candidate who voted in favor of the war skate by without answering questions about it, or anything else for that matter. While Hillary Clinton is given months to prepare for her ninth question from the press since declaring a candidacy, every Republican is peppered with heavy fire from a throng of journalists on an hourly basis.
by John Hayward14 May 2015, 9:49 AM PST0
Dr. Carson, I know you are smart, very smart. But you know medicine. You need very smart people to advise you on energy policy now, before you address the topic any further. I have a cadre of energy experts that I could make available to you—and any candidate who wants smart energy policy. Call me, maybe?
by Marita Noon11 May 2015, 12:26 PM PST0
Hillary Clinton officially launched her presidential campaign April 12 and has yet to do a formal sit down interview with national media.
by Alex Swoyer11 May 2015, 6:34 AM PST0
On Saturday, former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who warned in the San Francisco Chronicle on March 6 that Hilary Clinton’s early announcement of her 2016 presidential candidacy invited danger, posted another article in which he noted that his warnings
by William Bigelow26 Apr 2015, 8:33 AM PST0
Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) challenged a statement made by Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton that “religious beliefs…have to be changed” in order to accommodate abortion.
by Dr. Susan Berry24 Apr 2015, 4:02 PM PST0
During an interview on Michael Medved’s radio show on Tuesday, Bush heaped praise upon the National Security Agency’s harvesting of cell phone metadata on all Americans, crediting President Obama with expanding the program and maintaining it against fierce criticism from both Left and Right.
by John Hayward22 Apr 2015, 6:42 AM PST0
There is something about the liberal mindset that brings the desire to be ruled, a hunger for Great Man and Great Woman fantasies that makes the Left perpetually vulnerable to cults of personality.
by John Hayward21 Apr 2015, 3:04 PM PST0
