Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater says he’s decided not to run for the Senate seat that is expected to be vacated by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Rubio will launching a presidential campaign on Monday and Florida law will not allow him to remain on the ballot for both races.
As he prepared to announce his 2016 presidential bid, Sen. Marco Rubio discusses the many shortcomings of the Democratic front-runner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Slate magazine launches a witch hunt against Republicans (not limited to the 2016 candidates) over climate change.
Moves by some key allies of Senator Marco Rubio (R-Florida) show that he is nearing a decision about running for President, with plans being made to find a suitable successor to run for his Senate seat and an announcement expected to come within just a few weeks.
Right-to-work legislation speeds toward Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s desk, and reporters don’t have much to say about that.
Liberals are losing their ever-loving minds over Scott Walker, who at this point isn’t even a likely presidential candidate yet.
As former Governor Rick Perry (R-Texas) prepares to launch his second presidential campaign, the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) could very well be a do-or-die moment for him, as he seeks to reconnect with grassroots conservatives who are concerned he is out-of-step with their views on issues like immigration and border security. During the past month, Perry has made comments that indicate he may be taking a more moderate path than in 2012, putting him at odds with the traditionally conservative CPAC audience.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough, writing in Politico, warns that reports of the death of Chris Christie’s potential 2016 presidential run have been much exaggerated.
While Republicans performed well in the 2014 elections, bolstering their numbers in the House of Representatives to a modern-era high of 247 seats, they had a dismal performance in California. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) came up short in the few California seats where it committed significant resources, while in a host of other seats where it didn’t spend a dime, the GOP candidate narrowly lost.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has been hounded by not one, but two open-ended “John Doe” probes of his campaign finances, which invited criticisms of politically-motivated abuse by Democrat officials as they ground pointlessly along for years. The first of those investigations went
The “Reformocon” movement won’t gain ground unless it realizes that the market is the best way to help people. The poor don’t need handouts from a more efficient version of the Mommy State to “reap the benefits of competition” – the incredibly low cost and high quality of the goods and services they enjoy, from inexpensive and abundant food to the low-cost shopping experience of Wal-Mart, have done more to improve their lives than easily-abused Big Government welfare programs.
It’s suddenly obligatory for every Republican 2016 presidential hopeful to weigh in on vaccines and prepare for a grilling from the media if they voice anything less than enthusiastic support.
Sarah Palin is using the big sports story of the day to profess herself less than amazed by the Republican leadership. “It’s not just the New England Patriots who are dealing with deflated balls right now,” she said. Let’s hope the Republican Party figures that out before they try taking the 2016 field with a deflated-ball squad that isn’t convinced it has any business in the Democrat end zone.
