Category Archives: Tea Party

Pence for President?

By:  Katrina Trinko NRO No one has gone straight from the House to the White House since James Garfield. Mike Pence might be the one. He hasn’t held executive office. He isn’t a paid Fox News contributor. He hasn’t written a best-seller or starred in a reality show. So is there any reason Rep. Mike [...]

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Independents Siding with GOP

POLITICO By JAMES HOHMANN & JIM VANDEHEI  Republicans are on the verge of broad wins next week for one big reason: independent voters are ready to boot Democrats from office, according to a new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll. Expressing deep dissatisfaction with President Obama’s policies and performance, independents have increasingly sided with conservatives in [...]

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They Hate Our Guts…..And they’re drunk on power.

THE WEEKLY STANDARD By: P.J. O’Rourke Perhaps you’re having a tiny last minute qualm about voting Republican. Take heart. And take the House and the Senate. Yes, there are a few flakes of dander in the fair tresses of the GOP’s crowning glory—an isolated isolationist or two, a hint of gold buggery, and Christine O’Donnell [...]

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GOP mega-donors look toward 2012

POLITICO By MAGGIE HABERMAN & KENNETH P. VOGEL  As the 2010 campaign draws to its raucous close, the Republican Party’s biggest donors are slowly beginning to choose sides, with some still looking for a strong alternative to a populist conservative movement that makes them uneasy. The big New York, Texas, California and Florida donors who [...]

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Reid and Angle disagree — about everything

LAS VEGAS — Sixty minutes, two candidates and not a single moment of agreement. Instead, Republican Sharron Angle taunted Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to “man up” Thursday night in their only debate of a close, caustic and costly race. Speaking more softly, Reid called her extreme, an ally of the special interests and advocate [...]

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Russ Carnahan Flinches, Admits He’s In Deep Trouble

24TH STATE.COM Russ Carnahan just sent out a desperate plea for money. In a D+7 district, Carnahan knows he’s in deep trouble. But don’t take my word for it.  Take his. From: “Russ Carnahan ” <Russ@russcarnahan.com> Date: October 11, 2010 9:35:42 AM CDT To: Subject: I’m not kidding Reply-To: Russ@russcarnahan.com We have 22 days left [...]

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Why Obama Is Losing the Political War

By Mark Halperin CNN/TIME Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November’s elections. With the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, [...]

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Sarah Palin speaks to electability issue

By JONATHAN MARTIN | POLITICO Speaking to a group of well-connected Republicans at a private dinner in Florida this week, Sarah Palin implicitly addressed questions about her own electability by noting that critics also said Ronald Reagan couldn’t win in 1980, three attendees told POLITICO. Palin, at an event organized by the conservative magazine Newsmax, [...]

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Alaska Senate: Miller (R) Holds Double-Digit Lead Over McAdams (D), Murkowski

Republican Joe Miller attracts 42% of the vote in the first Rasmussen Reports poll of the Alaska Senate race since GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski announced her write-in campaign to try to keep her job. The telephone survey of Likely Voters in Alaska shows Murkowski picking up 27% of the vote and Democrat Scott McAdams earning [...]

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Interest in 2010 Mid-term Elections has 2012 Hopefuls Waiting in Their Starting Blocks

Some very interesting notes from “Mike Allen’s Playbook” over at POLITICO.  Fascinating to see how the enormous interest in the 2010 mid-terms has affected the timing of the 2012 hopefuls. On another note, it was very gratifying to see that the Tea Party candidates did well last night.  The Pubbies have to realize that if [...]

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